Jim Geraghty
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NR senior political correspondent, Washington Post contributing columnist. Author. Three Martini Lunch podcast. Intermittent cable news talking head. #TJAMS
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Man oh man, was this a deeply satisfying review of my new thriller "Gathering Five Storms" from “G.E.”:
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You know, whatever else you think of Kamala Harris, it’s pretty amazing and awesome that immigrants can come to the U.S., meet, marry, have a child, and their daughter can grow up to be DA, state attorney general, U.S. Senator, and on a presidential ticket.
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Reminder: It's been a month.
We never got an explanation about who was in the picture.
We never got an explanation about how this ended up on his page.
He's still governor.
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Heck of a job, White House communications shop. I figure you would want to crop out the teleconference screens labeled "CIA" and "Doha Station." You panicking amateur idiots.
This morning, the President and Vice President met with their national security team and senior officials to hear updates on the draw down of our civilian personnel in Afghanistan, evacuations of SIV applicants and other Afghan allies, and the ongoing security situation in Kabul.
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“The buck stops with me,” Biden declares, after blaming Trump, the Afghan government, the Afghan army and the Afghan people.
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Let me get this straight... you're telling me roughly 30,000 officials _flew into Scotland_ to discuss the need to reduce carbon emissions?
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Dear God… I can’t believe this is in that new batch of classified files about the JFK assassination.
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So, anybody want to pull down a statue of an actual "Exalted Cyclops” in the Ku Klux Klan in the West Virginia state capitol, or nah?
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If Beto had an R after his name instead of a D, you’d hear he was boarding-school-attending judge’s son who dodged serious charges for the DUI & burglary, used eminent domain to gentrify poor Latino neighborhoods & married into a billionaire’s family.
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New York City Discovers Revolutionary New Process Called ‘Cleaning Trains'
For the first time in 115 years, overnight subway service in New York City has been shut down to clean trains amid the pandemic
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Fauci says requiring COVID testing for illegal immigrants crossing the border is "a different issue" than requiring testing for Americans citizens traveling.
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There are a lot of injustices in this world. The Boston Marathon bomber's inability to vote is not one of them.
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Andrew Yang, the man with a million ideas literally got three minutes over two hours to pitch his ideas. This is an egregious mismanagement of the debate by MSNBC, and the Yang Gang has every right to be livid over this.
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Holy @#%, how is this story about a bunch of loons, training 15 kids to commit school shootings and starving them, not the biggest story right now?
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BREAKING: Mitt Romney gives Mitch McConnell the 50th vote to move ahead with a Supreme Court nomination process and Sixth Infinity Stone
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Yesterday morning, I wrote, “We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.”
Last night, two fans were removed from a preseason NBA games for signs supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
The game was in Philadelphia.
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Quick, everybody change positions!
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When Gal Gadot leads a celebrity sing-along of “Imagine”
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We deeply apologise for the earlier tweet that $86,753.09 was our average donation amount this week. It was an oversight on our part not to make the connection of the pain this number would cause Jenny.
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ESPN President: ‘Our Fans Do Not Want Us to Cover Politics’
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If Rick Perry had said this it would lead the nightly newscasts
REPORTER: "How many barrels of oil does the U.S. consume per day?"
Energy Sec. Granholm: "I don't have that number in front of me. I'm sorry."
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This am, my 10-year-old asked why so many journalists eagerly tweet questions their kids allegedly asked. I told him to eat his breakfast.
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I'm sorry, was this full-contact golf or something?
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If Hillary Clinton had won two percentage points more of the vote in MI, PA, WI, NC, and FL, would we still be hearing calls to abolish the Electoral College?
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A 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described Elizabeth Warren as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color.”
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Man, every file photo of John Bolton and Donald Trump looks like Bolton is organizing his book outline in his head.
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The New York Times, June 27, 2018: "President Trump has falsely claimed at least two dozen times since taking office that Democrats want to open American borders."
Beto O'Rourke when asked, since Rep.
@DanCrenshawTX
asked on Twitter, if he would tear down the walls that are already in place: Yes and I think a referendum to do so would pass.
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Oh, and by the way,
@donnabrazile
, deleting the tweet praising Comey doesn’t make it go away WHEN THERE ARE SCREENSHOTS.
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If you eat hot dogs, sausages, or McRibs, I don’t want to hear you saying you refuse to take a vaccine because you don’t know what’s in it.
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Hey, anybody want to rethink the closure of all those summer camps, summer programs, public pools, etc.?
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It ain’t 2018 anymore.
VOTE 2020 - Maria Elvira Salazar defeats incumbent Donna Shalala in race for Miami-Dade District 27 congressional seat
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That feeling when you’ve assembled the IKEA cabinet but for some reason you have a whole bag of screws left over.
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In Georgia, Trump's got a 357,000 vote lead with with 78 percent reporting, which feels pretty healthy...
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I'm already getting tough opposition research about Kavanaugh...some questioned his clock management while coaching CYO basketball.
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Today marks three months since Ralph Northam’s yearbook came to light. We never got an explanation about who was in the picture. We never got an explanation about how this ended up on his yearbook page, or his nickname “Coonman.” And he’s still governor.
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When you spend billions developing the world's most advanced, extensive far-reaching facial recognition system and everyone in your country has to wear a surgical mask
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A guy on an FBI watch list pledged loyalty to ISIS and killed 50 people, and the president says this illustrates the need for gun control.
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There are no permanent majorities and no permanent victories. Therefore, whatever rules you want to enact when you're in power, you should be ready to live under those rules when you're in the minority again.
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If you debated declaring a national emergency for several months, then it wasn't really a national emergency.
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The reaction to Portland reveals that a not-insignificant section of the public, or at least the ones represented on Twitter, strongly support violent assaults against those who they disagree with politically.
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On the campaign trail, Sinema said she wouldn't support Chuck Schumer as party leader in the Senate. Today, she reversed herself. Arizona voters, you're such a bunch of gullible suckers.
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It means absolutely nothing for Italy to light up the Colosseum in the colors of the Ukrainian flag or for Germany to do the same with Brandenburg Gate if those two are the ones holding out on barring Russian banks form the SWIFT banking system.
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The evidence that COVID-19 came from either the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and NOT the Huanan Seafood Market is circumstantial. But is a growing stack of circumstantial evidence.
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BREAKING: Kim Jong Un's Sister Shocks, Delights World By Not Killing Anyone During Meeting
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Group’s ad depicts pickup truck with Gillespie sticker chasing and trying to run down kids. Don’t ever lecture about “divisiveness” again.
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Black Lives Matter has finally found a group of cops they’re unwilling to criticize.
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It's to remember all the baby girls killed in sex-selective abortions, right?
The
#ReproductiveHealthAct
is now law in New York State. We lit the spire pink to celebrate.
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To news editors and Democrats, when some guy shoots up a mosque o synagogue, it reflects an atmosphere of hate whipped up by Trump. When a guy tries to blow up an ICE facility, it’s just some random nut, with no connection to the larger political debate.
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"Why don't you go do something about terrorism?" AOC asked Dan Crenshaw.
You refuse to cosponsor the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, yet have the audacity to drum resentment towards Ilhan w/completely out-of-context quotes.
In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost ALL US domestic terrorist killings. Why don’t you go do something about that?
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Well, they may have hid the Defense Secretary's health condition for about a week, but I'm sure they're always honest and forthcoming about how Joe Biden is doing.
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THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE OUR JOBS AND DO THEM BADLY
I’ve never seen something more human from a robot than this.
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Remember, we friends of Israel and the Jewish people outnumber those hateful antisemites. By a lot.
Thank you to each and every one of our Jewish and non-Jewish brothers, sisters and allies.
Your support during this difficult time means everything to us and we feel your love always, but especially today 🇮🇱💙.
Am Yisrael Hai
#MarchForIsrael
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Fellas, it’s not like the 2020 Presidential Election snuck up on you. You may have seen a little news coverage about this thing.
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1. This is funny.
2. Boy, do I miss the steady, methodical, slowly-leading-you-into-the-trap questioning voice of Ted Koppel.
A lot of people talking about Joe Rogan bodying
@brianstelter
forget about the time Ted Koppel murdered Stelter to his face.
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I’m not going to be lectured to by “boof sleuths” who hand-wave away the fact that none of Ford’s named witnesses corroborate her account.
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"Democracy dies in darkness."
"Northam made The Post agree not to release audio or a transcript of his interview with them as a condition of granting it, and he limited the interview to 30 minutes, The Post reported."
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“It looks like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about.” A canned line, but a good one.
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Well, if history has taught us anything, it's that Bill Clinton would never lie about allegations of sexual misconduct.
WIRE: Bill Clinton never visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, says spokesperson Angel Ureña
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1) There was nothing secret in HRC's 30K deleted e-mails.
2) It's a "national security issue" if Russia gets them.
Pick one, Hillary camp.
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Wait, if this is so terrible for the Internet, why is okay for roads?
If
#NetNeutrality
is eliminated, the Internet may start to resemble a toll road, with the highest bidders cruising along private “fast lanes” while the rest of us inch along a single, traffic-choked public lane.
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Funny, I don't remember then-Senator Obama objecting to the filibuster as "a Jim Crow relic" then.
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“I looked Putin right in the face and I told him, ‘look, pal, listen up, because I’m only gonna say this once… okay, fine, you can finish building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany."
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Mitt Romney’s trash talk: “While you are a unique and valued being designed by our Creator and capable of great achievements in life, your performance in today’s game is well below standard.”
When I said the Thunder/Jazz game was going to be must watch even I didn’t expect Russ to be taunted by Mitt Romney for getting 4 fouls in the first half
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Even if you agree with the message - I don't -- the optics of the world's richest (or second or third richest, whatever) man telling other people to shut down their businesses for half a year are about as bad as it gets.
.
@BillGates
on Covid: "Even through 2022” we should be prepared for life to not return to “normal”
Says “sadly" it’s "appropriate” for bars and restaurants to close over the next "four to six months"
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Some Democrats think until Trump faces consequences, Franken & their guys shouldn’t face consequences. Some Republicans think because Clinton escaped consequences, Trump, Moore & their guys shouldn’t face consequences. The big loser: Consequences.
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Asked a really open-ended and important question about what our relationship with China would be like under a Biden presidency, Kamala Harris veers off into the pandemic criticism we heard 20 minutes ago.
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Senate Democrats Propose Simple ‘Floating Test’ to Determine if Amy Coney Barrett Is a Witch
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Yup, That Maskless Texan Apocalypse Still Hasn’t Arrived
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ONCE AGAIN, KEITH ELLISON BEATS SOMEONE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Keith Ellison wins Minnesota attorney general race amid allegations from an ex-girlfriend that he once physically abused her.
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To flee a knife fight, he... ran over at least 45 people?
CBS News reports: A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation says the suspect who drove into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, WI. was fleeing another scene - possibly a knife fight - when he ran into & over some people.
Reporting from
@AndyTriay
,
@jeffpeguescbs
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Operation Warp Speed staffers describe briefings for the incoming Biden team.
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The NBA, its owners, and its employees are now the enforcers of Chinese government restrictions on American speech.
So the Wizards security just kicked out two people in the Second level for chanting Free Hong Kong. I just saw it.
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It's times like this that we yearn for the subtlety, nuance and realism of North Korea's propaganda.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the inspiration behind an upcoming comic book.
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Maybe the actor whose career was built by Harvey Weinstein and who insisted he never heard about anything worse than Weinstein "womanizing" should sit this one out.
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Our first pro-concussion president.
Trump is complaining there's been too much attention on degenerative brain diseases in the NFL. "They're ruining the game"
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Are my tired eyes deceiving me, or do Republicans hold or lead in 213 House races? Not a bad starting point for the 2022 midterms...
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I was informed, loudly and frequently, from 2001 to 2009 and from 2017 to 2021 that dissent was patriotic.
@jimgeraghty
You disgrace and hamstring the free world at a decisive moment with this crap. Shame on you.
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Has anyone in the caravan explained why they are marching with the Honduran flag?
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An ongoing Iranian military attack against US forces in Iraq would seem to be a prime time for online social media disinformation and trolls. Be wary about what you hear and see from unfamiliar accounts going forward.
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It is December 2021 and we're still measuring the severity of the pandemic by case numbers instead of by hospitalizations or deaths, huh? Even though we know vaccination does not prevent infections?
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The person in charge of enforcing the law - regarding the election and everything else - in Pennsylvania just declared that Trump cannot legitimately win his state.
If all the votes are added up in PA, Trump is going to lose. That’s why he’s working overtime to subtract as many votes as possible from this process.
For the record, he’s 0-6 against us in court. We’ve protected voting rights. Now, ignore the noise—vote!
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Dear God! Look closer at that alleged Amelia Earhart photo!
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John Delaney is the increasingly frustrated designated driver trying to persuade the crowd of drunks in his car that no, they should not hang out the windows because it would be cool.
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I remember the absolute insistence of Obama administration defenders that these guys would never return to the fight.
5 freed from Gitmo in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined insurgents in Qatar, the Taliban says.
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Digging into the Chinese government’s response to the initial reports of a virus in Wuhan, I had a lot of “holy s***!” moments. This is a horror story. The coverup of the outbreak amounts to a crime against humanity.
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High on the list of things to reopen early, if not first, would be all of the “elective” procedures and surgeries that were postponed when the outbreak started. “Elective” doesn’t always mean “plastic surgery.” It often means joint replacement, hernia repairs, cancer treatments.
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Indeed, WSJ editors: "World leaders are denouncing the attack on 'humanity,' but make no mistake: This was an attack on Christians. The killers didn't pick any random Sunday."
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"After further review, the Colts did not have complete possession of Josh McDaniels with two feet inbounds. Possession reverts to the New England Patriots, automatic first down."
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How Bernie Sanders fans see their man vs. how the rest of us see him.
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Biden announced that his coronavirus task force would include Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, In a 2014 essay in The Atlantic, Emanuel, explained why he hoped to die at age 75, and why he finds the idea of living past that date to be morally problematic.
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“Moscow can never accept a NATO country on its borders!”
What the hell do you think West Germany was?
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