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Artist, writer, teacher, public speaker, former candidate for Congress, ordained clergy, world citizen. He, him, his. 🇺🇦

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There’s is no doubt in my mind that after all the votes are counted someone is going to ask, “How did the polls and the pundits get it so wrong?”
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Trump is on his last leg. He’s virtually finished, both as a human being and a politician. But the press is intent on keeping him alive. Biden is still producing, thriving, and getting stuff done. But the press insisted on burying him. All you need to know.
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Folks. This is serious. Something may be happening on the ground in political races across the country. In my former home which is the second most Republican county in the nation, 2 Democrats just won local elections.
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Did you notice that #TrumpPedoFiles is now getting mentioned to the press by elected officials? All because some of you mentioned #TrumpPedoFiles . I implore you not to repeat #TrumpPedoFiles anymore because it’s very upsetting to Trump and the news media.
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Thank you to the 45 Democratic Senators, 184 Democratic Representatives, 23 Democratic Governors, over 3000 delegates to the Democratic Convention, and 14 million primary voters who support Biden / Harris 2024.
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2 wishes. 1. For Harris to ignore the press and let her enthusiastic supporters drown out their harping. 2. For the rest of us to hound the press until we get answers about Trump’s dementia, “hacking,” “assassination attempt,” Egypt $, Jan insurrection plans. #PressDoYourJob
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I’m from Georgia. Clarence Thomas is from Georgia. We both lived in Savannah. He tells a rags to riches story. Truth is he was groomed by white benefactors. Sent to a private school and indoctrinated with conservative religious values. He has always been on the take.
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I’m a former candidate for US Congress, have just been elected as a delegate to the Georgia Democratic Party Convention coming up this month, and would like to help unseat Andrew Clyde (who said Jan 6 was a tourist visit). I need 1000 more followers to finish my work.
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1 year
If you are watching similar trends where you live, please chime in. Polls don’t vote, people do, and the vote looks like it is starting to reject GOP extremism and fascism.
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I know it will never happen but I need @maddow to apologize for her treatment of President Biden. Until then I can’t bring myself to watch her, or finish a book of hers, or sign up for anything else of hers. This was a serious transgression of human decency and integrity.
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@BFriedmanDC @chrislhayes If you give into this violation of your constitutional rights the next thing you know the government will tell you not to walk on downed power lines. It’s a slippery slope. Stay strong.
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@TristanSnell To paraphrase the talking heads, “The GOP should not be enraged that a former president is being persecuted by the legal system, they should be mortified that they nominated a criminal to run for the highest office in the land.”
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And not to put too fine a point on it but his way was paid for him his entire life by white people who wanted something in return and who loved showing him off like their trained dog. Taking huge bribes on the Supreme Court is totally in character for him.
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@Pebble3212 @thatmouthybroad Georgia in an R +31 District. For non-political geeks, that means this area usually exceeds the national vote for Republicans by 31%.
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@mean_toe A friend of mine was handcuffed and loaded into a police car in his own neighborhood. Jogging while black. Sigh.
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I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to discovering that yet another celebrity, actor or musician is a racist Trump supporting fascist. Whether Jack Nicklaus, Tim Allen, Bret Favre, Eric Clapton, or a host of others, it shocks me every time. Racism is deeper than I imagined.
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Is ANYONE else enraged that the same press that was determined to destroy President Biden continues to bow in subservience to Trump’s lies and miscreant behavior ? Respond with #PressDoYourJob if you are tired of the press putting its finger on the scale in favor of fascism.
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Nancy Pelosi is one of the smartest political minds of the modern era, but what she did to Joe Biden was underhanded, and thank god she didn’t get her way to have an open convention.
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He was a disaster of historic proportions while in office and he continues to be a blight on our nation.
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@boston_fan73 Georgia, Rabun County, city council elections.
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@LanceUSA70 @LeeJohnson65 The lawsuit should be aimed at Trump, who, as commander in chief, tricked Ashli into thinking that breaking federal law and attacking the Capitol was authorized.
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2 years
If the FBI raided your home I doubt others would be debating which of four or five different crimes you were being raided for.
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Mike Pence defending Trump so he doesn’t lose the support of the base when he runs for President. I hate to tell him but I think that ship sailed when they chanted “hang Mike Pence.”
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2 years
I’ve been reading that the Republicans are losing the enthusiasm gap. Here’s anecdotal evidence. Stacy Abrams came to my deep red district a few weeks ago and over 250 people showed up. Brian Kemp came 2 weeks later and had about 20 people show up.
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2 years
Hey @LindseyGrahamSC have you noticed John McCain visiting you during your dark night of the soul? He keeps saying to you that not everything is about politics; somethings are truly about right and wrong.
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@joncoopertweets O.M.G. Trump ALWAYS wanted to be on the cover of time. It was a lifetime dream of his. This. Will. Kill. Him.
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@TippyTaff I try to tell people that the Southern Baptist Convention was pro choice until the “takeover” happened and they don’t believe me.
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@DCFphotography @maddow Biden would have won. You fell for the disinformation campaign.
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I don’t care what scare tactic or smear campaign Republicans come up with I’m not giving up my Democracy for anyone.
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@joncoopertweets How long before she is hired by CNN?
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@KeneAkers This in the state where the governor has just made it virtually impossible for civilians to have any oversight over excessive force by law enforcement.
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@getinformed23 @maddow It’s called confirmation bias. Homeland security warned us about it four years ago when the Russian disinformation about Biden first started. The press already knew he was sick and suffering from severe jet lag but chose to make the news rather than report it. Bush league bs.
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Those who think I should “just get over it” don’t understand why the media upsets me. It’s simple. If they did it to Hillary, and did it to Biden, they can to it to Kamala Harris, because they’ve already proven they don’t mind tipping an election to a tyrant for a good story.
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I know it will never happen but I need @maddow to apologize for her treatment of President Biden. Until then I can’t bring myself to watch her, or finish a book of hers, or sign up for anything else of hers. This was a serious transgression of human decency and integrity.
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Republicans cut health care costs, capped insulin, protected vets exposed to toxins, attacked climate change and reduced inflation. Oh, wait, that was Democrats. Republicans got drunk, threatened neighbors, defended treasonous espionage, incited violence and ignored subpoenas.
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If you are a MAGA dumping on Harris/Walz I will block you. If you are a Democrat dumping on Biden I will block you just as fast. Eight years of ignorance in this country is long enough.
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The next days it is important to not retweet, like or comment directly on the lies, propaganda and MAGA bs. Focus on comments by allies, Democrats, resistors and the criminal charges. Focus on being one step closer to justice and ending this madness. DO NOT LOSE FOCUS
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@LarryWest42 @LaurieFitch3 @HunterJCullen @smc429 Hate to say it, but if the shoe was on the other foot some people we know would be calling for firing squads.
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@emulvey2001 @Newyorker2212 @Santucci @KFaulders This will end badly for die-hard Trump supporters in the Senate. PEW reports a 25% drop in Republican support since Jan 6.
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You know that time when an 8 year old kid lies, gets caught, lies again and keeps digging the hole deeper? It’s funny at 8, unless they grow into a narcissistic sociopath. Then an entire country can need therapy.
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@ejames7699 He never would have survived at Beach. He was pampered and privileged from an early age. Now he feels entitled to the profits his grifting brings.
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@tribelaw I’ve asked this before but are we reaching the point where President Biden needs to go ahead and accept the mandate the Supreme Court is giving him and just keep Trump away from the White House by any means necessary as an “executive action?”
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@ResisterSis20 If the purpose of our legal system is to keep society safe and orderly, then we are running out of time to put some kind of restraining order, or gag order, on those who are actively promoting violence as a defense against accountability.
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Trump decided to announce he was running for President in the middle of multiple investigations so he could say that the reason for the investigations was to keep him from running for President. How. Stupid. Does. He. Think. Americans. Are?
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@TheHndrx @carrybeyond @kathygriffin I keep hoping that if we call this kind of hypocrisy out often enough, one day white male privilege will no longer be the litmus test for all of society’s moral judgments.
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@dejavu3x @maddow She knew Biden had caught a bug overseas and was suffering from severe jet lag but could not get out of the debate. I can’t endorse her dishonesty even if you think her dirty tactics were justified.
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@everywhereist @mydalsam5 I liked this for the parody but stayed for the female comments about caliber and stopping power.
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I think it is abundantly clear by now that when Trump is tried for crimes against the U.S. government his defense will be that he has been persecuted his entire life.
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Lawrence O’Donald trolling hard right now. “74 million Trump voters who said last night they were going to war today stayed home and did nothing.”
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@HC_Richardson #PressDoYourJob means checking sources and verifying rather than just repeating what someone tells you. Since Trump has zero credibility when it comes to the truth, the first question might be, “Why is this information coming out now and who does it benefit?”
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With all the Republicans and right wing pundits in hysterics right now let’s just take a moment for thoughts and prayers.
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Trump repeatedly said that the best way to judge a presidency was by the stock market. Well, the market set an all time high this week.
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@JoJoFromJerz It’s hard to know which part is the worst part- his bragging that all secrets belong to him and he can do with them as he pleases, or the years-long attempt to cover up the fact that he took said secrets.
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@donwinslow Anyone else notice that Republicans are having to fight on multiple fronts? That they are turning on each other? That they are losing the enthusiasm gap to motivated Democratic voters?
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@AlyssaW667 @ragwoman @BetoORourke Same thing happened to a friend of mine who is having to drive to Florida because her absentee ballot was rejected. It shouldn’t be this hard to vote. Republicans only plan to make it harder if they gain power.
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Amazing that the Republican mantra is “freedom” as they seek to put further restrictions on public schools, Black voters, asylum seekers, college students, women, the LGBTQ+ community, open records on political funding -Anything that actually means more freedom.
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Circuit Courts. Supreme Court. DOJ. US Postal Service. Congress. FBI. State Department. NSA. We now see that MAGA moles infiltrated every one of these with the purpose of making Trump supreme ruler. It will take a life time to repair the damage.
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Going to go out on a limb here but I think there is a much greater chance Donald Trump goes to jail than Hillary Clinton.
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Are we all thinking the same thing, that political polarization and volatility is only going to escalate over the next couple of months? No time to be timid. Call out GOP traitors in the strongest possible ways. This ends one way or another.
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I want this to be amplified, retweeted and spread far and wide for those democrats who need to hear it. According to multiple presidential historians Biden is one of the most effective presidents in history, even with massive GOP resistance. Stop asking if he should run again.
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@donwinslow @rockyrockoff Next time you get a phone call from the Fraternal Order of Police asking for donations you might see just how long they want to talk to you about convicted felons running for office who support beating up Capitol police officers and sexually assaulting women.
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Claire McCaskill - “The fundamentals across the country are clearly on the side of Joe Biden.”
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@NubomTrk @badtoad20 @clairecmc @Chiefs Millions of people were pulling for KC and their voices should not be silenced!
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Now that the United States Department of Defense, the US Army, and veterans groups have condemned Trump, and after all he has said and done to belittle “suckers and losers” in the military, are there any veterans left who still support this stinking empty shell of humanity?
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Simple question. Is @LindseyGrahamSC still ignoring a lawful subpoena? Recent history says that doesn’t turn out well.
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@SassyKru @ElaineMcQuade3 @cnnbrk @CNN @jaketapper @kaitlancollins @DanaBashCNN @maddow @ABC @CTVNews @BBCWorld You really want to make sure you don’t mention #TrumpPedoFiles to any of these people. It’s upsetting to Trump management and #TrumpPedoFiles is the top trending hashtag because everyone is trying not to mention #TrumpPedoFiles by warning everyone not to say #TrumpPedoFiles
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@PopularLiberal What’s funny to me is that fraud has already been ruled on by the courts, and the Trump family is simply being given a chance to testify under oath as to whether they were in on the fraud or not, and they keep stumbling over whether fraud is a good thing or not. 😂
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@kylegriffin1 It’s a short hop and a skip from “Mexico will pay for the wall” to “If Joe Biden is elected we will have a recession” to “The election was stolen” to “E. Jean Carroll is a whack job.” Only a fascist gangster could speak with such consistency.
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Republicans are coming out of the woodwork to repeat the same agreed upon talking points, defending Trump, attacking Garland, and inciting their base to violence. Quote them if you must but do not amplify their actual post. That’s what they want. They’re attention whores.
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@GirlFridayEire @vorobyov On a more humorous level, as Russian mechanized units break down or run out of fuel, Ukrainian citizens are driving around offering stranded soldiers rides back to Russia.
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And, not to put too fine a point on it, but the same press that gave us almost zero verifiable facts on the “Trump shooting,” just accepting Trump campaign statements, seems to be poised to follow the same approach with the “Trump campaign hacking.” #PressDoYourJob
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Someone explain to me why some Democrats, progressives and resisters on Twitter insist on liking or retreating republicans making inflammatory and treasonous statements. It amplifies these dangerous statements and makes them appear far more popular in the Twitter algorithm.
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@thejackhopkins 100 years from now, not only will he be viewed as a clownish, pathetic joke, historians will have to patiently explain to their students why anyone was ever afraid of him in the first place.
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@chrisdmowrey @trikytrump3 Given your youth, I get it. The previous President was such a loser that he attracted loser followers, and, pretty soon, the whole country forgot what real leadership looks like. Keep your idealism. We need it.
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2 years
You know how over the last six years we’ve fretted over the fact that certain people always seem to get away with stuff? A lot of people are no longer going to get away with stuff.
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@MikeSington Exactly! Republicans: Trump built a beautiful wall that stopped all illegals from crossing the border. Also Republicans: Millions of illegals are now pouring across our borders.
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@MikeSington My entire family used to go to Florida. No more. Last Christmas our extended clan canceled reservations in St Augustine. The owner of the house understood and hoped we’d be back when things get back to normal. Sad.
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@CharlieGoldst13 @maegabby49 Stacey Abrams came to our little north Georgia County which is in the 3rd most Republican district in the nation and attracted over 250 enthusiastic supporters. Kemp got nervous, came the following week and had 25 people show up. Shortly after that Stacey caught Covid.
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Lots of twists and turns can be expected in coming weeks. For some this will be slow and agonizing but for others events will seem to be popping daily. One constant in it all: Support for Trump Republicans is slowly melting away. Inexorably.
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Have you ever encountered a bigger group of whiny, insecure, malcontents in your life than the insurrectionists?
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@MeidasTouch @natashablue22 Spare me privileged white men who put their own petty feelings ahead of the fate of our nation.
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@Sigmundine2 The mill around her neck was a 30 year GOP disinformation campaign that started in Arkansas and escalated in 2016 with the help of massive Russian involvement. What happened recently to Biden tells me some people can get played over and over.
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Republicans never argue in good faith. A minister points out that dumping a bus load of cold scared immigrants in unknown places on Christmas Eve is the opposite of what Christ preached and they respond with owning the libs and abortion. Who can live with these people?
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@ossoff Georgia hasn’t had 2 senators in years because Perdue has just been a spineless place holder rather than an active advocate for the people.
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A gracious, intelligent and kind woman, whom I have had the pleasure of being with on more than one occasion, needs our healing love directed her way.
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This morning I took my daily COVID test and tested positive for COVID-19. Before my speech yesterday, I tested negative. Today I’m experiencing mild symptoms, and I’m grateful to have been vaccinated and boosted.
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@naretevduorp @SangyeH So, you would give up on the man that scholars have pointed out is the most successful first term President in 65 years because a less competent candidate is younger? Democracy dies if that is how shallow our thinking has become.
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@ungerbn103 Uh, because on one level Trump supporters spend half their time totally disengaged from reality.
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Speaker Johnson demands Pres Biden call the National Guard against college protests while claiming Speaker Pelosi should have called out the Guard on Jan 6. Meanwhile Trump is immune for official acts while Pres Biden should be impeached. Schizophrenia as a political philosophy.
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@kaitlancollins Finally a judge who won’t take Trump’s nonsense.
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@MarkSchweitzer We are supposed to heal after each presidential election and that calls for grace and forgiveness. However, after four years of Trump still calling to lock people up, it is clear to me that he needs to be held accountable for America to heal.
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Gov Brian Kemp of Georgia hates Donald Trump and the feeling is mutual. But Kemp would not want you to retweet this because it could cost him his race against Stacey Abrams.
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@AmyAmyp42 @maddow I don’t always have to agree with pundits but I want them to be honest and have integrity. She had the information she needed to tell a more truthful story but she chose to amplify the Russian disinformation that Homeland Security had warned about because she wanted Biden out.
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God, I hate admitting how naive I’ve been. All those years when the press ignored so much of the Trump debacle I just assumed they were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of Trump’s mendacity. Little did I realize much of the press has been in on the joke and the joke’s on us.
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Still waking up in the middle of the night realizing that over one million of our friends and loved ones died because people sat on the sidelines when Hillary ran, and were willing for worse things to happen because they “weren’t excited enough” to support President Biden.
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@BettyBowers @pumpkinleaves2 The press’s continuing lack of curiosity about the reason for the walking disaster that is the Trump campaign is astounding.
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@rgriesemer3 @rcn400 Illogical argument. Voters vote. Not states. As long as we live under the delusion that states vote, most voters get left out of the campaign process and never have a candidate come to their state or answer to the people, and presidents only care about “important” states.
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I know it’s too much to ask but could somebody do an investigation into why major news outlets are now using Russian talking points about Biden’s mental health that Homeland Security identified as a threat four years ago?
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We only need 5 Republican Representatives to resign, get expelled or be prosecuted by state or federal authorities. All I’m asking for is five. We all know Democrats won by a lot. Can you just give me five? Find me those 5. At least 20 shouldn’t even be there. Just five.
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The Press: We didn’t force him to drop out, we were just reporting what insiders were telling us. Also the Press: We set records with our coverage and our stock went up. The Press still further: Reporting on an attempted fascist takeover isn’t interesting to our viewers.
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@PoliticusSarah @938boomer “But will it be a problem for Biden if reporters like me keep ignoring his spectacular record of success and keep focusing on his age?” -Kristen Welker
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@ChrisDJackson Exactly. It’s kind of like saying David Hogg should quit advocating for gun safety because it hasn’t changed anything. Well, actually, Biden has been more effective. Regardless, supporting the right causes, or the current President, is not a popularity contest
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