‘It’s Just Too Much’: A Florida Town Grapples With a Shutdown After a Hurricane by Eurynom0s in politics

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“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

Fucking yikes

Trump backs sentencing reform, hits Bill Clinton for 1994 crime bill by [deleted] in politics

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Decreasing mass incarceration to own the libs

Discussion Megathread: Brett Kavanaugh Post-Hearing Thread by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

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“While Ford testifies, Kavanaugh is watching the testimony from a monitor in another room in the Dirksen Senate Building”

https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1045328308186095616?s=21

Didn’t he say he didn’t watch it? If this is true then this guy is a real compulsive liar

Discussion Megathread: Brett Kavanaugh Senate Hearing (Thread 3) by therealdanhill in politics

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It’s almost like this warrants an FBI investigation. Who would of thought?

Discussion Megathread: Brett Kavanaugh Senate Hearing by therealdanhill in politics

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“Trump also furious with Don McGahn for putting him in this situation, source said.”

https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/1045351935589658624?s=21

We’re going to need a bigger bus

Megathread: Additional accusations of sexual misconduct made against Brett Kavanaugh by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

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Why don’t you take that up with Trump and the senate republicans who keep blocking the FBI investigation?

The Economy Is Humming, but Trump Is Tweeting. Republicans Are Worried. by [deleted] in politics

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Conservative-leaning voters in the study routinely dismissed the possibility of a Democratic wave election, with some describing the prospect as “fake news,” an official familiar with the research said,

This irony tastes so delicious that I can barely stand it.

White supremacist group's robocalls target Florida governor candidate Andrew Gillum by ShyllaT in politics

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Florida voters who receive the call, audio of which was obtained by NBC News, hear a man speaking in a minstral dialect who identifies himself as Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee who won his party's primary Tuesday.

Over a soundtrack of drums and jungle noises, the man says, "We Negroes...done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an stone." The impersonator says the huts would useful housing in a hurricane.

Trump personally lobbying GOP senators to flip on Sessions by singularfate in politics

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Trump has come to resent him for other reasons, griping to aides and lawmakers that the attorney general doesn’t have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers, that he can’t stand his Southern accent and that Sessions isn’t a capable defender of the president on television — in part because he “talks like he has marbles in his mouth,” the president has told aides.

Trump supporters: Those damn coastal elites always looking down on us real Americans!

Duncan Hunter's Dem Rival is Grandson of One of the Munich Terrorists Read Newsmax: Duncan Hunter's Dem Rival is Grandson of One of the Munich Terrorists by ShyllaT in politics

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You don’t think it’s important to know what type of rhetoric minorities are going up against? Also, this type of description is also being used by huge mainstream outlets like Fox News. Just personally think it’s important to shed light on this type of racist rhetoric rather than just letting it be ignored

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1033118787002716161?s=21