Jay Carney
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Global Head of Policy & Comms @Airbnb . Former SVP @Amazon , WH press-sec to @BarackObama , comms dir to VP Biden (now @POTUS !). Eternal @_GuidedByVoices fan.
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Good time to recall that in the previous administration, we NEVER boasted about the stock market -- even though the Dow more than doubled on Obama's watch -- because we knew two things: 1) the stock market is not the economy; and 2) if you claim the rise, you own the fall.
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5 years ago today was my worst day at the White House. I saw my normally stoic boss break down. I lost my composure at the briefing. As a parent, I could not comprehend the horror of
#SandyHook
. I think of those innocent children, and their brave teachers, all the time.
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Wrong. The President I worked for never told me to lie. Ever. And I doubt Pres. Bush ever told
@AriFleischer
to lie. Today was not normal.
This is called a statement you're told to make by the President. And you know the President is watching.
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I once had to tell Chinese officials that Pres. Obama would not show up for the press avail unless there would be a Q&A. They backed down.
China isn’t supposed to have a say about press access. Previous press secs used to fight with Chinese counterparts for press access when in China. Witnessed personally.
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Actually, after he clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist in 2001, McGurk was appointed by George W. Bush to be special assistant to the president and senior director at the NSC for Iraq & Afghanistan. He served under both Bush and Obama. Like Bob Gates.
Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!
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You mean to tell me that all those years Paul Ryan was lecturing us in the Obama White House about the imperative of fiscal responsibility, he wasn’t on the level? And that reporters who wrote puff pieces about Ryan as a wonky budget hawk were all duped? Oh, my.
New (and predictable): Federal budget deficit ballooned in first four months of 2019, up 77% from a year ago as tax revenue plummeted and government spending went up. Treasury Dept figures show deficit hitting $310 billion, up from $176 billion.
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Six years ago today I gave the most difficult briefing of my time as press secretary. The horror of
#SandyHook
was unimaginable. We have done far too little in response. Remember the children and adults who died that day, and their families who still suffer. And then act.
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Dear Member of Congress: If you say you can't vote for the CR because you oppose deficit spending but six weeks ago voted yes to adding $1.4 trillion to the debt, you're a Fiscal Fraud.
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This is from George W. Bush's 2004 campaign manager: country over party.
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I wonder if folks on Twitter who respond to facts and ideas they don’t like with ad hominem vitriol ever pause to wonder why they’re not very good at winning people over to their point of view.
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We're opening 100K new roles, and raising wages, so we can continue getting essential items to customers during these stressful times. We welcome anyone who's been laid off or furloughed to consider joining us until their old jobs become available again.
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The Chinese try this every time. It’s a test of will and principle. Letting them dictate press access is an embarrassing capitulation.
Asked why President Trump didn’t take questions from reporters today, Sarah Sanders said, “It was at the Chinese insistence there were no questions today.”
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I'm heartened to see the surge in support for my former boss,
@JoeBiden
, in the wake of his massive SC primary win. As vice president and senator, Biden always sought to do what was best--for the country and for average Americans. And he was, and is, decent to his core.
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Whatever your affiliation, if you’re engaged in efforts to prevent any American citizens from voting, you are not a patriot. You are un-American. Period.
History won’t look kindly on the political party that is trying to keep Americans — usually dark-skinned Americans — from voting.
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John - please talk about this on
@FoxNews
, which has consistently promoted the president’s “enemy of the people” attacks on the independent press.
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Hope and history:
The youngest Black woman to ever serve in Congress, Rep, Lauren Underwood, and civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis sat down to learn from one another, and pass the torch of Black leadership
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Yep, I support my former boss,
@JoeBiden
, a profoundly decent man who has dedicated his life to public service—and to getting concrete things done for hard-working Americans, instead of grandstanding. My condolences on a tough night for the anti-Obama micro-faction.
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On this great day,
@BarackObama
became the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to be elected twice with more than 50% of the vote.
Five years ago today, Pres. Barack Obama was elected to a second term as President of the United States.
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This is the
@JoeBiden
I know and worked for. He has suffered terrible personal losses. And he has turned those searing experiences into a deep well of strength and empathy that he offers to others to tap.
Vice President
@JoeBiden
is someone who goes the extra mile.
When I told him about a friend who lost her husband, he called her & said she could call him whenever it was hard because he understood loss in the family.
That's the empathy he has for people, & that's what we need.
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If you can’t compete with lower prices and better services, then secretly fund phony “grassroots” attack campaigns.
#Ugly
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Huge congrats to the incomparable
@SpeakerPelosi
on this historic day. When I worked in the WH for
@BarackObama
, no leader on Capitol Hill was more principled or more effective. When big things needed doing, Nancy Pelosi got them done. And will again.
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Two former White House aides, from two different administrations, at the DNC in Philly.
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@SenSanders
, I’m confused. Thought you wanted us to protect our workers? Mr. Smalls purposely violated social distancing rules, repeatedly, & was put on Paid 14-day quarantine for COVID exposure. 3/30 he returned to the site. Knowingly putting our team at risk is unacceptable.
Amazon's warehouse workers protested because people are getting sick on the job.
Their demands were not radical: a safer workplace, protective gear and paid sick leave.
Amazon’s response? Retaliate by firing a worker who helped organize the walk-out. That is absolutely immoral.
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Thank you,
@JohnJHarwood
. For a majority of the country, facts still matter.
Obama inherited trillion-dollar deficit that was 10% of economy the day he walked into WH. the day he walked out, it had fallen by two-thirds
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Not in public, not in private.
In 8 years, Obama never once used this kind of language to describe one of his employees, past or present. Nothing even close to this phrase.
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Not sure why you decided to be snide. America is a lot of different places, & a lot of different people. It’s hunters, and it’s people who’ve never seen a gun. I never once demonized gun owners-that’s your dismissive way of trying to end a debate you don’t seem to want to have.
Congrats for having a friend who hunts. Welcome to America. When you guys stop demonizing gun owners, we’ll stop clinging to our guns and religion.
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No excuse. Obama inherited Putin's aggression, NoKo missiles, failure in Af-Pak & Iraq, US in retreat AND, um, global economic collapse.
Trump is bad. But he inherited a world of N Korean missiles, Putin's aggression, disaster in Syria, & the US in retreat from...Barack Obama.
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@JohnJHarwood
@AriFleischer
Not an experience I had, but in your scenario the
@PressSec
should decline.
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Er, in case you're wondering, I was Vice President
@JoeBiden
's comms director for the first two years of
@BarackObama
's presidency, before I served as WH press sec. And I generally support candidates who believe we need to bring people together, not divide them.
In case you were wondering, Amazon executive (and former Obama spokesman)
@JayCarney
is a backer of Pete Buttigieg.
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Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 4-star Gen. Marty Dempsey (ret):
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You never let us forget why we were there, or how many people were counting on us to work as hard as we could - for them. Thank you, sir.
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1/2 With all due respect, Senator
@BernieSanders
, you’re wrong on this. We treat our employees with dignity and respect. We offer a $15 min wage, health care from day one, and a safe, inclusive workplace.
Amazon workers in Alabama are sick and tired of being treated like robots. They are standing up and fighting back, and I am proud to support them.
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Hey
@AriFleischer
, this lament might be more credible if you didn’t draw a paycheck from the “news” outlet that gleefully propagated the lie that the last president wasn’t American. Real reporters aren’t the problem.
A majority of Americans say they can’t name a neutral news source. When will reporters realize they have a credibility problem w their readers and viewers? The press knows they have problems, but they’re not capable of change.
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2/2 Once again, we invite you to take a tour so you can see for yourself. And since there are 40m Americans earning less than Amazon’s starting wage, we ask you and your colleagues to please raise the federal minimum to $15 as well.
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Obama’s tan suit was a huge scandal. Lots of finger-pointing and leaking. Staff had to lawyer up.
@FoxNews
was all over us. It’s amazing we escaped a special counsel. Must have been all the crazy libs in the FBI who saved us.
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AND, after those first two years,
@BarackObama
knew he had to keep working, every day, to do as much as he could to help the American people. He reminded us all the time why we were there. He never stopped, for 8 years. -
#ThanksObama
.
In his first two years, Trump’s predecessor passed a trillion dollar stimulus, rescued the global economy and the auto industry, and passed Obamacare, Wall Street reform, the new START treaty, repealed don’t ask don’t tell and brought home tens of thousands of troops.
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A 3.7% unemployment rate is great news indeed. How did we get there? FACT: From a high of 10% after the Great Recession, the rate fell under
@BarackObama
to 4.7%, a drop of 5.3 points. Since Jan. 2017, the rate has fallen from 4.7-3.7%, a drop of 1 point. FACT.
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Winner of the “How Low Will I Sink to Re-up My Fox News Contract Award”!
Today is the day the shoe moved to the other foot. This is a big deal. For two years, the media breathlessly covered, and acquiesced to, allegations against Trump, no matter how absurd. Now the allegations are against the Obama Admin. Why do I think the coverage wil be different?
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In a classic guilt-by-insinuation hit job in today's
@nytimes
,
@matthewstoller
questions
@KamalaHarris
's integrity by pointing out that among her advisers and supporters are some smart, capable people - including her brother-in-law Tony West - who have either created or worked
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Should be incorporated into the oath of office: “I solemnly swear I will not do stupid stuff.”
Obama’s cerebral style looks better with every passing day. Especially the foreign policy axiom “don’t do stupid stuff.”
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Also FACT: Avg monthly job creation in
@BarackObama
's last 18 months: 206,000. Avg monthly job creation since Jan. 2017: 190,200.
A 3.7% unemployment rate is great news indeed. How did we get there? FACT: From a high of 10% after the Great Recession, the rate fell under
@BarackObama
to 4.7%, a drop of 5.3 points. Since Jan. 2017, the rate has fallen from 4.7-3.7%, a drop of 1 point. FACT.
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Seven years in the making...
Interesting thing about the AHCA debate: literally no one seems to believe it is good policy that will help ppl & be popular.
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For the record,
@RonaldKlain
is one of the smartest, most capable people working in Washington. That was true from 2009-2016, when he served in various capacities in the Obama-Biden administration. And I'd say it's even more true today.
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So happy to see my former OVP colleague, Elizabeth Alexander (
@ealexander332
), will be First Lady
@DrBiden
's comms director. Elizabeth is a first-rate communicator -- wise, funny and Texas tough.
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Would have been true in Bush41 and Bush43 administrations as well.
If during the Clinton or Obama Administrations there had been a statement from
@POTUS
or anyone senior official in the morning before the Employment Report it would have been a major scandal—with all sorts of investigations following on.
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This has to be self-parody.
The Bill of Rights isn't a list of rights which government grants, it's a list of rights which are granted by our Creator which government cannot take away.
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I should have said, “I think of those children and their teachers often - but not often enough.” None of us do. Instead we become inured to the horror, and to the abject failure of Congress to do anything, anything at all, in response.
#SandyHook
.
5 years ago today was my worst day at the White House. I saw my normally stoic boss break down. I lost my composure at the briefing. As a parent, I could not comprehend the horror of
#SandyHook
. I think of those innocent children, and their brave teachers, all the time.
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Leadership matters.
@barackobama
led with high integrity, and he imparted that to all of us. These 14 alumni will bring the same high integrity to Congress. So honored to be helping these incredible candidates as they seek to serve their constituents, and the country!
Great to headline Seattle Obama alumni event with
@JayCarney
to raise funds for our 14 former colleagues running for Congress. They’re going to help flip the House and take back our country.
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I guess that statement is no longer operative.
FLASHBACK:
@seanspicer
in Dec. says Trump WH won't ban specific media outlets. "That's what makes a democracy a democracy vs a dictatorship"
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Thank you to 2 great bosses, each decent and patriotic to his core. Working for and with you was an incomparable honor. God bless you both.
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I am so proud of my former boss,
@POTUS
Joe Biden. That speech was true to who he is. He knows that unity Is an elusive goal, even a "foolish fantasy" to some, but he deeply believes -- and has always believed -- that we have to reach for it. And he will.
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Actually, his "pay grade" is the highest possible at WH - same as for chief of staff, national security and other senior personnel.
Sean says he hasn't personally been shown the evidence undergirding Trump's accusation that Obama wiretapped him. "It's above my pay grade."
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Someone tell
@FoxNews
that not one of these occurred while
@BarackObama
was president.
Biggest one-day point drops in Dow history
Feb 5, 2018: 1,175.21
Sep 29, 2008: 777.68
Oct 15, 2008: 733.08
Sep 17, 2001: 684.81
Dec 1, 2008: 679.95
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My old boss,
@POTUS
Joe Biden, knows and understands grief. And his ability to convey genuine empathy isn't a political skill; it is the essence of who he is as both a leader and a human being.
500,000 lives lost to COVID-19. It’s an unfathomable number, but each one represents a family that will never again be whole. To those who have lost loved ones: I know no words can numb the pain, but I hope you find some solace in knowing the nation grieves with you.
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Happy Birthday to
@JoeBiden
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Belated Happy Birthday to
@BarackObama
, a great boss and friend who led by example and kept us all focused on doing the best we could for our country and the world.
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Nice hat, sir! Oh -- for the fake faithful and other dimwits out there, that's a Santa hat, an item generally associated with Christmas, a holiday celebrating the birth of Christ. As
@BarackObama
said countless times while president, in public: Merry Christmas!
There's no better time than the holiday season to reach out and give back to our communities. Great to hear from young people at the Boys & Girls Club in DC today.
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Missing fact: from high of 10%, unemployment has fallen to 4.1%. All but .5% of that drop occurred 2009-2016.
#ThanksObama
.
Friday fun fact: Unemployment down to 4.1%. Lowest since December 2000
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With great respect, Senator
@ewarren
, this isn’t correct about Amazon’s tax payments. But changing the law is certainly more productive than faulting companies for following it-and far better than threatening to break up American companies so they can't criticize elected leaders.
Some of the biggest, most profitable corporations in America (I’m looking at you, Amazon) have paid $0 in federal corporate income taxes. I’ve pushed for a tax on the book profits of these giant corporations, and the Biden-Harris
#AmericanJobsPlan
includes a version of this.
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Excited to announce the
#Amazon15
minimum wage. If others join us & Congress raises the federal minimum wage, we could have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of Americans
The new Amazon $15 minimum wage will benefit more than 350k FT, PT, temp., & seasonal employees. We encourage other large employers to join us in raising starting pay &
@amazon_policy
will advocate for Congress to raise the fed. min. wage
#Amazon15
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Continued job creation in 2017 is a very good thing. But if you’re covering or commenting on it, please note that in every year from 2011-2016, job creation was higher than in 2017.
#ThanksObama
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What a disgrace for the
@mlb
. The entire ump crew is a bunch of overweight, diabetic, half-blind geriatrics. Bring in the machines!!
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Yes, it does!!
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While
@BarackObama
and others would on occasion mention the stock market’s revival as part of a broad observation about America’s recovery from the Great Recession - esp during the 2012 re-elect - we didn’t boast about daily or weekly spikes, for the aforementioned reasons.
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Joe Biden has somehow channeled the pain of his terrible losses into a capacity for consoling others that is truly remarkable. I've seen him do it privately many times.
@JoeBiden
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@RowlandRIVALS
@JayTThomas17
Shouldn’t have said “never.” As noted in ensuing tweets, we talked very little about the markets in our first 3 years compared to now - and when we did, almost always in the context of its rise being one of many signs of recovery from the Great Recession.
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I’m lucky to know
@AprilDRyan
. And I was lucky to survive her questions for 3 1/2 years! Can’t wait to read her book.
#Respect
Must buy. It is fire! Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
#Amazon
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When I was a reporter, I once heard
@newtgingrich
refer to himself, in all sincerity, as a “world historical transformational figure.” It was a few months before he was forced out as speaker of the House.
#PotMeetKettle
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Sorry, Senator, that’s
@erin_pelton
for the win. Maybe next time ask your staff for a little research before tweeting?
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The Recovery Act did as much good per dollar spent as any legislation in a generation. And these former colleagues made it work. Thank you! (And
#ThanksObama
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Congratulations,
@SpeakerPelosi
, on an historic and brilliant run. By far the most effective House Speaker of the past 35 years, Nancy ensured passage of multiple era-defining bills that have improved lives and expanded our rights, all while successfully defending our democracy.
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After nearly 3 1/2 years tweeting from
@PressSec
, I'm venturing out on my own. Thanks for following! - jc
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Only presidents since 1980 to reduce deficits are Clinton & Obama. Did they gain politically?
But that creates a conflict, b/c Presidents stand to gain politically from debt reduction. Becomes like a foreign contribution.
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Just sayin’.....
Americans rank Barack Obama as best president of their lifetimes: Poll Index
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The US women's national hockey team has more than earned the respect it demands.
#BeBoldForChange
US WNT will not play in 2017 World Championship due to stalled negotiations over fair wages and support from USA Hockey
#BeBoldForChange
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"Cheeseburger Royale"
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Disaster to one, lifeline to millions.
Trump attacks ObamaCare as a "disaster" as enrollment reaches record numbers
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Obamacare More Popular Than Ever, Now That It May Be Repealed
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There is a direct line between Rush Limbaugh and January 6th -- and it runs through Fox News.
Whether you loved him or hated him-and there are very few people in between-Rush Limbaugh was indisputably a force of historic proportions.
Over the past three decades,he did as much to polarize our politics as anyone and laid the groundwork for Trump and Trumpism.
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What’s changed, I wonder?
Analysis: The U.S. government is set to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year, an 84 percent jump from last year
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Proof has been in for a long time. Since 1980, here are the presidents under whom the federal deficit has increased: Ronald Reagan, George Bush, George W. Bush. And here the presidents under whom the federal deficit has decreased: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama.
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Love this!
So proud of my daughter for coming up with the Raise Your Hand patch & pledge to encourage
@GirlScouts
to raise their hands in class
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More than 42% of all working Americans earn less than the $15/hour Amazon pays entry-level fulfillment center employees. And all our employees get top-tier benefits. I’d urge
@AOC
to focus on raising the federal minimum wage instead of making stuff up about Amazon.
.
@AOC
is just wrong. Amazon is a leader on pay at $15 min wage + full benefits from day one. We also lobby to raise federal min wage.
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In memoriam:
I signed up to fight Nazis 73 years ago and I'll do it again if I have to.
Hatred, bigotry, & fascism should have no place in this country.
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Exactly. The unctuous Wayne LaPierre’s success - and, no doubt, his bonus - is tied directly to gun sales - specifically to ensuring the failure of legislation limiting gun sales and the success of legislation increasing gun sales. That’s his job. Period.
We talk a lot about who the NRA funds but not enough about who funds the NRA. They are a lobbying group for gun manufacturers and therefore push for positions that lead to more guns being bought in this country.
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Fair and balanced
Fox News is currently bashing the Statue of Liberty. This isn't hyperbole. They are literally bashing it.
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Twelve citizens did their duty today, and in doing so they proved that justice can be done in the United States - for everyone.
#GeorgeFloyd
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1) With
#AHCA
dead, both parties can now come together around market-based healthcare reform that greatly expands coverage & reduces costs.
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Missing someone desperately but don’t know how to express it? (From Seattle’s own )
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