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Five different investigations found that Clinton did not break the law.
Goddamnit. Say that, journalists.
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A big thank you to a group of brave women who told the truth about Judge Roy Moore and changed history:
Leigh Corfman, Wendy Miller, Debbie Wessen Gibson, Gloria Thacker Deason, Beverly Young Nelson, Gena Richardson, Becky Gray,Tina Johnson, Kelly Harrison Thorp
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The Clinton WH asked for a one hour heads up before the Starr Report was released and they were denied.
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Wait. Have people been chanting "lock her up" and screaming "Trump that bitch!" at her? That's deplorable...
I am so proud of my daughter Ivanka. To be abused and treated so badly by the media, and to still hold her head so high, is truly wonderful!
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Warnock and Ossoff are ahead at 7:25 pm which, by Trump logic, means that they have won.
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It looks like Spicer doesn't know who Douglass was either. Neither of them even seem to know that he's dead.
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This is so weird. Why would Republicans be willing to take this emergency use brand new drug but not the vaccine?
As of today, the Camping World Stadium in Orlando will serve as a monoclonal antibody treatment site, open 7 days a week, with a capacity of 320 patients a day.
Expanding access to this treatment will help our most vulnerable stay out of the hospital and save lives.
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Trump standing on a balcony for a photo-op with a contagious disease that's killed 210,000 people, gasping for breath, is so banana republic I can't believe what I'm seeing.
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I'm so thrilled to hear
@NormOrnstein
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Yes! Trump inherited it and became its leader, but it already existed
It's important to recognize Trump is not essential to this group. They were radicalized long ago.
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Thank you
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for clarifying for Nick Kristof that progressives are not actually rooting for Trump to fail. We just don't have a lot of faith in Donald Trump's ability to do anything but make everything worse, which is the only rational position to take.
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It doesn't matter whether he colluded during the campaign at this point. He's colluding right now. In front of our eyes.
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Miles O'Brien puts this "historic" moment into perspective by reminding everyone that Alan Shepard made this sub-orbital flight 60 fucking years ago. What's "historic" is that we have private people with way too much money who can finance this themselves.
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Why isn't this considered senility? Surely people have told him that this is nonsense but he can't retain that information. He just keeps repeating this lunacy.
"You have voted ID to buy a loaf of bread" -- Trump still doesn't know how buying groceries works
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If you don't think the media sets the narrative consider that the NYT reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted out six different posts about the inflation numbers this morning.
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Where was Mitt today?
One year ago: Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman directs Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) to safety.
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The judge apparently just said Paul Manafort has led an otherwise blameless life!!!!
He ran "the torturers lobby."
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This is how we lose it all. They don't get it.
Somebody please talk some sense into the mainstream press. We are so fucked if they keep this up.
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Reminder: This orange proto-fascist is close to becoming president largely because the media pimped that bullshit email story for 15 months.
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Do people remember that Nixon's accomplices all went to jail? Even the former Attorney General?
It used to happen.
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There are 2 stories on TV right now. One is about the grotesque shelling of civilian hospitals in Ukraine and the massive refugee crisis.The other is about the immense pain and suffering of Americans dealing with the horrors of rising gas prices. Each is equally tragic apparently
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So Rudy got his FBI buddies to wack Clinton 10 days before the election and all he got was that stupid hat.
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Lindsey Graham says that impeaching a president over this phone call would be insane.
He was one of the House Managers who impeached a president over a blow job.
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I don't think the kids today may realize what a fucking miracle it is that the Democrats are sticking together. In the past there would have been a bunch of Southern conservaDems rushing to help the Republicans out of their jam.
It is a new day.
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The appearance of Stormy Daniels this morning should remind everyone of the overwhelming shamelessness of the nation's conservative, white, evangelicals who worship Dear Leader. He banged a porn star as his wife was recovering from childbirth and paid hush money to shut her up.
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At least one president is using his twitter feed to communicate something useful.
Thank you to all the first responders and people helping each other out. That's what we do as Americans. Here's one way you can help now.
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Oh my God.
This Barr interview with Pete Williams is going to make your heads explode.
He is insane.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates made a smart point on
@chrislhayes
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They aren't so "civil" now that African Americans have some political power.
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Personally, I can't think of any better ending than to make it to 99 in good health and then pass away peacefully at home on New Years Eve.
Just perfect.
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I keep thinking about that penny ante $35,000 losing land deal that obsessed the entire Republican Party and the press for 8 long years.
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Am I alone in getting that pre-9/11 Richard-Clark-hair-on-fire feeling about what these Republicans are doing to the electoral system? Does it seem like the Democrats are saying "you've covered your ass" as a ticking time bomb is getting ready to blow up our democracy?
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My high school teacher friend in big east coast city says her students are all wearing masks, no complaining.
It's the parents.
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Dear lord. They trotted out Ivanka.
All Trumps should just shut up leave it alone. It's done. He is who he is.
Ivanka Trump: "I want to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Sen. John McCain, an American patriot who served our country with distinction for more than 6 decades. The nation is united in its grief, and the world mourns the loss of a true hero and a great statesman."
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Jobless claims lower than expectations, *at 52 year low* and nobody gives a shit.
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@chrislhayes
True. But keep in mind that he also had an 8 year, 70 million dollar federal prosecution investigate the whole thing and a televised impeachment trial. It's not as if it was swept under the rug.
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2019:
Straight arrow Army Colonel is smeared as a traitor and partisan hack.
Convicted war criminals receive presidential pardons and are celebrated on national TV.
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At the White House ...
Here's video of Marjorie Taylor Greene at the White House in late December 2020 saying she had a "great planning session for our January 6th objection. We aren't going to let this election be stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats.” Expel and arrest Greene.
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I will never get used to seeing these people ecstatically cheering his demented, hate-filled demagoguery. It still chills me to the bone, even after all this time.
Trump attacks Democrats for not supporting his killing of Soleimani and then, as his fans shout out abuse, transitions into bashing the media. Ugly scenes.
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So it's official. The guy who killed the two cops in northern California is Boogaloo.
Somebody alert Bill Barr. He seems to think Antifa is the problem.
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Dana Bash just spent 10 minutes relentlessly grilling Sherrod Brown about whether Biden should drop out now. Nothing that happens, not even winning elections will change the narrative. I've seen this happen repeatedly over the last 30 years.
#butheremailsredux
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Meanwhile they sat on possibly the most explosive counter-intelligence scandal in history involving the other candidate. Stunning.
This explanation of Comey's Clinton actions is damning, & it contradicts his rationale for everything else he did.
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Somebody at MSNBC needs to tell Chuck Todd that he doesn't know jack shit about what "never again" means and he should STFU and listen to Jerry Nadler.
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Interesting. In last 16 yrs the electoral college put the 2 most ignorant presidents in US history in office--over the will of the majority.
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Oh FFS. People are really tut-tutting Katie Porter for announcing because Dianne Feinstein hasn't said if she's running? Even if she weren't 112 years old, Porter is perfectly within her rights to run for the seat.
We're in a very stupid news cycle right now.
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This is fascist propaganda. He's gone completely over the edge.
Shameless Human Misinformation Vector Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claims Democrats are "plucking" kids with COVID from the border "and putting them all over the United States as if they're wishing to seed the country with a new variant."
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I'm still just gobsmacked that these GOP officials are passing world changing legislation, sight unseen, as their president is implicated in a criminal scheme to get elected with the help of a foreign adversary.
What in the hell is happening????
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I get not trusting media. But trusting Trump to tell the truth means 78% of GOP are too daft to be allowed to operate heavy machinery.
The new Quinnipiac poll finds that 78% of Rs say they trust Trump, not the media, to tell them the truth:
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Lulz. Fox News' Ed Henry just said some people in Trump's orbit told him the president leaked the questions because he wanted them out so all the witnesses will be on the same page.
And that is fine, apparently.
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So true. Lefties are being hysterical as usual.All he wanted was to hold her hostage and break her kneecaps so she could show other Democrats what was going to happen to them. She wasn't there so he fractured her husband's skull with a hammer. Everyone should just calm down.
Checking lefty media, there are numerous references to the 'attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi.' Not sure what that means. There wasn't an attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi. Read FBI affidavit. Plus:
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That Trump's employment of undocumented immigrants didn't blow back on him in the right wing media is yet more evidence that we are dealing with a cult of personality.
During Trump’s government shutdown for border wall funding, the president’s business fired a dozen longtime employees at his New York golf club because they were undocumented immigrants.
A big WaPo exclusive by
@partlowj
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@Fahrenthold
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Remember this? I don't recall the GOP Governors having a public hissy fit over his proclaiming that he had "total authority" to force the states and businesses to re-open.
REPORTER: In regard to some of your tweets earlier today, what provision in the Constitution gives the president the power to open or close state economies?
TRUMP: "Numerous -- numerous provisions. We can give you a legal brief if you want." (He never named one.)
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The media appears totally and completely incapable of self reflection about the shallow obsessions that arguably gave us Trump
#lookinmirror
Hillary Clinton appears totally and completely incapable of self-reflection about the email behavior that arguably cost her the presidency.
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If you were a foreigner watching cable news to learn about American politics you'd assume all voters are Trump voters. That's all you see. Other voters don't exist.
It was the same during the Tea Party era.
Angry, screaming, white Republicans are apparently ratings gold.
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CNN's Jim Acosta says, "this has become the 'catch us if you can' administration."
They're caught. It's just a matter of the American people and their representatives deciding it's important that a president should not be an ignorant, criminal psychopath.
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Everyone knows that if the Republicans win they're going to run some kind of Benghazi-style "investigation" show trial against Dr. Fauci, right?
They literally have no agenda so torturing their enemies for the entertainment of the MAGA cult is all they have.
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Guys,
Rudy isn't just "seeking dirt" on his client's political rival, he is openly leveraging the power of the *current US president* to enlist political help from a foreign power.
This is much worse than 2016.
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He likes beer
Former White House Counsel Don McGahn introducing Kavanaugh, calls him "a man of honor, a man of integrity." "He stood for principle and paid the price."
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Uhm. Congressman Rooney just said on CNN they may need to take a look at the assistants and the paralegals in the DOJ to determine their political affiliations too.
He's worried that Democrats may have infiltrated the government apparently and they all need to be "purged."
Ok.
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Ok. Official "fuck you" to Bloomberg from me. He's now saying impeachment is making it more likely Trump will be reelected.
Democrats don't need this wingnut nonsense.
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90 yr olds must be smarter consumers of nursing home care. Shop around every few months, see if there's a better deal in a different state.
64% of elderly residents in nursing homes are on Medicaid. Time for those freeloaders to get back to work and take "personal responsibility"
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On All In, Steve Schmidt just said this phony border crisis is Trump's Reichstag Fire. With all this talk about "diseased" migrants and "globalism" and mass shootings and mass assassination attempts --- maybe he's right.
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I wonder if Obama regrets not blowing the whistle on the Russian interference before the election at this moment?
Maybe he should have told Mitch McConnell to go fuck himself.
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I still can't get over the fact that the Christchurch killer's manifesto plainly used the term "invaders" and hours later the President of the United States said "people hate the word ‘invasion,’ but that’s what it is" when talking about the US border.
It's stunning.
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By the way, Congressman Rooney is behaving like a fascist and journalists ought to be careful about treating him as if his ideas are normal.
They are mainstreaming them and it's dangerous as hell.
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Mark Meadows just said that if you're under 75 and you don't have any illness you don't have the same risk factor, suggesting that it's no biggie. And he thinks kids are home free.
These people are have a lot of blood on their hands. This happy talk is causing the spread.
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I just got yelled at for wearing a mask going from my car to Trader Joe's. I'm not fully vaccinated yet.
So fuck you, dude.
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I was reminded today that Marco Rubio just recently called Democrats “radical left-wing lunatics, laptop liberals, and Marxist misfits.”
But semi-fascist has the GOP all calling for the smelling salts.
A patented GOP hissy fit. No one should give a damn.
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Remember when Tom Daschle failed to disclose using a driver someone else had paid for? And had to withdraw himself from consideration?
Steven Mnuchin, Treasury Nominee, Failed to Disclose $100 Million in Assets
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Good lord. Cheney's physician saying on CNN that these steroids Trump is on can make someone a little crazy and that he should turn the country over to the VP.
The question is how will we know the difference?
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You can understand why NBC hired Ronna when you consider they hired John Kasich who just said on MSNBC that both parties undermine democracy because the Dems contested in Florida 2000 and in the Georgia Gov race. No one pointed out that Dems followed the law and then conceded.
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@NormOrnstein
I can't believe how much grief I took from my own allies over the years for focusing on radical right wingers like Newt, Rush etc. To me it was obviously going to come to violence. You can't indoctrinate people in the language of war against an enemy tribe and expect otherwise.
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Interesting that Tucker naturally assumes that white supremacy = white Republican men.
Tucker Carlson falsely claims Joe Biden called white Republican men "more dangerous than ISIS"
Biden actually said: "Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today -- not ISIS, not al-Qaida, white supremacists."
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Tapper agrees with Haley that while Dems "don't use that language" yes, they do believe in abortion up until the moment of birth
Actually, most believe Roe v Wade, which laid out various restrictions based upon the trimester of gestation, and worked well for 50 years, was fine
Nikki Haley on CNN refuses to say if she'd sign a 6 week abortion ban
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Watching people say Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin makes me fucking livid.
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Act Blue has raised 312 million dollars since it was announced that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.
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So much handwringing from the media over their Steele Dossier coverage.
I don't recall any such level of self-reflection over "But Her Emails" --- especially the egregious coverage in the final days of the campaign. Why is that?
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The Trump Family whining and crying about "political harassment" is going to be deafening.
It's especially rich coming from the "lock her up" people.
This is harassment pure and simple. This ‘inquiry’ by NYC democrats is 100% motivated by politics, publicity and rage. They know very well that there’s nothing here and that there was no tax benefit whatsoever. These politicians are simply ruthless.
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Barry Berke is brilliant. He just trapped Lewandowski into righteously defending the Mueller Report and then read back incredibly incriminating passages from it. Poor Corey sat there with his mouth agape.
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Sure. Haircutting, tattoos and manicures can all easily be done from 6 feet away. Not a problem. Carry on.
Asked how it's possible for hair salons and tattoo parlors in Georgia to reopen, Birx says "if there's a way that people can social distance and do those things, then they can do those things. I don't know how."
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It's pretty clear they're planning to lock down people over 60 for years, pull all financial support, tell everyone else to get back to work -- and just accept millions of people playing russian roulette with the illness and hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths
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Can someone explain why the Senate failing to convict in an impeachment trial is reason not to bother but passing a bunch of bills the Senate won't take up and the president wouldn't sign anyway is what the people demand?
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We are such suckers. All my life I've put up with Republicans screaming about "rule of law" and waving the flag in my face saying "love it or leave it." Now they're defending this corrupt imbecile's obvious willingness to conspire with a foreign adversary and attacking the FBI.
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Please media, don't start again with the "how shocking that Trump would smear a military hero" stuff.
They've been doing that for 60 years.
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Nicolle Wallace just called Ingraham and Yoo chickenshit and pointed out that Vindman passed a background check unlike Jared and Ivanka.
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We've officially decided that the Supreme Court decides our elections now. No need for all this messy, expensive voting in the first place, amirite?
Graham: As a Republican, I am ready to accept any decision of the court as to the outcome of the election and there is no alternative than a peaceful transition of power
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As we watch all the coverage of the Chauvin trial, let's remember how our former president saw it.
Trump starts comparing police shootings to golfers missing putts, but Laura Ingraham cuts him off because she realizes how bad it sounds
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Nobody who didn't live through 90s politics can grasp the utter shamelessness of these Republicans blowing off these national security charges as "political." If you want to see sanctimonious paeans to the Rule of Law, read some of their pompous statements during the impeachment
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Ugh. I can't tell you how much I loathe this phase of punditry in which they fatuously insist that when Democrats win they have to move right because the country is conservative.
And when Republicans win they also say Dems have to move right. It's a tiresome mantra.
#STFU
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Wow. Fauci just said that the US mitigated the epidemic by banning travel from China while Italy didn't.
Per Forbes: Italy imposed a ban on flights from China on 31 January, immediately after a Chinese couple in Rome tested positive for the virus.
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WOW!!! Haley says that she thinks all ballots should be counted on election day and we should get results on election day. Big applause.
This is total nonsense and this shows that even the so-called "moderates" have gone batshit crazy on this issue.
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Wow. This just proves Mitch has the votes in the bag.
Demmings lays out a full case for documents and Trump's team babbles incoherently about "lawyer lawsuits" and shakes their fists. And that's it.
This is so sad.
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