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Cohost @badfaithpod with @briebriejoy . Public intellectual. Bestselling author. Buy the pod

debate record: 70-1-0
Joined August 2008
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
4 years
There's a new show. It's a panel show. You know how shows work, I don't need to hold your hand. It's called @badfaithpod . I do it with @briebriejoy . It's exciting. It's new. It's a new thing for you to know about. Listen to the first episode:
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George H. W. Bush died tonight after a long battle with No Nut November
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Virgil Texas
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Just a quick reminder that Bernie won the Iowa caucus and these fucking crooks can’t ever take that away from you. Thank you.
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Virgil Texas
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Fun fact: BOTH of this asshole’s parents are billionaires, one inheriting a fossil fuel fortune, the other a hedge fund ghoul. The Tisch School is named after her grandfather. She earned her own way in life though
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Virgil Texas
4 years
ah whoops
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Virgil Texas
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RAT MODE: TERMINATED
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Virgil Texas
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Just a heads up: Bernie won
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Virgil Texas
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oh no...... stop..... anything but that
@Independent
The Independent
5 years
Erdogan threatens to recognise US genocide of Native Americans in response to Armenia ruling
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Virgil Texas
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hunter biden made $3 million from doing Ukraine or whatever and he spent it all on cocaine for his friends. there is not a podcaster in the nation who does not respect him
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
6 years
when the poor kid summer camp across the lake beats your rich kid summer camp in the annual games
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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No analysis. Just belief. Here are my Super Tuesday calls: JOE BIDEN Alabama Arkanasas Tennessee MICHAEL BLOOMBERG American Samoa BERNIE SANDERS California Colorado Democrats Abroad Maine Massachusetts Minnesota North Carolina Texas Utah Vermont Virginia
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Virgil Texas
6 years
this is some world class salesmanship
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Virgil Texas
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Tom Perez knows he will be fired the second Bernie clinches the nomination.
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
4 years
doing the ahegao face as i vote to repeal the minimum wage
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@virgiltexas
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5 years
finally met my match
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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The memory of 9/11 is sacred ground and should only be used to cynically pursue an endless campaign of mass murder in the Middle East
@SpeakerPelosi
Nancy Pelosi
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The memory of 9/11 is sacred ground, and any discussion of it must be done with reverence. The President shouldn’t use the painful images of 9/11 for a political attack.
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Virgil Texas
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bernie NO
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Virgil Texas
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bernie sanders told elizabeth warren “dudes rock,” sources confirm
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
6 years
a socialist was elected to the united states congress tonight
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Virgil Texas
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my heart goes out to all the girlfriends who wanted to talk about other things today
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
5 years
The gloves are finally off. Bernie is stealthily going negative on his rivals in this leaked volunteer script.
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
6 years
hats off to Ben Shapiro for realizing Steve King is a white supremacist several years after everyone else did, and for continuing to believe in and advocate for every aspect of King’s agenda. truly Ben is small in size yet big in integrity
@bungarsargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon
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Wow big kudos to @benshapiro for updating an article about @SteveKingIA and changing his mind with the new evidence that's come to light. This is really hard to do and I admire Ben for his honesty.
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THE POSTS ARE WORKING
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
7 years
dunno how one watches the President command ICE and every thug cop to brutalize minorities and conclude that the left needs to be nicer
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
6 years
baffled by the news that an extremely wealthy man is rightwing
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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i can’t find it right now, but i’m reminded of matt’s observation regarding the west wing that even in liberals’ greatest fantasy they’ve compromised instead of won
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
5 years
Does the Warren campaign approve of their volunteers sending these sorts of rude texts? @ewarren
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Virgil Texas
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I want to give my deepest thanks to the Bernie and DSA organizers in California. I’ve met so many absolute heroes here. You blew Biden out of the water, and all I can think is, fuck, we’ve got to show you up in New York next month. Much love
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Virgil Texas
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@davidaxelrod
David Axelrod
5 years
Who would have predicted that @joeBiden and @ewarren would leave N.H. without a single delegate?
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
6 years
got his ass
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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golden retriever brains
@OsitaNwanevu
Osita Nwanevu
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A group of National Guard troops on patrol walked up and the crowd broke into applause.
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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@samstein actually it's fucking hilarious
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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neera is the first person to unite the left since bernie sanders
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Virgil Texas
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@newscientist bring back triangle
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Virgil Texas
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please vote for bernie. thank you
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David Frum's AMA is going great
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Virgil Texas
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two athletes
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Virgil Texas
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getting drunk and singing 40s protest songs with communists is by far the most relatable thing i have ever seen a politician do
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Virgil Texas
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Bernie’s camp is releasing the count in ten minutes
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Virgil Texas
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At the Buttigieg concession speech in South Bend, the mood is not happy
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Virgil Texas
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This is a time to add together our values and subtract our fears from the quotient of our dreams.
@PeteButtigieg
Pete Buttigieg
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I will not pursue politics by telling people they can't be at our side if they're not with us 100% of the time. This is a time for addition not rejection, for belonging not exclusion. #DemDebate
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Virgil Texas
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do you want me to explain whats happening
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Virgil Texas
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Drugs aren’t a substitute for a personality, which is repeating things you heard on a podcast
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Virgil Texas
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biden is going to something stupid like suspend all his advertising
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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if obama were in game of thrones he’d say something like “uhhhh letmebeclear. if you like your dragon you can keep it.” something of this nature you know
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Virgil Texas
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50% of warren supporters would flip to bernie if she dropped out. the other 50% are on twitter.
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@ElieNYC
Elie Mystal
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Dems: Here is some help Rural whites: Cool. Do I have to share the help with black people? Dems: Uhh, yeah? Rural whites: FUCK YOU. TAKE YOUR HELP A SHOVE IT. White Pundits: Dems really need better messaging to white working class workers.
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@SteveKornacki
Steve Kornacki
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Iowa Dem Party just released another batch: The Buttigieg SDE leads has fallen from 16 to 4.
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Virgil Texas
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i love working at the post office in Columbus, Ohio and ripping up childrens’ letters to Santa because Christmas violates Sharia Law
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Virgil Texas
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my parents worked really hard so that one day i could log on a website and choose between insurance plans called like Aetna Bronze Shield and Cigna Introvert PatientPlus while hungover
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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If you’re in line to early vote for Bernie at UNLV please stay in line, the polls will stay open. If you’re in line to vote for another candidate then fuck off
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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did anyone actually figure out the trolley problem? kind of an urgent question
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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Listen to this starting at 37:00 for the genuinely surreal experience of two veteran DC journalists—Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman—asking me and Matt if we’re celebrating Soleimani’s murder, getting indignant that we think Buttigieg is CIA, and saying “what about Venezuela”
@SkullduggeryPod
Skullduggery
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NEW: @politico 's @harrispolitico as well as @virgiltexas @cushbomb from @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE join @Isikoff @dklaidman @SkullduggeryPod to discuss what's going through the minds of @realDonaldTrump supporters & the rise of #BernieSanders as dem nom for president
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Virgil Texas
6 years
thank you to Howard Schultz for injecting the discourse with a flavor shot of serious policy ideas such as “bringing the country together” and “rolling up our sleeves to make america work”
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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oh, you’re a K-pop fan? name two Koreas
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Virgil Texas
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ohhh so this is the baby hitler everyone is talking about
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Virgil Texas
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thank you to everyone who made @davidfrum cry tonight. on to nevada!
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Virgil Texas
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good morning. here are my Nevada caucus predictions. i’ll spare you most of the details 1. Bernie Sanders 2. Joe Biden 3. Tom Steyer 4-6. fail jail #whocare
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If crows were actually smart they would exchange blockchain-secure cryptocurrency instead of shiny pebbles and pieces of glass and whatnot
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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congrats to all the liberals and centrists for inviting violent state repression against the left by helping amplify rightwing hysteria
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Virgil Texas
6 years
keep making this hog cry
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan nearly starts crying talking about how people are mean to ICE agents
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My wife’s boyfriend and I are starting to get jealous of the way she looks at Beto 😂😂😂
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Virgil Texas
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bernie won
@neeratanden
Neera Tanden🌻
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Folks who are claiming anything may be rigged sound like Trump. Exactly like him. It’s pathetic.
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Virgil Texas
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the Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity signs did not age well
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Virgil Texas
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trump is going to nominate a 26-year old with a law degree from bob jones university who has never been a judge but is currently embroiled in 3 pro se lawsuits against circuit city. the gop senate will take 7 minutes to confirm him
@GarrettHaake
Garrett Haake
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Dem. Senator BLUMENTHAL: “The Senate should do nothing to artificially delay” consideration of next justice, but POTUS should take his time & make a centrist choice.
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A powerful omen for tonight’s debate and the Chapo Trap House Elections Unit
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Newly-minted Associate Justice Tom Cotton authored the 5-4 decision declaring the hand count of Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots unconstitutional and ordering the Secretary of State to certify Trump as the winner of the state’s 22 electoral votes
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Virgil Texas
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*rings the sales bell*
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@erinschaff
Erin Schaff
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Conservative women, who support Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, pray while touching the doors of the Court as Jacquelyn Booth cries on the ground, mourning the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Virgil Texas
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it took 17 nanoseconds for Kamala Harris to be rebranded as a courageous populist silenced by billionaires. this is only true to the degree that the billionaires who funded her campaign jumped ship for Buttigieg when her poll numbers tanked
@IronStache
Randy Bryce
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Pretty incredible that a billionaire thinks he can win it at this point with money alone while others who have been doing the actual work of running drop out.
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It’s been a really crushing night, and my thoughts are with those who will suffer under continued Tory austerity and xenophobia. But having spent the past week here, I can report that everyone who fought for Labour did so with such tenacity we should all be immensely grateful for
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Virgil Texas
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Tom Perez is willing to kill off his own voting base solely because he’s afraid of a degenerating Joe Biden having to run against Bernie Sanders for few more weeks.
@MSNBC
MSNBC
5 years
"We respect what they're doing." DNC Chair Tom Perez says states have systems in place to move forward with Tuesday's primaries, after judge denies Ohio governor's request to postpone the elections amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Virgil Texas
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Andrew Yang’s candidacy has been made obsolete by a more efficient political machine
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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over the next few weeks i will be posting all of the states. here’s oklahoma
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Virgil Texas
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We should all thank the activists who fought for months and got arrested just to get Murkowski and Collins to a hard no.
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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that rules
@StopAntisemites
StopAntisemitism
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Geo-political expert and Lebanese porn star Mia Khalifa states the only democratic nation in the Middle East is the biggest threat to democracy. The tweet has over 6700 likes.
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Virgil Texas
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this entire video owns
@NBCNews
NBC News
7 years
Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler was chased away by protesters during a press conference in Charlottesville
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Virgil Texas
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feudal brain
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Virgil Texas
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whichever Presidential candidate says they’ll use this precedent to declare a climate emergency and nationalize the energy sector is probably the only rational choice
@pdmcleod
Paul McLeod
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WHOA. Mitch McConnell announces Trump *will* sign the spending bill but is also going to declare a national emergency to build the wall.
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ok it’s late. would you like me to explain the Nevada caucus
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Virgil Texas
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when you die you meet God and He tells you who in your life was CIA
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Virgil Texas
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oh my god
@LauraLinneyNews
Laura Linney News
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Laura Linney and her husband cheering for @Zendaya 's #Emmy win.
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Virgil Texas
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@zlingray joe biden should do the honorable thing and also get covid
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Virgil Texas
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🤪
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Virgil Texas
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theres been maybe 7 competitive nonincumbent iowa caucuses in this timeframe, and fewer involving nonwhite candidates. nate describes that as “40 years of data” to huckster people into thinking that’s statistically significant. this fuckin bimbo i swear to god
@NateSilver538
Nate Silver
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Actually I've looked at 40 years of data on how primaries work instead of cherry-picking counterexamples. Having two super white states go first is a big disadvantage to nonwhite candidates. And Obama remains the only nonwhite candidate ever nominated by a major party.
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another debate won 🙌🙌🙌
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Virgil Texas
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change the american flag to a set of suburban eyes peeking through the stripes like window blinds
@TheRoot
The Root
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A black Oregon state representative, who was out canvassing and checking in on her community had the cops called on her by one of her constituents:
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i doubt the article says it, but his rich dad bought him the seat with a $1.5 million super PAC donation
@Forbes
Forbes
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How 34-year old Trey Hollingsworth became one of the youngest members of Congress:
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Virgil Texas
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told you
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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just remember: if it’s big and heckin that’s a doggo i reckon if the woofer is smol it’s a pupper above all
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good point professor, there's no way trump could find biden's wikipedia page
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@virgiltexas
Virgil Texas
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. @benshapiro have you ever touched a boob
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i love when dorks are like "my grandparents came LEGALLY." that basically meant passing a lice check and not dying of cholera on the steamer
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Virgil Texas
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endorse biden next
@JoeCrowleyNY
Joe Crowley
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It’s Election Day in New York! I’m urging a vote for @MelindaKatz for #QueensDA today. Polls are open until 9PM. No one cares more about #Queens then Melinda and I know she’ll be a strong advocate for us all.
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Virgil Texas
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sounds like she fucking sucks then Norm
@NormOrnstein
Norman Ornstein
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@jaketapper I have no doubt @SpeakerPelosi hammered out the best possible deal. The problem was the people she was dealing with.
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Me and @briebriejoy argued with Noam Chomsky for an hour on the latest episode of @BadFaithPod . We won the argument. Listen here:
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