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Still wandering in the wilderness.

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Putin bombs American factory in Ukraine. Trump's response: "I'm not happy about it." I've settled 7--no--10 wars. "We'll see what happens." Spoken like a true patriot.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. https://t.co/pD7UcVIsEm

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@piratephish @Michael73551199 @ThePatriotOasis Really? Over what issue was it fought?

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@Michael73551199 @randycorporon @ThePatriotOasis They were the Southern Democrats of the 19th Century. Racist Democrats ruled the South until Nixon, who divined that Southern sensibilities aligned perfectly with Republican values. The South has been in Republican hands ever since.

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@Michael73551199 @randycorporon @ThePatriotOasis Well thank God we now have a president who thinks the Smithsonian puts too much emphasis on "how bad slavery was."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'
Fair enough. Let’s take a look.
The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.
General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.
While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.
Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.
Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.
He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.
His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.
He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.
For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.
Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.
All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.
While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.
He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.
Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.
Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.
Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”
Yet,
he never took away
anyone’s guns........
He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.
He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?
If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish:
may we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."
by Teri Carter, Lexington Herald-Leader

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@joshrogin @jaketapper Witkoff, like the other Munchkins, is expected to further the lies, fantasies, and psychoses of Trump World. That is their job. They can't believe that they're living through a nightmare. They're craven, lost, and headed for the abyss.

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@LauraLoomer Please cite evidence that Americans "overwhelmingly agree."

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@wfaa Cornyn's crazy MAGA FB posts are paying off

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@smerconish You've got to be kidding.

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@alfranken Trump "left office" --
after giving his followers the ok to ransack the Capitol, terrorize members of Congress, fatally injure Capitol police, and threaten to kill the vice president. Then he snuck out of town like the grub worm he is.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect.  All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years. Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy.

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@realDonaldTrump Emphasis on "potentially."

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@RealJamesWoods @randycorporon I don't like Trump, but this is inexcusable. My apologies for such morons.

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@TVietor08 Cancelling a subscription, refusing to buy a car or patronizing a store or other business will have similar effects. But cancel and refuse we must. It's one of the few tools of protest available.

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@BidenSquadron Source of these numbers? Exit polls?

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@charliekirk11 Democratic voters here. You're right.

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@foundring1 Julius Caesar.

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@CalltoActivism You're right, Martha. Now we're going to do a thorough search of your bedroom and all the bathrooms. Shouldn't be a problem?

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"in human history"? Jeez.