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Ben Sasse with a brave and principled call for Mitch McConnell to perform a striptease on the Senate floor.
Look, I don’t like it either, but we’ve *got* to respect the legacy of the late Senator John McCain.
Ben Sasse is going to honor John McCain’s legacy in the most meaningful way possible: by making it clear he knows Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be a Supreme Court justice, and then voting to confirm.
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The President of the United States has spent his entire public life, which is now in its 5th decade, habitually and repeatedly making provably untrue statements.

That fact is so important that it should accompany any mention of him in news media.
Yes, all or at least most other politicians have lied. I don't think we've ever had a president whose entire public life has been defined not just by specific lies, but by lying.

Lying as strategy.

Lying as lifestyle.

Lying for the sake of lying.

It's relevant.
There should be no mention of his name without the accompanying context.

"Donald Trump (who has told proveable untruths his entire life, and repeats them after they're proved false), addressed the nation today."

Absent the parenthetical, the whole story isn't told.
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Seriously can’t stop laughing at this.
It’s not just how stupid it is it’s how smart he thinks it is.
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Sage advice from veteran congressperson Whoopi Goldberg, known for the gentle contemplative comedy of her youth.
“Multimillionaire Offers Critique of Politician Who Would Tax Multimillionaires”
Who the hell said she didn’t?
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Mitch McConnell wrote an op-ed calling for bipartisanship, and people are not having it
#WednesdayWisdom #McConnell
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The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Mitch McConnell is currently complaining about:

✔️ Dr. Ford
✔️ Senate Dems
✔️ Senator Feinstein
✔️ The resistance

And is also trying to claim Senate Dems betrayed Dr. Ford, by leaking to the press.

Call your Senators to say NO to Kavanaugh. 202-224-3121.
McConnell is currently praising the integrity of Chuck Grassley, and letting loose on Senate Democrats.

Is also criticizing the veracity of Dr. Ford's story, and trying to paint her as unreasonable for having accommodation requests.
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McConnell is now trying to smear @RonanFarrow @JaneMayerNYer's New Yorker story about Deborah Rodriguez. Claiming the allegation is so thin, NYT refused to run the Rodriguez story.
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1. In Sep 2016, during a secret briefing for congressional leaders, the CIA informed the Congress about Russian interference with the election. McConnell objected to declassifying the information & making it public, claiming bipartisanship issues.
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