Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️🏳️🌈
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Journalist & Political Commentator | Co-Founder, BASEDPolitics | Contributor @DCExaminer & @Newsweek | @Steamboat_Inst Blankley Fellow
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To the purple-haired college students...
Is it "Death to America" or is it "America plz pay off my student loans?"
I feel like it can't be both.
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“Squatters rights” is a concept that should not exist.
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Some votes age poorly.
Some votes age very well.
@RandPaul
sure seems to have gotten this one right when all other Republicans did not.
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As a gay person, I support this decision -- because I would want the same free speech right myself to refuse to design an anti-gay website.
YES! Huge victory for free speech as Lorie Smith the web designer who did not want to be compelled by CO law to make a same-sex m. website (tho she serviced the lgbt community in general) WINS HER CASE! This is a BIG WIN FOR FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA
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So both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris now agree that a waitress who is paid tips should pay no income taxes but a hostess who is paid $15 an hour should pay income taxes.
How is this logical or fair?
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If they actually believe this, shouldn't they all immediately un-enroll? Why don't they "divest" themselves from funding an "inherently violent" institution?
One of the spokespeople for the UCLA protesters explains their end goal is for “more than divestment.” She says, “Given that the University of California is founded on colonialism, it’s inherently a violent institution.” She argues the UC system is linked to both foreign wars and
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A new survey of Biden student loan bailout recipients found...
➡️52% say they’ll use their extra $ to buy clothes
➡️46% say they’ll go on vacation or out to eat more
➡️28% say they’ll buy drugs or alcohol
➡️27% say they’ll gamble more
We will pay $500B more in taxes for this.
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Transgender adults peacefully living their lives differently than you is not a problem.
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Transgender people are not responsible for the shooting.
Radical trans activists are not responsible for the shooting.
One person, the shooter, is responsible for the shooting.
Do not dilute the moral culpability of a murderer to attack your political opponents.
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Nothing: you’re just a racist.
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When I moved to D.C. in 2019, I briefly casually dated a guy who worked in Republican politics at the time.
I'll never forget how stunned I was when he told me that, in his family, he wasn't going to be allowed around his nieces and nephews anymore if he had a boyfriend.
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It’s not racist, it’s objectively true. If Kamala Harris was a white male with her exact qualifications she would’ve never been selected as VP and thus not even be in the conversation for POTUS.
Facts can’t be racist.
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Totally normal and sane folks we’ve got on this website.
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(It's been on March 31st ever year for 15 years).
Joe Biden just proclaimed that “Transgender Visibility Day” is on Sunday, March 31st. I wonder how he came up with that date.
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Remember, Trump literally (completely falsely) suggested that Ron DeSantis groomed high school girls while working as a teacher.
And yet "Never Back Down" DeSantis immediately bent the knee and endorsed him.
There's no line. Trump can do whatever he wants and they will all
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@Breaking911
At this point, dementia is the best possible excuse for Biden’s behavior. Because if he is mentally competent yet so causally lies in situations like this… that’s astoundingly vile.
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Have you ever thought about the fact that the US government spent $2.313 trillion, more than 6,000 American lives, and 20 years in Afghanistan just to replace the Taliban with… the Taliban?
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It’s genuinely baffling to me that GOP primary voters seem to believe the guy to beat Biden is… the guy who lost to Biden.
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Gay rights once meant fighting for marriage equality and anti-discrimination protections.
Now, it apparently means harassing random pro athletes who won't wrap themselves in the rainbow flag.
My latest for
@Newsweek
:
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If a Christian can vandalize a Satanic display because he doesn't like it, a Satanist can vandalize your Christian display because he doesn't like it.
Y'all need to pick.
There is no such thing as freedom but only for my side.
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This is supposed to be an anti-capitalist meme.
But I think it ends up being wildly pro-capitalist by accident.
Oh, you mean that under capitalism, you get a wide variety of delicious chicken sandwiches available for very cheap prices?
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@MattWalshBlog
It's absolutely horrific & hateful for you to suggest that this is somehow related to them being gay. Child abusers exist among all people. You would NEVER talk about a similarly horrific story with straight parents b/c u wouldn't notice it & if you did you wouldn't generalize.
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When you’re not supporting either of the candidates you can see them both clearly.
And in both cases what you see is… not pretty.
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You either believe in religious freedom or you don't. Do y'all really want the government deciding which religions are "legitimate" and which are not?
Satan has no place in our society and should not be recognized as a "religion" by the federal government. I'll chip in to contribute to this veteran's legal defense fund.
Good prevails over evil -- that's the American spirit.
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Matt Taibbi: Free speech is dying—and journalists are killing it
@jackhunter74
reports from a
@mtaibbi
speech hosted by
@RandPaul
&
@TFASorg
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This woman should be applauded not mocked. I give her enormous credit for getting in the gym. When you are that overweight it is incredibly hard and intimidating.
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@SarahHopeWeaver
@GPIngersoll
love to see a good guy respectfully shoot his shot and actually score😭 congrats!
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Trump is absolutely, dangerously wrong on this.
You can personally hate it, but burning the flag IS protected free expression under our First Amendment.
(does not apply if you're burning a flag that doesn't belong to you, of course)
It's actually a sign of what makes
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Two things can be true at once.
1) I think this was an extremist and highly objectionable thing for Michael Knowles to say
2) He clearly wants to "eradicate" transgenderism as a concept -- not transgender people. He wants them to revert to their birth sex, not be killed. That's
Michael Knowles publicly says he wants to “eradicate” transgendered people.
That’s some Hitler Nazi Germany genocide shit
"Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely."
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JD Vance is not qualified to be VP.
He has barely any experience as an elected official and ZERO executive experience. Being a best-selling author isn't a qualification for POTUS.
A VP needs to be ready to step in at any moment. JD Vance is not.
Plus, he has flip-flopped
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@AnaKasparian
A sensible, mainstream take... that is going to absolutely trigger the shit out of Very Online progressives.
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No, it's still that same energy. But reparations aren't "my debts."
I've never owned a slavery. My parents never owned slaves. My grandparents never owned slaves.
You would assign debt to me because of the pigment of my skin. That's racist & wrong.
It’s always “PAY YOUR DEBTS!” until the topic of reparations comes up.
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This is disgusting and gross behavior to spread bizarre fake news about your political opponents.
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Holy sh*t.
That crazy Rebekah Jones lady today basically claimed that her 13-year-old son had been detained on Governor DeSantis's "orders," calling him a wanna-be fascist king.
Turns out... he threatened to shoot up a school. That's why he was detained.
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sorry but getting mad over a seasoning joke and labelling it "anti-white racism" is incredibly snowflake-y behavior
Crazy that a presidential candidate can just casually let out some blatant anti-white racism and nobody cares. Imagine if Donald Trump said that a “black guy taco” was made with fried chicken and watermelon. Nuclear meltdown.
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People harshly judging Lex Fridman’s pretty normal booklist when most Americans don’t read any books at all is just bizarre.
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The attempt on Trump's life is truly horrifying.
Ultimately, only the shooter is responsible for their actions.
But we desperately need to take down the temperature of our political discourse and stop the constant alarmism.
Just days ago, the official Biden HQ account posted
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I don't really care if this sounds cruel or callous.
I support a limited safety net for the truly disabled.
But if you're able-bodied and just don't want to work, you should be left to starve.
No "free" food. No "free" healthcare.
You don't have a right to leech off society.
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Using the life-threatening collapse of a pro athlete to push completely unfounded anti-vax theories is both unsubstantiated on the facts and morally grotesque.
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Yes, I'm gay.
Yes, I support gay marriage.
But I also support Lori Smith's (303 Creative) 1st Amendment right against compelled speech endorsing gay marriage.
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@RandPaul
is introducing legislation that would restore proper constitutional order in Congress...
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It's kind of crazy how the Democrats and progressives who've spent years screeching hysterically about "misinformation" are just repeating, over and over again, a totally fake and made up thing and tying it to JD Vance. Even as a "joke" it makes no sense because it's not in the
Republicans are reaching levels of cooked we haven’t seen since FDR
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JD Vance has more in common with Elizabeth Warren on economic policy than Ronald Reagan.
Sorry, it’s just a fact.
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I've never understood why the woke complain about "heteronormativity."
Heterosexuality IS the norm.
That doesn't mean anything negative about being gay or bisexual. It just means they're the minority which is objectively true. What's wrong with acknowledging that?
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It's not "cruel" for the Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution.
What was cruel was President Biden knowingly promising student loan borrowers relief when he knew he lacked the authority to do it without Congress.
He just wanted votes in 2022. He knew it would later fail.
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🚨 School closures have devastated Black communities in Chicago for years. As the moratorium ends in 2025, we must act NOW to stop disinvestment in our neighborhood schools. Let's demand investment in our kids' futures!
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This is genuinely maddening rhetoric to hear from someone who created a COVID snitch line to report your neighbors.
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More Republican voters view Trump as a "person of faith" than Mitt Romney.
I'm sorry, but if you think that, you're in a cult.
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I'll never forget this. Utter, utterly disqualifying statement from Trump.
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This dude is just determined to sabotage himself however he can.
Stuff like this accomplishes literally nothing positive and *only* has downside.
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To be clear; the scandal is not that a gay staffer filmed a sex tape in his workplace in an official Senate building.
It’s that a staffer filmed a sex tape at work.
It’s not any worse because it’s a gay guy—but also hiding behind identity as a defense is a disgrace & insult.
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Be mad at Target if you want but please don’t harass and berate random minimum wage employees who have absolutely no control over what items are chosen for the store…
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kinda crazy that a Kennedy can leave someone for dead and not be disowned by their family but endorsing a Republican is just a bridge too far 😂
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@MattWalshBlog
This is blood libel, Matt. You would never have this same energy toward blaming all Christians for the church's sexual abuse scandal. You hate gay people and it shows.
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What's with this move to just attack people because of how they look? Not cool.
This is a Communications Director for the US department of the Interior:
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The current budget the establishment is pushing through is a freaking disaster.
@RandPaul
just called it out. Here's what he exposed 👇👀
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I would keep it moving and go check out the exhibits, because I would teach my kid that some people look different and as long as they’re not doing anything to us we mind our own business.
Greeter for kids at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. Imagine walking in with your kids and seeing this. What would you do?
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JD Vance is a disappointing VP selection.
He is a total phony who has flip-flopped and done a 180 on everything he believes in just a few years.
And his economic policies have a disturbing amount in common with left-wing Democrats like Elizabeth Warren.
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I find the pro-Hamas protests happening in US cities unimaginably vile.
But to those calling on them to be shut down… nope. That’s not how free speech works.
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Anyone who has strong negative feelings about the fact that JD Vance is married to an Indian woman... you might just actually be racist?
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I stand with Riley Gaines.
Whether you agree with her on the trans sports issue or not shouldn't matter here.
Violence is NEVER an acceptable response to the expression of ideas you disagree with.
This despicable mob behavior MUST BE PUNISHED!
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No, we traded this for a society where black people have rights. Where women are not property. Where domestic violence is a crime not a marital dispute. Where many diseases that were deadly are now treatable. Where even the working class have supercomputers in their pockets.
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Slavery isn’t capitalism. Capitalism is voluntary free trade. Slavery is the antithesis of that and happened for thousands of years prior to the invention of capitalism. Educate yourself.
No, capitalism *does not* have an “amazing” history of working for the people. ⬇️
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actually, this is not normal, and you should not stop supporting your family members in their life because you disagree politically
Charlie Kirk: “If you are paying your 18, 19, or 20-year-old kid's tuition and they go vote for Kamala Harris, you should tell them you guys could pay for your own college”
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maybe get you a girl that can win an election
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I actually support ending legacy admissions.
But that's something colleges have to choose to do. I don't see how the Court could rule them unlawful. What law do they violate?
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@ninaturner
You shouldn't do political commentary if you're just going to avoid any space that's critical of your ideas and exist exclusively in ideological echo chambers. That's not discourse, that's propaganda.
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I’m still learning about it, but how could the FTX scandal possibly be an issue of “capitalism run amok” or “why we need regulation” — when what he did was fraud and already illegal?
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This isn't a normal or healthy way to go through life.
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I mean, Trump did try to overturn an election he fairly lost. That makes it fair to call him a "threat to democracy." I don't accept that people must avoid speaking a truthful criticism of a presidential candidate because some lunatics out there might be violent.
Just 2 days after a Biden/Harris supporter tried kiIIing President Trump, KJP is calling Trump a threat to Democracy.
This is intentional.
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This is a good example of how tribalism corrupts your soul.
You should always be willing to condemn evil, even if your opponents are not, or you have become the exact thing you criticize them for being.
I’ll condemn it once Republicans condemn the insurrection ✅
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If you're able-bodied but unwilling to work, I'm fine with a system that allows you to starve.
That's not unjust or immoral.
Allowing you to leech off your neighbors into perpetuity would be.
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