Quintus Sertorius
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Not the real Roman general and statesman (he died in 73 BC), but in a world of Sullas, I’m just trying to be a Sertorius.
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I've been fascinated by the hold Trump has over MAGA & the GOP, who stand behind him no matter his lies & crimes.
Since 2016, whenever I saw an article that helped explain the "cult of Trump," I saved its URL.
Here's an organized list of those articles:
1/ Cult of Trump -- a thread of links.
"[Trump] knew how to reel people in...He was so confident, had so much authority...He’s really seductive....I mean like what a sociopath does. He’s brilliant. Even I was taken in.”
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@DirtRoadPickup
I always thought that the GOP was more anti-Russia than pro-Trump.
I was wrong. MAGA is so far down the rabbit hole that they would justify a Russian invasion of the US if Trump told them it was okay.
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@plinytheelder_t
@maxberger
@justAfanDavid
@elonmusk
@Twitter
One of the all-time great endings to a business article:
"The Verge reached out to Musk for comment. Twitter no longer has a communications department."
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@PoliticsVerse
I love the contrast between how she looks at Michael Fanone in that picture above, a Capitol Police Officer, and the way she looks at Donald Trump, at the time the President of the United States. Warmth and appreciation in one, disdain and anger in the other.
Nancy is the best.
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@duty2warn
I had a friend who excitedly got his new Tesla delivered back in February.
I asked him last weekend what he thought of Musk. He replied, “if I’d known that he was a Trumper, I’d never have bought his car.”
He didn’t try to disguise his disgust in any way.
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@AdamParkhomenko
I’m sure you saw this already, but still…
If that doesn’t sum up the entire Republican Party, I don’t know what does: 🤣
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@____B_S____
Very sweet, and wow the guy had to be strong. That cat must’ve weighed at least 150 lbs…
Reminded me of this vid:
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@RpsAgainstTrump
If she loses in the fall she should be named a special prosecutor to investigate Trump for 1/6/2021.
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@davenewworld_2
@williamlegate
Why did he run the red light? He wasn’t responding to any crime, and he didn’t have his lights flashing. He just casually drove through the intersection, almost hitting the school bus.
Sheesh.
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@BrianKarem
So when others around trump testify that he was “on the phone with X,” and the admin can’t produce records to corroborate it, is that obstruction of justice?
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@phoenix_7_9
@alyankovic
@DanielRadcliffe
I'm not a fan of memes, generally speaking, but that one is outstanding!
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@asimplebrownbag
@dennisbhooper
@bethbourdon
Don’t go leaving out FBIPantyRaid. He’s made some valuable contributions as well.
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@richsignorelli
@KatiePhang
This captures it perfectly, IMHO…
Speshal Master betrays us! Asks cruel questions, sets ruleses! Nasty liddle’ riddles! Riddles & ruleses! What scrolls, it asks, by nights dids we unmasks? Unsecrets, unfurls? But precious, Speshal Master is our friennnd! We doesn’t remembers doing unsecrets! Dids we- NO! SHUTUP!!
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@TheRickWilson
Maybe they scheduled the hearing so that GOP members could see it before their next July 4th trip to Russia?
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@AshaRangappa_
I hope we’re not triangulating towards a “DJT is too dangerous to prosecute” outcome, where DJT gets his extortion files back, DOJ gets their TS/SCIF files back, and everyone moves on…
That sort of pusillanimous response happened w Mueller, SDNY & Bragg.
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@TamarHallerman
"The final decision on whether to press charges, however, ultimately rests with Willis, who would need to present evidence before a separate, regular grand jury that has the power to indict."
Whether or not DJT is indicted is clearly several months out, at best.
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@realTuckFrumper
"Dear OANN,
President Trump just let me know that you're a GREAT MAGA KING Patriot, & he's counting on your support!
For a limited time only, you can buy these commemorative Trump Congressional Medal of Honor replicas for $1999, payable to Save America Super PAC.
Don Jr."
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@thejackhopkins
She saw her brand and image irrevocably tarnished by her time in the Trump administration (no more Met Gala's for Ivanka).
I'm guessing she told her dad sometime in 2021 (eg. after the Saudi investment) that she was done with politics entirely, and not to count on her any more.
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@notcapnamerica
I love that smirk he gives the media at the 18 second mark. It's a look of "yell all you want. I'm not going anywhere."
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@dcherring
My belief is that the J6C is doing serious damage to the MAGA cult. The hearings really well produced, and methodically building a very strong case against DJT….
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@calderonluisa76
@DannyDeraney
@soledadobrien
I loved “Law and Order,” and I must’ve watched “Beauty and the Beast” at least 5 times, and I never made the connection ‘til these video clips…
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@RonFilipkowski
The GOP will nominate Trump bc they’re scared of his vindictiveness & scared of MAGA.
Paul Ryan was on the Fox BoD when Fox correctly called AZ for Biden on 11/3/20.
Yet Ryan stood meekly aside when Fox fired the guy who made the call, Chris Stirewalt.
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@dcherring
… Bannon’s trying to disrupt the hearing w/ a live speech abt how unfair the hearings are, & how they’re targeting patriots. He won’t shut up, once started, until forcibly removed.
He wants to get into MAGA’s good graces doing what Jim Jordan can’t do since he’s not part of J6C
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@BL4TINUM
@RonFilipkowski
Don't you go using logic!! This is MAGA, the greatest movement in the history of the US!
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@DirkSchwenk
The truly extraordinary thing abt your thread is that, given what we've heard over the past few weeks, & how it jives with what we all saw, is that what you've written is not that "extraordinary" now.
Instead, it's a terrifying extrapolation from Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
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@ollie_vicente
@plinytheelder_t
@maxberger
@elonmusk
@Twitter
Probably so. As I mentioned to someone else on here, I found myself Googling today, "Can the FTC shut down a company that has violated their consent decree?"
I couldn't figure it out.
Still, there is a vibe on here of "things are unraveling even faster than everyone feared..."
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@TheRealHoarse
@Jim_Jordan
The same Jim Jordan:
"[Jordan] demanded the name of the whistleblower who filed the initial report...[and said] how unjust it was that Democrats weren't allowing the committee to question 'the person who started it all,' referring to the whistleblower.
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@LJames77744069
@AlanDersh
You mean the attempt on his life at the Shop Rite on Staten Island?
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@NoLieWithBTC
@edokeefe
The party that consistently dismissed DJT’s aberrant and divisive behavior for the past 5 years by mockingly referring to it as “mean tweets” sure is upset that the 46th President called them “semi-fascists.”
Seems like that comment really hit a nerve, hit close to home…
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@its_jessi_grace
He's a lucky guy to have a wife and daughter like them.
That said, he's obviously given out a lot of love in his life to get it back like that, and in spades.
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@ChadBlue83
What was the old guy complaining about?
He wants the truck off his lawn? It wasn't on his lawn, at least from what I could see.
And plus those guys were obviously fixing the road.
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@madrid_mike
This week in news:
--Project 2025 is a plan for a dictatorship that will be bloodless if "the left allows it"
--A corrupt SCOTUS gives a future prez the power to implement it
--Credible allegations of Trump engaging in pedophilia
And the media just CAN'T GET PAST THE DEBATE!
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@SrDarkMagician
@KyleKulinski
He does have a pretty good amount of charisma. There’s a chance he even starts getting some MAGA true believers to begin doubting Trump and his unending whining…
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@TheFigen_
Check out this fight between a honey badger, a python, and two jackals:
This three-way fight between a python, honey badger and two jackals is seriously intense - nature is wild! 😱
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@kyledcheney
But he said "former president?" How can that be? I was told by numerous MAGA that Trump was still the real president, that he was controlling the military, and that President Joe Biden was just a figurehead?
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@sandibachom
I'm guessing he'll pick a nobody, someone who is off the radar right now. I can't believe Trump will countenance _anyone_ who could be a threat to him (like JD Vance, Nikki Haley, Elise Stefanik, Tim Scott, etc.).
I think when he announces the pick, everyone will say "who?"
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@DougJBalloon
I wonder what the opinion writers think when it's pointed out that
@DougJBalloon
pitched their *exact same article idea, but as satire!*
Are the writers embarrassed? Or do they think along the lines of "screw him & his fans; we know better." Where on the spectrum do they fall?
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@realTuckFrumper
Maybe this response, reflecting Eastman's incorrigible nature, will force the California Bar Association to speed up his disbarment proceedings.
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@Fordham__
@WalshFreedom
That's what Steve Hassan wrote in "The Cult of Trump."
Every cult member has to find their own way out. And for every cult member, it can be a small remark that causes the "scales to fall from their eyes."
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@MollyJongFast
It was a good article. That said, as a point of criticism, Bill Maher has zero credibility with me, so quoting his opinion on something (really on anything) doesn't land with me, even if drawing a contrast to it.
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@TansuYegen
Wow those were some deep, meaningful hugs -- they're all squeezing each other so hard. Just wonderful to see!
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@BaddCompani
Since 2016, when Comey threw the election for Trump, has MAGA won anything? Any midterms/special elections?
Since 11/3/2020, has Trump done anything that would convert even a single voter who previously went for Biden?
The answers are “no” and “no”.
Biden will win again in ‘24
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@adbodine
@DirtRoadPickup
Or you're nuts. That seems more likely than the wacky conspiracy you proposed.
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@revdjenk
@RonFilipkowski
@RealJeffClark
Don’t forget that the Senate GOP quashed all witnesses and cross examination to the first impeachment trial as well. I don’t remember a lot of pearl clutching about equal representation back then…
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@MacFarlaneNews
Bet some of these guys are regretting they didn’t wait a little longer before so publicly backing DJT against the FBI
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@KenDilanianNBC
@eliehonig
Yes let's focus on Biden's mishandling of classified documents, & how he refused to give them back, had to get subpoenaed, blew that off, & then got his house raided. And how he had a document related to Russia that's now missing, & how his son-in-law received $2B.
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@gtconway3d
Reality Winner forwarded a single document to The Intercept in early 2017. She was arrested & interviewed by the FBI on 6/3/2017, & indicted by the DOJ four days later.
I know charging a former prez is a big deal, but I wish the same rule of law applied to DJT as Reality Winner.
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@RonFilipkowski
He worked so hard that his Chief of Staff John Kelly had to come up with a euphemism for the hours DJT was jacking around, watching TV and shitposting.
In an homage to empty-suit business speak, Kelly christened said DJT hours as:
“Executive Time.”
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@RpsAgainstTrump
Chris Christie has no credibility on any political topic whatsoever, and will never win the GOP nomination, much less the presidency.
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@andrewkimmel
So cool. Being a celebrity could be such a corrupting phenomenon, and yet I’ve never heard a single bad thing about Keanu. Just amazing…
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@EWErickson
I don't know what bewilders me more -- that you think getting indicted for paying hush money to a porn star will go so well with his evangelical base, or that you're probably right.
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@MollyJongFast
What has Trump done, since he lost on 11/3/2020, that would've converted even a single one of Biden's 81M voters?
I don't know why people think this will be a close election. I know what the polls say, but I also know that Dems have outperformed in every election since 2016.
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@Mikel_Jollett
Also Walz’s time as HC for Mankato West ought to be an ESPN 30 for 30 episode.
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@JoshuaTCharles
Here were parts of Trump’s speech on the Ellipse right before the insurrection on 1/6/2021.
That speech by DJT was the single most toxic, inflammatory, and hypocritical speech by an American President I am aware of.
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@sleepyjoe2
@rj3000
When we visited Edinburgh Castle a few years ago, a tourist asked why it was built so close to railroad tracks.
The guide instantly replied, “so when the English tried to lay siege to the castle, they would have to step back to let the trains roar through!!!”
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@AngelaBelcamino
I gotta admit, I miss going to Blockbuster with my family and searching for movies to rent. It was a fun, near-weekly tradition for us, and looking at "available options" in the variety of streaming services just doesn't replicate it.
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@Acyn
The GOP is just so bad at this. I believe every single hearing they've had under this congress has just been one continual embarrassment after another for them...
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@_chunkyb_
@Phil_Lewis_
That’s what’s unfathomable to me. If you were a kid in that classroom, terrified the gunman would notice you, every single second must’ve seemed like an absolute eternity (“don’t breathe!!”). And yet the Uvalde PD made them wait through *at least* 4000 of those agonizing seconds.
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@thejackhopkins
I do generally agree that the whole civil war threat is overblown. That said, I am bothered by the amount of visible LEO support of DJT. That adds an unpredictable element to the mess.
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@ChrisDJackson
I read the transcript of the debate. Here's a nice encapsulation of the typical Trump/Tapper/Bash Q&A.
To call the guy who answered their questions with non-sequiturs and lies like this "the winner," and to not excoriate the pusillanimity of the moderators, is media malpractice
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@NotHoodlum
Well, if person ABC suddenly fired their Trump lawyer, and hired someone else (like Cassidy Hutchinson did), That might be a huge red flag to DJT and cronies...
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@SpiroAgnewGhost
Gotta love the passive voice in the article. The boxes moved on their own, apparently. No one ordered them packaged up and sent to Mar a Lago.
"When Mr. Trump left the White House...a number of boxes of material made their way from the West Wing to Florida."
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@DougJBalloon
Burger and fries at the Newark Airport: $24.95.
Two 12-yr old double-malt scotches: $52.95
Freedom to bitch about inflation: priceless.
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@jefftimmer
Trump will run until he passes away, and the GOP is utterly incapable of stopping him.
Trump will win the nomination in 2028, even if he’s in a nursing home.
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@madrid_mike
The disproportionate coverage of his debate performance (to everything else) has made me question a lot of reporters & pundits underlying motives. It seems less like they're pursuing truth & more like settling scores, less like commenting on the news & more like trying to make it
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@ItsNathanGeorge
@AshaRangappa_
Yeah! Typical case: a) DJT is treated w kid gloves by investigators & given every benefit of the doubt, b) DJT blatantly & obnoxiously stalls, c) courts/DAs get cold feet (“we’re not 100% certain.”).
Happened w Mueller, SDNY, & Bragg. Also DJT releasing his taxes to Congress
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@UnMaskTheMedia
@TimHannan
I’m laughing. If Trump were constrained by a gag order he’d be out in front of the media every fucking day railing about how he’s being silenced.
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@its_jessi_grace
That was awesome! For the entire 2 min if I wasn't smiling, it was because I was laughing.
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@atrupar
With all due respect Jake Tapper hasn’t pushed back at all against Chris Licht as he’s moved CNN to the right in a vain attempt to appease MAGA.
So I kinda discount hindsight criticism from Tapper…
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@ltgrusselhonore
@RepLizCheney
I have a newfound and deep appreciation for this picture from last year.
It symbolizes, to me, the beginning of the healing from the terrible cancer we’ve gone through. The first round of chemo, so to speak…
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@BaddCompani
Bragg will indict Trump, but only after Fani Willis and Jack Smith do it first.
He'll be like the football free safety that jumps on the ball carrier at the end of the play, but only after the DE and linebacker shed blockers and bring the runner down.
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@JrbbNyc
@alexeheath
First-in-line debt selling for 60 cents on the dollar. With $13B of such debt, that means hedge funds think TWTR is worth $7.8B, tops. And that was BEFORE EM alienated even more of the remaining workforce.
Just an epic, amazing destruction of a company.
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@Edwardtnovak2
@duty2warn
They’ve been the source of some world class humor.
Furthermore those tweets will be memorialized in all the books, TV series, and b-school case studies that describe and analyze this as the greatest business screwup in history…
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@Acyn
@HeatherThomasAF
Congressman Jason Chaffetz was the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. He quit Congress for the warm embrace of Fox News after one rough town hall in 2017 where his constituents asked him to do his job, and investigate Trump.
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@Dreamweasel
Blaming witchcraft as the reason why Trump got his ass kicked in the debate was not a MAGA excuse that I had anticipated. But maybe I'm just naïve that way.
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@duty2warn
That's because MAGA is always assumed to have the purest of intentions.
Isn't that why the NYT says "spread falsehoods" or "repeated untruths" or "made false claims," and why CNN is now refusing to call the stolen election claims "the Big Lie?" Because MAGA is so pure of heart?
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@MuellerSheWrote
To me that's the money quote of the day, to go along with the "apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani" on Monday.
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@everywhereist
Reminds me of David Letterman's top 10 Complaints of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models - February 7, 1990, in particular
#9
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@its_jessi_grace
Five cubs — wow! I always thought bears only had one or two (at most).
Mama’s got her work cut out for her. No wonder she wants a little peace and relaxation in the pool…
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@electruthwalter
@maxwest327
@jeffbcraven
@HayesBrown
Don’t forget Fani Willis. She’s got Lindsey Graham publicly crying right now, and she’s sent a target letter to Giuliani. She might actually be the one to hold DJT accountable for trying to steal the 2020 election. TBD.
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@MeidasTouch
In the interest of not looking partisan, MG should now appoint a SC to look into Jared Kushner’s dealings with Saudi Arabia.
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@tomwatson
Trump said that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were very fair.
Trump has also said that about Aileen Cannon and Alan Dershowitz.
If Trump likes the job you’re doing, you really should reassess your moral choices.
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@tribelaw
Election: "You have two choices of ice cream, vanilla or shit-with-sulfuric-acid. Which one do you want?"
Media: "Hmm, tough choice. Vanilla IS kinda bland."
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@tribelaw
@ezraklein
@jonfavs
Why do Democrats constantly wring their hands about Biden’s age? My God the guy isn’t perfect, but he beat Trump once and he’ll do it again.
The better question is why aren’t Republicans wringing their hands over their pending nomination of an adjudicated rapist and fraudster?
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@highbrow_nobrow
@atrupar
What’s pathetic is that our DOJ took almost 2 yrs to sic Jack Smith on Trump when everyone saw, in real-time, what he did and did not do on 1/6/2021.
What’s pathetic is that the judiciary is moving at a glacial pace with his immunity claim. It’s almost like they are stalling…
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@alex_sammon
@Slate
Man you are twisting yourself into a pretzel to avoid saying that Biden thrashed Phillips.
And I do have to say, this sentence is some truly bad writing:
"So if there has ever been such a thing as a 'grassroots super PAC' -- and there has not -- it's not this."
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@Super70sSports
In the spring of ‘98 a lot of the pundits thought the guy on the left had more upside, and thus should’ve been drafted ahead of the guy on the right…
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@cwebbonline
I liked the way Biden ended the interview saying the next few years will be an inflection point that will influence decades to come.
I thought that was a brilliant characterization.
Do you think DJT has the mental capacity to frame the immediate future like that?
Me neither.
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@SundaeDivine
@RonFilipkowski
Trump always said he loves the poorly educated and you can see why: you really need to be a dumbass to vote for Trump in 2024.
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@MeidasTouch
Or maybe it was the hearings today, and finding out that DJT asked Twitter to take down the "pussy ass bitch" tweet...
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