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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
CBS's Stephen Colbert proposes the Senate be eliminated if the filibuster can't be axed b/c "[i]t is the most anti-Democratic institution next to the judiciary b/c [it's]...the way it is b/c the Senate is the way it is...I cannot understand what...positive purpose [it] provides"
Colbert doubling down a few moments later: "It's an anti-democratic institution. That’s just it. 41 million Americans are represented — more are by — by your side than the Republicans and, yet, they could get one more vote."
*"I don’t understand what possible, positive purpose the United States Senate provides right now."
Check out my full write-up of this three-segment monstrosity (as well as Warren on 'CBS Mornings') over at @NewsBusters newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curti…

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.@LeaderMcConnell: Biden "delivered a deliberately divisive speech that was designed to pull our country further apart...He compared...a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. How profoundly, profoundly unpresidential...I did not recognize the man at the podium[.]"
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Jan 11
Ah, yes. Here we go with the liberal media celebrating and trying to normalize pedophilia.

That's right, folks. @USAToday, trying to destigmatize...grown adults having sex with little kids
You see, according to USA Today and at least some on the left, it's actually something you're just "born with" and thus you can't help but want to have sex with kindergartners.
Truly demonic. Here's USA Today arguing that pedophilia shouldn't be seen as something that's a scarlet letter, especially if you're attracted to little kids but you *haven't* acted on your impulses.
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.@RandPaul to Fauci: "[T]he idea that a government official like yourself would claim unilaterally to represent science and that any criticism of you would be considered a criticism of science itself is quite dangerous...It is cheap politics & it is reprehensible."
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.@PhilipWegmann to Psaki: "Not long ago in this room, the surgeon general told us that Covid misinformation was a public health threat. I'm wondering if the White House is at all concerned given Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's remarks about the omicron variant..."
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DOOCY TIME: "I heard the President say, 'Google Covid tests near me.' So, somebody isolating with Covid, I did that, and the appointments everywhere were completely jammed. So, why is it you guys were so unprepared for the need for testing after the holidays?"
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Psaki: I think I gave an update...We'll have tests..in the coming wks
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Cheney says it's to "prevent an attack...from ever happening again."
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