Thomas Mills
@tmillsNC
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I ran for Congress once. Semi-retired political consultant. Blogger/analyst/commentator. Kid- and pet-friendly. NC Native. Heats and works with wood.
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@ElenaMMoore
And then they went on 60 Minutes where most of the audience of over 50 white and mostly Democrats and independents. Maybe they're smarter than all those reporters think they are.
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@baseballcrank
Mitch McConnell scrapped the filibuster for Supreme Court seats so Republican have changed the rules.
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McConnell abused the filibuster in ways that had never been done before and refused to compromise like Democrats did in 2005.
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@matthewjdowd
What the campaign should really be doing right now is building an army of communications people who can push back on reporters when they start repeating GOP distortions and focusing too much on the new candidate and not enough old the old guy.
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In the Democratic Primary in North Carolina, I’m back to where I started. I’ll support
@amyklobuchar
for president because she’s best chance to beat Trump.
#NCPOL
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Yeah, and insurance CEOs are blaming the Trump administration for sabotage.
Obamacare has failed. And every day, you see another grim reminder that Obamacare is a burden on the American people.
#RepealAndReplace
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@DanaSchwartzzz
Rolling Stones basis Bill Wyman married an 18-year old who he started dating when he was 47 and she was 13.
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Hazmat suits.
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The person making $50K a year spends about 87% of the income on cost of living expenses. The person making $500K year spends about 8%. The rich can afford to pay more taxes.
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Every Democrat should pay attention to Andrew Yang whether they think he can win or not.
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@baseballcrank
He didn’t just block judges, he blocked a myriad of Obama appointees in an attempt to make government dysfunctional. Nobody has destroyed norms like Mitch.
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Mo Green was superintendent of the 3rd largest school system in NC, CEO and Dep. Sup. of Char.-Meck Schools, head of ZSR. Two kids who went to NC public schools. Clerked under respected fed. judges. Widely recognized as leader in education. 1/
absurd and unfair
I want to know what exactly my choices are between the candidates
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I’ve heard this sentiment over and over the past few weeks from former Biden skeptics.
My enthusiasm for Biden surprises even me, because, like a lot of political observers, I have long been skeptical of “Uncle Joe.”
But I now believe he is the right man to lead America at one of the most perilous moments in our history.
@PostOpinions
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The GOP is deteriorating into a party of Russian dupes.
On Meet the Press,
@SenJohnKennedy
said:
“I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election."
Again: Time to press GOP Senators on Intel Committee on this. They investigated this matter (among other things) for *3 years,* as explained here:
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@JacobRubashkin
I don't really believe Stein wins by 17 points but I also don't think Trump can win if Stein wins by double digits.
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Rep. Dan Bishop is pretending to be a right-winger and Lt. Governor Mark Robinson is pretending to be a moderate. Neither has any core values. They're what Trump has done to the party.
#NCPOL
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And many are not.
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@baseballcrank
Democrats have learned his lesson: If it’s legal, use it to your advantage and traditions be damned. Power is what matters.
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There’s a famous TV show called Curb Your Enthusiasm, so yes, the average person does think it means “keep in check.” Don’t be stupid.
Wait, wait, wait. So .
@TerenceEveritt
thinks that the term “curb someone” is normal? No one thinks it’s at all strange that they’re using the term curb? I mean, does the average person use the word “curb” for saying “keep in check”?
#ncga
#ncpol
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The pharmacy opens at 8.
Washington National Cathedral isn’t playing around
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So, I'm dropping my
@newsobserver
subscription. Why? Because I can't access the site. I'm paying for articles I can't read and the help desk tells me I need to clear my cache EVERY time I want to read something, logging me out of every other site. It's pathetic.
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And “ruthless defenders of power” coming from the party denied Merrick Garland a hearing is pretty rich.
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@Taniel
I think they don't have enough money to play in all three states. They are trying to keep all seven close to keep options open before they start moving money around for final buys. They won NC four years ago so they hope it stays close on its own. So far, they're right.
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If Democrats are as successful taking away gas stoves as they have been taking away guns, there will be more gas stoves than there are people in just a few years.
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Which gets to the heart of gerrymandering. A legislature unaccountable to the voters may very well do just this in a party beholden to radical base.
Mitch McConnell: "Why would any legislature in America want to overturn the counting of votes? ... The notion that some state legislature would be crazy enough to say to their own voters—'We're not gonna honor the outcome of an election'—is ridiculous."
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Was Nikki Haley the anonymous author of the NYT op-ed?
Nikki Haley out hours after President Trump calls Blasey Ford an evil hoaxer. Probably just a coincidence.
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Trump outspent Harris 2-1 in NC and the race is tied. Harris has $26 million reserved in the state. Trump has $2 million.
Over $70 million spent by Trump and Harris forces in PA this August.
Trump team also spending way more on North Carolina than they had previously.
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In North Carolina, the GOP legislature passed a bill to protect sex offenders. The ad writes itself.
NC’s Parents’ Bill of Rights law halts longtime child sexual abuse prevention program
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“…[T]he cult of unity is a poison and...the hero in the American political tradition is not the mob, but the man who stands up to it.”—
@JonahDispatch
Worth a read this morning.
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Let’s tell them Sony pulled it’s advertising so we can watch them destroy their televisions.
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So I just got a robo call from Barack Obama asking me to give money to help block Trump’s travel ban. That was fast.
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@NoahCRothman
It’s not a tool for the acquisition of power through democracy, but it’s still a tool for acquisition of power.
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He’s a comedian, not a party leader. It’s not comparable to what the President of the United States is saying.
Never be the guy who says “How many divisions does the Pope have?”
And guys like this wonder why Christians look at their party and go, "even Trump is better than this."
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Michele Morrow homeschooled her kids, lost a race for Wake County school board, called for Obama to be publicly executed, and called public schools socialist indoctrination centers. That's the difference, Dallas. 2/
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@GregTSargent
I wrote about why North Carolina might be better than Georgia for Democrats this year.
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I’m no expert on the Bible, but I’m pretty sure that when it warns of false prophets,
@Franklin_Graham
is what it’s talking about.
Given
@Franklin_Graham
's tweets of late, I'm beginning to wonder if he's ever actually read any of the Bible or just blankly looked at pages
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Traitors in our midst.
Hello from the Trump rally in Selma, North Carolina.
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Before the tax cuts, we led our neighbors in job growth, now we trail them. Personal income growth has increased at a slower rate and we now trail the region. Finally, our economic growth significantly trails GA and SC. Before the GOP tax cuts, we led them. “Tax climate” is BS.
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@benshapiro
The media is so obsessed because the guy who runs a Christian college and railed about how homosexuality is destroying marriage watched a pool boy having sex with his wife. It’s not complicated.
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Revels was born in North Carolina. Maybe he should get a statue on the capitol grounds in Raleigh to replace those monuments to the Confederacy.
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When you're calling a man as accomplished as Mo Green a "marxist," you got nothing.
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If half those mail-in ballots show up, I’ll be shocked. Half the provisionals won’t count. It’s over here.
North Carolina has counted every ballot it had in its possession as of Tuesday. Trump leads by 76,737 votes among them. About 117,000 mail-in ballots and 40,766 provisional ballots are potentially outstanding. Mail-in ballots have until Nov. 12 to arrive.
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@benshapiro
You got through that whole thread without mentioning testing and tracing once. Impressive.
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And you don’t get to simultaneously deny that Great Replacement Theory is racist while also denying that Republicans are pushing it.
You don't get to simultaneously claim that Republicans are suppressing minority votes in order to shift voting patterns, and also that anyone who claims that demographics affect voting patterns is a progenitor of the Great Replacement Theory.
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Damn,
@universalshow
, look who else was there. Fucking clown car was full tonight in Asheville.
Madison Cawthorn crashed the Buncombe, NC School Board meeting tonight and berated the members for passing a mask mandate: “You have sacrificed the social, emotional, and psychological development of our children on the altar of wokeness.”
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North Carolina Senators
@SenatorBurr
and
@SenThomTillis
will be forgotten as followers, not remembered as leaders.
#ncpol
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No president has ever used the military as a backdrop for a political message 🤯
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In other words, he spent millions of dollars lying to North Carolinians when he told them in his ad that he "stands by the current law" which is 12 weeks.
#NEW
: In an exclusive one-on-one, wide-ranging interview for The Political Beat, Lt. Gov.
@markrobinsonNC
tells me he would sign a 6-week abortion ban if Governor.
At 5/6PM on Channel 9
@wsoctv
,
@JoeBrunoWSOC9
shares part of our conversation.
#ncpol
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Voter fraud.
“Mr. Meadows, in fact, is currently registered in both North Carolina and Virginia.”
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@FrankLuntz
@thelauracoates
@CNNTonight
Wait, Frank. What we're seeing is one PARTY, not a nation, that demands all or nothing politics. Look at the bipartisan legislation passed by Democrats last year.
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North Carolina has half the death rate of its southern neighbors and the lowest in the Southeast.
#CooperShutdown
: "There are about 300,000 fewer jobs in North Carolina today than there were in February, before the start of the
#COVID19
recession. That’s a 7.5% drop in total employment — the biggest decline in the southern United States.
#ncpol
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@Victorshi2020
Given those margins, you could also argue that if 18-29 year olds had shown up at the rate of the country as a whole, Democrats would be controlling Congress and might well have won the Senate seat in Wisconsin. Just sayin'.
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Took a bigger turn for the worst when we started listening to political infotainment like Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, etc.
Our political life took a turn for the worse when we started paying a lot of attention to what comedians have to say about it.
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@_cingraham
In a lot of small rural counties where more than 95% of the vote is in, Warnock is out performing November. Nobody is "pulling ahead." It's not a horse race.
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Less than a year ago,
@SenThomTillis
said withdrawing troops from Syria would strengthen Russia and Iran. Yesterday, he said it’s fine.
#NCPOL
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@AliceFromQueens
@jessesingal
@Leesplez
Must say, I’m not really into this whole argument but I find a Harvard PhD defending a Stanford professor by criticizing elites on Twitter pretty funny.
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@mattyglesias
They made LEDs look enough like incandescents that conservative couldn't tell the difference anymore.
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Big question for those NC Reps who supported that ridiculous lawsuit the Supreme Court just rejected: Are you stupid, cynical, or seditious?
@jdanbishop
@RepRichHudson
@RepGregMurphy
@RepTedBudd
@RepMarkWalker
@RepDavidRouzer
@virginiafoxx
#NCPOL
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@mckaycoppins
To be fair to her, at any other time in history, the bizarre statements and behavior during his rallies would be headline news on all outlets.
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Justice Berger headlined a fundraiser to benefit GOP legislative candidates and his father is a defendant in the case. He has clear conflict of interest. So don’t talk about ethics.
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And 33% can’t name a single branch of government. Trump’s approval rating is 37%. I think I’ m detecting a pattern.
37% of Americans can’t name any rights protected by the First Amendment.
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@joshgreenman
L.A. Freeway, Jerry Jeff Walker singing Guy Clarks tune.
Pancho and Lefty, Willie Nelson singing Townes Van Zandt
Angel From Montgomery, Bonnie Raitt singing John Prine.
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I think Charlotte would make an excellent new Delta hub.
Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars after Delta condemn the state's Republican-designed voting restrictions.
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