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Scientist, husband, and father of two, pro-reason and anti-ignorance

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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
The Grand Unified Theory of Republican politics is the cynical calculus that they can convince the majority that their mere inconvenience is more important than the abject suffering of a minority. You see it across every issue, economic and social. 1/
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Harris boosting turnout among apolitical young women (Call Her Daddy), supercharging suburban women (The View), and showing some personality for edgy middle-aged men (Howard Stern) is a brilliant start to her endgame strategy.
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Sorry, we are not going to be held hostage by the idea that only Democrats are responsible for "unity" while Republicans can freely troll and incite violence without penalty.
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4 years
@AstorAaron @Acyn Dear God, Please let the outcome of all of these shenanigans be President Pelosi, even for a day. That will teach them.
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2 years
@JunkScience Um, this very clearly shows a consistent increasing trend over 30 years.
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1 year
If Joe Biden's steadfast support of Ukraine leads to the internal collapse of the Putin regime, he should go down as the most successful president of the last 70 years.
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1 year
BREAKING: Wagner Group chief Prigozhin says his forces have crossed into Russia
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The "cringe" Boomer wine grandma who votes blue no matter who has done more to advance progressive causes than any activist over the last 40 years. Emulate her, not them.
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@AngelaBelcamino @JoeBiden If you're vaccinated, who cares?
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2 years
"If Democrats truly care about democracy, they'll do the responsible thing and lose to moderate Republicans" - NYT, probably
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@jeffzeleny The previous president refused to unveil a presidential portrait for his predecessor because he was a Black guy in a different party, but now you're concerned about tradition?
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@ReportsDaNews @BarneyRCN Good. The whole point of the Second Amendment was to have guns available and at the ready in case we need to revolt against a tyrannical government. The intent of the Second Amendment was not to have everyone packing all the time like it's a fucking Western.
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3 years
Republicans on Ukraine
Tweet media one
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4 years
@tedcruz The issue is not with her character, who kicked ass. The issue is with the actor, who expressed horrific views that her employer does not want to be associated with.
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"All Biden had to do was [blank] and he could have earned my vote." No he didn't. There always would have been some other excuse. That this is so transparent is why we're done catering to you.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
@NateSilver538 @NickRiccardi Stop overthinking this. Conservatives taunt "if you get a loan you should pay it back." No qualifiers, no caveats. Many of them got loans and didn't pay it back. It's that simple.
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@benshapiro Why are you people so defensive about the president calling out domestic extremism? Surely you're not on the side of the extremists, right?
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If you are a single issue abortion rights voter, you should vote for Biden. If you are a single issue climate voter, you should vote for Biden. If you are a single issue Palestine voter, you should vote for Biden. 1/
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Michael Rosenberg
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@GovAbbott How does lifting the mask mandate help the economy?
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@BillKristol Absolutely fucking not. Biden at 79 is not putting a Republican on the doorstep of the presidency.
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@RonBrownstein Best economic growth and lowest unemployment in decades and 3/4 of people think everything is terrible. Unfathomable triumph of media negativism.
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Kind of a weird moment in the COVID discourse where the biggest ongoing debate is entirely within left-leaning circles, between those who think vaccinated people should continue to act like it's March 2020, and those who don't.
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@maggieNYT It is literally the press who decides what people hear about. Have some self-awareness. And some shame.
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I see now that gas prices are low again we've moved onto eggs as the Only Consumer Product That Matters(tm). Totally good faith commentary.
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@dennismhogan Big time "poll taxes weren't racist, anyone could vote as long as they could pay" energy.
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This is the surest sign yet that Democrats are on track for a strong performance in NY03.
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Nate Cohn
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It is my duty to tell you, yet again, that the NY-3 special election result will not tell us anything about the general election
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@Wertwhile "everything I don't like is communism and the more I don't like it, the more communist it is"
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@DrLauraGrimes We'll soon see what the fascists really mean by "parents' rights."
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
Joe Biden is good, actually, not "the lesser of two evils." But the other guy is in fact really, really evil.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@kasie This is a stunningly bad take. Regurgitating Republican talking points to balance Democratic successes does not make you an impartial journalist.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@sahilkapur Ridiculously low interest rates are why we don't care about debt and aren't worried about inflation. Also, the thing will be paid for by taxing the rich and mega-corporations, not by buffing the money supply. Ergo, no problem. OK, you can support the bill now.
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@ninaturner This is actually a great opportunity for you, a leftist, to correctly attack corporate greed and the inadequacy of the free market, but instead you take up a Bernie Bro vendetta against now-government official Pete Buttigieg for having the audacity to...beat Bernie in a primary.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@AC_John123 Go away, bot
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Michael Rosenberg
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@nytopinion Jesus, enough of this shit already.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@nytimes How the fuck many jobs were there, period, before 1939? This needed a fact check? Jesus.
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@rasmansa My family earns over 200K (but not close to 400K). We own a Prius and an Accord. We've never vacationed in Europe. But *please* tax me more so that the less fortunate have a chance at a better life. The extra funding is better spent on others. I don't need it.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@WSJ @WSJopinion "It's Joe Biden's fault that Republicans refuse to get vaccinated." - WSJ
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@BNONews White people are being radicalized by right-wing ideology and this is the result.
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@Sen_JoeManchin @POTUS Now do the reconciliation bill by rolling back the tax cuts for the rich.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
You don't get to poke and prod and test the boundaries of democracy and then pull back and say "just kidding, can I get a hug?"
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@ProofofBurden The whole point is to get the oligarchs -- who have zero interest in Putin's war of conquest and glory and only care about money -- to turn against him.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@NateSilver538 Imagine being triggered by someone having a different risk tolerance than you do. JFC.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@MarcSallinger I'm pretty ambivalent about masks for young kids who generally aren't at high risk, but using your kid as a prop like this is just disgusting. What atrocious parents.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@marianne_levine These are the stakes, folks. Republicans in control of the Senate will never permit another Democratic president to name a SCOTUS Justice.
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Michael Rosenberg
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Hyper-online centrists are upset about the Walz pick because they wanted to symbolically shun the left. Actual moderate swing voters will see a normie football coach, National Guard veteran, plainspoken school lunch advocate.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@bgmasters Where were the Republican votes for those things when they were in the bill?
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@GOPLeader Republicans pushed through a 2 trillion dollar tax cut for the rich that wasn't paid for at all.
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3 years
@likaluca Given the nature of Elon Musk's online followers, I would have been shocked by anything else.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
The Ohio train issue is the perfect microcosm for everything wrong with our political discourse and the clearest example yet of how being a mainstream, normie Democrat means you're effectively playing this game on Legendary difficulty setting. 1/
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"Democrats are too polite and passive and need to start playing hardball." "No not like that!"
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@NewDay @JoanBiskupic Funny how all the "investigate the liberal clerks!" chatter had quieted down...
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@RyanGirdusky Jesus this is pathetic.
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@RadioFreeTom Other than showing she can out-tough Trump, she should also turn to the camera and say "do you want to listen to another 4 years of this shit?"
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Michael Rosenberg
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@GinoFanelli For everyone decrying "cancel culture" -- why should I permit someone like this to exist around my family?
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Michael Rosenberg
4 years
@sahilkapur You can count on one hand the number of Missourians who have read the Pennsylvania state constitution.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@jsdpharmd As a fellow Millennial (34), I'll tell her that this is not an every 2 years or every 4 years sort of fight where you win and then polish your trophy. It is constant. Get back in the game, buttercup.
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@megynkelly Yes, the leak is the problem. Not taking away women's rights.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@SenToomey You voted against care for veterans. Period. There's no explaining this.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
@ByronYork "The gallows at the Capitol wasn't that bad" is one hell of a take.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@PhilipRucker Where are the concern trolling articles asking if Youngkin is governing too far to the right and alienating moderates? Or do we only get those when Democrats win?
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Michael Rosenberg
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@kirk_bado That's a funny way of saying "we alienated the voters in this district".
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Michael Rosenberg
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@sahilkapur @ortegachili The future Republicans want: rich people cheating on their taxes and the rest of us footing the bill.
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@JonahFurman He does know that Republicans wanted to give them even less, right?
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Michael Rosenberg
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@NickAdamsinUSA Buying Twitter is not like walking into Costco looking for a TV. If the seller isn't interested, there's no deal. That's how freedom works.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@tomwatson @Jeffdc5 And, worse, their response to this was endless diner stories, doubling down on bothsidesism, and horserace reporting motivated by fear of "liberal bias" accusations, which only made the problem worse.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@MarlowNYC Don Jr. absolutely resents Hunter Biden for having a father who loves him unconditionally. This family could keep psychology researchers busy for decades.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@MarcGoldwein Don't care Don't care Negligible Largely false Speculation Speculation
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@baseballcrank "Herschel Walker is a hypocrite and abuser, but Warnock wants women to have rights, so that's also bad"
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Michael Rosenberg
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@JStein_WaPo Whoops, guess it wasn't unemployment benefits keeping people out of the workforce. Need vaccine mandates and livable wages.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@man_respecter Abortion rights are strongly preserved in Democrat-led states. Why do you think that is?
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
Every Democrat should be Katie Porter. Smart as hell, eyes on the prize, team player, smart messaging that regular people can connect with, no performative BS.
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Rep. Katie Porter
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Passing the Build Back Better budget in tandem with the bipartisan infrastructure bill is mutually assured success. Together, these bills invest in what we need for a strong, stable, globally competitive economy: roads, bridges, climate, child care, health care, and education.
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@Redistrict Explains the surprising result of NY almost not losing a single seat when it was expected to potentially lose 2. Good news is this makes it more likely to be able to nix an upstate GOP seat.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@NickWTOP @WTOP "I want schools to have local control" predictably becomes "the state can tell local schools what to do". Who actually fell for this stuff?
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Michael Rosenberg
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@samstein My God, even here, you can't help but "bothsides" the story. How hard is "Republicans refuse to allow Democrats to appoint judges"?
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@kaitlancollins @Jeffdc5 I mean, with the Democratic Senate he won't need to, but lol
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Michael Rosenberg
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95% of the people claiming to vote Republican because of "crime" or "inflation" haven't had their quality of life affected by either and I'm sick of having to pretend otherwise.
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@AndrewDesiderio Why was this known for weeks but only reported today? Why do only Republicans get this treatment?
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@ExileGrimm They genuinely believed that winning the Supreme Court gave them license to go full on "brood mares for the state" without consequence.
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There are way more people like this than the media will have you believe.
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Voter: I think Biden is doing a better job than people give him credit for. He has got a lot done on infrastructure. I believe climate change is real. He has done something on it, which almost nobody else has.
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Michael Rosenberg
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Let's be honest, a lot of opposition to Joe Biden is just the "liking things is uncool" attitude that most of us outgrew in middle school.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
These "I can't believe it's Biden vs. Trump again" takes are ridiculous. Joe Biden is the sitting president! It would be unprecedented for him *not* to seek reelection. What's unprecedented is a major party tethering themselves to a loser who tried to end democracy in America.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@Nate_Cohn Assuming the rest of this plays out as expected, you and the Needle can take a GD bow. Extraordinary.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@joncoopertweets @KyivIndependent If this happens without a single NATO bullet being fired, it would be the most stunning diplomatic success in the last 30 years, maybe longer.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@mattyglesias @TaylorLorenz Counterpoint: we should have more "bad people are bad" articles, and the media's steadfast refusal to do this and insistence instead on finessing and bothsidesing the story is how we got Trump and how he is likely to come back.
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@adamdavidson It's a results oriented view of balance where they think what's "fair" is for an equally positive or negative view of both sides, instead of reporting the truth and letting the connotation fall where it may.
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@NateSilver538 "Bothsidesism was bad in 2015, but is appropriate now" is quite possibly the worst imaginable take on the last 7 years. Literally can't fathom anything worse.
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@Dylan_Housman Sounds like you don't care about the administration of actual medical care and only about the aesthetics of how it's dispensed.
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@aterkel @JNicholsonInDC How many times are you going to blame Democrats for Republicans being unable and unwilling to do the right thing?
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@jamieson Biden bailed out unions. Trump stuffed workers his whole life.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@whstancil The media has spent 9 years telling people it's OK to vote for Trump based on nothing but their feelings ("who are we elite liberals to tell them what to do?"), but that Democrats have to earn their trust and their vote in the face of fabricated concerns.
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"Inflation happened everywhere and we weathered it better than anyone" is a legitimately good story even if the average rube doesn't care.
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Andrew Bates
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“The once-in-a-generation inflation shock sparked by the coronavirus pandemic continues to dog much of the world, but not all of it. While Europe continues to struggle, the US—which powered through the worst of the crisis with massive rescue packages—is outperforming its peers.”
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@BNicholsLiberty Oil futures were literally negative last spring because the economy was imploding.
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@FrankLuntz Half of the country was mad as hell and tired of being disrespected and Congress rammed through another round of tax cuts for the rich in 2017. Deal with it.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@SykesCharlie As I have said over and over and over again: The modern Republican Party's defining ethos is the immaturity and selfishness of a 14-year-old boy.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@aubrey_huff I didn't think Madison Cawthorn's "soy boy" comment could be topped as the most incel tweet of the day, but I was so wrong.
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Michael Rosenberg
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@marcorubio The only reason it wouldn't pass quickly is if people like you oppose it. The only obstacle to 2K checks is you.
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@LizMair Massachusetts liberals *are* more Christian and sympathetic, by the actual Jesus definition of Christianity.
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@peterbakernyt Or, get this, Pelosi let them off the hook when she knew she had 218. Also, Dems were 215-6. Republicans were 13-200.
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@JuddLegum @NDLB2020 Facebook is a Republican company. All the bullshit about not wanting to stifle and censor is really just a fancy way of saying they have no problem propagating right-wing conspiracies.
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@PlainPhilly "Is President Biden keeping the shelves stocked too well?" - NYT
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@burgessev @DrewSav Jayapal is right about this -- the pay-fors of taxing the rich and big corporations are the most popular features of the package and there's no excuse for opposing them.
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