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Apropos of absolutely nothing, the least-discussed major political event of the last decade is probably the GOP's decision to cynically and despicably exploit Ebola fears to win the 2014 elections, an effort led by Donald Trump and aided by press coverage. mediamatters.org/msnbc/report-e…
This is an "if a Democrat was president" hypothetical where we absolutely know what would happen because it already did, with massive consequences that continue to play out.
Anyway it is good for America that everyone at Fox News is too much of a sycophant and hypocrite to do the sort of "why won't the president DO SOMETHING" coverage that would lead him to panic and do something bad.
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Matthew Gertz
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OH COME ON
Tweet deleted and fixed, which means we won’t be treated to seeing reporters ask the Republican senators from Kansas and Missouri whether the Chiefs play in their state.
Oh my god
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Matthew Gertz
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I feel like the people saying “red pill because I’d use my knowledge of history to make way more than $10 million” arent considering the psychological cost of a reverse Big scenario. Being a child with the knowledge and memories of an adult would probably be pretty traumatic!
Imagine meeting someone and knowing you are supposed to become best friends but he’s a child and you can’t relate to him at all. And that’s the way things are for more than a decade.
Here’s another one: Let’s say you somehow manage to overcome foreknowledge and marry the same person. There’s no chance you end up with the same children — something will shift the second time around — but you’ll remember the ones you had in your past life.
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Matthew Gertz
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Jeanine Pirro interviews people professionally for a major cable news network.

Every question she asks is like this.

Anyone who thinks Roger Ailes was a talent-spotting genius should be forced to watch this awful show.
She just... doesn't know anything?
Alright I'm done for the night, thanks for sharing my pain tonight.
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Apropos of absolutely nothing, I think it's important to note:

Incrementalist bipartisan solutions might once have been adequate. Now they are dangerous and counterproductive and inappropriate to our present situation.

People who realize this are going to keep saying this.
We are an airplane in freefall.

We have a group in power who would like us to crash into the ground and are in fact working to accelerate the crash.

We need everyone to recognize the emergency of this.

A partnership deal with the pro-crash group doesn't do that.
Any plan that the pro-crash group will agree to involves a crash.

We need to get the controls back. We do this by announcing our intentions to not crash.

An agreement to crash at a 65 degree angle and only 500 mph is not helpful.
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@davidfrum @TheAtlantic You of all people should recognize that this entire story is a propaganda piece being used by the President & his alt-reich pals to create a kind of xenophobic fury in order to get more votes for the midterms. There’s a discussion re enforcement but this is a false narrative.
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