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@CTIronman

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obscure attorney and political muse. stubborn old Reaganite in crabgrass America. Al Davis Republican in 24

Connecticut, USA
Joined May 2010
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8 years
@DanielBerman2 It's Andrew Cuomo's NYS. Think Bernie=WFP; Paul Ryan=State Senate R's/IDC
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Think the @mlb decision to punish Georgia by moving the All Star game was the last straw for giving the โ€œprivate businessโ€ argument the time of day from the right
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Note to Republican politicians: stop using taxpayer funds on stadiums & sports arenas. Let these leagues spend their own $.
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3 years
Just remember the same guys that said Kabul wouldnโ€™t fall are telling you trillions in new federal spending wonโ€™t harm the economy
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4 years
Hunter Biden says hi
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4 years
Opinion: After an openly self-dealing president like Trump, the nation needs to see that no American is above the law, and that there will be consequences for anyone who enriches himself at the nationโ€™s expense or abuses his power
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Some protestors in Brooklyn calling to loot the Target, but organizers are rushing in front of the store to stop them, keep things non-violent #nycprotest
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@EricMGarcia Tammy Duckworth is in the Senate because her opponent had a stroke and could no longer effectively represent Illinois
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@ChrisMurphyCT Does the 2nd Amendment exist in your world?
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@mattsgorman @MattMackowiak @washingtonpost Did Jeffrey Epsteinโ€™s obit call him a โ€œmentor to young womenโ€?
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@HotlineJosh Oddly enough no one ever complains that Bernie Sanders is elected in a state with roughly the same population as Staten Island
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Harwood appears unaware of the existence of Florida
@JohnJHarwood
John Harwood
19 days
Republicans make up stories about things the Biden administration handles competently, like disaster relief, because they can't govern and can't imagine that anyone else can
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@joelockhart Are you drunk?
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@normonics Borrow $70K for a truck. Pay the bank Borrow $70K for tuition. Debt cancellation NOW!
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@ericswalwell @GlennYoungkin I Xi someone is trying to destabilize American politics. This your old girlfriendโ€™s idea?
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4 years
@nypost The Supreme Court doesnโ€™t back you, Andy The local sheriffs wonโ€™t back you, Andy Has the thought crossed your mind you might be wrong?
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@realDonaldTrump @MichaelRWarren ok. Where's your tax returns?
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Roger Goodell sucks
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Fox News
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Trace Gallagher: After wearing patriotic cleats "all three expect to be fined about $6K [by NFL] for the gesture."
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Anyone saying this in spring of 2020 was accused of wanting grandmothers to die
@ChrisMurphyCT
Chris Murphy ๐ŸŸง
3 years
I was in a low income elementary school in Bridgeport last month, and the teachers had a hard time putting in words how damaging the social isolation of distance learning had been for students. I hear this all over. Kids need the connectivity of in person school.
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@MarkSKrikorian
Mark Krikorian
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I guess detonating a bomb in the Capitol isn't enough to bar you from Twitter.
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7 years
This is a better response than responding in kind to insults
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Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived
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For those who don't let the truth get in the way of a good story here's the actual timeline of massive federal response in Puerto Rico->
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@morrislaw Already voted in #CT05
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5 years
Almost as if a smaller country surrounded by water with effective immigration controls has less trouble
@davidasinclair
David Sinclair
5 years
How is it that Australia has already crushed #COVID , while the USA is still acting like a headless chicken? #frustrated
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I was told by @ChrisMurphyCT there was total unity between America, Ukraine & Germany on taking on Putin & Ted Cruz was the bad guy
@SamRamani2
Samuel Ramani
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BREAKING: Germany declines Ukraine's request for defensive weapons
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@jimsciutto Yeah, I heard that she did this as a spontaneous response to a YouTube video
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@ChrisMurphyCT โ€œDonald Trump must never be allowed to become President againโ€ Your words. An exact quote And you donโ€™t think thatโ€™s inflammatory?
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@politico Think we now have a self identified list of partisan hacks
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@HudsonRiverCroc @Harry1T6 @EWErickson Hell, there are hourly manufacturing employees using multimillion dollar machinery
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Oddly enough this is the one illegal gun purchase folks like @ChrisMurphyCT has no problem with
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2 months
It takes a Potemkin Village to raise a candidate
@CollinRugg
Collin Rugg
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NEW: The Harris campaign appears to have been caught scripting two different Doritos handoffs to Kamala Harris at a Pennsylvania, Sheetz. The first one was her husband โ€œfindingโ€ Doritos. The second handoff was Tim Walz, โ€œfindingโ€ another bag of Doritos that he handed to the
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@joelockhart The 1619 Project isnโ€™t โ€œrewriting historyโ€?
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You can tell Massie isnโ€™t from NY cause you learn as a child there when you see some unhinged dude ranting away on the sidewalk you walk the other way & donโ€™t make eye contact
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Karol Markowicz
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Massie is like 5 billion times smarter than Bowman and that's why Bowman has to be loud.
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I remember something about sitting at lunch counters in the 1960โ€™s from my pre-CRT high school curriculum
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@tomselliott @AOC Apparently thereโ€™s snowflakes in July even in South Texas
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@Techno_Fog @redsteeze IIRC disclosing classified info to a ghostwriter got Petraeus prosecuted
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7 years
Will this fix the subways?
@NYGovCuomo
Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo
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Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson will be removed from the CUNY hall of great Americans because New York stands against racism.
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3 years
Wrong about Afghanistan Wrong about inflation Wrong aboutโ€ฆ
@jimgeraghty
Jim Geraghty
3 years
President Biden, speaking with reporters, July 19: "Thereโ€™s nobody suggesting thereโ€™s unchecked inflation on the way โ€” no serious economist. Thatโ€™s totally different.โ€
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@ChrisMurphyCT Not sending Iran $6B was also simple but you & Biden did it anyway
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Firing their entire admissions office of every elite college is necessary but not sufficient
@sfmcguire79
Steve McGuire
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This guy got into Stanford, Princeton, and Yale a few years ago. He went to Yale. These schools are what they want to be.
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@nfergus If Europe isnโ€™t gonna belly up to the bar to backstop Kyiv, how can one expect America to do so?
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@ChrisMurphyCT Gotta an apology letter to @SenTomCotton drafted yet?
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9 months
There was a candidate who tried to bridge this gap but he was boring & wore boots, so not him
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jeremysenderowicz
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GOP Math: 1) No one can win the GOP nomination without appealing to a substantial number of Trump voters. Major problem for Haley. 2) No GOP nominee can win a general election without appealing to a substantial number of Haley voters. Major problem for Trump.
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@SteveGuest George HW Bush had been Vice President, Ambassador to China & CIA Director
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If you havenโ€™t processed how the way mild mannered Mitt got manhandled in 12 radicalized the GOP rank & file; I canโ€™t help ya
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@tomgara Maybe he can learn how to code
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9 years
The best argument for your faith & ideology is the way you live your own life. Are you setting a positive example that inspires others?
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@MZHemingway Just ignore the empty shelves, higher prices & national humiliation
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So now with Israel under attack from drones & cruise missiles who thinks it makes sense for our military to build a pier in the midst of the crossfire?
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โ€œPolls arenโ€™t accounting for exceptionally high turnoutโ€ 2021 VAGov was the highest off year turnout in Commonwealth history. Terry McAuliffe got more votes than any prior D nominee for Gov. And lost
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This is actually an in-kind donation to RDS amongst the GOP base
@JoshKraushaar
Josh Kraushaar
2 years
Liz Cheney said she โ€œwould find it very difficultโ€ to support Mr. DeSantis in a general election. Cheney: โ€œI think that Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think thatโ€™s very dangerous.โ€
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โ€œHow to turn South Texas into a GOP bastionโ€
A group of predominantly white reporters and politicians have now spent most of the weak stirring up an outrage mob targeting predominantly Hispanic border patrol agents based on a provably false accusation. And the ones paying the price are the agents. Completely backwards.
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Translation: the days where progressives could stack these boards with โ€œnonpartisanโ€ nominees are over
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POLITICO
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Republicans across America are pressing local jurisdictions and state lawmakers to make typically sleepy school board races into politicized, partisan elections in an attempt to gain more statewide control and swing them to victory in the 2022 midterms
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Republican announces in D +2 district Twitter โ€œPipe dream. Let them waste their moneyโ€ Democrat announces in R+ 8 district Twitter โ€œThe GOP is running scared. Their guy is a goner!โ€
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Any candidate running on Clintonโ€™s 1996 agenda would today be labeled a conservative Republican
@PatrickRuffini
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Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996 by 8.5 points, the most resounding victory by a Democrat since LBJ. I donโ€™t think people realize what a stick in the eye his campaign was to liberal Democratic orthodoxy. A ๐Ÿงตand appreciation of Clintonโ€™s ๐Ÿ โ€˜96 re-election.
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We were also told that Democrats were gonna properly secure the border. Now weโ€™re told after they didnโ€™t..too bad
@ASFleischman
Andrew Fleischman
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There are Republicans who want you to believe that we can deport millions of working age adults and not wreck our economy. That is a fairy tale for particularly dumb children.
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Not true. They hate Elon Musk, too
@PlanetOfMemes
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Christopher Columbus Day.
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Republicans across America see Democratic prosecutors dropping charges against politically fashionable criminal defendants while inventing new criminal offenses to charge Republican politicians Unsustainable
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This is why no one takes arrests of criminals in these mobs seriously. There are no real consequences. They illegally took over a building, destroyed extensive property, assaulted a security guard, and yet no consequences. So inevitably they will be encouraged to do it again.
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Philadelphia re-elected itโ€™s soft on crime DA. Won his primary & the general. Apparently this is what they are willing to accept
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This Wawa will disappear in a few months. No hoagies for anyone
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@alexi @axios If ancient computers were the DOTโ€™s yuge problem then why wasnโ€™t a tech executive hired to fix the agency?
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@varadmehta You mean the folks who botched Afghanistan, the supply chain, infant formula & energy didnโ€™t have a plan ready to go if Roe got flipped?
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@NathanWurtzel @JoshKraushaar High income voters w/o college degrees are probably most conservative voters in country Low income voters with postgraduate degrees are generally Marxists
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@ChrisMurphyCT Also hire twice as many new IRS agents as the entire CT state government payroll
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Maybe the root cause for some criminals is they want to be criminals?
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Scott Wheeler
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The 17-year-old has been arrested 13 times over the last 3.5 years, police said, including on charges of: assault with a knife, assault, robbery, reckless driving, larceny and possession of narcotics. Was let loose to kill a jogger
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Small government Republican 2013: I will save my state from being run by the teachers union โ€œSmall governmentโ€ Republican 2023?: I will save the teachers union from any interference from politicians
@Heminator
Mark Hemingway
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Yes, not wanting your grade school kids taught gender ideology that everyone agreed was insane 15 minutes ago means youโ€™re in favor of โ€œbig government.โ€ Go ahead and campaign on that, Larry.
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My inflection point is when Candy Crowley tag teamed Mitt at the debate and he didnโ€™t have the presence of mind to tell her to shut up & get stuffed
@TheHistoryOfTh2
TheHistoryOfTheAmericans
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This was an inflection point. When VP Joe Biden argued that freakinโ€™ *Mitt Romney* was out to reinstate slavery, GOP primary voters decided that *all* attacks on GOP candidates did not deserve credence. This moment led to Trump. There has been too little discussion of it.
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Crazy idea: we reshore manufacturing where it used to located because thereโ€™s already infrastructure, labor & natural resources available there which caused it to thrive originally
@ChristinaPushaw
Christina Pushaw ๐ŸŠ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Here are my concerns about Trumpโ€™s plans for 15-minute cities. Centrally planned government-constructed cities remind me of former communist countries Iโ€™ve lived in. Itโ€™s a WEF-inspired initiative to cut down on energy / carbon & stop humans from moving freely across spaces.
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@AriFleischer A) Stop drilling B) Cancel pipelines C) let refineries close D) find scapegoats Do I have the Biden energy policy down?
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@ChrisMurphyCT Explain why New Hampshire is safer than CT
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@SteveMcNY @thefactualprep @nypmetro Make the maintenance man University President
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Watch the only folks convicted in the Epstein scandal be sleeping guards
@JamesAGagliano
James A. Gagliano
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โ€œThe two Manhattan jail guards tasked with monitoring Jeffrey Epstein before he died fell asleep on the job and fudged the log entries to show they checked on him and other inmates when they actually didnโ€™t, according to reports...โ€
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The lesson of the Kavanaugh nomination is the only way out of rough seas is to sail directly into the wind
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@SeanTrende Usually the new hires do a better job of announcing when they show up for work
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Naw. Youโ€™re supposedly the capital of the Free World
@JacquiHeinrich
Jacqui Heinrich
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DC Mayor Bower: "We're not a border town. We don't have an infrastructure to handle this this type of a level of immigration to our city... We're not Texas."
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Hard to run as a law & order party when altered business records are a higher priority than killing a senior citizen
@Dapper_Det
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UPDATE: it took only 3 days for DC US Attorney Matthew Graves to drop murder and kidnapping charges in the carjacking case that killed an elderly woman at the doorstep of his office. Seemingly, Graves only prosecutes grandmas. Not their killers.
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2017: hahaha weโ€™re suing Trump in Hawaii! 2024: those bastards are suing Biden in Texas!
@mjs_DC
Mark Joseph Stern
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They filed this lawsuit in Amarillo, TX, where theyโ€™re guaranteed to draw Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. Wonder why they wanted him!
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@JoshKraushaar Claiming crime concerns are all a political conspiracy is surely how one wins House races in Nassau County where the hardline R DA candidate blew the doors off in 2021
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@neontaster @redsteeze As I said, the GOP base was told twice to buy a minivan since that was the sensible choice & both times the vehicle failed; next time out they wanted a monster truck
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@HudsonRiverCroc @JesseKellyDC The one reason Lee is held in high esteem is that when the war was lost he told his men to go home and accept the loss. Unlike the execrable Nathan Bedford Forrest
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His base voter is a bureaucrat in a school system or university
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David. Kamalanomics is a hell of a drug.
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Biden's support is basically old folks with advanced degrees in the burbs Can confirm.
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@bonchieredstate Because they were used to pay college professors, not auto workers, contractors or tool makers
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Apparently the GAGOP can do ok in special elections when they donโ€™t talk their voters out of showing up
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I just got a call from the Mrs. โ€œWho do I call to complain that guys in the McDonaldโ€™s drive thru have windows down & smoking potโ€ โ€œSorry dear, CT legalized it. No one to complain toโ€ So Florida, unless you like pot smoke in every public place, vote against that referendum
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@neontaster @ChristinaPushaw I am also told that as a teenager he returned tapes to Blockbuster without rewinding
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@SeanTrende Much of todayโ€™s 2024 analysis is based on evaluating the fading skills of two very old men
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Old enough to remember kids walking around a neighborhood seeing if their friends were home
@il0venostalgia
Iโค๏ธNostalgia '๐•'
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Lots of folks think Ben Sasse is a self righteous grandstander who is a tepid advocate for conservativism. You can stipulate to that but heโ€™s still right about the damage Qanon is doing to the GOP
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@JRubinBlogger You do realize impeachment wasnโ€™t mentioned once at the DNC
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1 year
Republicans are constantly told to disassociate themselves from noxious groups but even after todayโ€™s pro terrorist rally Democrats will continue to accept support from the DSA Will @GovKathyHochul tell DSA legislators they are no longer part of the Democratic leg caucus?
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@JoshKraushaar We tried running a dignified upstanding dude for President and Harry Reid decided to lie about his taxes. The GOP learned its lesson
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For a dude who marches you are in pretty awful shape
@GovPritzker
Governor JB Pritzker
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Know this, Iโ€™ve been marching for reproductive rights for a long time. And Iโ€™ll never back down from this fight.
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@ChrisMurphyCT A bit more close to home, dude
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You bragged about voting for new laws earlier tonight @RepJahanaHayes any opinion on why DOJ wonโ€™t enforce a law we already have?
@StevenJDuffield
๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜‘. ๐˜‹๐˜ถ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ
2 years
One more example of the Garland DOJ refusing to enforce the law when victims are Supreme Court justices. 18 USC 1507. Read it.
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@TheAmishDude @varadmehta @TimothyNoah1 โ€œAre you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?โ€
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5 years
@ChrisMurphyCT Beijing > Bristol Teheran > Torrington Time CT had a Senator who still cared about us, not pretending heโ€™s the next Secretary of State
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Lose your moderates lose your majority
@LouDobbs
Lou Dobbs
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@politico . @RepMikeLawler โ€™s days are numbered and he knows it. If he werenโ€™t such a RINO he might stand a chance. He could take his 70% Heritage score and start packing!
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