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the only guy on Substack who isn't constantly blubbering about cancel culture! also: @edroso .bsky.social

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Roy Edroso
3 years
You realize this is a gesture of contempt
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Ryan Bailey
3 years
Order an ‘Americano’ pizza in Rome and they put fries on it 🇺🇸
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Word
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2 years
What the almighty fuck
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If you're not feeling great about your life now, remember that you ain't never going out like this
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3 years
How it started How it’s going
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6 years
You know Cary Grant had sex with men, right?
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4 years
New York City homicide rate per 100,000: 3.6 Arkansas homicide rate per 100,000: 7.2
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Tom Cotton
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The rise in anti-Semitic attacks is a symptom of a larger breakdown of public order in our nation’s cities. The solution to crime is the same as it always has been: More and better policing.
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This whole idea that being disliked is some sort of “victimization,” rather than the natural consequence of being an asshole, explains every rightwing rant about political correctness ever
@JohnJHarwood
John Harwood
6 years
Trump defender Alan Dershowitz complains he's been victimized by social profiling: "I have experienced this firsthand on Martha’s Vineyard. Old friends are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life."
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@robwormald LOL “fuck you and your tiger”
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2 years
A growing number of liberals after Biden's speech:
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2 years
Very satisfying.
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4 years
I’m so old I remember this is not true.
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When you tell kids about how you could, with some effort but no big bankroll, just score an apartment and a job in New York in the old days, it blows their minds. I maintained my own East Village apt for years working as a busboy/waiter.
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7 years
Alright, the Juggalos have already won the Battle of the DC Rallies #JuggaloMarch
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If every American could experience European trains we’d have socialism in about 10 minutes
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Alan 🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺
6 years
Taking train to Malaga - one hour journey, walk-on price €3.60 one-way, excellent train: quiet, clean, roomy, air con. State-run & owned Renfe railway co. Puts UK’s private rail and prices to shame
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3 years
Well, you assholes made it necessary
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RNC Research
3 years
Joe Biden is announcing new vaccine mandates today. In December, Biden said he “wouldn’t demand it be mandatory.”
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5 years
Sarah Kendzior is sick of this shit
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Sarah Kendzior
5 years
“It is ridiculous that we are in this deja news cycle where I appear on TV again and again to have the same conversation about Kushner lying on his clearance forms. They need to indict Jared Kushner, indict Ivanka Trump, and get this crime family out of the White House!" #AMJoy
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It's amazing, every time an incredibly stark example of the failure of capitalism appears on Twitter, some guy comes in says it's what would happen if we had socialism -- like it didn't ACTUALLY JUST HAPPEN UNDER CAPITALISM
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4 years
Oh fuck you @nytimes fuuuuck yooooou #ripLarryKramer
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5 years
Who’s the “you” in this paragraph?
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4 years
A large and underacknowleged factor in the degeneracy of our democracy: a lot of voters are convinced the hardest-working people in the country are moochers.
@alisonkatebr
Alison K. Montijn🌻☕
4 years
To anyone who belives in "unskilled" work: change 50 double duvet covers in an hour. Alone. Help a man with Alzheimer's who is afraid of you and everyone to get dressed and take his medication. And then remember 37 table locations and numbers, and when you went to them all.
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3 years
Rod Dreher's been in Hungary a couple of months and it's really helping him be more comfortable with his fascism.
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3 years
Ron Paul is trending for his anti-Afghan war position and Lee isn't. You can guess why, right?
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Kumar Rao
3 years
Here’s video of @RepBarbaraLee , the sole member of Congress in 2001 who voted against the war in Afghanistan—with remarkable prescience. She, like so many on the left, took immense heat for opposing it and speaking out.
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@NRO @RichLowry Sure, you've been on the wrong side of every civil rights struggle for 75 years, why stop now
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2 years
I'm just trying to think what kind of future South Carolina imagines for itself. "We're going fascist faster than most other states! Great place to raise your kids until they're old enough to run away!"
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Oh and -- it should go without saying -- cancelculture crybabies who will ignore this to blubber over some six-figure wingnut who lost an honorarium because students don't want to hear their shit can just go get fucked.
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A lot of the time I think the absolute worst thing about this country -- maybe more than racism, if by a hair -- is its reflexive viciousness toward the poor.
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It looks like a parody. You figure it *must* be a parody. And yet...
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2 years
"bottom-up authoritarianism" is a perfect catchphrase for people who think being criticized by college students is totalitarianism
@bariweiss
Bari Weiss
2 years
But in 2022, something resembling bottom-up authoritarianism has become the norm. Or perhaps one could call it lateral censorship. It’s artists shutting down other artists—or trying to. Read my friend @MrWinMarshall :
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3 years
I know I keep tweeting about this Texas book-banning thing but really, this is literal Nazi shit.
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Might's well sign off, it's not getting any better than this
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@bhweingarten Why don't you do the "Lock Her Up" chant again, that always makes you guys feel better
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LOL
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If you’re going to use a beloved dead celebrity to do your civility pleading for Sarah Huckabee, don’t pick a guy who literally said he’d serve Trump hemlock.
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Karol Markowicz
6 years
Last week: Anthony Bourdain was amazing because he taught us about breaking bread with different kinds of people and getting to know each other over food. This week: But not you.
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Roy Edroso
4 years
A lot of people who think Breonna Taylor got what she deserved will be asking you to pray for this person today.
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JoeMyGod
4 years
Police Say Brad Parscale's Wife Had Been Beaten, Called 911 After Hearing Him Fire Weapon Inside The House -
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4 years
Antique sexism aside, the Republican campaign to promote Tulsi Gabbard is so glaringly obvious it's a miracle that anyone would pretend not to see it.
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Bobby Lewis
4 years
Newt Gingrich: Tulsi Gabbard has a great smile in contrast to Kamala Harris, who's always struggling and attacking. But wow, Tulsi's smile
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Erick Erickson: The most heavily armed nation on earth also has the worst gun violence on earth. Here is my logical solution.
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Kevin D. Williamson thinks people made fun of Trump's McDonald's feast because they're liberal snobs, and not because serving cold fast food to football players is the very definition of tryhard populist bullshit.
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4 years
Every shitty thing they do, they have to blame on a liberal being mean to them.
@CNNPolitics
CNN Politics
4 years
Elizabeth Warren's question may have been part of the reason Lisa Murkowski came to a "no" vote | Analysis
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@nypost This is literally the most Old Irish-American thing you can do next to hanging a picture of JFK in the parlor
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8 months
Conservatism in a nutshell.
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4 years
Admitting you expect spite decisions from your appointees rather than judicial prudence is what gets you court reform, buddy.
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Dinesh D'Souza
4 years
Not a single Democrat will vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. I hope she keeps this fact in mind over the long tenure she is likely to have on the bench #Scotus
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2 years
Somebody not wanting a Republican to speak at their commencement is not the same thing as stabbing Salman Rushdie. Jesus Christ what is wrong with you
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Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
Can't wait to hear from the likes of Michael Hobbes about how the Rushdie stabbing is just "consequence culture" and the real tragedy is the harm he caused to marginalized people
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@DeplorableChoir @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @AyannaPressley Sorority Most Likely To Be Decertified For Hanging A Noose As A "Prank"
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3 years
Conservatives are increasingly telling on themselves like this -- someone attacks racists and fascists and they jump up and cry "hey, I resemble that remark!"
@NikkiMcR
nikki mccann ramírez
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Tucker Carlson falsely claims Joe Biden called white Republican men "more dangerous than ISIS" Biden actually said: "Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today -- not ISIS, not al-Qaida, white supremacists."
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Man, Jacob Wohl must be trying to win a stupidity contest.
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Charles Seife
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@JacobAWohl Happy to explain. I'm a journalism prof interested in, among other things, misinformation. On July 11, I was running a program to monitor a fake news site to see if I could figure out what was responsible for spreading its falsehoods. In this particular case, you were. 1/
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@benshapiro "MLK did not support my absurdly reductive mischaracterization of your beliefs." Hey Half-Pint, look up "MLK" and "universal basic income" sometime
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6 years
They always posit their party leader as a punishment against liberals, never as a representative of their best hopes and dreams. Think about what that means about their politics.
@RawStory
Raw Story
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‘You deserve Trump!’ #TheView ’s Meghan McCain erupts in anger after audience gleefully cheers Paul Ryan retirement
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Roy Edroso
4 years
In fact, Hillary Clinton showed physical weakness at one event during the 2016 campaign and it became a major Trump campaign theme.
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Bill Scher
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I don't really care about this sort of thing, but if Biden did it, there would be a slew of tweets from Trump campaign staff suggesting Biden was deteriorating before our very eyes, and the clip would end up in its ads.
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Does anyone on God's green earth believe someone *seriously* said this to Salena Zito?
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I’m retweeting a bunch of tweets about Elliott Abrams because it should be noted that, as nightmarish a gang of villains as Trump has already assembled, the Republican Party still has a very, very deep bench of scum.
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Don't fuck with New York.
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This & FLOTUS's mad lawsuit show what I've been saying: the deal is Trump signs everything GOP sends, and GOP won't harsh his grift.
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1. Take a step back and consider how Trump is using the presidency for profit
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Biden both telegraphed and condemned Putin's actions; Trump praised them. Maybe learn something from that?
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Brit Hume
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Has any propaganda campaign failed as spectacularly as Putin's effort to justify the assault on Ukraine? Outside of Russia almost no one is buying it and it doesn't seem to be doing very well inside Russia either.
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This is rightwing bullshit: the immigrants were moved off the tiny island to mainland facilities WITHIN THE SAME STATE where they got food, shelter, and access to services including immigration lawyers. None of which they got from the GOP goons who actually deported them.
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Sure, you've been on the wrong side of every civil rights struggle for 75 years, why stop now
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National Review
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NR is all-in in the fight against trans-insanity. | @RichLowry
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One reason you know they can't win if they don't cheat is, they keep telling you.
@GregTSargent
Greg Sargent
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A striking admission: Donald Trump just openly stated that making it easier to vote in Pennsylvania is a direct threat both to the Republican Party and to *his own presidential campaign.*
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Why do you repeat even his most easily debunked lies without refuting them?
@thehill
The Hill
5 years
President Trump: "My poll numbers are very high."
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5 years
Can someone tell me what Rod Dreher is talking about here
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2 years
Surprised I haven't seen Bari Weiss, Andrew Sullivan, and that lot blubbering over Kanye's cancellation. Did I miss a Substack?
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2 years
I've seen several Republicans talk about all the wonderful natal and child care things they're going to do now for the women they're forcing to bear children -- things they could have done before, of course, and will certainly not follow through with.
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2 years
In 2020, they literally had no platform; in 2024, they literally won't debate. This is not, to put it mildly, a party of ideas.
@maggieNYT
Maggie Haberman
2 years
NEWS: The RNC has told the Commission on Presidential Debates that it's preparing to require presidential candidates to refuse to take part in those debates, potentially leading to a significant change in how debates have been conducted for 35 years
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Lol
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I’m beginning to subscribe to the theory I’ve seen elsewhere that Trump sent these guys out to just blow the case to prove Republicans will support him no matter what. In fact I start to suspect it’s part of some long-term war against coherent thought.
@justinbaragona
Justin Baragona
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Trump impeachment attorney David Schoen says that Democrats have used "rhetoric that is just as inflammatory or more so" than Trump but "the problem is, they don’t have followers, dedicated followers when they give speeches."
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I’ve been calling the Republican Party a death cult a while and people have told me that I’m exaggerating
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5 years
I begin to worry that D’Souza has a brain injury.
@DineshDSouza
Dinesh D'Souza
5 years
Two years into his presidency Obama had gone completely gray. He looked worn out. Trump looks the same as he did before he was elected. I guess the job suits him
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2 years
This whole "murder federal agents" thing Republicans are into now seems especially weird when you remember they were telling us in 2020 that BLM was a bunch of cop-killers.
@RonFilipkowski
Ron Filipkowski
2 years
Michael Flynn and Roger Stone endorsed congressional candidate Martin Hyde drops a new ad about the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search: “I wish they’d turn up at my home. Cause they’d have gone home in a body bag.”
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Roy Edroso
7 years
So after a week I've learned that the only people you absolutely cannot blame for Donald Trump are the people who voted for him.
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Roy Edroso
6 years
There may be no better avatar of modern conservatism than Dinesh D’Souza continually getting his ass kicked by historians and at the end of each and every ass-kicking asking the historians if they’ve had enough.
@KevinMKruse
Kevin M. Kruse
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Ask and ye shall receive.
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Ah, the old "Washington was burned to the ground by BLM" bullshit. It never gets old.
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Roy Edroso
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Cruz, presumably drunk, literally challenges a guy to fight SOMEONE ELSE.
@tedcruz
Ted Cruz
4 years
Listen Hellboy. You talk good game when you’ve got Hollywood makeup & stuntmen. But I’ll bet $10k—to the nonpolitical charity of your choice—that you couldn’t last 5 min in the wrestling ring w/ @Jim_Jordan w/o getting pinned. You up for it? Or does your publicist say too risky?
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You mean how can you have all the racism, militarism, and authoritarianism with none of the stigma?
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@KrisKobach1787 Want lead pipes? Vote Republican!
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2 years
Meanwhile here are actual job numbers ha ha just kidding next up another 10 minutes of Inflation Panic headlines
@ABCPolitics
ABC News Politics
2 years
BREAKING: Leading into the midterm elections, 36% of Americans say they trust Republicans to do a better job for the economy while 24% trust Democrats, a new @ABC News/Ipsos polls finds.
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Roy Edroso
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Surprisingly Jason Miller is not the dumbest thing she's done
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Roy Edroso
1 year
...the point is rather that a system that makes a decent living *harder* over time for young people (or anyone sub-rich people, really) is fucked up abs needs hard reform.
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Roy Edroso
2 years
With tears in their eyes they grabbed large fistfuls of government money, often fraudulently. That's how much they cared about Business!
@LevineJonathan
Jon Levine
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Nobody *wanted* a PPP loan, people took them as a lifeline when the government forced their businesses to close during the pandemic. Comparing that to student loan forgiveness seems shaky to me
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Roy Edroso
1 year
Fascism. It's called fascism.
@nazirafzal
nazir afzal
1 year
From the Trump/Far Right playbook, when democracy (ie ordinary people voting even when you make it difficult for them to vote) doesn’t go your way, then storm the Parliament/Capitol/Court This time in Brazil where Bolsonaro’s thugs are in action
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Roy Edroso
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I voted for Sanders, but this is a very good question.
@peterdaou
Peter Daou
7 years
Honest question: Can anyone name precisely what the #DNC did to affect voters and make Hillary win the primary? #DonnaBrazile
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Roy Edroso
5 years
Now when they meet lesbians, they won’t know they’re supposed to hate them!
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Roy Edroso
1 year
@NRO @NoahCRothman You guys are the biggest pants-wetting pussies on the face of the earth
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Roy Edroso
8 years
He was. You were all too busy calling him a Kenyan communist to notice.
@JoshKraushaar
Josh Kraushaar
8 years
If only Obama was more generous in his view of the conservative opposition BEFORE Trump emerged on the scene...
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Roy Edroso
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"Actually you misunderstood my point sir" while the gorilla is using his head as a battering ram is the most Chait thing ever
@jonathanchait
Jonathan Chait
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The column he's quoting also argues, "His use of violent threats to secure power is obviously unforgivable, authoritarian, and very likely criminal"
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Roy Edroso
4 years
One week out, Rich Lowry for the eminent conservative publication @NRO makes his case: Vote Trump to say fuck you to people you don't like.
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Because you suck, that's why not.
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Roy Edroso
4 years
@traylyn1776 @NYGovCuomo And MAGA dumbasses with dull memes are an actual menace to the health and security of the nation, which is waaaaay worse than non-essential.
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Roy Edroso
6 years
Man, Baseball Head finds a way to be wrong about everything
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6 years
“I’m a moderate, you see.”
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Roy Edroso
2 years
Something to notice: conservatives are not, by and large, celebrating what they usually portray as the protection of "pre-born" people. They're laughing at the disenfranchisement and immiseration of people they hate. That's all this was ever about.
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Roy Edroso
3 years
I remember people blaming Roots for stirring up racial animosity, too.
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Roy Edroso
1 year
Let me add (inspired by @RottenInDenmark 's comments) that as the system makes it harder to move to "the city," it also makes it harder for outland kids who need to get away from stifling and abusive situations to do so. Mobility is a social issue.
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Roy Edroso
4 years
If SNL were any good this would be a cold open
@RobertCooper58
Robert Cooper 🌊
4 years
Trump’s children must undergo mandatory training to learn how to avoid defrauding charities Trump’s three eldest children have agreed to undergo a mandatory training seminar to ensure they don’t fraudulently misuse charity funds in the future.
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Roy Edroso
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Can’t emphasize enough the point Kruse has been making and makes here: the “slavery as vocational training” stuff got media attention, but the whole DeSantis curriculum is propaganda masquerading as education.
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Roy Edroso
3 years
Herd immunity but for mass murder
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Roy Edroso
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Look up "PPP fraud Trump." The results may surprise you!
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@BenjySarlin
Benjy Sarlin
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This misleading PPP/student loans talking point refuses to die. The loans were 100% intended to be turned into grants, it was baked into the policy from the start. The type of student loans under discussion were not designed the same way.
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Roy Edroso
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There's more than one reason why RedState Republicans try to make cities terrifying to their subjects with over-the-top crime & filth stories -- if too many of them escape, they might send back word that culture, density, and diversity are *not* bad things after all.
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