Barr continues: "You may want Trump's policies, but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He will deliver chaos, and if anything lead to a backlash that will set his own policies back."
This is the most accurate assessment of Trump's effectiveness I've ever heard.
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Bill Barr: "If you believe in his policies, he's the last person who could actually execute and achieve them. He does not have the discipline... or linear thinking... to get things done... It's a horror show when he's left to his own devices."
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.: E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyers Cleverly Undermine Trump’s ‘Locker Room Talk’ Defense to the Access Hollywood Tape
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Not sure hypocrisy matters to anyone prosecuting these attacks on Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito & Roberts. For those whose objective is to delegitimize the court to prep the beaches for court packing, sacrificing Sotomayor's reputation in that pursuit is probably a necessary tradeoff.
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Harlan Crow did not have any business before the court so his relationship w Thomas has nothing to do with Thomas’ role as a Justice. Meanwhile, Random House paid Sonia Sotomayor millions and had a case before the court that she participated in after they did so. Rather telling… Show more
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This is a complete beat down, which is not an easy thing to do when facing pointed questions from a dishonest Senator like Whitehouse.
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.@SenWhitehouse is attacking me for being too... competent? This attack was old in 2014 and it's old today. Unlike you, I have worked for everything that I have and did not have the privilege and fortune of grandparents who owned a gas company.
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I think you can make a case for Sotomayor not needing to recuse, but this is far worse than at least half a dozen of the recent major media stories targeting conservative justices and those same outlets have 0 interest in it.
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Liberal SCOTUS Justice Took $3M From Book Publisher, Didn’t Recuse From Its Cases dailywire.com/news/liberal-s
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Vox informs us that embryos may feel pain and this is an ethical issue (in chickens) vox.com/future-perfect ht:
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New: TikTok suspended the account of the Acton Institute after the libertarian think tank promoted multiple videos about Hong Kong pro-democracy icon Jimmy Lai and the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in the city.
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Whoever did this, they cannot have seriously imagined that they were going to assassinate Putin this way.
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I’ve honestly seen more potential for injury in Warhammer 40k tabletop games between ectomorphic 11 year olds. twitter.com/francis_scarr/…
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Ukraine denies involvement in drone attack on Kremlin; suggests likely false flag operation to give Putin excuse to carry out even greater attacks against Ukraine to rally domestic Russian support for the war. Blinken says take anything g Kremlin says with “large shaker of salt.”
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As for the drones over the Kremlin. It’s all predictable... Russia is clearly preparing a large-scale terrorist attack. That's why it first detains a large allegedly subversive group in Crimea. And then it demonstrates "drones over the Kremlin". First of all, Ukraine wages an… Show more
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Ahead of GOP presidential primary debate and RNC in Milwaukee, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos today on Trump: "I hope that Donald Trump is a bystander, not the person at the center of the stage, and I'm going to do whatever I can to make that happen."
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WSJ floats some other possible reasons:
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Carlson was miffed when Fox lawyers managed to redact a message in which he called a top network executive the c-word -- he wanted to world to know what he thought of her. Inside his fall from Fox by @keachhagey @JBFlint @thesimonetti wsj.com/articles/tucke
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According to Gabe Sherman’s anonymous source, Tucker
was fired for being a brave Christian soldier who said people “might” consider praying 10 minutes a day.
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Trump is now attacking his own pollster, poor Tony Fabrizio, for conducting the poll for the Wall Street Journal that found Trump LOSING to Biden ... and DeSantis BEATING Biden. nationalreview.com/corner/trumps-
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Trump on 2016 debate stage: "What Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say that that’s okay, and Hillary can say that that’s okay, but that’s not okay with me"
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In 2016, Trump promised to sign “into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide.”
He backed the 20-week bill as president when GOP almost unanimously supported it, as did three Dem senators. nationalreview.com/2023/04/trump-
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NEW WSJ Republican primary poll:
Trump 51
DeSantis 38
IN DECEMBER 2022:
DeSantis 52
Trump 38
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Look at the replies to understand how delusional some Trump fans have become. They are calling this poll, conducted by Trump’s own 2016 pollster (Tony Fabrizio), fake in the replies. But then citing same poll’s primary numbers elsewhere bc those show Trump winning a primary.
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You mean the small presence attached to U.S. personnel working at the American embassy in Kyiv the Pentagon disclosed in November? What's this "we" stuff? nationalreview.com/2023/04/pentag
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J.D. Vance at Heritage "We're learning that maybe apparently America already has troops on the ground in Ukraine."
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Btw one thing I always hear is people blaming Trump's unpopularity on the bad press. But press and Dems spent months pretending Kemp was passing Jim Crow 2.0. He's +30 in a competitive state. They have spent 2 years smearing "DeathSantis". He won by 20. Maybe it's just Trump??
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In a state that Trump lost in 2020 and Trump’s Senate picks have lost 3 straight races.
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Governor Brian Kemp:
- banned critical race theory
- open carry
- Signed 6 week abortion ban into law
Georgia - do you approve or disapprove of the job Gov. Kemp is doing?
Morning Consult: 60/33 (net +27)
AJC: 62/30 (net +32)
Both approval ratings are record highs.
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A real ad that aired on Fox on January 5, 2021:
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$787 million is more than half of Fox's net income from the most recent fiscal year. This will not cause Fox to shut down, but it also is not a minor cost of doing business. It is serious money.
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If you are a current GOP member of congress, you did just fine when Trump was (losing!) on the ballot, and/or when he was a wet blanket on a weak midterm cycle. There is no personal risk to casting your lot with him, and no penalty if/when the time comes to make amends with RDS.
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"Despite the desire for new blood at the top of the ticket, Hill Republicans still prioritize avoiding Trump's anger."
That's it. The average congresscritter is a spineless weasel who'll take the path of least resistance. Which endorsing Trump is. politico.com/news/2023/04/1
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If only there were buildings to house consistent and repetitive lawbreakers.
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Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times. nyti.ms/3UE1kJL
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What's not getting a lot of attention is that not only does Florida's new bill protect the unborn at six weeks, it also expands coverage for postpartum moms in Medicaid and increases state funding for the Pregnancy Care Network from $4m to $25m. A major win.
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FIGHTING FOR LIFE: DeSantis Signs Heartbeat Protection Act, Says Florida a ‘Pro-Family’ State trib.al/wYW6OBs
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Wow. The dumb Trump Pac pudding ad was apparently a stolen idea from the president of the Media Matters Dem Super PAC:
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New ad from Trump's MAGA, Inc. PAC goes straight at Ron DeSantis from the left on safety net benefits.
"DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements — like cutting Medicare, slashing Social Security, even raising our retirement age."
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Susan and I have concluded, after much consideration and prayer, that I will not present myself as a candidate to become President of the United States in the 2024 election.
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"I want to say that I am not losing hope. I read. I exercise. And I am trying to write. Maybe, finally, I am going to write something good"
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This is an important point. Good, competent pro-life governors have done very well. Pro-life policies are not electoral suicide when they're tied to solid public policy and good governance. Yes, there are challenges, but they're surmountable if you make the case and govern well.
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Kemp, after signing 6-week limit, won by 8 points in a state Trump lost.
Ohio gov DeWine signed a 6-week limit and won by 25 points in a state Trump carried by 8 points.
Same story with Iowa gov Kim Reynolds, who won by 19 in a state Trump won by 8.
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"Yes, abortion played a role in the GOP’s slimmer-than-expected House majority. But House Republicans still won the national popular vote by three percentage points — right about where polling showed them before the Dobbs opinion was leaked." nationalreview.com/2023/04/the-cr
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"Herschel Walker ran far behind pro-life House Republicans and the pro-life Republican governor not because of abortion policy but because of his character and temperament." nationalreview.com/2023/04/the-cr
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"Republicans would have won the Senate, and fairly decisively, if only the likes of Dr. Mehmet Oz or Herschel Walker had fared as well as [pro-life] Republican House candidates on the same ballot." nytimes.com/2022/12/13/ups
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Once you let truly evil people into your movement, they control the movement. They know they have a space where they can preach their filth, & they attract others. Conversely, they drive out anyone with a sense of moral goodness. You can never make a tactical alliance with evil.
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My review of a new biography of William F. Buckley Sr.
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It’s quite something to see the backers of Joe Kent and other toxic Trumpy candidates argue Republicans must abandon the pro-life cause for the sake of electability.
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A 15-week limit polls well but can become toxic if hospitals misinterpret or misapply the exceptions.
Most critical thing for DeSantis and other pro-life officials is to ensure hospitals provide the proper standard of care.
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The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration is just one potential avenue of ending this problem. nationalreview.com/2023/04/what-f
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At issue in Wisconsin was a ban throughout pregnancy with no exception for rape.
Florida’s 6-week limit has exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities, and the life and physical health of the mother.
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