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Liam Donovan

@LPDonovan

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Politics. Hoyas. YMMV. Views expressed are mine alone, obviously. @TheLobbyShopPod

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Joined June 2009

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Liam Donovan

4 months

The most elegant way to understand the dysfunction that has reigned in the House for the last 9 months--and will prevail for the foreseeable future--is that no policy or political equilibrium exists that would make Democrats mad enough to make Rs happy.

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Liam Donovan

6 years

What in the world did I just watch

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This is a media training nightmare

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Liam Donovan

3 years

There's no rule that says the vacuum left by Donald Trump news cycles has to be filled by MTG news cycles, people.

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2 years

Strongly considering a transition to baby content only on this account

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3 years

We are incredibly lucky that this election was not significantly closer.

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3 years

If I were the GOP I would simply run more normal humans for office.

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4 years

The conceit that a given Biden gaffe is going to have any enduring electoral impact is really laid bare when the President is reprising murder accusations against cable news antagonists the next day.

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Liam Donovan

7 years

🎵Always look on the bright side of life 🎵

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The return of Terry Tate, office linebacker

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As crazy as the real time clips were throughout the day, this segment has to be the best and most surreal perspective yet

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The final humiliation

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7 years

If your pastor has a Fox News contract it might be time to find a new church.

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3 years

Quite the political Scooby-Doo ending to the Trump era, I must say. Rs almost got away with it too.

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Liam Donovan

2 years

My 11yo just informed me that JD Vance sold farmland to the Chinese and lied about solving Ohio'a opioid crisis if you were wondering how the digital ad targeting is going.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Still the realest thing SNL has done in the past decade plus

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Liam Donovan

3 years

As stunning as Rs moving against Trump would be, the alternative is that he sticks around and makes their lives/careers hell for the next four years (at least.) If that's going to happen anyway, a clean break looks pretty attractive. Now or never.

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Liam Donovan

3 years

That scene where the villain spills his plan to the captive protagonist

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7 years

My favorite part is that this ultimately all goes back to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. You can't make it up.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Minneapolis mayor's attempt to show solidarity with protesters takes an unexpected turn here.

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Liam Donovan

7 years

You might be woke, but you'll never be actually-patronus-is-also-cultural-appropriation woke.

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3 months

The majesty of conspiracy brain is that you can never be wrong, it just means They added another layer to the scheme.

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I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for this...

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The self-owns will continue until polling improves.

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Liam Donovan

7 years

So, uh, this happened

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Liam Donovan

3 years

What does a GOP witness list look like? Just a looseleaf sheet of paper with "Hunter Biden" scratched out?

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Liam Donovan

3 years

Big Empire Strikes Back energy tonight

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Liam Donovan

7 years

This would probably be a sicker burn if Bannon didn't also go to Georgetown

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Ann Coulter

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Bannon was also Harvard's idea of a smart person, you 3d-tier Georgetown graduate.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Did... did Nancy Pelosi write this?

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Nancy Pelosi is asking for $2.4 Trillion Dollars to bailout poorly run, high crime, Democrat States, money that is in no way related to COVID-19. We made a very generous offer of $1.6 Trillion Dollars and, as usual, she is not negotiating in good faith. I am rejecting their...

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Liam Donovan

3 years

The profiles of these folks are mystifying. State legislators. Retired O5 USAFA grads. 30-something fathers of 5. Among thousands of people you'll get all types, and mob dynamics have their own momentum, but my god.

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Liam Donovan

6 years

%@^* it, we'll do it live

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Is Dershowitz trapped in an Escher painting?

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Kamala watching the Breakfast Club interview

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Liam Donovan

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TIL Stacey Plaskett was a House GOP staffer and 43 appointee before switching parties in 2008.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Whatever you think of Romney, he's gonna take far more abuse for this than he'll get in praise. Gutsy move you only make if you're entirely secure with where you stand. Even if you think this is an easy choice, it's never easy to make yourself a pariah within the tribe.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

I like that the very secret leaked remarks of Trump talking to governors is basically just his tweets as spoken word.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Declaring premature victory makes as much sense as declaring that a vaccine is safe. Could he do it? Sure. Should we lend it any weight? Obviously no. Is that how any of this works? Of course not.

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Liam Donovan

7 years

Sub-optimal election day headline here

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Audible cheers erupt from econ twitter

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Sahil Kapur

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In Wilmington, Delaware Joe Biden says this is "a K-shaped recession" where upper earners experience a recovery and those at the bottom feel the pain.

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Liam Donovan

3 years

Yeah, he'll probably just fade away. Good call.

@JimVandeHei

Jim VandeHei

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🚨 Top Republicans want to bury President Trump, for good. But they are divided whether to do it with one quick kill via impeachment, or let him slowly fade away.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Man, the Gorsuch-cost-Trump-the-election takes are just going to be unbearable, aren't they?

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Liam Donovan

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Your occasional reminder that Lake is running 6+ points behind House Rs in Arizona despite Masters' performance making her look good by comparison.

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Liam Donovan

7 years

When you're on vacation but you just can't quit CNN

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Liam Donovan

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What's most interesting to me about the coverage of Bernie and his performance is that he has been saddled with the expectations of a heavy favorite without anyone ever having acknowledged that he is or how that came to be. It's as if we just yadda yadda yadda'ed that part.

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Liam Donovan

5 years

It's always amazing when he breaks the fourth wall and winks at the camera

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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I promise not to do this to Greenland!

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Liam Donovan

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Already bored and it feels great.

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Liam Donovan

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Important cheeks update

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I thought it would never happen to me, but here we are...

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Gets me every time

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The Daily Beast

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Donald Trump, answering phone call from 7-year-old on Christmas Eve: "Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it's marginal, right?"

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Liam Donovan

4 months

People don't fully grasp how bad it is for Iowa's political industry that Trump won in the way he did. Existential problem.

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Drew Savicki

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42/64 Republicans in the Iowa House backed DeSantis and 15/30 State Senators did. That's quite a lot of endorsements for such a poor showing.

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Liam Donovan

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Watched this video a bunch of times since Wednesday and totally missed the significance here. Incredible.

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Susan Simpson

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@hudeatsbugs @igorbobic The officer initially scopes out the door, sees it's not guarded, and tries to block the way. More rioters pour up the stairs after them, and the officer seems to go with a new strategy – he shoves the first rioter, pissing him off, and then leads the whole mob the other way.

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Liam Donovan

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How hopelessly online do you have to be to think that taking swipes at Bernie Bros is a vote mover?

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Mike Bloomberg

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We need to unite to defeat Trump in November. This type of "energy" is not going to get us there.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

Important point here from @chrislhayes on the 3 things necessary to compete in this field: 1. Perform in the early states 2. Have money and organization to compete nationally 3. Build a multi-racial coalition For now, only Bernie checks all three boxes.

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Liam Donovan

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Man, that’s bleak

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Glad we all learned an important lesson here

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Inevitable arc: Fake news True but nothingburger The Clintons did it too Of course he did Actually it was smart

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Might want to workshop the tax reform messaging...

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now." Thank you Stuart Varney @foxandfriends Jobs are starting to roar,watch!

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Liam Donovan

8 years

Boy, that escalated quickly

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In 2018 Dems must defend a whopping 10 senate seats in states won by Trump WV +42 ND +36 MT +22 MO +19 IN +19 OH +8 FL +1 PA +1 WI +1 MI <1

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Liam Donovan

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Not really the point, but it's weird/kinda bleak that Palin wanted this gig in the first place. Ride AK politics to national politics, quit office to parlay that into national celebrity, come back a decade plus later to be one of 435? Losing is just the kicker.

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Liam Donovan

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A Biden candidacy may well grab a few "reasonable Republican dads" at the margin (tho I'd question how GOP they are at this point), but you get the feeling we're going to focus on these mythical crossover voters when that's not what it ultimately hinges on

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The ‘But I Would Vote for Joe Biden’ Republicans (Published 2019)

For some Democrats, a key part of the former vice president’s pitch is that their moderate friends and relatives like him, too.

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Liam Donovan

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What Fetterman is doing amounts to a better McCain impression than Sinema pulled off. Picking high visibility fights with elements of your party's coalition that rankle the base, differentiate you from the national party, and endear you to the swing voters who decide your state.

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Conor Lamb, who lost to Fetterman in their Senate primary, says he campaigned as a different person than he is today. “There is a head-spinning quality to it. He seems to be finding common cause with Joe Manchin, or at least acting like it,” Lamb said

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::whispers:: Georgia still isn't going to come down to covid relief, $2000 checks or otherwise

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@GarrettHaake We're looking at it very strongly

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There's a certain nihilistic beauty in opposing an independent commission as an inevitably partisan process, thereby making a partisan process inevitable.

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Liam Donovan

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Anger is electoral rocket fuel. Harder to sustain when you get what you want.

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Maggie Haberman

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If he's confirmed this weekend, not sure the high lasts four weeks. Dem voter anger over it is far more likely to.

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Liam Donovan

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This dynamic was tense enough w/o injecting presidential politics. Nothing good can come of it.

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Donald J. Trump

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SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!

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Liam Donovan

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Sinema move reads very differently after Kelly cruised than it would have if Rs had the night they were expecting.

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Liam Donovan

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Seems high

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POLITICO Magazine

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“The president of the United States has a 12-second attention span,” NATO’s Sec.-Gen. told a former senior official

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Liam Donovan

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These 2020 MAGA Mad Libs are getting out of control

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Cliff Levy

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NEW: Steve Bannon’s lawyer quits after Bannon calls for Dr. Fauci to be beheaded.

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Liam Donovan

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What's so amusing about this is that Pelosi realizes it's late enough and he's down big enough that she can take Trump's lunch money and he'll thank her for the privilege.

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Liam Donovan

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Let's be real here you guys. Sidney got too close to the truth.

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Most fascinating thing about last night is that Pelosi put more faith and trust in a specific handful of Rs than Dems could muster among themselves.

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Liam Donovan

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This was the actual worst case scenario for Rs. Bear the brunt of a pointless shutdown, cave on CR for nothing, and tread water for 3 weeks before doing it again.

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Liam Donovan

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This might be the most insidious fiction that Infowars has ever propagated.

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Liam Donovan

4 years

President apparently waking up to the value of a deal a solid 2-3 months late here.

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Jeff Stein

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Mnuchin tonight on Fox Biz: "The president instructed us to come up significantly" from initial $1 trillion ask on stimulus bill

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Still my favorite Cohen moment

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Liam Donovan

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Not to sanitize the mess that was 2000, but it does make you thankful that you had fundamentally sane, decent men in Gore and Bush trying do what was best for the country in an unprecedented moment that was fraught with civic peril.

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Liam Donovan

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I'm fairly certain this is his proudest accomplishment to date

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ABC News

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EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump unveils his new patriotic paint job for Air Force One during one-on-one with @ABC News' @GStephanopoulos .

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Liam Donovan

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An underrated aspect of the WH Easter Egg Roll is the egg lobby trying to convince 10k kids that hard boiled egg on a stick is a delicious and also totally normal treat to enjoy w/ sundry condiments. Not this time, Big Egg.

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Liam Donovan

2 years

Obviously the prostration on Tucker is totally humiliating, but imagine how sharp and swift the backlash has to be to compel a performance like that the next day. That's career flashing before your eyes stuff.

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Liam Donovan

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@lindsaygoldwert I just sent this to my expat sister who walked by it within 10 minutes and passes along the best part, Columbo's basset hound

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This Luntz/Vice focus group on Roy Moore has it all

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This is why we can't have nice things, you guys

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Uh oh, who is going to tell him?

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Liam Donovan

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Sort of emblematic of the broader failure to acknowledge a common reality, but the images from Wed lend themselves to the same choose-your-own-adventure games. Don't want to grapple with the implications of tactical gear and zipties? Here's a walking Pepe meme. Y so serious?

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Liam Donovan

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All else aside, and suspending disbelief for a moment--the first minute. That guy, with that tone, dedicated to that message, could climb back in this race before it spirals out of control.

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Donald J. Trump

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Liam Donovan

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So Broward, the county Bill Nelson's hopes rest on, misses (by two minutes) the deadline to submit machine recount figures, negating a tally that would have boosted... Rick Scott. Sure, why not.

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Liam Donovan

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Congratulations to Tulsi Gabbard, the proud owner of a gently used Tim Ryan.

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Liam Donovan

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It is good that people are doing normal things like privately apologizing and conceding elections and such.

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Jennifer Bendery

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Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin privately sent a handwritten note to Nancy Pelosi apologizing for recently using the violent attack on her husband as a political punchline. “The apology has been accepted,” says Pelosi's spokesperson.

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@LRonMexico All I could think of here

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Liam Donovan

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@maggieNYT Right, but "elect me and I will [do X]" is a weird thing for the sitting president to say. What's he waiting for?

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@NEWSMAX

NEWSMAX

1 year

DirecTV drops NEWSMAX: "Blatant Censorship!" Read More:

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Liam Donovan

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GA television station owners not loving these numbers

@JohnRSamuelsen

Dr. John R. Samuelsen

@JohnRSamuelsen

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New Huge Batch of Mail Ballots in Clark County, Nevada 11/10/2022 Added 35,183 Dem 14,756 (41.9%) +6,068 Rep 8,688 (24.7%) Other 11,739 (33.4%) @RalstonReports

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Liam Donovan

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Cal Cunningham sexting news will be an interesting test of how conventional, borderline political-cliche scandals play when you're already through the looking glass.

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Liam Donovan

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So many Home Alone jokes

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