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Ted Cruz is becoming even further unhinged, as if there will be an insanity defense for sedition. Because he actually thinks he’s funny, like a Soup Nazi taking the gas pipe: Ok. No gasoline for you. (That includes jet fuel.) And what do you think film is made of? https://t.co/rVwYt7C5Ol...

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  • March 4, 2021

Happy New Year Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers...

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  • January 2, 2021

I live in Oregon. My Thanksgiving is likely to be just my wife and me eating either a vegan roast or, if we’re too lazy to turn the oven on (and that’s a distinct possibility), perhaps takeout Thai food. But if we were going to have lots of people over...

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  • November 18, 2020

Oh, look, Donald Trump won Alaska! Three electoral votes and 663,000 square miles of yummy red land! If only land voted. Sigh. x BREAKING: President Trump and Senate Republicans win Alaska, overwhelmingly and by a massive 20 point spread! Put AK in the books for @realDonaldTrump! Congratulations Senator @DanSullivan_AK! Thank you...

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  • November 12, 2020

He utterly humiliated this anchor in his last appearance, so she wanted to “redeem” herself. This is the man who got a standing O at a Fox town hall event. As you can see, she tried setting Pete up so she could knock him down.  It went as well as...

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  • November 3, 2020

Did Trump truly believe that he could avoid catching the virus, as so much contact tracing must be done for the several days of exposure to a symptomatic Hope HIcks. “This is deadly stuff, the plague, so easily transmissible..” Aside from Karmic justice, Trump’s inner circle has spread COVID-19. He will...

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  • October 2, 2020

Did Trump truly believe that he could avoid catching the virus, as so much contact tracing must be done for the several days of exposure to a symptomatic Hope HIcks. “This is deadly stuff, the plague, so easily transmissible..” Aside from Karmic justice, Trump’s inner circle has spread COVID-19. He will...

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  • October 2, 2020

Donald Trump’s mewling vestigial twin Lindsey Graham has been whining about how his Democratic Senate opponent, Jaime Harrison, is “killing” him financially. Just look at this nattering nabob of negativity: x Here's every time Lindsey Graham begged for money over the last few days and holy shit is he pathetic....

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  • September 28, 2020

Schaden-Friday rolls along with an update on the Lindsey Graham campaign’s financial woes: x Here's every time Lindsey Graham begged for money over the last few days and holy shit is he pathetic. pic.twitter.com/CzOTavhVkQ — Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 25, 2020 Got that? It appears Democrats are killing him financially....

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  • September 25, 2020

Trump's in Ohio today, trying distract us from knowing that the Manhattan DA has grounds to prosecute Trump and his business on these grounds: -Scheme to Defraud -Falsification of Business Records -Insurance Fraud -Criminal Tax Fraud x Q: Who do you think poisoned Alexey Navalny in Russia? TRUMP: Uhhhh … we'll...

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  • September 21, 2020

Killing one’s half-brother using a reality-TV pretext to deliver VX neurotoxin and killing one’s uncle with multiple anti-aircraft guns makes for graphic accounts worthy of stories for Trump. Magical Force indeed. “Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a ‘fantasy film’, as the two leaders engage in...

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  • September 10, 2020

You’ll enjoy this, folks. Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill appeared on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace and, well, just watch … x oh @clairecmc just has no fucks left.pic.twitter.com/v7plxCNHop— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 9, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> McCASKILL: “Think about this for a minute; let’s dwell on this just for...

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  • September 10, 2020

We are simply at the moment where the accumulated stories of disrespect all get to be compared with the opposing candidate and his party. x Every Republican who stood by and continues to stand by Trump, particularly after we’ve learned about his “losers and suckers” comments, deserves to forever wear...

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  • September 5, 2020

With all due respect to The Lincoln Project, MeidasTouch, and the Biden campaign itself, this is the one — the ad we’ve all been waiting for. Perfection, indeed. x Just made the most perfect ad for @JoeBiden's campaign. pic.twitter.com/FyMei5Xlsj— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) August 16, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> Enjoy the...

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  • August 16, 2020

Unhingery abounds at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When it comes to voting rights in our pandemic election year, President Donald Trump has a habit of saying the quiet part out loud. Is it a short-circuit in the super-ego or Trump jettisoning the filters because there are 80 days left. And the distractions emerge, because doesn’t Trump deserve the Nobel...

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  • August 13, 2020

Gym Jordan, who famously did not (allegedly, anyway) intervene on behalf of student athletes when he coached wrestling at THE Ohio State University, appears all too willing to put young men in harm’s way for a little coronavirus-enhanced sportsing this fall. America needs college football. — Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan)...

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  • August 11, 2020

An entirely circular public relations stunt aided by the NY Times. Trump wasn’t accountable because one of his minions approached the South Dakota government with the flackery of Trumpist followers and the pretensions of Grover Norquist for Reagan’s head. Even though Trump has been informally yakking about it since taking office the...

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  • August 10, 2020

Deranged Trump syndrome: a dictatorial Trump now confronts his losing with even more autocratic attempts to consolidate power. Sabotaging the postal service to thwart voting…plus another attempt to loot social security.  Republican scorched earth on the way to the bunker. Trump basically announced today that he views himself as a...

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  • August 8, 2020

Deranged Trump syndrome: a dictatorial Trump now confronts his losing with even more autocratic attempts to consolidate power. Sabotaging the postal service to thwart voting…plus another attempt to loot social security.  Republican scorched earth on the way to the bunker. This defunds Medicare. This defunds Social Security. Tax collection is...

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  • August 8, 2020

Live Blog Below (not really a doozy) Trump’s incompetence and negligence if not already a sign of Trump’s unfitness for office can be measured on charts. We’re now at “tremendous progress”. Trump knows he will lose if people can vote. Republicans know they can’t control the House or Senate if...

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  • July 30, 2020

Community policing can happen even if it’s been talked about for half a century against a backdrop of paramilitary enforcement and military intelligence. Sadly, the change must be serious and even more radical, requiring even greater defunding/retraining and anti-corruption. x LA Mayor Eric Garcetti is speaking right now about police reforms....

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  • July 28, 2020

Even as some things are becoming less clear in the repression-stunts being pulled by Trump, we can see that Trump is prepping the ground for a loss. Can he keep it up? Trump will need that support to keep himself out of prison and to galvanize the 25% dead-enders. There are...

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  • July 27, 2020
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Trump went to another COVID “hotspot” and gave an infrastructure speech because it's that week again. CNN and MSNBC had the good taste not to broadcast it. Trump wore no mask, in violation of Atlanta policy. Strange how only GOP governors void local mask mandates, not coincidentally they have higher...

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  • July 16, 2020

Asha Rangappa is right, we are now confronted by Frankenstein’s Monster-like amalgamation of Idi Amin, John Gotti, Bernie Madoff, and Nell (the jungle-child character played by Jodie Foster (see Truffault)). In that same vein, Rush Limbaugh says “Americans should “adapt” to coronavirus, like pioneers who “had to turn to cannibalism”...

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  • July 15, 2020

The unhingery continues with four months left. Trump’s doubling down on positions seems typical but has now moved to places that seem more like a scorched-earth campaign as November approaches. Trump just asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the ACA in its entirety. He is trying to take away your...

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  • June 26, 2020

Poor baby. Fortunately he has no dog on which to test cyanide capsules. x The guy whose entire presidency is predicated on being a tough guy has been sitting in a bunker all night, in case you were wondering the extent to which Donald Trump is a small, scared man.https://t.co/t9YhHWUl4C..&#46;

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  • June 1, 2020

The other half are also pretty dangerous… “A lot of disinformation is done through innuendo or done through illogical statements, and those are hard to discover,” https://twitter.com/KatyQ82600832/status/1262403028440793088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw “Because [the pandemic is] global, it’s being used by various countries and interest groups as an opportunity to meet political agendas,” There’s been...

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  • May 23, 2020

All those commencement events made Trump all Pomp & Circumstance. Or perhaps it was the TV ratings that set Trump off. x 90,000 Americans are dead because of a pandemic that Trump was unprepared for and has thrown in the towel on mitigating https://t.co/qvnz5vGc5J — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 17,...

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  • May 17, 2020

“Other things have never had a vaccine and they go away,” 'The Lancet,' one of the world's most respected medical journals, harshly criticized the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic and suggested that Americans should look for new leadership during the upcoming election https://t.co/NqF0zho6n6 pic.twitter.com/TlrBnoSAsB — Forbes (@Forbes) May 15,...

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  • May 15, 2020

The new normal is already here, at least for another year. BREAKING: Dr. Anthony Fauci tells me he will warn the Senate on Tuesday that Americans will face "needless suffering and death" if the country opens up prematurely. https://t.co/3d2D0lu6c2 — Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) May 12, 2020 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1260067698316242944? #Coronavirus update, 5/10,...

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  • May 12, 2020

80,000 deaths today as Trump begins the morning with happy talk. More of the same at 4pm EDT today in a presser that should have some of the same memes. What is the over/under on a reporter asking Trump about his tweets/retweets, especially the “teeny tiny quantum dye dot”. CNN: Key...

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  • May 11, 2020

Paul Waldman at WaPo hits the latest version of the post-prime-time presser Trump show, as Kayleigh “Kayfabe” McEnany does another Vanna White presser. The last six months of Trump terror a.k.a. Bachelor-Grifter's Price is Reich will feature Individual-1 doing his impression of Thurston Howell on Gilligan-Epstein’s Island. Ignore that second...

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  • May 6, 2020

More Trump lies in ABC interview, but he wants the ratings, because it’s Mourning in America. “There'll be more death, that the virus will pass, with or without a vaccine. And I think we're doing very well on the vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it's going to pass,...

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  • May 5, 2020

Trump is tweeting after midnight, irritated that those “never-Trumpers” at the Lincoln Project made another video attacking him. This video has had 2.4 million views in less than one day and pissed off Trump. Retweet it far and wide. pic.twitter.com/i7qu4eth8E — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May 5, 2020 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257532110971318274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Brian Klaas  @brianklaas...

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  • May 5, 2020

This writes itself.   Don Lemon of CNN went after the most vulnerable aspect of Donald Trump.  He ripped him in his self absorbed ego.  Whee doggies… ENJOY !  It was a calm,  very calm ,Keith Olberman take down. Don Lemon with zero fucks left.pic.twitter.com/kbC0zghhzB — Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 4,...

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  • May 4, 2020

Live blog below (yes, it is a pseudo-campaign rally, but the various Trumpian errors often make it worth it, also some folks like watching trainwrecks) 5:00* PM EDT (*it rarely starts on time) Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing The White House The Trump premise continues...

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  • April 17, 2020

In a total reversal, Grand Moff Trump will apparently back off on ordering(sic) a national May 1 “reopening date”. He will also punt “shot-calling” to the states, continuing his inability to fully implement the DPA.   Live Blog below 6:00* PM EDT (* it almost never starts on time) Members of...

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  • April 16, 2020

Aside from sinophobia rather than russophobia, The NY Times has documented more of the details for the 70-days of denial/delay/dysfunction in the Trump White House.   Aside from the framing of Red Dawn (1984), it’s pretty clear that the 2012 remake was on the minds of the email writers, where references...

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  • April 12, 2020

Trump tried to brand COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” to distract from his incompetence. TRUMP REFUSED 1.4 MILLION TEST KITS AT THE END OF FEBRUARY BECAUSE… REASONS. x Anyone who didn't vote to impeach Trump owns this – and every death that comes because of it. https://t.co/mpO8R82wMt — Eric Garland (@ericgarland)...

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  • March 17, 2020

Trump may be responsible for many more untimely deaths, because he wanted to be re-elected (because it’s the stupid, economy). x Today Trump admitted that yesterday’s Press Conference was to lift the Markets. He only cares about the Stock Market!!! You can hear and see how proud of himself he...

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  • March 14, 2020

The Italian death rate may be ahead for the US as the numbers now follow Italy’s, which wouldn’t have happened had Trump not wanted US companies to profit from the contagion (as well as not accepting non-US testing solutions). It’s should always be people’s health before profits. Italy’s current rate is 6.8%...

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  • March 14, 2020

What they do! They smilin' in your face All the time, they want to take your place The back stabbers Rudy Giuliani now calls John Bolton a “backstabber”. But McConnell thinks he’ll be able to “peel off” rebels by Friday to keep the Superbowl ball-spike acquittal on schedule. x Some Republican senators...

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  • January 29, 2020

Because “enemies of the people” like the press should roam free. And even the US Secretary of Defense knows nothing about the “four embassies” supposedly targeted by Soleimani. “The only problem is he doesn’t want them to roam free in the U.S., because he says to us a free press...

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  • January 13, 2020

Rep. Justin Amash — the former Republican who, by dint of the gram of integrity he has, was compelled to leave the party in July — has called out Donald Trump over, well, this egregious shite pile of a policy: x He sells troops. “We have a very good relationship with...

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  • January 12, 2020

This was @KremlinAnnex at the White House on NYE. They’re out there three times a week. And I hear they’d love it if you joined them. pic.twitter.com/mHwtEKuNbk — Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) January 2, 2020 Have you read about our team yet? ✌️🇺🇸 Kremlin Annex: Five women have...

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  • January 3, 2020

Today’s bombshell had a considerable blast radius.  Sondland affirms, “yes” there was a “quid pro quo.” After a first deposition, a revised addendum, and today another lengthy statement, we now know there are receipts, and if Trump were not a PABOTUS*, he’d be indicted. Lacking that, the articles of impeachment get...

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  • November 20, 2019

Pudding, proof, eating. x My favorite part about the Republicans' whole “you can't trust anyone who doesn't have first-hand knowledge” excuse is that the *very next witnesses* (Vindman and Williams) both have first-hand knowledge and have testified privately that Trump conditioned aid on political help. — Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen)...

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  • November 18, 2019

Recalling his photo-op use of graves in Normandy, he can’t stop being provocative. BREAKING. This is going to politicize the NYC Veterans Day parade like it’s never been politicized before. Having Trump there will turn a day that is normally about unity, into a controversial, political spectacle. https://t.co/H5DFycdldM — Paul...

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  • November 7, 2019

In today’s House testimony, Philip Reeker helped fill in the story about how the Ambassador to Ukraine was unfairly removed, firming up the abuse of power argument, even if bribery and other actions were clearly evident. Notable—Trump ally Andrew McCarthy now argues that Trump should not deny the existence of a...

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  • October 26, 2019

Apparently John Solomon is Individual-1’s Pat Buchanan and William Safire. John Solomon, now at Fox News, seems to be the nutter whose shaky ideas about Democrats in Ukraine diffused to Trump. Even Ken Vogel points the finger at Solomon. A Lot Of Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Come From One Right-Wing Columnist...

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  • October 13, 2019