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“Disco sucks” is the biggest lie the boomers ever told us.
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“Fortunate Son” plays as Trump de-planes, an entry for the “nobody listened to the lyrics” hall of fame.
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There's a Trump tweet for everything.
The federal gov. has handled Sandy worse than Katrina. There is no excuse why people don't have electricity or fuel yet.
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That is literally how the law works, yes.
.
@RealSheriffJoe
: "If they can go after me, they can go after anyone in this country."
#Hannity
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There are no mass shootings in Japan because there are no video games there
Kevin McCarthy, the GOP House minority leader, also tells Fox News that video games are the problem following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.
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"He’s not going to sign a bill that doesn’t have money for the wall... if he gives in now, that’s the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective president. That’s probably the end of his presidency."
- Lindsey Graham, January 2
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Yeah, what does Hawaii know about being attacked, anyway
Hawaii, what do you know?
You were 5,000 miles from 9/11.
You run your little world and let the grownups run the mainland.
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Not many people know this, but Medicare-for-all is the only thing that costs money. Keeping a military presence in central Asia is actually free, thanks to a bunch of coupons the Pentagon cut out in the 70s.
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My brain keeps returning to the sentence “a transgender heavy metal singer defeated the author of Virginia’s anti-trans bathroom bill."
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Attn trolls: It's not "doxxing" to identify people who appeared in public at a rally and have given media interviews about their beliefs.
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Did you write this tweet between shifts at the steel mill
These Hollywood elites wouldn't know average, every day hard-working Americans if we bit them in the ass.
#GoldenGlobes
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When you've never interacted with a leftist but are pretty sure you have a banger tweet
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Why watch someone attempt a Soulsborne no-hit run when you can watch the 10,000th tv panel about cancel culture
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Thinking about the guy who half-assed a Buffalo Wild Wings chicken sandwich, forgetting all the toppings, not realizing it would be delivered to this guy
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The "blue shift" in Pennsylvania is going to launch 10 million conspiracy theories and it was 100% avoidable had legislators just copied Ohio's notes and let them process ballots early.
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Secret Service has moved crowd back from the overflow stage so it can be broken down.
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I am once again asking you to finish the movie before tweeting about it
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They. Don't. Run. Either. Branch. Of. Congress.
President Trump says if the government were to shut down next month, he would "absolutely blame the Democrats"
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Yes, the DEEP STATE tipped off CNN about... the location of the FBI office in Washington.
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That's Liz Cheney behind her on the left. She represents Wyoming, which has around 150,000 fewer residents than D.C.
Mace: D.C. wouldn’t even qualify as a singular congressional district..
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If Trump doesn't watch out, key Republicans may pronounce his comments "disappointing" before donating to his re-elect and voting for him.
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It's uhhhh unfortunate that John Lewis won't honor the sacrifices made by ... [looks down at notes] ... John Lewis.
NEW from
@PressSec
on Lewis, Thompson missing the Civil Rights Museum opening: “We think it’s unfortunate that these members of Congress wouldn’t join the President in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history." (1/2)
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wow imagine if Martin Luther King got arrested
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley, on Canada PM Justin Trudeau invoking emergency powers to deal with the "Freedom Convoy" blockade:
"By this rationale, they could have cracked down on the Civil Rights movement. They could have arrested Martin Luther King."
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Netflix has endless data on what content Americans want to see, and its answer is nonstop serial killer and apocalypse shows. Cool, cool
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What do you even say here? This covers the period when she was the spokesman for Donald Trump, who was president last year.
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It's official: Missouri voters have STRUCK DOWN the state's right-to-work law, by a landslide.
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Democrats will have veto power over Virginia's next post-census electoral map for the first time since 1991.
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The line she's applauding here is "and now it’s my goal to cut the federal deficit $3 trillion more by making big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their fair share."
AOC really became the same ineffective, party loyalist, establishment democrat she criticized to get elected
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Danica Roem (D) has defeated Bob Marshall (R) in HD13. She will be America's first transgender state legislator.
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Biden is the first presidential candidate to sweep Dixville Notch since Richard Nixon in 1960.
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A West Virginia legislator streamed, then deleted, video of himself storming the capitol
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To own the libs, you must first learn how to own yourself.
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"If the people who wrote this bill were proud of it, they wouldn’t be forcing this vote in the dead of night." -- Mitch McConnell, 2009
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One of my biggest peeves is people with extremely easy jobs making light of low-wage labor. Waiting tables is MUCH harder than flapping your jaws on TV.
Fox & Friends hosts say there's no need to raise the tipped minimum wage: "If you're working at a McDonald's or a small little restaurant where you're making tips, ... if you're nice to the people, you make a lot of money"
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You’ve all been asking who the leader of antifa is, and boy have I got a plot twist
Pat Robertson tells Trump that his response to the George Floyd protests "isn't cool."
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A completely sincere thought: Thousands of totally well-meaning people spent a year of their lives working for candidates and their reward was being part of a historic debacle, because the state party fumbled an app. It’s infuriating.
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Advice from an Obama admin econ policy vet: "Democats should never again allow Republicans to complain that we can’t afford a particular social program because of its deficit implications. 'We can't afford it' is over."
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"What if you had to pay taxes for a service you don't personally use at that moment" is a dangerous road for a Democrat to go down
Pelosi also questioned the policy wisdom of cancelling student loan debt:
“Suppose…your child just decided they, at this time, [do] not want to go to college but you’re paying taxes to forgive somebody else’s obligations. You may not be happy about that."
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I guess the sincere Ukraine position got scanned as cringe so Musk had to reverse-virtue-signal with the NPC meme to recover his based cred.
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Sorry, been busy: Did the president actually keep going to sporting events until he found one where the crowd would cheer for him?
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New national Monmouth poll:
Sanders: 20% (+6)
Warren: 20% (+5)
Biden: 19% (-13)!
Harris: 8% (-)
Booker: 4% (+2)
Buttigieg: 4% (-1)
Yang: 3% (+1)
Castro: 2% (+2)
O’Rourke: 2% (-1)
Williamson: 2% (+1)
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Counting mail-in ballots is good now.
McCormick: We’re going to win this campaign… We have tens of thousands of mail-in ballots that have not been counted
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Why is "flatscreen" still code for "wasteful luxury spending"? Where would you go in 2020 to buy a non-flatscreen TV?
“I bet you'll go in there and find a brand new flatscreen. That's where her stimulus money went. I don't have any feelings for these people. None."
-A Kansas City landlord evicting a tenant on Tuesday.
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This is a "My Cousin Vinny"-level mismatch of opening statements so far
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Disneyland *famously* sells passes that let you skip the lines, how did this analogy escape the writers room
Ben Shapiro: "Voter suppression doesn't involve long lines, any more than long lines at Disneyland are ride suppression"
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These CIA budget cuts have been brutal.
Chile's president-elect Gabriel Boric was targeted with a green laser pen during his victory speech in Santiago. It is not clear whether Boric noticed the laser pen, and his campaign team has not commented on the incident
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(Warren rally in Indianola, IA)
ME: Hey, I haven’t seen a Katie Porter shirt outside of her district.
DAN PORTER: Well I guess you’ve never met her dad!
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Fellas, is it dementia to love your wife?
"I say it was a planted dandelion there. Who knows"
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Last month, Flake joined every Senate R to confirm John Bush, who wrote birther blog posts, as a federal judge.
Sen.
@jeffflake
(R-Ariz.) tells
@chucktodd
in an exclusive interview, "I wish we as a party had stood up" to the birther movement.
#MTP
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Photo was taken while he talked about Sandy Hook massacre. Merry Christmas and stop letting people die in your jail.
Obama on hearing that many black voters rejected his saying that voting for
@realDonaldTrump
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"Unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate," McCarthy says in a letter explaining why the party has to purge a member of the leadership team for too much free thought and debate.
🚨🚨 BREAKING:
@GOPLeader
has sent a letter about recalling
@Liz_Cheney
.
"Having heard from so many of you in recent days, it’s clear that we need to make a change. As such, you should anticipate a vote on recalling the Conference Chair this Wednesday.”
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Obviously the first thing they'd do with these notes is never take pictures of them and never talk about them for nearly three years.
WH Press Sec Stephanie Grisham claims Obama aides left 'you will fail" notes in offices for Trump aides: “We came into the WH, I’ll tell you something. Every office was filled with Obama books and we had notes left behind that said ‘you will fail,’ ‘you aren’t going to make it,’”
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Trump on Fox, asking who the people who want to rename military bases want to rename Fort Bragg after: “Are you going to name it after Rev. Al Sharpton?”
That’s kind of a revealing name to pluck out of the air.
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Something everyone decided to forget for some reason is that Trump spent the final weeks of the midterms pivoting to an immigration message -- the caravan was coming and Democrats wouldn't stop it -- then lost the House and every Midwest race.
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One reason that Kamala exchange with Biden matters: Dem voters need to be convinced that a woman can face Trump onstage and take him apart. That moment got her a long way.
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If I heard someone say "racism and lies are bad" in a speech I would simply not say "hey, he's talking about me!"
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Warren explaining the wealth tax: "How many people here own a home?" Most hands go up. "You’ve been paying a wealth tax for years. They just call it a property tax. I just want their tax to include the diamonds, the yachts, and the Rembrandts."
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Turnout in recent Texas Democratic runoffs:
2012: 236,305
2014: 200,992
2018: 432,180
2020: 955,735
Doesn’t mean Cornyn is vulnerable, but the days of TX Dems just pre-conceding every statewide race are probably over.
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Susan Collins is now the *only* Republican member of Congress across New England.
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An interesting quirk of Walker's career is that he first ran for office at age 22 and has never worked in the private sector.
Just what America needs...an out-of-touch liberal law professor who thinks government is the answer to our problems. True freedom and prosperity don’t come from the clumsy hand of government, they come from the dignity of hard work!
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Nationals fans made a rudimentary political mistake: Expressing opinions about Trump in a stadium, instead of a rust belt diner.
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Delgado’s brief rap career was known before he won the primary; so was his Rhodes scholarship, Harvard Law degree, and subsequent legal career, which for *some reason* are not mentioned here.
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My dude, they're not even releasing White House visitor logs.
Between Trump's directness & leaks the Trump admin is the most transparent in living memory--despite its policies. Good or bad?
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The idea that Sanders wasn't a serious legislator was always specious. Rs held the House for most of Sanders's time there; he was in his first Senate term when Obama took WH. As soon as he got a chairmanship (Veterans) he passed a bill so popular Trump took credit for it.
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Taylor Swift is older now than any of the Beatles were when they broke up. Enjoy your Sunday.
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This is surreal. Neither the tweet *nor the video* say what caused the explosion: the LAPD detonated the fireworks they'd seized on a residential street!
UPATE: Arturo Ceja III, 26, charged in connection to massive South LA fireworks explosion that injured 17 and displaced many residents in the blast zone, is set to appear in federal court Tuesday.
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Big day for “what’s the harm in humoring him” anonymous quote guy.
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February 2017, folks
Honestly the funniest 2018 result would be: Dems win the majority based on suburbs after reporters spend two years canvassing rural diners
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Just remembering the WiFi password at the Trump rally on Monday, no particular reason
DALTON — Hello from the site of Trump’s Georgia rally tonight, where the music playing now is “Fortunate Son” and the WiFi password is
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Not getting a ton of attention today, but IMO Julian Castro's answer to a question about
@AOC
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"George, there was a time in this country where the top marginal tax rate was over 90 percent."
and *woosh* goes the Overton Window.
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A good test for whether the border wall is a winning issue is -- let me just get hypothetical here -- an election in which Republicans spend the final weeks warning about a threat across the border, then lose 40 seats.
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Sorry, folks, but you don’t get to spend 18 months gloating about Trump’s arena-sized crowds then insist “his base is too busy to go to DC."
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This is just a politically sophisticated analysis. In Canada, Biden would be a Liberal and
@AOC
would be NDP. In the rest of the developed world the “universal hc costs too much” candidate would be in a conservative party.
.
@aoc
to
@freedlander
: “In any other country,
@JoeBiden
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The whole “I just don’t BELIEVE that Biden got 80 million votes” thing ignores one of the campaign’s big developments: Biden broke every record for online fundraising, including Obama’s and Trump’s. The giant turnout and vote total really wasn’t surprising.
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SENATOR: I have not seen the president's tweets.
ALSO A SENATOR: Judge, are you aware of what PopeSmasher69 said about your fecundity?
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Dems have won all three of the marquee off-year races -- NJGov, VAGov, NYC Mayor -- for the first time since 1989.
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The quote is “She should be let go. She should be fired. End of story. When there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start lopping the heads off.”
Pretending that Ryan was calling for violence is more incitement than anything she said.
CNN's April Ryan says White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is not credible and therefore it's time to start "lopping" her head off.
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2009: Obama’s a dummy who can’t talk without a teleprompter!
2017: After six months, Trump is paying attention in meetings. A true leader.
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We're used to it, but it's a big difference between the parties when Rs use a phrase like "Democrat states." Try to imagine a D convention speaker speaking about how, like, Mississippi didn't deserve something.
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The first Texas wind farm was built when
@aoc
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Sean Duffy is aggressively stupid: "We have windmills because of concepts and policies that come from the Green New Deal"
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You’re going to scoff at thus, and in six months “My Pronoun is Patriot” will be a NYT bestseller and mandatory text in Tennessee high schools
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You have died of dysentery.
Without saying how old you are, name one thing from your childhood someone younger wouldn’t understand.
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Raucous reception for
@RashidaTlaib
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