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Sep 19, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This morning Dems were all talking publicly about doing away with the filibuster, adding 2 more justices, 2 more states, and 4 Dem senators. But now “muh norms” is back. Life comes at you fast.
This was the stated plan this morning before unfortunate RBG news:
In other words, the threat of Dems threatening to burn everything down would be more compelling if that wasn’t their plan regardless.

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Nov 5, 2025
A few issues with nixing the filibuster beyond the obvious:
1. Rs generally like this country. The conserving part of conservative generally means a preservation of it in a way that doesn’t lend itself to a ton of wild legislative reforms.
As evidenced by the Big Beauty, most (certainly not all) of the partisan policy changes Rs want to make can be accomplished through reconciliation. It’s an advantage in the current system.
Conversely, today’s Democrats largely believe our country is broken and it needs to be remade. Economically. Socially, even structurally. Adding states to the union, packing courts, amnesty, radical environment/energy, basically capitalism itself
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Oct 17, 2025
For those conservatives tweeting out McConnell’s fall today and mocking him - I’ve got some thoughts: if you just started paying attention to politics in the last 4 years I’ll give you grace because you don’t know what the rest of us do.
Time didn’t start yesterday. Conservative principles didn’t just start being challenged in the last 8 years. The threat has been omnipresent. It may not have seemed as dire to some because that man was standing his post when the rest of us were not.
You know why the First Amendment became a litmus test in Republican politics and in the judiciary? It was owned by the Left until McConnell started grilling every candidate, newly elected official, or prospective judge about it. I watched it. He was relentless.
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Oct 13, 2022
I’ve been thinking a lot about the @DashaBurns interview of Fetterman. I’ve been around a little while and it’s just astonishing how the reaction to an interview like that within her profession has changed over the years.
when I first started in politics, a journalist was celebrated within the industry for having the courage to report objective facts that were either omitted by colleagues or covered up entirely
the partisanship of the subject was immaterial. There was a basic integrity that was fostered from one generation to the next about seeking truth regardless of how it impacted the constituency of the outlet.
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Mar 29, 2021
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Here’s how the inquiry works: So they came at me with the same omission of the specific language in the statute that speaks to water being provided at a polling place, as if I’m some idiot who doesn’t do his homework. When I cite their omission all of a sudden the goalposts move.
Then the queries shifted to whether I believed people who were not electioneering would be criminally prosecuted for providing water. I said it was an interesting question but not one I weighed in upon.
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Apr 21, 2020
Thread on one of the most outrageous frameworks for a story you’ll ever see. Garbage story here:
First, you will notice that somehow the “White House, GOP Face Heat” for a program that was passed unanimously. (This newspaper drastically overplayed Pelosi and Schumer’s role in CARES but now they’re nowhere to be found. Do we still need the House to make laws, or no?)
Second - the premise is that hotels and restaurant chains ran the fund dry. Set aside basic understanding of franchise models or how they calculate that employees of some entities as less deserving than others, later in the story they let this slip:
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Jan 22, 2020
Quick thread this AM on yesterday:
If you’ve spent time around the Senate you understand the polarizing effect 10+ entirely partisan, predictable & unnecessary votes (into the wee hours) will have for this trial.
Usually towards the end of major Senate debates, after the minority has exhausted all other options, they begin forcing political votes where the outcome is not in doubt. It’s a unifying action that is a signal the fight is over but they’re going to try to make you pay a price
I’ve never seen a leader successfully reach for that playbook right off the top before a debate has actually begun. It’s particularly strange when they have hopes of persuading a handful of senators to cross party lines at a later stage.
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