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Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Really odd video if you've lived in DC. Even pre-covid, the area between the Archives/Navy stop and the start of Penn Quarter restaurants (about a block north of this spot) was dead on Sunday nights.
If he'd walked a block he could have gone to Oyamel. The decline of busting outdoor foot traffic is real, but this is a truly odd place to focus on, it's always been a Robert Kirkman script on Sunday evening. Image
None of this is to say DC has bounced back to 2019 levels of foot traffic/commerce. You could film the tens outside Union Station, you could set up a camera during the non-bustling downtown lunch hour. I was just amused at the decision to pick this classic dead zone.
*tents outside Union Station

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Feb 9
Interesting @MattGertz (R-Fla) look at Fox News mostly ignoring the RNC's "legitimate political discourse" mess, the kind of party own-goal that usually gets coverage. Ignore it long enough and the question becomes: Why is the MSM covering this non-story? mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Fox News's website hasn't covered the controversy at all; the lead story on the site rn is an aggregation of an Axios interview with Rep. Cori Bush, a BLM activist-turned-politician who says she still uses the "defund the police" slogan. Image
News judgment can be subjective, but the Cori Bush thing is just a left-wing Democrat reaffirming one of her left-wing takes. The RNC story is much more interesting, not just the disarray but the weird way that language got inserted into the resolution and passed.
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Feb 8
The strangely opaque RNC process created problems for them here. The resolution doesn't even mention anything that happened on Jan. 6, just the Jan. 6 committee, saying Chenzinger are hurting the party by participating. Image
It's too clever by half, so the reference to "citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse" isn't explained. Rs say they mean stuff like subpoenas for fake electors, but the resolution didn't include any CYA language.
You know how Democrats refer to "the civil rights protests of 2020" and Republicans say "you're making excuses for the riots?" Yeah, well, they walked themselves right into the same rhetorical trap.
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Jan 30
MTG campaigning for JD Vance. Her first big applause: Asking the crowd if we’ve heard about “those truckers in Canada.” Image
MTG says she talked to Trump on the way into this event, and asks us if we heard what he said about Jan. 6 defendants.

“He told them he’s going to make sure they’re treated right, and he wants to pardon them," she says, to applause.
Vance and Greene doing a joint Q&A. Will Vance vote against McConnell for leader? He won’t “commit” to it and will listen to the people. Image
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Dec 1, 2021
Very good chance of Roe being overturned in June, and decent chance of a SCOTUS opening right after that with Biden nominating a Black female judge.
Both of those would be huge events that occupy lots of news cycles - fate of Roe with bigger long-term effects, obviously.

It's stuff like this that makes me think 2024 speculation *in 2021* is crazy and (mostly) a waste of time.
(It's not a waste of time to track what party operatives are saying and who's working for who, but miss me with the "could Kamala be replaced by Buttigieg" stuff)
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Nov 7, 2021
Made my share of mistakes online, but my reaction to the Steele/dossier stuff was not one of them.
Searched what I tweeted in 2017 about "dossier" and lol
I think at the time I was noticing MSNBC chyrons about this and saying "oh come on."
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Nov 2, 2021
The primary in #FL20 so far: Early mail votes from Broward County (about 3/4 of population) are 29% Holness, 21% Cherfilus-McCormick, Thurston and Sharief at 19%.

Promising for Cherfilus-McCormick, only one of them who isn't a Broward elected. enr.electionsfl.org/BRO/3098/Summa…
Omari Hardy, a young rising star who hoped to be the AOC of Florida, is a non-factor: 3% of the Broward vote. sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/…
And sure enough, Cherfilus-McCormick leads the PBC early vote: 29% with Holness getting just 7%.

Had Hastings retired in 2020, he could have anointed a successor. But he stuck around, died, and left an opening for Cherfilus-McCormick, who ran against him twice.
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