Jon bon
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@jaredpolis You're actually a minority rule party that seeks to overturn and evade every law you can,wishes to expand gov as much as possible & even use it against your political foes (illegally) and couldn't give two squirts of piss of the constitution except how much you can disfigure it.
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Welcome to the Democratic Party! The broad tent majority party of freedom, the rule of law, limited government, and protecting all of our constitutional rights!
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.
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@varadmehta Zero. The people who would be the problem were born during Trump’s first term..
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How much of this is because Joe Biden let in a horde of illiterate Third Worlders?
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Reading scores for students in grades 3 through 8 have fallen in 47 of 50 states since 2015.
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@InfernoTake @mattyglesias @NicholasChacon9 This is literally investment in building factories......
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@michaelmalice @DaruneAlbane the laws since bushes and clintons time have been so severely weakened by things like the florez agreement that turnarounds and deportations are a fraction of what happened back then. the entire legal infrastructure has been changed to make it way harder to deport.
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@DaruneAlbane i wouldnt be surprised
the rest is still bad on its face, not a strong defense
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I don't understand how conservatives can post this data (which I havent checked into) as some defense of Trump
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@DougHenwood @paologerbaudo communism killed tens of millions but you still pimp it
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@paologerbaudo Except right-wing populism is no stranger to moral abyss.
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Mandelsongate has revealed just how deep is the moral abyss of the Labour Party, and more generally of Western social democracy. Impossible to understand the rise of right-wing populism, and why it appeals to workers, without taking this into account.
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@PoliticalBTC @unusual_whales china uses canada as a backdoor to the US
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@unusual_whales Going after China made sense.
Going after Canada and all of the United States allies was a mess.
Whoever’s policy it was to push all of their allies away should be fired and investigated.
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Question: If Canada came to the US and said, 'We're going to 0 tariffs on the US, all of them are off,' would you and the president go to 0 tariffs and let Canadian companies and American companies compete on a level playing field?
Bessent: Absolutely not
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@stanveuger is right - shrinking a market by kicking people out/keeping people out is a recipe for making people poor. It's even true for America.
"Not only have immigration restrictions reduced the number of workers employers can hire, it cuts into how many workers employers need to hire, according to Veuger. That is because immigrants aren’t just workers, they are consumers, too. “It’s both supply and demand,” he said."
wsj.com/economy/jobs/t… via @WSJ
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Chait is wrong. The centrism didn't work. Harris was climbing in favorability until the convention (which Yglesias "loved too much"), then her popularity fell. Chait wrote his "centrism works" article when she was -2 points. More centrist = less popular.
Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait
@joewrote @AJentleson No, I’m saying it did work, but she didn’t do enough to overcome the hole she was in.
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Forgiato Blow is a nepo baby whose grandfather founded "Autotrader" magazine. He went to a $50k a year military boarding school.
Trumps Nephew@ForgiatoBlow47
As a white male my biggest fear in life is having someone assume I’m liberal
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Smart man.
WSJ: Ken Griffin "called out specific Trump policies and moves that he supported. That included the administration’s focus on securing the U.S. border with Mexico ..."
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@RobertLusetich @AnnCoulter it's an autoplay from reels on an election fraud video where it's generative ai redoing the lion king
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@AnnCoulter Coulter, how 'bout that Obamas-are-monkeys post from Trump?
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I’d like to point out Trump isn’t who you are running against. And RARELY do personal feelings bleed over to another person in politics.
See Obama to Hillary or Biden to Harris
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“I never thought the leopards eating your face party would eat my face”
Every day since 2014
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Progressives are hoping that the scale of Trump's evil and stupidity will mean that they don't have to moderate their deeply unpopular ideology.
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@matthewstoller @BaldingsWorld you're extolling the virtues of central planning from a totalitarian 1 party state...
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@BaldingsWorld Amazing you imagine the only way to produce is to be a totalitarian. Shows what a fraud your framework really is.
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Really too bad the United States isn't a near totalitarian state. We could really get some stuff done
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller
The Chinese have a lot of problems but it’s unquestionable they are the global leader now. Their government has the capacity to act to reorder domestic production at scale, no one else does.
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@ASzigetvari the fundamental stupidity of euro's was they actually thought they could have russian raw materials, chinese goods and american protection and it wouldn't cause massive problems.
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First thing we should do: decouple from the New Cold-War-Rhetoric. No need for such new bloc-rivality, especially, as there is nothing to gain for europe.
Velina Tchakarova@vtchakarova
Tbe decoupling between US and China is real. The new Cold War takes place in all systemic domains. What is Europe going to do? 1) Strengthening EU-US trade, supply chains, tech, security and defence? 2) Cozying up to China & becoming overdependent on raw materials, tech, market?
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@Abdulgafar22606 @MarcoFoster_ @TimJDillon none of these pictures prove anything, muslim mad about gaza. you're just slime
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Tim Dillon: “I don’t know what Trump’s a part of, but he’s probably fucked some underage people I would imagine. And God only knows what else. He’s been accused of horrible things in these files… He’s guilty. It’s guilt. This is guilt.”
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@Falisonharrison @matthewstoller they're people not sexualities and skin colors
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@matthewstoller So blocking a black governor and a gay governor from the White House dinner is ok with you?
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Trump enables this kind of easy mindless lying from Democratic cynics like Wes Moore.
Scott MacFarlane@MacFarlaneNews
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors "As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
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Sadly symbolic of Trump's 2nd term: turning our 250th anniversary into a donor-driven event.
Kenneth P. Vogel@kenvogel
SCOOP: @Freedom250 — the group launched by Trump to oversee projects including the @UFC fight on the WH lawn & his arch overlooking DC — is offering access to him for donors who give $1M. For $2.5M, donors can speak at the national July 4 celebration. nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/…
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You guys only loved and appreciated him when he never become president and then died.
I get the point but he was called a racist by the entire democrat party for years for daring to run against Obama ultimately leading to the rise of Trump.
If you cry wolf enough - sometimes the beast shows up.
Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽@JoshEakle
Flashback to 2008 when John McCain shut down a racist line of questioning. I miss this Republican Party.
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You'd think everyone would be EXTREMELY RELIEVED that there's clearly not as much pedophilic sex criminality going on as they'd been mistakenly led to believe.
But nope. Instead, it's been the complete opposite reaction. People are even more flamboyantly incensed than they were before.
They can't, or won't, celebrate what should be seen as objectively good news: No credible evidence of mass child rape! Let us rejoice... right?!?!
Wrong...
Because as should be abundantly obvious by now to everyone using the internet, the presumed existence of industrial-scale "child sex-trafficking" is principally a function of (warped) ideology, not genuine concern for the welfare of children.
And of course, it has nothing to do with the actual facts or evidence.
Much like other sub-empirical dogmas, it's wholly non-falsifiable.
It's a faith-based doctrine that people for some reason have come to derive profound meaning from -- personally, politically, commercially, and otherwise.
This new dogmatic conviction is especially bizarre and perverse, but it's a dogma all the same.
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