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Data Analyst. Works in business of losing elections. All I know is none of this was my fault. Passively seeking something else to talk about besides politics.

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · Dec 18

Comer literally goes on to say “well it would be a problem if” and then lists several things THAT TRUMP HAS DONE IN THE PAST. And tried to keep secret.

Jesus Christ these people are like if the psychological concept of hypocrisy became a real person and put on a suit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 18

CNN: You are chairman of the Oversight Committee. Do you think Trump should divest from his business interests?

COMER: Well, I think he's been transparent

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 2h

That would be “murdering civilians under false pretenses” so maybe don’t do that please.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 2h

DHS was created as a response to 9/11 and it’s pretty clear that Noem has no idea what she’s doing, so she’s pretending like Antifa is just some new form of ISIS in order to look busy.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 5h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 3h

It’s really amazing that people continue to willingly throw away every ounce of morality, decency, and pride for this lazy man that simply does not give a fuck about anyone other than himself.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump is fighting for his life to stay awake during Andy Ngo's speech

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 3h

CNN: “Yes master, we’ll call it the Department of War and Gulf of America, anything you desire.”

Trump: *farting himself awake* “Hmm? CNN? I hate you and everything you stand for.” *falls asleep*

CNN: *turning away with a tear in its eye* “They say we hurt the ones we love. Someday he’ll see me.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "CNN is dying like a dog."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

feels like it should be a big deal that the president is directing the invasion of american cities based on what are almost certainly AI videos shown to him by his staff

maybe one of our ostensible news organizations could track down exactly what it is that he's seeing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 3h

Spoiler alert: The guy who brought the prop is the one that made it fit the narrative he wanted to sell.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 3h

If they’re not showing him AI videos they’re just showing him random scenes of riots and telling him it’s Portland.

This man is not capable of taking care of himself. I’m not concerned for him as a person, but it does mean we don’t have an elected head of state right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 3h

Nobel Peace Prize is announced on Friday.

Better hurry and sign off on that tweet so everyone can blather about how Trump doing literally nothing created world peace.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats should go on TV to say they need to impeach Trump because of the cocaine-fueled pedophilia parties that he holds in the East Room of the White House with his friends in MS-13.

I mean, if he gets to lie shamelessly, why not them?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 4h

There’s no proof of this, compelling or otherwise because it did not happen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 5h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 4h

It’s the January 6th investigation.

Yes, it was far, far, FAR, worse than Watergate, but not for the reasons this dusty ass hack is talking about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Chuck Grassley tells Bondi "Arctic Frost" (whatever that is) was "worse than Watergate"

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 6h

Oh I didn’t know we could just say things and make them true.

Ok, here goes:

Donald Trump is a literal traitor and Russian spy.

He raped children on Epstein’s island and also was Jeffrey’s business partner.

He is a convicted felon and has committed many other crimes for which he escaped justice.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump: Everything we're doing is very lawful and what they're doing is not lawful.

And what the governor and mayor, as an example, you can say of Portland and certainly of Chicago, it's not lawful what they're doing. They have to be very careful.

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 6h

Democrats aren’t dragging children out into the street at night to zip tie them together.

Democrats aren’t blowing up boats full of civilians.

Democrats aren’t terrorizing major cities that didn’t vote for them.

Trump can fuck himself and so can everyone who supports him.

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 6h

Could someone who understands the economy better than me please explain what sort of drugs the executives are smoking that has convinced them that now continues to be a good time for across the board price hikes?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Disney's Inspire Key Pass .. its highest-tier .. now costs $1,899, and the Believe Key costs $1,474.”

@cbsnews.com $DIS
www.cbsnews.com/news/disney-...

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 6h

70% of Republicans do not think “the” President should be able to send troops into a city even if the Governor objects.

They think “their” President should be able to do so.

No chance the numbers are that high if Biden or Harris were the ones proposing it.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Obviously there is minority support for Trump here...but this is also shockingly low opposition for the idea that the President can turn the military on American cities on a whim.

70% of Republicans think the President should be able to send troops into a city even if the Governor objects!

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 7h

58% of Americans - including half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a @reuters.com poll found.

www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"To the extent Republicans have managed to settle on a single talking point, it’s that Dems want taxpayer $ to pay for healthcare for undocumented people — a lie so egregious even the mainstream media is balking at repeating it. It’s almost self-parodic messaging & polling suggests it’s not working"

Democrats are winning the shutdown

Republicans, meanwhile, are bumbling and stumbling.

www.publicnotice.co

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

Donald Trump is calling for the jailing of his political opponents in Chicago. His DOJ lackeys have already indicted a NJ Congresswoman for conducting ICE facility oversight and James Comey. John Bolton's house was raided.

We must treat these latest threats seriously and all stand up against them.

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 7h

I’m actually fine with a Democrat saying she doesn’t need to appeal to Trump voters. Because the Republicans don’t give a shit anymore what we want, why should we coddle them?

Is that the issue here? Or is it because she awkwardly ended the interview when the reporter wouldn’t let it go?

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 7h

She should quit the race and think about how her violent political rhetoric affects the constituents she’s completely unfit to lead.

The entire GOP should condemn this and turn the temperature down.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in a 2022 interview warned supporters of reproductive rights that "one day it’s going to be your turn."

"Murder is murder. And one day it's going to be your turn."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

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