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“The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.”

[blackford0akes @blackford0akes]

Evergreen tweet

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

WE NEED A TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF TWITTER UNTIL WE CAN FIND OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

"Honey, you can lie all you want about having spent the weekend 'visiting' your 'sister' in 'Richmond.' And I hate to humiliate you like this, but I found this in your purse -- a ticket that says GREYHOUND right on it, clearly proving you were at the dog track with a boyfriend."

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

If you've noticed a lot of conservatives contradicting things they used to say or stand for, it's because they've been sitting around thinking, "I'll lose my audience if I don't go where I see them heading." And that, to their shame, determines what they say next.

[ArtButMakeItNow @artbutnow]

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas2

[Mike Warren @MichaelRWarren]

What's clear from this whole debacle is that Schmitt never had any additional evidence that Smith was in Atlanta on this date. He just went on what we now know was one flimsy piece of falsifiable evidence that looks to be, well, false, all to make an insinuation of some meeting that doesn't appear to have happened. What were the next steps here?

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

Eric Schmitt: I wish for text messages that will produce a jaw-dropping moment in the Jack Smith hearing — a moment that will become so famous, so stunning, that everyone in Washington will talk about it, and me, for decades.

Evil genie: Your wish is my command.

[blackford0akes @blackford0akes]

@mikenelson586 Man...I like your tweets and whatnot and forget for a minute about this ABBA thing and then, BAM! My own fault at this point.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

So MAGA, post-liberal conservatives bitching and moaning about libertarians now that their reactionary agenda has been revealed to be the losing gambit that libertarians warned about. Being anti-war, anti-deficit spending, anti-tariff & pro freedom is good, actually.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The claim isn’t that voter fraud NEVER happens, it’s just that it happens at such an extremely low rate as to not impact elections.

Audit after audit after audit shows that noncitizen voting occurs less than 0.001% of the time. That’s under one thousandth of one percent.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

How eric schmitt imagined this morning going

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

As a Gopher fan, I know the difference between the Hawks and the Hawkeyes.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Any person who had a modicum of decency would apologize, immediately, and then impose some basic accountability for some remarkably negligent staff work. He was trying to set up a perjury trap with fake information. Pitiful.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Graham: Do you really believe Lindsey was going to destroy evidence that was not even in his possession? 

Smith: I believe your brother was a patriotic public servant. He was not a target of our investigation. In fact, he likely would have been a witness in our case. Your brother investigated the claims that Donald Trump was making. He found them to be false.

Graham: I think you were just trying to bully my brother. You should be ashamed of yourself. Shame on you!

[blackford0akes @blackford0akes]

@FactualGalore @SouthernKeeks @EWErickson No thanks

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

guys https://t.co/d2Yb8HPm3v

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

“You have the teams wrong sir.”

[blackford0akes @blackford0akes]

@FactualGalore @SouthernKeeks @EWErickson It's more like there being only dilapidated houses or homelessness as the options. The idea that no matter how bad these options are or get, we have no reason to observe or expect change/improvement but have to show up and pull the lever for the team is just incredibly weird.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

A completely humiliating moment for Sen. Schmitt just now.

He accused Jack Smith of attending an Atlanta Hawks game as cover to be in Atlanta to meet with Fani Willis. He then accused him of perjury for saying he didn't recall being at the game. he flashed text messages to prove he had Smith dead to rights (the text didn't really address it -- you can see them here). He called him a "dirtbag" as the cherry on top.

Only later did Smith note he had gone to an Iowa Hawkeyes game. Smith confused Hawks with Hawkeyes.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

There’s a strategic reason behind using a white guy in this ad. It’s designed to keep the conversation on the merits of the policy instead of making it a racial issue.

That would’ve worked great 10 years ago, but now we have a growing contingent of whites who are just as cripplingly insecure and neurotic about race as a BIPOC sjw

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

I don’t want to live in this world anymore

The Big Bopper is gone. Rod Belding, the world’s greatest substitute teacher, will now have to carry the torch.