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Executive editor, Washington Examiner magazine. Author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?

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@jimantle
Jim Antle
5 years
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon/Going to the candidates' debate/Laugh about it, shout about it/When you've got to choose/Every way you look at this you lose
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Jim Antle
4 years
The 2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee has been bitten by a possibly rabid bat.
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2 years
If Kevin McCarthy and Byron Donalds combined to form one speaker, they would be McDonalds.
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3 years
Fact check: Joe Manchin is married.
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ABC News
3 years
A single senator is about to seriously set back an entire presidential agenda.
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Jim Antle
4 years
Abandoning the curds.
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Molly Beck
4 years
President Trump is leaving Waukegan now.
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Jim Antle
2 years
We must not let the will of a 51-vote minority block the will of a 49-vote majority.
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The Hill
2 years
. @SenWarren : "I believe in democracy, and I don't believe the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority wants to do. That's not in the Constitution. [...] It's time to get rid of the filibuster."
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3 years
What was the date of the shootings?
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Maggie Haberman
3 years
He’s arguing the shootings didn’t get much coverage? Pretty sure they were a huge story.
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Jim Antle
6 years
MSNBC on Syria sounds like Fox News when Obama pulled out of Iraq.
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Jim Antle
4 years
For those seeking additional information.
@JoForLiberty
Jo Jorgensen
4 years
I will not be able to attend the campaign rally tomorrow morning. I will be getting a rabies vaccine as a precaution after having been bitten by a bat near the start of this campaign tour! I have every intention of participating in the FLAME march and I will deliver remarks at...
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Jim Antle
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Seems a bit odd that Trump is wedded to Project 2025, and Vance to his 2016-17 views of Trump, but Harris can disavow her past stances easily.
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Jim Antle
6 years
Also, does anyone familiar with canine lifespans really believe a dog could possibly have been a lifelong companion to a 94-year-old man?
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Slate
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Sully H.W. Bush is a service dog who had been with the president for six months, not his lifelong companion:
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5 years
Slow and steady and incoherent wins the race.
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4 years
Nah. He'll be fine, his wife is a doctor.
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Anna James Zeigler
4 years
It has begun.
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Jim Antle
4 years
@realchrisrufo @ColumbiaBugle Can you fax this to me since I doubt I will be allowed to read it on social media?
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Jim Antle
4 years
If Kristi Noem is elected president, the Secret Service will be guardin' Noems.
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Jim Antle
4 years
If this debate took place in Miami, it would be the Miami Vice Presidential Debate.
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Jim Antle
4 years
Idea: A California laundromat called the French Restaurant.
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Jim Antle
8 years
Chuck Schumer will be the third consecutive Senate Democratic leader who voted for the Iraq war.
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Jim Antle
4 years
Hasbro should also delete the "bro" at the end of their name.
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Jim Antle
6 years
Bush White House communications director during Iraq war.
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MSNBC
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"The big scam of the whole address was that there's a crisis. There's not a crisis." — @NicolleDWallace following President Trump's address to the nation on immigration
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This is an exceptionally cruel way to describe millennials.
@nypost
New York Post
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NYC Chipotle besieged by rats feasting on avocados, biting employees
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Jim Antle
6 years
That was an exciting first half. We'll see how Collins intends to vote after a halftime show by Lady Gaga.
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We have finally found the cure to the common cold: the teleprompter.
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Jim Antle
4 years
I really wish Obama had titled his memoirs Look, Let Me Be Clear.
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7 years
Snatch knot what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
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Jim Antle
3 years
At this rate, Virginia might invade Iraq.
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Max Segal
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McAuliffe touts @BillKristol endorsement, calls him "the leading conservative in America." #VAGovDebate
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Jim Antle
6 years
I have zero problem with what Meghan McCain said and think under the circumstances she had the right to say any damn thing she wants. But it is silly to pretend Trump was not the intended target of some of her remarks.
@RyanLizza
Ryan Lizza
6 years
I re-read all the speeches from McCain’s funeral. Nobody attacked Trump. They *praised* honor, decency, character, bipartisanship, and placing country over party. What does it say about Trump that so many people interpreted this as an assault on him personally?
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Jim Antle
3 years
Apparently there is a diner in DC called Off the Record where everyone orders the Jennifer Reuben.
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Jim Antle
5 years
@susanferrechio @dave_brown24 I am not into health food, I am into Rogaine
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Jim Antle
7 years
Thanksgiving pies, ranked. 1. The next pie. 2. The pie I am eating now. 3. The pie I just ate.
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Jim Antle
8 years
Think it's possible to believe simultaneously 1.) We are not always innocent. 2.) We are not Putin. 3.) Presidents shouldn't speak this way.
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Jim Antle
4 years
Finally, our long national period of harmony is over.
@danielchaitin7
Daniel Chaitin
4 years
BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani says the time for "harmony" is over, urges Trump to go on a declassification spree... More here: for @dcexaminer
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Jim Antle
3 years
Starting a company called PayEnemy.
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Jim Antle
5 years
Sweet home Alabama/Where the POTUS tweets are true... Weather maps do not bother me/Does your conscience bother you?
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Jim Antle
5 years
Area columnist believes it is easier to create democracies in the Middle East than to read a 300-page document.
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Jim Antle
6 years
I get knocked down...
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Jim Antle
5 years
Team Biden now includes Samantha Power and Susan Rice as well as James Comey and John Brennan. Hoo boy.
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Jim Antle
4 years
Was there ever a TV show with a more totalitarian theme song than Charles In Charge?
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Jim Antle
3 years
I'm an immigration hawk and we do have to have a vetting system and be careful even with refugees. But we have a moral obligation to let in as many people who helped us in Afghanistan as possible rather than leaving them to be slaughtered.
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Jim Antle
3 years
@BecketAdams There's an interview Reagan did near the end of his presidency with Brokaw, Jennings, Rather and Shaw, when there were dementia rumors and five years away from an actual Alzheimer's diagnosis, where he is way more articulate than Biden or Trump in any recent interview.
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Jim Antle
4 years
@JulieBorowski You got it, jerkface!
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Jim Antle
4 years
This is about as good of a press conference as I've seen Trump do, and the main headline will be wishing Maxwell well.
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Jim Antle
6 years
No one who works for a publication should ever root for another publication to close.
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Jim Antle
5 years
. @Olivianuzzi and @RudyGiuliani star in the best Hallmark Christmas movie in years.
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Jim Antle
4 years
"I am going to make a bad faith argument and personal attack... please do not respond in kind!"
@SykesCharlie
Charlie Sykes
4 years
So how many grandmas have died since this tweet? Is it too much to expect any regrets, apologies? @bethanyshondark And spare me the usual bad faith arguments and personal attacks ... (if you are capable of that)
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Jim Antle
5 years
Earlier today I was asked if I would have voted for Brett Kavanaugh. On reflection, my answer is whatever you would like it to be. Please let me rule you.
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Jim Antle
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Editor's note: All articles in the English-speaking world have been updated and clarified to conform to today's narrative.
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Jim Antle
4 years
Or at least became the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee.
@brhodes
Ben Rhodes
4 years
Imagine if we had a system where the candidate who got the most votes in the election became President.
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Jim Antle
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Can we really afford a Supreme Court justice who, having purchased peanuts and Cracker Jack, won't care if he ever gets back?
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Jim Antle
2 years
I've seen enough. No, this isn't about any election result. I've just seen enough.
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Jim Antle
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"Your driver is known for great conversation." *cancels ride*
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Jim Antle
2 years
@stclairashley Get up and leave because that's too many people.
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Jim Antle
3 years
Conflicting reports about Biden's call with the Chinese president. Seems like a he said/Xi said issue.
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Jim Antle
8 years
Not sure why a pilot had to be harmed in this process.
@shushwalshe
Shushannah Walshe
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The producers of the show confirm to @ABC that @SarahPalinUSA has signed a production deal for a courtroom show. A pilot will be shot first.
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Jim Antle
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@BridgetPhetasy I think for branding purposes, you should call them Pheet.
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Jim Antle
7 years
But if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
@aedwardslevy
Ariel Edwards-Levy
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Hi Democrats, the fact that you're happy doesn't make the results more predictive.
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Jim Antle
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It's dangerous for anyone in MAGA world to assume Kanye West, a high-profile Trump supporter for several years who has most recently been talking about the evils of abortion, would necessarily take votes exclusively from Biden.
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Jim Antle
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I'll take Ben & Jerry more seriously when they agree to Abolish ICE cream.
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Jim Antle
4 years
One thing Republicans should ponder heading into their own convention: Do they have anyone who can summon the gravity of the moment for many voters as well as Obama did?
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Jim Antle
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Tiny Dancer playing in the background as Trump learns of RBG's death is pretty surreal.
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Jim Antle
5 years
@dave_brown24 @susanferrechio So I walked in with high hopes, it was Hunter Biden's crooked place/I knew his smile in his instant and his chrome balding plate/It was my own lovely Rudy...
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Jim Antle
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Now I actively want to die from coronavirus.
@DanRather
Dan Rather
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Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put a mask on it
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Jim Antle
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Storming the beaches at Normandy levels.
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Logan Hall
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the stunning and brave levels are off the charts.
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Jim Antle
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Biden 20 Sanders 17 Harris 10 Warren 5 Gillibrand 2 Trying to Get Some Ranch 30
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Jim Antle
3 years
Do fully vaccinated bank robbers still need to wear masks?
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Jim Antle
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We have gone from binders full of women to women with full binders.
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Jim Antle
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MOM: Did you eat all those cookies? ANTLE: I don't think I did, no.
@kathrynw5
Kathryn Watson
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ABC: Did you watch the debate afterward? BIDEN: "I don't think I did, no."
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Jim Antle
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I am deleting all references to "generally" in our copy to avoid any confusion with General Lee. Thank you for your understand.
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Jim Antle
7 years
We will never be able to reform the U.S. health care system until we have made Afghanistan a functioning liberal democracy.
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Jim Antle
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Would have been valuable information two years ago.
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Peter J. Hasson
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Chuck Todd says in this podcast that a cabinet secretary told him two years ago that they barely interact with Biden and doubted he would be able to run for re-election
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Jim Antle
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This is the most Mitt Romney scandal ever.
@lindsaywise
Lindsay Wise
5 years
Romney Busted With Contraband Chocolate Milk Bottle on Senate Floor via @WSJ
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Jim Antle
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"Dad, what were you doing when the Mueller report came out?" "Why, I was saying stupid shit on Twitter, son." #history
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Jim Antle
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The downsized Williamson campaign is also known as Crystal Lite.
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Jim Antle
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Buttigieg campaign receives shot of Hennessey
@amandawgolden
Amanda Golden
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NEW: @PeteButtigieg receives his first endorsement from a New Hampshire State Senator, Sen. Martha Hennessey. Hennessey previously endorsed Sen. Cory Booker before he dropped out of the presidential race.
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Jim Antle
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Gore conceded (permanently) on December 13, the day after the Supreme Court closed off his last legal avenue for contesting Florida before Electoral College safe harbor date. Let's see what Trump does if and when legal options are exhausted to truly make comparison.
@tomfriedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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In the 2000 election Al Gore took a bullet for the country. Tonight President Trump put a bullet into the country. Most shameful thing I’ve ever seen.
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Jim Antle
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The conservative case for everything liberals want.
@InezFeltscher
Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️
4 years
Is there any op-ed easier to place right now than “I’m a Republican but Republicans shouldn’t fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court”?
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Jim Antle
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Am sorry to hear about Brian Williams' retirement, but I look forward to hearing about his new adventures in Iraq.
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Jim Antle
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He already beat Medicare, what more do you want from the guy?
@davidharsanyi
David Harsanyi
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Why didn't he take questions?
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Jim Antle
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Idea: a war between North Korea and anonymous Reddit trolls.
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Jim Antle
3 years
Can we have a gaslighting shortage?
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Jim Antle
2 years
Max Boot never even pretended to be especially socially conservative, Jen Rubin pretended some but not very convincingly. Bill Kristol devoted 30-plus years to the pro-life cause pre-Trump.
@mtaibbi
Matt Taibbi
2 years
Bill Kristol changing his mind about Roe isn’t surprising, because he’s never had principles. What’s interesting is how many of you changed your minds to embrace Bill Kristol, and not 23 years ago, but just recently.
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Jim Antle
4 years
Why didn't you order a national lockdown? Also, what gives you the authority to override governors?
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Jim Antle
8 years
You should probably make it to the end zone before you spike the football.
@StevenTDennis
Steven Dennis
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Is that HRC spiking the football?
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Jim Antle
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What if the real infrastructure is all the friends we made along the way?
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Jim Antle
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Maybe eat a couple subpoena cookies on the side.
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Jim Antle
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How does Amy Coney bear it?
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Jim Antle
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Growing up in Massachusetts, I can tell you that ever bringing up Chappaquiddick was considered nuts, tinfoil hat stuff, at best extremely rude.
@SteveKornacki
Steve Kornacki
6 years
After Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy won 7 more statewide elections, garnering between 58 and 73%. He remained a nat'l star as well and his endorsement was among the most coveted in the 08 Dem race. I go back and forth over whether he could endure politically if it happened today.
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Jim Antle
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The Susan B. Anthony pardon improves Trump's chances of carrying Suffragette City.
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Jim Antle
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Cory Booker: why are all these people arguing about opinions and stuff at a debate?
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Jim Antle
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What if Trump fakes the handoff of the nuclear football to set up a play-action pass?
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Jim Antle
3 years
Pretty remarkable how far Andrew Yang has gotten in politics pretty much for just seeming like a normal person.
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Jim Antle
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@stclairashley @JackPosobiec The Poso bilities are endless.
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Jim Antle
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NAFTA has been replaced by the Hello, Enrique, are you there agreement.
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Jim Antle
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Acosta thinks he is courageously speaking truth to power, but he really plays the same role at Trump press conferences that Jeb! did in the GOP debates.
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Jim Antle
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The Art of the Deal: Step #1 , negotiate with yourself.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can't, I will revisit this issue!
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Jim Antle
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@deadeyebrakeman Shouldn't your agent have a more direct way of contacting you?
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Jim Antle
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Ben and Clay are my favorite country duo.
@heckyessica
Jessica O’Donnell 🏈
4 years
ben and clay work off logic rather than emotion. It’s much harder to make a living that way because truth is often inconvenient to your audience but living in your feels is incredibly easy. that’s why rex steals dog videos for likes, while ben/clay deliver actual substance
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Jim Antle
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Roseanne/You don't have to tweet like the alt-right
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