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Former RNC Chairman, Former Lt. Gov. Maryland, Political Analyst for MSNBC, Host of The Michael Steele Podcast @steele_podcast ; Spoutible: @MichaelSteele
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What a sad commentary when you slap the crap out of someone on live TV, win an Oscar, get a standing ovation and then accept that Oscar talking about “love”. There was so much wrong about this moment.
#Oscars2022
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Can we stop with the "no former president has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence"?
1. IT WAS NOT A RAID! It was an executed search warrant. Know the difference.
2. The FBI has never before had a reason to execute a search of a former president 's home. 👇
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Oh please! Let’s stop with the “liberal press” BS. I’m a conservative and I know like YOU do that this stinks. $500,000 of free stuff—and that was just one trip?! ANYONE in PUBLIC SERVICE knows that kind of spending is not just “hospitality”.
#Ethics
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"My people came to me...they said they think it's Russia. I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia. I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be."
--Trump
That's how a press conference sounds when an Asset stands next to his Handler.
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I'm sure Mitch is aware that a grown ass black man who happens to be a former president has agency to speak his mind on how his successor is managing this crisis, especially since his successor has yet to keep "his mouth shut" about him.
And "classless"?
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After an hour the candidates appear... wait...Trump is done?!! Left the building already.?
@JoeBiden
is still holding his town hall? Talking to voters? Answering questions? Sorry
@realDonaldTrump
you may call him Sleepy Joe, but we know who’s got the stamina!
#TownHalls
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"No house seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles we swore to protect."
--
@RepLizCheney
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Are you all high? He tried to engage a conspiracy to violate the Constitution and the US Code by throwing out duly certified votes of citizens.
President Trump sounded really good (strong, clear voice; no static) on the “recording” - he cares about
#ElectionIntegrity
, as all Americans do. Thank you, Mr. President!
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My party may have given up it’s voice on things that matter but I have not. This election is about the course of a nation and the character of her people reflected in the leader they choose. America matters. I’m voting for
@JoeBiden
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NO!! This is NOT a slope we want to get on. Suspending Constitutional Rights!? With this crew?! OH HELL NO!
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As I watch Senators question
#KBJ
and opine on her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court (often reading questions they could not answer or pushing partisan talking points), I am struck by the fact that perhaps WE should do a better job scrutinizing their fitness to represent us.
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Dude! You realize she’s testifying LIVE?! Amb. Yovanovitch will respond to this tweet...yup, there it is. You just made her case of intimidation. Is no one in the room with you?
Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
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Wait, what??!! "The GOOD OLD DAYS OF SEGREGATION"--
@LindseyGrahamSC
Lindsey Graham to ACB: "You're not aware of any effort to go back to the good old days of segregation by a legislative body, is that correct?"
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.
@tedcruz
you just need to sit down and be quiet. Very quiet. Trapped mouse in a corner quiet.
Really sad. At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing.
This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.
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America, this president has shown his ass tonight. He does not deserve to sit in that chair behind the Resolute Desk; nor does he deserve the respect afforded his predecessors--he has not earned it. His performance tonight disgraced the American people.
#Debates2020
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I stand with Adam.
My statement on the RNC censure. I am now even more committed to fighting conspiracies and lies:
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After a weekend of hearing folks wrestle with voting for Trump, I could not help but recall the words of
@TheRickWilson
“When that person, who is Trump skeptical, says to you “I don’t know what to do” that pain you see on their face is their soul trying to re-enter their body.”
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"I will do whatever it takes to ensure that Donald Trump is never anywhere near the Oval Office and I mean it. I love my country more." --
@RepLizCheney
With every fiber of my being. Sign me up for that mission! Democracy not only matters, It. Is. Everything.
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Is he high?!
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Dude, what the hell is wrong with you? You are the Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and a Member of the Foreign Relations Committee. You were specifically asked NOT to share this briefing with Zelensky. Why would you risk his safety for a tweet?
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Trump failed to return classified docs requested by the National Archives. A federal judge issued a search warrant for probable cause of a crime. This is not some rando move by the FBI so you shitforbrains Republicans calling for “defunding the FBI”for once try to be less stupid
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NO. We don't need a national divorce.
We don't need to separate by red and blue states.
We just need you to STFU.
Everyone I talk to says this!
Happy President's Day.
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Stop it. Trump was briefed. He may not have paid attention to it or read the PDB he was given but he was briefed. He did nothing while Putin put a bounty on our American Troops. Note, this White House has not denied the underlying intelligence.
#putinspet
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You’re not the first criminal defendant to be told to shut up. Besides, you were only “warned”. The trial calendar is the trial calendar. It waits for no one. And nothing like this has happened before because we’ve never had a president do the shit you’ve done before.
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I'm flipping stations and shaking my head. It's no wonder we can't recover from this Trump infection because the media continues to feed Trump's thirst to be everything everywhere all at once! On the plane, off the plane, in the car. Y'all know the actual
@POTUS
travelled today?
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Hey
@LindseyGrahamSC
remember? "If you could show me that, you know, Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing." Disturbed yet?
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Just so we are clear, America: This is the difference between being made a fool of by Trump and being a fool for Trump.
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"Tim, I know you and trust you but you're not the one behind the wheel."--VP Pence to his Secret Service detail after evacuating his office, refuses to get into his car.
Gives you a sense what Pence really thought Trump was capable of at that point on
#January6th
.
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More moments like this could go a long way...
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So here we are. The GOP-controlled legislature has expelled the two Black Democratic legislators
@brotherjones_
and
@Justinjpearson
but did not remove the white female legislator
@VoteGloriaJ
. So tell me how to process that because I know what it feels like.
#TennesseeThree
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Objective. Impartial. Swore an oath. What a joke.
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"...not a biological mother...?" Well
@RepMTG
, the woman who adopted me, cared for me, raised me, loved me, inspired me, disciplined me, educated me and at 95 still smiles when I walk in the room didn't need biology to be my mother.
#Adoption
Marjorie Taylor Greene says that adopted or parents through marriage aren’t real parents because they’re “not biological.” She just told a witness who is a mother through marriage that she is “not a mother.”
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Congratulations America! You have elected a decent man, an honorable man,
@JoeBiden
the 46th President of the United States. Well done.
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THIS.
"I felt this was a pandemic before it was a pandemic" --Trump just now.
I got nuthin.
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Affirmative Action asks schools to consider race as A factor in student admissions, so Black student population at elite institutions must be AMAZING!
Well...
Harvard 6.6%
Yale 6.5%
Brown 7.0%
Princeton 4.7%
Columbia 5.1%
Cornell 5.0%
I can see why folks want to get rid of it.
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Officer Eugene Goodman. Thank you.
Officer Eugene Goodman stopped a mob of white rioters from entering the chambers of the United States Senate.
At this perilous moment in our nation’s history, he was the one person standing between democracy and the rule of tyrants.
(Photo Credit: New York Times)
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Well, that was something I didn’t expect. Biden not only owned the room, he owned the argument for his agenda as Speaker McCarthy sat helplessly watching Marge & company barking and howling at the Biden moon while making a fool of him and House a Republicans.
#StateOfTheUnion
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Tim stop with this BS. You know damn well there aren’t “two different tracks of justice.” Did you put classified documents in your bathroom; or try to overturn an election? If you did you know where you’d be right now and no one would be spouting GOP talking points on your behalf
I remain concerned about the weaponization of Biden’s DOJ and its immense power used against political opponents.
What we see today are two different tracks of justice. One for political opponents and another for the son of the current president.
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Damn good ad.
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Slow your roll if you think Barr is breaking from Trump. This was a carefully staged message to cool down pissed off DOJ attys whom Barr undercut & to avoid any further internal strife. This message does not get sideways with Trump because he’s already done what Trump wanted.
“I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody….whether it’s Congress, newspaper editorial boards, or the president," Bill Barr tells
@ABC
News.
"I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me.”
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Hey Kayleigh, don’t let that Press Secretary thing go to your head. You won’t be there long.
To you, he’s not Trump, he’s PRESIDENT Trump!
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No Senator; and that has been yours and the GOP’s problem: dumbing down Trump’s corruption to explain away your inherent fear of him. Trump’s actions were not “inappropriate”; they were impeachable and rose to the level of removal. Soft words meaning nothing won’t change that.
It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to encourage that investigation. 5/15
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This is how they mourn the loss of black men at
#FoxNews
- by how much the stock market goes up.
What. The. Hell!
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How ‘bout we start with the Central Park Five, mix in a little “there are good people on both sides” and top it off with some “shithole countries”. Mystery solved.
The president and his son-in-law are mystified as to why Trump isn't doing better with black voters. Other Trump advisers are not.
@anniekarni
and me
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What just happened in Tennessee is reprehensible. Republicans expelled Rep. Justin Jones
@brotherjones_
because he stood with his constituents against gun violence.
All that BS from GOP about "coming for Trump, coming for you", well here's the truth: the GOP is coming 4u first.
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Your lack of maturity is astounding. And people think THIS is leadership; THIS is how the “Leader of the Free World” behaves.
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And then there was this moment...I can’t even...
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Where you stand in the moment matters. In this moment, leadership, decency, constitutional norms matter. Character matters. Our vote matters. The president we choose matters. I stand with
@JoeBiden
because America matters.
#Vote
This election, former RNC Chair and a lifelong Republican,
@MichaelSteele
, is voting to restore the soul of our nation.
He's voting for Joe Biden.
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Your refusal to acknowledge you’ve just endorsed an alleged pedophile for the sake of “a vote” tells me Roy Moore will be a Trump Puppet and America no longer has a moral compass under your “leadership”.
Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!
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Oh for heaven’s sake stop with the performative “visits”! The Senate had a bipartisan border bill and you rejected it because Trump told you to. Turn the car around, head to the Capitol and introduce a border bill to fix the problem because you already know what it is.
On my way to our southern border.
The border crisis is brought to us by Joe Biden, his policies, and his refusal to do his job.
Americans deserve a safe and secure border.
It’s time to fire Biden and hire Donald J. Trump.
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She was worthy enough to whip your ass. What’s beneath contempt is more and more republicans like you losing like this—whining, weak shells of a candidacy unwilling to concede defeat.
“I wish that in a circumstance like this I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent. But I do not have a worthy opponent.”
— Former Justice Daniel Kelly delivers a fiery speech, calling WI Justice-elect Janet Protasiewicz “beneath contempt” and a “serial liar.”
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Ok, this is just a load of crap. And you wonder why Rosanne Barr and so many others feel free to drop any kind of BS (racist or just plain stupid) into the public discourse with impunity. I may disagree with her politics, but
@NancyPelosi
does not "love" MS-13.
#JustStop
Trump just referred to Pelosi as an “MS-13 lover. She loves MS-13.”
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Right now even GOP Senators are looking at Ken Starr and thinking "WTF?!"
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Stop it. They aren't "finding" anything. They are counting votes legitimately delivered by the postal system you screwed with ;and those votes when certified will tell us who won the election. Not you. Just how it works. So be quiet and wait for the results like the rest of us.
They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!
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Donald Trump indicted on 7 counts.
Remember: he is in this position because of his own actions; there was no “witch-hunt”; a federal judge ruled there was probable cause Trump committed a crime. HE owns this.
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.
@VP
, I'm just telling ya, pay attention. I saw the look. You got one more time to interrupt
@KamalaHarris
.
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Donald Trump pleads the Fifth in NY AG Investigation into his business practices. Sooo, when you said..."You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" tell us Donald, why did you plead the Fifth?
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So at this point in this presser listening to Trump complain about the impact
#Coronavirus
is having on the economy and his rush now to “open the economy” (despite serious advice to the contrary”) one has a clearer sense of what he values. It ain’t us.
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@RepLizCheney
“To my fellow Republicans, there will come a day when Donald Trump will be gone, but your dishonor will remain.” DAMN!
#January6thCommitteeHearings
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“When you get inside Donald Trump’s head you’ll find putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video and somebody else’s credit card” —
@TimOBrien
on
@amjoyshow
Damn!
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Some have been wondering why is White House Counsel Pat Cipollone so “angry”. Remember, Trump wants drama, emotion from those who defend him. After all, it’s better TV. Cipollone is performing for one person only—Trump.
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Oh please.
The White House actually thinks Trump "was NOT briefed" on Russia placing a bounty on US soldiers is a better narrative? So their response is for newspapers to give back their Pulitzers for reporting on a story US intelligence warned them about. Good friggin' grief!
Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany: "I think it's time that the New York Times and also the Washington Post hand back their Pultizers."
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Don’t worry, Boo, they’ll talk to you soon enough.
I just tried calling the FBI to ask them why they confiscated a sitting Member of Congress’s personal cellphone.
It rang twice and went to voicemail.
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This ish is exhausting.
.
@MichaelSteele
: "I'm exhausted... the fact that we have to literally beg people to wear a mask to save their own dumb ass from getting sick? I'm sorry. To me it is beyond the imagination."
Learn more:
#11thHour
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Ahh, to be Kevin McCarthy. After flatlining GOP house pickups and now Trump adviser Jason Miller insisting if he wants to be House speaker, “he must be much more declarative that he supports President Trump in 2024”, it’s time to bend the knee—again. Oh, Kevin!
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This is for those Rule of Law Republicans: before you show your ass on Wednesday here’s a little refresher from 52 USC 20511 when you’re listening to that tape of Trump “attempting to deprive” Black voters in Georgia of their vote after “a fair and impartially conducted election”
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That's your problem, Jim. there's only ONE America and we have to live in it with Patriots like
#JudgeLuttig
and posers like you. We know gas is $5/gal. We know inflation is up. We Also know you won't do anything about either. So stop tweeting sh*t we know you don't care about.
Real America doesn’t care about the January 6th Committee.
Gas is over $5 per gallon!
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For what? Blustering bullshit? Clearly, the Medal of Freedom doesn’t mean what it used to. Just like being President.
NEW: Trump is expected to give Rep. Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — on Monday, and to give the same award to Rep. Jim Jordan next week.
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Trump, this is the 3rd black female reporter you’ve disrespected this week. Why can’t you just answer questions from competent reporters
@AprilDRyan
@Yamiche
@abbydphillip
. Why are you so intimidated by professional black women?
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Exposed.
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Umm, Coach, didn't you vote against the $1.4 billion in federal funding to expand access to the internet statewide? And now you're saying, "Great to see Alabama receive crucial funds"? Clearly they weren't that crucial because YOU VOTED AGAINS THEM!
Broadband is vital for the success of our rural communities and for our entire economy.
Great to see Alabama receive crucial funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts.
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We can't do 2 more of these
#Debate2020
. No. Uh-uh. No way. I'm done. Don't need to do this again. Let's just
#Vote
.
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These people are smoking low grade crack.
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No he didn’t!! After haranguing
@JoeBiden
about his votes over the past 30 YRs on everything from healthcare to Social Security as soon as Biden slaps him with his votes in the last 5yrs on guns
@SenSanders
says “we don’t need to go back & forth on votes” and changes the subject.
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Pathetic Cowards.
Republican senators block efforts to open debate on a bill to create an outside commission on the Jan. 6th Capitol attack (54-35).
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1/4 I believe like a majority of my fellows patriots the office of the Presidency embodies who we are as Americans. It represents the heart of our compassion, the better dreams of those who built this country both freed and enslaved, the eyes of those filled with hope or despair
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“Dude I’m out of breath by how stupid ya’ll are.” This right here👇🏽
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Yet again,
@realDonaldTrump
gets special treatment with his own private system of justice. The NY Appeals Court has decided to give Trump more time to pay less money by reducing his bond from $454M to $175 and giving him 10 days to get the money. This makes absolutely no sense.
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Stunning AG Barr “defense “ of Trump: “there is substantial evidence to show that the President was frustrated and angered by a sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency...” Say what?! Are you Dr. Phil or Attorney General?
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No. You can't
“Someone said to me, ‘Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty.’ I said, ‘That’s easy - pretty. I can always fake being smart.’”
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This is what disloyalty at home looks like.
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Heartfelt welcome to
@AVindman
as he joins me on
@Renew_Democracy
’s Board of Directors. Like many Americans, I was moved by Lt. Col. Vindman’s courage to speak up in defense of the truth. Looking forward to this new partnership!
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Hunter Biden just punked the House Oversight Committee live on TV when he just showed up to the committee hearing. Listening to Rep. Nancy Mace claim he’s afraid to show up and should be arrested was beautifully ridiculous.
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Stop it. You didn’t take the test Trump. It’s an oral or nasal swab. “It’s a little bit of a...” what?! It’s a cotton ball on the end of a stick, for crying out loud.
Asked what it was like to take the test, Trump says, "Not, not uh - something I want to do everyday...you know, it's a little bit of a -- it's a little bit of -- good doctors in the White House, but it's a test. It's a test. It's a medical test. Nothing pleasant about it."
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Just so I understand. You want folks to send YOU and YOUR WIFE their money to pay “Billionaire” Trump’s $350M judgment and then YOU and YOUR WIFE will SEND the money to “Billionaire” Trump?
Sure. Let me get right on that.
My wife
@elenacardone
started a $354,000,000 GoFundMe account to fund the UNJUST judgement against
@realDonaldTrump
@DonaldJTrumpJr
@EricTrump
and Trump Organization.
Give something & DEMONSTRATE that the people of America are standing together against unjust rulings like this…
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Just a bit of perspective on the GOP: They refused to unseat George Santos for his fraud on his constituents but feel compelled to remove Tennessee Democratic Rep.
@brotherjones
because he stood with his constituents in protesting mass shootings.
#CovenantSchool
#democracy
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Here’s a thought: we’re “disgusted and exhausted” hearing about all of these disgusted and exhausted Republicans who remain silent.
Ex-GOP lawmaker says he has spoken to former colleagues privately and they are "disgusted and exhausted by" Trump
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This from the nation’s chief law enforcement officer is an embarrassment. It doesn’t matter these are “conservative high school students”, he laughs and giggles like a 2 yr old encouraging their disrespect instead of setting the appropriate example his office requires.
"Lock her up," Attorney General Jeff Sessions says with a laugh as chant breaks out during high school leadership summit.
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Ok Trump's impeachment has just been compared to the trial of Jesus--yeah, that one. I'm going to have another gin & tonic now. A little less tonic this time.
#impeachment
#GOPCrazy
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"Can you imagine if we did like some said to do and just ride it out?" --Trump speaking about the 100K to 240K projected deaths.
Ok, I'll play. Who the hell said to you we should just ride this out? Perhaps the same person who said 30 days ago "we are at 15 cases headed to 0"?
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5. Trump is NOT a martyr. He's under investigation because of HIS actions. Again, see
#3
.
Trump is NOT above the law. The hypocrisy here mocks the very Rule of Law his minions profess to uphold.
6. Yes, this is serious. Let's treat it as such without all of the performative crap
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Not one of the GOP presidential candidates can figure out how to run against a guy who is on trial for:
(a) rape charge
(b) paying a porn star hush money
(c) violating the Espionage Act
(d) conspiracy to overturn the results of an election
@SykesCharlie
@DrJasonJohnson
@11thHour
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She called him
#Tuckums
. And then
#LilTucker
.
He ain't ready for this.
.
@joyannreid
takes a look at every which way Tucker Carlson is ‘making America worse’:
“People like you, and your friends at the BS factory are keeping us steeped in covid sickness, and rage, and paranoia.”
#TheReidOut
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As the former chairman of the Republican party, I cannot express enough my condemnation of this pathetic act of cowardice taken by its current leadership to censure
@Liz_Cheney
and
@RepKinzinger
. You are wrong. I stand with Liz and Adam.
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