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From January:

"What’s the point of accumulating all that coin if you don’t even enjoy it? When James Rothschild became obscenely wealthy in the 19th century, he bought Château Lafite, the best vineyard in the world; #Romney doesn’t even drink coffee."

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"The Spanish Armada could sail through the gap between 'more awful than Ted Cruz' and 'awful.' That is the space in which the milquetoast Senator from Utah has located himself, now and always. It should be etched on his tombstone: 'Mitt Romney: He wasn’t as awful as Ted Cruz.'”
"As if his complete ignorance of how most Americans live were not enough, the key plank in his platform is to cut taxes on the rich & to pay for the loss in revenue by gutting welfare programs. #Romney might as well call himself Dooh Nibor, because he’s Robin Hood in reverse."

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Trapper Keepers: Raiders of the Lost Binder

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This was less than a week after Trump’s second impeachment—just 13 days after his MAGA horde besieged the Capitol in a failed attempt to thwart the peaceful transition of power.
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Elaborating on #DebateNight thoughts that I shared on last night's Five 8 show.

[THREAD] Image
1/ Why the Dem freakout after the debate? We are all traumatized by 2016, and Biden's performance in the debate triggered our collective trauma. "No! Not again!" Hence the panic.
2/ Where does the panic come from? Is it fear that Joe can't do the job? No. Because we know he can. He's done it for 3.5 years at the highest possible level. The government is in good hands with Joe/Kamala. No worries there. None.
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Alito's comments here are similar to remarks made by Rev. C. John McCloskey, Opus Dei priest and spiritual godfather to the Catholic extremist Leonard Leo cabal, to Charles Pierce 21 years ago. He, too, regarded the so-called culture wars as a Manichean struggle.

[THREAD]
"Do I think it’s possible for someone who believes in the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of life...to choose to survive w/ people who think it’s OK to kill women & children or for—quote—homosexual cpls to exist and be recognized? No, I don’t think that’s possible,” he said.
"But, unfortunately, in the past, these types of things have tended to end this way. If American Catholics feel that’s troubling, let them. I don’t feel it’s troubling at all.”

The Pierce article:
archive.boston.com/news/globe/mag…
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Let's talk about the #RoughBeast who is the presumptive GOP nominee for president, Donald Trump.

[THREAD, old school] Image
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🧵on #Project2025

I. The “Cowboy Catholic”

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[THREAD] Image
2/ Roberts has a winsome smile, a PhD in U.S. history, a background in academia, & a well-earned reputation as a nice guy. Who could have imagined that this bright, friendly Gen Xer would be leading a Christian conservative counter-reformation—a crusade to end American democracy?
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2/ He insists that choosing Putin’s dictatorship over Zelensky’s democracy is a no-brainer because of “energy reserves.” This is either breathtaking ignorance of the region’s history or straight-up Kremlin propaganda. Or, I suppose, both.
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