Susan Kristol
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The threat of evaluation by
@ratemyskyperoom
has brought about what 45 years of wifely nagging could not do: Bill finally organized his bookshelves.
A library to admire. Delightfully overstuffed. Love the peek into dining room. 9/10
@BillKristol
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It is now time for every GOP officeholder to come out forcefully against Donald Trump. It's not enough just to decry the KKK and Nazis.
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She wouldn't need to mention her "head held high" if she truly believed she had acted honorably as Trump's spokesperson.
Today I’ll walk out the gates of the White House for the last time as Press Secretary with my head held high. It’s been the honor and privilege of a lifetime to work with President
@realDonaldTrump
and his amazing team the last three and a half years. You’re the best...Thank you!
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Leges sine moribus vanae: Laws without morals are useless. (Motto of UPenn) There is no law, tax cut, immigration ban, treaty, tariff deal, or judgeship that can balance the terrible damage Trump has done to our national character and civic life.
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Antivax ministers in Appalachian Virginia saying that "God is stronger than any virus" reminds me of the old joke about the man stranded on his roof during a flood. A canoe comes to rescue him and he says no, God will save me. A motorboat comes by... 1/2
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This Marine Mom disagrees with the article below. The National Anthem is a chance to reflect what makes America great, not just praise our military. It's not a prayer for the fallen or for our troops. And football is just a game, not a time to beat our chests about patriotism.
No more taking a knee. The
@NFL
released its new policy requiring staff and players to stand during the
#NationalAnthem
.
#IWcul
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Does military leadership not have a clue as to which "failures in education, communication, or leadership" are to blame for widespread service members' vaccine refusal? How about the steady exposure to Fox News on military bases?
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The rituals of patriotism used to bring us together. But not under our demagogic, narcissistic president.
HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It will be called “A Salute To America” and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!
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Our president has a tiny, shriveled heart.
Trump nixed an official White House statement Saturday that praised McCain as a “hero” and applauded his life, saying he wanted to tweet instead. No kind words for McCain in the tweet. My story:
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the man says to God, "I was a good person, why didn't you save me?" God says, "Well, I sent two boats and a helicopter." (end)
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When your legal argument leads you to talk about murder vs manslaughter during an impeachment trial, you may not be serving your client well.
#Trumpdefense
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Don't let military parade, Omarosa, Brennan, and Manafort stories (all important) drown out this major disgrace.
BREAKING: Trump administration releases latest numbers on migrant kids it separated from parents.
This is most detailed data we've seen so far.
➡️ 2,654 total kids separated.
➡️ 565 *still* separated; 24 are 0-5 year olds.
➡️ Parents of 366 *already* deported; 6 are 0-5.
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We have a crazed man as our president. Which is scarier: this tweet, or the fact that people I know think it's perfectly fine, even justified, that our president acts like this?
DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
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If there is indeed life after death, it's comforting to know that I as a Jew will not have to spend eternity with Pastor Jeffress. Can you imagine?
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@stephenfhayes
Um, who should I vote for? The candidate who tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power by various schemes, or the one who is a little too liberal for my taste? Not a hard choice.
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He loves fences and walls. Such a builder.
More fencing going up around the White House complex early this morning
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My act of resistance today: Walking over to an unused exercise bike in my gym that had Fox News playing on the screen, and pushing the off button. Zap!
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Watching press conference. My reaction to Trump: loathing.
My reaction to Pence: nausea. Admiral Giroir: scepticism
Dr. Fauci: relief to hear a straight shooter.
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Any time GOP officials or representatives stand up for the rule of law these days, it's a pleasant surprise.
#ELB
: Pennsylvania GOP Legislative Leadership Unequivocally Rules Out the Possibility of Trying to Appoint Alternative Slate of Presidential Electors
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.
@BillKristol
has mastered two difficult technologies--the coffee maker and the cell phone. Proud!
I just proved I was all there--I aced a cognitive test! I put coffee in the machine, turned it on, waited till it brewed, poured a cup, and found Twitter on my phone. My wife was very surprised. She said, "That’s an unbelievable thing, rarely does anyone do what you just did."
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@kylegriffin1
I think we've already seen that running a chain of hotels does not qualify someone to conduct foreign policy.
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Agree 100%.
This narrative — that the President will beat COVID-19 because he is strong and a fighter — is 200000 plus insults. Those who have died didn’t do so because they were lacking the will. It was because our government was weak in its response and didn’t fight for them.
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People claiming to be big-time patriots and lovers of the troops have chosen to "forget" how shamefully candidate Trump treated the Khan family, making fun of Mrs. Khan's not speaking at the convention when she was overwhelmed with emotion.
Liberals cared when her husband excoriated a Gold Star father. You said nothing.
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One of the funniest things about this tweet about
#Pershing
(since laughing beats crying) is Trump's starting it with the word "Study."
Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!
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Happy anniversary to my wonderful husband
@BillKristol
. 42 years of happy book shopping together.
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And the man rejects the motorboat bec "God will save me." A helicopter hoovers overhead and the man refuses to climb the ladder bec "God will save me." The waters rise and he drowns. Later, in heaven 2/3
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@NoahCRothman
It only took you 9 paragraphs to get to "But the Democrats..." There is no comparison between mobs looting, as has happened throughout our history, and a President inciting a mob to attack the heart of our democracy to overturn an election.
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In thinking about Afghanistan, people should not just refer to the number of troops who died in Afghanistan. There were so so many who were grievously wounded and bravely learned how to move on with their lives. And families who suddenly had to change their expectations. (Thread)
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@SarahLongwell25
@stephenfhayes
@JonahDispatch
I have voted for one of the two Pres candidates in every election since 1972. Some were R, some D. I can’t understand a person being so fastidious that you can’t bring yourself to make a choice. And I’m not going to hang my head. Proud and excited to vote for Kamala Harris.
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Liar.
Amid criticism, Fox News host Laura Ingraham claims her comments about "demographic changes" have been distorted.
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Ken Cucinelli exemplifies why I feel no hesitation in moving away from the Virginia GOP as a voter. I couldn't stand him in 2013. Worse now.
@TedDavisSAV
@MeghanMcCain
It's too bad she can't participate in a funeral instead of lobbing political hand grenades.
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Smart plan
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So true.
Impeachment is “divisive” only if there’s an actual *divide* about the President’s conduct. If you’re ok with what he did, stand up and say it. But don’t hide behind weasel words like “divisive.”
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Christian conservatives, are you pleased with the tone that Donald Trump has brought to the White House?
I thought this was a parody. It's not.
NB: Parental discretion advised
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If this is how Trump acts during his first term, when he has to be thinking about re-election, can you imagine how uncontrolled he would be in a second term?
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After 44 years of marriage he's beginning to see the truth!
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Our president is a dangerous liar. That's a lot more important and scary than worries about how Biden might promote the 1619 Project. As a conservative academic I feel NO QUALMS about voting for Biden. First things first.
@bariweiss
@nfergus
@DavidAFrench
Trump has now said twice today that the CDC found that 85% of people who wear masks catch the coronavirus. This is transparently ridiculous, not even close to what the CDC study said. I'll have a piece soon.
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Stop it
@GovernorVA
Youngkin. If the Civil War was really about “states’ rights,”(a myth), the “right” they were fighting for was the right to enslave people. Time to move on to the 21st century and drop the Lost Cause myth.
Youngkin appoints Confederate statue defender to VA state board:
“These statues were built to tell the true story of the American South to people 500 years from now"--that the Civil War was fought for the “sovereignty of each state and constitutional law.”
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This thread.
I want to talk about the phrase “monkey it up,” because as someone who managed a car repair shop in Texas, I know what that phrase means.
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This is what happens to a brain that has been pickled by watching too much Fox News.
Trump to Values Voter Summit: "We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values…We’re saying ‘merry Christmas’ again."
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This could be America, recovering from its Trumpian nightmare.
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I really don't care, do U?
Ex-National Security Council spokesman cancels CNN appearance over "atrocious" coverage of Trump-Putin summit
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It's not Easter he cares about, it's the Easter vacation revenue for his resorts.
Somehow I doubt Donald Trump will be attending a packed church on Easter Sunday.
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I'm waiting for Vice President Pence to say that Anthony Scaramucci "has a plain-spoken way about him."
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There are plenty of entities in our lives to be loyal to, but the idea of being a "lifetime member" of any particular political party seems increasingly ridiculous.
Vote for Trump? These Republican Leaders Aren’t on the Bandwagon
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In 2016 Trump disparaged Mexicans, a Muslim Goldstar family, a disabled reporter and Sen. McCain‘s capture in battle. It was clear then he was a despicable man who should never be our president no matter how many conservative judges he might choose. No one should be shocked now.
"Hutchinson’s testimony was a withering indictment of America’s 45th president. But it was also, if less directly, an indictment of his party, his supporters, his acolytes, those who went silent and those who spoke up on his behalf."
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While we're still it, let's stop talking about "real Americans."
@BrookingsInst
Not a critique at all, but I hope we can all retire the phrase "American Heartland" since it implies that the middle of the country is more the heart of America than anywhere else. Yes, Des Moines is the heartland, but so is Hilo and Brooklyn and Santa Clara and Miami.
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It's hard to believe his outraged denial when there are two wives making similar claims, photographs, and an emergency protective order. Most husbands are not like that, just as most presidents are not like Donald Trump.
The White House staff secretary is resigning after 2 ex-wives accused him of physical abuse. He denies the allegations.
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@BillKristol
was so busy defending me from dinosaurs that he didn't even notice the saber-toothed tiger that I killed singlehandedly.
.
@SusanKristol
counted on me to defend her from dinosaurs, and so far at least I’ve come through.
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Going to the Post Office is unpleasant enough already without having to view photos of the President and VP.
How about legislation suggesting post offices display a facsimile of the Declaration and the Constitution, and that's it? This would be a good moment to reverse the creepy, anti-republican, and century-long trend towards quasi-adulation of the president.
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@SarahLongwell25
I bet more "childless Democrats" are getting vaccines that actually protect children ("our future") from COVID than the average J D Vance supporter.
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I wasted so many years of my life defending Republicans.
Virginia GOP Deletes Tweets Accusing Dem Challenger of 'Turning His Back' on Family Heritage. via
@WeeklyStandard
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Even had there not been the murder by the driver plowing into protestors, the white Nazi rally would have been sickening and chilling.
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This does not look like a man who is enjoying being president.
Trump walked out of an executive order signing ceremony without having signed the executive orders
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It's actually more important for people whose ancestors didn't come from "one of those countries" to be speaking out.
DNC chair hits Trump for "shithole countries" comment: "My parents came from one of those countries"
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Don Jr sounds like a cross between Rush Limbaugh and Ted Cruz, minus the brains.
This looks and sounds like an extremist video posted from a bunker of undisclosed location
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Dear young people: lighten up.
Sarah Cooper resonates with Boomer parents, but Zoomers and Millennials see her humor as folding fascism, hate and violence into simple clownery
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Why are words like Larry Gatlin’s so hard for GOP senators to comprehend? “I have come to believe that while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is … a step in the right direction toward trying to prevent the kind of tragedy we saw this week in Uvalde…”
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This story, like so many re the Trump world, reminds me of Sen. McCain's comment from last May: “This scandal is going to go on. I’ve seen it before. This is a centipede. I guarantee you there will be more shoes to drop, I can just guarantee it."
Lobbyist changed locks to get Trump EPA chief to move out of his condo: report
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"From his example...I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred." --Booker T. Washington, reflecting on Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute.
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I love ducks, so I hope it's not too insulting to them if I say that this video of hurried, lockstep duck ambulation reminds me of Republican elected officials.
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There are 58,320 names on the Vietnam War memorial. Today Johns Hopkins lists the number of deaths in the US from COVID-19 as 46,583.
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"It frankly is about time Democrats learned to exercise power in the gray areas where no clear precedent exists, a place where Republicans have operated with impunity."
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#dontmakemelaugh
department: Trump campaign sending out Ivanka in last-ditch effort to win over suburban women: report
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And while I'm talking about this... Let's make sure our immigration policy makes it possible to protect and reward the interpreters and their families who risked their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq to help our sons and daughters. There is room in our huge country for all of them.
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Reaction to FEMA director: horror
Who is this bozo.
Watching press conference. My reaction to Trump: loathing.
My reaction to Pence: nausea. Admiral Giroir: scepticism
Dr. Fauci: relief to hear a straight shooter.
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Bravo to these people who refuse to be disenfranchised.
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Trump calling the shooters "monsters": implies mass killers are a mysterious, non-human force we can't try to control with legislative remedies as mundane as banning assault weapons sales. Similar to his calling gang members "animals" in May 2018.
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It is possible to regret the outsized publicity given to the bad ideas of Reps AOC, Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley and also be repulsed by President Trump's remarks. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
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The quotation marks around the "l" are priceless.
Remember, Republicans are 5-0 in Congressional Races this year. The media refuses to mention this. I said Gillespie and Moore would lose (for very different reasons), and they did. I also predicted “I” would win. Republicans will do well in 2018, very well!
@foxandfriends
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The parenthetical (and others) is priceless.
Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation...They went back home in tatters!
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One sad side effect of Roy Moore's candidacy: his fake cowboy look is ruining my enjoyment of country music.
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It’s hard to understand how any member of the services, and veteran, or their families, could possibly vote for Donald Trump. John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics
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I've been confusing Roseanne Barr and Rosie O'Donnell. They do have one thing in common: I don't want to watch either of them.
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Mueller at work.
Herakles, helped by Iolaos, killing the Lernaean Hydra, c520 BC, Getty Museum, USA..
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He sees himself as a performer.
Phoenix crowd last night was amazing - a packed house. I love the Great State of Arizona. Not a fan of Jeff Flake, weak on crime & border!
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The TX abortion's provision for citizens to rat out their neighbors reminds me scarily of the China one-child policy in reverse, with its paid informants--"womb police."
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Good news for the Kristol family: it is not illegal to dislike or criticize Trump. “Neither politically opposing Plaintiff, disliking Plaintiff, nor engaging in political speech about Plaintiff that casts him in a negative light is illegal.”
Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against Hillary Clinton over 2016 election
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Yes, real Americans always have to deal with hush money. For example, my personal lawyer has had to pay hush money to my neighbors so they won't complain when I accidentally leave my trash bin on the edge of their lawn.
👋🏼BUH-BYE, RUDY👋🏼
Greenberg-Traurig law firm **forces** Rudy Giuliani to resign after Rudy claimed it was “common practice” for Greenberg-Traurig to pay HUSH MONEY for their clients.🤔
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out‼️🤣😂🤣
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@AprilPonnuru
@McCormickProf
@RameshPonnuru
Over four years and many judicial appointments Trump has not influenced public opinion or passed legislation or won judicial decisions to save a single unborn life. However 200,000+ real people have died and countless others become very ill due to his "leadership."
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I just called my Congresswoman Barbara Comstock's office 202-225-5136 and encourage anyone else in the district to do the same if you are as outraged as I am by the separation of children from their families at the border. Be a leader, Rep. Comstock! Please retweet.
New at
@CookPolitical
: following the
#VA10
primary, Rep. Barbara Comstock (R)'s race vs. state Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D) moves from Toss Up to Lean Democratic.
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Reverse Midas touch: Trump transmutes things into a coarser, more polluted version of themselves: patriotism, the National Anthem, the flag, love of Israel, pride in our military. Now July 4th.
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My parents often used the expression "Get back on the horse," but at the time it never occurred to me that in some families (Reagan, McCain) an actual horse was involved.
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Don't you miss Everett Koop, the iconic Surgeon General of my lifetime?
C. Everett Koop, Forceful U.S. Surgeon General, Dies at 96
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Soon the GOP will be left with only old reactionaries and young fanatics. "28-year-old GOP activist from Virginia quits Republican Party over Trump’s remarks."
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Kind of like the meeting between Solozzo and Don Corleone, where Sonny makes the mistake of trying to intervene?
"You Just Fucked It All Up, Mick."
President Trump chastised his new chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, over his handling of shutdown talks, creating an awkward scene in front of congressional leaders of both parties.
@jonathanvswan
scoops
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@NancyAFrench
@rushlimbaugh
@DavidAFrench
Welcome to the "Rush Reviles My Husband" club. We have more fun.
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Silly me, I had thought the problem with GOP Senators and representatives was a missing spine.
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BRB... securing our household router!
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Leaving poor, defenseless Donald with absolutely no way to communicate his lies to the American people. Sob, sob.
THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE.
THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.
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Nothing changes if nothing is changed. Where are the concrete legislative proposals from the defenders of gun rights? If you have none to propose, you must be happy with the status quo. You think the answer is to ban violent video games? Where’s your bill? 1/2
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"Though the mills of God grind slowly,
yet they grind exceeding small.
Though with patience He stands waiting,
with exactness grinds He all." --Longfellow, "Retribution"
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Build safer school buildings? Where’s the funding? (But how does that prevent shootings in stores and workplaces?) Require church attendance? Ban divorce? Expand medical schools to train more mental health providers? Where are your bills?
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These Marines, sailors, soldiers, and airmen are still dealing with the consequences of their service. Where is the honor and respect we owe them, Mr. President? How do they feel knowing you wanted to invite theTaliban to Camp David? It fills me with rage on their behalf.
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1. Frequent Lies and Exaggerations
2. Rarely Admit Flaws and Are Highly Aggressive When Criticized
3. False Image Projection
4. Rule Breaking and Boundary Violation
5. Emotional Invalidation and Coercion
6. Manipulation: The Use or Control of Others as an Extension of Oneself
If you start typing "difference between gaslighting and...," "lying" pops up on Google. That's how common the question is. Here's a psychologist's guide to narcissists and gaslighters that is scarily reminiscent of the president.
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