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Eric Owens
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Once in conservative media before it went insane. Also once a foreign service officer and an attorney. My passion is S. 230. ericowensdc@gmail.com
Chicago ILJoined September 2012
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Trump tried to call Josh Hawley six times before January 6, call logs reveal
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i was 13 this man is 36
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IT'S HAPPENING!
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John Bolton announces he WILL run for the White House in 2024 against former boss Donald Trump trib.al/6h95JXc
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boy in college we woulda had money on the floor and wasted a whole night and missed the club on some shit like this
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This is the most “Dudes Rock” thing I’ve seen in quite a while
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Gd this is a top notch shitpost
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We never had to deal with this much chaos when George Santos was Speaker.
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Why don't all the Democrats and, say, 30 Republicans agree to vote for one of the 30 Republicans (or a 31st Republican)?
It must be a dumb idea. I don't know what I don't know. But can someone please explain?
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after 15 attempts they are legally allowed to leave
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To the remaining sane Republicans who still exist:
Read Burke!
"When bad men combine, the good must associate, else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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So 20 extremists hold up McCarthy, who's already committed to many irresponsible things, and blackmail him to be even more irresponsible. But there aren't five sane Republican members who are willing to say, we're not sticking with a speaker candidate who signs on to those terms?
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I remember when people read my book about expertise and rationality, and tried to sell me on this guy as a kindred spirit.
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Jordan Peterson has gone full evangelical, these right-wing grifters are so predictable
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It will not shock you that was disciplined for *actual* conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, when he didn't disclose that he owned 50% of a defendant company he represented and fraudulently sold its only asset to avoid judgment. supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/downlo
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Will never forget what Trent Lott told me once: “when you got the votes, you vote. When you don’t got the votes, you talk.”
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Republicans just do government shutdowns all by themselves now.
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On their first two days on the job @HouseGOP have turned one of our most important institutions into a "useless entity."
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It makes no sense to me why the first act isn’t swearing everyone in, then voting for Speaker.
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A procedural question…can members of Congress vote if they haven’t been sworn in?
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216-214, the GOP motion to adjourn passes by one vote.
Four Republicans join Democrats to vote against it.
Applause in the chamber as the House completes its first successful vote of 2023: To go home without electing a Speaker.
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Another coup for Ginni Thomas, this one clownish and harmless:
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BREAKING: More than two dozen right-wing figures released an open letter today urging more Republicans to oppose McCarthy. Among them are GINNI THOMAS, the wife of the Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, who helped lead efforts to overthrow our government.Show this thread
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I can see why Republicans might be embarrassed by the prolonged Speaker contest. But I don't get the suggestion that this is embarrassing for the United States "in the eyes of the world." I mean, this is democracy. Not the Supreme Soviet. There is not a rubber stamp. You know?
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Three people are receiving votes for the nation's third highest Constitutional office. Only one of them -- -- did not vote to subvert the electoral process and thus the democratic transfer of power on Jan. 6th, 2021.
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"No basic ones" 🤡
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60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right-wing out in force. If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones
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flagging this clip for people who seem to be forgetting that McCarthy is an election denier who has accommodated extremists in his party at every turn 👇
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.@GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy was laying the groundwork for the attack on the Capitol for months. 11/5/2020:
“President Trump won this election, so everyone who’s listening, do not be quiet. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes... join together and let’s stop this.”
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The odds that Romanian government officials didn't know exactly where this Andrew Tate guy lived the whole time are zero.
I wonder why they arrested him now. I imagine he just became an embarrassment.
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Funny line from from today after the House adjourned. "This is why people look at Congress and they're like 'You ain't doing shit. Y'all ain't getting shit done.' This is unbelievable."
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Eric’s assignment desk: Who in the hell is in charge of the House right now, and under what law?
What would happen if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are unable to serve as president? Who is Speaker today? Or does the Speaker get skipped?
IS AL HAIG IN CHARGE??
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Hearing lots of GOP complaining about the Freedom Caucus "hostage taking". But let's remember that this is exactly what happens each time we have a govt shutdown or deb ceiling hostage situation. This is all the Freedom Caucus has ever done.
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The Republican Party is such a hilarious hot mess.
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This is reportedly the text of a new Louisiana law limiting certain internet access. The writer CLEARLY knows his way around porn.
“Touching, caressing or fondling of nipples.” Did you write this yourself, ? It’s Penthouse Forum-worthy.
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Ehrlich, 1968: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”
1970: “In 10 years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct.”
1971: “I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
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“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Humanity is consuming 175 percent of what the earth can regenerate. Biologist Paul Erlich says that our current way of life is unsustainable. cbsn.ws/3Gvv8mC
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Like if you find all of DeSantis’s position in this article contrary to your beliefs, you should, uh, not be a Republican.
Trump is such a lunatic that even if you agree with GOP ideas, you should not want him to be president
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There is going to be a lot of this over the next two years. It lists a lot of reasons why I don’t want Ron DeSantis to be president. But I’m a democrat. Of course I disagree with him about all this shit.
Trump is like a deranged mentally ill lunatic
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“I was emotional so I planned a coup,” the wife of a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice said.
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Ginni Thomas: ‘I regret all of these texts’ about overthrowing the government because of the 2020 election results. I was emotional. Mostly I regret they became public. news.yahoo.com/ginni-thomas-i
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I really regret that my text messages, from the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice to the President’s Chief of Staff, urging that our political opponents be sent to Gitmo and put on military trial became public. Does no one respect privacy anymore? 🤔
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Ginni Thomas: ‘I regret all of these texts’ about overthrowing the government because of the 2020 election results. I was emotional. Mostly I regret they became public. news.yahoo.com/ginni-thomas-i
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will end in one of two ways. Russia conquers Ukraine. Or Ukraine pushes Russia out. That’s why the U.S. and NATO need to give the Ukrainians everything they need to win. Ukrainians have shown they will fight to the death. The only off ramp is to win.
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For 85% of Ukrainians, no territorial concessions are acceptable, according to recent survey. Only 8% believe that it is possible to give up some territories to achieve peace and preserve independence.
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This dude has been making these predictions since before I was born.
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“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Humanity is consuming 175 percent of what the earth can regenerate. Biologist Paul Erlich says that our current way of life is unsustainable. cbsn.ws/3Gvv8mC
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GOP Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson: “I do not believe that Donald Trump should be the next president of the United States...I think Jan. 6 really disqualifies him for the future.”
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