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"I May Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It". JFK Assassination, WWII, Watergate nut. Opinionated.
St Louis, MO
Joined November 2015
This is my re-worked "thread of threads" master tweet. The over-arching goal is to marry my love of history with relevance to current political hot topics. Each tweet in this thread will reference a relevant sub-thread on a specific topic. Topics follow.
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She still belongs in jail. “The passion in my heart got the best of me and I apologize again for that,” Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia said in front of a fiery crowd at a county meeting.”.
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@SenWarren You left out that Hegseth is twice a bronze star recipient, served 20 years in the military including Iraq and Afghanistan, is a veterans’ advocate, and is Ivy League educated. Characterizing him as simply a Fox News host is a despicable lie of omission. This bullshit is why.
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“The world has been shocked by the sudden death of a renowned "vaccination expert," Dr. Alfredo Victoria Moreno. Known to many from his regular appearances on "Mexico Today," Dr. Alfredo was a passionate advocate of Covid mRNA vaccines. The 42-year-old public health specialist
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@GOVUK All the work we did to save you from Nazi Germany and you became fascists anyway. 🤦♂️.
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@johnpavlovitz You all are like one more clue away from figuring it out…. …and we’re totally here for you when it happens.
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I’m old enough to remember when Rosanne Barr was banished from society for something less blunt than this.
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@WalshFreedom Tulsi Gabbard served the country’s honorably. Her only sin - in the view of the Swamp - is she is doesn’t support forever wars. Smearing her as a “Russian asset” is despicable, even by your incredibly low standards. Normally you’re so wrong it’s just funny, but this is.
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“Catherine Herridge, now a reporter for CBS News, was ordered in August to disclose the identity and motive of the source, who provided information about an FBI investigation into a Chinese scientist.”. “But Ms. Herridge, during a deposition after the order was handed down,
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@BennieGThompson You introduced a bill to strip away his Secret Service protection. Resign.
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@PeteButtigieg Idiotic analogy. It’s not about what Walz did, it’s that he lied about it. He lied about his rank. He lied about where he served. He bailed on the unit he led when he learned they were going to Iraq. I know you want to show Party loyalty & such but this is a lost cause.
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@MikeNellis Trump could have nominated the CEO of Lockheed Martin or a woke 4-star general if he cared about getting a 98-2 vote. In fact, he did that with Mattis and all that did was get us deeper into a quagmire in Afghanistan. Trump went with a disrupter because that’s what he ran on.
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@RepMikeCollins This is beyond the pale and I am a conservative telling you this. Some level of human decency should transcend politics. Do better.
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@amydiehl She wasn’t “overtalked.”. She was corrected for a “fact check” that not only violated the debate rules, it was inaccurate. JD Vance was rightfully correcting the record and Margaret Brennan behaved like a petulant child by cutting the mic. Defending such indefensible behavior.
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@GeorgeTakei If you truly believe Donald Trump is an "existential threat to democracy" then you are saying it's beyond ballots. And you are telegraphing to maniacs to take matters into their own hands. Either stop the rhetoric or just say you want Trump dead. You can't have it both ways.
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NBC just reported Trump won the home county in Minnesota of Tim Walz lol.
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@LindseyGrahamSC You all had the House, the Senate, & the Presidency in 2017. You couldn’t even find $5B for a border wall. That’s a rounding error of what you gleefully send to Ukraine. If you want to assess blame, start with a mirror.
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Arsonist buys firetruck company.
BREAKING: Pfizer to acquire Arena Pharmaceuticals, a company that specializes in treatments for cardiovascular issues and autoimmune disorders
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Your quarterly reminder that yes, they really did this…👇. They worshipped a flu shot with side effects like it was the golden calf. I will never stop period posting this, lest we dare to forget.
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@POTUS You’re Administration censored social media companies, suppressing one side of the vaccine debate. This was a blatant violation of the First Amendment & Nuremberg Code of Ethics. As result, nobody trusts you & nobody wants the mouse booster. You completely botched this. 👇
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@AP “subway rider” ?. If you ever wonder why people tuned out legacy media, just frame this post and hang it in your offices.
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@POTUS We had record unemployment, growing wages, energy independence, minimal inflation, a booming stock market, & a peaceful world. Then you & your Dem friends kneecapped the economy with Covid lockdowns + brought back the forever war hawks. We're not better off. Not even close.
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@PeterHotez @annamerlan So, go on the Rogan show and debate @RobertKennedyJr . The answer to "misinformation" isn't censorship, it's countering with good information. If you believe your positions are correct, they should be easy to defend. We look forward to the debate.
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Notice he's not mad that it's happening to us, he's mad that we're blaiming him for it.
Biden: "I'm sick of this stuff . the American people think the reason for inflation is government spending more money. Simply not true!". 🤔
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@LHSummers @Harvard Future elite lawyers “did not understand exactly what they were approving.”. That one heck of an endorsement for @Harvard . Are you all teaching critical thinking or running the world’s most expensive daycare center?.
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@AP Which “false claim”:. - Hunter’s laptop was real?.- The Hunter laptop story was censored?.- Mark Zuckerberg spent a half-billion on election infrastructure?.- Several judges overruled exiting States’ voting laws?.- Ballot harvesting was massively expanded?. Or something else?.
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@davidplouffe Ambush? . She sought out the interview. She was asked entirely predictable questions. Baier was never discourteous. She simply faced a reporter seeking questions vs seeking to protect her. It was still nothing compared to what Trump & Vance face weekly. Welcome to reality.
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@SpeakerPelosi @HouseGOP You all want agents to go after everyone making a $600 eBay transaction, to fund illegible immigrants poring through the southern border. Don’t pretend this is a righteous cause.
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@amyklobuchar No, he was appointed for a term not to exceed 10 years. He otherwise serves at the discretion of the President. Big difference. Trying to gaslight the citizenry with false information doesn’t work anymore. Seems like you all would have learned this lesson from the election,.
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@reidhoffman Was this you?. If so, kindly just take your medicine and otherwise sit this one out.
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@MittRomney @Paris2024 @AnnRomney You consider this “imaginative, inventive, and memorable” ??. Speaks volumes to who you are.
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@WajahatAli What did Matt do that violated any journalistic standards?. Or are you all just big mad because your underground operation to undermine the First Amendment was exposed?.
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@kylegriffin1 Sure. And Julie Swetnick claimed she saw Brett Kavanaugh participate in a spiked punch gang rape at a high school party. You all need more than “a woman saw” for anyone to care. We’ve seen this movie before.
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@washingtonpost It was still an immigrant. From Algeria. Who stabbed children. You all are mind-boggling in your devotion to the narrative, journalism be damned.
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@DanCrenshawTX Unscripted, rancorous politics can be healthy because it shows people who their elected representatives really are. And you certainly showed us who you are.
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@AP Same “misinformation experts” that censored accounts for saying Jussie Smollett was faking it, Russia collusion was fabricated, & Covid vaccines won’t stop spread? . You all are a bad parody account.
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@Strandjunker Yeah, so weird how 15 million Dem votes from 2020 just went “poof.”. You all are so close to figuring it out.
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@RashidaTlaib So, where does Israel fit in with “from the river to sea Palestine shall be free”…?. PS- If you’re explaining or redefining what you clearly said, you’re losing the argument.
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@GenMhayden Dumb, lazy, and entirely predictable. You should stick to military warfare because you’re lousy at social media warfare.
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@POTUS You vilified 70M+ Trump voters. You vilified the unvaccinated. You divide people by race & gender. You’re the most divisive President in my lifetime, & it’s not close. Starting leading by example.
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@BarbMcQuade You all still haven’t learned a thing from the election. Your precious *norms and institutions have become cesspools of corruption and incompetence; weaponized against political opponents. It would be insane for Donald Trump to let the FBI anywhere near his transition, after.
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@POTUS No, we’ll remember it as the year you imposed an 8% inflation tax on the country so your Party could loot the Treasury.
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@POTUS Forcing the working class to pay student loans of liberal arts majors isn’t helping anyone breathe a sigh of relief, it is subsidizing your limousine liberal donor class. Everything you do transfers wealth from blue collar workers to liberal elites. Stop pretending otherwise.
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@Tim_Walz You described rural America as “mostly rocks and cows.”. You mandated tampons in men’s restrooms. You set up a Covid snitch line report the crime of a neighbor having a dinner party. You enacted the “Transgender Trafficking Bill” that shelters minors who travel across state.
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@davidaxelrod RFK would be proud of his son. The monster you all turned the Democratic Party into bears no resemblance to the Party of JFK and RFK. It takes courage to speak out on what you know is right, when you also all know it will bring a torrent of vile criticism and explicit smear.
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@HeathMayo Trump is facing 600+ years in jail through blatant lawfare in federal and state jurisdictions. One such charge is by a prosecutor who ran for election on indicting Trump. She then hired her lover; who in turn showered her with lavish vacations on his generous salary. He claimed.
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@NewYorkStateAG You are prosecuting a case with no victims. Every loan was paid back. Every bank made money. Don’t pretend this is just fair application of the law. This is you acting on your campaign promise to “get Trump”, perverting our legal system in the process. It’s reprehensible.
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What the Left doesn’t realize was the @budlight fiasco was a tipping point. People are sick of political agendas rammed down their throat 24x7. People are sick of the state coming after their kids, claiming a 12-year old can decide to mutilate themselves. People are sick of.
Country Music Artist Riley Green Cancels Bud Light at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium Friday Night . Riley changed the lyrics from his hit song ‘I Wish Grandpas Never Died’ from Bud Light to Coors Light…and the crowd went wild!. @RileyGreenMusic
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@MohiniTangri @Harvard_Law Not exactly a great endorsement of Harvard Law students that you all join organizations without understanding their core values or being involved enough to influence public statements. A cynical person might think you all just join these orgs to pad your resumes.
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@johnpavlovitz No, Kamala ran the worst campaign imaginable:. - Rarely did unscripted interviews .- Was objectively terrible when she did do an unscripted interview .- Flip-flopped every major policy position she ever took.- Never took a cohesive position on the Middle East conflict .- Wouldn’t.
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@POTUS No, you accelerated the largest wealth transfer in history, from the working class you pretend to support to the limousine liberals you actually support. PS- While you were in the Virgin Islands people who work for a living were freezing to death back home.
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@anneapplebaum Yes, trust only “journalists” who fed us ‘Russia collusion’, assured us Covid didn’t come from a lab, browbeat us that Covid drugs were ‘safe and effective’ + would stop Covid transmission, and assured us the Hunter laptop was ‘Russia disinformation.’. Do you clowns ever listen.
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In other words @RichardGrenell will be Trump's fireman to deal with whatever may be erupting around the world. Sounds like a perfect role for Ric.
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump has announced Ric Grenell will serve as his Presidential Envoy for Special Missions. “Ric will serve in the hottest spots around the world, including Venezuela and North Korea,” Trump says. GREAT choice! 🔥. Congrats @RichardGrenell!
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@DeptofDefense @USArmy You all need should publish information relevant to national defense, not promote a social agenda.
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@POTUS You bill targeted $600 electronic transactions. That doesn’t seem like going after billionaires. You issued an order for the working class to pay off student loans of liberal arts majors. That doesn’t seem like going after billionaires. Your message + actions don’t match.
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@ProfEmilyOster @TheAtlantic I went through hell by rejecting an oversold, under-delivered drug. Kicked out of weddings, broken family relationships, vilified by POTUS.👇. And I was lucky. I wasn’t forced to choose job or drug; or watch my kids lose 2 years of education. We need a reckoning, not amnesty.
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@POTUS Your reckless spending led to runaway inflation that has the banking system on the brink. Not sure you're in any position to lecture the country about "risk factors".
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@politico “Trump getting shot at makes him Mussolini” is a new low. You all are light years beyond contempt.
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@SenSanders Except this didn’t just “fund our government.”. It did everything that the American people made clear they hated on Nov 5. And then they tried to give themselves a 40% raise. Write a better bill next time.
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This was Canada 2 weeks ago and 99% of blue checks were cool with it.
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@Tim_Walz No, she tragically died because she had an adverse reaction to an abortion pill and a hospital didn’t properly treat her. Even the lawyers in her civil case acknowledge this has nothing to do with Georgia law. Shannon Bream called you out on this. Stop lying about it.
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@Angry_Staffer Thank goodness we don’t assign unique numbers to our own citizens, and then make them send money to our government using that id. Oh wait….
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@RepJeffries Carton of eggs is $10 if you can find them. Inflation still higher than any time 2017-2020 & has robbed millions of wealth. Worst stock mareket since 2008. Crime up everywhere. Southern border is a disaster. Ukraine is an unaccounted for money pit. How about just stopping?.
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@nytimes If @RobertKennedyJr is wrong about so many important things, then why won’t anyone debate him?. You win hearts & minds with persuasion, not with censorship + smear tactics. And if so many people are misinformed, then what better way to inform them?
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@politico It was a garbage truck. Dump trucks move dirt. Someday you should visit the country you claim to cover.
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@juliaioffe Trump wins. It’s not even close. And it’s because of sniveling media personalities like you who continually insist on insulting most of the country.
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@harris_wins Kamala could have gone to the Joe Rogan podcast and reached 30M listeners with her message. Why didn’t she?.
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@RepJeffries Easy enough to fix. Put together a one or two page CR that is an actual CR that extends current expenditures until March. Then do a separate hurricane relief bill that just deals with hurricane relief. This stuff is insanely complicated because you all make it way. Just stop.
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@atrupar Can any of you all explain what a vote for Kamala is a vote FOR, without using the words “Trump”, “Hitler”, or “fascist”?. I haven’t seen it yet.
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@NBCNews “There is no evidence that foxes are dangerous to henhouses, a report by a fox institution finds.”. “The new analysis debunks widespread misinformation about the danger of foxes.”. Don’t you all ever tire of being government stenographers? You know you look ridiculous, right?.
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@POTUS We poisoned Ohio. Covid never ended. Fentanyl pours across our border . Excess mortality is persistently high. Inflation is outpacing wages. The world’s best tennis player can’t enter our country but spy balloons can. No one can define how Ukraine ends. Glad you’re happy.
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@AVindman @KamalaHarris Lol, she lit herself on fire so badly her staff cut the interview short. But do keep deluding yourself that she is not imploding.
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@joekennedy Then say it to him privately. Shamelessly smacking a family member on social media for political points is 100x more disgusting than anything ever said by @RobertKennedyJr.
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@pfizer You were busted planning for gain-of-function new viruses, to juice the vaccine market. You undermined public trust in vaccines at levels unimaginable a decade ago. @AlbertBourla should step down and you should start over. Nice ratio, btw. That should tell you a lot.
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@kylegriffin1 It’s his jacket that was sent for this occasion. If his name is misspelled that’s all the more humanizing. What is wrong with you people?.
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@kylegriffin1 Donald Trump was impeached over a phone call inquiring about now blindingly apparent Biden family corruption in Ukraine. You all cheered on lowering the impeachment bar to ridiculous levels. Frankly, @SpeakerMcCarthy has exercised incredible restraint. Enjoy the new rules.
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@POTUS People are working two jobs so they can buy eggs. Not everyone has a corvette stored next to their classified docs.
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@kylegriffin1 It was a landslide. He swept every battleground State. He won the popular vote. His coattails delivered the Senate and House. Trump also defeated the entirety of national media and entrenched government bureaucracy. This was unprecedented. You’re about to see real change like.
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@PoliticusSarah The standard for libel of any public figure is “actual malice” - i.e. it wasn’t just an “oops”, it was a knowing attempt to smear. The standard for someone as public and controversial as Donald Trump is even higher. Now imagine how bad the discovery material was for ABC to make.
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@JoeBiden If I gain 200 pounds from over-eating, I don’t brag about losing 80 pounds of it. Lose the 200 pounds then get back to us.
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@mehdirhasan How many wars began under Trump?. How many peace deals were brokered under Trump. What was the inflation rate?. How was the economy pre-Covid?. Was the southern border more or less secure?. Start there. You'll find some words.
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@Enquirer "The girl with the short skirt had it coming.". You all are truly vile, devoid of anything resembling a normal human value system. Delete your existence.
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@SecBlinken When do you plan to condemn the United States for legal persecution of the opposition leader via “politically motivated charges”…?
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@eisingerj Now do journalism on why West Point lied to you on the record. I seriously doubt it was just a clerical error given that everyone knows who Pete Hegseth is and what’s at stake. Seems like there’s a story here, albeit not the one you hoped for. If you don’t pursue this then.
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