@Dmuniz231 @thelastbluedog Reid wanted to strip Lieberman of his committee leadership. Obama said no. Lieberman got to keep his leadership posts without having to make any concessions to support Obama’s agenda.
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@Cbusaaron @thelastbluedog Well yeah because it wouldn’t work. Leiberman lost a primary. Ran as an independent and still won
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A member of the Democratic Caucus literally campaigned for McCain😭
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
The Obama 2009 Senate supermajority might be the fakest supermajority ever. It lasted only 72 working days while the Senate was in session, due to Franken being seated late and Ted dying. And it was full of 2009-era red-state conservadems that make 2021 Manchin look like AOC.
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@brianrdhamm @nikicaga I think it just reminded people of what they didn’t like about the Clintons in the 90s: endless investigations driven by GOP hatred of them, and too cute by half “that depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is” type explanations for their own behavior.
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@nikicaga It’s not clear that Benghazi itself hurt her that much (it was an issue in 2012 and 2013 when she had those higher ratings, after all), but it IS baffling that the e-mail server hurt her as much as it did.
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Ngl I still don't understand why the Benghazi stuff worked so well
Drord@Polit_eurOpines
in 2013 she had a 65% approval rating, making her the most popular politician in the US by leaps and bounds. Hard to imagine that only two years later she’d be one of the least popular
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@MHendi35 @Job601 @HeerJeet If voters just make excuses when political candidates lie to them (rather than holding them accountable for the promises they make) you end up with a demagogue like Trump who takes advantage of that environment of cynicism by saying the most ridiculous bullshit imaginable.
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@Cbusaaron @Job601 @HeerJeet How many Senators would have voted for Bernie’s healthcare plan? 20? Maybe?
Everyone knows we don’t hold presidential candidates to that standard.
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Obama in particular deserves more criticism. He ran on codifying Roe and had for a time 60 Senate seats.
Briahna Joy Gray@briebriejoy
Very weird to blame Jezebel and not Obama and Biden: The two presidents who could've codified it and didn't!
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@Jugulator__95 @Job601 @HeerJeet Bernie’s plan to pressure Democratic senators to vote for M4A by doing rallies in places like West Virginia as President was ridiculous, especially since he opposed ending the filibuster. Unless his idea was “I’ll just destroy the party if they refuse to vote for my agenda.”
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@Cbusaaron @Job601 @HeerJeet Bernie Sanders repeatedly said he would pass M4A do you think he would have if he won?
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@mangrove_t @StatisticUrban Byron Dorgan was to the left of Obama on many issues, including health care. He tried to make the ACA more progressive, and the White House whipped votes against his amendment to lower drug prices because Obama had cut a deal with the pharmaceutical industry to prevent that.
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@StatisticUrban if you can't tell me who Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad were, I'm not interested in your opinions on Obama's first two years
see also, Bart Stupak
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The Obama 2009 Senate supermajority might be the fakest supermajority ever.
It lasted only 72 working days while the Senate was in session, due to Franken being seated late and Ted dying.
And it was full of 2009-era red-state conservadems that make 2021 Manchin look like AOC.
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@nathanTbernard I feel much better about the idea that she’ll be 85 at the end of her term as I watch her answer voter questions by looking down and reading off of prepared answers.
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Maine voters grilled Janet Mills on her Platner attack ad, blasting national democrats for trying to tilt the scales in the primary.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Leaked Video: Janet Mills Attack Ad Against Graham Platner Backfires With Maine Democrats dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-video…
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@erichol59443359 @daveweigel That explanation makes no sense. How would being put on the Senate Judiciary Committee have anything to do with something he did decades later as president?
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@daveweigel No, he's referring to the first female black justice and just left out the word female
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I shared my honest reaction to Biden's funeral oration for Jesse Jackson! It was weird and rambling and only occasionally about Jackson. You can read the transcript. cnn.com/2016/04/02/pol…
Cullen Martin@CulRMartin
Imagine. Talking about Nelson Mandela. And then TOTALLY shifting topics to Africa & the continent of Africa! As though Nelson Mandela had *anything* to do with Africa! Oh...wait... [Dave Weigel can fuck all of the way off.]
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@daveweigel Did he go on to tell that same lie about how he and Andrew Young were arrested trying to get in to see Mandela?
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He's not kidding. This was a verbatim part of Biden's *eulogy for Jesse Jackson.* Just a rambling mess.
jesse@cc37876
@daveweigel @CongressmanRaja @DanielBiss @laurafineforIL9 @KatAbughazaleh @bushraamiwala @IsaacDovere @RobertJPeters @JunaidForUs biden's comment about africa becoming a superpower was awful. classic biden
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@buckfury25 @KyleKulinski It did not. Luke’s gospel is obsessed with the plight of the poor and oppressed, and no further context is needed for his “blessed are the poor….” Your stubborn refusal to admit that the two different gospels say different things is impressive, though.
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@buckfury25 @KyleKulinski No that’s actually what you did. I simply pointed out that Jesus said exactly what the meme suggests he said. You’re the one who for some reason decided to bring up a completely different quotation from a different gospel to insinuate that the meme was misquoting Jesus.
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@Cbusaaron @KyleKulinski Well your reply to my comment could have been a “Yes, and” or a “Yes, but”. You said “nope” as if I was incorrect.
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@buckfury25 @KyleKulinski Yes, darling, that’s the gospel of Matthew. Jesus says something different in Chapter 6 of Luke’s Gospel, as I posted earlier.
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@amuse @JuliaManch Do you guys ever feel any shame about lying about everything?
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Travis Akers 🇺🇸@travisakers
One of the most distasteful things I have ever seen.
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NEWS: President Trump and Speaker Johnson discussing Florida Rep. Neal Dunn's terminal cancer diagnosis:
Trump: "He would be dead by June."
Johnson: "Okay, that wasn't public."
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@FioCDMX @zakfilm The chatbot is wrong. She admitted that she didn’t go because she was very competitive and was afraid she’d lose. She admitted that it was bad behavior.
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@daftpunditry @flamewave7 @maklelan One says he returned the money and hanged himself in remorse. The other says he kept the money and used it to enrich himself by purchasing land. These stories are irreconcilable.
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@flamewave7 @maklelan I don't think you're aware of what a contradiction is. Did one of the biblical writers say that Judas did not hang himself? Did anybody say that he did not fall headlong and burst open in a field?
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Everyone who presupposes that the texts cannot contradict has convinced themselves that the texts do not contradict, but they're obviously motivated thinkers & have to set the evidentiary bar on the floor. None of the answers plausibly harmonize all the contradictory details.
Internet Atheists@AtheistTakes
Nobody has ever tried answering this before
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@jondipippo1 @GunnelsWarren We worship money, there are few protections for workers that are enforced, and everyone is terrified of losing their job. We’ll never do a national strike under any circumstances, unfortunately.
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@GunnelsWarren How on earth are Americans not immediately engaging in a national strike? What are they waiting for? Could anything move them?
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Netanyahu: I need $19.8 billion
Trump: Approved
Hegseth: I need $1.5 trillion
Trump: Approved
Argentina: We need $40 billion
Trump: Approved
Qatar: We need an Air Force Base in ID
Trump: Approved
Average Joe: I lost my job. My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: No.
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@CryptoInvstr64 @zakfilm William Randolph Hearst (the guy who served as the inspiration for Charles Foster Kane) put enormous pressure on the Academy to not give Citizen Kane any Oscars. When it won its only award that night for Original Screenplay, some people in the audience booed.
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@zakfilm Wait. As much as everyone and their mother raves about 'Citizen Kane' being the best film since movies were invented, Orson Welles did not win an Oscar for directing?
Wow!
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@AustRepublican @Duckett62 @HBendaas @berrycar And in the U.S. we murder thousands of uninsured or underinsured people of all ages per year by blocking them from getting medical treatment they can’t afford.
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@Duckett62 @HBendaas @berrycar You also murder your elderly who can't get treatment under Maid.
Maybe sit this one out
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Eight weeks of paid leave for every new parent = $10 billion
Covering community college tuition for every student = $10.9 billion
Catie Edmondson@CatieEdmondson
Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that they estimated the cost of the war against Iran would exceed $11.3 billion in the first six days alone. nytimes.com/2026/03/11/wor…
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