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Paul Meloan

1 month

If any Democrat fails to mention abortion roughly every 90 seconds while campaigning they are committing electoral malpractice

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I would not put it like this. He in fact said he is “proud” to have “ended” Roe. Just take the very well-produced clip and play it for six months.

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Paul Meloan

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1 year

If you wake up this morning believing it's vital for the federal govt to make uninsured depositors whole, but forgiving student loans is "unfair to those who played by the rules" it's time to take a long, hard look at yourself. #SVBCollapse

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My God. I agree with Geraldo Rivera.

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Geraldo: Don't for a minute start cheering this on, what we have done, what we have unleashed -- Kilmeade: I will cheer it on. I am elated. Geraldo: Then you, like Lindsey Graham, have never met a war you didn't like. Kilmeade: That is not true, don't even say that.

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I'm guessing about 10k people around the planet are frantically refreshing their Twitter in the hopes that a woman 99% of us (me included) had never heard of five days ago finishes a 60 hour trail race around the mountains of East Tennessee in the next 8 minutes. #BM100 …

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This is the way. Also, today would be a good day to raise the federal gasoline tax which has not increased in *30* years.

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A $15 toll to drive into part of Manhattan has been approved. That's a first for US cities

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@richsignorelli @SpiroAgnewGhost @realDonaldTrump His DNA goes into the offender database?

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@DrJillStein @FoxNews @HowardSchultz @CNN @MSNBC Goodness Jill, haven't you helped enough?

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@TripleNetInvest Dude, he bankrupted three *casinos* If he timed this one right then it’s good for his judgment creditors, now over half a $billion and growing. A stopped clock is right twice daily.

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@Eric_Erins He modeled it after the environment in which he feels most secure: an airport lounge.

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6 years

@TaskandPurpose I don't believe military service is a prerequisite for national leadership. I do believe there is a warm spot in hell reserved for those who avoid it (for themselves or their progeny) yet fiercely advocate it as default-option for our nation (and other peoples' progeny).

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@ShannonJean Seriously. Imagine how much Warren Buffett would be worth today if he had stopped eating in 1965 and invested that money in his fledgling Berkshire partnership? He'd be worth some change by now.

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Paul Meloan

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3 years

@JTLonsdale @danprimack You appear worried about showing signs of weakness, which is itself a sign of weakness.

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3 years

@sweatystartup Every time you scold an adult for how they choose to spend their discretionary $ you’re losing the message.

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6 years

@AshleyRParker Is this your first day in the United States? Welcome!

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Paul Meloan

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4 years

So far @WynnLasVegas is the only hotel on the Strip *that I know of* that is keeping laid off workers on payroll, at least so far. @VenetianVegas resort is telling workers they are #SOL . Venetian CEO Sheldon Adelson is 86 years old and worth $30 billion.

Las Vegas Locally 🌴

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4 years

Many more Strip workers are being told they will be laid off or furloughed in the next few days. Every casino corporation, many restaurants, and at least two trade shows companies.

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@JonathanTurley This is the stuff you publish when you’re beyond embarrassment.

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1 year

@LPNH Don’t you think it’s time to get your own place so your folks can have their basement back?

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3 months

@the_transit_guy I dunno, but I'm old enough to remember the blackout of 1977 (Summer of Sam); "the Bronx is burning" and jeezus that was pretty damn bad. Maybe a quick screening of "The Warriors" is in order?

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3 years

@RyanBerding @greenhousenyt @HomeDepot This argument is tiresome. Pitting worker against worker is a great way to keep everyone poor. Doesn’t it in fact provide upward pressure in order to keep the skilled and experienced? If not then why not?

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2 years

@enobacon @MoodyHikmet “Your solution does not apply to one hypothetical situation and is therefore generally invalid.”

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5 years

@jm_skaggs @SlingshotDC @MEPFuller Replacing a woman in her 70s with a man in his 70s doesn’t exactly strike me as ‘progress.’

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5 years

@robbynewton @paulkrugman Came for the analysis. Stayed for the dog pix.

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@J__Mathew @ramit I plan on driving on paved roads today. You?

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5 years

@steve_hanke @WarrenBuffett @AOC @BernieSanders @ewarren Yeah, ‘cause goodness knows rich guys just haven’t had enough influence over US policy.

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Paul Meloan

@PaulMeloan

3 years

@VCBrags If there were a #MountRushmore of VCBrags tweets, "I'm saving lives, literally, with my tweets" would occupy all four spaces.

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3 years

@brianschatz @anneapplebaum @sarahkendzior @MittRomney That would have to be @HillaryClinton

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4 years

@VCBrags "Grandpa, what did you do during the Pandemic of 2020?" "I was saving lives with my Tweets, like all the best venture capitalists."

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Paul Meloan

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4 years

@NBCNightlyNews @ckubeNBC If a Captain ends his career acting in the best interests of his officers and crew then I’m sure he’s going to be OK with that. The rest of us are screwed.

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2 months

@Acyn He’s like a character in Blazing Saddles.

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Paul Meloan

@PaulMeloan

3 years

When I visited Paris I noticed I never saw anyone rushing into a Metro station. Simple enough: in the city where we were the trains run every 5 minutes. In the D.C. version (where I live) 12-20 min intervals are common. Miss the train and you're hosed.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

3 years

Think public transit “doesn’t work” as an alternative to cars where you live? If that’s true, it wasn’t unavoidable — it’s because of the choices your city made. Land-use, funding, infrastructure & operational decisions. If you get fundamentals like frequency wrong, it fails.

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@RussMK @thehill Asking a billionaire to pay a marginal tax rate > 23.8% = “punishing success.” Congratulations, your brainwashing is now complete and you may enter the simulation.

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Paul Meloan

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2 years

@ItsJoeNotJoel @nytimes 2035 will not be using 2022’s power grid (except #Texas perhaps). Of all the objections to EVs the idea the “the grid can’t handle it” seems the most vacuous.

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Paul Meloan

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4 years

@NPR You already voted to acquit, Ben. It's on you now.

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Paul Meloan

@PaulMeloan

4 years

@ellencarmichael The Electoral College is a linear descendant of slavery.

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Paul Meloan

@PaulMeloan

2 months

@sportingnews “I’ll take ‘ #StreisandEffect ’ for $1000 please”

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Paul Meloan

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3 years

@ConsensusContr1 @DividendGrowth If Warren Buffett had just stopped eating in 1958 just think of how rich he would be today with all that grocery $$ compounding at a gazillion % per year.

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Paul Meloan

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4 years

@briankoppelman Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

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Paul Meloan

@PaulMeloan

5 years

@AnandWrites The greatest trick the plutocrats ever pulled was convincing the world that they did not exist.

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5 years

@MeghanMcCain @McCainInstitute I love days when Meghan McCain decides it's a good day to lecture the privileged.

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5 years

@MattRooneyNJ Going to double-down on this I see. Keep digging

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Paul Meloan

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4 years

@AbbersMD Things I learned from 25 years as a referee: they were never yelling at me, they were yelling at the stripes and whistle. Externalize it: he was yelling at the coat. Second, it's completely ok to disengage whenever *your* line is crossed. He doesn't get power to decide that.

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Paul Meloan

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7 years

@wmata Capital of the United States can’t run a train after 1 am. #Sad

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4 years

@merica The distinguished gentleman from @McKinsey wants to go #HeeHaw now? Well, ok then.

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@BarbMcQuade @JoyceWhiteVance @just_security I have a standing bet he’s already been indicted it’s just still under seal. Waiting for news his door has been kicked in at 5am and dudes in windbreakers #PerpWalk him in front of waiting camera crews with a raincoat over his head.

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@TedLeonsis If you’re asking people to put yard signs out to help a billionaire, you’re losing.

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4 years

@dhh Keep in mind though it’s probably for the best that Henry Ford never had a Twitter account.

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Paul Meloan

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3 years

@SollenbergerRC @SpiroAgnewGhost @Salon There's a big difference between Hannity as @WakeForest #SugarDaddy and the #VarsityBlues scandal: he went through channels. He made sure the right people got bribed the right way. The folks who got busted tried to side-door the system, and the schools didn't get their taste.

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@DineshDSouza Like most of what D'Souza says, this is a fraud. Denmark workers have strong bargaining rights we refuse to give U.S. workers, hence the need for a statutory minimum wage whereas Denmark does not.

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2 years

@vonGravel @KSVesq An AR15 was used to decapitate children by a sociopath so your pointless semantic distortion of the problem can gtfo of here.

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3 years

@StevenTDennis “Having to pay taxes will cost you 23.8% of the profits, leaving you still with billions” might be a bit more accurate.

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@reprobations @Boenau Is Russian roulette violent by your definition?

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6 years

@ericbradner @maggieNYT They seem to be refuting a claim no one is making.

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Paul Meloan

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5 years

@kumailn What’s true about her is true about the overwhelming majority of people: humans are hard-wired to help each other. We step up. We put ourselves on the line for strangers. Good on her for what she did. There are billions more like her.

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2 years

@FOS This is creepy on multiple levels.

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Paul Meloan

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6 years

@WPJohnWagner As a defense attorney all he's trying to do now is deadlock a potential jury pool. The game is long but it will not end well for him or his 'clients.'

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Paul Meloan

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3 years

@dick_nixon I heard Dolly Parton tell the story of how Colonel Tom Parker tried to shake her down for publishing rights to "I Will Always Love You" and she told him & Elvis to go jump in a lake. #Respect

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Paul Meloan

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@RadioFreeTom Her uterus now belongs to the state of Tennessee. Wonder who did that?

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Paul Meloan

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump One of America's foremost sexual predators will now school all you victims out there on how it's done.

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Paul Meloan

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5 years

@Anna_M_Johnson We rarely have national holidays honoring treason.

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Paul Meloan

@PaulMeloan

3 years

I've been yelling & screaming for a year now about privatized profits and socialized risks. No better example than the airline industry, which is now getting $ from taxpayers *again* to bail out management & shareholders. Ben has done much of the heavy lifting here for us.

Ben Hunt

@EpsilonTheory

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@profgalloway @billmaher @RealTimers @NYUStern Here’s the original recording of that airline song, if anyone cares. Published a year ago. About 50k reads on our site. Republished lots of places, quoted in LA Times. Usually I don’t get too worked up about this stuff, but a LOT of work went into this.

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Paul Meloan

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4 years

@KatiePhang This motion should be given fair consideration right after the federal government releases every other non-violent offender in its custody over the age of 60.

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@Mike_kim714 Group 5 gets a set of steak knives.

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@profgalloway @davidfrum If elections have consequences, so should invasions.

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Paul Meloan

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3 years

@RussMK @thehill Tell me all about your opposition to the $1.7 trillion tax giveaway to billionaires and corporations in 2017. Show your receipts.

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@mckaycoppins Many fascists seem to struggle to acknowledge their support of fascism. That’s one of the known risk-factors of being a fascist.

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@realEstateTrent Personal finance guy here. Whenever social scientists ask people how much $ they would need to be ‘rich’ the answer tends to be about 2x what they have at that moment. This ratio never changes even as the same people get wealthier.

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@axios What does it say about someone’s masculinity when they attempt to undermine an election and overthrow a lawfully elected govt? Asking for a friend.

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Paul Meloan

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5 years

@guek_jc @voxdotcom @BernieSanders @AOC Go into any poor community on earth and you will find unregulated credit markets. USA no different. Demand is overwhelming and markets abhor a vacuum. Probably have a bigger impact on working people by offering basic retail banking services thru the Postal Service.

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Paul Meloan

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6 years

So, ANY @Tesla is considered safer (risk of injury) than EVERY other type of car on the road today. #Nice

InsideEVs

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The @Tesla #Model3 is now #1 , but did you know that the Model S and Model X still hold the record for the second and third lowest probabilities of injury, meaning all 3 Tesla vehicles are ahead of all tested cars. Props to @elonmusk and the Tesla team. -->

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Paul Meloan

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@GRDecter I sincerely hope whoever designed that graph didn’t dislocate an important joint while manipulating the axes to sensationalize the data.

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@CharlesPPierce "Conservative" (lol) from Texas: Nothing says socialism quite like nationalizing two private enterprises.

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@MeghanMcCain @McCainInstitute

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@ramit Most of those items represent marginal spending where it’s easy to change course if you change your mind. Capital expenses (homes, boats, planes, country club membership) are *damn expensive* to change course.

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@morganhousel When Boomers were 22 they had just graduated from college debt-free, had started their first jobs (which had health insurance, paid for by the co) and were saving up to make a 5% down payment on a $18k house. So, probably not the same thing.

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Paul Meloan

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@AnandWrites There is no doubt that the generosity of American taxpayers to Smith is orders of magnitude greater than his returned generosity to these grads.

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@Kreeklerr There’s still an opportunity to delete this threat of bodily harm against people who have done nothing to you

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Paul Meloan

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3 years

Investing should be boring. Sometimes a client will ask a complex question that can be boiled down to "can we make this more exciting?" Every time they resist that impulse, they make $. Every time they succomb to it, they spend $. There are better ways to spend $.

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Paul Meloan

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@StevenTDennis Of course, every bank on Wall St will lend you as much $ as you can stomach at 1.5%, so why bother? This is why we need a tax on unrealized gains for #billionaires .

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Paul Meloan

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@treeesq @FayeH321 @natched @burgessev @Nate_Cohn Exactly this. After the past 12 years why does anyone think @GOP actually wants to do anything except pass tax cuts and confirm right wing judges? That's it. That's the agenda.

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@Mike66773431 @AOC No problem. When Members of Congress make $10MM they will hit the 70% marginal rate. You sure you want to give them that big of a raise?

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@NPR Idaho is run by some of the finest environmental visionaries of the 1880s.

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@TBPInvictus So the constitution now requires not only that the Democrats prove a negative (that there was no fraud) they must prove the impossibility of fraud? Hmmm. Sounds like a reasonable way to run a railroad.

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@washingtonpost Compared to the guy who's gotten 200,000 Americans killed so far? Not very. (btw, the oil industry's best days are behind it and everyone knows this).

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@SollenbergerRC @SpiroAgnewGhost @Salon @WakeForest Like all cartels or crime families, @NCAA institutions have a carefully developed and enforced hierarchy. Play ball then you get along and move up. Try to go behind the boss's back and you'll be out in the cold (if you're lucky).

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@ryanjreilly @SpiroAgnewGhost “Closing time. It’s time to settle your bar tab and leave, Miss.”

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@mviser @chrislhayes This president likes cars. The last one liked to sexually abuse women (among other crimes). Seems about right.

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@jpanzer @SenatorCollins Mike Judge? These guys were not at that pool party.

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3 years

@jason_kint Maybe we could have the technology task force staffed with people who aren't #monopolist #billionaires ?

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@AnandWrites I understand why billionaires are against a wealth tax. I don't understand why anyone else would be.

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@wkamaubell @Denzealots @BlogXilla Tim probably hasn't looked that uncomfortable since the time he was sent to federal prison for 28 months for dealing cocaine.

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@chrislhayes There is nothing wrong with the Electoral College that a 700-seat House of Representatives could not cure.

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@BigSlothOne @AnandWrites No. We have them for some of the people. We have them for the elderly and our sainted military. We have them for corporate executives and real estate developers. We tell the middle class and working to just pull themselves up harder and if they fail it’s their own damn fault.

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1 year

Every once in a while it’s good for rich folks to get a refresher in how the bankruptcy code works IRL.

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The US gov’t required every recipient of Madoff funds - including noted foundations and endowments - to return the money. Sorry, all you politicians and foundations and media orgs that took Bankman-Fried’s money … you’re no different. Give it back. Now.

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@SonyaShaykhoun @flyin_obrien As an attorney, you have a puzzling lack of understanding as to what constitutes your 'rights' as you see them. There's a ton of rage in your actions and tweets, all over what was likely a 10 second delay in your trip. Is this the way you want to live your life?

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@wcp I’m gonna guess they’re disproportionately injured or killed by red light runners as well. Possibly?

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@WFLA Once again inconvenience confused with oppression. #FloridaMan

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@reprobations @Boenau I need to spell it out? The only difference between the two is the degree of danger, not the intent. Our roulette player wants the revolver to click not fire, like our suburban SUV driver doesn’t want to hit the toddler he can’t see.

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Paul Meloan

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@cw4emeryville Everyone who’s ever ridden a bike knows they cost between $10 and $10k. The argument about what someone should or shouldn’t spend is just a weapon of mass distraction. Stay focused friends.

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@tgaume @JoshKraushaar @nytimes I think you speak for many fact-impervious voters here.

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@GuyDealership Dealers have earned this. Ask anyone who ever spent three hours running the back-office gauntlet of sales, financing and whatever aftermarket garbage they want to stick to the car. Without mandatory franchising laws dealerships dry up and blow away.

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@BilldeBlasio Can't believe deBlasio hasn't pulled ahead of *me* in the polls yet. #ZeroPercent

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