Kevin Drum
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Political blogger and writer, formerly for the Washington Monthly and Mother Jones magazine, now on my own.
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Somehow--just a coincidence, I'm sure--every election comes down to demanding that the Democrat release a bunch of nonroutine records. Kerry's military records. Obama's birth certificate/college transcript/etc. Hillary's emails. Biden's UDelaware archives. Golly. I wonder why?
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Possibly the most counterproductive thing ever is snarking at someone who's switched to your side because it took them so long.
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I hate it when Twitter forces me to defend Donald Trump, but his "bloodbath" comment was about what he thinks will happen to the US auto industry if he's not elected. Without high tariffs, he believes China will take over.
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"Nearly everyone in California will pay less for insurance in 2020 than in 2019. This is what can happen when a state is actually serious about making Obamacare work as well as possible for everyone."
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FWIW, I'd vote for "Rebuild the Police." Simple, clear, and obviously means we want a *better* police force, not no police force. And not as tepid as "Reform the Police."
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After 24 hours of panic, our withdrawal from Afghanistan is suddenly running smoothly
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Donald Trump today: "I consider myself in a certain way to be a blue collar worker."
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"I have previously criticized Republicans who accused liberals of wanting 'open borders.' President Trump tweets about this endlessly. But I have to admit that it’s hard to see much daylight between Warren’s plan and de facto open borders."
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The courts forced Hillary Clinton to release every single email she wrote as Secretary of States, but won't make Wilbur Ross undergo a single deposition about the 2020 census. I guess there's a reason for this, but jeez.
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A personal announcement
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Democrats took a terrible coronavirus bill and made it pretty damn good
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It's pretty amazing the amount of abuse
@jessesingal
and
@jonathanchait
take from progressives on Twitter just because they're slightly less progressive.
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"Teenagers today are just generally nicer, politer, and less likely to get in trouble than at nearly any time in the postwar era. It’s amazing what happens when you halt the practice of poisoning people and turning them into monsters, isn’t it?"
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@NateSilver538
But that makes perfect sense. Churches at 100% are more crowded than museums at 100%.
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Can we please stop with the "Day 1" stuff for Biden? Even FDR got a hundred days. Besides, most of these Day 1 ideas are harder than people think. How about if we give the guy a whole year?
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@alex_sammon
How can you sue people for not voting the way you want? What am I missing here?
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Huh. Trump refused Wolff access to West Wing but he was there all the time anyway. Poor management! Sad!
I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!
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I read the entire Slack archive about the origin of SARS-CoV-2. There is no evidence of improper behavior.
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Quote of the Day: White House Backs Compromise on Chattel Slavery
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Was chatting with the guy who owns the the yacht berthed next to mine, and he says he's really having trouble finding barnacle cleaners these days. Unemployment payments need to stop now so people will get back to work!
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You know, Trump's lawyers can't keep him away from Twitter forever. He's gonna explode eventually.
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This is usually a plea from whichever side fucked up really badly.
When this pandemic is over, let’s avoid the partisan blame game, Mitch Daniels writes
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Donald Trump Is the World's Biggest Asshole
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I have personally experienced zero change in Twitter so far. How many other people would say the same? Tens of millions? Hundreds?
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Can we please stop the "I'm a distant ancestor of X and here's what I think of X" op-eds? Who cares?
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After consultations with Donald Trump, I am pleased to announce that
@MotherJones
will not be moving its newsroom to Mexico.
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Very nice to hear that Kim is in the bloom of health.
It was great being with Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea this weekend. We had a great meeting, he looked really well and very healthy - I look forward to seeing him again soon....
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The end of the eviction moratorium turned out to be a nothingburger
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FFS, people, nobody "cheated" in the Democratic primary. Can't we at least put that brand of idiocy to bed?
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There sure are a lot of people on Twitter who are convinced the FDA process for approving vaccines is just a bunch of bullshit even though they have no idea what that process is or why it's in place.
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Trump’s Feeble Hurricane Response Probably Cost Nearly a Thousand Lives in Puerto Rico
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Democrats do not advocate open borders. Democrats have placed a number of immigration proposals on the table over the past decade or so, and they’re all easy to find and read.
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"I still can’t help but feel that something non-obvious happened around the year 2000 to produce a sea change in both the global economy and our response to it....But I confess that I’m no closer to an answer today than I was eight years ago."
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@jessesingal
It's very cynical, actually. "Unsafe" is largely a codeword that forces HR to get involved for legal reasons.
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Note to everyone: Focus, people. Trump's specialty is tossing gobs of shiny objects in the air to distract you.
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The transparently partisan desperation to tar Biden is really something to behold.
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@RonFilipkowski
We used to have these. They even had their own money and their own stores! Good times until libs ruined it.
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I guess Trump thinks the Paris Accord is an agreement with France.
Everything is personal for Trump. Here's his latest comments on the Paris climate accord -- “Would I go back in? Yeah, I’d go back in. I like, as you know, I like Emmanuel," the French president.
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Our withdrawal from Afghanistan is not the disaster the media is making it
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Selling arms to Saudi Arabia, in whatever quantities, will not generate 500,000 jobs. Or 600,000 jobs. Or 1 million jobs. The entire defense industry only employs about 300,000 people in the first place, and Saudi Arabia is not that big a customer.
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The $3.5 trillion bill increases spending by 7% and increases the deficit by 0%
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Mueller found "corrupt intent" repeatedly in Donald Trump's actions toward the Russia investigation via
@MotherJones
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@dandrezner
I have a university seminar joke, but really, it's more of a comment than a joke.
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So how long will it be before Trump realizes just how insulting Mattis's letter was and starts a whole tweet tantrum about how Mattis was a terrible SecDef all along?
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US Steel is not opening eight new plants. Or seven. Or six. Or even one.
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@neilsinhababu
@jessesingal
@jonathanchait
I doubt that. But what matters is not what other people do, but whether S&C are making reasonable arguments.
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Blame the Army, not Biden, for our panicked evacuation from Afghanistan
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Donald Trump Just Demonstrated That He Knows Precisely Nothing About National Security
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"The Beverly Hills market softened considerably last year and a home like this one should probably sell in the neighborhood of $10-11 million. So why did this Indonesian guy pay Trump Jr. $13.5 million? We can guess, but I suspect we will never know."
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Republicans do not have any kind of plan to lower middle-class taxes after the election.
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If there is *anyone* left on Trump's mfg council by the end of the day, their board should fire them for gross stupidity and obtuseness.
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Black Republican senator thinks Republicans should stop nominating racists via
@MotherJones
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The biggest military evacuation in US history is going pretty well
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The lab leak zealots are weird. They keep posting screen shots of Slack and email messages as PROOF of bad conduct, so I click. And there's nothing. Just nothing. What do these people see?
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The Veterans Choice Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2014, not by Trump. In 2017 Trump signed a bill approving a new version of the act that he likes better, but without bothering to fund it.
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I propose Vladimir Putin for Speaker of the House. Republicans seem to admire him a lot.
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On Earth-2, lefties are griping because Hillary is renominating Merrick Garland instead of a real progressive.
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"By definition, leaking is against government policy...But surely Comey's act was more whistleblowing than leaking? It exposed clear wrongdoing on the president’s part. No classified information was put at risk and no investigations were compromised."
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Democrats do not want to give Cadillacs to undocumented immigrants.
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@KevinMKruse
You really have to stop wasting neurons on D'Souza. Your brain is too valuable to the rest of us.
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We do not have a $110 billion deal to supply arms to Saudi Arabia. We don’t really have any kind of deal at all, let alone one of that size.
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Black men stopped by police are eight times more likely to have a gun drawn on them than white men.
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Has anyone else noticed that Taibbi presents emails out of chronological order and pretty obviously shows only a part of the email chain? It feels very cherry picked.
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Worth keeping in mind that 200+ Republicans were willing to vote yes on a health care bill that took coverage away from 24 million.
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