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Look, everybody's been shouting about how its gonna look tight on election night but late-counted mail votes will trend blue, so Trump's plan is to claim victory early and then get uncounted votes tossed. DON'T HELP HIM by prematurely acting like he's winning.
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I can barely wrap my head around it, but I have to admit that I am, in fact, hearing people argue that, yes, it's worth taking the risk that MILLIONS of Americans will die in exchange for an inscrutably indeterminate chance of improvement in the economic outlook.
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Why is it "kill baby Hitler" rather than "make Hitler's mom fall in love with YOU" or "kidnap Hitler's grandpa and strand him in Nepal just before he meets Hitler's grandma"? People lacking in imagination should not have time machines.
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My god, walking out onto the balcony of the White House like a South American dictator.
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Crime is low. Net illegal immigration is low or zero. Immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than natives. Terrorism kills almost no one.
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The crescendo of furious gaslighting following Barr's propaganda summary suggests a plan was place to exploit the gap between the submission of the report and public revelation of what's in it to delegitimize Mueller's actual findings and the ongoing investigations.
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If SCOTUS rules on regulation without a hearing or argument, the administration should simply ignore it and state that, in the absence of a normal process judicial review, it sees the court’s judgments as advisory but not binding.
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It's crazy that there's not a single GOP senator who wants to be a beloved world-historical hero who goes down in the annals of glory famous for bravery, integrity, and defense of freedom and democracy.
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There is literally nothing more conventionally right than anti-wokeness — i.e. opposition to equality. If you think consciousness of inequality, and an interested in reducing it, is a “mind virus,” you are as conventionally conservative as it comes.
@getpaidwrite
I am neither conventionally right nor left, but I agree with your point.
The woke mind virus has thoroughly penetrated entertainment and is pushing civilization towards suicide.
There needs to be a counter-narrative.
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Kav's furious hyper-partisan airing of anti-Democratic grievance amounts to a confession of his inability to approach cases without deeply emotional partisan bias.
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Police are leaving it all out on the streets, and by "all" I mean their credibility and community trust. They're wiping it out for at least a generation, spending down all their capital. And for what? Because they're incensed by the demand that they, too, be bound by law?
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If you're white, your duty is to run interference. Just a few seconds of being in the way--acting dumb, having an argument you lose, spilling a drink, locking a door and "losing" the key, etc.--can be the difference between liberty and captivity, can save a family from ruin.
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Republicans constantly accuse Democrats of hating America because they hate America as it actually is: a multicultural, predominately urban, majority Democrat nation.
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This what he wants from you, Republicans. He literally wants you to fight & die in a bloody civil conflict to bail him out of the mile-deep mineshaft he's dug with a lifetime of bottomless corruption. That's how he sees your life: a human shield for him, worthless in itself.
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Bernie ain't my jam by a longshot, but I'm finding the hysterical toxicity of anti-Bernie Bros very alienating.
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I wrote a piece for
@theatlantic
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Seems like a good time to remind everyone that
@TheAtlantic
's fact checkers once challenged my belief that Lorne Michaels was eating snow peas during a meeting and later verified that he was, in fact, eating edamame. They are extremely thorough.
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CNN is just AMAZED that Gillum is completely unapologetic about embracing popular policy positions.
The MSM's assumption that it's electorally dangerous to not pretend to be conservative is one of the right's greatest triumphs.
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Sort of funny how cancel culture hysteria just sort of fizzled out when critical race theory hysteria really got rolling. One thing the right really is good at is coordinating on the boogeyman of the month. What’ll it be next month?
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We're refusing to process that the Republican Party establishment is thoroughly bought in to a strategy of rejecting the legitimacy of elections they lose to justify the otherwise unjustifable sabotage of a legitimate Democratic government. It's too unnerving.
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Violently overrunning police to storm the seat of government during a joint session of congress in a bid to overturn the result of a presidential election is categorically different from smashing the window of a Jamba Juice during a BLM protest. So f*cking stop it, right now.
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This
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essay is clear-eyed and perfectly accurate. The truly worrying thing about it, from my perspective, is the hesitancy of the media and the Democratic Party to directly confront the fact that we're now well down the authoritarian slope.
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We have more deaths because we have more cemetaries.
We have more Cases because we have more Testing!
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Lying like crazy works too well and it's frankly getting me down.
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Whittaker is just absolutely filthy and has conflicts of interest coming out of his whatever. He got the gig with Sessions because he voiced an anti-Mueller plan, ran a campaign for a grand jury witness, etc. Not recusing is open-and-closed obstruction.
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The Blagojevich thing is obvious. Trump wants to send a signal that profoundly corrupt abuse of public office is trivial and does not merit serious punishment.
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Our idiot media still isn't capable of understanding how to not be co-opted by Trump's reality-bending propaganda machine, and continues to get played like a burgled Stradivarius.
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The media's atrocious gullibility, which is letting this happen without serious resistance, is even more scandalous than the credulity that herded public opinion behind the invasion of Iraq. Because we already *know* this administration does nothing but lie.
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These three states contain about 65 million people, or about 1/5 of the American population.
A picture is worth a thousand words:
3 liberals from California, 3 from New York, and 1 from Massachusetts.
The Democrats pushing impeachment couldn’t be more out of touch with most Americans if they tried!
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I see this and all I can think is, "Have you ever met a kid?"
This is what a room of 21 desks looks like with desks physically separated by 1.5 meters.
To have kids back, we can make this work.
USA, Canadian, European, African, South American teachers, get ready.
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Trump cronies are incoherently claiming BOTH (a) that the report exonerates him AND (b) the investigation was so ethically compromised and politically biased nothing that came of it can be taken seriously and shouldn't be made public. Obviously can't be both.
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This is a monumental scandal.
Gov. Larry Hogan says requests to send in the Maryland National Guard were rejected for 90 minutes on Wednesday.
Read this.
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That a fifty-something South African nepo baby white dude oligarch would land on “anti-wokeness” as the core of his political identity could not be more predictable. It’s excruciatingly boring potted midwit tripe.
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Elizabeth Warren's debate performance has a number of commentators, like
@michelleinbklyn
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GOP demands to immunize businesses from liability for death and injury due to workplace infection amounts to a very frank acknowledgment that re-opening endangers the life and health of workers and risks broader spread of infection.
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Barr's cover-up gambit means Mueller will certainly be called to testify under oath in the House. That's why we're getting the full-on blitz to mischaracterize his findings: to lock the media and public into a favorable narrative nowhere in evidence, before he actually speaks.
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You gotta learn to act like middle aged white guys (i.e. Republicans), people. You act like you're decisively winning until it starts to look completely ridiculous and then you start suing people for ripping you off. THAT'S WHAT WINNERS DO!
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You know what this middle aged midwestern dad noticed when Trump smeared Biden's son? Biden's honorable refusal to take a shot at Trump's actually corrupt kids.
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What the hell is wrong with these cable news people? The tomahawks start sailing and they're suddenly amnesiac about the grotesqueries they've been reporting all day. It's like they're hypnotized, the fingers snapped, and now they're helplessly on White House payroll.
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"Send her back" vs. "Welcome home Ilhan" is the cultural polarization of the density divide in miniature. Places where black Muslim refugees are not only welcomed, but elected to Congress vs. places where it is feared that America will cease to be America if Ilhans are in it.
Congresswoman Omar just arrived back in the Twin Cities.
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Trump's hand-picked AG (confirmed by a lapdog Senate, with a record of shielding presidents from scandal) telling us what the report says & sitting on it doesn't settle anything. But spinning it like it does to prevent congressional oversight tell us a lot. This is far from over.
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Not trying to Godwin here, but Hitler happened because the German political establishment (conservatives especially, but not just conservatives) simply couldn't imagine he would do something even worse next time, every time.
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We have a public health crisis and an economic crisis, but these aren't TWO problems. The economic crisis is a direct consequence of the (mismanaged) public health crisis. You can't get less economic damage by letting the epidemic spread. It's not an option on the table.
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The crazy thing is this guy probably thinks that teens who break into a foot locker during a BLM protest should get 30 years, but clearly thinks he's gonna get away with this.
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Americans won't get their heads around the fact that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was/is completely unjustified--that we simply invaded another country based on total lies, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths-- and can't tolerate even ASKING "are we the baddies?"
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Trump claiming that his violence-inciting speech was "appropriate" is an indirect, plausibly deniable way to double down on the truth of the inciting lies, affirm the righteousness of the seditious riot he caused and thereby encourage more of the same. He's gotta be stopped now.
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It was very generous of Justice Alito to explode the myth that judges aren't rabid partisans.
Alito is delivering the keynote speech at this year’s Federalist Society convention. He’s using the occasion to defend the group, claiming its members face “harassment and retaliation for saying anything that departs from the law school orthodoxy.”
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Let’s all thank
@realchrisrufo
for alienating normals by convincing the right to become a bunch of weird perverts who arbitrarily accuse beloved local kindergarten teachers of grooming kids simply by talking about their families.
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This Trump campaign memo seeking to de-platform Democrats constitutionally duty-bound to check executive abuses of power, on the basis of claims consistent with Barr's gloss on Mueller's report, gives away the aim of the game: no rule of law, no oversight.
The Trump campaign is sending this memo to TV producers:
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This is the way. It’s also why Roberts is freaked out. The hard-right majority is throwing away its own authority. It’s so myopic it’s mindboggling.
In response to the Texas abortion ban, Gov. Newsom has started pushing for a new law that would allow private citizens to sue manufacturers or distributors of assault weapons
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Trump's "one weird trick" is the shameless public delegitimization of anyone aligned against his interests. Once again, we're seeing he's the GOAT at this evil art. It's what's made him the Houdini of industrial-scale white-collar theft.
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“Orwellian” has been drained of meaning through promiscuous overuse, but this is it exactly folks: a surveillance state devoted to enforcing the ideological inversion of truth.
NEW: Iowa Republicans have introduced a bill that would put government-installed cameras in every single classroom to livestream school activities for parents to spy on teachers and children at all times of the day.
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The Trump machine's rush to assert an adamantly conclusive interpretation of the investigation on nothing but a crony appointee's spin on it, and then using this to discredit the larger attempt to uphold the rule of law and separation of powers is completely poisonous.
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Conservatives think CRT is about whiteness as irremediable original sin, but it’s about this.
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The court famously has no enforcement authority. It’s authority is based in acceptance of the court’s legitimacy. But it can’t do whatever the hell it wants however it wants and expect deference. executive ought to brush off the court’s junta-like attempts to rule by edict.
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The fact that our federal government is barely functional is a choice.
My daughter lives in Canada and applied for the COVID-19 benefit on Tuesday. It took two minutes to apply. The first payment showed up today - two days later. This is government working for the people.
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Not a novel point, but the utterly shameless partisan opportunism of the GOP on SCOTUS confirmations is breathtaking. Blocked Garland because ... they could. That's it. Suggesting credible suspicion of violence against women is disqualifying? THE END OF DUE PROCESS IN AMERICA!
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The larger story, with the gaps Parnas is filling in, is straightforward, coherent, really pretty simple, and consistent with heaps of investigative journalism, all the testimony of the impeachment hearings, as well as the wild stonewalling behavior of the implicated principals.
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When the court behaves in a transparently political way, it deserves political pushback.
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The truly soul-shaking thing about it is nobody has the evidence they'd need to be justified in the belief that easing up on containment to keep the economy humming now won't just make the economy even worse later, amidst the mass death. But it's a gamble they're willing to take?
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The GOP is bafflingly all-in on the message that Donald Trump's weak, failed leadership has led to outbreaks of rioting, looting, and violence all across the country and has been unable to do anything to rein it in. And that's why we won't be safe if the OTHER GUY is elected.
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A day later, I'm even more shocked by Kavanaugh's simpering, sniveling, mewling, snapping, ill-tempered, incontinent, contemptuous, mendacious, partisan tantrum. It just beggars belief that a guy seeking a Supreme Court seat should behave this way and not be ridden out on a rail.
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In my latest, I argue that the urban/rural partisan divide hasn't *exactly* eclipsed the old North/South divide. It's more like everywhere not a city has become sort of Southern.
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@TimothySandefur
I'd think representing a president who's trying to stay in power by invalidating an election is the more undemocratic, dangerous thing. And why think it's ineffective or counterproductive?
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It took massive protests to make this tiny sliver of police accountability possible.
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I'm never more ready to sharpen the populist pitchfork than after hearing born-on-third-base Ivy League snots reach across party lines to congratulate their comrades for somehow managing to ascend to total power.
RAZE YALE.
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Here's the deal, Democrats. The Democratic candidate, whoever it is, can beat Trump in swing States, so nominate who you want and stop trying to game it out with nonsensically premature polling.
🚨 New battleground polls from
@DataProgress
@Civiqs
:
Warren/Trump in
MI: 47/44
PA: 48/43
WI: 49/44
AZ: 47/44
FL: 46/46
NC: 46/46
Biden/Trump:
MI: 46/44
PA: 48/43
WI: 47/43
AZ: 45/45
FL: 45/46
NC: 45/47
Bernie/DJT:
MI: 47/43
PA: 47/44
WI: 47/44
AZ: 46/44
FL: 44/46
NC: 45/46
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Barr is sensationally mandacious and corrupt. It's deeper than cellular. It's like even his mitochondria lie.
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Trump is not mysterious. If he gets away with something, he does more of it and moves on to the next frontier of illegality. If he gets away something long enough, he uses the precedent to say it's obviously okay and any complaint about it is a personal attack.
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Sad. I was looking forward to being beaten up at this.
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Name one Central American asylee who has murdered more Americans than the Trump-radicalized anti-semitic, anti-refugee Pittsburgh terrorist.
Name one refugee of any nationality.
You can't do it.
Refugees aren't dangerous. Americans who think they're dangerous are dangerous.
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The most subtly insidious form of racism is a certain white sensibility that doesn’t deny any of the facts about the history and reality of race, but finds caring about any of it too cringe to bear.
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If Moscow Mitch succeeds in this cover-up and mass popular protests do not break out, we may be truly screwed.
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If the man had any interest at all in easing tensions and calming tempers, he'd hold a televised press conference conceding the election, communicating that there was no evidence of fraud, that Biden will legitimately take office on the 20th, and there's no reason to protest it
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@AdamSerwer
Everyone who studies authoritarianism repeatedly warns that the slide is ALWAYS slow and it never FEELS like anything important is changing, which makes the folks screaming at the top of their lungs trying to get you to notice sound like alarmist loons.
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Whatever happened? Well, the last Republican POTUS lied us into a catastrophic, illegitimate war. The current, freshly impeached president is a sociopathic gangster controlled by Putin who lies about everything all the time to manipulate people into serving his crooked interests.
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You minimize economic damage by containing the epidemic with mass test and trace, widespread use of facemasks, and zealously ubiquitous body temp checks. BUT WE DIDN'T DO THAT. So now we have to press pause on the economy to keep people physically apart.
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To all my friends and acquaintances who ever denied that right-wing anti-PC “free speech” hysteria was more than a stalking-horse for straight-up banning left-leaning speech, I am now accepting apologies.
Here’s a list of terms & subjects Republican lawmakers would like to ban in all Wisconsin classrooms:
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He needs to be in handcuffs.
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How has raging anti-elitism failed to touch the ridiculous Harvard/Yale SCOTUS cabal? Are we all really so ready to confuse clubability for qualification? The court is just a third, unelected partisan legislative body, yet it's 22% the same *high school*? What an egregious scam.
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Pete is the only one with the correct answer here. Democracy first, or nothing else is possible.
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The Trump machine is making a lot of political hay with necessary legal distinctions. Barr says Mueller didn't establish conspiracy or coordination b/w the campaign & "the Russian government," which doesn't imply there wasn't plenty with Russians hard to pin as agents of Putin.
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In a healthy polity, Trump's election postponement tweet would get him removed from office. It's clear as day that he's actively seeking to prevent a free and fair election.
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@SpeakerPelosi
We shouldn't have to beg you to uphold your oath and use your Constitutional authority to hold the administration accountable.
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Whatever you thought was true about Trump yesterday you should think now, but that he's more dangerous than you thought.
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If anything ever merited an intense house and senate investigation, it's the question of who is responsible for the breakdown of security that allowed a violent mob to break into the house and senate, delaying the count of electoral votes and putting the entire congress in danger
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Watching a series of swaggering, snickering, gaslighting, hyperbolic, grandstanding older white guys alternating with a diverse array of sober, honest and professional Democrats really underscores the extent to which the GOP has degenerated into pure identity politics.
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Looting is out of control.
Kenosha PD arrested a church group for supplying food to protestors and still haven't returned over $1,000 in goods. In a war against civilians, it's imperative for the oppressor to cut off supply lines. This is what the Saudis did to Yemen. This is fascism.
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Biden just saved thousands of (mostly Republican!) lives and accelerated the recovery of the economy. That’s the simple, correct analysis of the mandate. There’s no honest, informed basis for disagreement.
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Barr says Mueller supplies evidence of obstruction, then uses the fact that he doesn't establish conspiracy to a certain legal standard (which doesn't at all rule it out, in fact) to argue in a shady way that there was nothing to obstruct, so he let's Trump off scot-free.
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He says Mueller didn't establish that any Trump associate or U.S. citizen "knowingly coordinated" with the IRA to influence the election. Which doesn't imply that Stone (not part of the campaign) didn't coordinate with anonymous agents of the IRA, or with Assange (not American.)
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The "electability" case for the mayor of South Bend, IN is just insanely weak. What is it? It's clearer than ever that "electability" is empiricism-free coded term denoting the property of fitting a certain demographic/political profile.
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It's only impossible to understand if you've been diligently trying not to understand.
GOP House Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.): "Impossible to understand why
@realDonaldTrump
is leaving America’s allies to be slaughtered and enabling the return of ISIS."
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The population density of Montana is 7 people per square mile.
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What's fun here is that there was so much Irish and southern Italian immigration at the end of the open borders 19th/early 20th century because these places were shitholes, they brought cultures of criminal corruption with them, and were seen as racially dubious dirty papists.
Kellyanne Conway on her question to a reporter Tuesday morning regarding the reporter's ethnicity:
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The core of the Republican argument is that, as a Constitutional matter, there are no valid grounds for impeachment when the president is Republican.
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I’m always bored by breathless reporting of intrigues at bespoke universities nobody attends. Unless you write ten stories about schools like the U. of Central Florida or Cal State Northridge for every one about Yale, you aren’t really writing about American higher ed.
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Hi everybody! What is it that we say? Personal news? I have personal news.
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The Trump admin/campaign then uses it's own opportunistic judgment as a fixed fact to leverage an attack on the legitimacy of Dem oversight officials in Congress. But Congress's constitutional oversight authority is wholly independent of the executive's findings about itself.
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Trump has gone to pains to confuse people into accepting that the legitimacy of congressional oversight depends on a prior, narrow legal finding of criminality, which it has done everything it can to prevent. Having done it successfully, it's attacking the separation of powers.
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