Tom Nichols
@RadioFreeTom
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Staff writer at @TheAtlantic. Discussion and cat pics and bad music takes are at the other place: https://t.co/GNX0vE6WOO
Newport, RI
Joined January 2012
We are an unserious nation led by unserious people, and our enemies have noticed. The parade in China was worse than a mere snub; it showed that the world doesn't respect Trump - and doesn't have to. Newest from me: https://t.co/CsdBvD8pJq
theatlantic.com
At parades and in the halls of global power, America has been sidelined.
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Gavin Newsom is parodying Donald Trump online—and the reaction from Trump’s supporters is proof that Newson is on to something, @RadioFreeTom argues.
theatlantic.com
Gavin Newsom’s parodies are riling people up—and they don’t quite seem to understand why.
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(I haven't been part of a think-tank in 35 years, back when I worked at that nest of crazy liberals called CSIS)
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THIS IS THE MOMENT HE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR! THAT ELITE PAO TRAINING IS GOING TO FINALLY PAY OFF!
Well, JD Vance's engagement numbers are way up today, so he has that going for him
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Johnson’s statement on Trump and Epstein digs the hole deeper. “Trump was…willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator.” So Trump DID know Epstein was a child predator? AND he was a pal with whom he shared a secret? https://t.co/F1P38KJSar
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The statements from the speaker come as Democrats and a small number of Republicans are pushing for legislation to compel the release of more files on Jeffrey Epstein.
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Are you seriously insisting that it wasn't Trump's signature and birthday message to his friend Epstein? Do you really believe the people who voted for you are that stupid?
The Democrats don't care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That's why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies. No one is falling for this BS.
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The below observation seems truer than ever today.
In all Trump's solitary, predatory life, Jeffrey Epstein seems the closest thing Trump ever had to a friend.
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Hispanics are -34 for Trump. This would count as the shortest political honeymoon in history.
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Ruh roh
Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?
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Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?
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From Sotomayor dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Gov't can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, & appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
The inevitable Kavanaugh opinion on immigraiton reprises his 18 confirmation exchange when @SenBooker told him "you’re willing to consider using racial profiling but you’re hostile to the use of race when it is used to...remediate discrimination" More here
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I miss having boring presidents who did things like sign or veto bills, give the occasional speech, keep the country funded, and who doesn't require House committees to investigate his relationship with convicted sex offenders.
News: House Oversight has obtained Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book https://t.co/Depu775AXp
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This isn't how anything works, not even during the GWOT, not when Reagan bombed Libya, not even when we invaded Grenada. This is how it works in the movies, which is apparently how a lot of people now get their information about life and death matters of national policy.
@maggiemay108 @RadioFreeTom He made a decision that the people in the boat threatened the lives of young Americans. Lives were threatened. A president has the prerogative to eliminate the threat.
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I'll be joining @TheAtlanticFest in New York City on September 19, on a politics panel with Ashley Parker, Toluse Olorunnipa, Anne Applebaum, and Jon Lemire. Later, I'll join a panel with Kathryn Bigelow about her new movie, A House of Dynamite. https://t.co/PTwJs6qe3Q
theatlantic.com
New addition to the Atlantic Festival next month in NYC: Me! Join The Atlantic for three days of conversations, screenings, book talks, and more. See the agenda, get passes and learn more at https://t.co/nlDQyUZBEN.
#TAF2
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We are an unserious nation led by unserious people, and our enemies have noticed. The parade in China was worse than a mere snub; it showed that the world doesn't respect Trump - and doesn't have to. Newest from me: https://t.co/CsdBvD8pJq
theatlantic.com
At parades and in the halls of global power, America has been sidelined.
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It's so often the same story among the people who sold out and did a 180 to get on the Trump gravy train after failing to make it in the institutions whose imprimatur they craved.
“What stood out to me as I started to get to know Jennings was his fixation on associating himself with elite, purportedly liberal institutions.”
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seven years ago loomer handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter’s office bc she lost her account today she has the ear of Secretary of State Rubio
"Ms. Loomer said she spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday night to alert him to the flights and what she called the threat of an Islamic invasion." https://t.co/bkPahDL8Pq
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I'm curious as to what level of clearance she holds. I mean, this administration has been scrupulous about security, so I'm sure her clearance must be significant for her to be clomping around the White House and the Pentagon
Warner on Laura Loomer: "Is she actually the acting Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of War as of this morning, or is she the real Director of National Intelligence?"
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Two weeks!
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I can see we're gonna have a fight over where "Western" MA begins
Western Massachusetts probably has more “Heritage Americans” per capita than most parts of the United States, and they’re all Democratic wine moms.
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