Clyde Haberman
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Former columnist & editorial writer at NY Times with 13 years as a foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, Rome & Jerusalem. Lived in the palazzo you see here.
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Trump is the 13th US president in my lifetime. I feel secure in saying he’s the first who doesn’t care if you live or die, only if you’ll vote for him or not.
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Thinking this morning about my naïveté in November 2016. We all knew Trump was a hideous character, but I thought the presidency would change him, that he would be elevated by the office.
Couldn’t have been more wrong. Once a sociopath, always a sociopath.
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The Covid vaccine is not a guarantee. My wife & I, vaccinated 17 days ago, both tested positive yesterday and are in quarantine. We think the source was a person we had contact with before the shot took full effect. Caution is in order. We’ll be fine, I should add.
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This is Orwellian. Trump blocks documents from House investigators and keeps witnesses from testifying. Now he complains about the absence of documents and witnesses. He's like the guy who kills his parents, then begs the judge to have mercy on a poor orphan.
“Look, the House is supposed to do all of this work on witnesses and documents BEFORE they send the articles over to the Senate, not to call in new witnesses, go through new documents - that work is supposed to be done in the House.”
@KatiePavlich
@foxandfriends
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If you're not enraged by what Trump and henchmen like Giuliani are doing, you're not paying attention.
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As someone with family murdered in the Holocaust, I never dreamed this possible, but I trust Germany's leader more than this US president.
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I’m in my mid-70s, still sharp but not quite where I was, say, 10 years ago. I expect the same holds for Biden.
But GOP efforts to portray him as doddering are laughable, especially when you listen to Trump, who lacks the acuity to string two sentences together coherently.
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Dobbs is another right-winger slamming generals when he himself avoided the military. He & I were both born in 1945. There was still a draft when we were young. While I was in the Army, he was, Wikipedia says, a bank “cash-management specialist.” There’s your snowflake.
No wonder these Snowflake Generals haven't won a war since 1991: Military chiefs concerned about
@realDonaldTrump
's July Fourth celebration via
@MailOnline
#MAGA
#AmericaFirst
#Dobbs
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This may be the best example of finding the local angle that I've ever seen:
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John Mitchell as attorney general was really bad. So were Ed Meese, Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey. But congratulations, William Barr. You, sir, are the winner: the most disgraceful US attorney general in my lifetime.
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Is
@CNN
consciously making the same mistake as in 2015-16 when it gave endless air time to Trump, down to fixing a camera on his idle plane, and starving opponents of deserved attention? Schultz is rich, that’s all. He’s done nothing to merit this attention.
CNN to host Town Hall for Howard Schultz in Texas next week. Poppy Harlow to moderate:
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Please forgive this bit of papa bragging but, in a first,
@maggieNYT
& I both have P. 1 stories in today's
@nytimes
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In the first year of his presidency, Biden and his wife paid $150,439 in federal taxes. Trump in his first year,
@nytimes
investigation showed, paid $750.
The numbers speak for themselves.
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Wouldn’t surprise me if some Republicans now start using two hands to drink from a glass, Trump-like, in yet another attempt to gaslight you into believing that everything this guy does is perfectly normal.
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Don’t be cowed by Trump or Barr or McConnell or Graham or any of the others who are anti-democratic, small d.
Biden won this election. He won the Electoral College, and he galloped off with the popular vote.
That’s it. End of story, even if it takes somewhat longer.
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It's well past time for Twitter to suspend this man's account. He is intolerably spreading one lie after another.
Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous “80,000,000 votes” were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia & Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, he’s got a big unsolvable problem!
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Reality check: The number of murders in NYC last year was lower than in any year but one when Kelly was police commissioner.
Ex-NYPD top cop Ray Kelly says NYC quality of life has ‘really deteriorated’ amid crime surge: ‘There’s nobody in charge’
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He can’t get even a Memorial Day greeting right. It’s a day dedicated to honoring and mourning the nation’s war dead. There’s nothing happy about it.
Among his other ample flaws, the guy is simply a dope.
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Sending yet again as a reminder (not really needed) of what kind of person he is:
Donald Trump mocks Hillary Clinton over her pneumonia outbreak
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My favorite
@nytimes
sentence today deals with Trump's despicable attack on John Dingell. The not overly bright Stephanie Grisham said Trump "is a counterpuncher.” That led to this:
"She declined to explain how Mr. Dingell, who died 10 months ago, had thrown the first punch."
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I was a NY Times foreign correspondent for 13 years, nearly 4 1/2 of them based in Jerusalem. Of the many senior officials I interviewed in dozens of countries, Netanyahu was by far the most untrustworthy.
By far.
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Trump is credibly accused of all sorts of criminal wrongdoing, and he’s running again.
George Santos is a proven fraud, and he already plans to run for re-election.
Clarence Thomas seems beholden to a billionaire, but doesn’t resign.
We have become a society that knows no shame.
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Perhaps wrongheadedly, I’ve resisted applying a certain word to Trump. But not after he denounced Pelosi as one who “hates the country” because she supports the impeachment inquiry.
That’s the talk of a fascist: opposing me makes you an enemy of the homeland.
It’s fascist.
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Collins is a lesson for the media. She always seeks the appearance of being reflective, then clicks her heels & follows party leaders. Time for news organizations to stop treating her as if she's anything else. It's a trap that they -- we -- keep falling into.
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Gotta brag on Maggie Haberman, aka
@maggieNYT
, for her Pulitzer -- indispensable to the
@nytimes
team that won the prize today for national reporting (shared with
@washingtonpost
). Great reporting and a prize richly earned.
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A person with dignity would recognize it’s over, issue a gracious concession and prepare the transition, perhaps even while vowing to fight another day, say in 2024.
But the person at issue has no dignity.
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“I don’t like being called a liar,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells
@anniekarni
in
@nytimes
.
Of course there was an easy way for her to avoid being called that when she was Trump’s press secretary. She could’ve tried not lying.
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I’d missed this until minutes ago. Trump said the immigrant influx is “poisoning the blood of our country.” As others note, Hitler applied that same language to Jews and others. Echoing Hitler, I’d say, puts one out of goose step with American values.
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Le Monde headline day after 9/11 was "Nous sommes tous Americains." Today, nous sommes tous Parisiens.
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All anyone needs to know is that these are not decent people, not one of them.
Rush Limbaugh praises the president for being "clever" in sharing conspiracy theories: “Trump is just throwing gasoline on a fire here, and he’s having fun watching the flames”
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I’ve been to Thailand, and it’s pronounced Tie-land, not Thighland. Nobody goes to a restaurant and orders Thigh food (except maybe in a chicken joint.
D’Souza gives craven toadies a bad name.
I’m highly amused to see supposedly sophisticated media types snickering at
@realdonaldtrump
for saying “Thighland.” These faux-sophisticates don’t realize Trump’s way of saying it is right. “Tai-land” is the crude lingo of people who have never been to “Thighland”
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This series of tweets is as un-American a foaming at the mouth as ever heard from a U.S. president
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
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Can he make that a promise?
Kanye West Is 'Threatening To Leave America' After Donald Trump's Loss
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NFL owners have employed players who killed other men, beat wives & girl friends, took part in a dog-fighting ring, and more. Yet they've effectively banned Colin Kaepernick for speaking his mind. Agree with his views or not, free speech is at stake.
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Obviously, we have a long way to go, but this is terrific news.
JUST IN: New York City reports zero new coronavirus deaths for the first time since mid-March
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The Medal of Honor, our highest military honor, goes to those who performed valorously with their own lives in peril. Often, it is awarded posthumously.
For this narcissist to joke about wanting one for himself underlines that he is, was and will irredeemably be a putz.
President Trump joked about giving himself the Medal of Honor: "I wanted one, but they told me I don't qualify ... I said, 'Can I give it to myself anyway?'”
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The US population is about 330 million. Kari Lake says 300 million of them will rise up to support Trump.
Not to get too personal, but I’d say Ms. Lake is a moron.
Kari Lake says 300 million Americans are now going to rise up to support Trump after this indictment.
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Well, if anyone should know about grave miscalculation it’s someone named Cheney.
I am monitoring the situation in Iraq closely and praying for our men and women in uniform. The Iranian regime has made a grave miscalculation by launching these attacks.
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OK, I agree with those who say Schultz should get no more attention. He thinks FDR was president within the last 50 years, and what he really likes about Reagan was that he always kept his jacket on in the Oval Office. This guy’s not playing with a full deck.
Schultz: Best GOP prez in last 50 years was Ronald Regan because he never took off his jacket in the Oval Office,
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Except for my years overseas, I’ve ridden the NYC subway my entire life. The hellhole and scary place that I keep reading and hearing about is unrecognizable to me. For sure, the transit system is flawed — deeply so in some respects. But it’s a daily marvel.
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If Trump were ever to go Yo Semite, he might try relaxing by reading about, say, So Crates or perhaps something from Euri Pides or maybe the noted Ancient Greek philosopher Testicles.
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If Kavanaugh's instinct is to respond snidely & nastily to a U.S. senator at a televised hearing, it doesn't require a great leap to intuit that he is capable of worse, maybe much worse, with women who lack any power.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar asks Brett Kavanaugh if he has ever blacked out from drinking, and he turns the question back on her.
Kavanaugh: "You are asking about a blackout. I don't know. Have you?"
Klobuchar: "Could you answer the question, judge?"
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I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: the news media has to stop broadcasting Trump’s daily press conferences live. He’s made them substitutes for his rallies. Cover them, of course, and then report the major points, as we journalists do with such events.
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Get the Sharpie ready.
My Administration is closely monitoring Hurricane Douglas off Hawaii & Hurricane Hanna, which has now made landfall in Texas. We continue to coordinate closely with both states — listen to your emergency management officials
@Hawaii_EMA
&
@TDEM
to protect your family & property!
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Profile of the Sociopath:
. Glibness/Superficial Charm
. Manipulative/Conning
. Grandiose Sense of Self
. Pathological Lying
. Lack of Remorse/Shame/Guilt
. Shallow Emotions
. Callousness/Lack of Empathy
. Infidelity
. Impulsive Nature
Sound like anybody you know?
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Trump has introduced more people of color tonight than he and his father ever rented apartments to.
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Speaks for itself. Wyoming woman interviewed about Trump by
@nytimes
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I’ve lost track. Is today Reinstatement Day for Trump? If so, what time?
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A reasonable nominee for looniest demonstration of the week. Biden has won Rhode Island by 20 percentage points.
Large gathering of Trump supporters outside the Rhode Island Board of Elections headquarters in Cranston, demanding a recount here in RI.
@wpri12
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All this focus on Biden gaffes when this guy keeps saying things that are nothing short of lunatic. Like this:
Trump says if he doesn’t win the election, Pennsylvania will cease to exist because ‘they’ will change the name
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If you’re not infuriated by what Trump, Pence, Cruz and these other seditious Republicans are doing, you’re not paying attention. This is an attempted coup, and its likely failure makes it no less treasonous.
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One presidential candidate has had the cushiest life yet whines all the time about his lot.
The other had his wife and a daughter killed in a car crash and a son who died young, but he carries on with life.
Simply on the basis of character, this race isn't a close call.
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Smallpox was not yet eradicated when I was a boy. Polio was dreaded. Measles, chicken pox, mumps & other diseases were part of life.
And they would be with us in the U.S. now if the resistance to vaccines by today's lunkheads had been prevalent back then.
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Metaphysical question: if he’s not on Twitter or Facebook, does Trump exist?
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Here’s how to make an entrance:
L'actrice Rita Moreno a 89 ans. Voici comment elle est arrivée sur le plateau de Stephen Colbert, hier soir:
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I've been a professional journalist for more than 50 years. In my view, Trump, with his mendacious tweet, violated the underlying agreement of that background briefing, and so all bets are off. I say name the briefer he claims doesn't exist.
Am I the only White House reporter who feels that we shouldn’t have to abide by their insistence on speaking on background if the president is just going to use that to attack and defame us?
I’m seriously considering just tweeting out the SAO’s name.
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This kind of greeting is the mark of a soulless man, consumed by narcissism.
Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!
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Trump having aides attest to his calmness reminds me of an
@nytimes
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Please indulge a proud papa.
@benyt
in
@nytimes
, looks at
@maggieNYT
's coverage of Donald Trump as his presidency nears its end:
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Tweet from Fred Trump’s son:
I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood...
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I’m late to this story, but if I have it right, Daryl Morey tweeted support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters. And the NBA effectively disavows him and kowtows to Beijing and its repression?
This takes moral cowardice to a new level.
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Thom Tillis is a senator from North Carolina. This future Senate juror is enlisting birthday greetings for the son of the man who'll be in the dock. The shamelessness is stunning. But unsurprising.
Eric Trump's birthday is coming up. We're putting together a birthday card for him -- will you add your name?
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He’s even more addled than I thought. A centennial coin couldn’t have been issued until now because it wasn’t the centennial until now.
"I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."
President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act.
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I've made it a policy not to use foul language on Twitter, but I'll make an exception after seeing the clip below.
What a scumbag this guy is. A few years ago he similarly mocked the physical disability of a Times colleague of mine.
Trump responds to Biden’s speech by claiming that Biden stuttered through it. He then does his impression of people who stutter
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When a candidate tells you he’ll be a dictator (even for a day), warns of “a bloodbath” if he doesn’t win, invites Putin to do as he will, embraces authoritarians like Orban —when he does all this and more — take him at his word, and then vote to protect democracy.
Trump: Now, If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.
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If I were to make a list of people who need to zip it and simply go away, Ms. Stein would have a place of honor.
Biden’s lies & record are bad enough, but the biggest risk is his obvious cognitive decline. He said he’s running for Senate, confused wife & sister, forgot Obama’s name etc. This isn’t going away. If Dems close their eyes & keep pushing Joe, it’ll be an agonizing 8 months ahead.
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I aced my cognition test. I was able to identify this animal:
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Covid-19 has claimed Rafael Gómez Nieto, who was 99 and the last survivor of a military unit that helped liberate Paris from the Nazis in 1944.
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Ms. Conway has a tell that unfailingly signals when she's making stuff up. Her lips move.
Kellyanne
@KellyannePolls
tells reporters that
@SpeakerPelosi
was intimidated by men to launch impeachment. Says POTUS isn’t angry but amused.
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I’ll be 79 soon enough. I sometimes need a few seconds to come up with a name I’m reaching for. But my comprehension, reasoning and writing skills are undiminished.
I’ve no reason to believe it’s any different with Biden in the areas pertinent to his line of work.
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I'm obviously biased, being a career newspaperman, but the debates would be better if newspapers ran them, not TV personalities. They tend to ask the same questions over & over in each debate. Asking Bloomberg about stop & frisk, e.g., is not breaking new ground.
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Comey's handling of these emails may well be the biggest screwup at his level since George Tenet's "slam dunk" on Iraqi WMD.
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I hope Mr. Conway is wrong but fear he may be right. If Trump believes his own codswallop that Jan. 6 was a display of love, God knows what his idea of violence will look like.
It’s past time to treat him for what he is: a clear & present danger to our democracy.
Sooner or later, tfg is going to foment some more violence. It's only a matter of time.
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My father, coming to US from Eastern Europe, matched this description offered by Kelly: He entered unlawfully, had barely a 6th-grade education, didn't speak English, had no discernible skills. He assimilated, Mr. Kelly, and did fine.
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Grammar question of the day:
An
@nytimes
story today referred to the costumed folks in Times Square as “Elmos and Mickey Mice.”
Hard though it may land on many ears, should that have been “Mickey Mouses”?
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Trump used to employ similar language about “investigators” he hired to prove Obama was born abroad. They can’t believe what they’re finding, he said.
Naturally, they found nothing.
This is a government of grifters, led by the biggest one of all.
Trump just told reporters Giuliani “came back from someplace and he's going to make a report I think to the Attorney General and to Congress. He said he has a lot of good information.” Trump then says Rudy “has not told me what he's found,” but adds “I hear he's found plenty.”
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I'm still thinking about all the scandals that occurred during the Obama presidency. You remember them, I'm sure:
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Exactly. Trump didn’t “allegedly” try to overturn the 2020 election. He tried to do it.
Kristen Welker says that Trump "allegedly" tried to overturn the 2020 election. No, he really tried to do that. We lived through it!
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Still waiting for Giuliani to be indicted for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 barbarians.
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I love this detail in the
@nytimes
obit of John McCain's mother, Roberta McCain, who died today at 108. I'm guessing she was in her 70s or 80s when this happened:
"Once, when she was denied a rental car in Paris because of her age, she went out and bought a car."
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For Pete’s sake, shut up. Just for once, shut up. (And tweeting in all caps is the mark of a moron.)
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@gtconway3d
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
“The Great Gatsby.”
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Yo Semites, Thighland, Minneanopolis, plosma, totallyterrytism, Ulysseus S. Grant, America's frownders -- these and more are all from Trump. And he and his lackeys are trying to convince you it's Biden who's cognitively challenged?
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I'd say the biggest loser tonight was Cleveland. The Indians got absolutely demolished by the Yankees. But worse, that city hosted the most disgraceful presidential debate in American history.
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National average gas price, according to the AAA, is $3.12. In Texas it’s $2.59.
As usual, Trump simply makes stuff up.
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Trump, w/absolutely no evidence, blames Clinton and Dems for the NC firebombing. Why does the Reichstag fire come to mind?
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@MavenofHonor
Getting to say hello to Muhammad Ali in a Tokyo hotel lobby in the 1980s. He was there to promote a major boxing match between I Can’t Recall and Who Cares.
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On multiple levels, I sure hope that the remaining 359 days of 2020 are better than the first 7 have been.
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To resolve his Twitter problem, all that Trump need do is be truthful for a change in his tweets. It's not that hard, at least not for a normal human being with a conscience. Then again....
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Trump reminds me of a pressman at
@nytimes
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Trump’s older sister is recorded calling him a liar who has “no principles.” And that’s among the nicer things she said about him.
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As a Vietnam-era draftee, service number US52773245, I’d like to say it would be disgraceful to bring these West Point kids back to campus to serve not their country but, sure as a sunrise, as props for a Trump campaign commercial.
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Sure, this war is "a great opportunity" for Republicans.
What a small-minded dope she is.
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says the deadly attack on Israel is a “great opportunity” for Republicans
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"Will you shut up, man?" Biden says to Trump.
Tens of millions of Americans say that every single day.
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I bet Trump wouldn’t oppose rechristening Fort Bragg if it were named for him: Fort Brag.
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12/17/2003: Polls shows Howard Dean pulling away from the Democratic field with 23%. Followed by Wesley Clark (10%), Joe Lieberman (10%), Richard Gephardt (6%), Al Sharpton (5%). In sixth place with a mere 4% was John Kerry (2004 nominee)
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