Edward
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Edward
@EdN618
I sought enlightenment, and it was here all along.
Missouri Katılım Temmuz 2011
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I’m once again begging people to stop calling books “banned” if they have displays at the front of Barnes and Noble
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 Dua Lipa opens banned book library after global right-wing book censorship.
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@CraigBouma @demaxx1rs @PeteButtigieg Ha, not a “sixth sense”
Blacks are staunchly anti-gay
One of the dirty little secrets of the dem party.
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@demaxx1rs @PeteButtigieg Non-white people don't like Pete. It seems to be a type of sixth sense white people lack. To me he sounds no more or less crazy than any other Democrat but to minority populations he might as well have a pointy white hood
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Don't let anyone tell us we can't have nice things - like good roads, schools, and health care - as if the world's richest nation couldn't possibly afford it.
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@PeteButtigieg Is America still paying for trans poetry courses in Honduras?
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@Hitchslap1 They would go bankrupt quickly if they did that. Intelligence on its own without the good sense to use it is fatal.
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@thefireneverdie @Hitchslap1 Some degrees are good filters.
That take 4 years and cost tons of money
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@Hitchslap1 A degree is a good IQ filter, and so are the interviews they conduct. In the interview, they try to estimate your IQ, what kind of personality you have, etc.
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@MarioNawfal Ro “walked me through it”
My goodness you people are painfully dim.
It was a planned PR stunt to take attention away from the despicable plantner debacle
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🇺🇸🇮🇱 Armed settlers held an American congressional delegation at gunpoint in the West Bank for 75 minutes, and the IDF took the settlers' side...
Ro Khanna walked me through it.
His group, American Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, a New York Times photographer, visited a destroyed village at its residents' invitation, the same trip other members of Congress made months earlier.
Settlers surrounded the van, one carrying an American-made M4 with a silencer, kicking tires, filming, taunting.
When the IDF arrived, he says the soldiers blockaded them in further and watched more settler cars gather.
What freed them was the US embassy working the phones.
Israel disputes his account; he says the released video contradicts the denial.
The aftermath stung him more than the incident.
No apology from Netanyahu when asked directly on Meet the Press, and America's own ambassador dismissed it as a PR stunt.
The nearest precedent anyone could find for an American congressman detained abroad by armed civilians was Leo Ryan, 1978, Jonestown.
His larger warning was generational math: Massie won under-50 voters by 30 points while losing over-50s by the same margin, and both parties' futures know it.
Which is why he's fighting Section 224, the provision merging US-Israeli military production, and thinks the light being shed on it may strip it in conference.
@RoKhanna
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@jarvis_best This is all a tough guy act from
Jarvis “God loves you and so do I” Best
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@Acyn Jessica Tarlov spits facts and can hold her own with douche bags Jessie Watters and Greg Gutfield!
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@Patrick_134 @CTWeaver7500 @cspan You should change your bio pic.
You're an embarrassment to zisk, hoyt and baines, et al.
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@bluewmist I try to listen and ask a question about a part of their story I found interesting or funny
But so many people just cannot wait to tell their own stories.
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100 people showed up to a hearing to oppose a Buc-ee's in Greenwood, Indiana. Only 4 spoke in favor. It was approved.
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@Undoomed Do they really think the rest of us are as stupid as they are?
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@HeatherOleson1 @Undoomed That’s IF you consider the nyt or new yorker news
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@Undoomed This is why if you're going to read a news article, always read to the very end. That's where they put all the important details
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They’re giving away Lindsay Grahams seat to his sister and they’re giving Mitch McConnells seat to his cousin.
We do not live in a democracy anymore. This is not how a democracy functions.
We did not vote for these people.
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@Patrick_134 @CTWeaver7500 @cspan You appear to have forgotten the point of your own reply. Which was that judicial decisions shouldn’t be subject to trump’s whims.
The number overturned is just an extra little tid bit I included. The adverse rulings themselves prove your comment was superfluous at best
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@EdN618 @CTWeaver7500 @cspan Many haven’t been overturned, just today, he was forced to pay over 5 million dollars for sexual assault.
You’re welcome.
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@Patrick_134 @CTWeaver7500 @cspan Thanks pat.
Trump has suffered more than 200 adverse judicial rulings. Many have been overturned.
You sound stupid
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I find it quite astonishing that a US Representative and his entire entourage can be stopped and surrounded by armed men, and Israeli propagandists like @havivrettiggur - instead of profusely apologizing - accuses said politician of overplaying the event.
Impossible to imagine this level of arrogance and impunity in any other nation on Earth.
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You describe the incident as "a bit delayed in driving forward." In America and most democracies, being blockaded by armed settlers and the IDF for 75 minutes (which no one disputes) would constitute detention/false imprisonment and the perpetrators arrested. Israel's response not understanding what rights are is almost more disturbing than the horrific incident itself witnessed by the NYT photographer, other Americans, and Israelis and confirmed by the Jerusalem Post, NYT, and Reuters.
Haviv Rettig Gur@havivrettiggur
Alas, Mr. Congressman, I'm not lying. And I started this line of questioning assuming you were telling the truth. I've written long essays on extremist Israeli violence in the West Bank. I know it happens. I was ready, at first glance, to believe it happened here. But it didn't. This wasn't Israeli violence. This was agitprop for your American audiences. I said explicitly that I'm not familiar with the details of that area. It took a lot of effort for JPost to find out what it found out -- which was that it was a closed military zone only recently opened. But if you'd coordinated your visit with Israeli authorities, this would have been sorted out from the start. Those soldiers weren't angry or aggressive, they seemed mostly just confused about the status of the area and how to handle your visit. Because, you know, there was no coordination. JPost suggests all that in the article you yourself shared. And what of the violence? Your group had cameras -- a professional photographer and at least one bodycam -- yet you've produced no evidence that I've seen of the violence you claim to have experienced. Remember that you claimed the violence was sufficient to demand that Netanyahu order the prosecution of those soldiers. I've seen that sort of violence before; if you produce that footage, I'll join your demand for prosecution. That's not rhetoric. I really will, wholeheartedly. But if you don't, I think it's safe to assume you blew up a small inconvenience caused by your own refusal to talk to Israelis. In a similar vein, you used the word "detained" as if you were unlawfully held against your will -- and hide behind its second meaning, that you were a bit delayed in driving forward into the area. The first is on the spectrum of kidnapping crimes, the second is the sort of problem you'd encounter at the entrance to a federal building as you search your pockets for an ID. Which was it? Anyway, you were angling for some domestic political brownie points, and congratulations, you got 'em.
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@CTWeaver7500 @cspan Great point bob
Public sentiment should drive judicial decisions.
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@cspan Aww. Maybe you shouldn't have gone against public sentiment to appease religious nutjobs
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@hannahcrileyy No because neuroscience is hard
If idiots like mazzie can be senators, anyone can.
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Lindsey Graham’s sister randomly gets his job because he died?? Do I become a neuroscientist at Cornell when my sister dies because I’m not ready for that
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