Corie Whalen
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Here for the classically liberal hot takes. Formerly on Capitol Hill, now in think tank world. Massachusetts native in Virginia. Previously in DC/NY/TX . ✡️🗽
Hillsboro, VA
Joined March 2009
I’m a right-leaning woman who agrees with almost nothing the Biden-Harris administration has done, but the primal hatred and disgust Vance stokes in me transcends politics. I suspect I am not the only woman of my vintage, so to speak, who feels this way.
JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America.
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Trump-Vance is the ultimate expression of white male identity politics. It’s like if truck nutz were a presidential ticket.
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Amazing how many men just readily confess that they believe women without children don’t have an equal stake in society. That we are essentially meaningless absent childbearing. Appreciate the clarity, these mask-off moments tell us everything we need to know.
@CorieWhalen I’m a conservative. Will not be voting for Trump/Vance. That said, what he just said is true. What business do a bunch of childless cat ladies in the Dem party have telling the rest of the country how it’s going to be? They don’t. And they won’t.
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Whether you like Kamala Harris or not—and I really am not a fan—anyone who is truly being honest has to admit that Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be president. If you dislike Democratic policies and want a Republican to win, you’re going to have to nominate someone who.
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If you flip out when Congress is directed to make laws instead of outsourcing their job to unaccountable administrative agencies, perhaps you should consider that you’re not actually pro-democracy.
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I deem this genre of outrage “decorum inversion.” The President of the United States acts like a psycho constantly, nuking any expectation of normalcy. But the second someone else does something off color, especially as it relates to him, we must clutch our pearls in horror! 🙄.
Disappointed to see @SpeakerPelosi rip up the speech that mentioned lives we’ve lost and heroes we celebrated at the SOTU. No matter how you feel or what you disagree with, remember others are watching. This was unbecoming of someone at her level in office.
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I’ve known in my heart for days this was the case, but it’s now confirmed that my friend Jake, who was working security at the musical festival in Israel, has died. To the pro-genocide assholes who posted the paraglider graphic in celebration: rot in hell.
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This is really going to piss my new followers off, but I’ve got to keep it real. This joke of a price controls agenda Harris is floating moves me from “leaning Kamala” toward … well, how can I possibly do this?. In 2020, I voted for Biden in the primary and pledged that I’d.
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@michaelcdeibert I am not going to suggest that he doesn’t admire his beautiful and successful wife who is way out of his league, but my assessment of his vibe stands. He’s off-putting on a visceral level and I hope he goes down in proverbial flames with the Trump cult.
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I hope the @GOP takes a step back and considers what kind of culture they’re cultivating when two women with deep and longstanding ties to the conservative movement are moved to have conversations like this in a public forum. The cruel comments about “childless women,” the
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No one *really* wants to drain the swamp. They just want to fill it with *their* creatures.
NEW : Mike Johnson urges Ethics panel to not release report on Matt Gaetz, an unprecedented move since investigation is supposed to be separate from speaker’s office.“I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report" Johnson tells @alisonkmain.
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Who knew that McDonald’s was more emotionally mature than about 90% of people in politics these days.
McDonald's teaching a master class in navigating political waters with grace
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I don’t like Vance, but at least he sat down for an adversarial interview. When will Kamala go on Fox News? Shitposting isn’t a campaign.
Vance: This is a fundamentally fake person. Bash: With respect, you changed your position on an important thing, Donald Trump. Vance: Of course I did!. Bash: So why are you not a chameleon?
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Trump-like libertarian? What does this even mean? Are there people who actually think Trump made the federal government smaller or sought to utilize less executive power?.
Trump-like libertarian Javier Milei set to win Argentina’s presidency
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@AndrewAQLD Actually, it does. It applies to me on a fundamental level as a woman. He is an odious man who should never be anywhere near serious political power. I hope his pathetic attempt at a career in politics goes up in flames as soon as humanly possible.
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@richardmarx What is wrong with you? And all of the people in your mentions endorsing this? You realize there are ways to disagree with people without supporting violent attacks on them, right?.
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Just here to remind everyone: libertarians told you for years that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh aren’t the same and that the former is better than the latter. 💅🏻.
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I don’t say this lightly because I generally prefer that people not lose their jobs, but this is a fireable offense. If you’re a comms director for a member, you shouldn’t even privately share what you disagree with your boss on. Telling a journalist? And on the record? Fired.
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let 👏🏼 women 👏🏼 run 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 totalitarian 👏🏼 death 👏🏼 camps.
North Korea is going to have a Woman leader before the United States of America! Let that sink in!.
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A lot of conservatives who view themselves as supportive of free markets seem to still be in denial about this. Trump is making it quite clear that he’s likely to be worse for the economy than Harris. Many voters assume a “businessman” knows what he’s doing. This one doesn’t.
I can't imagine Trump could do anything more to make clear to the world that he is not bluffing about his intention to impose massive new tariffs.
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I'm old enough to remember when liberals opposed government censorship.
Ads that perpetuate gender stereotypes will be banned in UK, but not in the good ol' USA!
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The most useful thing about Donald Trump is that he coaxes many people into revealing their worst character traits in defense of him. I’ve learned a lot of terrible things about many folks I was once comfortable associating with. I’m a whole lot more cautious now.
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This is who Trump is. He’ll always find a way to lose by fixating on some petty bs. His win in 2016 was a fluke and largely a result of Hillary’s shortcomings. Trump isn’t special, he’s a loser. The sooner the @GOP comes to terms with this, the sooner they can go back to winning.
If you want to understand the problem Trump created for himself in Georgia, today on the radio, 9 out of 10 callers are women, and they're all mad at him for attacking Brian Kemp's wife.
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I’m old enough to remember when conservatives lost their minds for several months when Obama said, “you didn’t build that” in relation to the economy. But lol nothing matters.
I built the greatest economy in the World, the best the U.S. has ever had. I am doing it again!.
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And therefore, you are all permanently banned from using “Millennial” as a stand in for “young” because we are, in fact, old.
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Central planning kills.
Thousands of Covid-19 vaccines are ending up in the garbage because of federal and state guidelines.
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Imagine if, instead of Donald Trump, Republicans ran literally any sentient human being 🤷🏼♀️.
BREAKING: 86% of Americans surveyed think President Joe Biden is too old to serve another term, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.
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Cancel culture is blue collar workers at Smith being fired & harassed over false racism accusations, or a Mexican-American being fired due to fake “white supremacist hand gestures.” It’s not prominent people like Tanden losing a political appointment or Hawley losing a book deal.
If you believe cancel culture is real, the Neera Tanden sinking should strike you as chilling. I made the case back in December.
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What did people think was going to happen when the @GOP turned into a vehicle for Trump’s latest scam? He’s been an open conman since the 80s. It’s Trump University on a nationwide scale. The fact that some people haven’t accepted that they’ve been had yet is honestly just sad.
Guys, we do not have a ground game. Outsourcing that most critical function to TPUSA Action and two other untested PACs are not the actions of a campaign serious about winning. Frankly, it’s insane. Kamala and the Dems are way ahead of us and will out register, out ballot.
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Ah, yes. Another galaxy brain take from the “government-mandated shutdowns are capitalism” crowd.
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@billybinion Also, it’s a … crosswalk? Like? I actually honestly don’t get it. And yeah, the double standards end up radicalizing people, let’s not pretend that isn’t a thing.
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Presidents cannot unilaterally add an amendment to the Constitution, nor rescind one. Both Biden and Trump are awful on this, and you should defend neither of them.
News: Incoming White House official says "we are going to end birthright citizenship. the federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in United States.".
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Ugh. The worst of the worst possible VP picks if true.
Sen JD Vance departs home in Motorcade reports Forbes.
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This right here is genuine feminism. The kind that so many women around the world pay an unthinkable price for. She’s extremely brave.
In Iran, a woman who was accosted by the “morality police” for not wearing hijab removes her clothing & roams the streets in defiance. She has since been arrested by IRGC forces and forcibly disappeared. This is the brave face of true resistance.
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I need to take a moment to address some of the reactions I’m getting to this from the left. There’s a lot of, “Wow, look at these dumb conservative women finally realizing that Republican men hate them!” Unsurprisingly, a lot of it is centered around abortion. While my.
I hope the @GOP takes a step back and considers what kind of culture they’re cultivating when two women with deep and longstanding ties to the conservative movement are moved to have conversations like this in a public forum. The cruel comments about “childless women,” the
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Regarding “Republicans for Harris,” I see no reason to pretend there’s a good policy case for voting for her, and I find attempts to do so disingenuous. I’ve caught a lot of flak for saying I’m right-leaning and considering her, but I’m not obscuring my intent or goals. If I vote.
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The thing about QAnon is that it’s actually dumber than most conspiracy theories, which is saying something. Many are at least vaguely based on a grain of truth that veer into wild leaps of nonsensical logic. QAnon is literally dudes from 4chan trolling Trumpy Boomers.
New York police union boss just appeared on Fox News with a Qanon mug
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Vance and Walz were invented in a lab to be the least appealing vice presidential picks of all time.
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Respectfully, this is absurd. SCOTUS wasn’t ruling on a policy—in this case student loan forgiveness. It rightfully placed limits on the unilateral power of the executive branch. Want this law? Pass it in Congress. That alleged defenders of democracy don’t get this is troubling.
Today, the Supreme Court sided with Republican elected officials, blocking relief to over 40 million working and middle-class Americans. I believe the Court’s decision is wrong – I will not stop fighting to deliver relief to borrowers who need it the most.
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Some of y’all are like two hot takes away from calling for Congress to be abolished and replaced with a monarchy.
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It is absolutely infuriating that the @GOP has thrown away a very winnable Senate seat in Arizona by nominating an incoherent MAGA cultist rather than a competent Republican. The days of Flake and Ducey feel so distant.
NEW Arizona poll. President .Harris 44.4.Trump 41.6. Senate.Gallego (D)49.6.Lake (R)38.6. Kari Lake is toast.
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The optics in this pic—& this is far from the only example—speak to one of the many reasons there’s so little trust in institutions & public health messaging. The✨important people✨sit around unmasked, but the “disease vector” aides cover their faces. It’s a visual caste system.
I met with members of New York's Congressional Delegation to discuss our ongoing efforts against COVID - including preparing for the Omicron variant. We'll keep working to help New Yorkers recover from the pandemic, create good-paying jobs, & build our economy back better.
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I honestly kind of feel bad for whoever has to run this account.
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@charlie_savage I’m too old to know, but logic would dictate that this is true. “Woke” has been thoroughly appropriated by crusty old politicians. How could it possibly be cool now? (Origins aside.).
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@tedxlondon @n1kk1m This made up word is not inclusive, it’s nonsensical. And frankly, the entire premise is misogynistic. I’m tired of being expected to believe that erasing women is “progressive.”.
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@SwannMarcus89 If it’s the guy people have been talking about he also appears to have expressed support for Tulsi and Bernie. IMO his erratic thinking is more indicative of serious mental illness than any coherent political ideology, but people will certainly cherry pick.
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I find it bizarre that people keep attributing this behavior exclusively to Republicans. Did all of the people I live around in the deep blue environs of DC suddenly become a bunch of right-wingers? 🤔.
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It’s difficult to describe how utterly wretched RFK Jr. is. Not that I necessarily expect them to, but the Republican Senate *has* to put their foot down here. He’s one of the most deranged sociopaths in public life, and his war on childhood vaccination is unconscionable.
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I often ask myself what it will take for Republicans, particularly elected officials, to stop placating this deranged man. But I’ve been asking for 6 years now, including when I worked on Capitol Hill as a Republican staffer. The answer is clearly nothing. There’s never a bottom.
Trump told a conservative radio host today that he'd issue full pardons and a government apology to the Capitol rioters who violently attacked law enforcement to stop the democratic transfer of power.
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Remember, kids. It’s the small government conservatives who are the RINOs, not the guy who wants to work with a socialist to institute a government-mandated price control. Unless you agree with this, you are the one suffering from a derangement syndrome.
BREAKING: Senator Bernie Sanders announces he will work with Trump to cap the credit card interest rates at 10%.
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It’s fascinating that when Trump was president, the nationwide spread of a highly transmissible disease was his fault. But now that Biden is president, the nationwide spread of a highly transmissible disease is the fault of GOP governors. (No, this isn’t a defense of Trump.).
CNN's Jim Acosta on delta variant: 'Why not call it the DeSantis variant?'
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@hamill_law This is getting to a point where these people are functioning like they’re in a toxic cult. Like … this could be Scientology.
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@mindymilburn Sorry, Mindy. Even though I do have a son, I can relate to a degree due to my infertility journey. Men who say things like this about “childless women” are careless on a deep level.
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How anyone can delude themselves into believing that Trump cares about anything beyond his fragile little ego mystifies me.
Meanwhile, over on Truth Social, Donald Trump is taking a victory lap over two insufficiently loyal-to-him Republican candidates losing their elections tonight.
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Oof. I managed to lure Resistance Twitter into my mentions today, and I am deeply worried about people’s lack of very basic civic literacy. So, let’s have a brief chat about the Supreme Court. I understand that people are rattled by the end of Roe. I’m pro-choice, so I don’t.
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I have some exciting news! I'm now the Director of Media Relations at the @CatoInstitute! If you need a libertarian perspective for anything you're working on, please reach out and I'll connect you with the right people. DMs are open, and feel free to email me: cwhalen@cato.org.
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This is idiotic. If Youngkin had run on a pro-Trump agenda he would’ve lost Virginia. Please tell me the Republican Party isn’t going to continue being this institutionally stupid. It’s even dumber than Democrats thinking they can just repeat “Trump” in lieu of a policy platform.
@GlennYoungkin @WinsomeSears @JasonMiyaresVA Terry McAuliffe and Democrats tried to run against Trump in Virginia but their strategy backfired. @GlennYoungkin will receive more votes than any Virginia governor in history. President Trump continues to be a huge boost for Republicans across the country.
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@magsnichols These people are completely insane. They pretend they’re virtuous but they’re just mean, broken people. Sorry you’re dealing with this.
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It’s almost as though treating white women as a toxic monolith—the very demographic Democrats need to swing for victory next month—is a bad strategy. 🧐
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Anyone else think Josh Shapiro is secretly just the slightest bit happy today? He avoided being tarnished with this disaster and has positioned himself as a moderate who effectively represents all of his constituents, refusing to engage in insulting or denigrating them. If the.
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Call me crazy, but perhaps we should make immigration legal, make it easy for migrants to work, and let them go where they’d like to. Sounds fundamentally American to me. It’s what was on offer to my Irish and Jewish ancestors.
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@klcmurphy It’s a fantasy agenda aimed at low info voters. Prices don’t increase across the board because of “corporate greed.” It doesn’t even make sense, because it assumes that sometimes, apparently randomly, they suddenly decide not to be greedy? And here are the actual margins:.
Per NYU's latest (Jan 2024) survey of US firms, the American grocery industry (aka "Retail (Grocery and Food)") had a 1.18% net profit margin last year.
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Noticing supposedly enlightened people attacking Amy Coney Barrett for the number of kids she has, accompanied by inquiries about whether she’s a good mother. These questions are never asked of men, & if you find yourself doing it, check your misogyny, because that’s what it is.
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Buying overpriced athleisure is definitely an act of resistance against capitalism.
Lululemon is holding a workshop to "decolonize gender" and "resist capitalism".
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WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS? 🥴.
Seattle introduced a mandatory $5 fee on delivery apps to cover their driver’s living wage and sales were almost cut in half. Now the drivers can’t make rent.
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All right, time to address the RFK Jr. fans. You guys have been kind, so I don’t want to dunk too hard, BUT, it needs to be said. RFK Jr. is arguably the most malevolent person in public life. He has spent decades trading on his last name to push a dangerous anti-science campaign.
@CorieWhalen There's this incredible third option called @RobertKennedyJr check him out lol.
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Would be nice if every single cable news host shouted this from the rooftops.
"Less than .001% of those fully vaccinated have experienced a fatal breakthrough case. Less than .004% of those fully vaccinated had to be hospitalized. In other words, the vaccines work. The vaccines remain the best way to protect yourselves from this virus. Period. Full stop."
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I am regrettably forced to re-up one of my correct takes from earlier this year
John Fetterman:”Do you know what truck nuts are?". New York Times reporter: “Do I look like I know what truck nuts are?”.
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It is bizarre to me that @bariweiss, whose politics appear liberal and entirely mainstream, is absolutely enraging to so many people. It’s hard to make sense of. But the reactions to her from the authoritarian wing of the left are over the top and honestly kind of terrifying.
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Perhaps a political party aware of this fact would support laws that make it much easier for immigrants to move here. The labyrinth of bureaucracy and red tape in our immigration laws is anything but conservative. Just a thought!.
51% of small business owners say there are job openings they cannot fill. That is more than double the 48-year historical average.
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Oh, look! Another in the increasingly long line of the theme that, as it turns out, we’re all libertarians in a pandemic.
Wow: HHS issuing a regulation today allowing doctors to practice across state lines.
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Justin’s amendment to rein in spying via FISA’s section 702 was fought by Paul Ryan & Nancy Pelosi, then the reauthorization of said spying was signed into law by Trump. Justin also hasn’t been on TV since his impeachment comments. These people really need better talking points.
If Phony @justinamash were a TRUE libertarian, he wouldn’t stand for abuse of FBI power, spying, & bogus dossiers funded by political foes and fed to secret FISA courts. He is just another Grandstanding Swamp Creature auditioning for the approval of the liberal media.
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So many of the replies to this are insane. There are people who want to harshly restrict young, healthy, vaccinated people indefinitely because there’s a *chance* they could spread Covid. Failing to accept that the virus is endemic is breaking people.
It's pretty insane to put such harsh restrictions in place on a campus where **everybody is fully vaccinated**. Some people have really lost the plot.
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I know this isn’t a new phenomenon, but my mentions right now are a reminder of just how uniquely whiny Trump’s defenders are. You guys constantly accuse other people of “playing the victim,” but I’ve never seen so many snowflakes as in need of a safe space before. Nothing is.
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I’m convinced that at least 90% of people who tweet about 1984 have not, in fact, read 1984.
1984.
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J.D. Vance is Elizabeth Warren with a beard.
People have asked me why I don't care for JD Vance. Here's why: He said that Lina Khan—arguably the single most dangerous Biden official, and the intellectual leader of anti-market progressivism—"is doing a pretty good job.".
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Maybe it’s just a lack of a clear alternative at this point, but if Republicans nominate Trump again, they deserve to lose in spectacular fashion.
DeSantis sits at 24% in the latest WSJ poll. This is a red alarm for his campaign team. He has high positives but a low base. There’s no path. Something unforeseen could change the trajectory here but that’s not a strategy. This is a bad place for a campaign to be.
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Increasingly convinced that social media has actually destroyed society. And this isn’t even hyperbolic. It completely distorts people’s perception of reality.
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@Variety What’s up with expecting pop stars to have insights on politics? I can’t imagine caring either way. She writes and performs songs. What does it have to do with public policy? She’s allowed to express whatever opinions she wants, but I don’t get why people care.
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@Jose_Galvan I always found the idea that it was virtuous for an upper middle class healthy person to send a working class Instacart shopper to the store for them to be absurd. While that person shouldered their risk, they sat around writing mean tweets about anyone who left their homes.
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Perhaps all of the Elizabeth Warren stans lamenting her loss should consider that a whole lot of voters aren't enthusiastic about one person "planning" every aspect of our lives from the White House. The fewer "plans" coming from that place the better, tbh.
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@BriannaWu @EylonALevy The whole “progressives for slave labor” has been a fun narrative. 🥴.
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@BillyCuth I realize that bitching about the moderators is the thing that Trump’s defenders have landed on, but no one sane cares about his fan’s idiotic victim narrative. Trump is a deranged sociopathic con man who destroys everything he touches. His latest scam is doing what he’s done to.
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Men will say things like this and then gleefully pull the lever for the most fragile and emotional man baby to ever to occupy the oval office. I hope his daughters have better male role models than him.
@CorieWhalen I'm a happily married anonymous right winger with 6 kids, including 3 daughters and I think women are too emotional to vote.
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@BriannaWu @IsaiahLCarter Growing up in the 90s, the perception was that the Christian right were the morality police. It’s clear now that so-called progressives fill that role. It’s a cannabalistic and almost religious movement that deems any deviation a sin and thrives on excommunication. It’s not a.
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It really seems like this may not be as clear cut as a lot of people would like it to be. The kid may have just been deeply unwell. Tragic regardless, obviously.
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@justin_hart This has gotten past the point of politics. His family needs to call it and stop him from doing this to himself.
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PLEASE get vaccinated. Someone else I know, a person w/ a young family, just passed away from Covid. I know I’ve been rage tweeting about mask mandates & bad public health messaging lately, but it’s b/c I think it distracts from the only solution: vaccines in arms. Get yours now.
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