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Charlie Sykes
@SykesCharlie
Host, Bulwark Podcast; author, “Morning Shots” newsletter; Contributor, MSNBC; Author, "How the Right Lost Its Mind" Email: cjaysykes@gmail.com
Milwaukee, WIthebulwark.comJoined December 2009

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Pence constantly ignoring female moderator and interrupting female opponent, is a brilliant strategy for winning back women voters. Genius.
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In re: Romney. His vote won't change the outcome, but it's striking how one man alone can dramatically change the mood, the tone, and the moral character of this final vote....
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Before TrumpWorld tries to memory-hole this... a Thread --> January 22: Trump: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” February 2: Trump: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
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Well, some personal news: just became a grandpa... again. First girl! Mom, dad, granddaughter all doing well...Charlotte is 6 lbs 10 oz... 19”...waiting on pictures. 🥳
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My best buddy and constant companion passed away last night. Pete was 17 1/2 years old. He had a great run. And many bonus years. I was lucky enough to be able to hold him in his last moments.
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Pete 2005-2022 Yesterday Pete had a sausage biscuit; spent a day in the sunshine with his brothers; got lots of love; and ate roast chicken for dinner. He died suddenly less than an hour later in his Daddy’s arms. He was 17. I think the best tribute is just one word: PETE! ❤️
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This should be career ending
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Replying to @ddale8
A 2006 bill to require nursing homes to have backup generators was killed by the FL Senate after industry lobbying: tampabay.com/news/politics/
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Prominent GOPer just texted: “If the CEO of a company announced major initiatives or changes for the company and got three main points wrong, the board of directors would rightly question what the hell is going on.”
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Aged badly. As in horrifically badly.
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“I believe that the president has learned from this case...The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson. I’m voting to acquit...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future.” - Susan Collins What does @SenatorCollins have to say about Roger Stone?
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In Miami. Walked into restaurant...picked up at least 5 different languages being spoken. Did not think “we are losing the country.” Thought: dam this country is great ....
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How about this for a modest proposal: channeling Reagan and the air traffic controllers… Revoke the licenses and permits for any trucker engaged in this illegal stoppage?
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Well, this is awkward
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—@PaulaReidCBS to Pence: "It really does sound like you're saying, 'Do as we say, not as we do.' You're telling people to listen to local officials, but in Tulsa you defied local health officials...How can you say that the campaign is not part of the problem?"
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Maybe Barr really is angry. Perhaps his institutionalist instincts really did finally kick in... the vestiges of his conscience stirred... and dammit, he just had to take a stand for the rule of the law. Maybe. Or maybe he was just annoyed that Trump was giving away the game.
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His first week in office: Biden should bestow the Medal of Freedom on Alexander Vindman.
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NEW: Trump is expected to give Rep. Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — on Monday, and to give the same award to Rep. Jim Jordan next week. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/
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Prediction: The MAGAverse and media satellites will: (1) Vigorously oppose all of Biden's pandemic mitigation efforts in re: social distancing, masks, lockdowns. AND *SIMULTANEOUSLY* (2) Blame Biden for all COVID deaths that take place after noon on January 20. Bookmark this
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This was not Kaitlin Collins’ fault. The format was impossible and CNN’s bosses should have known that. Chris Licht is rapidly becoming the Elon Musk of CNN…
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Just when we thought I couldn’t possibly get worse. We are about to see one of the ugliest political fights of our lifetime. It will leave scars.
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"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." -- Ulysses S. Grant
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There was a time when GOpers like Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Jeff Flake, even Reince would have denounced this kind of racism. Who will speak out now? Will any elected Republican push back?
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....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....
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Whoa.
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"Here's the truth. The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election," President Biden says. "Because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. He can't accept he lost."
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Turns out the Red Wave is just ketchup on the walls at Mar-a-Lago.
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“Trump is livid” and “screaming at everyone,” after last night’s disappointing midterm results for GOP, according to a Trump adviser. The adviser went on to slam the former president’s handpicked contenders: “they were all bad candidates.” “Candidates matter,” the adviser said.
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"This is what struck me most during my conversation: she is young, with a long career ahead of her, and she was willing to put it all on the line...Olivia Troye, with much more to lose...had much more courage than all of them."
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"If kneeling during the national anthem is disrespectful about the troops, what is ignoring intelligence that our troops are being hunted for money, sent to them from the Kremlin?”-
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I interviewed Paul Ryan and Ron Johnson dozens (100s?) of times about the danger posed by the national debt. Really disconcerting to watch them now embrace bill that will add $1 trillion or more to that debt
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