John Ziegler
@Zigmanfreud
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Highly-opinionated/contrarian-minded commentator who has disdain for the news media & a world-class BS-detector. Host of “The Death of Journalism” podcast/Dad.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2012
10 years after the “Penn State Scandal”:. The 1st episode of our EPIC “WTBOH” podcast with co-host @LizHabib has been posted, along with over 17 hours of exclusive/mind-blowing interviews. As is all too common, the media/experts got this story 100% wrong!.
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Sorry, when you put up Trump as your candidate for three straight cycles, you don’t get to make an issue out of this sort of stuff….
Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff cheated on his first wife with daughter Ella's nanny Najen Naylor - and got her PREGNANT
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It’s SO weird that Barack Obama (the “Muslim”) knew all the words to the Apostles’ Creed, and Donald Trump (the Evangelical hero) didn’t know any of them, and didn’t even bother to read them. #GeorgeHWBushFuneral.
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This is Jim Nantz strolling Pebble Beach (where he lives) in the morning and providing what appears to be a random stranger with the golf experience of a lifetime….🔥♥️
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For those scoring at home, save this Fox News graphic praising Mueller's biography for when they now decide he's the devil incarnate #Frauds
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Holy Crap!!. I had not seen this old Kamala Harris clip, but it legitimately may be the scariest thing I have ever heard a presidential nominee say at any point in their professional career!. WTH???!!!! 😱😡🤮
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Uh, Trump even considering a pardon for Manafort is outrageous, but aren't we missing the real headline here?! . The president of the United States just commented against a federal prosecution while the jury in the case is deliberating!. WTH?!. We are SO dangerously desensitized!.
Trump not saying if he would pardon Manafort when he's asked . but sounds like he may. "I think the whole Manafort trial is very sad . I think that's a very sad day for our country . I think it's very sad what they've done to Paul Manafort.".
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Please always remember that Joe Biden is an honest man of good character… .😂😡🤮
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Congratulations everyone who wanted this 12-team playoff, you somehow managed to make the two biggest upset losses of the regular season COMPLETELY meaningless, and probably helpful to the teams which got beat…. Oh, and neither finalist even played a conference title game!.😂🤮.
OHIO STATE AND NOTRE DAME‼️. THE CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IS SET 🏆
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When Trump was nominated I stopped being a Republican until he was gone. When he turned GOP into a corrupt cult, I extended that to probably the rest of my life. After the treatment of Mitt Romney & today’s #pettysburgaddress I’ll now try to make sure my kids are not Republican.
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I know Boston is a huge college town, but this Sanders rally today. holy crap!!!!.
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Asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 didn’t occur at all, study of 10 million finds
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I hate Trump, but these guilty verdicts are an abomination and a very dark day for America. 😡🤮🥲.
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@APFactCheck @AP Translation: The same “experts”/media who are credibly accused of creating/enabling the mass formation psychosis would like to assure us that no such reality exists….
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By far the best (non political) commentary on the catastrophic Los Angeles fires has been this one by @dateline_keith for @DatelineNBC . Keith Morrison is one of the last remaining pros in TV news…
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I know this is sacrilegious for a life-long Republican to say, and my first documentary film was intended to harm her in 2008, but I would feel SO much better (and the GOP would be SO much better off in the long run), if this person, with whom I have huge issues, had won in 2016.
Let us be clear: The president has sided with authoritarian leaders of Turkey and Russia over our loyal allies and America’s own interests. His decision is a sickening betrayal both of the Kurds and his oath of office.
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I never thought we’d see the day when Republicans would make career civil servants & war heroes the bad guys in defense of a life-long liberal, draft-dodging conman, or that only Democrats could be relied upon to defend our national security & the rule of law. #ImpeachmentHearing.
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I’ve been very skeptical of the “Long COVID” narrative, but I’m now convinced I too have it. Major symptoms:. My net worth is effectively about 25% less. My 4th grader is about 50% of where she should be in school. My confidence in future of the USA is 75% less.#stockmarketcrash.
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Can we please give @GovRonDeSantis a big thank you for turning Florida, which used to be a purple state, into a true red state, probably permanently?!. Absolutely amazing!.🔥👏.
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Florida Rate Of COVID Infections Third Lowest In U.S. In Last Week
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In the last month, average deaths with COVID in Florida have plummeted by an astounding 95%, all with most schools in session with 0 restrictions & about a dozen major football teams playing in front large crowds. Thankfully, the news media is sure to get to the bottom of this!
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This may be my last tweet for a while & maybe ever. Tonight, me & 15 relatives enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner, in violation of our King’s guidelines. It was indoors, 0 masks, 0 social distancing, & it was over 2 hrs. I’m assuming the carnage which now ensues will be catastrophic.
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Here is the dramatic evolution of the Pfizer CEO’s position on whether their vaccine stops transmission….#BiggestFraudEver .
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I have seen enough…. Regardless of the final numbers, given economic conditions, Biden’s unpopularity, out of control Wokeness, COVID insanity, & basic historical norms for a midterm election, 2022 is the most underperforming cycle for the GOP in my lifetime. Why?. Donald Trump.
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So, who ordered the “Code Red” on Jon Gruden, and why?!.
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@OrangeCoSheriff @MyNews13 What are the chances any mainstream media outlet explores how/why it is a guy who killed a child AND a reporter was VERY clearly trying to use the “I can’t breath!” narrative in a desperate attempt to create a problematic arrest?!. This is where media narratives have REAL impact.
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@POTUS It Trump had been pro-mask from the start & said this now, the woke crowd would be taking to the streets. This is clearly a move to help the mask cult accept this new edict by making them feel better knowing they can still feel morally superior to, & be allowed to shame, others.
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My extreme confidence in effectiveness of vaccines was misplaced. It was based largely on how well they performed initially in Israel, which is nearly fully vaccinated. The recent data there is horrible with even deaths now picking up. It seems @AlexBerenson was largely right.
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If, like me, you have been longing for a prominent woke liberal, other than Bill Maher, to finally have the scales fall from their eyes & see the total insanity that has been the response to COVID especially in schools, you’ll want to watch this clip of @bariweiss several times!!
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Current behind the scenes CW from those involved in the Jussie Smollett case:. Smollett got into fight with a man he was dating & cheated on, and a friend of that lover. He then concocted the MAGA/Hate-crime cover story & fingered them on GMA, unaware the police knew who they are.
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It is well known that no authentic conservative commentator loathes Donald Trump (for whom I have never voted) more than I do…. And yet, the insanity of this situation is so extreme, and the affront to basic due process so egregious, that we have somehow reached the point where.
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The strangest and most depressing part of this Nikki Haley story is that we have reached the point where people, who were formerly thought to be smart/principled, are now publicly BRAGGING that they put loyalty to an unfit conman & #Cult45 over the concept of saving the country!.
Breaking news: Nikki Haley claims top aides tried to recruit her to "save the country" by undermining Trump
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Sometimes the simplest points are most profound & easily missed. @jaketapper & panel just nailed it here:. How can Team Trump claim #MemoDay was remotely real when Carter Page had already left the campaign when this happened & everyone of them have said he was very minor player?!.
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@Variety This is cherry-picked bullshit. The market in general was way down this week, but in the last two days of trading, since they announced Young was gone and Rogan is staying, their stock is actually up slightly. You moronic hacks have no shame!
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@NBCNews This is one of the most blatantly liberally-biased descriptions of a news story that I have ever seen. .
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If Fox News does not remove Sean Hannity from the air for the remainder of this investigation, or at least prevent him from commenting on anything related to it, they are not a remotely credible media outlet. In other news, Fox News is no longer a remotely credible media outlet.
Too weird to check: Michael Cohen reveals secret third client to be … Sean Hannity
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NO ONE in the corporate media will even mention this, but how sweet is it that Novak Djokovic wins the U.S. Open after being banned multiple times because he refused to be vaccinated, beats another unvaccinated player, and ESPN’s “shot of the day” is sponsored by…. Moderna?!!.😂
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The real-life impact of the Newsom recall failing horribly:. -My 4-year old daughter will now start her public school life next year being forced to mask. -My 9-year old daughter will be forced to wear a mask in school so long that she will stop remembering that she once didn’t.
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I hereby order that all “conservative” media figures who sold their souls to Trump, especially those who have railed against a threat of a tyrannical president (this means you @marklevinshow) never be taken seriously again & be forced to spend eternity with #Cult45 #iherebyorder
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@TheChiefNerd The most outrageous part of this is ABC gets to ream RFK Jr. about vaccines DURING the interview but then censor his ability to even respond, while forcing us to blindly trust them that his claims were “false.”. All this after they were wrong about vaccines stopping transmission.
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Once again, Coach Prime is the greatest Trojan Horse of conservative thought infiltrating the Wokeness of liberal academia, possibly in history….🔥♥️💪. Please do NOT alert the morons on the liberal sports media! 😂
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There were a lot of brilliant/cathartic moments in the mostly really good season premiere of #SouthPark but this one was probably my favorite.
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Here, a USC senior who was robbed of a high school graduation by the COVID Panic reacts to USC cancelling her college commencement because of an anti-Israel valedictorian and fear of protests…. This is the world that liberals want and are creating for her and her generation.😡🥲
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The media is covering the impeachment FAR more than Roger Stone’s trial, which seems rational, until you realize that, in OJ Simpson terms, Ukraine is the Las Vegas heist, & the Roger Stone trial is like if Kato Kaelin had finally been forced to admit in court OJ did the murders!.
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@JustBins Attractive women fulfilling men’s sexual fantasies…. Pretty much undefeated since the beginning of time. 😂.
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It seems like an underrated story that the president of USA gave what was allegedly his “most important speech” yesterday, it wasn’t on live TV, and got so little coverage that many people (including myself) had absolutely no idea it even happened. Nothing about this is healthy.
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If you saw #LeavingNeverland or just care about truth, my new story, which includes 2 exclusive interviews, is a must read/listen. How could a documentary omit that Wade Robson was dating Michael Jackson’s niece Brandi while allegedly being abused by him?!
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My loathing of Donald Trump is very well known, but this is an extremely disturbing video, especially given the lawsuit Letitia James announced today….
“We’re definitely gonna sue him we’re gonna be a real pain in the ass.”. Letitia James is an unhinged, left-wing political activist.
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@SykesCharlie @vermontgmg But, thank goodness, we have a POTUS who is expert on Middle East, has strong military record of service, is renown for his self-control & unwillingness to allow his emotions/self-interest control his decision-making, and isn’t facing an impeachment trial or re-election campaign!.
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Dear Media:. Next time you’re baffled about why Trump supporters don’t believe a damn thing you report about the Russia scandal, please think back to how you handled Brett Kavanaugh, “Covington Catholic,” & Jussie Smollett. & then please blame yourself when Trump is re-elected.
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@JRubinBlogger Uh, but why couldn’t we do this in May of 2020?! . Oh wait. I remember. Trump needed to be defeated….#TheBigLie.
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@aginnt This belief (which I agreed with until data eventually proved it was clearly false) became a religion on the left because they SO wanted to believe the pandemic would clearly/immediately end under their watch, thus proving what a disaster Trump really was. Now they can’t let go.
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@CharlieCrist We are truly living in a completely upside-down world…. Democrats claiming DeSantis was too restrictive on COVID is like O.J. Simpson saying the LAPD too soft on famous domestic abusers….
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Ted Cruz was with Trump when he could've beaten him & against him when he couldn't. Then he non-endorsed with max damage, & caved for 0 gain.
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Lets be very clear, Mike Lindell, with whom I was once forced to be on at least an hour-long conference call, is WAY more insane than Trump. It’s not even close. Even Diamond & Silk are far more credible than he is.
"Boy do you sell those pillows," Trump says in the Rose Garden of Mike Lindell, introducing the CEO of MyPillow and calling him a "friend." Then invites him to the microphone to speak about how he's helping the response.
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It is a little early for a full autopsy, but what did DeSantis do that almost no other GOPer did?. He openly bragged about his COVID policies and roundly condemned the Democrats for their insanity, going around the news media to educate Floridians about what the truth really was.
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I’m sorry my fellow “conservatives,” but you’ve been conned about who Adam Schiff really is. I disagree with his politics, but that opening argument was really OUTSTANDING. If he was a Republican speaking about Obama/Hillary you’d be cheering!!.#ImpeachmentTrial .#AdamSchiffROCKS.
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@TexasTribune More Accurate Headline: Texas Republicans trying to save female sports by making sure biological males can’t compete where they have an absurdly unfair advantage, while most Democrats and the news media takes the anti-female position.
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This will be interesting. I just did 1st in-person interview since #LeavingNeveland with Michael Jackson’s niece @BJackson82 who dated Wade Robson through his entire teenage years. She explained why she knows he is NOT telling the truth. Interview will be released over weekend
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The saddest/truest part of Sen. Al Franken's speech was him realizing too late (just as I have said) that to treat accusers with respect & issue an apology, in today's messed up world, gets misconstrued as a confession of guilt. This was an innocent man railroaded by his decency.
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We warned from start that once COVID media narrative was set truth would no longer matter. This has been proven by real science now concluding:. -Lockdowns don’t work (Stanford).-Schools shouldn’t be closed (CDC).-Masks are of very little if any help (just as science always said).
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This is why Bloomberg can’t be the savior that many are hoping for. If he’s able to buy the nomination this late, the BernieBots will revolt & either stay home or vote for some Green Party candidate. That’s a recipe for not being able to beat Trump. Sanders has the party hostage.
Bernie Sanders Torches Bloomberg, Accuses Him of Trying to 'Buy the Presidency'
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@DukeATHLETICS You are a disgrace. Choosing to go with a lie to avoid admitting you were wrong & making a black female feel bad, is the very essence of what higher education should NOT be about, but has clearly become, especially at Duke where you should know better after the lacrosse fiasco.
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3 take aways from the Ronan Farrow story that might not be totally obvious:. - It's insane none of this came out during a 15-month campaign.- It may be as dangerous to have a POTUS totally beholden to the National Enquirer as to Russia.- This story will not hurt Trump politically
Uh oh
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My six-year-old daughter just asked me why we are watching the #McCainFuneral I told her it was because John McCain was a hero and because the presidents are going to speak. She responded, "you mean Trump?" . I said, "no." . She said, "Oh, thank ALL the Gods!".#TrueStory.
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@CDCgov The mask cultists in this thread are some of the very dumbest people which Twitter has to offer. #VirtueSignaling.
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As promised, I just met with famed attorney Tom Mesereau. In his 1st extensive interview since #LeavingNeverland aired, he explains why he’s sure Robson & Safechuck are not to be believed. I plan to release part of this via video this week & the whole thing Saturday on my podcast
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@MaxTwain24 Thank you for letting me know that you are an imbecile who should be unfollowed.
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@BusinessInsider Uh, if this had really happened as described, the payment would have been $25,000,000. Therefore, the only logical conclusion is that the story is mostly, if not totally, bullshit, and is being leaked now for “political” reasons.
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@RollingStone Doesn’t the fact that you morons immediately took it this way actually rather strong evidence that what he’s saying is NOT a “bizarre” “conspiracy theory”? . After all, if it was then you would have not connected it to the COVID vaccines so easily! .🤔.
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BTW, the vaccines are not a trivial issue in my life. Not only am I vaccinated, but I spent months convincing my wife to do same. After finally succeeding, the data in the vaccines suddenly went dramatically in the other direction. To say the least, my wife is NOT happy with me.
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100% true story:. My daughter’s 3rd grade teacher told her class “there is 0 magic in the world,” which is a REALLY stupid thing to say as Santa season starts. I told my daughter to ask her teacher, “If there’s no magic, how do our masks stop us from getting an airborne virus?!”.
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I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the current president of the United States broadcasting to 60 million people a unknown comedian’s conspiracy theory that a former POTUS had a sex abuser killed, in a federal prison under the control of the current president. I just can’t.
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@ABC Where is the accountability?! Where are the media/expert apologies?! Where are the lawsuits?!.
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So much of the LIV players being treated poorly by #TheMasters. First round leader Brooks Koepka should have been penalized 2 shots for his caddie giving advice to a competitor. The video evidence couldn’t be more clear, but the players lied, so @TheMasters decided no penalty.🤮
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@POTUS Biden/liberals in 2020: Trump killed hundreds of thousands of Americans with his pathetic COVID response and must be defeated!! We will shutdown the virus!. Biden in 2022 after more people died on his watch than under Trump: Can’t we all just get along?! Virus gonna virus, man!.
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Kramer tried to warn us about mask mandates 25 years early….
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Since the beginning of the Trump nightmare, my primary argument against him is the bad that will come to conservatism & USA will eventually far outweigh whatever short-term good. My brand-new column updates the score on that front, and it isn’t even close.
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Adam Schiff using this Alexander Hamilton quote to George Washington to begin the #TrumpImpeachmentTrial opening arguments is absolutely AMAZING!!!!
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The "Philadelphia Conspiracy" against Trump is quite unusual. You see my former home city is so crafty that they rigged the election for Biden while giving significantly MORE votes for Trump than he got in 2016 & very likely a higher % as well!. 2016: 108K & 15%.2020: 127K & 18%.
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@arghavan_salles Let’s fix this…. “There never was ANY reason to be wearing masks, but especially now that the pandemic has faded into a contagious cold/flu…”. These people are fucking nuts. The only redeeming aspect of this is the Democrats are screwed having to placate these lunatics forever.
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You will not see anything more brilliant than this in describing the simulation that has been the last few weeks of the presidential campaign… 😂🔥
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Kudos to Troy Aikman for finally having enough of this roughing the passer/unnecessary roughness bullshit, and the absurd protection of Patrick Mahomes by the referees, who just called a second key BS penalty on the Texans. THIS IS FLAG FOOTBALL!!. Come on, @NFL !!.😡🤮
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@Bakari_Sellers @KamalaHarris Replace the words Harris with Trump, and black with white, and imagine what the media reaction would be to this overt racism….🤦♂️.
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@APFactCheck This may be THE worst “Narrative Protection Fact Check” of COVID (there have been MANY examples)!. Issue is not that Pfizer “lied”! The issue is that they created an impression the vaccine stops transmission (without even testing for that!) which was the basis of the mandates! 😡.
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The more I listen to #TrumpTapes the less impressed I am. You've DJT secretly recorded in person with his lawyer (which means he's at his MOST open/vulnerable) & all U get is him MAYBE referring to paying "David" in cash, which there is no evidence ever happened?! #NothingBurger.
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@laurenboebert This is classic… The left presumes Boebert is a moron & their leftist propaganda outlets never told them Biden just dramatically declared, “two words: made in America,” so they think she said something moronic, when in actuality it was even more brilliant than she even realized!.
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Alternative Headline: . Female Sex Crimes Prosecutor, Who Could Be a Media Heroine If She Concluded Differently, Outlines Devastating Fact-based Case that Ford’s Allegation is Not True, But Everyone Is Already Too Invested to be Persuaded. .
GOP-hired prosecutor Rachel Mitchell questions credibility of Kavanaugh accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
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My brand-new column may upset some people, but it needed to be said. It is about how Mitt Romney, who I like and have long defended, has disgraced himself by trying to have it both ways with regard to Trump, who he has now enabled. #ReadTheMuellerReport.
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Biggest media blunders on COVID:. -Dismissing lab theory.-0 pushback on lockdowns, especially schools.-Buying bad doomsday projections with 0 later scrutiny.-Censoring non-approved experts.-100% embrace of masks against accepted science.-Not revisiting most narratives when wrong.
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I’m sorry but it is impossible to take #BlackLivesMattter remotely seriously unless they treat the horrendous death of #DavidDorn at least 1/2 as seriously as the horrific death of George Floyd. The disparity in the treatment these 2 events, enabled by the media, is astonishing.
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@Daverotunda @POTUS That’s fucking hilarious that you morons believe this fairytale. Even funnier that none of you blame the guy who told him masks are useless. Dr. Fauci.
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@nypost @NewsPolitics This squatter issue is SO much bigger than just these horrible isolated incidents. This topic is the smoking gun that the government does not believe your property is yours. it belongs to everyone. Eventually, this will mean the end of private property rights as we know them.😡.
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@jrpsaki How about closing schools for over a year over a flu that barely impacts kids?!!!!!.
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So I guess that settles it then. .
AP: Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning the U.S. against using force on Iran, saying it would have catastrophic consequences.
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