Kevin M. Kruse
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The more people talk about my pinned thread of threads as a "mini-course" on modern American political history, the more it bugs me that it's not arranged in chronological order.
So, here it is, with threads sorted together by era.
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Can you imagine that? Registering trucks? Requiring insurance for injury they caused? Licensing and testing drivers?
.
@KennedyNation
: "If that psychopath had...driven a truck into that crowd and killed 100 people would we be talking about truck control?"
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Giving up *Is* a pretty good way to honor that flag.
NASCAR truck racer Ray Ciccarelli says he's quitting after Confederate flag ban
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First, Trump World complained that Biden was like Mr. Rogers. Then they leaked the loving texts he sent to his son.
What’s their next bombshell going to be? Biden smells like warm chocolate chip cookies?
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WHEN THE PRESIDENT REFUSES TO ANSWER A REPORTER’S QUESTION AND JUST INSULTS THE REPORTER, THE NEXT REPORTER NEEDS TO STAY ON TOPIC AGD DEMAND HE ANSWER IT. JESUS.
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Congratulations to Joe Biden, who apparently can do anything he wants for the next four years with total impunity.
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This is outrageous. We've seen absolutely no proof that Roy Moore, Paul Manafort or Rob Porter are in the caravan.
Fox’s Jeanine Pirro has some questions for the caravan: “Who’s in that caravan? Are there pedophiles? Are there career criminals? Are there people who think they can beat their wives without consequence?”
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Just today, I have seen Donald Trump's son, Ron Paul's son and Mitt Romney's niece speak out forcefully about how bad it is to use family connections to advance your career.
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It's weird -- I saw all of the Indiana Jones movies in theaters and I don't remember any guys yelling that he didn't deserve to be called "Dr. Jones" in any of them.
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No, the Civil War was about slavery.
Sincerely,
Historians
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@realkatiejow
@AOC
I’m not sure what’s sadder — that you did this, or that you felt the need to brag about it like a sociopath.
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If the president comes out of his bunker and sees his shadow, we’ll have six more weeks of protests.
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Hi there, journalists!
I'm a historian who's written about white supremacists, so let me assure you that when a violent attack on an African American man involves use of the N-word and the literal placement of a noose around his neck, you can go ahead and call that "racist."
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The Founding Fathers.
Who is to blame for allowing America to get to a point where the LGBT mob can mock the Bible with 0 consequences?
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We've experienced parts of this before, just never all at once.
As others noted, it's like the Spanish flu of 1918 and the stock market crash of 1929 at the same time, but overseen by Harding's total incompetence plus Nixon's pettiness and paranoia.
It's like Disaster Voltron.
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Imagine being the party that engaged in various forms of voter suppression for years--purging voter rolls, closing polling sites, restricting early voting, even sabotaging the US mail-- but then still losing and having the nerve to complain that the *other* party somehow cheated.
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Do. Not. Mess. With. Libraries.
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they live.
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
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Imagine having such an accomplished academic and legal career as Ketanji Brown Jackson and the last hurdle between you and a seat on the Supreme Court is half-assed hostile questioning from a Home Ec major with the IQ of sunscreen.
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Still can't believe a major political party punted on the incredibly basic task of drawing up a party platform and instead just issued a statement that's basically an "I'm With Stupid" T-shirt.
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"If you think he's a racist, that's up to you. I don't!" -- Lindsey Graham, just now
"He's a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot." -- Lindsey Graham, 2015
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President's cuts to Interior: $1.5 billion
President's check to Park Service: $77K
Park Ranger's face: Priceless
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"No, it won't."
-- Historians
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When you voted to confirm Ben Carson as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, did you think he was going to perform brain surgery on an apartment?
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The porn star who had an affair with the president is suing him because he forgot to sign the NDA his idiot lawyer drew up without an alias, which also describes "still images" sent in the affair and Jesus Christ I do not have enough bourbon in this house right now.
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“It’s no big deal that Trump took fifteen boxes of classified materials to Mar-a-Lago but it’s a huge problem that someone leaked the draft of a Supreme Court opinion early,” I insist as I contort myself into a pretzel.
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Every parent should be on speaking terms with all their children, and yet
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Jesus Christ.
Trump says he picked the Easter target not because any scientist told him that, but because he thought it would be a "beautiful time" to come back.
Jesus Christ.
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Looking forward to the GOP roll call:
ALABAMA: Roy Moore, legally standing a hundred feet outside a mall
ALASKA: Hunters lighting up caribou with AK-47s
ARIZONA: Joe Arpaio licking a taser
ARKANSAS: Tom Cotton smashing a bottle on a bar, daring the camera to fight...
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I’ll try. Do you have contact information for the president of Antifa, or even someone lower down its leadership structure? Maybe somebody in HR?
Antifa's an idea, not an organization? Someone should explain that to Antifa.
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If you’re teaching students that their country is completely good and totally exceptional, that’s not teaching them history — that’s indoctrinating them with propaganda.
In TN, our students will be taught unapologetic American exceptionalism.
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Well, that certainly would reflect the values of the people who put the statue up.
Missouri GOP lawmaker: Person who vandalized Confederate statue should be "hung from a tall tree"
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If you see someone blocking access to a voting site, report it at 1-866-OUR-VOTE.
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If they’re shocked by Willie’s politics, I wouldn’t exactly call them “fans”
FANS TURN ON WILLIE: Country singer
@WillieNelson
was called just about every name in the book after announcing he's playing during an upcoming rally for Texas Democratic Senate candidate
@BetoORourke
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I just saw a couple tweets complaining about how people were trying to persuade them to get out and vote this year.
As someone who's researched the voting rights struggle, I've always found that dismissive attitude pretty infuriating. But never more than now.
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I saw a poll that Biden is up twelve in Pennsylvania and immediately went back to work on a stack of GOTV postcards for the state.
Don't take anything for granted. Run through the tape.
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Mitch McConnell, who once said that his
#1
goal in the Senate was to deny Barack Obama a second term and instructed his caucus to block everything he proposed, is saying he's shocked and saddened that his Democratic colleagues are so blinded by their opposition to Donald Trump.
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Schiff nails it: "The difference between [Watergate] and now is not the difference between Nixon and Trump. It's the difference between that Congress and this one."
Precisely.
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I'm a little rusty on the federal laws on Twitter ratios, but I *think* this means I'm now the U.S. Senator from Texas?
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@david_r_morgan
Gosh this is a tough one, but I’m going to have to say the accused human trafficker is the controversial one?
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HARRIS: Busing was necessary to secure the full integration of public schools across America.
BIDEN: While I backed integration, busing struck me as an overreach.
TRUMP: The wheels on the bus go round and round. Many people are saying that. Round and round, round and round.
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If you're a Republican who thinks that Democrats are only raising money for Texas to make Republicans look bad, I'd be happy to give you a list of people in need in blue states so you can own the libs with some donations of your own.
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Hey everybody, I just found, uh, Donald Trump’s old iPad in my, uh, my basement, sure, and, uh, it’s got some very legitimate stuff on it, like, there’s a folder called “My Crimes (I’m Definitely Donald Trump)” that seems a little suspicious, uh, just trust me on this one, OK?
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Imagine if a Republican won an upset mayoral election in San Francisco or Boston or Seattle. That'd be a massive story, with political reporters teasing out all kinds of trends from it.
Well, a Democrat just won an upset in Jacksonville, which is bigger than all those cities.
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If you have to reach back to the 1860s to find evidence supporting your claim that your political party is "the party of civil rights," please know that you sound like Pabst insisting it's a "blue ribbon beer" because it won a competition all the way back in 1893.
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Just saw this flag in the wild and had to look it up.
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Wow, this Hunter Biden Laptop Story is amazing, wow
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Please stop saying it's an outrage that a "duly-elected president" is getting impeached. That's who impeachment is for -- a president who was duly elected and then did something wrong.
If you're not elected, you're not going to get impeached.
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Hey, Twitter banned Trump for a reason — there’s no need to screencap his press releases here and serve as his Twitter surrogate
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
We get it, you were raised by a sociopath who never said he loved you, you can stop providing examples
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@LaraLeaTrump
This was Nixon's map from 1972.
Ask someone to tell you what happened with him.
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I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy’s SNL run.
My dad took me to see him on the Raw tour when I was fourteen, but he wasn’t ready for what Murphy could do away from the censors.
Five minutes in, he turned to me and said “we’re not going to tell your mom about any of this, OK?”
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The Republican Party’s rapid shift from “Law and Order” to “Snitches Get Stitches” has been amazing
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Honestly didn’t think they had this in them.
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Well, at least the entire Trump campaign hasn't been premised on the idea that Joe Biden can't give a speech.
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The president of the United States getting corrected by a cast member of The Jersey Shore.
Sleep well, America!
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"You can kill anyone making a scene in a public space if you're personally uncomfortable" is a hell of a stance from the same people who've been throwing tantrums in Target over its masking policies for the last three years.
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The RNC Deputy Finance Chairman who's under investigation for money laundering is a different guy from the RNC Deputy Finance Chairman who pleaded guilty in a federal fraud case and they're both different from the RNC Finance Chairman who's accused of rape and sexual misconduct.
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Just as a friendly note to Dinesh D'Souza's ardent fans -- when you leave an angry message for me on my work voicemail, the system records your name, your number and a digital copy of the message.
Which is probably a dumb idea if you're calling from your work number?
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My feed is filled with videos of Italian mayors cursing residents to get indoors, Brazilian cops chasing beachgoers away with a helicopter, an Iraqi man breaking up a gathering with a broom ... and Americans saying some old folks just might need to die to keep the markets open.
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The people who shrug off the tear gassing of refugee children are going to be the exact same ones who get incensed over a Starbucks holiday cup that doesn't honor Christianity enough.
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Hey, this morning would be a really great time for your hot take about how Colin Kaepernick is protesting the wrong way.
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You're the Speaker of the House of Representatives. If you think a Cabinet officer has disgraced himself and needs to be removed from office, then use the House's powers of impeachment, not a worthless internet petition.
As a prosecutor Acosta was supposed to vindicate young trafficking victims; instead he violated their trust and brushed their evidence aside to protect their abuser. Acosta’s Epstein coverup is unconscionable and indefensible. He MUST resign.
#AcostaResign
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As always, the dumbest people somehow think they’re the only ones who’ve figured it all out.
Everything is burnt but the trees, but don’t point that out or ur a conspiracy theorist
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Hey, cooking websites?
I don’t really need a thousand words about how you discovered the recipe or the feelings it evoked for you.
Ingredients, steps, total time for prep and cooking. That’s it.
I’m trying to feed my family. No need to curate the experience for me.
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“Big strong men, big burly football fans, with tears in their eyes, coming up to me saying, sir, I’ve never told a former president to fuck off before, sir, but …”
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Hey
@Jim_Jordan
,
1. No matter how often you say it, Trump didn't win "an electoral college landslide." His 304-227 margin stands in the bottom fifth all time.
2. Nixon *did* win an electoral college landslide (520-17), but that didn't stop the impeachment drive against him.
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Two women on the restaurant patio with me VERY LOUDLY discussing the reasons one is dropping her son from the will and, look, if you’re out there, Scott, I have to agree you’ve had this coming.
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Ask any oncologist and they’ll tell you the secret to beating cancer is just never to get screened for it.
I mean, that’s just basic medicine.
TRUMP: "When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn't do any testing we would have very few cases."
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@marcorubio
After carrying water for Trump for four years, you don’t get to act offended by anything ever again.
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Have you considered adding a new rule against users who harass the parents of dead kindergartners so much that they have to go into hiding?
We didn’t suspend Alex Jones or Infowars yesterday. We know that’s hard for many but the reason is simple: he hasn’t violated our rules. We’ll enforce if he does. And we’ll continue to promote a healthy conversational environment by ensuring tweets aren’t artificially amplified.
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Trump took 46.1% of the popular vote and won the electoral college 304-227 -- 46th out of 58 elections.
Nixon took 60.1% of the popular vote in 1972 and dominated the electoral college 520-17.
He resigned before the House could finish impeaching him.
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As we learn that Trump was planning a coup at DOJ to overturn the election in Georgia, maybe we should revisit this story?
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Now, this is how you craft a tweet.
Utah Rep. Burgess Owens — who has filed for bankruptcy protection five times — is against President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, saying, "debt cannot be canceled."
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The Dakota territory was cut in half and admitted as two states, as part of a larger scheme by Republicans to add six new states over a nine month period in 1889-1890 and thereby pack the Senate with Republicans ... like you.
The Founding Fathers never intended for Washington D.C. to be a state.
#DCStatehood
is really about packing the Senate with Democrats in order to pass a left-wing agenda.
Just look at the DC voter registration data:
🔵 76.4% Democrat
🔴 5.7% Republican
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Donald Trump literally lives at a country club he owns.
The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, it’s the party of hardworking, blue-collar men and women.
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Officer Fanone is just taking a goddamn flamethrower to the Republicans who are denying or downplaying the severity of what happened on 1/6.
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It's like this entire administration is made up of James Bond villains.
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No, it wasn't.
Sincerely,
Historians
America was founded on Christian Principles. IT's why the Left hates it so much.
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IT WAS A PERFECT PHONE CALL BUT NO YOU CAN'T SEE THE FULL TRANSCRIPT AND NO YOU CAN'T TALK TO ANYONE WHO WAS IN THE ROOM WHEN IT HAPPENED AND NO YOU CAN'T SEE DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE CALL EITHER BUT IT WAS PERFECT SHUT UP IT WAS PERFECT.
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Even if it were true, "the doctors were *very* surprised I passed a cognitive test" is not really the slam dunk the president thinks it is.
Trump tells Hannity that he "very recently" "aced" a cognitive test: "I took it at Walter Reed, a medical center, in front of doctors, and they were very surprised"
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"We now go to Osama Bin Laden for comment."
Between Afghanistan and Syria
@realDonaldTrump
is showing the WILL to stand up to Radical Islam...
....unlike President Obama.
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Feels like we could workshop this down to a tight three-word slogan.
"The life of every African American is important" -- Kelly Loeffler
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Just catching up on the news and it seems the president either has the virus and is taking a risky drug to treat it, or doesn't have it and is taking a risky drug for the hell of it, or doesn't have it and is lying about taking a risky drug to get other people to take it, or ...
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I already received a BA, MA and PhD in History and I've been teaching it for two decades.
In your expert opinion, how much longer will I have to go before I finally get it?
@KevinMKruse
You need to learn History. Just spouting off a bunch of words doesn't make it fact or believable. And it is evil. Your ignorance is showing.
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The mythologizing of Meet the Press has always been a bit much, but under Chuck Todd it's just actively doing harm.
Just cancel it, for the love of God.
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"How can we possibly vote to remove the president without all the evidence we're voting not to see?" is a hell of an argument.
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@JDVance1
So you're in favor of ditching the Electoral College and going with a similar system in which winners are determined by popular vote alone?
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If the Republicans are going to press the argument that people have a duty to report their knowledge of crimes to the proper authorities, maybe they could find literally anyone other than Jim Jordan to make that case?
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No, as a professor, I understand the Civil War was fought over slavery, because that's what the South repeatedly said the Civil War was about.
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Hey, remember three weeks ago, when the president was accused of rape?
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History that exalts a nation’s strengths without ever examining its shortcomings, that prefers feeling good rather than thinking hard, that seeks simplistic celebration over a full understanding — well, that’s not history; that’s propaganda.
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Of course I understand the impulse not to applaud a president from the opposing party, but if you sit on your hands for “we’re going to cut child poverty in half” ... that’s not a good look.
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