Ben Yelin
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By day: Attorney/Consultant/Adjunct Law Professor, Co-Host of Caveat Podcast By night: Politics junkie and SF Bay Area sports nut. (Views here are my own)
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Alright, I've been wanting to do this for a long time, and here goes. This is called the "Whataboutism Cheat Sheet." I will pin this, and it will be handy whenever your conservative uncle tries to excuse Trump's criminality with false equivalencies.
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Sir, this is a Wendy’s drive-thru.
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
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Remember how the alleged "bad optics" of the Clinton Foundation was a major storyline in 2016?
Turns out that Donald J. Trump literally runs a sham charity, and yet this story will be out of the news by 3pm today.
BREAKING: Pres. Trump ordered by New York State judge to pay $2 million to a group of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement in a civil lawsuit stemming from persistent violations of state charities laws.
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I do find it a little strange that the "COVID cases will be at zero in April 2020" crowd is now like "we can't forgive the liberals for being wrong about COVID."
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It's all such BS. Biden never promised anyone that there wouldn't be any college protests during his Presidency. He's not a dictator. He tried to get things back to normal by not being a f*cking maniac every day, getting people vaccines, and lessening financial hardship. He's…
Axios: "For President Biden, the barricades and broken glass on college campuses are a brutal reminder that America has not snapped back to the normalcy he promised in his 2020 campaign."
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This confirms what is becoming very obvious: Most Republicans secretly wish Clinton had won. They like this stuff better than governing.
Corey Lewandowski, apparently on Planet B: "What we should be focusing on is the continued lies of the Clinton administration"
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Must be a Democratic President getting inaugurated soon.
Total national debt is 27.8 Trillion. Annual GDP is 21.2 T National debt in 2009: 12 T. In 2019: 22 T. National debt is now 130% of GDP. It was 35% of GDP in 1980. Devastation of virus must be met, responsibly as w/ Cares Act, but we need a plan for the debt. soon. Unsustainable
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Something something Loretta Lynch tarmac
Acting AG Matt Whitaker met with Jared Kushner on Friday.
Watch
@Morning_Joe
discusses why the meeting should not have happened and why Whitaker should recuse himself from the investigation.
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This is hard to watch. The cognitive dissonance is so severe that the only way she knows how to react is indignation.
Wow -- Nancy Mace gets mad when George Stephanopoulos asks her how she can support Trump despite claiming to care about rape victims.
"You are trying to shame me this morning, and I think it's disgusting," she says.
But Stephanopoulos holds his ground!
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STOP IT WITH THESE HEADLINES.
This is out of 1.2 million people who got vaccine! That’s 0.1%, BETTER than efficacy trial data. Only 8 hospitalized.
Clickbait something else. This is deeply irresponsible.
Over 100 fully vaccinated people contract COVID-19 in Washington state, officials say
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Worth noting that Democrats, with zero hesitation (literally unanimous support) gave Trump massive fiscal stimulus in 2020 that assuredly kept the election competitive. The parties are not equivalent on this.
This type of partisan thinking is not unheard of in election years. What's unusual is for lawmakers to just say it out loud.
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Democrats need to do a better job of making clear that all the nice money everyone is getting now is largely due to the American Rescue Plan.
Schools in Florida are open, and we're saying thank you to our hard-working teachers in the classroom by giving them $1,000 bonuses and raises.
#180Days
#OpenSchools
Watch live:
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By the end of the day, Musk will be proposing the 3/5ths compromise.
Most people in America don’t know that the census is based on a simple headcount of people (including illegals) *not* just citizens.
This shifts political power and money to states and Congressional districts with the highest number of illegals.
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I mean this is batshit crazy. This wasn’t a filing error! He had his lawyer set up a shell company to pay off a porn star to keep her silent.
The beat goes on re: Trump and the GOP. "These guys were all new to this at the time," Sen. John Thune, R-SD. "Most of us have made mistakes when it comes to campaign finance issues. In many cases, campaigns end up paying fines and penalties."
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The brutal, unjust invasion of Ukraine, which I do not support, isn’t really actually that bad compared to the Iraq War (which I actually did support).
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Biden is reportedly frustrated with his low poll number (like this), and I don't blame him.
Serious question: What could he do to turn this around? Everyone's answers always strike me as ideologically self-serving. I really don't know!
NATIONAL POLL:
@POTUS
Biden job rating drops to all time low since taking office.
34% approve
61% disapprove
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Trump supporters literally forced a Biden bus off the road in Texas, and shut down traffic in New Jersey and New York. That happened this past weekend.
Remember in 2012 when Barack Obama was running for re-election and the Baptist and Tea Party rioted because they didn't like Obama's leftist policies? Oh, that's right, it didn't happen. It's just the Left that loots and burns.
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Stefanik will be a great case study for historians on how an Ivy-League educated, former RNC and Bush staffer slowly descended into full-on Trumpian insanity.
The Democrats' second impeachment of President Trump is unconstitutional, hypocritical, and divisive.
They are using impeachment as nothing more than another political attack on President Trump & YOU, the American voter.
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Obama gently criticized a white cop for arresting a black professor who was going into HIS OWN HOUSE. Republicans went absolutely apeshit.
They said the same thing about Obama for nine years, almost verbatim
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Enough with the "rigged" bullshit. Sometimes you just lose. You had every chance to win and you didn't. Nothing was rigged.
Thank you to everyone who supported our campaign and voted to shake up the status quo in Washington. Because of you, we had the establishment running scared — withstanding 3 to 1 in TV spending and an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election. (1/)
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I still can’t get over the Biden-Collins voters in Maine. The KEY problem right now for Democrats, illustrated nicely in
@ThePlumLineGS
interview with Jon Ossoff, is that people think divided government=centrist compromise.
Those people do not understand Mitch McConnell.
As of now* the only state that has delivered a split result in presidential and Senate races is Maine—which, not coincidentally, had its own Electoral College split.
(*Georgia's two races are in overtime.)
All in all, split-ticket voting continues to decline.
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The only people who can stop this monster are Georgia voters.
Mitch McConnell is willing to singlehandedly kill a BIPARTISAN relief proposal because he’s a charlatan.
🚨🚨MCCONNELL puts out message that the bipartisan deal won’t work for senate Rs. From
@burgessev
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I'd say one of the most common, and most annoying pundit tendencies is to characterize any bad act that happens anywhere in the world as the responsibility of "the Democrats."
I don't see the logic of the Democrats deciding that the way to win what looks to be close election is to send the cops to beat & maim the demographic cohort that is an essential to their coalition.
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Trolling Level: Expert.
This entire clip is great.
Connolly: "Shouldn't we concerned about all those Biden towers all over the world where foreign partnerships were formed and influence was used here in the US? I've seen these towers in Indonesia, in the Philippines, in Turkey. I've even seen one in Chicago."
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LOL. Imagine being delusional enough to think that this is something Trump would do.
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This is a VERY scary moment for our democracy.
WOW: By a 5–4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court reverses a lower court order extending the deadline for mail-in ballots in Wisconsin. All four liberals dissent.
The conservative majority just effectively threw out thousands of ballots. Incredible.
Link coming soon.
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@AdamSerwer
@bennyjohnson
In fairness to Benny, Answers dot com did not have a Kanye article he could plagiarize.
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At this point, we basically have normal pollsters being like "don't trust our polls, they probably suck" and then Republican pollsters being like "our raw data wasn't good enough, so we just added some pretend Republicans to make things look better."
Not a great place to be!
A Worrisome Pattern Re-emerges in Seeking Response From Republicans
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Wow so weird how Republicans change their views on which entity has the power to hold Trump accountable countable depending on which entity is currently trying to hold Trump accountable.
To this point, one reason Rs chose not to act was that they believed questions around punishment were best left to the Courts. Perhaps they didn't anticipate a 14th amendment argument. But they did place the ball in the judiciary's hands, deliberately.
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Every recent Democratic nominee, for better or worse, is a highly educated Ivy Leaguer. Kagan was dean of Harvard law. Sotomayor was top of her undergrad class at Princeton. Ben’s assuming they’re dumb because they’re not white guys.
Also, there's a reason Democrats never miss with their SCOTUS picks: they overtly choose wild Leftists. That's the only real qualification. They wouldn't care whether Biden nominated an HLS grad who clerked for Breyer or Cardi B, so long as that person voted reliably Left.
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Usually Republicans pretend to believe in covering people with pre-existing conditions, so kudos for the honesty I guess.
The left, including Joe Biden in Tuesday’s debate, overstates the problem of pre-existing conditions to justify political control of health care. via
@WSJ
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He’s talking about a law written by John McCain and Bernie Sanders and signed by Obama.
You work so hard for the military, from completely rebuilding a depleted mess that was left by OBiden, to fixing a broken V.A. and fighting for large scale military pay raises, and then a slimeball reporter, maybe working with disgruntled people, makes up such a horrible charge..
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So let me get this straight. The General Counsel at the NRCC, which spends night and day railing against cancel culture, was traumatized by “Beloved,” demanded it be banned, and his Mom is still running commercials on it ten years later? Am I getting this right?
What's it like to have Terry McAuliffe block you from having a say in your child's education?
This mom knows – she lived through it. Watch her powerful story.
#VAgov
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The funny thing is that I’ve never met or heard of a left-wing person who knows are gives a shit about George Soros. It’s such a bizarre, pervasive conspiracy theory (obviously rooted in anti-semitism).
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I’ve seen a lot of evil, cynical things since I’ve been following politics, but the Republican/Trump effort to end the ACA in Court, during a pandemic and with no alternative, is up there as one of the most nakedly evil.
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Prices are SIGNIFICANTLY higher today than they were in 1981. Thanks, Reagan.
Reminder: Prices are still *significantly* above January 20, 2021 levels
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Brian Kemp is trying to steal the Governor's office.
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp (now running for Gov) has purged voter rolls & is now freezing tens thousands of voter registration forms through "exact match" tests. 70% of the frozen registrations are from black applicants, the AP reports.
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The fact that a tiny symbol used to confirm that people are who they say they are turned into some sort of status symbol speaks to the delusion of the professional "aggrievment" class.
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Liberals were wrong about many COVID-related things, but the critics were mostly WAY more wrong.
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You can see the deep emotional toll 63,000 deaths have taken on him.
96% Approval Rating in the Republican Party. Thank you! Also, just out, highest ever Approval Rating overall in the new Gallup Poll, and shows “Trump beating Sleepy Joe Biden.”
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@DougJBalloon
, who I do not support, is selling merch. I bought some. Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.
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This fits very well with what
@ezraklein
and
@mattyglesias
we’re saying on their pod, and what
@drvox
said on Twitter. Even the “normal” Republicans are just trying to be Charlie Kirk. Their entire focus is on culture war crap, and they have no capacity to solve actual problems.
I think I found a way to get some of the people who want to cancel football this year to change their minds,but we will have to make a few equipment & uniform changes. Apparently this new equipment makes Covid a non-issue.
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THIS DEAL IS AN ABOMINATION WE ARE SO OWNED. IM GONNA CRY IN THE STREETS LIKE THAT GIRL AFTER HILLARY LOST
It might be helpful to the republic if Democratic Twitter yelped a lot tonight. Remember, MAGA Twitter isn't going to read the deal. It's going to read your tweets to decide whether the libs have been sufficiently owned.
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We’re about to get back to the “Republicans wreck the economy” part of our standard political cycle. Just finished “Dem saved the economy.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — US economy grew at 3.5 pct. annual rate in Q3, best in 2 years, with strong consumer spending.
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In some ways the Republican party has changed, but there is something truly timeless in Republicans scapegoating minorities to cover up the damage that their own economic policies have done to poor and middle-class people.
"We have a new category of crime in our country. It's called 'migrant crime,' and it's taking over America ... let's call it 'Bigrant'" -- Trump wants to rerun 2016 by making migrant fear-mongering his signature issue again this year
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If you reluctantly supported Biden in 2020 because you thought there wouldn't ever be any uncomfortable protests in the entire United States for four years, then that's on you.
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I really hope Democrats don't take the disingenuous bait here. Stand up for what you believe in, and do what's right. Republicans say this stuff because they want Democrats to cower and give in. This is not a good-faith argument.
Congratulations Democrats. Your Kavanaugh circus has united the right behind Trump.
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I know that when I'm in a new City and I don't know where to go, I just smash windows with flagpoles and bring tactical gear, just in case.
Marjorie Taylor Greene excused January Capitol rioters because it was their first time in DC and they didn’t know where they were allowed to go.
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Yeuppppp.
Also exposes the disingenuousness of the "Democrats are the REAL War Mongers" "left," who gave Biden zero credit for ending our longest war against the advice of the Military Industrial Complex, while giving Trump anti-war credibility for some offhand comment.
I think it’s really underrated the extent to which Biden did the right thing on Afghanistan, got slammed by wildly unfair media coverage, and just never recovered.
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This whole interview is just an incredible spectacle. What happens to a soulless man when the last strand of morality exits his body. It's really creepy!
KARL: *plays 2016 tape of Rubio calling Trump a "con artist"*
RUBIO: It was a campaign! Why didn't you play the clip of Kamala Harris basically insinuating that Biden is a segregationist?
KARL: We've played that
RUBIO: But you didn't play it now
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Step back and think about why Schumer gets a complete pass even though he has sucked as a leader, while Pelosi is effective as hell and vilified.
JUST IN: In closed-door leadership elections, Sen. Schumer has been re-elected as Senate minority leader by acclamation, source says -
@frankthorp
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Not really the best time for him to argue that Pleading the 5th=guilty
Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?
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Republicans barely win based on various flukes and act like they won a mandate and don’t solicit Democratic ideas. Democrats win by a landslide, and....
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His group endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 as a “problem solver.”
Joe Lieberman says he wants the filibuster to be preserved.
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Arrest, prosecute and convict all of the terrorists who made this happen.
The
@nytimes
journalists in the Capitol have firsthand accounts of what happened. The most harrowing is from
@erinschaff
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For those of you who think RFK Jr. is a little weird on vaccines but otherwise a normal Kennedy Democrat, please read this whole thread.
1.
@jack
, the co-founder of Twitter, has endorsed
@RobertKennedyJr
for President
@elonmusk
, Twitter's current owner, featured RFK Jr in a Twitter space yesterday
And RFK Jr has been showered with positive coverage on Fox News
But lets look at what RFK Jr ACTUALLY BELIEVES
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Congrats to all the MAGA Super Fans who will be paying these fees with their donations.
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You can never go wrong simply ignoring what Ed Rendell has to say.
Ed Rendell said he was worried that Biden had been too flat-footed in his response.
“What we were afraid of is moderates saying, ‘I hate Donald Trump, but I need to be safe. I have to hold my nose and vote for him,’ ” Rendell said.
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Alternative Hypothesis: Democrats think sexual harassment is a major society-wide problem that transcends partisanship.
Republicans think the story is about stupid libs being hypocritical.
(Therefore, D's were willing to pile on Weinstein, most R's did not pile on Ailes.)
Why did this cascade start with Weinstein and not Roger Ailes? Was it because the Fox scandals were mostly about discrediting Fox?
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Everyone take a step back. Forget Russia. Forget collusion, for a moment. Shouldn't it be a bigger deal that a large portion of the President's closest advisers are criminals?
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Oh no! If Democrats do this, Republicans might reflexively oppose everything. Can you imagine????
GOP warns that move would poison the well. “I don't you know again if they if they try to hold hostage our cooperation on that to get the reconciliation bill later and that may affect people's assessment of kind of the political dynamic of all of this," Thune said.
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The Republican Party never cared about fiscal responsibility. The unnecessary $15 billion border wall is just a reminder.
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"Do popular left wing things" would have been my answer a decade ago, but right now that view is exceedingly naive for a number of very important reasons.
1) He doesn't control the House, which means any legislative proposal would be dead.
2) The things he can do by Executive…
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I don't really care about Disney, but has Ron DeSantis thought about being a national candidate, where most people know him as the guy who put a state prison next to their favorite vacation spot out of some bizarre act of anti-gay vengenace?
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I realize Republicans for Biden probably won’t move any voters, because most Republicans are pure-Trumpists, but some of these are surprising to me. Snyder and Trott are not RINOs. They are conservative Republicans.
Retired Congressmen Joe Schwarz and Dave Trott - both Michigan Republicans - endorsed Biden.
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Remember when the Republican front runner for President had dinner with this guy last year?
At last night's America First rally, founder Nick Fuentes called for a holy war against the Jews, promising that he and his followers would "make them die."
Popular influencer
@SNEAKO
appeared on stage to support the movement, saying Fuentes will be future President of the USA.
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Every single one of these things is explainable if you do 5 minutes of research. But the conspiracy-theorists on the right would rather just not know the truth.
When 71% of the precincts in Detroit cannot reconcile their votes it is clear something is profoundly wrong. How can Michigan electors be certified with this massive mistake?
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Good for Bernie. Thank you. He’s better than his most fervent online supporters.
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This entire hearing has some incredible moments, and Democrats came with their A-game of opposition research.
H/t to
@atrupar
for bringing us these amazing clips, as always.
"You've been crusading to legalize polygamy for years" -- i wasn't aware that Turley is a big anti-anti-polygamy guy. big yikes!
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Does Ted Cruz not realize that this a trolling bill to demonstrate what Republicans want to do with women’s bodies? I’m not sure he gets it.
Yikes. A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything...literally! Alabama Democrat proposes bill mandating all men have vasectomy at age 50 or after third child.
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@RadioFreeTom
In her defense, the Democrats made her decision easy because they nominated the far-left, radical
*checks notes*
Joe Biden?
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Last thing on this: He’s supposed to be the President of the whole country. He just brags about stiffing “Democrat cities” and no one seems to care.
Imagine Obama (I know) being like “I’m not giving hurricane relief money to those red neck hobos in Mississippi.”
Pelosi and Schumer only interested in Bailout Money for poorly run Democrat cities and states. Nothing to do with China Virus! Want one trillion dollars. No interest. We are going a different way!
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Happy two year anniversary to this Tweet!
Brad Raffensperger will be a fantastic Secretary of State for Georgia - will work closely with
@BrianKempGA
. It is really important that you get out and vote for Brad - early voting....
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The universal ass-kissing of a man who cost the party the House, Senate, and Presidency is still sometimes hard to believe.
Trump almost certainly cost Loeffler her OWN seat.
It was great to see President Trump last week—a President who put America first, created record jobs & peace agreements, stood with law enforcement, secured our border, took on the CCP & MSM, and delivered vaccines.
Liberals are still outraged but I’ll take that record any day!
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The economy just contracted by 33%, the greatest decrease in modern history. We’re not allowed to travel to other countries, fly to see our parents, or go to our kids birthday parties. What exactly are we clinging onto?
“Before Mr. Biden’s transformation, the question facing voters was 'Do you support Donald Trump?' The question now is, 'Are you willing to endanger the economy and your freedom to end the Trump presidency?'” via
@WSJ
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