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G. Scott Shand 🌐

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@janecoaston Again, he is conflating power with freedom. Rod's views have more power under a leader like Orban, so he calls that freedom, despite the fact that many if not most are less free under such a leader.

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Between, "We're not going back", "We choose freedom", and "Those guys are weird", I really think this campaign nailed the messaging out of the gate. Stick to those three, nothing to add.

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Say it with me: Weird.

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I know this has been litigated endlessly, but it's still wild for a party to go from Romney/Ryan to Trump/Vance in two election cycles. There is almost no ideological throughline there. Basically a completely new party.

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There are many double standards in politics that favor Democrats, but the biggest double standard in all of politics is the derision with which Republicans can talk about the other party's voters with limited political backlash.

The Recount

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says there’s a “real risk” Biden forgiving some student loan debt will help Democrats in the 2022 midterms: “If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college … if you can get off the bong for a minute … it could drive up turnout.”

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Perfect example of the "vibes" theory. Post that fries cost $7 and gets 6k likes. Admits this is the marked up delivery price "for the meme". Deal on the same app is $1.14. Admits he has no idea the issue in the great depression was deflation not inflation. @whstancil

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"I am against cancel culture unless it's the federal government launching an investigation into speech I don't like. Then I find it 'delicious'"

Bari Weiss

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This is absolutely delicious.

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@JDVance @ZaidJilani Nobody "dropped" them in. Springfield wanted to grow and recruited businesses who recruited workers. Nearly all those "problems" you note would be present even if these workers were not immigrants. They are the growing pains of a once dying city that is now thriving.

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@benshapiro Joe Biden wrote an op-ed saying the Trump administration wasn't taking Coronavirus seriously enough on January 29th.

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@ronrule @TeslaTruckClub You just have rose colored glasses of your own personal experience as a child and are extrapolating that to make a far broader and patently untrue point. Pure nostalgia.

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I'm pretty sure my life was simple and easy growing up because I was a child with no responsibilities. Not because of the political environment.

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@adamsteinbaugh @chrisgeidner @benjaminwittes

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@paigehulsey @Laura_Nowlin @KMOV You didn't know that "containers" were easy to buy or make? "You can hide smaller things in bigger things" isn't a news story.

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Trump's tweet was literally this cartoon brought to life.

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@dog_rates @brant all dogs start at a 10 Bront. Because they are dogs.

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@benshapiro @ChrisMurphyCT tweeted this on February 5th.

Chris Murphy 🟧

@ChrisMurphyCT

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Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough. Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.

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@chrisjacobsHC @ebruenig The complexity of this thread proves her point. Good work.

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3 years

So...Belichick "accidentally" texting Flores blew up Brady's plan to return to the AFC East?...

Brian Floyd

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so tom brady’s plan was to fake retire, become an executive with the dolphins, bring in sean payton to coach, then unretire but the brian flores lawsuit blew everything up

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The same weirdos who earnestly post "what they took from you" with pictures of jocks and cheerleaders dating are furious about a pop star dating a football star.

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"I really mean it this time!!"

Ben Shapiro

@benshapiro

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Bernie Sanders is not a European social democrat. He is an out-and-out Marxist. Upon his return from the USSR in 1988, he celebrated the Soviets moving "forward into some of the early visions of their revolution, what their revolution was about in 1917."

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@jasonbates22 @marthamaccallum @PeteButtigieg Why did you do "after election day"? President's don't take over until inauguration day.

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@GScottShand

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@ronrule @TeslaTruckClub Every generation says that life was better when they were younger. That people were better when they were younger. It's nostalgia. Doesn't make it true. Read some of @paulisci 's threads (and pre-order his book)

Paul Fairie

@paulisci

3 months

I've written a book diving into the newspaper archives to look at arguments we can't stop repeating (Nobody Wants to Work Anymore!), things we can't stop blaming (jazz! bicycles!) & more (Cronk!)! Pre-order your copy here (release date TBD):

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Imagine believing that not only did the FBI conspire with a random 20 year old loser, but that an Assistant Director of the FBI put herself in full view of the cameras and the line of fire just so you could piece it together later.

Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives

@dom_lucre

3 months

🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: The woman in this video behind Donald Trump, where many viewers accused her of ‘giving the shooter instructions’ has allegedly been identified as FBI assistant director Janeen Diguiseppi, this is still a developing story, I will post an update when one

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@JDVance1 The author of this article, a guy named J.D. Vance, seems to know exactly what white rage is and why it's an issue. You should read it.

Why Race Relations Got Worse | National Review

We have two underclasses that are increasingly polarized.

www.nationalreview.com

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I'm slightly shocked by how badly Nate is reading this chart. This chart shows that, adjusted for inflation, people's take home pay is higher than ever before (when you remove the COVID stimulus)

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

10 months

It's just kind of batshit insane though to look at data like this, which reflects people's actual take-home income, and act like everything in the economy is Going Great. There's never been an economy quite like this. But a lot of people's balance sheets are in bad shape.

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I'd put it this way, Romney/Ryan is what the elites thought the Tea Party wanted, Trump/Vance is what the Tea Party actually wanted.

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9 months

@conro @SwannMarcus89 Same energy:

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4 years

This is that weird tic some Conservatives have where they find it absolutely offensive that someone suggest that voters might agree with some conservative positions.

Noah Rothman

@NoahCRothman

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Friendly interviews, man. Trump isn't the only politician who says the quiet part out loud.

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@whstancil Again, you are missing the elephant in the room. The argument is his polls are bad and he's physically incapable of vigorously campaigning to try and turn those polls around. Someone else might still lose, but they'd be physically capable of vigorously campaigning.

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@EliseStefanik In this first tweet, you claim you are being prevented from asking questions. In this second tweet an hour later!you are bragging about the questions you asked. How could that be? Is it because the first time was a stunt/lie when you knowingly broke the rules?

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@KevinMKruse @TheRickWilson The Daily Show did a good bit comparing Trump to an African dictator a while back.

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@YIMBYLAND "want to change neighborhoods, not become a part of an existing community" is identical to what xenophobes say about immigrants.

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@mikeduncan "Unstoppable (tactical retreating) force"

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@ebruenig Next time just pull a "Calvin's dad"

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@ishapiro Well you're in luck, with the mortgage interest deduction taxpayers will be subsidizing well over $10K of your mortgage.

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Brady to all the Patriots fans complaining that New England wasn't mentioned in his retirement post.

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@GScottShand

2 years

This definition from @thomaschattwill is essentially "it's not cancel culture when I agree with the cancelation, it is cancel culture when I disagree with the cancelation." The point @NGrossman81 and I have been making for years now is this is an untenable definition.

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@GScottShand

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@roddreher This is my pinned tweet for a reason.

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@GScottShand

3 years

@janecoaston Again, he is conflating power with freedom. Rod's views have more power under a leader like Orban, so he calls that freedom, despite the fact that many if not most are less free under such a leader.

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@ZaidJilani Cc: @janecoaston

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@NoahCRothman I just had a conservative co-worker walk into my office and ask if there were any Republicans in these depositions. He was surprised to learn there were and then really didn’t understand the behavior of Gaetz and company.

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I'm pretty sure my life was simple and easy growing up because I was a child with no responsibilities. Not because of the political environment.

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Do you remember when you were growing up, do you remember how simple life was, how easy it felt? It was about faith, family, and country. We can have that again, but to do that, we must vote Joe Biden out. #RTM2023

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Trump promised to go after the Biden Crime Family. Joe Biden actually did it.

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Hunter Biden has been convicted on all three charges.

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@janecoaston "Submit to my will" doesn't have the same ring to it as "submit to God's will"

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@SwannMarcus89 Someone in 2099: "Why can't we build beautiful things like this? RETVRN"

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@conor64 This definition is essentially "it's not cancel culture when I agree with the cancelation, it is cancel culture when I disagree with the cancelation" Everything you consider "rightly verboten in your circles" was once an "expansive new taboo".

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@hamandcheese @adamgurri I don't think someone who thinks we need more "surveillance of black people" is more liberal than Adam. That's just my two cents.

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@ArmandDoma Or as Lincoln noted, immigrants "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are"

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I don't think Ben actually ended up learning anything from this legendary exchange with @janecoaston

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@RepLeeZeldin "The source of his info was..wait for it...the President's personal attorney as directly quoted admitting the motivation to the New York Times"

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@jbouie All those car dealers running local governments think the adjunct professors at the community college are the elites of the "ruling class".

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The tweet Ryan quotes does in fact make the lie that Haitians are eating pets. If Ryan is right that most Americans don't support temporary protected status for Haitians, then they should be able to make the argument without this grotesque lie.

Ryan James Girdusky

@RyanGirdusky

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At no point in my thread do I mention anything about Haitians eating pets but liberals brains are so broken that they can’t handle that most Americans don’t support inadmissible aliens flooding their cities and towns.

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@bdragon74 @thomaschattwill "Self-censorship is bad therefore those who have any criticism of my views should self-censor, otherwise I would feel the need to self-censor"

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@jdcmedlock How to make the economy more dynamic? Give people the financial security to come up with an attempt good ideas.

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I think @besttrousers has been our best Chief Neoliberal Shill and I am in favor of @CNLiberalism constitutional amendments to allow a second term.

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@thomaschattwill To be clear, you are asking certain people to self-censor because if they don't you feel like other people will feel pressured to self-censor, right?

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@marcorubio

Dave Brown

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These photos were not taken in the Philippines

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"You don't know me" - Abraham Lincoln

Donald J. Trump

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Fascinating to watch people writing books and major articles about me and yet they know nothing about me & have zero access. #FAKE NEWS!

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@ArmandDoma "The times when you have seen only one set of footprints is when I carried myself"

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A reminder that virtue is good and even virtue signaling is good.

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no one talks about virtue in politics anymore but it actually is important for political leaders to at least pretend to care about honesty, decency, etc.

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How it started How it’s going

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@haphios @totallyrealcvs @raggedmanes @ArmandDoma This Lincoln quote is well over 60 years old: immigrants "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are"

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The mortgage interest deduction means that taxpayers will likely be subsidizing well over $10k of Ilya's mortgage. If he wants to trade that for a one time $10k forgiveness he probably wouldn't qualify for based on his income...let him "identify" his mortgage that way.

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@besttrousers Of course he deployed the first defensive strategy known to all Matts, the article/paper.

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@SethAMandel @jaketapper @jonathanvswan

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@neontaster Inflation doesn’t mean "prices are high" it means "the rate of price increase over a given period of time". In the month of July, inflation was zero.

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@Noahpinion Obama's Selma speech remains one of the greatest examples of powerful progressive patriotism.

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@jonathanchait You said it would be operating in bad faith for @RottenInDenmark to ignore the "wild and absurd" Reed letter while leaving room in case it's proven true. Isn't it bad faith to use the "wild and absurd" letter as a key piece of your reporting while "holding off" on this reporting?

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@SteveKrak How is it bigoted to suggest that some voters may agree with the conservative position on certain issues? Unless you are calling those conservative positions bigoted?

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This is that weird tic some Conservatives have where they find it absolutely offensive that someone suggest that voters might agree with some conservative positions.

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@beyondreasdoubt @Ugarles @FDRLST @VICE Considering these are two correct explanations of the same basic legal concept, it's actually shocking how dissimilar they are.

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@jbouie Terminal Fox News brain and drunk with power is a terrifying combination.

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Here is Orban on immigration. Whether that's good or right for Hungary is a question that requires expertise about Hungary. Whether that's good or right for America requires no such expertise and should be swiftly and soundly rejected. Compare to Lincoln or Reagan on immigration.

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@jimgeraghty With all due respect, wouldn't you expect a novel indictment for a novel crime? When McConnell said "He didn't get away with anything yet. We have a criminal justice system in this country." what sort of indictment should have been expected?

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@XanderGalbraith I don't think clearly noting it's the coupon/deal price is disingenuous. But FWIW the "pick up" price on the app is $5.39.

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@jbouie Shorter Cotton on that point:

Listen here Nomb Nuts

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the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

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@benshapiro I know you "feel" like democrats didn't take it seriously until early March. But facts don't care about your feelings.

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@jonathanchait @nycsouthpaw @RottenInDenmark Why would you report on it if it's wild absurd and unproven? Is there any other topic on which you would publish a piece using that standard?

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@BillKristol Yes

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@janecoaston This is their flag

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@SirajAHashmi Their flag is high res.... Dangerous escalation

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@_Almaqah @KevinMKruse This also explains why he assumes that unarmed Trayvon Martin was the aggressor as opposed to the insane armed wannabe cop.

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@NikkiHaley With all due respect, I've lost all respect for you.

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@bendreyfuss I agree with Shane's take here and I think it applies to Jesse as well. Jesse has a clear bias in how he views this topic and it comes across in how he handles evidence that confirms his priors vs evidence that challenges it (as well as his focus on the topic)

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When I read Road to Serfdom and realized Hayek supported the welfare state.

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Where were you radicalized?

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@johncardillo I think "I was easily fooled that Minnesota was Florida despite the winter coats" is a sign of cognitive decline.

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@SwannMarcus89 People like to say we shouldn't judge a protest for not being perfect. And that's true to an extent. But it's notable that successful protest movements actively sought "perfect" test cases to maximize sympathy and therefore effectiveness.

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@SethAMandel If we let in as many refugees as we had people willing to house and help them, we'd be letting in a lot more refugees than we do. Not sure Senator Cotton understands that.

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@CTIronman Do you think Trump had any risk of losing Ohio no matter who he picked? I didn't realize anyone thought that was the reason for the selection.

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@janecoaston h/t @jbouie

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@primtoff @mattyglesias The entire point of rights is that they should not be subject to democratic control. You may disagree this is a right, but pretending rights are stronger when subject to state government control is ridiculous.

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@senatorshoshana Just retweeted this. This is why he ruled the way he did. Doesn’t matter if the drafters intended to cover transgender people. What they wrote did.

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥

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WATCH: Gorsuch's expert defense of original meaning originalism, against original intent. Intent is not law. Meaning is law #GorsuchHearing

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@darth DARTH do you remember this good dog who tried to buy treats with a leaf?!!

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I feel like people forget that McConnell called Jan 6 "a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election..." and McCarthy said “no one would disagree” with that assessment.

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@cjane87 Yikes

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Another way to put it

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Vance it is. Reaganites are passing the torch to the Buchananites.

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"Led to believe" by who? This has been what all reporting has said as soon as the South African data was in. This reflexive need to pretend we were lied to is bizarre.

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Omicron is far more mild than we were led to believe.

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@binarybits @mattyglesias That is absolutely true. I think the fair argument Matt is avoiding is that Hanania is not one of the "reasonable" ones and a gutter racist shouldn't be elevated.

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4 years

Literally every person I follow is saying this election proves what they already believed.

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G. Scott Shand 🌐

@GScottShand

7 years

@darth @dog_rates Cooper is going in for ACL surgery today. He loves running more than anything, going to be a frustrating recovery for him.

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