Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatch
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Editor-in-Chief, @TheDispatch (https://t.co/ogdkK1lQ3E), LAT columnist. AEI Fellow. Host Remnant Podcast. Majordomo for Zoë and Pippa.
Washington, DC
Joined September 2009
this doesn’t surprise me. People who love Trump don’t want to see or hear anything critical about him. People who hate Trump don’t want to see anything nuanced about him. And most normal people are just exhausted by him.
The Apprentice FLOPS at box office despite Sebastian Stan's acclaimed performance as Donald Trump
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I watched my brother’s addictions take a brutal toll on my Dad. It aged him physically and spiritually. The idea that Joe Biden’s text of encouragement to his (obviously messed up) son is somehow damning or embarrassing really disgusts me.
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It should basically be impossible for Officer Goodman to pay for a beer or meal for the rest of his life. He should just have an open tab wherever he goes.
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BTW, just a reminder that the Trump we're seeing right now is perfectly consistent with the Trump some of us saw all along. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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What a stupid time to be alive.
2020 Dem says he'll ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be secretary of state if elected
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Rejecting a remote debate, Eric Trump said on @ThisWeekABC that debating your opponent, face to face, is how we've handled presidential debates for the last 200 years. FWIW.The first presidential debate was in 1960. The third Nixon Kennedy debate, also 1960, was done remotely.
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Friend: "Biden did the same thing they're accusing Trump of doing.".Me: "He really didn't, but ok let's say he did. Is what Biden did okay?".F: "No! It's outrageous!".Me: "And if Trump is guilty of doing the same thing is that outrageous?".F: ". ".
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I think there would be no more fitting end to Kevin McCarthy’s dream of becoming speaker than the “scandal” of him being exposed as privately believing the right and moral thing.
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Mike Pence could completely overturn and improve his place in history if he offered to testify and came out in favor of conviction. I mean he's not going to be president anyway. Might as well fight back. Of course, this will not happen.
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The attempt to make the Eagles event cancellation about the national anthem is just a complete act of deceitful propaganda and conservatives should have zero to do with it. If that was the issue, why schedule the event in the first place? Also: None of them kneeled. Shameful.
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Imagine how many people would starve if grocery workers had the same clout -- and attitude -- as teachers unions.
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I understand why Kemp and his supporters are pissed. But here’s the thing: If you let Trump influence your decision at all about opening up your economy you deserve to see the underside of the bus he threw you under.
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I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to shoot one of these animals for entertainment.
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You know what would be interesting? If instead of asking senior officials whether they wrote the op-ed, reporters asked them if they believed it was accurate.
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As someone who has been audited by the IRS twice, all of this "If you did nothing wrong, it's no big deal" stuff is infuriating. 1/.
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This tape of the Trump phone call is amazing. Unless you’re drunk on the Kool Aid, it’s glaringly obvious they just want to cheat. That’s it. Nothing clever. Nothing about patriotism or some higher calling. They’re just trying to cheat.
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"It was outrageous for Hillary Clinton to refer to people she disagreed with politically 'deplorable'!". Same people:. "Hooray for Trump calling people who disagree with him 'human scum!'".
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So. Trump said "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total.". This is antithetical to everything conservatives have argued for 50 years. 1/.
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All of the people on MSNBC convincing themselves that all of these VA voters — who voted for Biden a year ago! — are idiots, racists, and/or dupes is pretty wild.
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At this point it seems not entirely unreasonable to say that a vote for Trump ends up being a vote for Vance.
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Look. I’m on record rolling my eyes at a lot of “if this was so and so” stuff. But if they caught someone wanting to assassinate RBG if she were still alive or Sotomayor today because of their abortion/gun rights views, it would be the only story the media covered today.
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The real story is how the Deep State got Omarosa inside the Trump campaign and then the White House by embedding her in The Apprentice all those years ago. But MSM won’t cover it!.
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Having just heard the 5,000th Trump apologist pundit make the same argument(s), I feel like venting. So, as the say, thread: . 1/.
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If you call yourself a conservative and deny that you’d freak out if a Democratic POTUS said anything like this, pick a new label, please.
Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!.
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Just admit you committed one of the greatest Kinsley Gaffes in decades: Your office obviously released what you actually think. And now you’re scrambling to pretend something else happened. It’s dishonest and speaks to the immaturity of you, your staff and your ideas.
@JStein_WaPo There are multiple doctored GND resolutions and FAQs floating around. There was also a draft version that got uploaded + taken down. There’s also draft versions floating out there. Point is, the real one is our submitted resolution, H.Res. 109:
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Kinda feel like Biden needs to, you know, say something to the American people pretty soon. Like on camera. This is getting weird.
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I’m just trying to imagine what folks on the right would say if a liberal politician said they might back off Hobby Lobby if they changed their politics.
Florida lt. gov: We might back off Disney if they changed their politics.
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It's like the siege of Stalingrad over there.
Members also complaining to me that the House gym lacks enough towels this morning and they wonder if it’s because of the shutdown.
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This is amazing. I mean it's just a thing that happens. If a restaurant has a profit margin of $9K a month and you raise its taxes by $10K a month, do you think the owner will say "damn, we gotta lose money every month"? or do you think they'll raise prices?.
Jen Psaki: It’s “unfair and absurd” that companies would increase costs for consumers in response to us taxing them more. 😳
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Biden is leaving office dropping one lawless, norm-defying, justly impeachable un-democratic transgression after another. That’d be bad enough. But these are all precedents for the successor he thinks is a threat to democracy. It’s reckless, spiteful, and incandescently stupid.
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If you don't read books, you can say just about anything with confidence.
.@TomiLahren: "You don't just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That's not what this country is based on." @WattersWorld
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Biden: the Buck stops with me and I take full responsibility but my hands were tied by Trump and this is the Afghan military’s fault. We were prepared for this, but we were caught off guard. We’re giving the country to the Taliban but we’ll hold them accountable.
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You were literally the single most dishonest, unethical, and career obsessed asshole to the Bushes in the last 40 years. Sit out a play jackwad.
Watching today's eulogies I thought about our national reckoning. We can't rely on the consciences of those who have shown none or humility from those who refuse introspection. Forces of change must swell in the population at large to shake our republic into a more just future.
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This is something that only people who know nothing about New York City say. Well, and liars. Liars say it too.
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People dunking on the founding should appreciate that they’re taking a sledgehammer to the very soapbox they’re standing on. No founding, no free speech, no right to assemble, no due process. If you think that’s all just “white supremacy,” try protesting and carping without it.
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This would have been a great tweet on January 6, 2021.
There is no limit to what these people will do to protect their power & destroy those who threaten it, even if it means ripping our country apart & shredding public faith in the institutions that hold our republic together.
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Very sad news. This AM I found our cat Ralph in the basement crying. He couldn't move his back legs. He had a blood clot and congestive heart failure. My wife, who loved him dearly, just off a plane, had to turn round & come to the vet to say goodbye. Ralph was a good boy. RIP.
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If you’re watching it, and you don’t find the president’s rally at least a little embarrassing, you’re part of the problem.
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I haven’t changed a single position on conservative issues and principles since the days you used to kiss my ass. I like how you say *I’m* trying to stay relevant while you’re watching me on TV and tweeting about me, you throne-sniffing thug.
Just watched @JonahDispatch on @FoxNews. He has been #NeverTrump since day one. Sad to see him try and stay relevant when he used to be a “conserative”. Thanks to @realDonaldTrump America is winning again! America First!.
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My daughter complaining: “I was the only person in that whole store wearing a mask.”. Me: “What a weird coincidence, you were also the only person in that whole store I really care about and am the boss of.”.
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Nothing more awesome than drinking alone at an empty bar when everyone else is hanging out eating well with friends and family. Congrats.
Imagine being 42, child-free, and not having to pay for a babysitter so you can go to a bar on Thanksgiving. The right hates this.
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Except he’s neither an American nor a journalist.
The arrest of #JulianAssange is meant to send a message to all Americans and journalists: be quiet, behave, toe the line. Or you will pay the price.
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No double standards for this crap. Jan 6 goons who attack cops should go to jail, and so should these thugs.
Breaking: pro-Palestinian protestors have started attacking capital police. Watch as they throw an officer to the ground and begin swarming the other officers.
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At some point this country is going to experience a crisis so grave, a challenge so existential, that Jim Jordan will find it necessary to wear a jacket.
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Just worth pointing out that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, among other founders, thought this was bullshit.
Trump’s former (and future?) national security adviser Mike Flynn: “If we are going to have one nation under God which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God”.
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This isn't very complicated. India is an ally and a democracy in a vital region. New strains are likely to emerge the longer we wait. Some could be vaccine resistant and/or deadlier. Millions could die. America should send help for moral, political, and geostrategic reasons ASAP.
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Just remember: if these reports are true that means that if they can search an ex-president’s home for vital nuclear documents and signals intelligence they can do it to you too.
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If the video was of Biden shooting a bunch of MAGA types in a church, I'm sure the "lighten up, it's a video" crowd would hold the same position.
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Conservatism claims to believe in serious notions of right & wrong. We (claim to) champion moral clarity. If your first response to every misdeed of your side is to criticize the other side for condemning it. That's not principled conservatism, it's hackery. Vent over. 11/11.
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This sentence is like a snake eating its own tail.
CNN's Don Lemon: "We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them."
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I’m not normally a “Let’s get X trending” Twitter guy. But I think it would be good if we got #TaiwanIsACountry trending. Because, you know, Taiwan is a country.
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Look, maybe he has no factual reason to worry about what Mueller might find. But he’s spent a year talking like he’s stone cold guilty of something.
There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!.
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If you’re triggered by strangers wearing masks — even if you’re sure they don’t need to — to the point of saying something to them, never mind calling the authorities, you’re the problem.
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“The Nation” doesn’t pay the baseball players or the teachers. Everything that happens in America isn’t done by the “nation.” That’s kinda how freedom works.
If we are a nation that can pay baseball players hundreds of millions of dollars, don't tell me we can't afford to pay teachers the salaries they deserve.
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The claim that the founding fathers invested the Vice Presidency with unchecked unilateral power to void a national election is very funny to me. I just love the idea that all of these constitutional scholars missed this until 2020. 1/2.
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I knew this was coming, but that doesn't lessen the agony of this announcement. Charles Krauthammer is one of the most brilliant, decent, humane, impressive people I have ever had the honor to know, never mind call a friend. I am heartbroken over this.
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I long thought the sexualization of little girls in beauty pageants had become gross, and until recently there seemed to be a growing consensus about that. Now the sexualization of little boys dressed as girls is a cause of great celebration. Count me out.
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I cannot imagine why someone would vote to confirm Matt Gaetz for host at Red Lobster, never mind Attorney General of the United States.
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Welp, I got her a plane ticket. She's gonna spend several hours at Heathrow, which means I'm gonna see a thousand giant Toberlone bars on my credit card. But -- fingers crossed -- the kid is coming home.
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As the father of a 14 year old girl, this “What’s the big deal?” crap enrages me.
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A serious political party that took its role in American life and its own reputation seriously would abandon Trump before disseminating this garbage. Why wouldn't you resign rather than be part of this?.
"We will not be intimidated. We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom."—Sidney Powell
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To the folks who think Bill Gates wants to use a vaccine to implant locator chips in you: I’m really pretty sure he has no desire to know where you are or anything else about you.
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So brilliant of the Deep State to lay down the long con by embedding Cohen and Manafort in Trump World so early.
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There’s a reason it’s an unpopular opinion: It’s neither intelligent nor moral.
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The news is now out there. So, I should say something here. My beloved mom, Lucianne Goldberg, passed away yesterday. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by people – and pets! – who loved her. 1/.
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@ByronYork Because the V.P., elected on same ticket from the same party, becomes president, not the losing opponent. Because impeachment is a response not to the election but the actions of POTUS after being elected. Because impeachment doesn’t void the fact he was elected.
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The idea that only violations of criminal law are impeachable is logically, legally, morally, constitutionally, historically and factually absurd.
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It's not a photo.
powerful photo. we are fortunate to have a man of God back in the Oval Office
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The president of the United States' authority is not "total" in this or nearly anything else. If Obama ever said anything like that, talk radio conservatives would set themselves on fire.
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If there was a city council meeting at which rightwingers said anything remotely as evil, stupid, wrong, and indefensible as this every single major media outlet would run it constantly and every Republican politician would be asked to condemn it. Even if you think I’m wrong,.
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…
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Breaking: "Paul Manafort Admits 'I've Lived My Life as a Gay Man,' vows to go after NRA.".
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Hearing fewer people insisting tear gas is a chemical weapon/war crime than I did a couple weeks ago with the caravan.
French police use tear gas against protesters in central Paris
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This is so wonderfully stupid. It’s stupid from every angle. It’s stupid in every regard. It’s so pure in its stupidity it’s like the fentanyl of stupid.
Trump is the first leader in the history of the world to be attacked for improving the lives of the citizens that voted for him.
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I have political disagreements — from quibbles to more significant — with John McCain. But all of these self-described conservatives using the man’s funeral wishes to piss on his whole life just to prove their love of Trump are debasing themselves. It’s grotesque.
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Kid left for Alaska this morning, but not before she gave me my hand drawn Father’s Day card as per tradition. I might frame this one.
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Maybe don’t take hostages in the first place. But if you do take hostages, don’t hide them among civilians and then act like it wasn’t your fault civilians got killed in a rescue operation.
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He didn’t really lose $50 billion, but this is a good illustration of why the idea of taxing unrealized gains is so ludicrous.
Elon Musk has lost $50 billion this week as Tesla shares plunged
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Agree. And the obvious answer to that question is, “they obviously don’t.”.
Vance: You don't have to agree with everything Bobby Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard has ever said. You are meant to ask, do they have the qualifications and the character to do this job?
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There is something really horrible, evil even, about going back in time and reminding people of a totally public incident that merited no criticism at the time, and declare it a “scandal” that should threaten someone’s livelihood.
Can Jimmy Kimmel and Tina Fey keep their hosting gigs after blackface scandals? Should they?
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There's a lot of talk about how much the Memo was oversold by Republicans. There is not nearly enough scorn being heaped on Dems for their hyped claims that this would do irreparable and catastrophic harm to America as we know it.
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I am really struggling to think of a time when I despaired more for the country and had so much contempt not just for both parties, but the bases of both parties.
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If you’re more upset, appalled or concerned with Liz Cheney than Matt Gaetz or Marjorie Taylor Greene maybe you should get up from the table and splash some water on your face.
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It never goes away:. MAGA: “Trump just did the same thing that Biden/Hillary did!”. Me: “Do you think what Biden/Hillary did was wrong?”. MAGA: “Yes! Lock her up!/Impeach Biden!”. Me: “So if Trump did the same thing what should happen to him?. MAGA: “…. …. Shut up, RINO.”.
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So, having read and listened to the more serious arguments for “defunding” (but not really defunding) the police, I think the term a lot of these folks should use is “Reinvent” the police.
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Massive landslide = 44th largest Electoral College victory and like the 6th smallest popular vote margin of victory in history?.
President Trump won in a massive landslide. But somehow, magically, senate seats in swing states went blue in WI, MI, AZ, NV
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So Biden basically admitted his rent moratorium was unconstitutional. But — again, by his own admission — he shopped for some lawyers who’d say it isn’t. This is a violation of the President’s oath of office. Constitutional norms aren’t just for the other team.
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Uber tells me my driver is known for “great conversations.” This fills me with great dread.
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NBC’s “license” is the Constitution.
With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!.
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@elonmusk @mattyglesias If Twitter were throttled in its entirety perhaps Turkish voters would better understand the authoritarian tendencies of their government and the costs it’s imposing on the nation as a whole. Throttling the opposition to that govt on election eve doesn’t seem optimal imho.
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I’m open to correction, but I’m pretty sure that literally every single one of the founding fathers thought the founding had flaws in one way or another. The Constitution was full of compromises. The articles of confederation were a hot mess. Be a grown up.
If we teach that the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. That's really dangerous. It strikes at the very foundations of our country.
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I’ve known Tucker for 30+ years. For most of that time, if I told him he’d become this guy one day, he’d have laughed, cursed me out, or punched me. This is just sad. It’s pathetic whether he’s doing it sincerely or as a grift.
Tucker Carlson just hosted a Nazi apologist to explain why Hitler wasn't so evil and how Winston Churchill was the real “bad guy”. This is a reminder that Tucker Carlson got a major speaking slot at the Republican Convention and speaks regularly with Donald Trump. Vote
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I shudder to think how people with Downs Syndrome would react if they saw all the people on this site talking about how the world would be better without their kind. It's pretty gross, wherever you come down on abortion.
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Lara Trump has said three times during an interview on @foxnews just now that these emails/texts show Biden was making deals **while** Vice President. The emails and texts are from 2017. Joe Biden was not Vice President in 2017. You could look it up.
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I find the debate over the meaning of “from the river to the sea” to be exhausting. I’m sure some people mean it as a call for a peaceful multiethnic state or whatever. Fine. But they all know that isn’t what Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and literally millions of others mean by it.
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