Eric Schnure

Coauthor of The Political Speechwriter's Companion and semi-retired beer league hockey player. Opinions and teeth my own.

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

@BillKristol The Hippocratic Oath, or The Hypocratic Oaf

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@chucktodd “Let me be clear,” he says in paragraph four (of a tweet!).

I guess we should acknowledge an R going against their unhinged president. But, still.

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@jaketapper Still just tied with the Nats for 1st place.

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@vzmercogliano If we’re looking to rationalize why we shouldn’t be putting our top prospect on the ice, we’ve already lost. Again.

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This type of spending is not kosher!

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.)
In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

@MollieeWalkerr @MollieeWalkerr am I right in stating that after the 2nd round, the chances of getting a legit NHLer drop drastically - as in only 50% of 3rd round draft picks end up even playing a single NHL game? Makes you wonder about what exactly we’re stockpiling.

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

“It’s always hard for a person without a strong core to maintain a stand.”

[Jackie Calmes @jackiekcalmes]

Column: Yes, Trump has broken his vow not to start foreign wars. What’s worse is than in the major theaters of foreign policy—the Mideast, Europe and Asia—he's led along by foreign leaders. And Netanyahu, Putin and Xi do not have U.S. interests at heart.
https://t.co/tVmGaNfKq3

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

Only Donald Trump could exaggerate, lie, and compliment himself nonstop for almost two full hours and be described as showing restraint. What are we doing here, folks?

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump’s State of the Union was notable for something his second term has largely lacked: restraint.

But the issues he avoided addressing could haunt him in November.
https://t.co/MIQbOuBQDw

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

@gomery @darrenrovell Yes, the White House always releases excerpts of the SOTU and, often, embargoed copies of the full text. Not to mention the grifters on the inside who know what he’ll say. It’s literally gambling on something that’s predetermined.

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

If I’m @usahockey and @NHL, or the NHL teams, I’m busy today playing out different crisis comms scenarios for the questions they might get tomorrow.

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@SpeakerJohnson on Team USA men's hockey team attending tonight's State of the Union address: "We're going to work out the logistics and somehow, someway we'll squeeze in the hockey players tonight." #SOTU

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Internal White House meetings goin on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

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@vzmercogliano Watching the New York Rangers is like entering your single A peewee team in a double AA tournament. You applaud things like getting the puck out of your zone.

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@OhRyanMead @OhRyanMead I don’t think you’re giving enough credit to @NYRangers and Chris Drury.

I mean, 30 teams are now saying: “Wait, that’s all it took?!?!”

He showed them!

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

I don’t want to ruin this for all of the people the Trump Administration will lie about attending… but the twist is a rip-off of The Crying Game.

[The Hollywood Handle @HollywoodHandle]

‘MELANIA’ is on track to flop domestically and earn $2M-$5M on its opening weekend.

Amazon spent $40M for acquiring the rights of the film plus $35M on marketing.

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@vzmercogliano Keeping in charge the same guy who created this mess… what could possibly go wrong?

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@BrianReich Mingling balls

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How ironic. Trump fired the only person on his security team not on the Signal chat.

[POLITICO @politico]

White House yanks Stefanik’s UN nomination https://t.co/tnCnzmPVP6

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

Congratulations to the Assistant to the Regional Manager

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

TRUMP says STEFANIK will rejoin House Republican leadership. Johnson can create a position for her at the leadership table -- chair of the leadership or something like that.

To be honest, the "she's rejoining the leadership team" has taken a lot of members of the leadership by surprise!

Congress!

[Eric Schnure @ESchnure]

Shocking! Russia wants more. Why? Not because Zelenskyy doesn’t have the cards, but because ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ showed his. https://t.co/8T7MFHZE03