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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

1 year

Other places to find me/my work. Web: Largely dormant lifeboats accounts Post: Mastodon: Substack:

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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

3 years

Another normal day on a normal website.

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Matthew Gertz

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3 years

some personal news

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Matthew Gertz

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If I understand this correctly, the president awarded the medal of freedom to a talk radio host with a revoltingly long record of bigotry during the State of the Union — and the civility police are coming for Nancy Pelosi for tearing up paper? Is that right?

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Matthew Gertz

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3 years

OH COME ON!

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personal update my friend is not ratting me out to the feds my venmo is pristine i have not traveled to the bahamas this century the walls are not closing in

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Gaetz: Embattled amid a series of scandals. Gertz: Enjoying a day off, eating fried chicken, watching a giant ape punch a giant lizard and vice versa.

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Matthew Gertz

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The first ten minutes of tonight's Tucker Carlson Tonight are the closest thing I think I've ever seen to pure, unfiltered fascism in American public life. Going out to the largest cable news audience ever.

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stop yelling at me about my imaginary nonwhite children

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@MattGertz

2 years

This, for me, will go poorly.

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2 years

Breaking: A key witness in the sex trafficking case against Matt Gaetz has pleaded guilty. In exchange, he has promised to fully cooperate with prosecutors. His attorney told The Daily Beast that he has been cooperating against Gaetz.

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3 years

**cracks knuckles**

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Shep Smith just took apart the Uranium One conspiracy theory in what amounts to a methodical annihilation of his own network's coverage of the story.

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Matthew Gertz

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1 year

Kind of curious -- if there's no Speaker, on whose authority were the metal detectors removed? Who does the Capital Police currently report to?

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Matthew Gertz

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4 years

Since his RNC speech nine days ago decrying leftist "cancel culture, speech codes, and crushing conformity," Trump has called for the firings of Fox's Jennifer Griffin, MSNBC's Joy Reid, and CNN's Chris Cuomo, and urged his supporters to harass the owner of The Atlantic.

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Matthew Gertz

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4 years

Republicans made a bet that they could stick a moronic incompetent in the Oval Office and get their preferred policy outcomes without cost. They lost, and now the bill is coming due.

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Matthew Gertz

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1. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover. Allow me to explain.

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Matthew Gertz

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3 years

I'm fully vaccinated.

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3 years

@Sentonal @NPool26 @waffles_right @megynkelly Nearly half the Republicans in congress won't state their vaccine status. People like, @MattGertz and @mtgreenee won't state it publicly.

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I met Pope Francis in the Vatican yesterday, briefly. I said, “Holy Father, I wrote a lot of good tweets.” He took my name tag in his hands, looked at it, and said, “the Florida congressman who likes young girls?” C’est la vie…

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3 years

oh fuck

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Elon Musk interacting with sycophantic right-wing influencers this weekend, a thread.

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Matthew Gertz

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1 year

Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over! All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the time, go figure.

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Matthew Gertz

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3 years

I am extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate "the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution" from "the J&J vaccine is not safe and the others may not be either" in the minds of normal people. An incredibly crucial, high-stakes test for the press.

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Matthew Gertz

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7 years

President urges officers to commit acts of brutality, officers laugh and cheer wildly. Beginning to think problem isn't a few bad apples.

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Matthew Gertz

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2 years

Fox News isn't just letting Tucker Carlson do his regular show, they're airing it without commercials. They want to push his propaganda so much that they are leaving money on the table to do it.

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A SCOTUS confirmation battle during a midterm fight during a pandemic during a possible European war during a potential government shutdown during key domestic legislative wrangling LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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3 years

I’M ON VACATION YOU MONSTERS

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i did not have a presser today and my in-laws love me

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Hey remember when Donald Trump tried to condition military aid to Ukraine on Ukraine's president providing dirt on Trump's political rival and then the Republican Party and its associated propaganda apparatus were virtually united in saying that was fine?

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Matthew Gertz

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2 years

I am begging these people to read one (1) book.

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Candace Owens: “Ukraine wasn't a thing until 1989. Ukraine was created by the Russians”

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Matthew Gertz

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Belated birthday present from my brother-in-law!

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Matthew Gertz

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4 years

Sooooo did the White House just lie initially about Trump being asymptomatic?

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3 years

how dare you, none of my friends would ever turn on me with the feds

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Imagine how brain-broken you need to be to think that it would be bad news for Biden for the pandemic to end.

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3 years

We’ve gone from “I didn’t see the president’s unhinged tweets” to “it is suspicious that the president isn’t doing unhinged tweets.”

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2 years

things are going great

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3 years

This is unbelievably dangerous, just an insane level of stakes-raising.

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3 years

Tucker Carlson is now telling his audience to harass people who wear face masks outside. If they see children wearing masks, Tucker says the response should be no different than when you see a kid being abused -- "call the police immediately, contact child protective services"

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Matthew Gertz

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Dawning realization that nine months into the pandemic. senior WH officials think that if you test negative it means that you definitely have not caught the virus and can do whatever you want and don't need to quarantine if you've been in contact with someone with COVID.

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2 years

oh no

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**wakes up, checks mentions** I see that I’m going to be tweeting “wrong guy” a lot today.

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3 years

Damn it Matt, I have a family!

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I know it’s Friday. I know it’s gorgeous out. But, yes, we have an explosive Matt Gaetz story coming.

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the congressman is getting all my happy birthdays today smdh

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Matthew Gertz

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How populist "entrepreneur" Vivek Ramaswamy got rich: 1. Found biotech firm with hedge fund/venture capital $ 2. Buy patent for Alzheimer's drug that had failed 4 trials, raise more $ to take to market 3. Take company public, cash out 4. Drug fails 5th trial, investors wiped out.

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Matthew Gertz

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2 years

Kind of assume at this point that everything Elon Musk says is geared toward finding a way to exit the Twitter deal while saving face given that it is now expensive for him and he has no plausible revenue ideas.

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3 years

I get email!

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Matthew Gertz

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4 years

[stares into the camera]

@[email protected] (they/them)

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4 years

Ruin a Twitter personality by changing one letter.

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A Mount Rushmore of bad takes this year from the WSJ opinion section.

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That Lincoln Project ad aired during Tucker Carlson Tonight last night, if you're wondering why Trump lost his mind over it.

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Telling my audience of seniors to step out into the orange cloud and take a deep breath to own the libs.

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(No one in my mentions can tell on which level of irony the other people in my mentions are operating and it’s kind of hilarious.)

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3 years

My life is deeply strange.

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3 years

Poor @MattGertz

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Jesse Watters loves marriage so much that he married the 15-years-younger producer on his show with whom he had an affair while married to the wife of his first two children.

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Matthew Gertz

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That Tucker video is bleak. It’s jarring how his schtick just does not work without the Fox bells-and-whistles. He was maybe the most powerful man in rw media; now he’s just another streamer with half-baked opinions peddling conspiracy theories. He’s Alex Jones in jacket and tie.

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Matthew Gertz

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4 years

The president wanting to quadruple the price you pay to ship packages because he thinks, probably incorrectly, that it will damage the business interest of the guy who owns a newspaper he doesn't like seems like it should be a bigger story.

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Matthew Gertz

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Let's have some fun. Here's a thread of Tucker Carlson interviewing 18 Republican politicians who were defeated in the midterms. I give you... TUCKER'S LOSERS.

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Matthew Gertz

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3 years

Thanks dad.

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2 years

please stop tweeting that I hang out with madison cawthorn

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I dunno, kinda seems like the Democrats should have a gubernatorial candidate in Texas in case there's a backlash to **waves arms around**

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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

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Left: Fox News claiming the pride flag the White House used promotes pedophilia. Right: Fox’s parent company promoting its inclusiveness in 2022 by wrapping its corporate logo in the very same flag in a corporate social responsibility report.

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Matthew Gertz

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2 years

**opens Twitter mentions for the first time in three months** oh god

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6 years

Shep Smith just totally shattered the Nunes memo narrative his colleagues Fox News have been pushing.

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5 years

Churchill said this right before getting his ass kicked in the 1945 elections. Three years later, the Labour government launched the NHS. 70+ years ago and still no Gestapo.

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The Democrats’ “Green New Deal” brings to mind an insight from Churchill: Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo.

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oh dear god i was writing and now my mentions are fucked

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Suckers, I was the congressman this entire time!

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Scott Atlas was the purest example of the Trump-Fox feedback loop in action: An unqualified ideologue launched to power because the president liked his Fox hits. The result was that a lot of people died from the coronavirus for no reason.

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Alaskans passed a ballot initiative to implement ranked choice voting in 2020; the measure had at least some support from Trump voters. But Republicans lost a House seat in the first election it was used, so now they’re calling it a “scam to rig elections.”

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4 years

help

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Reminder that virtually the entire Republican leadership and the leading lights of the right-wing media went to the mat in defense of Trump with no idea whatsoever what the FBI might be investigating or what evidence it's uncovered.

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5 years

Mother of god what did he do what did he do

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The president is scheduling a press event in hopes that cable news networks take it live instead of airing Barack Obama's eulogy for John Lewis live because he's the biggest piece of shit on the face of the earth.

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It’s beautiful day, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and absolutely nothing bad is going to happen.

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Matthew Gertz

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4 years

If you're doing "the libs and media are wrong, Trump didn't tell people to inject bleach to stop coronavirus he told scientists to look into the effect of injecting bleach to stop coronavirus" turd-polishing today, you should pause and consider your life choices.

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Matthew Gertz

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3 years

Stop tweeting that @kenklippenstein owned me, it is a vicious lie.

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Tucker Carlson and his wife asked their friend Hunter Biden to write their son a recommendation for Georgetown University. When he agreed to do so, his wife emailed him, "Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”

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Matthew Gertz

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4 years

The panic preventer has logged on.

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@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Sending out 80 MILLION BALLOTS to people who aren’t even asking for a Ballot is unfair and a total fraud in the making. Look at what’s going on right now!

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Matthew Gertz

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Thanks everyone for all the thoughts, prayers, jokes, drinks, and polite tweets from my followers to people informing them that they have got the wrong guy!

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Hey remember when Obama nominated Kagan and Republicans said it was too bad because if Garland had been picked they would have supported him, and then Obama nominated Garland a few years later and Republicans refused to even meet with him and he never got a hearing or vote?

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Matthew Gertz

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Sean Hannity's Fox News show ran with this informant's claims in at least 85 separate segments last year, including 28 monologues. He said they proved Joe Biden engaged in "public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.”

STUDY: How Sean Hannity helped build the GOP’s collapsing Hunter Biden impeachment case

Fox News host Sean Hannity and his House Republican allies spent 2023 trying to manufacture an impeachable offense against President Joe Biden out of their fact-free obsession with the president’s...

www.mediamatters.org

Kyle Cheney

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BREAKING: DOJ has charged the informant who provided derogatory informaton about Hunter and Joe Biden with "false statements" and obstruction.

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Matthew Gertz

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Oh, so it’s illegal to leave voice mails now???

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In extremely unsurprising news, a racist Donald Trump fan has been charged with threatening Judge Chutkan.

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why are people saying I insulted the troops

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DO NOT CONGRATULATE

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Ali Velshi in Minneapolis: "This was a 100% peaceful march and the police opened fire into it. There was no reason to do so, there was zero provocation."

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my editor won't let me describe steve bannon as a 'sometime hobo' this is censorship

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Some Twitter thoughts: 1. Elon Musk owns the company and has the right to do what he wants with it (within the law). If he wants to come up with flimsy pretexts to suspend critics, he can do that. There's not much point to examining the rationale he uses to backfill his whims.

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6 p.m.: FOX NEWS ALL AMERICAN TREE LIGHTING AT FOX SQUARE 10:40 p.m.: BIDEN WHITE HOUSE JUMPS THE GUN ON CHRISTMAS

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Ok folks we're done here, let's move on.

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My god ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩

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The thing about right-wing culture warring is that it's totally arbitrary which lets them declare victory whenever they want.

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Me.

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Who hates Gaetz more: Republican leadership or Democrats?

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How The Discourse works: Democrats have a public discussion about maybe someday considering doing court expansion and get savaged by Republicans, and thus the press, for norm violation. Republicans just go ahead and sabotage the Census for political gain to virtually no debate.

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1. Kanye West does an interview with Tucker Carlson filled with antisemitism and conspiracy theories. 2. Carlson edits it out, airs interview, stresses West is politically astute and “not crazy.” 3. Fox praises him for days. 4. West spends following week doing anti-Jewish rants.

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why are people asking me if I know what acting is oh god

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NBC Nightly News interviewed a CPAC attendee... who happened to be a Jan. 6 Capitol rioter who recorded herself saying that they were looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the frickin’ brain.”

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5 years

Apparently I went to the World Series game last night so congrats to me.

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3 years

JARED AND IVANKA SET UP SHOP IN THE WEST WING I FEEL LIKE I’VE TAKEN CRAZY PILLS

Senator Ron Johnson

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Even I didn’t think Biden Inc. would set up shop in the West Wing. The concern is whether Biden Inc. will be cashing in on the family name anywhere while @joebiden is in office.

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Yeah I’m declaring a mulligan on this one, I’ve got to get some work done today.

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Would the segment producers at Fox & Friends mind letting the president of the United States know about the massive western wildfires?

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911, I'd like to report a murder.

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Fox News wanted viewers to hear an anti-vax trooper’s story – until he died of COVID. The network has yet to mention Robert LaMay's passing, after turning him into a culture war hero for resigning rather than getting vaccinated.

Fox News wanted viewers to hear an anti-vax trooper’s story – until he died of COVID

www.mediamatters.org

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I’m losing my mind with this.

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