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Jay Bookman

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Journalist/author, columnist for the Georgia Recorder

Atlanta, GA.

Joined February 2009

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Jay Bookman

3 years

Let me tell you a story, a very personal story, about the importance and generational impact of what @JDVance cavalierly dismisses here as "progressive wokeness" in the US military. It stars my father, born and raised deep in West Virginia coal country.

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What I find so enraging about the Joint Chiefs’s pandering on progressive wokeness is that they know damn well the geography and politics of who dies in American wars. The conservative Americans you trash are disproportionately bleeding for this country.

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Jay Bookman

4 years

If the NYT story is "fake news," Trump can prove it by releasing just one page of his 2016 and '17 returns, that critical last page of Form 1040 that includes his signature and total tax paid. One page, & he could thoroughly humiliate the media. He won't, and we all know why.

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Bill O'Reilly on the Dixie Chicks: "These are callow, foolish women who deserve to be slapped around."

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6 years

Sarah Sanders did not deserve to be humiliated by a restaurant owner in Virginia. Insulting people holding different political views is not the American way. Far left zealots are ramping up hatred and violence is coming. Check out for honest news analysis.

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You have to question why AG Barr would risk a huge outcry, five months before the election, by trying to bumrush the US attorney investigating Rudy Giuliani. The answer has to be that there's something Barr & Trump fear much more than the outcry, five months before the election.

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5 years

Trump may want to rethink this whole "bring back execution as a punishment for treason" thing.

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3 years

Parler has sued Amazon for refusing to provide it web services, and conservatives have rallied to Parler's defense, claiming their views are being censored. In its legal response, Amazon cites the type of Parler content that conservatives apparently want to defend. Take a look:

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6 years

It's important to make clear that under Georgia law passed in 2017, these 53,000 can still vote if they bring ID to their polling place. It would be tragic and counterproductive if media coverage dissuaded those people from turning out.

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"Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s (R) office is blocking 53,000 people from registering to vote, according to records obtained by the AP, a huge number that could sway his gubernatorial race against Democrat Stacey Abrams."

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5 years

They took money donated by others to their charity and then used it for their own purposes, not because they needed the money but because they felt entitled to it.

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NEW: President Trump to pay $2 million to settle New York Attorney General civil lawsuit against Trump Foundation and his children

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3 years

We used to look at places such as Nazi Germany and tell ourselves "that could never happen here." It's still not going to happen here, not this time. But now we see that it could. We also now see who would be participating in such a thing, and that must never be forgotten.

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Interesting how a career in porn undermines the credibility of a witness testifying in a court case, but paying that porn star to have sex doesn't undermine the credibility of a candidate for president of the United States of America.

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It's also important to point out that if a billionaire businessman can legally pay just $750 in federal income taxes, then tax laws need to be changed and Congress has a legit policy reason to get access to Trump's returns.

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ZELENSKY: "We are ready to ... buy more (anti-tank) Javelins from the United States for defense purposes." TRUMP: "I would like you to do us a favor though...." Imagine a president who would make that "perfect" phone call. Now imagine a party that would defend such a president.

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And in refusing to step down, Geoffrey Berman writes that "our investigations will move forward without interruption or delay," that he will ensure "this office's important cases continue unimpeded." RULE: When things that shouldn't need saying do need saying, something's up.

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Jay Bookman

4 years

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii; Joe Scarborough did not kill Lori Kaye Klausutis; Hunter Biden did not get $1.5 billion from China; Ted Cruz's dad did not murder JFK; vaccines do not cause autism; the Clintons did not kill Jeffrey Epstein; China did not invent climate change.

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5 years

Trump's rage over the anonymity of the whistleblower may seem excessive, but it has its own logic. Anonymity means Trump can't give the person an insulting nickname, can't call him or her ugly or fat, can't use his surrogates to smear and intimidate. He can't make it personal 1/2

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3 years

So Sen. Tommy Tuberville denies attendance at a secret Jan. 5 meeting at the Trump Hotel with top Trump advisers and family members, even though photographic evidence proves he's lying. The question becomes: Why did he feel the need to lie?

Photos put Tuberville in Trump’s hotel on Jan. 5 despite denying meeting

The photos and Facebook post put Tuberville, Donald Trump Jr., Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani and others at the Trump hotel on Jan. 5.

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4 years

For me personally, the most painful aspect of Trump's rise has been the damage it has caused to my faith in my fellow Americans. I do not understand how a person can watch what he says and does and still believe he belongs in the Oval Office.

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@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Both Commiecast MSNBC & Fake News CNN are watching their Ratings TANK. Fredo on CNN is dying. Don’t know why @FoxNews wants to be more like them? They’ll all die together as other outlets take their place. Only pro Trump Fox shows do well. Rest are nothing. How’s Shep doing?

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3 months

"Trump would never dare leave NATO" is the new "Trump would never block the peaceful transfer of power."

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7 years

If you imagine an identical picture featuring Obama and the hysteria that would inspire, you have a grasp of what 'white privilege' means.

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3 years

Lindsey Graham called Georgia's secretary of state and privately pushed him to disqualify thousands of votes and by doing so give the state to Trump. So spare me, Lindsey. Spare us all.

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Clarence Thomas has so many sponsors he should have to wear logos on his robe, like a NASCAR driver.

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Ron Filipkowski

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Clarence & Ginni Thomas got a taste of a billionaire’s lifestyle, wanted it for themselves, but couldn’t afford it with their income. So billionaires provided it for them. Surely, out of the kindness of their hearts. Because billionaires never want anything in return from judges.

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In his Jan. call with SoS Raffensperger, Trump repeatedly threatened the SoS & others with criminal prosecution for not exposing supposed election fraud. According to @MarkWinneWSB , Raffensperger & staff were so worried they hired personal attorneys. 1/4

Raffensperger, staff feared wrongful prosecution under pressure from Trump to change election...

Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne spoke exclusively with Brad Raffensperger about what was going on behind the scenes as a nation watched -- a measure of the kid of pressure top Georgia...

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"Hey MIchigan, I need you to do us a favor though."

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4 years

So basically, Georgia's GOP leadership has told Brad Raffensperger that he has no future in their party because he committed the dual sins of abiding by the law and knowing how to count. Such things cannot be tolerated. #gapol

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Remember when he didn't want to let the cruise ship dock so sick people could be treated because that would add to his Covid total?

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Trump on his handling of covid: "We did a great job."

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5 years

The modern GOP has degenerated into a group of people who have agreed to tell each other and believe impossible but reassuring things, to the point that the willingness to eagerly believe all those impossible things has become the glue that holds a crumbling party together. 1/10

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I have not seen Republicans cite a single example of a biased ACTION or DECISION taken by the FBI's Peter Strzok, or how he might have acted unfairly. Yes, he privately expressed opinions they do not like. That is not a crime. Not yet.

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So basically, the debt ceiling crisis is just another version of the Jan. 6 insurrection: Give us what we want, or we're going to tear the whole damn thing down.

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Remember the asshole kid on the playground, the one whispering "why don't you and him fight each other?"

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Ted Cruz

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I get it, you’re rich. But, apparently, soft. You sure seem scared to wrestle Jordan (whom you keep insulting). Can’t take the heat? Need to get a manicure?

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And if Trump can't make it deeply personal somehow, his only alternative is to challenge the whistleblower's account on its merits, on factual grounds, which Trump knows is impossible. THAT is why he's so frustrated. His foe's anonymity disarms him. 2/2

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4 years

@dave_brown24 You mean Americans like these guys, Kayleigh? Changing the name of Fort Bragg, named after a plantation owner and mediocre general, would disrespect "the Harlem Hellfighters" from WWI?

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3 years

Clearly, GA Republicans are going to try to curtail voting by mail in future elections, so let's be upfront about their motive: Absent evidence of fraud -- and they have absolutely none -- their only remaining motive is voter suppression. They want to lower participation. #gapol

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The insistence that Biden's a crook, a claim backed by no evidence at all, is offered as counterweight to detailed documentary, photographic and sworn eyewitness evidence of Trump's criminality. It's a great example of how the right weaponizes fantasy to do battle with reality.

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Elise Stefanik, with no evidence whatsoever, on Fox & Friends asserts that Joe Biden "committed multiple criminal acts"

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Oh Kellyanne... Do you REALLY want to discuss "incredibly irresponsible" tweets? Because we can do that, if you insist.

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Kellyanne Conway reacts to @SenBobCorker 's Trump criticism: "I find tweets like this to be incredibly irresponsible." (Fox)

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6 years

Proposition: We are governed by an idiot. Evidence:

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!

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4 years

Three million illegal immigrants did not vote in 2016; Vince Foster did commit suicide; windmills do not cause cancer; Massachusetts liberals were not bussed into NH to vote; Hillary's email server is not in Ukraine. But Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

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@arishapiro @NPRKelly @SecPompeo @npratc @NPRKelly graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, has a masters in European Studies from Cambridge University, has covered international politics for decades for CNN, BBC and NPR, and that jackass Pompeo challenged her to find Ukraine on a map? #NowThatsSomeMansplaining !

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8 years

We have an eyewitness, First Lady Abigail Adams, who said those slaves were 'half fed, and destitute of clothing'

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8 years

Bill O'Reilly to Michelle Obama: Slaves building the White House were "well fed and had decent lodgings provided"

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The overturning of Roe, the Clarence Thomas scandal, the judicially imposed national ban on the abortion pill ... this is the raw material for a national movement to expand the court to 12 justices.

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We have a white supremacist president gleefully spreading white supremacist nonsense while white supremacist gunmen commit mass murder in the name of white supremacy and we're not supposed to notice any linkage. Well, screw that.

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So the grieving parents chose not to allow you to politicize their daughter's death, and you've chosen to do so anyway. Cool.

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Rep. Mike Collins

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3 months

I invited Laken Riley’s parents to the State of the Union address, but understandably, they have chosen to stay home as they grieve the loss of their daughter. Therefore, the seat reserved for my guest will remain vacant to honor Laken and all American victims of illegal alien

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4 years

There was no "whitey tape." Tax cuts do not pay for themselves. Hydroxycloroquine is more likely to kill you than to cure corona. You can't inject sunlight into the human body. Trump's inauguration crowd was a fraction the size of Obama's. Putin is not our friend.

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Bob Corker, canceled. Jeff Flake, canceled. John Kasich, canceled. Paul Ryan, canceled. John Boehner, canceled. Mitt Romney, canceled. George W. Bush, canceled. Jeff Sessions, canceled. Others -- Cruz, Rubio, etc. -- have avoided cancellation only thru craven self-abasement. 1/11

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5 years

Remember when Jared Kushner tried to arrange a private, back-channel communications system with Russia that nobody else in the US government would be able to monitor? This is why.

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“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” -- House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

Congratulations to Dana Rohrabacher on his big California win. We are proud of you Dana!

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@newtgingrich Yeah, because totally guilty people never hire big-name lawyers. You know, like OJ, who hired Dershowitz. Or Jeffrey Epstein, who hired both Dershowitz and Starr. Newt, you used to be at least a little challenging. Now you're just completely lame.

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@dave_brown24 Or how about this man, Pvt. James Anderson Jr., USMC, who dove on a grenade in Vietnam to save his fellow soldiers and for that sacrifice was given the Medal of Honor. Would stripping forts of Confederate names dishonor, or honor, the memory of Pvt. Anderson?

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The GA GOP has a Marjorie Taylor Greene problem. She wants to dominate the spotlight, probably eying a Senate run in 2022, but the party has neither the strength nor the will to forcefully divorce itself from her. #gapol

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Paul Ryan took $334,986 from @FoxNews last year for sitting on its Board of Directors & lending a (very thin) patina to news coverage that he knows is false & dangerous to our nation. A patriot would resign. #ResignPaul

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And here Trump claims that NBC News and Lester Holt were caught "fudging" tape of his interview on Comey and Russia, which is an interesting charge to surface a whole 15 months after the interview aired.

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Donald J. Trump

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What’s going on at @CNN is happening, to different degrees, at other networks - with @NBCNews being the worst. The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!

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4 years

This is remarkable. Florida Republicans ADMIT the state's computerized unemployment system was designed to make it tough to file for benefits, to keep their jobless numbers low. They built it to screw people, and in this crisis it's screwing them en masse.

‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump

Thousands are struggling just to apply for unemployment benefits.

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5 years

It's entirely plausible that Trump's White House handlers are showing him fake or distorted poll data just to keep him from losing his last shred of sanity.

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

Nervous Nancy Pelosi is doing everything possible to destroy the Republican Party. Our Polls show that it is going to be just the opposite. The Do Nothing Dems will lose many seats in 2020. They have a Death Wish, led by a corrupt politician, Adam Schiff!

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3 years

This is the Republican county recorder in Maricopa County AZ, site of the increasingly bizarre "audit," just flatout saying that Trump is full of shit.

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Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct)

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3 years

Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out...

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@oixor9 US Attorney Berman is refusing to be removed, claiming that it's illegal to fire him. That's gonna give this story legs, as will next week's congressional hearings into Barr's overt politicization of the DOJ.

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To be even more clear, Donald Trump has ADMITTED that he and his family "cannot be trusted to be honest and responsible fiduciaries of charitable funds, and misused them for their own gain." It's not just the state of NY saying it; it's Trump.

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@JohnWDean Trump doesn't need a dog. He already has Lindsey Graham.

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3 years

But if Trump sought a criminal probe of Raffensperger as a way to scare the SoS to "find 11,780 votes," if he abused his office that way and forced Pak out, that's a hard thing for a prosecutor to just walk away from and forget. IF that happened, prosecution is justified. 4/4

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This is a lie. Period. You know it is a lie. Period.

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We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.

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The last time we had $2 gasoline was May 2020. That month, the unemployment rate was 13.2%. If Mike Lee wants to go back to that, I guess Donald Trump is the man to do that.

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Mike Lee says "he'd take a few mean tweets" from Trump "any day" in order to "have $2 gas again"

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3 years

The attention paid to Marjorie Taylor Greene is more than just a media frenzy; it's a healthy process. This is how we as a society set boundaries about what is acceptable in public life. This is how standards are set, or in this case repaired. Either we draw the line or we don't.

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One reason the GOP nominates candidates such as Herschel Walker, Doug Mastriano, etc., is to show their utter contempt for gov't. They don't care if such candidates would be disasters in office because at some level they want that disaster. They don't want a gov't that works.

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Here's the brief in full:

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A wall paid by Mexico? Climate change, a conspiracy among scientists to get rich? We'll raise more revenue by cutting trillions in taxes? Trade wars are easy to win? Our most oppressed minority is white Christians? Impossible, but if you believe it, then I'll believe it too. 2/10

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That's how they've ended up in the grasp of Trump, a man unrivaled in his ability to pitch the impossible. He has zero interest in whether the product he's selling can actually work; his sole concern is whether he can get you to buy it. So a perfect match of conman and mark 4/10

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It wasn't BLM protesters who shot a man in the back seven times, in front of his children. It wasn't BLM protesters who shot and killed two people last night in Kenosha.

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4 years

Ralston just admitted the dirty secret driving the entire GOP "voter fraud, voter ID" manufactured hysteria. If we do the May 19 primary by mail, the path is clear to do the Nov election by mail, and that terrifies them. And if we don't vote by mail, we don't vote at all. #gapol

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The Speaker of the Georgia state House doesn't like mailing voters absentee ballots during the virus outbreak. Why? Because he says it will hurt conservative Republicans by driving up turnout.

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Correct. She had to invent a justification and defense for firing Comey because the actual reasons for doing so constituted obstruction of justice. It was a conscious decision to deceive, not some off-the-cuff mistake, and she did so without apparent conscience.

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Well, when the responsibilities of governance have proved to be incompatible with continued belief in the nonsensical, isn't it possible -- difficult, but possible -- to drop that belief in the nonsensical and look again with clear eyes? Isn't that the start? 10/10

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@Conruthhoward It could have come from any number of places. Kavanaugh or Mark Judge could have laughed or bragged about it. Somebody at the party could have seen Blasey Ford run screaming from the room. You remember high school: That kind of story would spread very quickly.

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When your freedom to walk around with an AK-47, body armor and high-capacity magazines conflicts with my freedom to attend fairs, go shopping or head out for drinks with friends, then something has to give. I say that something is you.

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The man who would have handled that prosecution was US Attorney BJay Pak, who suddenly and mysteriously resigned two days after the Raffensperger call became public. The Justice Department inspector general is investigating Pak's odd departure. 2/4

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Sarah Sanders said last Tuesday that "there has been an outreach effort to bring him here." Five days later -- and two weeks after his heroic intervention -- James Shaw reports no such outreach.

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The Hill

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Waffle House shooting hero says he still hasn't heard from Trump after White House said it reached out to him

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Yet every day, and practically every waking hour of every day, we see proof that Trump is morally & intellectually incapable of even the basics of governance. Most Republicans who admit that to themselves are not yet willing to admit it to each other, because ... what then? 9/10

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6 years

53,000 Georgians will NOT be shut out of the election. This is false. They will be able to vote, and they will vote a regular ballot. That is, unless coverage like this convinces them that there's no use in trying. Please stop.

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Jamil Smith جميل كريم

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The first African American woman nominated by a major party for governor is @staceyabrams . She has to beat both her opponent and the referee. He is the same person. I wrote for @RollingStone about @BrianKempGA shutting 53,000 Georgians out of the election.

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The president of the United States should invite the Meche family to the Oval Office as a way to honor his heroism. He won't.

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Angus Johnston

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Taliesin Meche, 2016 graduate of Reed College, was murdered yesterday while defending strangers from racist abuse. A role model and a hero.

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The GOP has also created a formidable media machine to enforce that belief in the impossible, to ensure no doubt or skepticism can creep in. Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, etc., act as powerful thought police, much as political commissars in the old Soviet Union once did. 5/10

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Based on his speech, Trump still seems fixated on keeping #coronavirus outside our borders and on trying to minimize its economic impact. Those ships have so sailed.

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Jay Bookman

2 years

They're not even pretending anymore. It's all right out in the open, all public. And we're seeing the consequences in places such as Buffalo.

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Christopher Hooks

2 years

“I love you, but I would love you more,” Ted Nugent tells the audience at Trump’s rally, “if you went out and just went berserk on the skulls of the Democrats and the marxists and the communists.” “Evil” must be “stamped out.”

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Jay Bookman

1 year

Watching @RepMTG try to wheedle her way into the GOP establishment is like watching a chicken trying to play Tic-Tac-Toe.

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Jay Bookman

4 years

@bmcgover @simoncurtis In hard times, people show you who they really are. I guess sometimes the revelation isn't pleasant.

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Jay Bookman

3 years

Dear Republicans: Why do we need 25,000 armed troops in our nation's capital to guarantee the transfer of power as laid out in the Constitution, and who are the enemies that they are guarding it against? I think those are questions worth pondering. Don't you?

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Jay Bookman

6 years

Trump's oddly docile willingness to open an FBI investigation, Grassley's sudden cooperation and Graham's almost gleeful cheerfulness make me pretty sure something's up.

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Jay Bookman

8 years

It wasn't an "anti-police protest." It was an "anti-police brutality" protest. The distinction is critical. #gapol

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Former Gov. Nathan Deal

8 years

(1/3) Today, we mourn the lives of five law enforcement officers who were gunned down during an anti-police protest in Dallas last night.

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2 years

You don't "lay down your very lives" by voting in a school board race, or attending a school board meeting, or donating to or campaigning for a school board candidate. In what kind of activity do you "lay down your very lives?" Violence, that's what kind. He calls for violence.

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Aaron Rupar

2 years

Trump calls on his supporters to "lay down their very lives" in the fight against critical race theory

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Jay Bookman

7 years

Self-awareness is not a gift given to all ....

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Jay Bookman

8 years

OK, GOP leaders. If hinting at a 2nd Amendment solution to your political opponent does not cross your final line, then you have no line.

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Jay Bookman

2 years

It's critical to remember that both Hannity and McEnany were vocal, passionate, persistent advocates of the "stolen election" nonsense that led directly to the violence of Jan. 6. They had blood on their own hands, and they knew it.

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Michael M. Grynbaum

2 years

NEW: Sean HANNITY texted Kayleigh McEnany on Jan. 7, 2021, with a 5-point plan to persuade Trump to give up his claims about voter fraud. Hannity's first point: "No more stolen election talk." McEnany replied: "Love that."

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Jay Bookman

5 years

And today, it is faltering. The responsibilities of actual governance have proved to be incompatible with continued belief in the nonsensical, putting the country in danger. And we find the perfect embodiment of that conflict sitting in the Oval Office. 7/10

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Jay Bookman

3 years

Trump is pleading for money, begging his supporters to “Help us WIN both Senate races in Georgia & STOP Socialist Dems.” Then he's keeping all the proceeds in his own PAC. That's the kind of man Loeffler & Perdue worship.

Trump antagonizes Republicans with Georgia fundraising ploy

Emails and texts raising cash for Trump's PAC have rankled Republicans, who want cash to flow directly to Georgia's endangered GOP senators.

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Jay Bookman

5 years

Here's a list of people who did NOT have bone spurs:

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Jay Bookman

6 years

This is precisely how you get these jackass "experts" on cable TV, handpicked for their willingness to espouse conflict-enhancing BS, not their ability to enlighten.

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Jay Bookman

5 years

To conservatives, "owning the libs" & "drinking liberal tears" are imp't things. Yet there's no such language among liberals, no necessity to "own the conservatives" or "drink conservative tears." it's almost as if hatred of liberals is all that defines conservatives.

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Jay Bookman

1 year

The GOP refrain of "we've got amazing evidence of Biden criminality that we're going to show you ... pretty soon, someday, you'll see, honest, we really do" reminds me of Trump's Infrastructure Week, often promised yet never delivered.

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Aaron Rupar

1 year

Republicans are absolutely sure that Biden is guilty of impeachable offenses. Which ones exactly? They don't know. But he's definitely guilty of something.

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Jay Bookman

3 years

I hadn't see this one, tweeted by a GOP congressman, just before the attack on the Capitol.

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Paul Gosar

3 years

Biden should concede. I want his concession on my desk tomorrow morning. Don’t make me come over there. #StopTheSteaI2021 @ali

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Jay Bookman

5 years

Republicans have agreed among each other to believe that Trump is a mighty leader literally ordained by God to rebuke the libs and lead them out of the wilderness. That belief has become central to the GOP identity, and none dare publicly question it. 8/10

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Jay Bookman

5 years

Tenaciously, ferociously, they police each other's thoughts and statements, because again, it is their mutual willingness to keep believing the nonsensical that binds them together, that gives their movement meaning. If that falters, it all collapses. 6/10

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Jay Bookman

5 years

It wasn't always like this. GOP leadership once understood that such things were nonsense, that you might say them but never act upon them, and it governed accordingly. But over time, those who knew such things to be basic nonsense were RINO'd out by those who do not. 3/10

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Jay Bookman

5 years

One of my biggest fears out of the Trump era is that a smarter, more disciplined authoritarian is taking notes somewhere on how to do this better. And one of the lessons is to come in and fire all the inspectors general, take the blast of heat for it and then proceed as you wish.

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Michael S. Schmidt

5 years

NEW: Trump has discussed firing the inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson. The president believes Atkinson was disloyal when he deemed the whistleblower's complaint credible and reported it to Congress. #d éjàvu? w/ @maggieNYT

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Jay Bookman

5 years

US senators are getting paid today but aren't working. Many are flying home aided by TSA agents and air-traffic controllers who are working but NOT getting paid.

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Jay Bookman

3 years

You look at the likes of Pompeo, Cotton, Cruz, Hawley, Haley and Rubio and see their souls so darkened by ambition, and you realize that the GOP is not going to regain its bearings anytime soon.

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Jay Bookman

2 years

A week before that phone call, Trump had put an illegal, secret hold on military aid to Ukraine. The hold was not released until a whistleblower filed a complaint.

Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say

The timing of President Trump’s directive raises further questions about his July call with Ukraine’s new leader and apparent desire to see Joe Biden’s son investigated.

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