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8 months

@JonathanTurley Turley jumps the shark. Has nothing on Joe, goes after his <checks notes> great-great grandfather. This is just sad.

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Marc Elias making a key point: the media is now complicit in the GOP's attacks on the foundations of democracy.

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The Republican Party is just shit. I am sure the Texas GOP wouldn’t have a problem with waiting to buy a gun, then?

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If you can wait in line for a covid test, you can wait in line to vote.

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@DineshDSouza @AOC @elonmusk So she’ll pay money for something but not for nothing? Sounds smart to me.

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@JonathanTurley Thus speaks the criminal defense lawyer: “Ladies and gentleman of the jury, my client did not kill the victim! He merely stabbed him 20 times and blood loss killed the victim! He never told him to die!”

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@petersavodnik I wonder if anti-CRTers gave the list such a critical look when the recipients were overwhelmingly white. For decades.

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@ViolanteVanda @itsJeffTiedrich Not when that Republican is Jim Jordan and the blow job's happening in the wrestling team locker room.

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@JoshMandelOhio Psssst, dude? He's not talking about *your* religion.

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@JonathanTurley Funny, I don’t recall Turley raising such concerns when Republicans and Trump advisors ignored subpoenas in connection with the J6 attack on the Capitol.

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@jamestaranto I would read this OpEd, kiddo, but I’m afraid it’s just another sexist attack on women with PhDs.

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@kdrum @sullydish Short version: “I did an admittedly un-rigorous analysis of my own opinions and cherry-picked data points and hey guys guess what it told me exactly what I believe!!!! OMG it must be true!!”

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@_BettyCardenas @MayraFlores2022 @EVerastegui @RepArrington Republicans would have blocked her from entering the country and from becoming a citizen, but cool story.

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@DougJBalloon Media headlines: "Gavin Newsom 'narrowly survives' recall election!!!!!" 25th 'graph: " ... by 24 points."

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@JonathanTurley Yeah, it was horrible the way all those lefty college kids attacked the Capitol and tried to overturn the election … oh, wait.

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@JonathanTurley Watching the Durham investigation completely collapse has really broken Turley. One thing Hunter has going for him: he’ll never be homeless, because he’ll always live rent-free in a Turley’s head.

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@ChristianWalk1r “All the people I talk to agree with me.”

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@ClistonBrown I got my degree in journalism, work in politics and have defended the mainstream media for more than 30 years, through all the unrelenting attacks from the right. I just can’t do it anymore. The right succeeded in working the ref. Most media has failed us as a nation.

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@BeschlossDC Seems like something the nation needed to hear on January 7, 2021.

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@bennyjohnson This is not the own you think it is.

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@RadioFreeTom @mehdirhasan “No one in bar will talk to unlikeable rich weirdo so unlikeable rich weirdo buys bar and makes talking to him part of the cover charge.”

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@seanhannity No press conference when they caught four old white Trump voters casting multiple ballots.

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@rtr11122 @DineshDSouza @tedcruz I don't like Ted Cruz at all but I'll admit he really did need the rest. Helping incite a riot and attempting to overthrow an election is draining on a fella.

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@mtaibbi Lol, Taibbi yesterday: "Shadow banning is censorship!!! Shadow banning is bad!!!" Taibbi today: "Shadow banning is super awesome free speechy!"

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@mtaibbi And here I thought it was the time he raved about and promoted "replacement theory" and questioned when diversity had ever been good for America. But you keep on Tweetin' for Tucker, Matt!

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@mtaibbi Matt diving into full Musk-ball-gargling territory here.

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@mtaibbi I know reverse causality is a thing at the quantum level but Obama's birthday party in 2021 made people vote for Trump in 2016? That's some super power.

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@mtaibbi No he's referring to Matt Walsh's actual, frequently-stated opinions and beliefs.

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@mehdirhasan Maybe - just maybe - swinging for the fences on a "Socialist revolution" wasn't the best strat in a 50-50 senate and narrow House majority to begin with. Also, a year of woke-shaming and pronoun battles doesn't appeal to swing voters. Go figure.

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@mtaibbi Hundreds of elections officials and poll workers have quit because of harassment and death threats. You should address that.

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@DouthatNYT "Yeah but the attempted coup failed" is not reassuring, and it doesn't make you right.

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@JonathanTurley Turley now going full Tucker. A guy who walks around a bank for an hour peacefully and then robs the bank is still guilty of bank robbery.

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@thejtlewis This just reminded me to donate $100 to Joe Biden's campaign. Thanks!

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@sullydish Nah, you'll be back obsessively tweeting Libs of Tik Tok next week.

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@KateTalksTruth LOL, Fox News found that one MV resident they've been braying about who hates immigrants.

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@mtaibbi Can't people agree with him on an issue or two and not "embrace" him? I mean, you've made the same argument about your own agreements with people you don't "embrace" on every issue.

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@JonathanTurley Trump said the documents were planted, but were also his personal property, but were also highly classified but he had declassified them so it was OK that he had them. And you defended him every step of the way. Sit. Down.

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@ggreenwald Every GG tweet on this subject is basically "Russia is the real victim of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

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@NGrossman81 Nate’s got a weird blindness to the extreme stances of virtually the entire top echelons of the GOP and conservative media and commentariat. It’s why I don’t much take him seriously any more. And I was an avid follower of his pretty much from the beginning and for years after.

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@MollyJongFast What's wrong with his twitchy facial muscles, the deforming? Does he have a medical condition, or is it drugs? Just speculation, but is it drugs? Just speculation, just asking questions, but is Charlie on the drugs?

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@emptywheel @kenvogel This kind of stuff - and 30+ pieces on Biden's age in a week - caused me to cancel my NYT subscription last week after nearly 35 continuous years, going all the way back to college when I was a journalism student and the NYT was the gold standard of print news. Jesus Christ.

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@briprice661 @RonFilipkowski Lol, yeah the living in one car, the dead in another. Just stop.

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@JonathanTurley Lul. Washington was not "rocked." It was barely a burp and you sound ridiculous.

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@JonathanTurley Failing to disclose millions in gifts is, in fact, a violation of post-Watergate fed ethics laws. Judges and officeholders can’t simply claim that gifts from “close friends” are exempt from disclosure. Being a partisan shill for the GOP has made you a terrible legal analyst.

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@sullydish So "Gays and Ts" suffered no government- and court-sanctioned discrimination after 1964? Cool version of history, bro.

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@MikeSAdams Conservatives just can't get humor right. History either.

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@JonathanTurley Good for Hunter. Everyone outside the MAGA bubble knows this is a politically-motivated sham, he called the GOP’s bluff and offered to testify publicly.

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@mtaibbi “Here we go ….!” <steps on rake.>

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@speechboy71 Also this:

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Yep. Like arguing that more recounts and audits will *finally* convince Trump and his base that he really did lose the election.

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If you are bothsiding the 1/6 committee, ask yourself this: What would it *actually take* for Republicans to participate in a 1/6 investigation? If the answer is unreasonable or indefensible, it *must* follow that Rs are to blame. My modest proposal:

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@emptywheel @PhilipRucker Sorry, everyone's assigned to the "Fetterman wears hoodies and shorts" story.

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@JonathanTurley The Kari Lake of TV lawyers speaks.

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@JonathanTurley I remember you not caring when Republicans did it in 2020. You're such a fraud and a hypocrite. "Five States Have Already Canceled GOP Primaries. Here’s What You Should Know"

Five GOP Primaries Were Cancelled. What’s the Big Deal?

President Donald Trump won't face any challenges in Kansas, Alaska, South Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, where state Republican parties have cancelled their primaries/caucuses.

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@thejtlewis @realDonaldTrump Pssst, the reason he has to keep coming up with new childish nicknames is because they're not working. But by all means, please proceed. And also:

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@TomiLahren But wait, I though we weren't supposed to *care* about people in "sh*thole countries" in Africa. Now I'm all confused, Tami, please help me see the white. Er, light.

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@JonathanTurley Guy who defended Trump relentlessly over his theft and withholding of classified documents just keeps digging his hole of hypocrisy deeper. No one takes you seriously, Professor.

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@cfthepodcast Trump would hand to Putin what the Greatest Generation saved from Hitler.

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@sullydish Next up: "The sinister symmetry of Abolitionists and slave-owners," by Andrew Sullivan.

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@JonathanTurley Seems like a solid case. Trump failed to report campaign expenditures and then tried to write the hush money payments off as tax-deductible business expenses.

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@ggreenwald It’s been five days. Not “weeks.” Lots of additional regs that slow counting have been created since 2016 by - yep, you guessed it - Republicans.

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@JonathanTurley Lol. Justice coming for all the Trump cultists and grifters who defamed innocent people and ruined lives. Giuliani deserves to spend the rest of his days in misery, poverty and in court. Good luck finding lawyers who will work for him, since he hasn't paid the ones he's got!

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@sullydish Fascinating? One person now defines “progressivism?” Dude you’ve basically become Tucker Carlson.

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@realchrisrufo Engaged parents already know what their kids are learning. It’s easy. This is just an excuse for crappy disengaged parenting, big intrusive government and politicizing education.

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@JonathanTurley Trump, who was president and is running again, deducted hush-money payments to a porn star and Playmate with whom he had sex, and once said not he was "smart" for not paying taxes. And Turley ignores it. Talk about Homeric feats of evasion ...

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@JonathanTurley Pretty sure the first four hours of today's presentation proved Trump's intent. Also, all the Fox News contract money in the world will never buy your soul back, professor.

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@GovRonDeSantis So you're defense to the accusation that you are banning books is ... that you are banning books?

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@periodicaudio @JonathanTurley Stop embarrassing yourself.

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@JonathanTurley Seems reasonable to ask whether Republicans have anything other than accusations and talking points don’t you think, Professor?

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Turley constantly huffs about the “Age of Rage” in politics but Trump wishing his enemies to “rot in hell” on Christmas Eve is “a matter of interpretation.” Who needs Melania when Trump has Turley to gargle his balls.

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Trump's message of "May They Rot in Hell...Merry Christmas" is to holiday greetings what Die Hard is to Christmas movies: a matter of considerable interpretation for those of us stuck in the Peace-on-Earth or even just Ho-Ho-Ho mindset.

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@JonathanTurley What’s on Ginni’s laptop?

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@mtaibbi The collapse of the Durham probe and how some pundits and reporters have completely ignored it.

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@sullydish This reads like something Glee Greenwald ghost-wrote.

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@briefermadness @JonathanTurley Also: "Can we get security clearances to look at those documents?" "Why do you need clearances if your client declassified them?" " .... "

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@mtaibbi More like "Lame on."

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@politico It wasn't the most gracious or smartest thing to say, but c'mon, this is pretty effing snowflake-y. Trump says more demeaning things about his opponents hourly.

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@JonathanTurley Turley's next column will be on the subject: "War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength."

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@NateSilver538 Google a random Nate Silver observation from 2010 and compare it to his current product. Glass full-empty.

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@JonathanTurley Donald Trump could tell a supporter to shoot someone on 5th Avenue in broad daylight and Jonathan Turley still wouldn't admit he'd ordered the shooting.

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Only 8 Republicans voted to protect private access to contraception. That’s fucked.

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NEW: House advances legislation ensuring access to contraception by a vote of 228-195. Only 8 Republicans voted YES. All 195 NO votes were Republicans.

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@JonathanTurley Lol, after multiple GOP members of Congress and Trump Admin officials ignored subpoenas, and Turley defended them, Turley’s faux outrage is hilarious.

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@ScottPresler @AaronParnas I think you'll be surprised to learn that those 70,000 employees don't appreciate being called "groomers" by DeSantis and FLA Republicans.

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@JonathanTurley Don’t do the crime if you ain’t got the dime!

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@ChristinaPushaw "Close the border" is now the DeSantis position? Awesome. Billions in goods and services blockaded, Americans' freedom of movement restricted. Psst: you're not as good at this as you think.

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@gregizzo1 @petersavodnik And then members of "that race" created social structures, laws and policies to ensure the supremacy of "that race" and discriminating against others. We all still live with the legacy of those structures, laws and policies, some of which existed within my lifetime.

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@mtaibbi @ggreenwald Tho tbh these days the Venn Diagram of Greenwald readers and Fox News viewers is one very small circle inside a much larger one.

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Whoa. Ben Sasse just called out performative "jackassery" in hearings like this one. Pretty sure he's looking at you, Ted & Lindsey.

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@BeschlossDC There's no such thing as planning a temporary coup.

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@mtaibbi "Injecting bleach protects you from COVID!" "No, it doesn't" "OMG OMG OMG you saying it doesn't is so completely fucked!!!!"

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@GlennThrush @kenvogel This is the kind of hard-hitting news gathering that caused me to cancel my NYT subscription last week after nearly 35 continuous years, going all the way back to college when I was a journalism student and the NYT was the gold standard of print news. Jesus Christ.

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@JonathanTurley Well for starters Trumpnhad foreign business deals - and we now know he paid millions in taxes to foreign countries. Biden did not. So there’s that. Do facts not matter in your law classes, Professor?

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@JonathanTurley Trump had docs. Turley: "No biggie!" Biden had docs. Turley: "OMG OMG it's the bigliest biggie ever!!!" Pence had docs. Turley: "No biggie, everyone does it!" Dude, this is why no one outside of MAGAworld takes you seriously any more.

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@JonathanTurley Sorry, professor. We're all laughing *at* you, not *with* you.

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@hemhawes @JonathanTurley Fox News, actually. But these days who can tell the difference? Turley sold his soul for Fox News gigs. Sad.

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@sullydish Lol. Citing Libs"gays are evil"ofTikTok citing Project Veritas will henceforth be known as "pulling an Andrew." I no longer take you seriously, Sully. What a sad descent to irrelevance and bitterness.

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@sullydish Andrew's gonna flip out on Halloween when he sees all the kids dressed as animals. My daughter went as a bumble bee one year. We've never recovered.

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@mtaibbi Putin’s ball-gargler ought not criticize others’ ball-gargling unless it’s about technique.

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@sullydish So the bill is literally more pro-rapist than pro-victim.

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@mtracey Wait a bit longer, and no. Most people are simply saying it was inappropriate. Same as a pilot saying “Fuck Trump” midlflight, which, as much as I’d agree with the sentiment, would not be something I’d want to hear from my pilot. So, now you can stop waiting.

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@DylanByers @PuckNews Imagine if the WH press corps covered substantive issues like the infrastructure bill, CHIPS Act, climate change, child tax credits, etc. as much as they do Biden's age. They truly deserve their irrelevance and our contempt.

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@cfthepodcast Some candidates/campaigns simply don't grok how unlikeable/unrelatable they are are. "You don't like me? well, here's MORE OF ME!" Oz suffers the same problem.

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@JonathanTurley Yeah, it would be terrible for the debate to be about <checks notes> the evidence. And the debate isn't "raging" anywhere but in the MAGAverse, prof.

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