Doug Powers
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Workin' double time on the seduction line. That plus writing about politics & the media. But mostly writing about politics & the media.
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As long as the servants are masked, the virus won’t spread amongst the elite. It’s just good science.
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A bag of coke was found at the White House a couple years ago and the media yawned, but they'll go back a few decades for this one.
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You can tell a Democrat is president because this isn’t preceded by “as thousands more Americans die from Covid-19...”
Joe Biden, playing as Luigi, wins in Mario Kart race against granddaughter at Camp David
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My mom died today at the age of 88 with many loved ones at her bedside. She loved her family, loved her country, loved listening to talk radio (especially Rush), and loved life in general with the exceptions of numerous Lions and Tigers losing seasons. I'll miss her.
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My daughter who died just short of her 4th birthday in 1996 would have been 29 years old today. Make sure to hug your kids. Life is precious.
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“Suspect had 21 prior arrests.”
Twenty. One.
But at least they’re holding Trump accountable for the crime of taking out loans and paying them back.
BREAKING: NYPD officer shot during traffic stop in Queens has died from his injuries; suspect had 21 prior arrests
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These are the people who are going to "save the planet."
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These people knew the whole time and were just hoping nobody was noticing.
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SNL knows that the virus is only at risk of spreading during the closing credits.
#Science
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Hey
@Politico
, the person who called off the ABC debate was Joe Biden.
Trump calls off ABC debate, suggests Fox News face-off instead
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Apparently a president can limit a hire to a certain sex and race, and say so publicly, but if any other employer does that they’re breaking federal law.
BREAKING: Just over three-quarters of Americans (76%) want Pres. Biden to consider "all possible nominees," while 23% want him to follow through on his commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, per a new
@ABC
News/Ipsos poll.
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So Kamala Harris, do you stand by your tweet calling Smollett news a “modern day lynching”?
#HominaHominaHomina
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This should be Biden's official presidential portrait that hangs in the White House for the coming decades.
Biden walks away as reporters shout questions about Russia and Ukraine
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Hard to believe this guy can’t get above zero percent, isn’t it?
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“Fossil fuel emissions are killing us, which is why me and my congressional Democrat colleagues have chartered a jet to Spain.”
Nancy Pelosi says protecting the planet is "a public health decision" ahead of next week's annual international climate summit
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They can track down Trump supporters who broke wind within 50 yards of the Capitol on Jan. 6th but finding out who brought a bag of coke into the heavily surveilled WH and left it there is just too much to hope for? Ok.
White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official
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Can somebody at the
@WhiteHouse
please explain the science behind when
@JoeBiden
does and doesn’t wear a mask?
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Not pictured: Bystanders.
Watch: President Biden departs Cred Cafe in Detroit and waves to bystanders outside ahead of his appearance at an NAACP dinner Sunday.
🎥: Tianna-Marie Rossed
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What a difference two years and a different president makes!
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Always fun when somebody who works in government thanks somebody else in government for saddling others who didn’t agree to the debt for paying the loans off. My son who works 12 hours a day installing metal roofs will be impressed with how his tax dollars are being spent.
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They’re not coming across that way, they are that way, and then some.
CNN’s Van Jones: “Democrats are coming across” as “annoying and offensive and seem out of touch.”
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Sorry
@NYGovCuomo
but the Democrats have spent the last few years informing me I'm obligated to believe her.
Gov. Cuomo denies ex-aide's sexual harassment allegations: 'It's just not true'
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Biden hands Breyer his mask. Breyer puts it in his pocket. Biden walks away maskless.
#Science
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The Left: We're going to ban guns and ammo!
Also the Left: Why are people hoarding guns and ammo?
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The moral high ground shtick from a family full of serial philanderers and a senator who left a lady to drown and was never held accountable because of their privilege is something else.
"I can only imagine how Donald Trump's outrageous lies and behavior would horrify my father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy..."
WATCH: Kerry Kennedy slams former President Donald Trump and officially announces the Kennedy family's endorsement for President Joe Biden.
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Trump should fill all empty seats with middle class Americans benefitting from tax cuts
Maxine Waters to Boycott Trump's SOTU: He's the 'Most Despicable Human Being'
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Biden f***ing up the entire country.
Media:
New satellite photos allegedly show Trump's destruction of sensitive sand dunes despite promises to preserve them
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If only Biden could have been a senator for 40 years and VP for 8 years he could have done something about these systemic problems.
#OhWait
Joe Biden: "We can't leave this moment thinking that we can once again turn away."
"The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism; to deal with the growing economic inequity that exists in our nation; to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation."
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And what happens if you refuse to participate in the "mandatory buyback" to get rid of guns? I'm guessing the gov't sends people with guns to your house.
UPDATED:
#NewZealand
bans sale of semi-automatic rifles, institutes mandatory buyback program
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"Coming up on CNN, we'll discuss how OAN spreads misinformation, and we'll be joined by Dan Rather, Michael Avenatti and Russia collusion myth monger Rep. Adam Schiff to discuss."
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Wife and I were just informed at a family breakfast that we’re going to be first time grandparents. We’ll be a tad verklempt for the rest of the day. God is great.
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Pretty harsh slam on Martha's Vineyard residents.
Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors
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Me: I think these gummies are duds.
20 minutes later:
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Blumenthal lecturing Kavanaugh over credibility and truth is right up there with Ted Kennedy looking down his nose at Clarence Thomas about sexual harassment.
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Stopped at the picket line just long enough so taxpayers had to pick up the tab for him to crop dust the country with jet exhaust to go tell donors to give him money so he can stop climate change.
After spending about 12 minutes at the UAW picket line and just over an hour total in Michigan, Biden boards AF1 using the short stairs and heads to California for a ritzy fundraiser with Hollywood liberals
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➡️ Be open to homelessness.
➡️ Don’t get too attached to your pets because you might have to eat them.
➡️ Keep repeating “this isn’t Biden’s fault.”
Inflation stings most if you earn less than $300K. Here's how to deal:
➡️ Take the bus
➡️ Don’t buy in bulk
➡️ Try lentils instead of meat
➡️ Nobody said this would be fun
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Ever notice the people who say this never start their own business to show everybody how it’s done?
This is not complicated. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a viable business model.
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I'm totally over this brand of "I live in luxury while you should barely exist in an unheated cave in order to save the planet" billionaire asshole.
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Just think what this headline would have been a year ago.
Inflation is up. The stock market is down. Here’s why you shouldn’t panic.
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The fast transition in the last couple weeks from the Woodward "bombshell" to The Atlantic's debunked anonymously sourced crap to the "$750 in taxes" story to the Melania tape signals desperation from the Dems. Which is weird since we're told Joe's up by at least 10 points.
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Based on the lack of details from the media about the Brooklyn subway shooting suspect is it safe to assume that he isn't a huge Trump supporter?
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I'm officially convinced the irresponsible freakout is around 90-percent based in partisan politics, which is the real contagion here.
Obama left Trump a growing economy, a shrinking deficit, an office on global health security to manage pandemic preparedness, and an Iran Deal.
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It’s pretty crazy how the left wants everybody to be alarmed by Trump’s rhetoric after 3.5 years of this:
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A few years ago the refs negated a Calvin Johnson touchdown catch because he didn’t “complete the process” for something similar to this. Guess that’s not a thing anymore,
@NFL
?
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Biden supporter not happy about inevitable effect of Biden EO on evictions, blames landlord. Perfect Democrat.
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Guess what story is about to fall off CNN and MSNBC's radar.
Reuters: Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina met with government officials during Obama administration
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“Fight like hell for fundamental freedoms” — LOL!
Today I’m launching Fight Like Hell PAC to support candidates who fight like hell for working people and their fundamental freedoms.
It’s time to build on our momentum and support candidates who will deliver real, meaningful change.
Join us:
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Seems like forever ago that Jim Acosta wanted everybody to think his life was in grave danger while reporting from a Trump rally.
Following days of reporting from the ground in Afghanistan, CNN's Clarissa Ward boarded a flight out of the country
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My sister got thrown off one of her horses yesterday and fractured several vertebrae. Will be in the hospital for quite a while and isn’t feeling well at all. If you have room on your evening prayer list please include Lee Ann from Michigan.
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The Secret Service was protecting the wrong person in that crowd.
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@Rogue_40
I will never live anywhere that’s it’s illegal to defend yourself, family and property.
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First maybe remind everybody why you lost your job at CBS News…
I’d like to weigh in on NBC news' recent decision to hire Ronna McDaniel.
By giving her a platform, NBC has given legitimacy to the lies she helped the former president spread.
Now we come to the why. Why would NBC News hire someone as controversial?
Here’s the reason:
News
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This is a thing of beauty and should be mandatory viewing everywhere:
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If this was Trump CNN would already be predicting how many people in that audience he killed by doing this.
After his speech yesterday, a maskless Joe Biden met and shook hands with supporters in the audience.
Today, the White House announced that he tested positive for COVID.
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"It's far too dangerous for in-person voting" say crowds of protesters gathered en masse to call for additional USPS funding.
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Out: Science!
In: Guesstimate.
.
@DanaBashCNN
presses Dr. Fauci on his comments about “moving the goal posts” on herd immunity based on polling. "Why weren’t you straight with the American people about this to begin with?” she asks.
He deflects multiple times. She presses and he says it’s just a “guesstimate."
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So Biden went to Pennsylvania only to end up endorsing Oz? Nice.
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SNL never avoided politics at the border before. What changed??
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We'd like to but you deleted it.
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Note to media types: Whenever you do one of these kinds of hit pieces, the mind of anybody who's been paying attention for the last 3.5 years translates "according to sources" to "we totally made this up."
New, from
@TheAtlantic
: Trump skipped a visit to an American military cemetery in France after calling the dead "losers" for getting killed: Full story here:
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Harris was thinking "can we bring back those reporters who just wanted to help me pick out a coat?"
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*Checking Constitution for the part that says our freedoms are granted by the CDC*
The CDC released guidelines giving limited freedoms to people fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Here are the rules to keep following.
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Damn, I like this guy:
“We're at war with COVID-19, we're at war with terrorists, and we are at war with the drug cartels . . . We're the United States military and we will defend our country." —General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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Good thing Nancy had that fence put back up!
Huge police and media presence, very few actual attendees so far
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Democrats really upping their pro-America midterm messaging game (it’s now been deleted).
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Molly was brave even when terminally ill, and was until the end. Our family continues to take inspiration from her even after all these years.
Hug your kids.
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China state media praises Biden. Yep, it’s going great.
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Because she figured it’d be easier to just declare herself the winner right now to save a lot of time?
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Terry McAuliffe loses in Virginia, "defund the police" idiots lose in Minnesota, close race in New Jersey, and the MLB commish who pulled the All-Star Game out of Atlanta has to congratulate the Braves on winning the World Series? This night is just too much fun.
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“You woke it you bought it”
@GovTimWalz
and
@MayorFrey
.
Great news!
@realDonaldTrump
has DENIED Minnesota's disaster request to repair half a billion dollars in damage from the riots. Governors and Mayors who ordered police to stand down and watch their cities burn shouldn't get a penny in taxpayer aid!
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Bill de Blasio swooped in at the last second to win the "Covid Shutdown Jackass Hypocrite POS of the Year" award (via
@SamanthaRenck
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@GavinNewsom
Don’t you have other things to worry about?
San Francisco is a disaster. No developed nation should ever have cities that look like this. (Via
@darren_stallcup
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Thomas looks like he can’t wait for Kavanagh to take over Anthony Kennedy’s old desk because he hid a snake-in-a-can in the top drawer. RBG not in on joke.
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It's pathetic when the real bullies suddenly try to play the victim.
In New York State, we have no tolerance for bullying. Full stop.
When kids go to school this week, some will choose to keep wearing a mask. Let's make sure we treat them with respect.
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Breaking: Rampant inflation and spiking gas prices have somehow cut poverty the in black community, Biden claims.
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@jtLOL
RBG literally lobbied to the press against a particular presidential candidate in 2016. Crickets from the media firefighters.
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Possibly one of the most
#Merica
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This can’t be possible. Michael Moore and other lefties have assured us Cuba’s system is health care utopia and should be a model for the US.
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Yeah, Biden’s strategy of scrapping America’s energy independence and begging OPEC to pump more oil is working out great.
.
@VP
in Munich this morning said Americans could “incur some costs” if war breaks out in Europe and points to energy prices. Said U.S. is taking specific steps to mitigate this.
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Biden points out that Fox News is doing well while other cable news outlets are bleeding viewers. I'm sure MSNBC and CNN appreciate that. 😂
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The Pentagon had harsher words about Tucker Carlson than when they let China float a spy balloon across the entire country. Top priorities from Top Men.
“We’re a better country without him bagging on our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people,” one senior DoD official told
@laraseligman
.
‘Good riddance’: Pentagon officials cheer Tucker Carlson’s ouster
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Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971 and his family fled the country to the U.S. in 1975 after the fall of Saigon, but I'm sure Scarborough knows more about the details than the author does.
Please don’t embarrass yourself by comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam or the events of the past week to Saigon in 1975. Dear Lord.
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Coming soon to a Trump ad near you: Keep voting for Democrats if you want this to be your town:
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Just because it's hilarious: As of almost midnight, Eric Swalwell's tweet has 36 retweets and 130 likes -- Reply featuring photo of Chick-fil-A sandwich has 1,250 retweets and 3,675 likes.
#ChickFilAForPresident
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How Swalwell thinks he looks vs. how he actually looks.
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This includes a television audience I assume.
DNC announces Sunday's primary debate will be held without an audience because of coronavirus outbreak
#CNNelection
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@RealSaavedra
"It reinforces every bad stereotype about the news media." Er, if it happens regularly, which it does, it's not a stereotype -- it's the norm.
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