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🚨🚨🚨 Some news: I'm on Substack now over at . I'm going to be posting longer essays there on economics & geopolitics, if that's your thing 🚨🚨🚨
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The Russians can't hack our secrets if we just tell them our secrets
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Democrats have just won the national popular vote for the 7th time in 8 elections, something no party has ever done before…
… and yet Democrats are sweating out another Electoral College squeaker & have only appointed 3 of 9 Supreme Court justices.
Minoritarian government.
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NFTs were, no joke, the dumbest bubble in history. Dumber than tulips or even Beanie Babies. They were literally digital receipts that said you alone owned something that everyone did.
It’s so embarrassing that Silicon Valley was pushing these so hard.
An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet bought for $2.9M is now valued at less than $4
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Putin has said the country he’s invading doesn’t have the right to exist, and people think the problem is we just didn’t offer him enough concessions.
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Notice that, after turning hydroxychloroquine into a culture war issue and saying it worked despite scientists saying it didn’t, Trump is not taking it now that he actually has covid.
BREAKING: President Trump is receiving “Remdesivir therapy” for coronavirus, White House physician says. “He has completed his first dose and is resting comfortably.”
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Day 2 of my wife feeling sick: low-grade fever, cough, chills. She has a co-worker, who she sometimes worked on the same floor with, who already tested positive for COVID-19.
You'd think this would make her a good candidate to get tested, but no. Still almost no testing in NY.
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My wife and I have COVID-19, and it’s insane to me that people are seriously considering just letting this thing spread. Absolutely insane.
The truth is the economy isn’t going back to normal until we beat this thing.
I'm watching the "just let the virus do it's thing and keep the economy humming" school of thought grow on the right. And it seems worth noting something crucial.
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Think about how much the Republican Party’s complete & utter corruption is taken for granted: We’re not hoping that evidence of Trump’s obvious guilt will get 20 of them to remove him. We’re hoping that 4 of them will even allow that evidence *to be heard*.
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Intense competition here for the worst op-ed of the last 10 years
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This is literally how the Nazis defined who was and was not a Jew
If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.
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This is the former prime minister of Belgium —>
“Just tell us what Vladimir has on you. Maybe we can help.”
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With a population of 21 million, Florida announced 10,109 new covid cases today.
With a combined population of 2.6 billion, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and the European Union are averaging 6,760 new cases.
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I don’t think any tweet has ever aged worse over the course of a single day than this one
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Spoiler alert: the reason his funding was cut was Matt Gaetz started a conspiracy theory about it on Tucker Carlson’s show.
Idiocy has real costs.
Peter Daszak is a British-born American PhD who’s spent a career discovering dangerous viruses in wildlife, especially bats. In 2003, he warned 60 Minutes a pandemic was coming. Two weeks ago, NIH funding for his virology research was killed.
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Two months ago, we had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.
Today, we have the highest unemployment rate in 80 years.
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Breitbart continues to use globes in its headlines to denote Jews. Seriously guys, just use yellow stars. You’re not fooling anyone.
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The fact that *any* Republicans are talking themselves into the idea that it’s legitimate for county election boards or state legislatures to overturn the results of an election is an incredibly dark development.
Our democracy is in danger from a lot more than Trump.
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Two Jared Kushner quotes that should make you fear for your life: “I know how to make this government run now” and “I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.”
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This is one of the most terrifying paragraph I’ve ever read
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Imagine a loved one dying because your governor was too lazy to read the news any time in the last month
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How Republicans deal with Trump scandals in 3 steps:
Step 1: Say they're "troubled"
Step 2: Do nothing
Step 3: There is no Step 3
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It’s hard to describe the insanity of the opposition party begging the incumbent to do things that will make him more popular before the election, and him saying no.
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I Didn’t Notice Trump Is A Wannabe Fascist Until After He Nominated All The Judges I Wanted, But Now I Totally Get It!
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We all owe George Lucas an apology. Everyone thought the whole "the taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute" thing was a really lame way to start Episode I, but, well, maybe it's a pretty plausible story about democratic breakdown.
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Remember: Comey thought it was more important to break FBI protocol over Hillary’s non-scandalous emails than the Trump-Russia investigation
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Kellyanne Conway thought the fact it’s called “covid-19” meant there were 18 other covids, Rudy Giuliani booked the Four Seasons Total Landscaping company’s parking lot, right next to a sex shop, instead of the hotel, & we wonder why they didn’t do a better job with the pandemic
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A member of the party that benefitted from Russian interference is now telling us that Russian interference isn’t that big a deal … right after he visited Russia.
It’s times like these that I remember that Russia also hacked the RNC but didn’t release anything.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, back from the congressional trip to Moscow, is suggesting that Congress went too far in punishing Russia for meddling in the 2016 election.
"The election interference ... is not the greatest threat to our democracy."
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Nothing says “I will be an impartial judge in any election-related cases” like showing up at a rally with one of the litigants
Pres Trump escorts Justice Barrett up the South Portico steps to the balcony outside the Blue Room as invited guests applaud on the South Lawn beneath.
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The New York Times should be doing some soul-searching about how they missed a once-in-a-generation scoop because they were so obsessed with both-sides-ism.
Instead, they’re trying to out the whistle-blower.
It's pretty amazing that Ken Vogel had all the information needed for a Watergate-style scoop about Trump and was so hell bent on fitting the information into a predetermined anti-Biden narrative that he fumbled the ball.
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In 1986, the Saudis played a major role in bankrupting the USSR by pumping more oil even as the price collapsed. Today, they won’t even take our calls about producing more.
What is the point of being their ally if they won’t do the one thing we need?
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Republican elected officials have spent the last two months feeding their voters lies about the election, then, when those lies were used to justify an attempted coup, said that it was everybody else’s responsibility to convince their voters that these lies are not true.
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“It’s too divisive for President Trump to face consequences for inciting an attempted coup” is why parody is dead.
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Full transparency: Scaramucci didn’t know that disclosure forms could be disclosed even though he went to Harvard Law
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Covid is the worst pandemic in 100 years, but Trump's incompetence is the real plague.
Asia has 14 times as many people as the U.S., but less than half as many covid deaths.
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Trump just mentioned that he owns a winery in Charlottesville. Important to get a plug in when you're defending Nazis.
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If you really want to stick it to hedge fund managers, how about we get rid of the carried interest loophole.
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Here's Sartre back in 1946 describing anti-Semites as the original trolls. True of the alt-right today.
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So the police have:
1) Killed an unarmed teen
2) Fired tear gas & rubber bullets at mostly peaceful protesters
3) Arrested & blocked media
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Harvard might have done lasting damage to the world by letting Jared Kushner’s family buy him a spot in the school.
He’s too dumb to realize that he’s not smart enough to get in on his own, and now thinks he’s an expert at everything.
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There really is a tweet for everything
So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave - American hero! Thank you John.
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Every night, a different Trump goes on Fox News and says that the pandemic isn’t a big deal anymore.
And every night, the number of new cases and deaths keeps going up. Today, covid killed 1,049 Americans. Yesterday, it was 1,025.
“Almost nothing"
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DON’T REOPEN BARS.
DON’T REOPEN INDOOR RESTAURANTS.
NOTHING CAN STOP THEM FROM BEING HIGH-RISK.
BAIL THEM OUT INSTEAD.
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I’m old enough to remember when Republicans tried to stop healthcare for 9/11 first responders because they didn’t like the $7.4B pay-fors
Paul Ryan also said on MSNBC intvu earlier that Congress will front the $$ for the wall -- and confirmed a pricetag of $8 to $14 billion
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The killer chart: the top 1% would get 79.7% of all the tax cuts under the Trump plan. The top *0.1%* would get 39.6%.
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Conservatives think it’s some kind of gotcha that epidemiologists are projecting fewer deaths now that we’ve taken steps to prevent more deaths. Their stupidity is going to get people killed if Trump listens to them.
Right-wing media is pushing a misleading narrative about the Imperial College study.
Per the lead epidemiologist, projected fatalities dropped b/c new restrictions on movement were imposed & NHS increased capacity. Right-wing media is implying the model itself was wrong. 1/
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Only a matter of time until Republicans say it’d be treason NOT to collude with Russia if that’s what it took to beat Hillary
Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!
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Wait until Ben Carson finds out what job he was trying to get earlier this year
Williams: "Dr. Carson does not think he is prepared to run a federal agency...it's just not good for him or the country right now."
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I know a lot of Democrats are disappointed that, even though it looks like Biden will win, he’s not going to win as big as we hoped.
Keep in mind: It’s been very difficult to beat right-wing nationalists in other countries, and it’s very difficult to beat an American incumbent.
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I don't say this very often, but Lindsey Graham is right
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The only challengers to do better than Joe Biden’s 51.3% of the popular vote were Thomas Jefferson in 1800 (61.4%), Andrew Jackson in 1828 (56.4%), William H. Harrison in 1840 (52.9%), and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 (57.4%).
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Her doctor doesn’t want her to come in, for fear of potentially infecting others. Same with Urgent Care. And she was advised not to get tested at an ER, because, if she doesn’t have it, there’s a good chance she’d get it there.
We need drive-through testing centers. Now.
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Covid killed 1,025 Americans today
Eric Trump claims his social media likes are being throttled and he thinks that’s become the number one issue in politics over the past few weeks
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Democrats have won the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections, but still only have 4 seats on the Supreme Court. Democracy!
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Imagine how quickly Republicans would investigate Trump’s Russia ties if he said he thought 39.6% was the appropriate top marginal tax rate.
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If you come across a well-dressed Nazi, the story isn’t that he’s well-dressed. It’s that he’s a Nazi.
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The White House bragging about ending the pandemic just as the pandemic is reaching its highest point yet is some real 1984-level lying
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Lauren Boebert is part of a group that the FBI has labeled a domestic terror threat, and was trying to help the domestic terrorists who attacked the U.S. Capitol find Nancy Pelosi.
She can’t be trusted with a gun at the Capitol.
I am legally permitted to carry my firearm in Washington, D.C. and within the Capitol complex.
Metal detectors outside of the House would not have stopped the violence we saw last week — it’s just another political stunt by Speaker Pelosi.
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There are only two possibilities:
1) Pence isn’t aware of anything Trump has said in the last year
OR
2) He’s lying about everything
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Everything the Trump administration has promised—drive-thru testing centers in Walmart parking lots, a website to diagnose people, and now the hospital ship sent to NY—has turned out to be useless or nonexistent
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Stormy Daniels says Trump told her she reminded him of Ivanka. That is also what Karen McDougal says he told her.
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Angela Merkel explained how even an R0 of 1.1 would quickly overwhelm their hospitals.
Donald Trump suggested we try injecting people with bleach.
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Here’s a list of—I think—all the Trump allegations from the past 24 hours
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This isn’t something both sides do. Democrats don’t pass laws trying to keep Republicans from voting.
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This is not a party fit to govern, and it extends waaaaaay beyond Trump
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@Phil_Mattingly
says GOP lawmakers who were on the plane with Trump are voting on the House floor today as if they weren't exposed. No widespread testing in the Capitol.
@cnn
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Trump saying we're no better than Putin's Russia is a big test for conservatives. Pay attention to who denounces this & who doesn't.
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Let’s be clear: President Trump is condemning New Yorkers to die because 1) they didn’t vote for him, & 2) their governor didn’t suck up to him.
These are totally preventable deaths that Trump is not going to prevent because his feelings are hurt. He is a monster, a sociopath.
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I don't say this lightly: this might be the single dumbest thing I've ever heard anyone say.
By the way, Trump just gave Laffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in economics.
Art Laffer: "it's much like Obama, who I believe was the reason why we had the Great Recession. As he got closer and closer to winning the markets collapsed."
I need to get myself one of the Fox News scam gigs.
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Fox News is going to get people killed with these kind of insane lies
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If you're a journalist who can't tell whether someone is lying about the unemployment rate, maybe you should get a new job.
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The state of our democracy: If Democrats had just 5 fewer seats in the House, Republicans would be trying to pull off a real coup right now
2 House Republicans tell me they expect as of now that at least 140 Republican Members of the House will on Jan 6 object to and vote against the Electoral College results showing President-elect Biden won
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“Our new govt is founded upon … the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man” —Alexander Stephens, VP of the Confederacy
Chief of Staff John Kelly praises Robert E Lee as "honorable man," says "lack of an ability to compromise led to the civil war," not slavery
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Trumpism in one tweet
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
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John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and the Wisconsin GOP forced voters to risk their lives during a pandemic in hopes that it would favor Republicans.
It’s inspiring that this failed, but infuriating that it had to come to this.
AP calls the Wisconsin Supreme Court race for liberal candidate Jill Karofsky, who reduces conservative power on the court.
Looks like the GOP legislature’s election gambit backfired.
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Trump is like a Bond villain who can’t help but tell us about his plan to rig the election.
That's telling his supporters to vote in person so he wins the votes that cast on Election Day itself & then suing to stop absentee ballots from being counted. Bush v Gore 2.0 is the plan
"We need 9 justices. You need that. With the unsolicited millions of ballots that they're sending ... you're gonna need 9 justices." -- Trump suggests he's counting on SCOTUS to have his back when he makes claims of election fraud following November's election
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Impeach Trump again. It’s not like the Senate is actually doing anything about the pandemic right now.
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McConnell is blaming Democrats for “not engaging” with a secret process that had no hearings.
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It’s almost like bringing college kids back to campus is an exceptionally poor idea that we shouldn’t be trying right now
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People freak out about Richard Spencer, but Tucker Carlson is by far the most influential white nationalist there is
White nationalist rhetoric on Fox News from Tucker Carlson:
Democrats "are plotting, in effect, a coup" through immigration
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I honestly can’t think of a worse platform for Democrats to run on.
It also betrays a deep economic illiteracy given how low interest rates are.
Pete Buttigieg says Democrats should focus on cutting the deficit, which fell under Obama and is soaring under Trump.
“The time has come for my party to get a lot more comfortable owning this issue... It’s not fashionable in progressive circles to talk too much about the debt.”
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This is Michael Lewis. He writes really entertaining stories about plucky outsiders who successfully challenge the status quo.
His only flaw is he doesn’t check if the real story is the opposite of what he said because he’s so wed to his bestselling formula.
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It’s important not to forget how insanely stupid — and I mean that literally, as in, it’s both insane and stupid — Trump’s whole plan was.
Trump believed in two obviously false conspiracy theories so much that he repeatedly pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate them.
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Trump's plan is to give up, and hope that people don't mind that we have the worst outbreak in the world.
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The top 1 percent own half of all stocks
"George, stocks are owned by everybody" -- pressed on the fact that only half the jobs lost during the pandemic have come back, Trump quickly pivots to hyping the Dow
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It was literally called the “Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents”.
Obama left it, and Trump ignored it.
Tonight's Team Trump Livestream features Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who, talking COVID-19, tells Lara Trump, "clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration, any kind of game plan for something like this."
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Trump tried to get France to leave the EU—blowing up 60 years of integration & cooperation—by offering them a better trade deal
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Remember, Trump has a mandate because he got 2.8 million fewer votes despite having a hostile power *and* the FBI meddle on his behalf.
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It took the GOP 7 years to decide they want to replace Obamacare with a much less generous version of it that could cause death spirals.
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There are two things that “objective” reporters are allowed to openly root for: deficit reduction and foreign interventions
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… is what it would mean for everyone my wife and I have been in contact with. They’d know to quarantine too.
If we’re going to avoid all being stuck in our houses for the next 2 years, we need to test everyone, quickly isolate the sick, and quarantine their contacts.
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To recap: the President just fired the government’s top cybersecurity expert for accurately saying that there was no widespread voter fraud, and the President’s campaign lawyer is celebrating the prospect of legal votes from Democratic areas being thrown out for no reason
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Two big takeaways:
1. Richard Epstein is a moron, and it’s terrifying that the White House is listening to him
2. The fact that the conservative legal movement thinks Richard Epstein is brilliant tells you everything you need to know about them. It’s morons all the way down.
New Interview: I spoke with law professor Richard Epstein, whose controversial article on coronavirus circulated in the Trump administration, about why he believes many coronavirus models are wrong, and the dangers of sloppy science during a pandemic.
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Imagine tweeting this just as you vote to disrupt our democracy by trying to toss out people’s completely legitimate ballots.
The faux piety, the cosplaying Churchillian resolve, it’s all just so galling.
At least admit that you’re an arsonist, not a firefighter.
Our democracy cannot be disrupted by criminal behavior. We will not falter. We will not bend. We will not shrink from our duty.
Mobs don’t rule America—laws do.
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NO, NO, NO! Big story isn’t that Trump picked someone from the GOP Establishment. It’s that he picked someone who runs a racist hate site.
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