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Old-timey congressional staff, herder of regulations and writer of some words

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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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I recall thinking as I read Orwell as an ideological youngster that it was an impossible dystopian fantasy—you can’t get people to behave this way, not people who had experienced freedom of thought and movement. They just wouldn’t let it go there. They would rage against it.
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@hothotcocoa05 The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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@danaparish How can humans be expected to cope with the slow motion collapse of every institution they’ve ever known while suffering constant whiplash over weekly pandemics they know their institutions are lying about…relentlessly for YEARS? Our foundation is made of quicksand.
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Joe Biden just told me the only thing that can be done about SCOTUS and Trump is vote harder. Biden must go. If he won’t fight for us, why should we fight for him?
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@ingram_wallace @vet_dot For a while, my kitten was dropping foreign coins in and around his water bowl. I never discovered where he found them. He drops a lot of his toys there, too.
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@NPR Are you KIDDING me? In my home search, Zillow had a photo with a “F*ck Joe Biden” flag out front! It’s on trucks and T-shirts and boats and homes all over this country for years now. STOP the double standard. It’s beyond tiresome, and it’s contributing to the end of America.
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WTF does “restore Roe” mean? How does a president restore a 1973 court case that’s been gutted? And why can he do this magic, extra-constitutional thing next year but hasn’t done it already, leaving 65,000+ raped women with pregnancies and thousands others to die of pregnancy?
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Biden has promised to “restore Roe” if re-elected. He’s also refused even to consider expanding the Supreme Court. That’s a problem, writes @ElieNYC , because you can’t be for abortion rights but against court expansion anymore. The two are now linked.
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@ErickFernandez @JoMajority That dude lost me at “I’m the only businessman here.” I’d say that experiment was a fail.
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@mhdksafa @whadupoprah Let me get this straight—WE should feel guilt for not boosting YOUR engagements by not RTing a photo you didn’t take of a girl you don’t know? You really need to take a look in the mirror, dude.
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@NC5PhilWilliams Somebody needs to explain to us why judges are releasing terrorists who tried to overthrow our government into the custody of mommy like that’s a thing that one does with terrorists when Gitmo is fully booked. Do judges not know how to deal with statutes in the treason genre?
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He’s betting on our fear instead of allowing us to hope. I’ve had a lot of feelings about @JoeBiden , but I’ve never hated him until today. He’s holding our country hostage in his personal power play. Shame on you Joe Biden. You’ve killed America 2 years shy of her 250th bday.
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@mattsheffield We’re looking to move to another no state income tax state, and property taxes in Texas are 3-4 times what they are in those other states whose sales tax is also lower. So its all just a big fat myth that taxes are lower in Texas. You may quote me, a lifelong Texan.
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@JoeBiden This is a slap in the face of every American who voted for you. This is a kick in the face of every Democrat who realizes Pelosi COULD have fought but specifically didn’t and still won’t. Shame on you. Shame on all of you.
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@POTUS That’s absurd, and it scares the shit out of me that it’s your evaluation of the situation.
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@JoshuaPotash You know a dude is a traitor when you’re agreeing with the person screaming that the dude is a traitor and then you realize she thinks he’s a traitor for the exact opposite reason you think he’s a traitor. That doesn’t bode well for said traitor...
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Is it possible I have PTSD from all this? I’m not coping well. It takes very little to bring out rage, and I feel serious, physical anxiety when the slightest thing goes wrong. Surely feeling like the world is about to end takes a toll. Everything is upside backwards. Sigh…
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@BuckeyeBob35 @sbPResults @Radarlove75 @oncor @GregAbbott_TX @BetoORourke It’s not the grid—the infrastructure is fine. It’s the regulatory scheme which could be easily fixed except that the industry players are among the biggest corporate donors in TX. For what it’s worth.
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Is it me, or are we charging full steam into a legit fascist America like we’ve all agreed that’s just what’s supposed to happen? Not. One. Speed. Bump.
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Y’all, I spent my career in public service, & I’m tired. I don’t want to start building secret networks of spies & stockpiling hidden weapons caches & learning how to encrypt radio whatevers & all that when T goes full fascist. Please let’s just #ImpeachTrumpNow instead.
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RIGHT? Sometimes I think I imagined that—he wasn’t even a blip. Nobody wanted him, he wasn’t drafted. There was no Biden groundswell. No, the DNC saw the diverse slate of inspiring candidates and said, “This will not stand! Bring in the boring old racist.”
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@SenWhitehouse How did y’all let McConnell steal Obama’s SCOTUS seat? I’m still wondering how that didn’t cause a constitutional crisis that McConnell had no basis to win.
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Serious question out of curiosity: Is anyone actually excited about the prospect of a Biden presidency, or is that all media-driven?
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@JohnKStahlUSA I always thought Navy men were men of honor, patriots and decent humans. But you have proved that lifelong belief wholly wrong singlehandedly. Congratulations. Being vile in a political discussion only reveals your lack of (1) valid arguments and (2) personal integrity.
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@drvolts I am flabbergasted why so many people whose opinions I respect willfully ignore Biden’s utter failure to repair our democracy. It’s in *far worse* shape now than it was when he took office, and we’re supposed to RE-ELECT him? It WILL NOT survive! Genuinely, what’s up with that?
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@tiediedgiraffe @ElieNYC Ds know what to do, they just aren’t doing it. Don’t let them off the hook like that. They know better. They’re betraying us. We should all be saying so, aloud.
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@drewmckevitt I was just thinking this morning that only a few months ago, I would’ve expected to hear about the Japanese earthquake on Twitter before anybody else heard about it…and now I can’t find anything even after searching. What a loss.
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@AnnYonan1 @janeworld1 @annieschulte Perhaps choose different advice? As a red state hostage, not only have all the districts been gerrymandered THREE times now by the fascists, they suppress votes and rig elections. Instead I’d recommend DEMAND CONGRESS RESTORE VOTING RIGHTS b/c that would actually help, thanks.
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@johnkruzel THIS is the Reichstag fire, people. There is no other explanation. I can’t even conceive of the repercussions of half the opposition in the House in open sedition. This is way beyond FUBAR—it’s nigh on to dissolving government entirely. O M G
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@jkbjournalist @SeanTyson20 Everything I’ve found out about my country in the last 3 years is gross, and it just keeps getting grosser. It’s beyond troubling.
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@drvolts NOBODY is suggesting that! I’m saying stop propping up Biden b/c he isn’t going to win. Convince him to step aside and get an electable nominee. This has never been a binary choice—why did y’all let it be? Everybody has given him a pass on letting our democracy fall apart.
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@OpinionThorny Dont forget, you have to be registered to buy a gun beforehand, and they can purge you from the rolls with no notice if they’re in the mood and they don’t like your politics.
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@VeeSally @DavidOAtkins Don’t know why everybody thinks it’s doomed to fail—the elites control the basic resources like water that are about to become scarce with climate change. The fascism is about controlling the population, getting it to a manageable size, and riding out the apocalypse.
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My kitten Mitch does this All. Day. Long. Even on Impeachment Day. Every door in the house. I have to rescue him b/c he locks himself inside.
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@hdebusk @danaparish It’s shocking to me that more parents aren’t terrified for their kids, ready to take to the streets. Their failure to wake up will cost their children dearly. This whole thing is unthinkable, yes, but it’s happening. I wish I knew how to clue folks in.
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@ejeancarroll What’s the status of the DNA test? I thought he’d been ordered to comply.
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@R0seKyla @ingram_wallace @vet_dot Haha! I never thought of it that way, but I like it. My brilliant kitten Mitch would only wish for one thing. He reminds me of Stewie on Family Guy, the baby who is always strategizing for world domination. Mitch has plans.
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My kitten Mitch does this All. Day. Long. Even on Impeachment Day. Every door in the house. I have to rescue him b/c he locks himself inside.
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@ChrisMurphyCT Glad y’all are finally catching on, cuz that’s been pretty plain outside the Beltway for years now... They go low, we beat the hell out of ‘em then throw their asses in jail. This needs to be the new party motto.
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Let me put it this way. If he weren’t already moved in, would Biden be ANYBODY’s pick for 2024?
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@JoshuaPHilll Dear @MSNBC — that is one of the most cowardly things you’ve done, canceling @mehdirhasan ’s show. His voice is important. Shame on you.
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@Max_Shields Remember the toilet paper skirmishes of spring 2020? Just an amuse-bouche of America sans everything Americans demand on demand. Just wait for 2 weeks without the pacifying influence of the Great British Bake Off—those suburban housewives will be knifing each other at PTA.
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@clearing_fog @robertjdenault @MingGao26 I cant wait to see @ewarren unleashed on Wall Street, locked and loaded with all of Congress behind her. Shock and awe, Liz!
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@gtconway3d @chrissyteigen Nobody is gunning children down so overall, a relative utopia.
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@POTUS America is circling the drain, dude.
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Why is EVERYBODY painfully twisting their logic to justify Joe Biden when there are so many *vastly* better and actually electable candidates? Let. Him. Go.
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Again, you morons, I will take #Biden , even if so old he literally has to be propped up on the podium with wooden strings, over insufferable nepo-babies Jared and Ivanka running the country and the world again. Voters agree w me.
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@RohnWBishop That’s what you were always trying to do. Your efforts laid the groundwork for this. You should be honest with yourself about that. It didn’t spontaneously happen in a vacuum.
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@MarianneSmith7 @C_CMC4 I’m old enough to remember how hard the right freaked about Hillary being on Bill’s health care task force. And she was actually qualified to participate.
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@C_S_A_GOV @DrRobThompson Sure hope your neighbor doesn’t decide to redraw his survey map to include your home like your Putin map did to Ukraine. That would be an uncomfortable situation if the map overrides all else.
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@BryanforHD2 So, the more kids you burden the public school system with, the lower your property taxes? That is “reasoning” only a Republican member of the Texas Legislature could come up with.
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@SenJeffMerkley What are you doing about it, Senator? Have you investigated or filed suit about the illegal composition of the appointing Board of Givernors? Have you filed ethics charges for his extreme conflict of interest? And what, precisely, is it that you want US to do?
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If you agree that the Democrats’ inaction before the ‘22 elections will mean the end of American democracy, please follow me and I’ll follow you. We need to connect with each other, know each other and organize.
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@CatsVsHumanity @TheRebeccaMetz You forgot eyesight. On my 40th birthday, my perfect eyes permanently retired reading without artificial assistance. Literally on that day.
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Why don’t y’all get this? It’s not about Biden’s age or who I wanted to be prez or a purity test or me or you or anybody else—we gave Biden everything he needed to fix this and he didn’t. And if you think he also needed a magic wand, your citizenship should be revoked.
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We already voted for the people who have the power to stop it, and what did that get us? How is voting for the same people once again, who clearly have no plan to do anything going to stop it? What actionable changes/bills are in motion? Cause, that’s how civics works.
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At a Pearl Jam show once, Eddie Vedder said: “We’ve come up with a new religion, and there’s only ONE commandment—just one. Don’t be a dick.” Let’s amend our Constitution with this decree, solve a bunch of problems and actually make our country great again. #DontBeADick
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To you who don’t see the fascist danger: Why *wouldn’t* you err on the side of caution, demanding that Ds kill the filibuster and secure our elections? Why wouldn’t you be prepared to shut this country down to force them to do it? Just in case democracy IS about to fall?
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@ABC @BackNBlack1975 This “presidency” is beginning to read like a Ludlum novel. Can’t wait til the spy puts the video of Trump ordering Barr to hire the gunman up on the satellite feed during the debate and watch him try to get away as the cops handcuff him on live TV. That’ll be fun.
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This is the problem. Biden doesn’t grasp the problem at all, and now it’s so much worse it probably can’t be fixed. It’s why he has to go. If y’all can’t admit that right away, we have no chance at all of saving this country.
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@SenJeffMerkley It’ll be a sham from the start if the 13 senators who signaled intent to participate in the sedition, thus creating the impetus for the insurrection, sit in “judgement” of the leader of the conspiracy! Please have them ejected from the “jury.” The conflict is plain.
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@MartinPengelly @model_daughters @AOC All you have to do is look at Pelosi’s rosters. In all her decades in leadership, the first woman Pelosi brought onto the team was 2021–her last session. She’s one of *those* women leaders—not one of the heroic kind.
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@ettingermentum Biden kept claiming ‘22 wasn’t a Dem bloodbath *because* of him, but it was clearly *in spite of* him. Americans are trying—even if they don’t grasp the details—to get out from under the fascists who keep taking our rights, and they know Biden isn’t helping with that.
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You need to come to terms with this, quickly. Biden’s term was our one shot—a Hail Mary—at avoiding this, but y’all made excuses for him so he and the Dems squandered it. We’ve tried to convince you to pressure Biden to step aside b/c you see the dilemma. Right? RIGHT?
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If trump tries to seize power and there is no resistance, we get fascism. If there is resistance either popular or from institutions, it could result in balkanization or civil conflict. Once one side commits to political violence you can’t really have a democracy.
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Am I the only one who thinks @JoeBiden needs to start holding a daily presser surrounded by experts who give us the news Trump keeps from us? He should be the Acting President—literally just act like he’s the president right now. He should step in and give us the comfort we need.
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@tribelaw @lunajade Our government wasn’t prepared for a landmark withdrawal of rights that (A) everybody knew was coming for over a year and (B) was *leaked* 2 months before the fact. We have our answer on its preparation and intentions. But vote harder everybody.
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F*ck all the way off with this fascism, @POTUS . Student protest is the low hanging fruit of First Amendment rights. You’ve lost the plot. Democrats who don’t condemn this have lost the plot. Any @HouseDemocrats or @SenateDems who don’t condemn this are complicit.
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Biden's statement that "dissent must never lead to disorder" is a fundamentally authoritarian statement. The banning of protest in the guise of preventing “disruption” of “public order” is the stock in trade of every dictatorship.
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@PeteButtigieg This is the part of America that I love. More of this, please. Less shooting people and being hateful.
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@SteveSchmidtSES @POTUS The question is why *isn’t* it this way? The government has decided it’s too politically icky to take the steps that might actually end this pandemic, to incentivize the selfish despite the long tradition of using its tools to end health threats like smallpox and TB. F*ck that.
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@DWUhlfelderLaw There MUST be proper criminal charges, too. I mean, this is way beyond normal government malfeasance or negligence—the willfulness should break any qualified immunity. Good luck!
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This was the only thing I asked of Biden. I didn’t ask him for progressive policy he wasn’t capable of, and I voted blue no matter who despite the absurdity of that b/c we had an EXPLICIT deal—he would stop the fascism. But it’s drowning us. Not stopping it = helping it.
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The only job that Biden had was stop the fascism. It would be the only thing that he’d be judged on, in the end. They jailed a handful of J6 people, none of the ringleaders, and his supporters declared victory. In like 11 months we are facing same network but with more experience
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@CatWorkers My doorman…
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My kitten Mitch does this All. Day. Long. Even on Impeachment Day. Every door in the house. I have to rescue him b/c he locks himself inside.
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@jordanwfisher_ @GingerResists The other difference—a crucial one—is that Colin was protesting actual violations of rights protected by the Constitution. These morons are protesting lawful orders that violate no rights. Tip: If you can’t name the right being “violated,” none of your rights is being violated
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@MM00520035 @LWitten Talk to the DA’s office—you may be able to file criminal charges (assault or child endangerment, etc.), and I hope you do as a deterrent to others. That is NOT OK, and people in positions like that owe a higher duty of care and trust.
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@PPDavidDennison @Imani_Barbarin If both candidates are “evils,” we should demand another choice, not vote for the lesser. Why is that so hard to understand? It isn’t hard to do. It is our absolute right. Biden’s failure to fix the problems he found make him very much part of the problem now. He has to go.
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@POTUS If it were unequivocal, I wouldn’t have spent today gathering a month’s worth of emergency supplies. Never thought I’d see the day when a man I voted for gaslit me about a coup attempt. I wish the government I worked to elect was on my side.
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@JenniferJJacobs @cstrohm “No investigative steps” of WHOM before an election? TRUMP IS NOT RUNNING FIR ANYTHING IN THIS ELECTION So does DOJ indict nobody in the country 60 days before the election now, or is this policy for a Party of One?
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@ChipNoir @Graciferia @thehill And his visits after disasters suck all the remaining energy out of the locale. She’ll have to drop everything and entertain his ego while he walks around saying things like, “Was this area even zoned for night clubs?” I’m sure she’d prefer he go to Toledo.
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@DirkSchwenk 14th AMDMT: “No person shall be a...Representative in Congress, who, having previously taken an oath...to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. Fun, yeah?
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@gtconway3d @realDonaldTrump That brings up an interesting thought. I cannot think of another mass act in all history that was so blatantly, foreseeably, recklessly stupid as electing Trump. Not one. Even Hitler’s rise was a response to desperate times during the Depression. This was just...for fun.
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@DavidLeopold @Delavegalaw @realDonaldTrump @partlowj @Fahrenthold @washingtonpost Corporate Message to Republicans: 1. hire undocumented workers, 2. squeeze them until they break and sue, 3. arrange to settle the suit, 4. call ICE to haul them away, 5. hire a new batch, 6. rinse, 7. repeat.
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@ThomasSowell @DonaldJTrumpJr You make a very interesting point. Perhaps the key difference is that in the demonstrations you’re calling “riots,” the participants’ goal was not to take hostage or murder an entire branch of government by order of the President? I mean, I’m just brainstorming here.
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@LukeSmeaton @HiraethResists @JoshuaPotash @xshularx Gosh, if someone in Missouri were to report their intimidation of people lawfully exercising First Amendment Rights to the Missouri Bar Association at mobar @mobar .org, they’d probably want to look into it.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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Every Democrat should think carefully about WHY Biden hasn’t bothered to set out a vision for the second term he’s demanded we give him. It’s not an oversight.
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Sahil Kapur
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NEW: Biden hasn't laid out a second-term agenda yet. Allies say he needs to. Many Ds worry the unclear vision for 4 more yrs fuels his woes with Black/Latino/young voters. KHANNA: “They need to be inspired.” FROST: “That’s the key to the re-election.”
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Pelosi must go in January. Hear me out. 1) She hasn’t leveraged most of the congressional tools available (don’t @ me, look it up—seriously, it’s basic civics knowledge) to rein T in—her plan was always to run out the clock. How many unnecessary deaths did that cause?
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@doctorow My student loans have changed hands so many times, and new people said they held them. I demanded to see the original loan documents, but they CAN’T produce them! How can they calculate such a loan? …but student loans are different. I can’t even find a lawyer to look into it.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@tlvtoga2015 @sosayu3 @kaitlancollins And he should have to pay the bill from the first visit.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@frankdpi Why is it a question? We have laws. He broke them. We prosecute him. We send him away. There is nothing whatsoever difficult about it.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@AOC That is obscene. You should never sign a document you haven’t read, and your own leadership shouldn’t ask you to vote for something you haven’t read. That’s how we end up paying for Joel Osteen’s new plane. #ReplacePelosi
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@peggyinidaho @ElieNYC Bizarre that so many “Democrats” simply accept that Manchinema just cannot be overcome and that Ds even *want to* given 30 years’ history to the contrary. They’re placating us so we don’t demand action, and you are enabling their surrender of our country.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@BeauWillimon 31st Amendment: Public financing of campaigns and return of an iron clad fairness doctrine. Please. 32nd Amendment: Multiple adjustments to be friendly to multiple political parties for issue coalitions so things will actually get done.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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I’d expected my mentions to be flooded this week with apologies from all the Garland defenders who abused me for questioning his inertia—leaving Trump free to run again—over the last 3 years. I haven’t received a single one.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@GrassrootsSpeak Great work! Let’s do TX next. Given what we’ve seen of the willingness of the GOP—across the country—to do ANYTHING to maintain power, they’ve blown the benefit of the doubt. The GOP has held total control of elections in TX for 2+ decades; of COURSE they’ve cheated.
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@nurse_nights @EM_RESUS When my stepdad was dying, the hospice people told us they often see/talk about children in the room. Sure enough, the day before he died, he started talking about children who weren’t there.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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Hey Democrats, you know what really makes not one but two impeachments look politically motivated? NOT immediately filing criminal charges after his term for the president’s, you know, crimes.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@DanCrenshawTX You just might be stupid enough to believe this, but we are not. This is open sedition, a cousin of treason. I realize these words are difficult for you to understand, but there are “laws” behind them that you have broken. Your staff can explain what those are.
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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@bdomenech @LucasKunceMO If by “tenets” you mean a “procedural rule,” you should really talk to McConnell about your feelings, b/c he suspended the filibuster every time he wished for something, like a SCOTUS seat he’d stolen. But it’s not hypocrisy if your side, right?
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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I don’t know what to say to you people sleepwalking into fascism. This is your fault, and you’re an asshole. Make excuses for Democratic leadership at your own risk. I have zero tolerance left for that bullshit.
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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
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JUST IN: Oklahoma just passed the most restrictive abortion ban in America, punishing people as felons with 10 years in prison. There was NO notice this was going to happen and it was passed with NO debate. The ban starts at conception.
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@Brian80406512 @mhdksafa @whadupoprah Hey, if you see a guy conning you to boost his numbers as a positive—well, no wonder people can’t separate truth and reality anymore. The other little kid, btw, is a girl not a boy. He didn’t even bother to find that out—that’s how much he cared about those children.
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@parlertakes I will never understand why so many are so excited to give up freedom for a Russian-style oligarchy.
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Thomas Friedman on Anderson Cooper: Before Trump, the GOP had become “a political brothel that rented itself out by the night to whoever could energize its base—Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Trump. In the case of Trump, he took over the whole brothel.”
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Elizabeth Bennett, JD
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Since when is it up to voters to enforce the penal code or to fulfill the duties of constitutional officeholders, Professor?
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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️
@tribelaw
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“It’s up to us to stop Trump regaining the power to make himself Putin. To do that, none of us need come close to matching Navalny’s willingness to give what Lincoln called “the last full measure of devotion.” We simply have to do what the martyred Russian opposition leader
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@txelectionlaw @SidneyPowell1 Yes, anyone who lives in TX knows it actually flipped blue this year, and we must investigate these anomalies committed by Trump and Cornyn and so many other criminal Republicans. Thanks so much for speaking out about the GOP fraud (and suppression!) that persists here.
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@JasonMillerinDC Talk to me about this when the RNC has paid the tens of millions it owes the taxpayers for hosting your convention. Then of course, there are the Hatch Act violations, FEC violations, emoluments, “press conference” Democrat bashing from the podium...
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@raortman @jenmercieca He’s expecting trouble. Wonder what he’s gonna do to cause it.
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@JessicaLexicus That sounds like a government that wants to protect its people. I’d forgotten those might exist.
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