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A pragmatist is just an idealist with more than one ideal. / Caps / Nats / Vols /

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Though the president lost an election, He still had a large mob’s affection. So, taking no pause And ignoring our laws, He incited a vile insurrection.
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@RonFilipkowski He is trying to blur the distinction between prosecuting politicians for *actual crimes* versus prosecuting political opponents solely for political retribution. He is trying to make the people confuse the former for the latter.
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@nypost > β€œThe witness took video footage of the unholy trinity, then called police to report them...” The entire article was just a vehicle for this β€œunholy trinity” line.
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@houseoftrivia @BubblesNBuns Should be grounds for immediate ejection from the aircraft.
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@Mij_Europe Seems like we are on track…
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Protester "Dear Putin, Let's speed up to the part where you kill yourself in a bunker". #Ukraine
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@gzuckier @NumbersMuncher Intentional. He’s made meat puns like that for months.
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@washingtonpost 175 fewer disease vectors roaming their halls. Well done.
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@AmySpiro You can tell that’s staged. If zelensky were really playing, all you would hear would be the repeated sound of all 88 keys being played at once over and over again.
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@atrupar Whitehouse has been the star of these hearings. He should probably chair this committee in a few months.
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@BadLegalTakes Please, for the love of God, do not attempt to make a citizen’s arrest of any person with a secret service detail.
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@Sabeenahmad1 Hi, I’m like 50 different things. But mainly I’m testosterone mixed with teenage stupidity.
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@Phil_Lewis_ 5 chicks for each and every day of the week. The logistics alone are absolutely amazing, forget about the actual relationships. Somebody get this man a job distributing vaccines.
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@DanLamothe @elonmusk Classic drug dealer move.
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@washingtonpost > Young Chinese see it as a ticket to a better future. Well of course they do. They were educated by the CCP.
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@AP_Planner I wish a was an international man. Sometimes I like to think of myself as a national man, but deep down I know I’m really just more of a local man.
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@Vetinari3 @Angry_Staffer β€œThe best time for an anti-Putin coup is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.” -Ancient Chinese proverb (lightly paraphrased)
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@Arianedevogue Political blood sport is how a third of the justices ended up on the court to begin with.
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@georgehahn @GettyImages Just about every old clip or photo of zelensky seems to show that he was far ahead of the curve on everything that is happening now.
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@autoschola @PolPhilPod Probably attracted by the prospect of free food.
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@nprpolitics If these β€œleaders” weren’t strong enough to resist that as members of a co-equal branch of government, then they deserved to lose for that reason alone. (They also deserved to lose for lots of reasons as well, of course.)
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@chrislhayes Seems like a lot of Trumpy figures are now in a race to get something, anything, hastily thrown onto the record to prove that they were anti-Putin all along.
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@StateOfUkraine @IlvesToomas If they’re giving up on melitopol, aren’t the giving up on basically all of their remaining occupied territory?
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@sumlenny When people are laughing at the dictator, it’s already all over.
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@RonFilipkowski Maybe this is a stupid question, but why would churches have fog machines?
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@DustinSaracini You’re not allowed to check unless the runner has possession of the puck. Otherwise it’s two minutes for interference.
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@JoJoFromJerz @gtconway3d Very comparable levels of appalled, but far lower on the inspired scale.
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@HeidiBachram @antisemitism @metpoliceuk This is a total abdication of law and order.
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@Sandernista412 Probably could have reassured their patrons with one of these right beside that one, though.
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@fpleitgenCNN @POTUS It *should* be their choice. I think we actually all agree on that.
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@washingtonpost This seems like *literally* the cost of doing business.
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@HenryJGomez When you launder money out of your campaign to line your own pockets, sometimes there just isn’t enough left over to buy ads, I guess. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ
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@lachlan Say what you like, but can you imagine what a powerful statement it would be if Trump received even 5% of the vote in both of these races? The liberals and elitists would NOT be able to ignore that, I promise you.
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@atrupar I’m old enough to remember when using Air Force One as a naked campaign prop would have been a major scandal all by itself.
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@michaelagiulia @united If I was on this flight, I would form a lifelong buddy group with all of the other folks from the flight who shit their pants. Passengers whose undergarments somehow remained unsoiled would not be allowed.
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@hannahrosewoods Oddly, both men’s perspective seems both utterly beyond the capacity of the other to understand, and both equally valid.
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@Criminalsimpson But this one wins, hands down.
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@ditzkoff How it started / how it’s going
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@AlexThomp Disappointed to see Raskin’s name on this.
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@robindreizer @paulkrugman β€˜I call this graph β€œFun things you can do witb the Y Axis”’
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@axios @gtconway3d I don’t think he merely β€œheard about” the red mirage. Recall that this wasn’t just some random occurrence or quirk of geography. It was a conscious choice made by GOP state legislatures which disallowed early processing of counting of mail ballots. He probably lobbied for this.
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@atrupar Is there something medically wrong with him?
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@SarahHuckabee @Acosta β€œYou May know me as the first mom to serve as the White House press secretary” I’m sorry, but that’s not what you are known for.
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@KyivIndependent I wish they could have let him in and then just canceled the return flight.
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@atrupar Q folks are gonna run with that somehow I would bet β€œNumber of letters in SDFG: 4 Number of candidates in Georgia runoffs: 4 Etc Etc Etc”
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@kurteichenwald Luckily all the trump children will be fine after the family business folds, because they all have such impressive resumes and valuable/marketable experience.
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@russianforces I’m personally open to the possibility that the people who selected this target and devoted limited resources to attacking it had a better understanding of its capabilities and strategic importance to Ukraine than people who tweet about it on the internet.
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@writerknowles How long til it mysteriously shows up at the Mac Shop in Delaware?
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@UrbanAchievr This is Russia’s single largest strategic goal, by a wide margin. Trump wanted to hand it to them on a silver platter. These dots are not difficult to connect.
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@SpiroAgnewGhost β€œPreviously, Kuczwanski pleaded no contest to assault and disorderly conduct charges in 2014 related to a separate road rage incident at the same intersection, as first reported by Tallahassee Reports.” πŸ™„
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@RepDonBeyer They’re already calling this the β€œstairway to Kevin” speech
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@AdamRippon @jaketapper I think the lesson here is that the Russian non-punishment punishment was a colossal mistake.
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@SFGBob @davidfrum They really should have. Not doing so was a failure on their part.
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@AFP Narrator: That line was the Ukrainian border.
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Trump on taking classified documents: β€œI’m allowed to have these documents. I’m allowed to take these documents…When I have them, they become unclassified. People think you have to go through a ritual. You don’t, at least in my opinion.”
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@igorbobic 30 gunshots is a FUCKLOAD of gunshots
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@lawcrimenews I mean, it *was* both false and non-believable. She’s just not admitting that she admitted it.
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@BGOnTheScene These people are literally traitors to the United States. I really don’t think that’s hyperbole.
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@typesfast I feel like a nation that once put a man on the surface of the moon really ought to be able to solve the problem of the empty shipping containers. :(
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@mattyglesias That’s β€œI traveled here in a Time Machine from the future” level shit if true.
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@Osinttechnical β€œAmmunition explosions have stopped” Technically this is true. Ukrainian ammunition has, for now, stopped exploding inside Russian warships.
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@NormOrnstein Actually it’s not even that, by itself. I actually don’t think too many people would have, deep down, had a serious problem with a light speed confirmation, if it had not been for senate Republicans *also* giving us the merrick garland situation.
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@BigMeanInternet What’s the good-faith interpretation of painting red triangles on a Jewish person’s home?
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@TrumpsTaxes @JasonSCampbell Maybe he was only listing the names that he doesn’t use any more.
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@davidfrum Academic articles being retracted under threat of violence seems like a bad development.
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@sahilkapur Trump has absolutely zero idea how any of this works. β€œNobody knew healthcare could be so complicated”
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@KyivIndependent The UN is absolutely worthless so long as Russia maintains the rights to the USSR’s veto.
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@igorbobic I feel like the psychic should have given everybody a heads up.
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@DonKeehotey @crampell @aaronecarroll β€œFake it til you make it” is NOT a good public health strategy!
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@atrupar > The sheriff said Moses has a lengthy criminal history that includes gun charges, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and assault with a deadly weapon. Guns are the main problem. But the fact that a 19 year old w/ this history of violence was walking free is also a problem.
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@EastVeterans One option that I hope gets considered is for western countries to simply default on their agreements with Switzerland, send the weapons that they are in physical control over, and then just resolve to not do any further armaments business with unreliable Swiss partners.
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@svdate What he meant to say was that Joe Biden called for the death penalty (with a full page ad in the NYT) for the innocent Central Park 5. Oh wait...that wasn’t Biden either.
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@steve_vladeck The highest court in the land is basically just 5 functionaries plus a few utterly powerless dissenters.
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@MishaVanamonde @zoyashef @brooklynmarie Peak human being, perfectly said.
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@KenJennings I like how you answered him in the form of a question
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@MickMulvaney …Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Peter Navarro, Mick Mulvaney…
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@biannagolodryga @KateBennett_DC It’s easy, Ivanka. You β€œmade many calls and had many meetings” while β€œworking from early in the morning til late in the evening.” Cut. Print.
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@Popehat NoContextHat
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@BadLegalTakes That would be a pretty significant loophole if it were only true.
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@JenniferJJacobs @SpiroAgnewGhost If Air Force One is still in the air en route to Florida at 12:01pm, president Biden should order it to divert and land somewhere in Alaska instead.
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@nexta_tv @Inkling61 Possible fourth key objective would be to demonstrate to @JakeSullivan46 the complete imbecility of the self-defeating β€œno attacks inside Russia” policy.
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@Popehat There are certain cases where I feel like the single sentence: β€œHonestly, judge, what the fuck is this bullshit?” *should* be all the legal defense that is required by the defendant. Obviously this is one of those.
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@VoxPrudentia @JeremiahDJohns 1) Thank you. 2) Some people are just miserable unhappy shits.
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@KyivIndependent Macron is humiliating France.
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@SwannMarcus89 Pragmatism is the dirtiest of dirty words to DSA people.
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@KUT Stop making the phrase β€œhuman right” petty and meaningless please.
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@DylanByers Tucker is sliding over to his more natural spot on Radio Sputnik.
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@BobBrigham @janecoaston Genocide re-definition twitter is the part of twitter I’ll miss the least in 2024.
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@EnglishUkraine One thing I will say about the two videos of this type that I’ve seen so far, is that the dudes speaking in both of them have an absolutely 100% convincing demeanor, voice inflection, and body language. You don’t have to speak Russian to know that these men are not bluffing.
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@adamliptak @gtconway3dg This statement does nothing but further strain the court’s already strained credibility.
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@jonathanweisman @davidfrum It’s what Russia wanted. It’s what Russia got. Probably just a coincidence though.
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@mike27356894 @TerribleMaps β€œUnflavored” lol This never would have happened in France
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@ZTPetrizzo The beltway is undefeated. This is the first and probably only time in my life I’ve ever been happy to type that.
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