Adam Best
@adamcbest
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Screenwriter. 2023/2024 Black List. Arrowhead Addict Podcast. Ex startup guy. Fan of lefty politics. Only one letter away from being Batman. Mgmt: @writlargeinc
Huntsville, AL
Joined November 2008
Twitter grows worse every single day. Highly recommend joining Bluesky if you haven’t, especially if you’re a fellow screenwriter. Anyway, follow me at the good place:
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They said Stephen Hawking had 2 years to live in 1963. They said Stephen Hawking would never speak again in 1985. He stuck around until 2018 with one of the loudest voices on the planet. Nothing kept him from his dreams. We honor him by living the same way.
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USPS ran like clockwork. There was no reason to touch it. But this is what Republicans do. They falsely claim government doesn’t work. Then they sabotage government to prove themselves right and find ways to benefit from that destructive process.
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Conservatives on abortion: We want a ban!. Conservatives on gay marriage: We want a ban!. Conservatives on immigration: We want a ban!. Conservatives on Muslims: We want a ban!. Conservatives on trans military members: We want a ban!. Conservatives on guns: BANS DON'T WORK!!!.
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If trickle-down economics worked at all, like even a teeny-tiny bit, people wouldn’t be flocking to food banks right as the stock market hit its all-time high.
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Fox & Friends accidentally said this about the Singapore summit: "regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators." . This gaffe is probably the most honest thing ever said in the program's history.
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Mark Zuckerberg has made $31.4 billion during a pandemic. That’s the looting we should be talking about.
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Republicans have only won one popular vote in the last 34 years. Democratic Senators represent 40 million more voters than Republican Senators. Doesn’t matter. We have 6 conservative Supreme Court monarchs who call all the shots. This is not what functional democracy looks like.
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Homophobe Mike Pence had to swear in Kyrsten Sinema, the first out bisexual Senator in history, on a law book and not a bible. He seems uncomfortable and she’s having fun with it. This is everything.
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Elizabeth Warren on The View expertly pitches her wealth tax and explains how she'll pay for universal childcare, $800B into public education, etc. without increasing middle-class taxes. The cherry on top is Liz not even acknowledging Meghan McCain's rude interruption attempts.
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This viral video of an alt-right bully failing miserably to rip up an anti-fascism sign as liberals masterfully drag him is the perfect real-life metaphor for political Twitter. Can't stop watching it.
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Japan has the highest video game revenue per capita out of any country. US: 40,000 gun deaths/year. Japan: Less than 10 gun deaths/year. It isn’t video games, it’s the GOP, NRA and white supremacy.
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Look at this deep bomb. Question answered. Kaepernick still has his arm.
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Michelle Obama was such a flawless FLOTUS that her biggest “scandal” was when she told kids to drink water and eat veggies.
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Five years ago we lost the brilliant Robin Williams. His improvised scene in Good Will Hunting made the camera operator laugh so hard the camera started shaking. #RobinWilliams
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Let me get this straight, conservatives think that wearing a mask at Olive Garden to keep people from getting sick is too big of a sacrifice, but kids wearing bulletproof backpacks to school so we don’t have to change our batshit crazy gun laws is totally fine.
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When conservatives attack young activists like David Hogg and Greta Thunberg what they are really saying is “Hey, kids, stop trying to save humanity you’re fucking up how comfortable the status quo is for me.”.
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This Sacha Baron Cohen ADL speech is phenomenal. He absolutely torches Mark Zuckerberg for his moral failings at Facebook. Everybody needs to see this.
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NOT. ONE. SINGLE. REPUBLICAN. IN. CONGRESS. HAS. DENOUNCED. THE. RACIST. TRUMP. TWEETSTORM.
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ESPN feels comfortable with this kind of content from new partner Barstool, while Jemele Hill gets suspended for well-thought-out criticism.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has beaten cancer like 67 times now without a single complaint but Brett Kavanaugh couldn’t make it through the first 10 minutes of his confirmation hearing without crying and screaming. Kinda blows the “women are too emotional for politics” BS to smithereens.
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The thing about Texas Republicans trying to throw out 100K+ ballots is that they've already created racist voter ID laws, closed 750 polling places since 2012, and gerrymandered the bejesus out of districts, but they still need more voter suppression to keep TX from turning blue.
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Ravens players booed for kneeling BEFORE anthem. This was never about the flag. This is racists trying to silence black athletes' First Amendment rights.
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Things adults shouldn't believe:. * The Earth is flat.* Santa Claus is real.* Chocolate milk comes from brown cows.* Corporate tax cuts create jobs and increase wages.
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Andrew McCabe - Republican. James Comey- Republican. Robert Mueller - Republican. Rod Rosenstein - Republican. All of these Republicans are not part of some secret liberal FBI scheme. This ridiculous right-wing fairy tale needs to be put to bed.
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Actor Jeff Daniels eviscerates the Republican Party on MSNBC, stating that they used racism to save their party and are showing cowardice in their refusal to stand up to Trump. Appreciate him using his platform to speak out. This is 🔥.
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Lindsey Graham wants to know how Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, a college professor, paid for a $200 polygraph test. Lindsey Graham apparently doesn't want to know how Brett Kavanaugh paid for $200K in baseball tickets. Reveals a lot of what's wrong with our country and politics.
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A conservative said 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton was “the White House dog.”. A conservative said Michelle Obama should “return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe.”. But Michelle Wolf’s tame Sarah Huckabee Sanders makeup burn at #WHCD was over the line? GTFO.
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*Obama helps save the auto industry*. Rust Belt voter: "Obama didn't do anything for us!". *Trump policies cause GM to close factories, cut 14K jobs*. Rust Belt voter: "It isn't Trump's fault I lost my job!". This is your brain on right-wing propaganda.🤦♂️.
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Elizabeth Warren went on The View and explained her wealth tax and what it would pay for (free college, student debt forgiveness, universal childcare) so well that the crowd went wild. She really knows how to shut down the Republican “bUt HoW aRe YoU gOnNa PaY fOr It?” nonsense.
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*Trump drowns a puppy, pulls it out of the water at the last moment*. Trump: "Not even Lincoln saved a puppy.". Liberals/Media: "You tried to drown it.". Hannity: "The fake news media won't even let Trump save a puppy without attacking him.". MAGA: "Why do liberals hate puppies?".
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Texas hates the federal government so much it has its own outdated power grid. No other state in the country has been quite this stubborn, stupid and self-destructive about energy policy. This crisis is brought to you by deregulation.
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Alex Jones is being sued by six more families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, which he called a hoax. The families have been tormented by him while receiving death threats from his fans. Hope they leave him as financially bankrupt as he is morally bankrupt.
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Poway: AR-15.Aurora: AR-15.Orlando: AR-15.Parkland: AR-15.Las Vegas: AR-15.Sandy Hook: AR-15.Waffle House: AR-15.San Bernardino: AR-15.Midland/Odessa: AR-15.Sutherland Springs: AR-15.Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15.
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Trump cites San Antonio as an example of a city where a border wall has worked. It’s located 150 miles north of Mexico and there is no wall.
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Conservatives don’t give a damn that Betsy DeVos owns 10 yachts since she doesn’t care about the working class, but expect AOC to live like a vagrant because she wants everyone to earn a living wage. Greed is okay, but compassion disqualifies you from functioning in society? GTFO.
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My parents, who live in Missouri and have voted Republican their entire lives, now say they won't vote for anybody who takes a penny from the NRA. This is a real movement and it was started by kids. That's why desperate jerks on the far right have resorted to smearing teenagers.
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Donald Trump signing bibles is like Hannibal Lecter signing cookbooks.
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Look at how much youth registration (18-29) is up in these states: . AZ: 8%.FL: 8%.IN: 10%.MN: 5%.MT: 4%.NC: 6%.NV: 7%.OH: 6%.PA: 16%.VA: 10%.WI: 6%. Parkland has galvanized young Americans to get invested. Conservatives are going to be shocked when they wake up on November 7.
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America is a place where a white man can walk into a Missouri Walmart with body armor, a loaded rifle and 100 rounds of ammo to scare the shit out of people and he gets arrested without a scratch on him, but a 12-year-old black child was shot and killed for playing with a toy.
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The 116th Congress Freshman Class in emoji form tells you all you need to know about the two parties. Republicans:.👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👩. Democrats:.👩👱♂️👩👱♂️👨🏿👱♂️👩🏾👩👩👩👱🏾♂️👱♂️👩👩👨🏻👩👩🏿👩👩👩🏾👱♂️👩👱♂️👩👩🏽👩👱♂️🧕🏽👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👱♂️👩👩👩👩👨🏿👱♂️👱♂️👨🏿.
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Dear CNN,. Get Rick Santorum off of our screens. If we wanted to watch conservatives lie over and over again, we’d simply change the channel to Fox News. Thanks!.- America.
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This photo from Barbara Bush’s funeral speaks volumes. After everything Trump has done to Obama, Obama still treats Melania with kindness and respect. What a diplomat and gentleman. That’s a real President. No way Trump would be half this warm to Michelle.
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We'll stop saying motherfucker when motherfucking border patrol stops letting kids die and Flint has clean motherfucking water and teens stop getting shot at motherfucking school and motherfucking big banks are held accountable and we actually fight motherfucking climate change.
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The Obamas really walk the walk on the "when they go low, we go high" mantra. Wow. The class and grace of Barack and Michelle to not only sit next to the Trumps but shake their hands after the Birtherism, the lies, the insults, the plagiarism, etc.
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Left: McConnell admitting he won't be impartial . Right: McConnell signing an oath to be impartial.
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The shithole countries guy who grabs em by the pussy and thinks nazis are fine people did a Trail of Tears genocide joke. But the media will forget about it in 2 days and focus on Elizabeth Warren’s “scandal” for 2 years because they learned abso-fucking-lutely nothing from 2016.
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Meghan McCain: ”I can't live without guns!”. Dan Crenshaw: ”I can't loan my buddies guns!”. 40K Americans/year: ”I can't do anything because thanks to US gun laws I’m dead.”.
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The best speech by a Don tonight was by Don Lemon. His response to Trump's rally is phenomenal. Nailed it.
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*Half of the US doesn't have enough saved to pay for a $400 emergency*. Ben Shapiro:
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When Joe Biden talks to young girls he mentions their looks and makes inappropriate jokes. When Elizabeth Warren talks to young girls she says she's "running for president because that's what girls do.". Please don't dismiss the difference. Presidents should also be role models.
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So, Republicans, let me get this straight. You listen to the so-called heartbeats of sweet pea-sized embryos but completely ignore the cries of real children locked in cages sleeping on concrete floors in concentration camps. Got it. You can stop calling yourselves pro-life now.
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Beto O’Rourke reminds us that he’s visited all the counties in Texas (there’s 254) and burns Ted Cruz for not doing that. Cruz instead visited all 99 counties in Iowa because he was more focused on being President than helping TX. #TXSenateDebate.
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Good for Nike. Supporting Colin Kaepernick at a time when most brands lack any political courage is something future generations will remember as part of the company's legacy. Some things are bigger than the bottom line -- like being on the right side of history.
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Aurora: AR-15.Sandy Hook: AR-15.San Bernardino: AR-15.Orlando: AR-15.Sutherland Springs: AR-15.Las Vegas: AR-15.Parkland: AR-15.Pittsburgh: AR-15.Poway: AR-15. There’s a clear trend of shooters using these weapons of war to attack public spaces and yet the GOP turns a blind eye.
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Twitter pretends like it’s hard to get rid of James Woods, but it’s not. Look how easy it was for Hollywood to do it.
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”I’m not living without guns.” . A baby gets shot in the face by an AR-15 in yet another mass shooting and all Meghan McCain can think about is herself. She’s the poster child for conservative entitlement.
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Let’s travel back in time to see how Lindsey Graham felt when it was a Democratic president facing impeachment.
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When Democrats take back power they need to do what McConnell would do if he were a Dem. Nuke the filibuster. Statehood for DC and PR. Add two SCOTUS seats to make up for Trump’s illegitimate ones. Investigate and impeach Justice Kavanaugh. No more bringing knives to a gunfight.
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Cory Booker was the first Senator to say a President under investigation shouldn’t get a SCOTUS nominee. Now he’s risking his own ass to release Kavanaugh documents Republicans were trying to hide. He’s been the Democratic MVP of this Supreme Court process.
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Andrew Gillum had an outstanding debate, but his brightest moment was this eloquent closing statement about rejecting Donald Trump’s quest to divide America. #FLGovDebate
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Odd to see the “lock her up” crowd suddenly so concerned with attorney-client privilege, due process, etc.
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These gorillas try to wait out the rain before making a run for it. Sometimes animal kingdom is just like us.
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Curt Schilling, David Clarke, Erik Prince and Kris Kobach are also caught up in this We Build the Wall griftapalooza. This is like Christmas in August.
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Vote like the authoritarian president is a racist sexual predator who colluded with Russia and won't show his taxes and violates the emoluments clause and incites nazi terrorism but the GOP is complicit and the media is distracted so it's up to us to save the god damn country.
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#PresidentWarren is trending because despite her being 3rd in delegates, 3rd in most national polls and 2nd in endorsements, the media acts as if she doesn't exist. So her supporters are dealing with this blackout by making sure voters know she's still here and still kicking ass.
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Conservatives called the Obamas monkeys, questioned Barack’s birth certificate, used Seth Rich’s death to smear Hillary and elected a man who bragged about sexual assault. Their call for #civility is equal parts laughable and infuriating.
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NRA donations to GOP Senate candidates this cycle:. Hawley, MO: $696K.Blackburn, TN: $633K.Morrisey, WV: $252K.Braun, IN: $149K.McSally, AZ: $118K.Vukmir, WI: $86K.Heller, NV: $46K.Cruz, TX: $45K.James, MI: $31K. THIS is why Republicans don’t do anything to stop gun violence.
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"One of my proudest moments was when I looked Obama in the eye and said, ‘Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.'" - Mitch McConnell. Don't know about you guys, but I will not rest until we send this demon Galapagos tortoise back into his shell.
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At Virginia Beach, it took four cops — trained professionals wearing bulletproof vests — using all their ammunition to take down one mass shooter who had already killed 12 people. And y’all really think some “good guy with a gun” can single-handedly stop these tragedies? WAKE UP!.
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Jim Acosta is a god damn national treasure for standing up to Donald Trump on his racist “migrant caravan” strategy, and not backing down when Trump tried to silence him. Peter Alexander, too, for picking up where Acosta left off. The President completely melted down there.
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Benghazi: 4 Americans died. Conservatives obsess over it for 6 years because they claim Hillary Clinton messed up and lied about it. Puerto Rico: 3,000 Americans died. Conservatives apparently don’t care at all that Donald Trump messed up and lied about it.
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The current president is an ex-reality TV star with 22 sexual misconduct accusers and 6 bankruptcies who calls himself "the Chosen One" and wants to drop nuclear bombs into hurricanes, so for the love of god let's stop pretending like the term "electability" even means anything.
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Who to believe: 97% of the scientific community or a dude named Meat Loaf? Tough call!.
Meat Loaf says Greta Thunberg has been 'brainwashed' over climate change
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Disturbed white shooter opens fire on victims with AR-15 and would’ve killed more if he wasn’t disarmed by an unarmed black hero. The Waffle House/James Shaw Jr story totally dismantles the right-wing fantasy that white good guys with guns are saving us from a minority hellscape.
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If Beto O’Rourke loses: He’ll still be arguably the most popular young Democrat alive who could run for President in 2020. If Ted Cruz loses: His political career is over and he’ll be remembered for inspiring bipartisan hatred and letting Trump insult his wife’s looks.
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This was an uplifting moment right when America really needed it. Chadwick Boseman gave the Best Hero Award he won for Black Panther to James Shaw Jr., the Waffle House shooting hero, who was in attendance at the #MTVAwards. Gotta love both of those dudes!
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Greg Abbott never took coronavirus seriously enough and rushed reopening Texas. Now he wants to scold young people for following his lead. What a hypocrite.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott criticizes young people for not taking coronavirus seriously as infections rise
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If you are a conservative condemning Virginia Governor Ralph Northam for the blackface/KKK photo, we Democrats agree with you. Now do Donald Trump, Steve King and all the other Republican racists.
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Night 2 Debate Grades:. Joe Biden: D.Bernie Sanders: C.Kamala Harris: A.Pete Buttigieg: B+.Marianne Williamson: Kicked out of class for doing Molly.
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Mitch McConnell is less popular than hemorrhoids but for some reason we never see articles about him being “unlikable” and how that could limit his political future. 🤔.
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Don Trump Jr. comes on stage and says Texas is great because he can have fun with "machine guns" here. In a state where just over a year ago 27 people were murdered by an AR-15. He really is the worst.
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Joe Biden says he would consider a Republican VP. My thoughts?. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. I'm not done yet. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
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Moderator: “bUt HoW wiLL yOu PaY FOr iT?” . Kamala Harris “Where was that question when the Republicans and Donald Trump passed a tax bill that benefits the top 1%?”. PERFECT ANSWER. #DemDebate2.
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Elizabeth Warren thrills small donors with personal phone calls and impresses voters during town halls. Media: “Is she likable?”. Joe Biden holds private fundraisers for lobbyists and big donors while his campaign hides him from voters. Media: ”A man of the people!”.
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I took Ritalin as a kid. I’ve never even held a gun let alone shot somebody. By stigmatizing mental health as a way to scapegoat for Sante Fe, the @NRA is creating new problems instead of solving the real one.
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GOP Congressmen spent the Fourth of July in Moscow. A Chinese factory is making Donald Trump’s 2020 American flags. US Army recruits are being discharged because they are immigrants. The Republican Party no longer gets to pretend it is patriotic.
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The GOP supports fetuses, but not kids. The GOP supports troops, but not veterans. The GOP supports families, but not LGBTQ or migrant ones. The GOP supports fiscal responsibility, but not when in power. The GOP supports religion, but only Christian ones. You get the drill.
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Whoopi: "Girl, please stop talking right now.". Meghan McCain: "No problem. I won't talk for the rest of this show.". Whoopi: "I'm OK with that.". Whoopi speaks for all of us right now.
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Watching Joe Biden deliver that moving eulogy, you couldn’t help but wonder how much better off America would be if he was the one sitting in the Oval Office.
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Blue Jay was raised by cats and now meows like one. The bird version of Mowgli.
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“Why do all these weird ass men care what women chose to do with they bodies anyway? I don’t care what you do with your 65-year-old droopy ass balls.” - Leslie Jones on the Republican men who are trying to ban abortion. #SNLFinale
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Scientists: "We have only 12 years left to act on climate change. Our report referenced 6,000 works.". Conservatives: "Global warming is fake because it is snowing in November.". Cable news keeps booking conservatives to discuss climate change, not scientists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Military budget: $840 billion.Semiconductors: $52 billion.Police expansion: $37 billion.Climate change: $2 billion
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Donald Trump has now tweeted TWICE today about Kanye West. He never tweeted about James Shaw Jr., the hero of the Waffle House shooting. He never tweeted about racial profiling of innocent black men at Starbucks. Tells you all you need to know about who our President is.
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Hey conservatives mocking #MarchForScience. Log out of Twitter. Get off your phone or computer. Power down AC, refrigerators and TVs. Flip off the lights. Stop taking medication or supplements. Pee and poop outside. No driving cars either. Show science who’s boss. ‘Merica.
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Elizabeth Warren gets asked if Joe Biden is wrong for supporting the Hyde Amendment. She says yes and then shows why she’s the best fighter the Democratic Party has, making an impassioned, unapologetic case for protecting women’s rights. #WarrenTownHall
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