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Rich Galen

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4 years

Josh Hawley should resign tonight.

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4 years

. @JoeBiden isn't that good an actor. That speech came from the heart and it reached mine.

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@richgalen

2 years

. @NYTimes @tomfriedman about his lunch with President Biden:

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@richgalen

4 years

Polling on Ted Cruz reminds me of a Buddy Hackett line about Don Rickles: “Some people hate him like poison. And, some people just hate him regular.”

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2 years

Pence had one moment - ONE moment - of political courage. Even at that he needed a backbone transplant from Dan Quayle. The rest of Pence’s political life has been one of a sniveling, whimpering, second-rater.

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Look closely. This is the last time we’ll see Capitol Hill open to traffic - vehicular or pedestrian. Walls will be built surrounding the entirety. Goodbye, People’s Complex.

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@richgalen

4 years

Jonathan Reiner @jreinerMD on @CNN : “The house is on fire & the President has locked himself into his room”

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@richgalen

2 years

Business owners and executives in Fulton County ought to fill Shaye Moss’ inbox again - this time with job offers.

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@richgalen

4 years

Thing about Mike Pence is this: Trump is a sociopath and doesn’t know right from wrong. Pence does know right from wrong but does wrong anyway.

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@richgalen

4 years

Audience down to desultory applause whenever Trump pauses. Wishing they'd brought their iPad.

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@richgalen

7 years

My wife on Rob Goldstone: "We found the 400 lb fat guy."

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@richgalen

4 years

This business of examining every Tweet by every person nominated for any job solely for purposes of disqualification is confusing. Have they not read any Tweets by @realDonaldTrump ?

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@richgalen

8 years

How can it be that I am standing at my kitchen counter sobbing because of the messages being driven at the DNC? Where has the GOP gone?

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4 years

. @washingtonpost headline: “Tulsa imposes curfew ahead of Trump rally to prevent violent protesting” City has to lock down to prepare for visit by a President. How did we get to this point?

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

3 years

Good.

Byron York

@ByronYork

3 years

Lincoln Project announces its 2022 agenda: Defeat all Republicans. Every one. Keep Democrats in charge of House and Senate. Prepare way for Democrats to keep White House in 2024.

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3 years

That's if you count proving you are an ignorant blowhard as "demolishing." Maxine Waters accomplished more in three words "Shut your mouth" then Gym Jordan did in all his bloviating.

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson

3 years

WOW - @Jim_Jordan just demolished Dr. Fauci 🔥

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@richgalen

1 year

By not joining @POTUS in surveying the storm damage in his own state, @GovRonDeSantis proved, once again, he is a frightened puppy who is unworthy of even being the @GOP nominee which is a low, low bar.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

5 years

What comes after 100%? What comes after insane?

George Conway

@gtconway3d

5 years

He’s 100% insane, and nobody in the administration has the balls to tell him that.

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@richgalen

2 years

Unlike legislative disagreements, leadership fights leave scars that never fully heal. Good luck trying to govern after today, House Republicans.

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@richgalen

4 years

NYT: “Some Trump allies fear that Mr. Giuliani is encouraging the president to continue a spurious legal fight because he sees financial advantage for himself in it.” Someone in the trump orbit operating for personal gain? Nah.

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@richgalen

2 years

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@richgalen

4 years

Maybe it’s because we’re seeing only the worst through the lenses of the cable nets, but it seems to me that entire major city police departments are acting like the guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

4 years

Hyperventilating about the $600 /$2,000 payment to people making <> $75,000/year? @pewresearch says middle income is between $48,500 - $145,500 annually for a household of three. Lower-income is < $48,500 and upper-income > $145,500. MCs & Senators make $174K. Leaders make more

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

4 years

Here’s my contribution to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library

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@jaketapper

4 years

Just occurred to me that at some point there’s going to be an announcement about the Trump Presidential Library.

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@richgalen

6 years

I've narrowed the potential author of the @nytimes op-ed to three people: John Barron, John Miller, or David Dennison.

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2 years

Georgia election official Shaye Moss, telling the Jan 6 Committee about how much she enjoyed helping older voters because her older relatives didn’t have that right. Brought tears to my eyes.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

6 years

. @RepMattGaetz violated Rule 1 of the House: “A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.”

Lanny Davis

@LannyDavis

6 years

#1 We will not respond to @RepMattGaetz despicable lies & personal smears, except to say we trust that his colleagues in the House, both Republicans and Democrats, will repudiate his words & his conduct.

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3 years

Prepping for a colonoscopy. Instructions say nothing but clear liquids. I’m going with vodka.

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@richgalen

2 years

Has “Big-Assed Diapers” already been taken?

Wu Tang is for the Children

@WUTangKids

2 years

What even is that

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6 years

New definition of chutzpah: The GOP is claiming the Ds are “inciting violence” less than a week after @RealDonaldTrump celebrated Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte’s “body slamming” a reporter.

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@richgalen

4 years

Few including, apparently, her law firm.

The Daily Beast

@thedailybeast

4 years

NEW: Few knew Cleta Mitchell was doing work for the Trump legal team in Georgia until she was introduced on a now infamous call between Trump and the Georgia secretary of state

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2 years

What does @LindseyGrahamSC know that he doesn’t want to have to lie about before the grand jury in Georgia? Why is he fighting so hard to quash the subpoena?

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@richgalen

4 years

From the WaPo analysis of a new national poll: “Among adults supporting Biden, 77 percent say they are certain to vote, up from 67 percent in May. There has been a bigger jump — from 51 percent to 75 percent — of Biden supporters under age 40 who say they are certain to vote.”

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2 years

I might have been absent, or dozing in class, but I thought Trump promised to fix the southern border problem. He had four years. Didn’t get it done.

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@richgalen

3 years

I’m not a lawyer but it seems to me that SOMEbody had to sign the form requesting SOME judge to approve the subpoenas and gag orders, no? Can the House Intel Committee request/demand those documents?

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@richgalen

3 years

. @TheRickWilson is cranky this AM: [Trump’s] “claque of skells, mooks, jabrones, degenerate fops, soulless harpies, wannabe Leninists, and natpop snake-human hybrids.”

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@richgalen

3 years

When Trump was doing Putin’s bidding (kill off NATO) Putin didn’t have to do this. Now that Biden, et. al are in charge, he can’t depend on the US to do his dirty work.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

3 years

Fire Stefanik. Save America.

Elise Stefanik

@EliseStefanik

3 years

Fire Fauci. Save Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻

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@richgalen

3 years

Thankful? These are the people who saved my life last January. I’ll see your “thankful” and raise you a “God Bless You”

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@JReinerMD

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

8 years

"Bannon was registered to vote in two states" 2,999,999 to go. We. Will. Find. Them. All.

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@richgalen

8 years

I'm not even a Hillary fan, but that look she just gave Chelsea could fill the Library at Alexandria.

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5 years

Me: If I were younger, I’d hop in my car and drive up to New York to help. My Wife: Why don’t you start by straightening up our garage, Captain Midnight. Me:<Sigh>

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4 years

⁦ @reedgalen ⁩ 60 Minutes tease

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4 years

The most damning line of his presidency via the @nytimes : “Mr. Trump had agreed to wear [a mask] not long before for a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after finding one he believed he looked good in: dark blue, with a presidential seal.”

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

3 years

GOP Epitaph: “All Roads Led to Mar-A-Lago”

The Lincoln Project

@ProjectLincoln

3 years

All GOP roads lead to Mar-A-Lago.

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@richgalen

5 years

I wish the House had been full to watch that. Every staffer in every House and Senate Office should see it. Thank you @HowardMortman for posting that remarkable moment in the history of the Congress.

Howard Mortman

@HowardMortman

5 years

“I will come over to meet you, brother." -- Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Tuesday on House floor. They hug:

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4 years

Idea du jour for @JoeBiden : Add to you stump speech this (or something like this): On Inauguration Day, by the time I get back to the White House, that fence will be gone.”

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@richgalen

5 years

Here’s what we’re seeing at the Trump presser: The Trump Team polled overnight and found that about a billion times more people trust @JoeBiden to manage this crisis than @realDonaldTrump .

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Rich Galen

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4 years

One difference between packing an arena with political types for a convention and packing that same arena for a sporting event? The people in for the sport are almost all local. The political crowd will, by definition, disperse any virus nationwide as they go home.

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@richgalen

4 years

I've been busy staring out the den window with my cat. Did Trump ever introduce that major, major healthcare plan he promised in two weeks?

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@richgalen

3 years

How many times do you have to hear the same thing. From the @nytimes : “A recent study in Los Angeles County showed that while breakthrough infections can happen, the unvaccinated are 29 times as likely to end up hospitalized from Covid-19 as a vaccinated person.” Get vaccinated

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

8 years

Think about Trump making that statement from the Oval.

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@richgalen

4 years

Biden did well enough. Biggest win was not letting Hunter become the center of the debate and thus the center of political discussion through the weekend. Trump? Too Little, Too Late.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

4 years

Average per capita income for a Scranton, PA taxpayer: $21, 625 (U.S. Census Bureau) Approx. federal tax liability (incl. FICA): $7,513 TEN TIMES what Trump paid.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

8 years

Re: @Reince 's threat. Turn it around. What if Trump loses. Badly. What should the RNC do to the people who marched the GOP off the cliff?

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

4 years

Barr’s going to have to do better than that. Not going to change the “He’s infected the whole White House” drumbeat.

Maria Bartiromo

@MariaBartiromo

4 years

Breaking News** Two highly redacted documents about to be declassified re: Brennan, Comey/Strzok. We will have all details tomorrow @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness @AbbyGrossberg

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

3 years

A year ago my kidneys failed. After 10 months of tests, the Kidney Transplant Institute at George Washington University Hospital approved me to be a kidney recipient. If you are interested in being a donor, please click here: In any event, please R/T

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

5 years

One of the best political show runners in American Politics, @ReedGalen , is helping the “Lincoln Project” trains run on time.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

5 years

GOPers ⁦ @gtconway3d ⁩ ⁦ @SteveSchmidtSES ⁩ ⁦ @jwgop ⁩ and ⁦ @TheRickWilson ⁩ launch “the Lincoln Project” which in next 11 mos. will work to defeat “Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line”

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8 years

Much as it pains me to agree with my good friend @PeterFenn ... I do.

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8 years

Nunes and Intelligence--an oxymoron. As Senator McCain just said we need a select committee or independent commission. #newChurchComm

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

8 years

Has the Secret Service ever arrested a protectee?

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@richgalen

8 years

The larger the popular vote margin for @HillaryClinton the more embarrassing to the campaign strategists who so mismanaged her time.

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@richgalen

4 years

Trump

The Lincoln Project

@ProjectLincoln

4 years

@gtconway3d What’s the German word for vomiting?

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

8 years

If I'm any test. It's working.

Robert Costa

@costareports

8 years

It's about more than disqualifying Trump--it's about making the Democratic Party acceptable and an easy fit for skittish Rs, independents

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3 years

Facebook began as “FaceMash,” a female college student shaming site, at Harvard in 2003. It’s in Facebook’s DNA.

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4 years

This, alone, is reason enough to vote for @JoeBiden .

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President Donald Trump and his top aides are planning a huge overhaul of his Cabinet if he wins a second term, scuttling officials in key health-related and intelligence jobs who Trump views as disloyal, slow-acting or naysayers

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6 years

Only @RealDonaldTrump can, with a straight face, take credit for a deal that caused him to completely renege on his pledge to keep the government closed until he got his billions for The Wall. #WallFail

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8 years

@TedCruz will take being booed after that speech as a badge of honor. So will a lot of Republicans.

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@richgalen

3 years

As to the passing of GEN Colin Powell of COVID complications despite having been vaccinated: It is important to remember that perfection is a religious, not a scientific (nor a political) concept.

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3 years

On the Steve Bannon indictment: For everyone who muttered, murmured, spoke, shouted, or scolded AG Merrick Garland for not moving to support the U.S. House in its criminal contempt referral … the apology line forms right over here.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

8 years

New definition of multi-tasking: Copying your resume for the Trump transition team while deleting anti-Trump Tweets from the past 18 months.

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

2 years

Hillbilly Perjury

🇺🇲 jimmy camp

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2 years

@NHJennifer Funny when the guy on the ballot tomorrow doesn't get his name on the podium. Perhaps he didn't kiss enough ass.

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4 years

Your Assigment Editor: Someone should ask Trump at the next opportunity to say what Florida does differently handling mail-in ballots that other states could adopt.

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4 years

Interesting watching Kayleigh McEnany stand at the podium in the WH briefing room lying to the press to explain and excuse Trump's lying to the American people.

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6 years

Adam Clymer has died. We went to a Nats game a month or so ago. He was uncomplaining dealing with his walker, with a wheel chair, with a short set of steps at the park. He said of Parkinson’s: The one good thing? You learn who your friends are. RIP

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3 years

Never gets old

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8 years

This may be the best speech @HillaryClinton has ever delivered. By a wide margin.

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1 year

I’m trying to remember how many Rs voted for Pelosi for Speaker. Anyone? Anyone?

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3 years

Actually, Joel, @jReinerMD is my cardiologist and he saved my life earlier this year. Given a choice between him and you, I guess I’ll just stick with him.

Joel Pollak

@joelpollak

3 years

. @Acosta and ⁦ @JReinerMD ⁩ are absolute frauds. I would think anyone subjecting themselves to treatment by this “doctor” would be advised to get a second opinion, based on this fraud.

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4 years

@ProjectLincoln According to the @NYPost article “The image of the President’s daughter and adviser appears to have been taken from a selfie she tweeted in July, in which she held and gestured toward a can of Goya black beans.” Ivanka hawking a can of beans? THAT’s disturbing

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4 years

I know this patient. Dr. Riener is a medical streetfighter who refused to let me die. Eternal thanks to all at GW Hospital.

Jonathan Reiner

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4 years

Went to see a pt being discharged after surviving a 2 mo hospitalization. When he thanked me I told him that dozens of people had taken care of him and this year more than any we needed moments like this. Then we both had tears and I stood in silence for a while before leaving.

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7 years

Even with the balanced wording of the question, I’m not sure this is the answer Lou was expecting.

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3 years

@TexasTribune Zero out any funds earmarked for Texas. Let them explain why no water projects, no bridges, no roads, and no upgrades to Texas’ storied electrical grid.

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2 years

A new ad by the @ProjectLincoln Lincoln Project tells the truth about @EliseStefanik who, like others, traded the GOP for personal gain.

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3 years

The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who is a hairball in the belly of the body politic, has decided to climb over the dead bodies in his state’s COVID wards enroute the Republican nomination for President.

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Rich Galen

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4 years

Who would have thought that six days into 2021, I’d be pining for the good old days of 2020?

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2 years

Thank you @ProjectLincoln , et al. From the @WSJ editorial board this AM: “The Democratic strategy of spending money to help MAGA candidates win primaries was cynical, but it worked. Every one of those candidates lost.”

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2 years

Moron

Resolute Square

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2 years

Womp-womp. Lauren Boebert = 🤡

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Rich Galen

@richgalen

3 years

We - every one of us - has to stop them.

The Lincoln Project

@ProjectLincoln

3 years

Lincoln Project Sr. Advisor @StuartPStevens lays it out plain to @ChrisLHayes : “They want to overthrow the electoral process as we know it.”

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4 years

Election day has become like Christmas day. "X shopping days left before Christmas" doesn't mean you have to wait until Christmas to shop.

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6 years

Feb 13. 110 days.

David Corn

@DavidCornDC

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When do pictures and catchers report?

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Rich Galen

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8 years

How ... Different the world has become.

Ron Fournier

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8 years

Democrats: "USA! USA!" Republicans: "Lock her up!"

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8 years

Bernie still looks like the old guy sitting on a lawn chair and waiting to yell at the neighborhood kids if a Frisbee landed on his grass.

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4 years

What would be the opening bid for exclusive rights to a tape recording of Trump’s immediate response?

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4 years

@PaulBegala re: Trump on Mt. Rushmore: “He’s much more likely to have his face on a mug shot.” @CNN

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4 years

Bringing out a lot of Docs and Nurses who won’t answer questions clearly or completely doesn’t help ameliorate the nation’s unease.

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4 years

@tysonweihs And so the security protocols are being put in place.

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4 years

Winter arrives tomorrow, Dec. 21, at 5:02 AM. The Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year. It is also my birthday. Answers many questions about me.

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6 years

BREAKING: Virginia Legislative leaders to ask West Virginia to take them back.

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6 years

I'm not at all certain that the Kavanaugh nomination will last until this afternoon. Trump may pull it before he even gets to testify.

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9 years

Gotta give @realDonaldTrump this: He is much better at defending his employee than Breitbart was at defending theirs.

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