@alexsimonelis @SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy @mtaibbi @shellenberger WTF, dude. When was the 51-intel-chiefs letter published? Who was president at the time?
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Conor Friedersdorf
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Conor Friedersdorf
@conor64
Omni-American, staff writer at The Atlantic, founding editor of The Best of Journalism–subscribe here: https://t.co/z6wyUHjoSp
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@conor64 @SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy That is either disingenuous or oblivious. Ask @mtaibbi, ask @shellenberger, ask the papers that printed the 51-intel-chiefs lying letter, ask about the bogus FISA warrants, ask about the Russia collusion investigation based on the phoney Steele dossier.
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If you think "it's over," just wait. If a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028, the censorship industrial complex will come back so fast you'll get whiplash.
The woke haven't been defeated. They're laying low while they build up their armies in Mordor.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
It's incredible the extent to which the social sanctioning engine has simply seized up. Hit pieces that would have been 5-alarm fires 5 years ago now come and go with no notice. Nobody cares, it's over.
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You needn't care what any other country thinks about our foreign policy. You are free to ignore them. You even have the right to rile yourself up into a jingoistic tantrum. Insofar as your response involves telling American Catholics that people are right to mistrust them, I will have contempt for your views and point out their overlap with bigoted villains of American history.
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@conor64 Well, this isn’t a conspiracy Conor, I’m watching it happen right before my eyes. And I could not care less what Rome thinks about our foreign policy.
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I am not trying to make my Catholic friends, who I love, angry with this statement. But this entire episode is starting to explain to me why so many Americans were concerned about a Catholic president for so long.
I have no interest in Rome trying to dictate American policy. And if it continues to loudly make its opinions heard on our foreign policy, I believe they’re going to find a lot of American Protestants feeling a lot less ecumenical than we have been in the more recent past.
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@willyl0wman @SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy @shellenberger Who was president when ***the Biden campaign team*** was making requests? And who was president when Elon Musk released the Twitter files? It's exhausting to argue with people who haven't yet mastered chronology.
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@conor64 @SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy @shellenberger Again, Conor why lie so brazenly about something so easy to disprove?
Seems like a demoralization tactic or something. Like if you just keep denying the obvious reality you win
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@willyl0wman @SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy @shellenberger The files documented Twitter's decision-making while Trump was president, genius.
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@conor64 @SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy Conor
Why lie about something that's so out in the open? @shellenberger et al released the Twitter files
We all know what happened
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@AnnCoulter Maybe you should stop letting your insatiable desire to deport people determine who you empower to run U.S. foreign policy.
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@megbasham Apply this reasoning to all the other people he meets with to see why it is specious.
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If the Pope is not on the political left, why is he meeting with political strategists on the left?
Catholic Sat@CatholicSat
Pope Leo XIV was half an hour late for his audience with the Italian Winter Olympic and Paralympic committees because he was meeting with David Alexrod, Obama’s chief strategist, this morning.
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All good choices but don't forget the people who wanted to "drain the swamp"
Alice@AliceFromQueens
Help me decide which group of MAGAs got played the hardest by Trump. Was it the group keen on..
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San José Mission was founded in San Antonio in the 18th Century. Alvarado is the oldest city in Johnson County. Martinez, Texas was founded 1877. A Santiago was president of the Congreso Constituyente of the state of Coahuila and Texas in 1825. You are dumb.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
Ah yes, “Texas teens” named Jose Rojas-Alvarado, Oscar Armando Santiago-Martinez, Angel Lemus-Perez, and Carlos Roberto Oliva-Villeda. Good old American names. Texans through and through.
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@KaiserSoze648 @TomiLahren I prefer preserving the beneficial parts of the alliance to having a petulant tantrum that doesn't help us.
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@conor64 @TomiLahren Listen dipshit. Nobody is making the argument that NATO is on the hook for helping us attack IRAN.
But our allies denying us access to their airspace which costs them nothing and risks none of their lives. Is absolutely unacceptable.
I don't want allies like this. Fuck Europe
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NATO and the UN are useless. We bankroll everything and get nothing out of either.
If NATO won’t back us now on this small endeavor, imagine if something major or more difficult were to arise?
Europe is largely a failed continent that has foolishly imported the third world and is now quickly becoming it. Weakness has become their defining characteristic. Also, they are rude and pompous for no reason.
Let’s take all that money we waste on these failed endeavors and invest into our own country.
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@Buda411 Lots of similar accounts have been reported, for example politico.com/news/2026/04/0…
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@conor64 What is the source that this happened? This guy’s tweet?
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@conor64 @TomiLahren True. But all this talk about NATO being purely defensive misses the point: NATO countries can use their armies outside NATO missions, and NATO allies could have helped the US if they so desired, without invoking the alliance — they/we chose not tue.
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Congress did not and would not have approved this war and a significant majority of Americans opposed and still oppose it. That you nevertheless insist it wasn't a war of choice betrays contempt for the Constitutional order and Republican values pertaining to who decides such questions.
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This was not a war of choice. Iran’s enormous stockpile of ballistic missiles and its nuclear program were a manifest and growing danger to US interests in allies in the region and also to NATO allies — Iran was developing longer-range munitions to strike Europe.
Iran’s funding of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis was also an attack on US interests.
The first thing Iran did when the war began was attack all the Gulf allies, something it had been preparing to do for years. The US had to deploy its missile defense resources to protect them.
Missiles are cheaper than interceptors, so as Iran’s capacity to launch them grows, the cost to stop them increases geometrically, and the rapid improvements in drone technology meant that we had a narrow window to go in and take care of them before they could deploy swarms of FPV drones in terror attacks to massacre civilians.
Obama-era appeasement of this regime failed to contain their weapons programs or their nuclear aspirations. Now, all their toys are smashed. This was a totally justified and absolutely necessary war.
Europe’s cowardice and failure to meet the moment should never be forgotten.
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My definitive list of the greatest characters TV of all time
10. Lester Freamon (The Wire)
9. Avon Barksdale ( The Wire)
8. Pietro Savastano (Gomorrah)
7. Miguel Alvarez (OZ)
6. Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri (The Sopranos)
5. Omar Little (The Wire)
4. Jaxson Teller (Sons Of Anarchy)
3. Walter White (Breaking Bad)
2. Ciro D'Marzio (Gomorrah)
1. Anthony Soprano (The Sopranos)
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@ribeiro__2022 @TomiLahren I agree that NATO has gone beyond what the treaty obligates its members to do at times. That doesn't change what is obligatory versus discretionary
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@conor64 @TomiLahren People keep repeating that line " defensive alliance", as if NATO didn't intervene in the Balkans, Serbia, Kosovo without ever being attacked.
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The Rest Is History is cooking with both its Fall of the Incas and Rise of the Ku Klux Klan episodes (the latter also bolsters my longstanding contempt for Woodrow Wilson and The Anti-Saloon League and my regard for Silent Cal).
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