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Vindicated alarmist. OG blogger. Not a felon, Coiner of the phrase #DumpsterFire . Also podcast w/ Blue Gal @ProLeftPodcast
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#Inners
What happens when Trump pardons all of his goons and henchmen?
What happens when Trump pardons himself?
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Lindsey "OfDonald" Graham announcing his plan for a nation-wide abortion ban the same week that the new season of
#TheHandmaidsTale
dropped was some kind of perfect.
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In clear violation of NYT editorial policies,
@michelleinbklyn
went to rural PA and talked to politically engaged working-class Americans who are *not* Trump voters.
I hope they let her off with a warning.
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Having spent years as a rat, Peter Pettigrew could no long control his facial expressions when cornered.
#DelayTheVote
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#civility
One thing that has remain 100% consistent over the past 30 years: the media will ignore nonstop slander and hatespeech from the Right right up until Liberals punch back.
Then suddenly everyone needs to go to courtesy class.
@chucktodd
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@jayrosen_nyu
Fun fact: Chuckles uses the word "naive" five time in this story to excuse gross journalistic malpractice, but never once uses the word "lie" to describe the lies of Donald Trump or the GOP.
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The Republican party didn't make a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump in 2016-2024.
The Republican party made its Faustian bargain with Atwater, Gingrich, Falwell, Limbaugh, Murdoch, Weyrich, Viguerie et al *decades* ago.
Trump just showed up to collect the debt.
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The last thing America saw before the lights went out was the Trump clan and all of their lackeys and enablers leaning over her dying body and leering at the thought of how much money the were going to make carving her up and selling her for parts.
#KushnerIsAnIdiot
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Whole lotta people gonna wake up tomorrow and notice that, holy shit, +60M of their fellow citizens really are, for real, no kidding, fascists.
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@JoyceWhiteVance
We are not in the fourth year of the Trump Administration.
We are in the fortieth year of the radically antigovernment Reagan Revolution.
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Obama spent 8 yrs begging the GOP for the tiniest flicker of compromise and civility.
They told him to pound sand and then elected the King of the Birthers.
So how about the next pundit who weeps over the "tribalism" of "both sides" gets a sock full of nickles upside the head?
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@BillKristol
It's not Trumpism.
It's Republicanism.
Don't you recognize them?
These are the children of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove.
Of Limbaugh and Hannity.
Of Charlie Sykes and Rick Wilson.
Of Palin and Ingraham and Reed and Falwell.
Of Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms.
You. Built This.
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Trump = symptom
The GOP = disease
Conservative media = disease vector
Both siderism = retrovirus wrecking the nation's immune system
#vf
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86% of Americans can tell the difference.
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@marcorubio
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew 23:25
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Three things are now abundantly clear.
1. Kavanaugh has lied repeatedly under oath.
2. The Republicans on the committee damn well knew it and assured him that they would rig the hearing so the public would never know.
3. Their conspiracy is now blown.
#KavanaughHearings
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@NormOrnstein
@RadioFreeTom
I honestly do not understand everyone's astonishment.
The GOP is operating EXACTLY as designed and has arrived EXACTLY where is has been heading for decades.
It's like being claiming to be shocked by an eclipse or the rise and fall of the tides.
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"Mitch McConnell is the tragic figure in Romney’s tale. He comes across as — and I believe actually is — a decent man who is trying to mitigate the worst of Trump’s effect on his party. " -- David Brooks, still stooging for Republican monsters like the hack he has always been.
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Obama's place in history?
Easy.
A Mt. Everest of probity and competence standing between the two worst presidents in American history.
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@RadioFreeTom
I mean, that was the plan all along, right? To assemble a coalition of every group that loathed the government, feed them a steady diet of rage, racism and resentment, and use them as a battering ram to roll back the New Deal and install a permanent Conservative plutocracy.
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@JRubinBlogger
Willingness to inflict pain on the little people for the Greater Good has always been the shibboleth of Conservatism.
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@MalcolmNance
I'm stocking up on pemmican, iodine tablets and "We Fucking Told You So" bumper stickers.
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@greenfield64
This -- "Never mind his politics or his voting record..." -- in reference to a sitting US Senator famous for big talk and zero action sums up the impotence and decrepitude of the political punditocracy better than almost any other sentence I could imagine.
@MJGerson
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@realDonaldTrump
And the Gettysburg Address was just blah blah blah. Jesus, what a pathetic fraction of a man you are.
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@EWErickson
Eventually all Christopaths reveal their bottomless nihilism and contempt for life on our good Earth.
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@RadioFreeTom
"There are no patriots left in the leadership of the GOP."
Mission Accomplished.
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@PSYCH_HYPE
@barandsnow
Thank God they were only packing mass-kill rifles and body armor and not loose cigarettes or Skittles.
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"Romney puts on the record what so many of us have been hearing for years off the record..." -- David Brooks.
Translation: Of course we all knew all along the Left was right about the Right, but we weren't about to share that with the great unwashed.
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No president who lost the popular vote by 3M has ever been allowed to appoint a Supreme Court justice.
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So redolent assfungus James Woods got locked outta Twitter for being redolent assfungus and the Right is losing its damn mind because OMFG, there has never been a greater injustice!
Heh.
Such delicate snowflakes, these wingnuts.
#FreeJamesWoods
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@jayrosen_nyu
Four years ago Chuck Todd appeared on The Moment podcast (Brian Koppelman) and more or less confessed to (among other things) knowing full well that guests routinely lie to his face but that it's not his job to share this info with his audience.
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@JohnCleese
Remind me again because I forget: How many statues commemorating the heroism of the 3rd Reich are there in the greater London metropolitan area?
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Reminder: If Democrats hadn't flipped the House in 2018 we would be fully and completely fucked.
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Apparently candidates dropping out of a primary race and endorsing other candidates has never happened before and is deeply suspicious and conspiratorial.
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Whether it's overpaying for booze and a garbage burger and fries at airports or terrorizing innocent bumpkins with hard-to-pronounce sandwiches, David Brooks' new career as the NYT's Food Critic for the Economically Anxious is off to a rocky start.
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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The Bumblebee / Goya crossover we all feared has finally come to pass.
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@amyklobuchar
@Karoli
And yet the Political Director for NBC News does not believe it his job to mention that or push back on it in any way.
@chucktodd
@NBCNews
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"Donald Trump has never met Donald Trump and has never had any dealings with Donald Trump." -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders tomorrow probably
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I will send Michael Cohen $5 right now if, from now on, he answers "Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi" to every question from every f*cking Republican meatbag who expresses shock and fury that the Congress is wasting the people's valuable time on this hearing.
#CohenTestimony
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The job of turning the GOP base into a mob of rage-drunk reprogrammable meatbags cost billions of dollars and required decades of dedicated labor by thousands of skilled radio, teevee and print propagandists -- and the complicity of the mainstream media.
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Donald Trump is the second and last president of the Confederacy.
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#AMJoy
I am not interested in debating Republicans.
I am interested in driving them back into the sewer out of which they crawled.
Note to Charlie Sykes. It's NOT "Trumpism". It's Republicanism. And it has been this way for decades, and you damn well know it.
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@realDonaldTrump
Don't worry.
Your legacy is already secure, so one more bout of sniveling cowardice won't affect it either way.
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The GOP:
Spent decades sowing the political landscape with mines to make it impossible for Democrats to govern.
Managed to step on every single one of them.
Now blames Democrats for not medivacking them out of the bombed-out political hellscape they created.
Republicans are telling CNN that the problem was caused by Democrats voting against McCarthy --- while describing him as the greatest fundraiser the Republicans have and extolling his conservative bonafides. You cannot make this stuff up.
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@nytdavidbrooks
"The big Republican accomplishment is that they have detoxified their brand. Four years ago they seemed scary and extreme to a lot of people. They no longer seem that way." -- David Brooks, November 5, 2014.
Your opinion is worthless.
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Republicans play for blood.
Democrats play to please the refs.
But there are no refs.
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@kimguilfoyle
The public should know which American industrialists support the American fascist party.
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@JeffLandry
@POTUS
This is the kind of "reasoning" that every waterhead drunk resorts to just before throwing up and blacking out.
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@jayrosen_nyu
@nytimes
So when
@nytimes
editors ask us to rise in defense of their 1st amendment protections -- which they refuse to wield on behalf of our democracy -- what are we to say but: How precious can those protections be if you yourselves refuse to fight for them?
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@Redshift42
@NormOrnstein
@RadioFreeTom
The problem is that neither the scuttlefish on the Right nor the Beltway media have the guts to admit that the GOP has been on this trajectory for decades so the all-important *context* that explains how the GOP gave rise to a monster like Trump never gets discussed.
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@SethAbramson
The fact that it has been a racist dungheap for decades, that it "died" long ago, and that a hugely profitable cottage industry of Beltway parasites has grown up around pretending otherwise.
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@nytdavidbrooks
If only you worked at a place where there were people on staff who could review the facts on which you based your writing *before* it was published.
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"Melanie was a part-time volunteer first lady with a very limited role in Donald Trump's life for a very short period of time." -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders tomorrow probably
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Over the last two decades Republicans have elected the two worst presidents in American history, the worst VP in American history, the worst Speaker of the House and the worst Senate Majority Leader in American history.
It's not just Trump. It's ALL of them.
#vf
!
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Based on Steve Schmidt's barrel-bombing of Meghan McCain, one can reasonably extrapolate that there is a whole helluva lot of extinction-level filth that exists right below the surface of the GOP that our Never Trump 'allies' all know but have decided not to share with the world.
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Given the train-wreck that is the Failed Trump Admin, I was worried that America might lose sight of what a complete shitbag Ted Cruz is.
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It has become embarrassingly clear that Yang knows shit-all about anything. Wyoming has an open primary, so Democrats were able to vote in the Republican primary, and she still got wiped out.
The problem is not their system.
The problem is Republican voters.
Here’s the problem - Liz Cheney can’t win a Republican primary in Wyoming or in 2024. The closed party primaries are empowering Trump. Several moderate Republicans are trying to figure out how to challenge him and are considering ways to do so both inside and outside the Party.
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@HowardKurtz
I think it's a shame Republicans elected an unhinged racist traitor bent on wrecking the country, but there you go.
#TrumpCanceled
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Dear Democrats:
Every time you answer a question about why things in DC are broken with "Congress" and "Washington politicians" you hand these Beltway hacks a club to beat you with.
The correct answer is "Republicans. Are. The. Problem. Period."
#morningjoe
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Fun Fact: The Democratic Party is *full* of people like Tim Walz. That's not the problem. The problem has always been trying to squeeze past the gatekeepers -- the donors, consultants and pundits -- and on to a national stage.
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Men like David Brooks were every bit as important to the Right's descent into depravity and fascism as Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.
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Republicans hated this guy so much that they nominated and elected an openly racist madman because he promised to burn down everything Obama had ever touched.
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I'm sure there are many fine people on both sides of this attempted coup.
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My goal is to get the Republican Party down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
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Republicans were not dragged into barbarity and sedition. They were not clubbed into it.
They marched there, cheerfully, singing every step of the way.
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Dear Mainstream Media,
"Lying" and "Controversial" do not mean the same thing.
"Racist" and "Controversial" do not mean the same thing.
#MorningJoe
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The GOP has been able to grow into a full-blown fascist movement in plain sight because over and over again elite media gatekeepers chose to pretend that it wasn't happening.
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#MorningJoe
Shove your tribalism bullshit. Shove your extremes on both sides bullshit. We had a calm rational decent intelligent compromise-prone president for eight years and the Republican party spent 8 years trying to destroy him at any price. Then they elected Il Douche.
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@CharlesPPierce
Devin Nunes has an audio recording of Johnny Cash confessing that he shot a man in Reno. And you'll never guess why!
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@Meteor_Blades
I'm not saying that
@kathleenparker
is *literally* Leni Riefenstahl. Just that she would have failed the Leni Riefenstahl Test in my mother's household.
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@chrislhayes
The "news" is broken.
It has been broken for a long, long time.
People with the resources to do so have no interest in fixing it, or in standing up a genuine, fact-driven Liberal media,
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Tim Russert is trending because a LOT of people are appalled at the job Chuck Todd does on
@MeetThePress
.
What's weird is how EVERYONE skips over the David Gregory years during which Gregory was just as awful in exactly the same way as Todd.
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#MorningJoe
We had an eight-year lab experiment with a calm, humane, honorable, compromise-prone Democratic president offering the GOP every possible opportunity not to be racist, seditious assholes.
They told him to go pound sand and then elected the King of the Birthers.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
And make sure you send Trump Brand Bricks (tm): Made in China and guaranteed to fall apart under the slightest pressure.
#MAGA
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@BillKristol
@Johnwjgt
The hunt for that "decent and elevated conservatism" continues to go as well as the hunt for WMD in Iraq.
@benshapiro
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@nytdavidbrooks
Trying to placate David Brooks is a mug's game. Even when Dems take positions that Brooks agrees with, he simply moves the Center so he can get on with the 1000th iteration of the only column he ever writes: OMFG The Extremes on Both Sides!!
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