Stephen Robinson
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journalist. Bylines: Public Notice, AV Club. Sign up for my newsletter, The Play Typer Guy (link below). Find me on Bluesky at @ser1897
Portland, OR
Joined July 2011
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The marginalized were terrified after Trump’s 2016 victory bc we knew he would terrorize us. Trump supporters mourn his loss bc they fear they can no longer terrorize us. There’s a key difference. Stop acting like we are rival sports teams.
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If Jill Biden was no longer even maintaining the illusion that she lived with her husband, that would be a major story. Same with Doug Emhoff ghosting on Kamala Harris. The media has apparently just given a pass on the Melania issue.
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The 40-year-old running mate to a 78-year-old POTUS nominee is not in any way qualified to serve as president, but the media shockingly ignores this story.
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Vaccinated people wearing masks outside are mocked by the same people who carry an assault rifle on Starbucks run.
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She's the Queen. You want her in Santa pajamas, drinking cocoa?.
Queen's speech in front of lavish gold piano blasted for being 'out of touch'
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Every second a Democrat is on Fox News is time not spent on Spanish-language TV or Black-centered media speaking with *reachable* voters.
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Slavery also inspired soul food but the price was a little steep.
Donald Trump has, if anything, inspired more women and people of color to run for office, says actress Susan Sarandon #VarietyStudio presented by @att at #TIFF18
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Pelosi leaves her home each morning with zero fucks. She even checks her purse to make sure there’s not one still in there from last week.
.@Kasie: "Do you think that the experience [@BetoORourke] has here in the House is a strong enough foundation to jump to the Oval Office?”. @SpeakerPelosi: “And you ask me that when we have a President of the United States who never – you know – please. Yes, the answer is yes.”
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"We can't fairly apply the law to Trump because Republicans will retaliate baselessly against Biden" is evidence of a reign of terror not a functioning democratic state.
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Nate Silver: "Well, sure, this Selzer poll has Harris up 3 in Iowa, but AtlasIntel has Trump winning Black voters in Wisconsin, so it's obviously a so-so day for Harris.". How am I supposed to take this seriously?.
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It’s a subpoena, guys, not Camus’s THE STRANGER.
Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena
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The right accused Hillary Clinton of murder.
When it comes to Judge Kavanaugh, there’s not an ounce of fairness left in Senate Democrats. How would you react if somebody accused you being a sexual predator, a gang rapist, and a bumbling stumbling alcoholic?.
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Rachel Dolezal expected to plead "white," which should get this knocked down to tears served.
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Klobuchar graduated magna cum laude from Yale the year Buttigieg was born. She also has a law degree. Warren is a former law professor. Castro graduated HS in 3 yrs & attended Stanford. He has a law degree from Harvard. Booker also went to Stanford & has a Harvard law degree.
@jbouie It’s beyond evident, and one of the key appeals to his candidacy. In my view, he’s the smartest person in Democratic politics since Obama, and one of the best communicators also.
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Jon Stewart complaining that 2024 is “two old guys” again is like me complaining that it’s “two white guys” again. It misses the point and minimizes the stakes.
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9/11 also reminds me that the same people who bemoan leftwing “cancel culture” literally tried to cancel The Dixie Chicks and all of France. My God, there were “Freedom Fries.”.
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Herschel Walker’s abortion “get well” card feels like a George Costanza plot on SEINFELD that NBC refused to let air.
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The Obamas are among the most successful black people in recent history & fools are out there upset that they're living about as well as your average white Tech executive.
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Biden and Obama were both kind to Meghan McCain when her father died. But Biden receives a level of respect she’ll never give Obama. There’s an obvious reason for that, and black people need to stop fooling themselves when in a similar situation.
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Every Republican who voted to keep Trump in office should lose their own seat with extreme prejudice. Everything he was impeached for is consistent with his mishandling of this crisis.
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Obama sometimes gently suggested that maybe unarmed black kids should survive routine encounters with police and was accused of personally maligning all of law enforcement.
Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!.
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It’s not encouraging when the media & white moderates consistently state that we should respect bigoted views just because more people hold them than originally believed.
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If you abandon trans people, then you are no longer the anti-fascist party. You are the $5 gallon of gas party.
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BIDEN: I am often late. TRUMP: I am a fascist who plans to stay in office forever. MEDIA: We think these are stories of equal merit.
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It might be a different, hippie-flavored brand of white supremacy from Trump's, but it's still ultimately what makes someone as overall unaccomplished as Bernie Sanders believe he can speak patronizingly about Barack Obama.
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Just to give you reason to loathe Kyrsten Sinema more: The person who lectured you about the filibuster and not breaking norms for short-term political gain is bypassing the primary process to avoid answering to her former party’s voters and stay in office against their wishes.
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I don't understand how a woman winning the popular vote for presidency and basically losing the electoral college due to active Russian meddling is a "failure" yet a white guy losing a TX Senate race narrowly to another white guy is Rocky.
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If Jill Biden chose to live in a different state from Joe Biden, the media framing would be "she's abandoned her elderly husband." It's very rare that Trump's age is ever framed in a way that presents vulnerability.
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Is that a suit on Biden’s working class body instead of a wooden barrel held on by suspenders?
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What pisses me off about pundits comparing 2010 to 2018 like it's all just a numbers game is that Pelosi lost her gavel to deliver the Affordable Care Act, which LITERALLY HAS SAVED LIVES (damn right, that was in all caps). The GOP lost the House passing bills that saved yachts.
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@4everNeverTrump @BillyCorben @USCIS @USCISMediaSouth I’m never comforted when a man is too familiar with the laws of consent in various states.
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The mainstream media is also mostly ignoring Trump's advanced age, but he's 78 and his wife is 24 years younger. That puts the separation in quite another light.
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When I was a newspaper intern, 30 (!) years ago, you made damn sure to ask any woman you interviewed if she preferred Mrs., Ms., or Miss (assuming could lead to disaster). This wasn’t San Francisco but Greenville, SC. But politeness still mattered.
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This right wing rhetoric shifted quickly from “you have no right to force me to wear a mask” to “you have no right to wear a mask.” It is not surprising, of course.
Wearing a mask when it is not medically necessary is grotesque and unhuman, an attack on society itself. It feeds paranoia and fear. You are treating air like it is toxic and other humans like they are nothing but vessels of disease. It is disgraceful, arrogant, and offensive.
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The “Mile 420” sign indicates that whoever lives here doesn’t actually smoke pot, just like the “Kink Palace” sign I had on my dorm room door indicated that no sex was actually occurring inside.
Looks like a normal teen’s bedroom, right? Think again. Coming up on @KMOV, we’ll show you what parents should be looking for so they can identify signs of drug use. I was shocked at what I found in this room!!! #stl #n4tm
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Certain people’s contempt for Hillary Clinton has blinded them to what is obviously occurring in front of them.
Tulsi Gabbard appears on Hannity and criticizes the impeachment inquiry process by saying she doesn’t know what’s going on behind closed doors and that she wants transparency
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I don't think that figure for black women is a percent. It's literally Diamond, Silk, and Candace Owens.
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So did mine. You don’t understand how this worked, did you?.
CONFIRMED: Kamala Harris' ancestors owned slaves
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It's astounding how many white moderates/even white liberals think Native Americans should extend the emotional labor to improve racist white teens. No consideration is thought to the safety and security of minorities.
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Gabbard is a pathetic, insignificant person who is trying to artificially inflate her own importance by declaring Hillary Clinton her arch enemy. She’s Kite Man calling out Batman.
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Do Democrats not comprehend how Republicans won in 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2024?.
How Democrats are approaching Trump's second term: . Less outrage and #resistance, more tactical, "inch-by-inch" fights about the effects of his policies on working-class people.
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I keep coming back to this: Pence told Trump before the rally speech that he wouldn’t help him overturn the election. Instead of “lowering the temperature,” Trump raised it and made it seem like Pence could be pressured into doing the “right” thing.
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I say this a lot but it remains true: I’m a petty Negro. If Kavanaugh had withdrawn after Ford agreed to testify, I’d support letting it end there. But he called her a liar & forced 2 other women to step forward while the GOP mocked survivors. I want him off the bench entirely.
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Obama’s centrist incrementalism is why Buttigieg can literally marry legally.
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Lot of liberal Twitter is blowing up bc W. Bush is “looking good” compared to Trump yet W. was a “bad” president. Here’s the thing, Trump is an asshole. It is possible, like W. Bush, to be an awful president yet also not an asshole.
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Men seem incapable of conceiving any motive for Hillary's actions that aren't cynical or calculating.
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"But if President Warren raises taxes how can I afford my student loan payments that no longer exist or pay the zero premiums on my gov't run health care? Guess I'll have to dip into my larger minimum wage paycheck.".
Elizabeth Warren plans to give the gov't control of education, health care, & jobs. Her solution to pay for it:.—Raise taxes to cancel student debt.—Raise taxes to fund gov't-run health care.—Raise taxes to increase min. wage. Everyday Americans can't afford Warren's agenda.
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Folks still talk about the Tulsa Race Massacre as if it was a natural disaster. It was a racist, state-sanctioned attack. No one was arrested. Insurance companies rejected claims. America needs to pay up. There are still survivors alive right now!.
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Does Biden not know who Kamala Harris is? Did he not see her make Jeff Sessions wet his pants? Or did he really think Harris didn’t want this and would just audition to be his VP?. The lack of respect men have for women is appalling.
"I wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at [me]," said Joe Biden on Kamala Harris criticizing him about busing policies during the Democratic debate last week.
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The major arguments about reparations, going back to Coates's ATLANTIC piece, do not focus solely on slavery. They focus on the red-lining, segregation, and predatory lending that prevented freed black people from accumulating wealth over the years.
Even more MCCONNELL on reparations: "I think we're always a work in progress in this country, but no one currently alive was responsible for that, and I don't think we should be trying to figure out how to compensate for it.".
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Men consistently love the "idea" of women but never the reality. It's one, long extended edition of THE GREAT GATSBY.
Activist and filmmaker Michael Moore says the one person who could "crush" Donald Trump in an election is not actually running: Michelle Obama.
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Elizabeth Warren was apparently not a former Republican in 2016.
I want a woman to be Pres. The RIGHT woman. Looking at you @SenWarren. 😁
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@sklapre @ndrew_lawrence There’s also the larger issue of how white society in general has issues with Black adolescence (esp Black boys). When you are no longer cute and safe, it becomes a problem.
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Seriously, you can’t “cancel Christmas” by taking away the trappings and ceremony. That was literally the point of the Grinch story.
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It’s interesting that privileged white people dream of wolves at the door that are never coming, while Breonna Tayler was woken by an actual squad breaking into her home, guns blazing. That was no dream. That was the end of her life.
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Harris is reaching out to gettable voters who could have easily voted for Nikki Haley. Her entire platform is a concession to the Left. I’m tired of the Left acting as if abortion rights, civil rights, and LGBTQ rights aren’t important. Learn something from 2016.
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Even if the 13th amendment was repealed, blacks have more methods to avoid unwanted slavery, as well as safer, easier Underground Railroad options than they did before the landmark amendment was passed in 1865.
Even if the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade, women have more methods to avoid unwanted pregnancies, as well as safer, easier options for abortion than they did before the landmark case was decided in 1973.
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Obama "lectures" us is racist. Hillary "lectures" us is sexist. Period. It's especially obvious coming from the "traditional values, personal responsibility crowd." They curiously don't consider white men telling, say, women or LGBT how to behave "lecturing.".
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The first Black woman VP, the first woman VP in general, was not granted the courtesy of a meeting with her predecessor, as is custom, bc her victory was decried as illegitimate and the GOP just wants us to forget that.
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Slavery ended in the UK earlier than in the US. Black people literally would've been better off if America hadn't won the revolution.
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This is like quitting your job to focus on your goal of being Batman.
I'm fully committed to my offer to serve you, the people of Hawaii & America, as your President & Commander-in-Chief. So I will not be seeking reelection to Congress in 2020. I humbly ask for your support for my candidacy for President of the United States
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Hillary Clinton makes “good” people vote for Trump but Trump doesn’t make “good” people vote for Democrats. Interesting.
Hillary does—and did—drive many people into the arms of Donald Trump. Her attack on Tulsi does likewise. In my district, Trump did worse than any Republican in modern times and still beat Clinton by a fair margin. Many Ds in the Midwest rejected her. I didn’t vote for either one.
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There are 50 Democratic Senators. The reason we don’t sit on pins and needles waiting to see how @brianschatz will vote *isn’t* because his vote has less value than Kyrsten Sinema’s. It’s because Schatz & most other Dems genuinely work with the party to achieve objectives.
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Joy Behar grew up working class. Whoopi Goldberg grew up poor. You grew up with a father in the Senate and a wealthy mother. You only represent the views of the “elite.” You insult everyone’s intelligence by claiming you have insight to how “half the country” lives.
Pretending half the country doesn't exist won't make them disappear. The culture war is real, and Americans who aren't part of the overwhelmingly anti-conservative media deserve to have their views represented.
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Buttigieg is every young white guy who companies insist is brilliant despite never demonstrating this. He then gets promoted over actual competent white women & POC. Genius delivered by central casting.
Both Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg "have made braininess central to their political brand," argues @PeterBeinart. "And it’s working—a fact that offers a window into the changing culture of the Democratic Party."
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@QueenMab87 Most men of color — esp Black and Latino — vote Democratic so I think she is also telling on herself.
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Kamala Harris was your anti-Sanders weapon. You ran after Alex P. Keaton and the Senator from FARGO who throws things at her staff.
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People are unfairly dinging Jameela Jamil about this. Even Will Ferrell admitted that he regretted his SNL impression of Bush bc it helped promote a "likeable doofus" image. It's also arrogant to knock her when Democrats twice her age are positively comparing Bush to Trump.
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The “Law & Order” president hasn’t said a word about a terrorist plot to abduct the governor of a US state. Instead, he’s tweeting more nonsense about Ilhan Omar. This is why he’s losing: People want an actual US president, not the head of his own gang.
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So . RFK is on Fox News proposing to do what Fox News falsely claimed Michelle Obama would do?.
"I'll get processed foods out of school lunches immediately" -- RFK Jr clearly plans to be some sort of food dictator under a new Trump administration
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Blaming the first black president for the election of a racist one will not endear you to POC.
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Remember that Obama had less than a single point lead in polling averages on Election Day 2012 and Romney led or tied several national polls prior.
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The GOP promotes white cis Christian supremacy. Their attacks on trans people isn’t a distraction. It’s the point.
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The lesson Trump learned was that he could do it again.
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Conservaties like Newt Gingrich & Erick Erickson are TERRIFIED of the #1619Project. Relax. If we haven't killed white people by now, we're probably never going to get around to it.
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Yes, McConnell/Trump have actively packed the courts and bragged about it. Trump loves to bring up, as he did during the first debate, how many vacancies Obama “left” him. Barrett wouldn’t be on the federal bench NOW if not for GOP court packing.
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Katie Hill’s support of Matt Gaetz, who made a point of criticizing a HBCU for receiving COVID-19 relief money, reminds me of how white women in the workplace have often left black people (esp. women) in the lurch whenever discrimination claims are raised.
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We're seeing employment discrimination in action. It's what happens every day in the real world. Women/minorities try to play by the rules, go to the "right" schools, get the "right" accolades, but are still overlooked.
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MACE: "I'd sell my soul for gas prices like they were in 2020!". SATAN: "I don't normally do this, but I just want to clarify the specific economic/societal conditions that were responsible for those prices before we make the deal. Also, I kind of already have your soul.".
gee Nancy was there a reason gas was cheap in 2020? Might it have had something to do with the economic and societal collapse we were enduring?
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I'm done with this whole narrative that old white men (e.g. Biden/Sanders) are "sacrificing" themselves like a common Christ for the benefit of the nation. They want to be president. It's a cool thing. They're not donating a kidney.
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I am writing a screenplay about the stylist whose act of resistance is dressing McCain in progressively more absurd outfits.
NutMeg McCain has another temper tantrum when she uses Trump's rally numbers to prove how popular he is in a small Pennsylvania town and Sunny points out -- people had to drive there.
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This is presented as if Democrats lost ground in the South. Abrams and O'Rourke, while losing, came closer than any Democrat had in decades. Meanwhile, Dems flipped Michigan and Wisconsin. The Times is deliberately choosing certain narratives.
After painful losses, Democrats in the South face a dilemma: Appeals to progressives cost them the rural white voters who often decide elections.
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I get what Democrats mean when they say the GOP is no longer the party of Reagan, but it still feels like watching the end of GOODFELLAS and noting that they aren’t the same fun-loving gangsters from the start of the movie. This was all headed in a certain direction.
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Always on message. And yet so many pundits thought she was the weak link in the Biden/Harris ticket.
CNN: Do you believe that women will make the difference in this election?. KAMALA HARRIS: I believe all Americans are gonna make the difference. And I intend to be a president for all Americans.
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If conservatives believe that businesses have the right to refuse service to gay people, then they should believe businesses have the right to refuse service to unmasked customers. This is of course predicated on conservatives not being full of shit.
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There is a significant black population in red states. This is why some progressives fail to connect to black voters, who feel either ignored or directly targeted by crap like this.
If we had a Democrat with balls when we take over, they’d cut off funding to red states & make them beg for their handout. Almost all of them are welfare queens who live off the blue states. Republican run states are on average miserable failures who take more from federal govt.
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That was literally HRC’s DNC speech. Most of what she said about Trump was so prescient, it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s footage of her saying, “Seriously, this guy will toss paper towels into a Puerto Rican crowd after a hurricane.".
@SER1897 Can any of us really say that we foresaw all the stupid / racist / irresponsible shit Trump eventually went on to do? He took us ALL by surprise on the details. You cannot tell me you said in 2016, "this guy will toss paper towels into a Puerto Rican crowd after a hurricane.".
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@MaxKennerly @SenTomCotton It’s the inherent white supremacist theory that every belated achievement from Black people is an example of our working hard enough to break the barrier. There’s no acknowledgement of the institutional racism that erected the barriers.
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