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Host, Bulwark Podcast; author, “Morning Shots” newsletter; Contributor, MSNBC; Author, "How the Right Lost Its Mind" Email: cjaysykes@gmail.com
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Perhaps you shouldn't assume that you'll be talking to God.
So, America, perhaps the greatest danger we face is not a caravan 1000 miles away.
Maybe it’s already here.
I’m shocked. And I haven’t been shocked by anything from this White House for a very long time. But this… HOLY F**K.
Pence constantly ignoring female moderator and interrupting female opponent, is a brilliant strategy for winning back women voters. Genius.
“Without Jennifer Jacobs, a dogged Bloomberg reporter who broke the story about Hicks’s illness, the world might still be in the dark about the sickness sweeping through the West Wing and the highest levels of our government. “
As God is my witness I didn't think there was enough kool- aid on the planet for someone to tweet this....
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Hard to imagine any other @POTUS having the guts to walk out of the White House like this: @realDonaldTrump
You were staying at the fucking Ritz Carlton.
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The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, it’s the party of hardworking, blue-collar men and women.
hannity.com/media-room/cru
Why isn’t every prominent Republican saying this ——>
Because it’s all about protecting children and traditional values.
This is amazing.
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WATCH: Dr. Fauci calls out @RandPaul *to his face* for creating a permission structure for armed extremists to target him and his family -- putting their lives at risk.
Fauci brings the receipts -- clearly showing how Paul is fundraising off of his attacks against Fauci
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....
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.”
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. 🥳
Impeach. Send to Senate. On 1/20, DOJ should appoint special counsel ... impanel grand jury. Hold everyone accountable.
Packers v Bucs is NOT OVER.
If only legal points are counted, Packers won by… A lot!
Guarantee you that the Packers will be in the Super Bowl.. #WeAreTheStorm.
Why is the headline here not: TRUMP RAISES POSSIBILITY OF MILITARY COUP?
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Replying to @maggieNYT
During the meeting, the president asked about Flynn’s suggestion of deploying the military, those briefed said. That was also shot down.
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!
Who knew? The My Pillow guy turns out to be a raving lunatic...
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Here's Mike Lindell just now brazenly laying out Trump's last-ditch plan to steal the election
Re-upping this from May: "We should be clear about this. John McCain haunts the Trump White House, not because of his votes or policy disagreements, but because he represents the man that Donald Trump cannot ever be." tws.io/2rK8T4S
Introducing new granddaughter Emily Kay Sykes.
8 lbs 14.5 oz, 20 inches!
Everyone doing great...
Forget the "coverup." It's all happening in plain sight.
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President Trump says he wants both Ukraine and China to investigate Joe Biden and his son cnn.it/2IlhELz
This is the ... and I cannot emphasize this enough ... **FOX NEWS POLL**
My friend Kevin wonders: in the Trump-Bannon divorce, Who gets custody of Sean Hannity?
If my wife had her way, this is what my house would look like when I get home today....
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/
Despite Graham’s compulsive turd-polishing of the last few years, Trump didn’t even consult him before making the decision to abandon the Kurds. Graham was not even in the room. He didn’t even get a text.
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.”
Do it.
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Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown wapo.st/3u5ey56
Conservative attorney group slams Trump's AG: "Bill Barr has grossly mischaracterized and subverted" IG findings
Much, much better.
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Folks, at this point we probably should begin to consider the possibility that the president is insane.
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Replying to @maggieNYT
During the meeting, the president asked about Flynn’s suggestion of deploying the military, those briefed said. That was also shot down.
These numbers... devastating. And, in case I didn't mention it, ts a Fox News poll.
"President Trump and several staff members stood backstage and gazed at the empty Bank of Oklahoma Center in horror."
You know who hates this… Really really hates this, don’t you?
My latest: it’s too late for the GOP to take the off ramp now. They had chance after chance, and passed them all up.
War criminals pardoned.
Whistle-blowers, fired. t.co/jz3jjir8Ca
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Because he’s his son. And he loves him. And he’s not going turn his back on him.
Profoundly gutsy move.
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Why are they putting Hunter Biden on television?
To be clear, he was on stage, campaigning with the President. twitter.com/seanhannity/st
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I’m old enough to remember when it was Republicans who said things like this…
Direct hit by
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A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, “Morning in America”, doing everything possible to....
Worth emphasizing: Steve Bannon bragged that he had turned Breitbart into a "platform for the alt right." He now works at the Trump WH
Fox Anchor Neil Cavuto Tears Apart Trump’s ‘Unsettling’ Sarcasm Claim: He ‘Was Not Joking’
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?
Blue check gone. If you see tweets from me featuring cats, you will know that I have been hacked.
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 ....
This is definitely a parody. Totally unfair and over the top.
Right?
Right? Anybody?
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?
Romney is finding his voice. He deserves major kudos for this... from both parties.
Will the party that accepted the Access Hollywood president draw the line at Roy Moore and a 14-year-old girl?
Best dog ever. We are mourning loss (very sudden) of our big boy...
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?"
PSA: Trump’s Twitter feed is extra-deranged tonight.
Theories?
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.
I rate this: True
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President Trump: “Foreign nations looking at us — they honestly think we’re nuts!”
And you other GOP senators? Anyone? Anyone?
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Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
Seriously, this woman should not be on television. She should not be doing this. There is no upside.
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/
Oh FFS , choose a lane, will you?
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Strong speech by President Trump about the winning policies of his administration and what the party needs to unite behind moving forward. The liberal media wants a GOP civil war. Not gonna happen.
Trump loses again. Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against Trump 4-3... decision.
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.
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Today was the day in the MAGAverse when the truly deranged turned on the merely demented.
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…
But thank God that at a moment like this, he can rely on his brain trust of Jared, Ivanka, Judge Jeanine, Charlie Kirk, Jeanine Pirro, and Sean Hannity ...
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This would be a great moment to have a non-pathological commander-in-chief.
The smell of panic in the morning
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CNN Polls are as Fake as their Reporting. Same numbers, and worse, against Crooked Hillary. The Dems would destroy America!
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.
Serious question. What is the earliest respectable time I can start drinking bourbon tomorrow.
Asking for friend. Strictly theoretical
What an absolute embarrassment
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Adam Schiff is hailing Alexander Vindman as an American patriot.
How patriotic is it to badmouth and ridicule our great nation in front of Russia, America’s greatest enemy?
In 1980 it was; "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?"
In 2020, it will be "Can you take another 4 years of this?"
Thank goodness General Kelly took control and turned things around.
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Trump's week
✓Threatened nuclear war.
✓Threatened Venezuela.
✓Thanked Putin for expelling US diplomats.
✓"Many sides" after neo-Nazi murder.
Always, always, always a tweet.
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Repubs must not allow Pres Obama to subvert the Constitution of the US for his own benefit & because he is unable to negotiate w/ Congress.
In contrast with Trump, Biden is pretty boring. And I am sooooo there for it.
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Just imagine turning on the TV, seeing your president, and feeling your blood pressure go down instead of up.
"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
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....
Whoa.
"We are supposed to be a nation of laws, not executive orders " --Every conservative once upon a time
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.
"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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President Erdogan says he will refuse to meet with VP Pence, who is due to travel to Turkey to argue for a ceasefire in the ongoing Syria conflict. nbcnews.to/2MKDv0r
This Seb Gorka video is not a parody. Really.
Seriously.
"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?”-
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
Still kind of amazing that this hasn't gotten more attention/coverage.
I mean, *they put it in writing* ...
"Sources said Gaetz was part of a group of young male lawmakers who created a "game" to score their female sexual conquests, which granted "points" for various targets such as interns, staffers or other female colleagues"
abcn.ws/2QOWn3Z via
Let’s be clear here. The president is tweeting about Civil War. In a Civil War, Americans would be killing one another.