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Nick Short ‎‎
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If the board of directors at @Twitter reject the offer made by @elonmusk , then wouldn’t the board be acting in direct opposition to the financial interests of their shareholders?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Here are the names of the 50 intel officials who signed a letter saying Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation." As @RichardGrenell has pointed out, none of these officials had a single piece of raw intel indicating it was disinformation. They made it up to help Biden.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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BREAKING: January 6th was not an insurrection.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Why is it that this administration is more angry with Texas and Florida than it is with China in handling COVID? You'll never hear Biden criticize China like he has Texas and Florida.
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Gaige Grosskreutz advanced toward Kyle Rittenhouse with his gun drawn. It was at the exact moment that Gaige pointed his gun at Kyle in which Kyle shot him in the arm. The media can spin as much as it wants for the prosecution but the evidence doesn't lie. #KyleRittenhouseTrial
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Will the vote counting suddenly stop at midnight in Virginia if Youngkin is in the lead tomorrow? Just wondering.
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An Illinois family whose loved one was hospitalized with COVID-19 and put on a ventilator says he's now home and doing well after a judge had to order a Naperville hospital to treat him with Ivermectin.
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“Fox News has been at the border for 7 months now. We’ve been using the drone the entire time. It’s never been an issue. All of a sudden, in the last 24 hrs, we start showing these images at this bridge & a TFR goes up. We can no longer fly.”
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Buried on page 508 of the 2,702 page infrastructure bill is a pilot program for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee (MBUF) which is basically a long-term plan to make it too expensive to drive a car.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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13 Republicans voted in favor of the $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill while 6 Democrats voted against it. The vote was 228-206. Had the Republicans stood unanimously against the bill, six Democrat defections would have defeated it.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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"By law, the NSA is required to keep secret the identities of American citizens who have been caught up in its vast domestic spying operation...But I was unmasked. My name & the contents of my emails left that building at the NSA & wound up w/ a news organization in Washington."
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@POTUS Will you be taking questions pre-approved by your administration from the pre-selected press pool?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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5 officers were killed in the line of duty this week. May they all RIP.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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The J6 committee has subpoenaed the phone records on hundreds of Americans who have been accused of no crime whatsoever, much less charged with one. @DrJohnEastman is one of those Americans. These are soviet style tactics targeting political opponents. Where are the Republicans?
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
“The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country…” - Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 21, 2021. Milley had no idea what he was talking about.
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
Has the FBI ever admitted that they were the ones aiding and abetting a Russian disinformation campaign in the form of the Steele dossier?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Whatever this thing is, it’s not a Mustang. It’s an abomination.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Remember, never talk to the FBI without a lawyer - even if they’re just asking you what the weather is like.
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Nick Short ‎‎
2 years
As of this morning Crude Oil is at $111 a barrel. When Biden took office Crude Oil was around $52 a barrel.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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In Feb. 2020, just three months after COVID-19’s genome had been sequenced, 27 scientists signed a statement in The Lancet unequivocally declaring that the virus had occurred naturally and that any suggestion to the contrary was a conspiracy theory. They need to be subpoenaed.
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“The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021.” This is called perjury @January6thCmte
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
If Milley considered a politicized resignation to rebuke Trump over the false charge that Trump used Lafayette Square for a photo op, then he should consider a real resignation after overseeing the worst military disaster of the last half-century in Kabul.
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
Oh?
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@PoliticalShort
Nick Short ‎‎
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Why did we decide to withdraw our military before we evacuated American citizens from Afghanistan?
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@PoliticalShort
Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
The twin towers on the night of September 10, 2001. 20 years. #NeverForget
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@PoliticalShort
Nick Short ‎‎
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Make no mistake about it, this is about cracking down on ALL material from the Right using the veneer of cracking down on “white supremacism”.
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@PoliticalShort
Nick Short ‎‎
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Kyler Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. Anyone who watched the videos that night in Kenosha knows this.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@Disney is playing w/ fire. The premise of the company has always been to provide an escape for middle Americans, but Disney’s executives seem to have growing contempt for the very people who visit their parks, watch their films, & buy their merchandise.”
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
The Big Lie is that January 6th was an "insurrection."
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Nick Short ‎‎
2 years
IMO: It is high time that R̶u̶s̶s̶i̶a̶ our intel officials stop interfering in our elections under the pretext that "Russia is interfering in our democracy."
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
@TwitterSafety So is this not a violation of your new policy or…?
@FBI
FBI
3 years
Do you recognize this man who allegedly participated in the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6? Help the #FBI identify him by calling 1-800-225-5324 or visiting to submit a tip. Remember to mention photo 487 in your tip.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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No one believes this.
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ABC News
3 years
"I and my entire senior leadership team are going to make... sure everybody at the FBI remembers what happened here in heartbreaking detail." FBI director Christopher Wray asserts change to come from alleged missteps by FBI in Larry Nassar investigation.
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Nick Short ‎‎
2 years
Gov. Ron DeSantis has instructed schools in his state to ignore Biden's new federal guidelines on inserting gender ideology into school curricula and counseling. Good! Republican governors need to follow the DeSantis playbook.
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
It's not the government that's censoring information, it's the "fact checkers." It's not the government that's going door to door to remind you to get your vaccine, its "trusted voices" in the community.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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The takes coming from the Left are certifiably insane.
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@PoliticalShort
Nick Short ‎‎
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The Jan. 6 Committee has been secretly obtaining private info about American citizens en masse: telephone records, email logs, internet and browsing history, and banking transactions. And it has done so without any limitations or safeguards.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@APStylebook So "people with Frenchness"
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@AmiriKing “Beauvais faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.” That’s it?!?!
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
How many illegal immigrants have been resettled in the U.S. so far in 2021? How many of those resettled in U.S. are unvaccinated/have COVID? Where have they been resettled? Has there been an increase in COVID cases in those areas? Or are we not allowed to ask these questions?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@Breaking911 I see France has already surrendered.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Flip Flopping Fauci. A new wave.
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
The Jan 6. commission summed up in a single chyron by @TuckerCarlson .
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Nick Short ‎‎
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ICYMI: More than 500 federally funded scientists are under investigation for being compromised by China and other foreign powers, the National Institutes of Health revealed Thursday.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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"It is high time that Russia stops interfering in our democracy," claim the 50 intel frauds in the conclusion to their letter.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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What happened to Tucker Carlson is a direct result of there having been no accountability for the epidemic of leaking during Russiagate. IC got the message that they can get away with this, as long as they’re doing it against the Right.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@elonmusk @SenSchumer It's already lost the trust of the American public.
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@PoliticalShort
Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
Which individuals of ISIS-K did we kill @JoeBiden ?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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So it only took the NYT a year and a half to confirm what the NYPost reported about Hunter’s laptop. Interesting.
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
If you are granted religious exemption to your employers vaccine mandate then put on unpaid leave and not allowed to work, shouldn’t you be able to sue for religious discrimination against your employer?
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CNBC
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United Airlines staff who are granted religious exemptions to vaccine mandate will be put on unpaid leave
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
It appears the White House strategy on Afghanistan was the following: Sell a false perception about the strength of the Afghan military and government and then spin a false narrative about the "moderate" Taliban and then support the Taliban. This happened in less than a month.
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“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” —Ephesians 6:12
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@latimes Congratulations to the author of this piece @Sammy_Roth . You have managed to write not only the most idiotic but racist piece of 2023!
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
What else did Milley discuss with Li over these past 5 years that they've known each other?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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From the inception of the Blake shooting, to the riots and now to the Rittenhouse trial, media malpractice has framed a Kenosha narrative completely divorced from reality.
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Nick Short ‎‎
1 year
Right on the money.
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Dan Bongino
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The media response to the bombshell Twitter revelations was entirely, 100% predictable. Journalism died decades ago, and any sane observer knows it. When you cut through all the bullshit and accept that the media are largely activists, you’ll never be disappointed.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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As we've learned over the past 5 years, the FBI can act with impunity and avoid all accountability for their actions. There is no oversight nor are there any real consequences for them. It's not just a few bad apples either.
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Tom Elliott
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. @Simone_Biles : "We suffered and continue to suffer because no one at @FBI or U.S. AG or USOPC did what was necessary to protect us. We have been failed and we deserve answers. Nassar is where he belongs but those who enabled him deserve to be held accountable."
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@elonmusk @FoxNews South Park called it a few years back.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Tucker lives rent free in Democrats heads. #TuckerIsKillingUs
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Same person who leaked Flynn's intercepted communications to the WaPo? We still do not know who committed that felony...5 years later.
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Harmeet K. Dhillon
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WHO UNMASKED @TuckerCarlson and leaked his emails? There is a crime in this chain of events.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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“As a state agency, DCF serves the people of Florida. Diverting resources away from kids in need in Florida, to illegal aliens being smuggled here by the Biden Administration for clandestine resettlement, does not serve the people of our state.”
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It should come as no surprise that Hayden, like the majority in our intelligence community, see no difference between an American with her bible/gun and Reem al-Riyashi, a Hamas suicide bomber who killed herself and four Israelis in 2004. For those like Hayden, we are the enemy.
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
Biden's latest remarks summed up:
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Nick Short ‎‎
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How many billions of dollars in damage did the J6 protesters cause? How many police stations did they burn down? Which businesses did they loot & destroy? How many fed buildings did they attempt to burn down? How many people were ripped out of their cars & beaten in the streets?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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An officer was not killed on Jan 6th. That’s a lie. The truth? On April 2nd a Capitol Police officer was killed after an attacker rammed his car into a barricade at the Capitol & tried to stab other officers. Dems would rather we all not know more about what happened on April 2.
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Hillary Clinton
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An angry mob attacked our Capitol, our lawmakers, and our election. They killed a policeman. And Republican leaders would rather we all not know more about what happened.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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“Claremont Institute is not interested in participating in the fiction that the WaPo is a legitimate media outlet, or that its discredited journalists are dispassionate fact-finders intent on bringing readers objective news.” - @RpwWilliams WaPo is a joke. Treat it as such.
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We will never get back to normal until we reach herd immunity against those in power who have used Covid as a means to control our lives.
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@AOC Sounds like someone is having a pity party. I'm sorry you don't feel as special anymore on this platform.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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According to @RepMalliotakis , less than 10% of the 37,000 individuals the U.S. has evacuated out of Afghanistan so far are American citizens.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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I’ll be voting for Youngkin today. If you live in Virginia, do the same. It’s that simple!
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Biden blamed the former president of Afghanistan for fleeing the country, he blamed former President Trump, he blamed the Americans who are still in Afghanistan, he blamed the non-existent straw men wanting another decade of war In Afghanistan.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Their statement quickly became the accepted orthodoxy for much of the world’s scientific community and virtually all the mainstream media. Congress needs to investigate the coordinated attempt to squelch any inquiry into the questions over COVID’s origins.
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Nick Short ‎‎
2 years
For the past two years, every Republican should have been either attempting to beat back the flood of “no excuse” mail-in ballots saturating swing states, or building up a party network that could adapt to it.
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For an incumbent to lose by almost 40 points, you know Liz is truly despised in Wyoming.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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So is the withdrawal from Afghanistan going according to plan? Is that what Biden wanted us takeaway from that speech?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Why was Bagram Air Base abandoned in the first place? "Right now, if it were adequately fortified, the United States could have an expeditionary force poised to strike at anyone in the region who meant the US harm."
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@RepCarolMiller
Rep. Carol Miller
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We just received this audio from an incredibly brave American in Kabul. She was attacked each time she tried to reach the airport. Despite the danger to herself, she wants us to share this. We must guarantee the safety of Americans and our allies before it is too late.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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If Republicans take control of congress will they launch a probe into Nancy Pelosi for leveraging her position in Congress to rake in tens of millions for herself and her husband? How about an investigation into her actions and communications leading up to Jan. 6th?
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Notice how the Taliban have been framed as "moderates" in Afghanistan in the same way that Hassan Rouhani & his camp were framed as "moderates" in Iran? Don't listen to Taliban propaganda about the attacks in Kabul. They will frame these attacks in a way that most benefits them.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Two subordinates of Dr. Anthony Fauci raised concerns in May 2016 that taxpayer dollars may be funding gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab, but dropped the issue after nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance downplayed the concerns.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Binger violated Rittenhouse's constitutional right to remain silent, attempted to enter evidence into trial that had already been excluded by judge, & withheld high-definition drone footage of the incident from the defense until after the trial concluded.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@POTUS 72% of all job gains since 2021 were simply jobs that were being recovered from the pandemic, not new job creation. Prior to the pandemic, job creation under Trump was 6.7 million—3 million more jobs than the current President.
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Nick Short ‎‎
2 years
Nearly $9 million in Zuckerberg grant funds directed solely to five Democratic strongholds in Wisconsin violated the state’s election code’s prohibition on bribery…
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
Coming soon: "Your credit should also be negatively impacted and your ability to travel severely limited..."
@townhallcom
Townhall.com
3 years
PSAKI: If you're banned on one social media platform, you should be banned on other social media platforms.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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@elonmusk @CollinRugg You're implying that our elected representatives actually care about those they were elected to represent. Over $100B in taxpayer money has already been sent/pledged to Ukraine without our consent or even a debate.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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"People are confused..."
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Here’s the names of the 27 who signed the statement.
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Nick Short ‎‎
2 years
Trump was right.
@oliverdarcy
Oliver Darcy
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“Trump started with Jeff Zucker and said I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed”
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Nick Short ‎‎
2 years
“Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, along with board chair Bret Taylor, held an internal town hall on Monday in which the leaders tried to assure anxious staff…some tweeted tear-filled emoji and memes of people having emotional breakdowns…” This is embarrassing.
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Nick Short ‎‎
3 years
This bill would cut off all federal funds to K-12 schools and federal contractors/grant recipients that promote Critical Race Theory and also cut off federal funds to colleges and universities that compel students and faculty to profess the core tenets of CRT. Excellent.
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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
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SCOOP: @SenTomCotton will introduce legislation to ban critical race theory indoctrination in the federal government and deny federal funds to public schools and universities that compel students to believe in race essentialism, collective guilt, and racial superiority theory.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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On Nov. 8, the family won a legal battle to gain approval to administer the drug to 71-year-old Sun Ng, who had been on a ventilator since October 19…read the entire article. This hospital, and I’m assuming many others, would rather you die than offer you Ivermectin.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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If you work for @AmericanAir you’re not allowed to express an unapproved opinion about critical race theory being implemented in your local school district.
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Nick Short ‎‎
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Is the DOJ weaponizing supposed FARA violations to go after political opponents? It sure looks like it.
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Nick Short ‎‎
8 months
This debate should be the last #GOPDebate . The format needs to change completely, it cannot continue like this. It achieves nothing. It's not only a waste of time, it makes a mockery of the Republican party as a whole. Candidates who do not belong on stage yelling at each-other
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Nick Short ‎‎
1 year
They published this letter knowing it was complete bullshit. The amount of lies pushed by Feinstein, Schiff, Blumenthal, etc. regarding Russian influence operations did more damage to public perception than any real Russian influence op could have ever achieved.
@mtaibbi
Matt Taibbi
1 year
9.On January 23rd, 2018, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) published an open letter saying the hashtag “gained the immediate attention and assistance of social media accounts linked to Russian influence operations.”
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This wins the internet for the week.
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