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Jared Yates Sexton
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It feels so much better knowing Paul Ryan isn’t a part of the government. Like, so much better.
History is going to be incredibly unkind to Ryan, who’ll be judged for his cruelty and capitulation to Trump. He’ll be the face of a Republican Party that sold out completely and still failed to achieve.
Ryan will be held as the main figure in Randian thinking who pushed the scam so far it couldn’t be hidden. Couldn’t happen to a more contemptible figure.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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Following the disastrous shutdown so many stories will focus on whether Trump won or lost, but in a functioning society we would be focusing on the personal hardships it caused, the loss of faith, the senseless endangerment in every measure from security to safety.
That gamesmanship mentality ensures that each side can declare victory while the actual people who suffered, and continue to suffer despite the reopening, are turned into hostages that can be used as bargaining chips as the political calendar continues.
When you really look at it and examine this system of pageantry and game theory, it’s not just dehumanizing, it’s unbekievably dangerous to the people affected and poisonous to the health of a society. This is literally killing people and ruining lives.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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Just a reminder that Hillbilly Elegy is right-wing propagandist garbage disguised as a rags to riches story.
For those interested: “Hillbilly Sell-Out.”

salon.com/2017/03/11/hil…
Hillbilly Elegy was written from a extremely conservative point of view but was trumpeted by media as a quick “Impoverished, Rural America For Dummies” as Trump gained steam. The list of garbage in that book is exhausting.
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Jared Yates Sexton
@JYSexton
People I’ve been talking to this morning are convinced, following the arrest of Roger Stone, the air traffic chaos, and turning tide of public opinion, that Trump will be declaring a national emergency to secure funding for a wall and also to change the conversation.
These are Democrats and Republicans. There’s no evidence either way, but the developing consensus of opinion is that this is about to go down.
A few believe Trump will reopen the government while keeping the wall debate as a consistent cudgel in the lead up to the 2020 Election. That route could use a short-term solution that relieves economic stress on workers and system.
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Ajay
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#History/#Art thread – From my recent trip to Madurai/Tirunelveli. On Jain sites (some with a rich history dating back to at least the 3rd cent. BCE), early Pandyan rock-cut cave temples (7th-8th cent. CE) & the amazing Vettuvan koil.

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Steven Dennis
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Paul Ryan became Speaker of the House weeks after fiscal year 2015 ended with a deficit of $439 billion.

Trump OMB deficit projection this year: $890 billion.

Next year: $1,085 billion.
Big factors in this deficit hike:
Paul Ryan/McConnell gave up on revenue-neutral tax cuts.
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Ryan and McConnell have repeatedly proposed to trim entitlements. I've covered Ryan plans to trim Medicare, Medicaid etc for over a decade.
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Paul Ryan is siding Devin Nunes’ campaign to interfere Mueller.

10/2017, Russian & Trump operative Cater Page was on w @chrislhayes

Page says @SpeakerRyan is going to release info about FISA warrant & undermine that warrant w a connection to the dossier
And that's what happened. Paul Ryan supported Devin Nunes in regard to the "release the memo" nonsense. And now Ryan continues to support the Nunes' sabotage to the Mueller investigation.

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Paul Ryan is lowkey the most cynical politician in Washington
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Greg Olear
@gregolear
Let's talk about Paul Ryan.

BLUF: @SpeakerRyan is complicit in #TrumpRussia.

To what extent remains to be seen, but he is, at best, an accessory to obstruction of justice by his refusal to remove @DevinNunes from the House intel committee.

At best.

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I like to keep my focus on #TrumpRussia, but allow me a few comments about Paul Ryan.

First, there is a narrative that he is a "policy wonk," possessed of the keen intellect necessary to give heft to the GOP tax plan. William Buckley 2.0 or somesuch.

This is preposterous.
2/
 In fact, Paul Ryan is kind of a dope.

Let me furnish a few examples.
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Paul Ryan was not born. His parents found him in their house one morning, tiny and wrinkled and shivering in a corner, weeping and sucking for comfort on the coins that so recently had covered his eyes.
Paul Ryan did not have a childhood. Until he demanded one. But that was a hard gift to give, and they put one after another before his sharp eyes, and in the end he chose one belonging to a small girl. “Mine,” he said, as she wept.
Paul Ryan did not go to school. His mother said (with an odd smile) that she wanted to spend more time with him. But that was after he’d gone to school for one day, and returned with his eyes far too blue.
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