Scott McConnell @ScottMcConnell9 Twitter profile

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Scott McConnell

2 years

Here's a photo of my old pinned tweet, which disappeared somehow and isn't in the archive. A friend found it via wayback machine.

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Scott McConnell

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2 years

The sad thing, the really sad thing, is that so many progressives, not marginal but people with influential jobs, published authors even, now seem to really believe that free speech is fascism. Not sure even Elon Musk can defeat that. It's a brand new thing in American history.

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7 years

When I went to "Deploraball" on inauguration.eve, (white nationalists were excluded) antifa threw bottles at my wife and I, called us Nazis

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8 years

Trump talking about how Hillary made so much money from her govt service is pretty awesome

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@JudsonMcCulloch @DrJillStein I've tweeted one or 2 mildly friendly things about Jill, but this is nuts. Deep down hard core left is nuts

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2 years

West still sleepwalking towards a civilizational ending nuclear war over territory that means nothing to it.

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3 years

I remember asking smart people in NYC in the 90's how the murder rate could be dropping so fast. Common answer: relatively few people commit most of the crimes, and if they're in prison, crime drops.

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2 years

It's really amazing how much academic standards were lowered to make lotsa black people professors at real universities.

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2 years

Rutgers professor says that "white people are committed to being villains" and falsely claims that Africans arrived in North America before white Europeans. "Whiteness is going to have an end date," she warns. "We gotta take these muthafuckers out."

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It's really amusing to see the Times try to explain the murder surge without mentioning BLM, the rhetorical knots it twists itself into. Probably like reading Pravda or People's Daily during government created famines.

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3 years

Do black people get tired of starring in every commercial or nah?

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Early on first date with beautiful 21 year old Barnard student, I asked her what she was interested in. She said "foreign policy". I asked whom in that realm did she admire or respect. (Most girls in my CU grad school cohort would have answered Che or Trotsky or something). She

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4 years

Oh goodie, Sixty Minutes gonna have a segment smearing Orban because he's trying to raise Hungary's birthrate instead of replacing its population with Africans or whatever.

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8 years

We're supposed to get all xenophobic about Russia's email hacking, but open our doors to all illegals.

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6 years

The main takeaway from this piece is that Sessions should launch an investigation of antifa, and not only right wing rioters. In this case (so near my old Manhattan apartment) antifa seemed to be trying disrupt an entirely normal GOP gathering.

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Antifa shows up at conservative events to violently shut them down. Gov Cuomo prosecutes conservatives for defending themselves.

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7 years

DJT: Let's control Muslim immigrat DC Est: Not who we are, you racist! DJT: "Let's commit war crimes" DC Est:"Finally acting presidential"

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3 years

Zelensky thinks he's in a movie

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11 months

I'd like to read an account of how the Irish, who resisted the British fiercely, often courageously, with a deeply nurtured hatred, managed, after more or less winning their national struggle, immediately to turn themselves into the most cucked nation in Europe. Half my

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We would never interfere in another country's election

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6 years

Tucker: "Just because he's not a neocon doesn't mean you can remove him from power." On the FBI's 25th amendment scandal. LOL

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6 years

Am generally a fan of women's tennis, but the fact that Serena at age 36 can spend six of the last 12 months in medical duress and come back 25 lbs overweight and beat seeded players makes me think the game lacks something.

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4 years

Gosh, why?

The Minnesota Star Tribune

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4 years

Minneapolis residents are grappling with a triple-digit percentage increase in carjackings, with incidents occurring at all hours, including broad daylight.

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Scott McConnell

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5 years

@mtracey Because it's not a morally abominable statement?

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1 year

@RichardHanania If you don't know the difference I can't help you

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Scott McConnell

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6 years

Trump's biggest weakness is lacking knowledge of the policy people who might have helped him with a realist/populist agenda. On his dumbest day, he's smarter about FP than Rubio, or the standard issue GOPers.

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

Honestly until about an hour ago I thought Breonna was a completely innocent victim of a police mistake. Dinner partner provided necessary context.

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CNN is aggressively lying about the Breonna Taylor case to fuel black anger. Must be terrific for ratings!

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@McFaul Michael, what do you think would happen if China helped along an anti-American coup in Mexico and then proceeded to bring Mexico into a military alliance? What would your response be?

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8 years

I wonder when the French will begin to fight as hard for France as they did to keep Algeria.

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2 years

Have to admit impressed by Trump's implicitly Chomskian Ukraine statement. I cheered his diss of the Iraq war in 2016, very important for GOP. But he was reflecting public opinion. Here, he is standing against a near monolithic media consensus, showing actual leadership.

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7 years

This neocon clown Peters says Putin is "equivalent to Hitler". How ignorant do you have to be to think that?

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Tucker throws a fit when Lt. Col. Ralph Peters calls him out for defending Putin and compares Tucker to Lindbergh's comments on Hitler.

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

Andrew, obsessively focused on Trump's deficits (of which we are all aware) suddenly notices the alternative.

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@KamalaHarris Why would a vice presidential candidate seemingly endorse full-on Marxism days before a general election? Does she believe government should enforce equality of outcome for everyone? Seriously?

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4 years

60 minutes complaining that Hungary spending more on families than military

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2 years

Appealing young refugee girl wants to go back to Ukraine. @JennyChachan

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7 years

The time I met Assad. One thing for sure, close to 100 percent of the Christians in Syria support his regime.

Divided & Conquered

A visit to Syria, Israel, and Palestine reveals the barriers—physical as well as political—to Mideast peace.

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Scott McConnell

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6 years

Periodic reminder of Beltway establishment hypocrisy about election "meddling". Unlike Putin, our boy Yeltsin presided over oligarch looting of Russian economy and huge spike in death rate.

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7 years

This is due to Trump and Sessions. Bravo. For Obama and Hillary, they are "Dreamers"

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Scott McConnell

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3 years

@ABAbook I generally feel a bit guilty using Amazon, and usually try to patronize small bookstores. That sentiment is now diminished.

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

Not sure people know how unusual it is to have a prime time political show report and break substantive stories that no one else is doing. @TuckerCarlson reporting on establishment Dems funding the organizers who organized the riots is extremely important .

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Scott McConnell

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5 years

The Tucker monologue on the really astonishing efforts to bring thousands of new immigrants into the country at a moment of soaring unemployment is great and necessary. Honestly, I think the congress critters pushing this are traitors.

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Scott McConnell

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2 years

well, Meta's price is down, Amazon's price is down, Apple's price is down, Twitter's price is up.

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

Being a minority will be awesome.

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2 years

@KonstantinKisin How do you think American leaders would respond if China wanted to build a military base in Mexico?

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2 years

Three men I know in the past three years have lost their daughters this way. All young women were talented, high achieving, presumably pretty casual users.

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Police arrest men in undercover drug operation, seize cocaine laced with fentanyl

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

Thank you Black Lives Matter!

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

Dreher notes that Ike had a portrait of Lee in his office. So time to treat him as a Nazi too, I guess.

The American Conservative

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"We could all use more Robert E. Lee right about now."

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Scott McConnell

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8 years

Leftists/socialists used to be, as Irving Howe awkwardly but memorably put it "about equality" Now it's more "don't like most white people"

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

How many people who entered the Capitol were armed with something other than cell phones? I think they should be jailed, and should have been prevented (with violence) from entering. But are we going to hear for years about an "insurrection." Seems like a lie to me.

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7 years

CBS Sixty Minutes on now sucking up to oligarchs who looted Russia during the 90's.

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3 years

Zelensky says if Ukraine loses it’s “the end of the world”. Some grown up should tell him that’s not true.

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Scott McConnell

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8 years

I actually like and respect @HardballChris as many tweets from 2016 attest. But the anti Trump hysteria too much, now.

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

Strong battleground state deep dive: Hillary lost because swing voters saw her as a hawk. Trump should take note

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

I really don't get the anti-mask thing from people who I thought were sober and sensible. Every country which has been doing well with covid does a lot of mask wearing. The opening up questions are complicated, the mask thing isn't.

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4 years

Wouldn't it be easier to tell people authoritatively that what Qanon is saying is not true if they weren't also trying to tell them that men can be women?

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4 years

Yes, it's not as if BLM rioters had someone on a presidential ticket raising bail money for them and praising them. Oh, wait...

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Slimy little worm

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5 years

Bloomberg hasn't had someone disagree with him in 10 years. It shows.

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

My theory after driving back and forth to Alabama and listening to a little C&W on the radio is that Hispanics and red-necks are going to fuse into a powerhouse demographic and political force. Not woke.

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3 years

Reimagine policing.

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

Don't worry, Hollywood will follow up with movies mocking Jews and Muslims, real soon now.

Nerdist

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7 years

Raunchy nun comedy #TheLittleHours gets a heavenly poster

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2 years

I introduce Anna and Dasha to old people. @MainstreamViews

Soviet America’s Sweethearts

Red Scare has morphed into an eclectically right-wing podcast that's become a counterculture that's arisen within the counterculture.

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

Watching golf channel. Last ad: Clueless white guy beside Asian woman (wife, colleague?) being dissed for investment ignorance by black woman.

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

Is this the only guy in the Senate who thinks like this?

Rare Liberty

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7 years

. @RandPaul explains why open-ended, never-ending war is dangerous for America reports @Rare 's @AutumnDawnPrice

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

Chris is really triggered by Macron saying out loud what everyone says and knows in private, including Chris

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Good God

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Scott McConnell

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3 months

@JonathanTurley The Democrats ought to cool their inciting rhetoric, which is constant at every level

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

That sudden moment when your marriage no longer gives you social power

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Harvey Weinstein's Wife Georgina Chapman Is Leaving Him: 'My Heart Breaks for All the Women Who Have Suffered'

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Scott McConnell

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7 years

The country owes Chris Christie mucho thanks for torpedoing Rubio's campaign.

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7 years

"I don't think that should be an arbitrary cap.That number should be driven by demand." So, unlimited immigration.

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Scott McConnell

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4 years

It would be nice if we could disengage from China-- end our dependence on Chinese manufacturing-- without a lot of needless insults of the Chinese government and people. I fear the opposite, GOP using demagogy to win elections, while bowing to big business complicity with China.

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8 years

Didn't hear Trump's Virginia Beach speech, but judging by commentary, was terrific. Wolf Blitzer & co. liken to Nixon/Reagan "divisiveness"

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4 years

Good for Ann. With this kind of thing going on, it's really up in the air whether two or four or whatever years of Biden is better or worse than four years of Jared.

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4 years

Ann Coulter goes on explosive mega-rampage against Trump to defend Jeff Sessions via @BIZPACReview

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8 years

Missed this. They should try it after a decade more of Dem immigration policies. #Cologne

Slate

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100 nude women protest Trump at #RNCinCLE :

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7 years

From Douglas Murray's fabulous book about European immigration

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7 years

Probably an exaggeration

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7 years

Astonishing, amazing piece! Informed by something more than ideology. And a "2nd thoughts" piece, often the best

I've Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe's Afghan Crime Wave Is

Afghans stand out among the refugees committing crimes in Austria and elsewhere. Why?

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2 years

Forbidden airport reading

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4 years

One point I remember Peter Brimelow making when I first knew him the 90's was that multiculturalism would eventually put enormous pressure on freedom of speech. This was before tech monopolies, when everyone thought of the internet as a great expansion of freedom. He was right.

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6 months

There are more destructive mistakes America has made-- Vietnam, Iraq; but the policy makers were under serious and understandable pressures, the spread of communism, the Al Qaeda attack. So the mistakes, grave, were understandable. The Ukraine thing, Nato expansion, seems just

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7 years

So much of the left seems like parody

The Federalist

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UMich Student Who Insists Wood Paneling Is Racist Gets It All Backwards

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3 years

Probably the best way to avoid nuclear war is to slow walk arms deliveries, compelling Zelinsky to settle. In the longer run Putin is cooked and Ukraine will join the EU. In the short run, fighting has to stop.

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3 years

At least Putin doesn't hate his own people and own country.

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3 years

Good god. I got to hear lectures and have seminars with Fritz Stern, Robert Paxton, Marshall Shulman, Warner Schilling, Eugene Galanter, Zbig Brzezinski in college and grad school. Feel so sorry for kids today.

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Scott McConnell

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8 years

Apparently Trump gave important speech in Wisconsin yesterday. Read two big newspapers this morning, no mention.

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2 years

My neighborhood could take care of the DC migrant surge if every home with a welcome all migrants sign in front took in a couple.

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3 years

getting up in the dark, going to school in the dark sucks much more than darkness at cocktail hour.

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8 years

Chris Cillizza lays out the facts.

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4 years

Hooray

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8 years

Thought this was parody at first

Muslim men storm nudist pool in Germany shouting 'Allahu Akbar'

A GROUP of Muslim men stormed an outdoor nudist swimming pool in Germany shouting "Allahu Akbar" and threatening to "eradicate" women.

www.express.co.uk

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8 years

Why Trump would appoint someone dedicating to destroying his presidency his beyond me.

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8 years

John Bolton was "very disturbed" by Trump's #AmericaFirst stance on NATO: No to Bolton! @transition2017

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5 years

He's right. Shouldn't be courageous to point this out, but it is.

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Tucker Carlson: White supremacy is "actually not a real problem in America." Calling white supremacy and issue is "a hoax" and "a conspiracy theory used to divide the country"

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6 years

Sweden today. A thought experiment, what if you showed this video to Palmite social democrats a generation ago, what would they say?

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7 years

Have to admit that Mueller investigation exposing Jared Kushner's ties to Israel is ironically delicious.

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7 years

Tulsi for president.

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2 years

Harmeet Dhillon is smart.

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3 years

Do you think Zelensky wishes he had gone for no Nato and enforcement of the Minsk agreements last month, or does he prefer being a world wide hero while his country is wrecked?

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2 years

First the media has to finish trying to convince us there's been no rise in crime the past two years.

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6 years

Honestly, he could help himself by hiring any number of smart realists and appointing them to key positions, and finding and firing the guy who wrote the Times oped.

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3 years

Looking forward to the deeply sourced dives into pre-war diplomacy, assuming we're still around. Main purpose of diplomacy is to avoid war, so obviously Biden failed miserably. They assumed Putin was bluffing? Really want to see the memos.

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7 years

This is how the pro Macron WSJ describes their guy

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4 years

One of my experiences with anti-Asian hate was with the Korean deli boycott in NYC in the early 90's. Black activists were trying to close down a deli in Brooklyn by menacing shoppers, lot of vicious rhetoric, threats. The media, except for the NY Post, was silent. /1

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7 years

Love this conclusion. From

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When you've lost CNN....

Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social

@TrumpDailyPosts

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From Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom : MUST WATCH: Comrade Kamala's record is so extreme, even Erin Burnett couldn't believe it.

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6 years

On domestic policy, he lucked out with Sessions, who is at least (unlike the GOP establishment) committed to immigration reform and controlling our borders. He got Miller, a big plus.

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16 days

Ms. Wu is one of the big Kamala supporters on my feed.

Brianna Wu

@BriannaWu

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Really glad VP debates don’t win elections.

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Scott McConnell

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7 months

Maybe instigating a proxy war on Russia's border, over an issue of no real strategic importance to the United States, wasn't such a good idea?

Ian Ellis

@ianellisjones

7 months

“The security environment is the most dangerous I’ve seen in 40 years in uniform,” Adm. Aquilino warned last week. “We haven’t faced a threat like this since WW2.” A few more clips, quotes, & mic-dropping moments from his final public appearance as Commander, U.S. INDOPACOM 👇

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