Noah Rothman
@NoahCRothman
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Senior writer @NRO Author: https://t.co/aNAUe6Rdre
New Jersey
Joined July 2010
I’m honored to be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue of @Commentary with a 7,000-word essay on a 20-year trend of left-wing political violence and, perhaps more ominously, elite excuses for left-wing political violence.
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"US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment."
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A lot of these videos have been shocking. I audibly gasped at this one.
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"He had to announce the investigations. He didn't actually have to do them, as I understood it." - Sondland. This is key. It was never about corruption. It was about tarring a domestic political opponent.
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A senior House Democrat tells Axios: "We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."
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It will pass within 3,908,791 million miles of Earth. Again, for context, the moon is 238,900 miles away.
A 4.1KM asteroid will close-in on Earth in April, NASA has confirmed - Could end human civilisation if it hits.
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The shameless character assassination meted out against anyone merely confirming the details of the docs the WH release confirms why it was necessary for the whistleblower to remain anonymous.
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Matt Gaetz takes the claim that the people who sacked the Capitol were Antifa, not Trump backers, to the floor to the groans of his colleagues. The right is addicted to conspiracy theories. This fever isn’t going to break.
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He got the details wrong. He didn't coordinate with industries and allies. He tanked the markets. His contingencies are riddled with holes. He didn't address community spread. He didn't have a buy-in from Congress. We're worse off today for Trump's speech.
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So, I mean, basically if Trump wasn't president he'd be criminally charged. Right? That's the takeaway here?.
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When you think about it, it’s nice to live in a system where the commander of the armed forces declares that the founding legal charter is permanently amended and we all just laugh at him and nothing happens.
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Precisely how long does it take to deploy overwhelming force to the goddamn capitol building to defend the government from an armed insurrection??.
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This whole thing is now entirely pointless. What an unmitigated embarrassment.
NBC: U.S. drops demand for full accounting of N. Korea nuclear program ahead of talks
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This is shaping up to be an unmitigated debacle for the news outlets whose instinct was to run with Hamas’s version of events.
The IDF spokesperson says he has a recording of a conversation between Islamic Jihad operatives that links them to the failed shooting at the hospital in Gaza. The recording is expected to be published
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I know its tawdry and no one on this platform cares, but if Obama was blowing up our own equipment in a mortifying, scrambled retreat, you'd have to defibrillate half the Republican conference.
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Congrats to everyone who crawled out on this limb.
“The Ambassador to the European Union has already testified, he said there was no quid pro quo. He said the President had told him that.” @kilmeade @foxandfriends.
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Being very passionate is no substitute for cogency.
WATCH: Responding to Republican attacks, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez gives impassioned defense of the Green New Deal.
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We lost a very good boy today. Until we meet again, my dear friend.
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"What do you say to millions of Americans who are scared?" - Peter Alexander. "I say that you are a terrible reporter." - Trump. Really bad look for the president here.
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This unorthodox formation of cars has given me life. I think I can go another eight weeks now.
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Donald Trump only got ~334k votes in Miami-Dade in 2016. Already, with 84% of the vote in, this year he's drawn ~457k.
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If you thought the public hated how we got out of Afghanistan, wait until you see how they respond when we have to go back.
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Did people actually think Republicans were shut out of the depositions entirely? Like, did they think Rs didn't sit on Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight?.
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“Yes. The American people should hear this. $300 million per day for two decades.” - president currently pushing for one single $3.5 trillion transformation of the social contract.
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Rs are gonna lose a consequential Supreme Court race in WI and watch the soft defund candidate win the mayoralty in Chicago tonight, and they’ll spend all day tomorrow talking about Trump. And no one will see the problem.
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This is a holy crap moment: “In terms of the level of corruption we are looking at here, we have no idea how many Republican or Democratic candidates… paid to have the system rigged to work for them.” - Sydney Powell . Listen up, GOP. They're calling out your elections next.
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Bret Bair reports that the request for National Guard is being "analyzed," but the Pentagon is concerned with the optics of uniformed military personnel in the Capitol Building. Yes, seriously.
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Vaccinated. Boosted. Got it, like so many are, and he's "feeling fine." This has to stop being news at some point.
JUST IN: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan tests positive for Covid-19
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He killed his own uncle and half brother.
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The Biden White House has officially deleted the tweet where they take credit for 8% annualized inflation. But screenshots are forever.
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Calibrated speech. New sanctions. No reciprocal military action. Credible threat of force. Offer of diplomatic off-ramp. No questions. At the risk of grading Trump on a curve, it doesn't get much better than that.
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"We could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to." Huh? This money cannot be invested because it hasn't yet been generated by Amazon's anticipated commercial activity. Fundamental misconception about what tax abatements are here.
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This is contemptuous and unacceptable. The flippancy with which they talk about fundamentally altering the civic compact is reprehensible.
“You’ll know my position on court-packing the day after election,” Biden says, calling it a distraction from the key issue of ACB nomination being rushed.
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Horrifying beyond words. I would imagine most of us have never known the kind of terror that would compel you to hand your baby off to a stranger without knowing if you’ll ever see your child again.
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Bring back civic education and make reading and discussing the Federalist Papers a high school requirement.
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Is this privilege?.
BREAKING: Prosecutors drop charges against Jussie Smollett; “Empire” actor will forfeit $10,000 bond payment, have records in case sealed just over a month after he was charged.
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Pence was chastised by both the moderator and his opponent for monopolizing the time, but, in the end, he spoke less.
unofficial speaking times -. Pence: 35:22.Harris: 38:48. via @Kjwalsh_news.
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By the end of the day tomorrow, Trump will deploy the national guard to Alabama.
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Maybe if they were carrying torches, we’d be treated to a national conversation about this.
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This is a real thing that exists at an NJ mass vaccination site.
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The president has been accused of contributing to the inflamed atmosphere that produced to this plot and, reading this thread, hard to fault his accusers.
Governor Whitmer of Michigan has done a terrible job. She locked down her state for everyone, except her husband’s boating activities. The Federal Government provided tremendous help to the Great People of Michigan. My Justice Department and Federal Law Enforcement announced. .
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Another concession to North Korea in exchange for nothing at all.
The moment President Trump meets Chairman Kim at the DMZ and becomes the first sitting President to enter North Korea:
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This is roughly 70% of the population.
.@VP Harris: “We are focused on the most vulnerable, and based on my experience, the most vulnerable are women and girls; racial and ethnic minorities; LGBTQI-plus people; indigenous people; people with disabilities, migrants, and children in the foster-care system."
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This response is going to drive the press mad, but every Pence statement has been laser focused on Democratic weaknesses. And his decision to answer this question by invoking impeachment is, again, telling.
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I see many in the media claiming Iran gave Trump an off-ramp, but Iran is only deescalating because we finally (after months of provocations) imposed an unacceptably high level of risk and cost on Iran's actions. That's the essence of deterrence.
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Martha McSally is singularly responsible for turning both AZ senate seats blue in the space of two consecutive cycles. That's. well, that's something.
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There are two Americas. Those who thought the Cuomo speech was indescribably tone deaf and callous and those watching this on mute.
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Good.
#BREAKING: Nevada Democratic governor vetoes bill to decide presidential elections by popular vote, not Electoral College
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Biden says ‘medical condition’ could prompt him to drop out ‘if doctors came to me’
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New from John Podhoretz, pulling no punches on the pardons: " He is a tinpot Banana Republic gangster, a sordid loser, a disgrace, and a fraud, and a crook."
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Again, for all who weren't paying attention, Iran was attacking and seizing oil tankers, downing drones, attacking Saudi oil plants, raining rockets on US forces for weeks, and orchestrating the storming our embassy. A retaliatory response is designed to dissuade those actions.
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What was Donald Trump doing between 2:26 p.m and 5:40 p.m. on January 6. Until we get the answer to that question, affirmed under oath by a witness to his conduct, this chapter in American history cannot be definitively closed.
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Pretty sure NYC is going to be a disaster tonight. If you’re gonna set a curfew, three hours after sunset is three hours too late. But why should we expect NY to break the streak of abject incompetence now?.
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Sure, the whole spaces rollout was an embarrassing face-plant for the DeSantis campaign…
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It seems that if you simply put the word "challenge" after anything stupid, idiots will do it.
Driver who crashed car while blindfolded was doing the "Bird Box challenge"
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It turns out everything Republicans opposed in the Obama years was actually awful.
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"We have filed suit today in the Michigan Court of Claims to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted."
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The person in this clip looking the other way amid grotesque human rights abuses and bloodshed in Venezuela isn't Elliott Abrams.
Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams and Rep. Ilhan Omar clash in testy exchange at House Foreign Affairs hearing. "Whether. a genocide will take place and you will look the other way because American interests were being upheld is a fair question," she says.
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This is the worst display of presidential maladministration in my lifetime.
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So woke, you’re on George III’s side.
Fourth of July's ugly truth exposed: The Declaration of Independence is sexist, racist, prejudiced
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Not a Democrat. Never voted for a Democrat in my life. Impeach. Remove. Bar from office.
Democrats are screaming "Impeachment!" all over again.
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The PA Dem model is so obviously the path to repairing the Democratic brand.
Come and take it.
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Slowly but noticeably, COVID anxiety is creeping back into liberal zeitgeist after being entirely sidelined for five critical days. It’s going to be very difficult to convince anyone of the sincerity of those concerns now.
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An image to put a period on a terrible day for the country.
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This is amazing. An absolute triumph of public policy and individual responsibility.
New York City witnessed zero confirmed deaths due to coronavirus on Wednesday. It's the first day without a COVID-19 death in months.
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Over 8 months, Iran shot down a US drone, seized foreign flagged vessels in the Strait, including including NATO ships, executed a multi-drone strike on a Saudi petrol facility, and has been targeting US positions in Iraq with rockets for weeks. This is retaliatory and overdue.
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Finally, the great cultural reckoning has come for the Merfolk.
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This is why it is incumbent on Americans in government AND the press to push back against Chinese propaganda. It is in the national interest.
Central China TV.“Expert” : “The US pushed out the vaccine so quickly, that only means they have been working on it way before the pandemic.”.Host: “So we can conclude that the US had this virus in their possession long ago” . CCP nonstop smear campaign .
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"If they impeach President Trump for blackmail or extortion or making threats or demands, they have to call President Trump a liar to do it." - John Ratcliffe, setting the bar a little low.
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Okay. Everyone is stress baking, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Here’s the recipe. Followed it to the letter. what happened?
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I swear it’s like the last week and a half never happened.
NYC took its first steps toward reopening today – 100 days after recording its first coronavirus case. Now comes the test: whether the city can cautiously return to its old ways without inviting a resurgence of the virus.
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Hope everyone who imposed a testing requirement on their Christmas guests enjoyed their holiday.
LATEST: The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tells @GMA.
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Mitt was always a man of conscience and those of you praising him who tried to destroy him as a racist, sexist monster in 2012 just to win an election should never live down that shame.
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We keep hearing sadness, as though this was all an act of God and an occasion for mourning rather than an active crisis happening in real time that is within our power to mitigate.
This is an absolutely heartbreaking story about the students of the American University of Afghanistan whose evacuations were aborted in the final hours.
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This is a national embarrassment.
Wow! Michigan just refused to certify the election results! Having courage is a beautiful thing. The USA stands proud!.
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Moreover, the whistleblower’s second hand account is no longer critical. We now have several contemporaneous accounts of events up to and after the call, a first hand account of the call, and a transcript. They want him/her to come forward to attack personal credibility.
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Meanwhile, as I'm just remembering, Kamala Harris managed to get through the entire campaign as VP nominee without submitting to a press conference.
How Kamala Harris' husband Doug stays fit and deals with stress on the campaign trail
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The thing about being fully vaccinated is you don't have to care one whit about anyone else's honesty.
Americans don't trust others' vaccine honesty as country re-emerges
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I defy you to watch this without cringing to the point you need emergency dental work.
REPORTER: "How long should Americans expect — how long should we be bracing for — this historic inflation and some unprecedented gas prices?". KAMALA HARRIS: .
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"If you could show me that Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing." - @LindseyGrahamSC like two weeks ago.
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This is a presidency-defining clip. And it’s really bad.
EXCLUSIVE: Pressed on whether the U.S.'s exit from Afghanistan could have been handled better, Pres. Biden tells @GStephanopoulos, "The idea that somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing—I don't know how that happens."
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For those of you wondering if Republican midterm enthusiasm had plateaued, I give you the return of Fauci.
He’s the most catastrophically destructive public health expert ever, and it’s not even close .
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We shouldn't downplay it, but Europe is not facing the toughest situation in its history.
BERLIN, July 2 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe was facing the toughest situation in its history and warned the coronavirus pandemic that has wreaked havoc on the economy has not yet disappeared.
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If it's any consolation, in about three years we're gonna be privy to a lot of tell-alls from Republicans about how very uncomfortable they were with all of this.
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Negative economic growth amid rising consumer costs and decreased purchasing power is not a great time to impose a minimum tax on corporations, which will be passed on to you. But at least we're calling it the "Inflation Reduction Act," so maybe you won't notice.
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I listened to an NYT podcast today that posited DeSantis was such an abject failure managing COVID that the guest said he needed to be sequestered in a mandatory three-week-long public health policy educational program. Again, for emphasis, this was published today.
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Trump literally said America's allies should be paying "for protection.".
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If you're still thinking about "Trump" or "the base" at this point, and not the foundations of the republic and your duty to posterity at this point, you've lost a bit of perspective.
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Many have made this observation in jest, but the way some observers are determined to excuse Antifa via a strictly literal interpretation of the group's name does explain why so many Soviet satellites called themselves Democratic People's Republics.
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Every conservative needs to oppose this with every fiber of their being, or they will regret this moment for the rest of their lives.
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