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3 years

Dude. You lost.

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I can imagine no other president in my lifetime failing to address the nation in a prime time speech during a crisis such as this. On the other hand, I cannot imagine another president whose words would be less welcome by so many of his fellow citizens.

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The audio of Trump with the Georgia secretary of state. Wow. It’s like telling the Nixon tapes to “hold my beer.”

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Watching President Obama’s graduation address tonight I think I finally understand Obamagate. It’s the scandal of having a president being able to speak with empathy, humor, insight, inspiration and in complete and coherent sentences.

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3 years

Why is the Trump White House suddenly a very polite place to work? Everyone’s going around saying “pardon me.”

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4 years

The Trump re-election strategy seems to be to argue that only Donald Trump can save America from Donald Trump’s America.

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4 years

A reminder: It’s illegal to vote twice. But not to impeach twice.

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5 years

Just a thought: Which should be considered more “marginal” - believing in Santa at age 7 or not believing in climate change at age 72?

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3 years

Frankly, my trolls, I don’t give a damn.

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3 years

Now imagine if he had been re-elected.

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4 years

Perhaps Donald Trump doesn’t like the Postal Service because it delivers.

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3 years

I heard this Twitter thing wasn’t working for some people. Just came here to check... and it seems to be working for me. Oh well.

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4 years

Waiting in line for hours to vote should be considered less a story on voter enthusiasm and more a story on voter suppression. No one should have to wait hours to vote.

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4 years

I’m getting pretty tired of these news cycles where we have endless dances over whether the President meant what he said. Don’t his actions speak loudly enough?

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3 years

So, let me get this right. The criticism of Dr. Jill Biden is that she’s not a “medical doctor?” Says a bunch of people who have been ignoring medical doctors about a pandemic that has killed over 300,000 Americans? Can someone invent a hypocrisy mute button?

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3 years

Please indulge me with sharing a personal thought. But I am glad I’m still around to see this.

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6 years

News anchors looking into camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, words meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn't journalism. It's propaganda. It's Orwellian. A slippery slope to how despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses.

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4 years

Paging Sean Spicer for a crowd estimate in Tulsa

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3 years

One president burns some money on a watch. Another president burns down the country on his watch. Got it.

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3 years

I love the smell of democracy in the morning.

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Every once in a while I just stop in my tracks and think: This is NUTS.

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4 years

America, we’re paying for a campaign commercial in a house we own for a man most Americans didn’t vote for.

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4 years

What I think President Trump can’t quite understand is that these protests are not partisan… They are American.

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So let me get this right. The closing argument from the Trump campaign is Joe Biden is a Mr. Rogers who will listen to the scientists on COVID?

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4 years

BEANS AND CORNBREAD. VOTE!

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3 years

A man who overcame a stutter, gives a stirring inaugural addresses. A man whose life has been torn by tragedy, summons hope. Anything is possible.

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4 years

It’s tempting to use the analogy of rats fleeing a sinking ship to describe the growing number of Republican elected officials starting to speak out against Donald Trump. But that's really not fair to rats, who tend not to be complicit in driving ships to the bottom of the sea.

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2 years

Dear Supreme Court, Thanks for nothing. - Planet Earth

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2 years

Yes, I’m in my 90s. Yes, I appear to be trending on Twitter. And yes, last time I checked, I’m still here. Have a great Sunday everyone.

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4 years

We are witnessing a death match between Selfishness and Stupidity.

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4 years

Did Pence just say “stop playing politics with people’s lives?” Millions of Americans choke on whatever they’re eating. Irony has no place on a VP debate stage.

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3 years

Let’s be fair. Dunking on Ted Cruz is sort of like dunking on a 3-foot rim.

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4 years

Can we at least recognize that “Court Packing” at all levels of the judiciary has been the Republican playbook for decades? Asking for Merrick Garland.

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4 years

The coronavirus is at record numbers. It's raging out of control. Where the hell is the federal government? Where the hell is our national leadership? I cannot imagine this level of dereliction of duty in any other administration I have seen in my (long) lifetime.

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3 years

As bad as the Trump Administration looks today, I firmly believe history will judge it much more harshly.

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4 years

Put your face masks on. Please. Don’t be selfish. Don’t be stupid.

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6 years

I'd much rather live in a world reflecting the values, philanthropy, and yes intelligence of LeBron James and Don Lemon's intelligent commitment to truth and journalism than the divisive peevishness, lies, and narrow self-interest displayed by the President of the United States.

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If you want to be an “originalist” in law, maybe you should go all the way. Cooking on a hearth. Leeches for medicine. An old mule for transportation. Or maybe you can recognize that the world changes.

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If you don’t lead, you must concede.

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Apparently America can put a man on the moon but Texas can't keep the lights on. Houston, we have a problem.

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If it takes 50 votes to confirm a Supreme Court justice, it should only take 50 votes to overrule them when they act like highly-partisan politicians.

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3 years

It feels a bit like Christmas Eve, but you already know what you’ll get when you open the present. A restoration of American democracy, decency, and hope.

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4 years

Kamala Harris will be campaigning from inside Donald Trump’s head. No word on what social distancing is like in there.

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3 years

Oh right, that’s what a president is supposed to sound like.

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The evidence is damning, chilling, and overwhelming. Only cowardice and complicity stands in the way of conviction.

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3 years

What the heck is a “preemptive pardon” other than an admission of guilt?

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3 years

The situation is dire in Austin. We’re without power and heat with no end in sight amidst frigid temperatures. My wife and I still have running water. Others have had pipes break. There needs to be accountability for what happened. Right now the priority is to keep people safe.

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3 years

Dr. Biden, good on you. You earned your title. It’s not like you got your doctorate at Trump University.

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3 years

The irony is that almost none of these rioters wore masks so they will be easier to identify.

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3 years

In the end, it was a very low Barr.

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5 years

When someone starts an argument with "I'm not a scientist, but..." maybe we should stop listening to them weighing in on science. And maybe news shows should stop asking these pundits to talk about something they’re not qualified to talk about.

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A rule of thumb: If you're lying about nonexistent voter fraud, if you're limiting polling places, if you're forcing people to line up to vote in a pandemic, even the old and the infirm, then it seems you're basically admitting most Americans don't want you to be president.

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2 years

If Liz Cheney is defeated today, as expected, I would not frame it as her losing. It is a loss for Wyoming, the Republican Party, and the nation.

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4 years

So. Let's set the stage... President Trump has chosen as the venue for his first rally in months, Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of a horrific massacre of African Americans. And he has set the date for June 19th, Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.

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I think with a lot of high hopes crashing for Democratic voters in places like Florida and with Beto, there is maybe a drastic underappreciation of how Democratic control of the House will change the course of this country. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very big deal.

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4 years

The president is who he is. He has not changed. He will not change. The question that remains unanswered is: who are we as Americans?

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4 years

Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put a mask on it

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3 years

Who’s counting the White House silverware?

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6 years

I cherish taking leisurely strolls with my wife Jean at twilight. My steps are getting slower and increasingly I have another journey on my mind—the one into eternity. But the joy—the sheer, unadulterated joy—of a hand-in-hand , slow walk as evening shadows fall never ceases.

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4 years

Covid motorcades, signing blank papers, and tear gas walks to a church: the tragedy of Donald Trump’s photo ops.

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4 years

So much news today, but don't overlook the voting debacle happening right now in Georgia. This is a dire wakeup call for November - long lines, broken machines. It is a national outrage that undermines the legitimacy of our democracy.

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4 years

I think the ultimate sign you’ve passed a cognitive test is that you’re able to move on to something else.

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4 years

Donald Trump is terrified.

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3 years

I will not apologize for getting emotional and a little misty in the eye on reflecting on this moment and the story of our nation.

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4 years

Biden/Harris - That's the ticket.

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Pence regularly rolls over his time. Need to enforce rules.

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I prefer the term racism to birtherism.

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Is Antifa part of Obamagate? Just trying to keep up.

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I for one don’t care whether the president or his congressional enablers put out disingenuous pablum about John Lewis. Pass and sign a voting rights bill. Name it after him. And then we can talk. Actions not empty words. Lewis always led from the front.

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1 year

Is Musk running Twitter like Trump ran his casinos?

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3 years

As names of Biden's cabinet choices start leaking out, it seems his approach to staffing his administration will be a tad different from his predecessor’s. Experience and proven competence instead of nepotism and sycophancy.

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4 years

Brayden Harrington, the 13-year-old boy with a stutter. Pure, unvarnished, courage.

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3 years

I'm excited. 18 presidential election nights "On Air." (72 years. Maybe a record?) From a small radio station in rural Huntsville to here with all of you. The mind turns. Will this be my last? I hope not, but know it could be. It will be memorable. Thank you all for joining me.

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The biggest scandal in American political history. And that’s saying a lot. Jaw dropping. Sickening. Infuriating.

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Competence is the new cool.

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On a walk with my grandson a group of ladybugs lighted upon us. It was delightful and I realized I haven't given the mysterious world of insects enough heed. I vow to change that. Did you know a group of ladybugs is called a "loveliness?" How poetic. How true. How perfect.

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If they can’t keep the White House as safe as the NBA playoffs, how should we trust them to keep the country safe?

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4 years

I want to personally thank you for joining me here to share thoughts and discussion. I wondered whether, like an aging slugger, I'd taken a last trip around the basepaths. Now, more than the million followers, I find hope In all of you fighting for the future of our nation.

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Dr. Fauci, thank you for your service. Please ignore the haters.

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4 years

I want to live in a country where decency, honesty, competency, and empathy trump partisanship.

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Donald Trump’s twitter feed reads like a man who knows he is facing prosecution in New York.

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A shock. A sadness. A great loss. The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves a hole in a nation already reeling. She is an American hero, in every sense. We can honor her by joining to carry forth her legacy of equality, empathy, and justice. May she Rest in Peace.

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President Obama’s eulogy of John Lewis is one for the ages, a perfect tribute of a man for the ages.

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3 years

Perhaps lost in all the madness that has been going on is that Joe Biden’s life path to this moment has been remarkable, a journey of tragedy, perseverance, hope, and an uncanny ability to defy the odds.

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2 years

Who else thinks Ginni Thomas should stay trending until we get some real answers?

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You know who are also heroes? Those working the checkout counters and stocking shelves at supermarkets and pharmacies. Their work, at some risk to their own health, is vital to the health and safety of our country.

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4 years

All across America, people are ready to take a shower.

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I don’t think VP Pence’s mansplaining and over-talking is doing a lot to narrow the gender gap, unless it is also turning off more men as well.

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3 years

Thank you to everyone who expressed birthday wishes. 90! I can attest that's a LOT of real estate on the cake for candles. But the real brightness comes from going through this life with all of you. I am humbled and moved.

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Mask not what your country. can do for you. Mask is what you can do for your country.

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When the hurricane hits Florida, federal aid will flow into help — paid for by tax dollars from Americans across the country. Airplanes will be full of supplies, not stunts. There will be no "us" and "them." Because this is how America should act, and most Americans know it.

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So we have reached a place in the proud history of our republic when the topic of the day is whether the president reads. When, really, I think deep down don't we all know the answer?

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3 years

There's an old Texas saying: When the going gets tough, the tough go to Cancun. (No, there actually is no such saying).

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2 years

Maybe a new slogan for Fox News should be: “For those who can’t handle the truth.”

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4 years

I pray that tomorrow in Tulsa there is no violence. I pray it doesn’t lead to a further spike in illness. But make no mistake. President Trump bears responsibility for whatever happens. He is provoking and inciting a confrontation with glee.

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4 years

Thinking today about this famous quote from Macbeth: "It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

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I'm old enough to remember when "national emergency" actually meant an emergency to the nation and not an emergency to a damaged politico ego.

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4 years

I have seen a lot in my 60-plus years as a reporter. But I have never seen anything quite like what took place tonight. Instead of having answers at this point, I am left with one question: Really???

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These Trump “caravans” disrupting traffic and putting motorists at risk are pathetic, juvenile, and dangerous. This thuggish behavior is not the American way. Everybody needs to say that. I’m happy I just did.

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Ukraine. Wow. Offering a global lesson in how you respond to bullies.

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