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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 9, 2021

Letitia James would like a word with the twice-impeached disgraced former president about his business practices.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 8, 2021

Is there enough urgency to stand in the way of what is not just a nasty party that could take power but an autocracy, a party that wants to implement something fundamentally, you know, different from American democracy?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 8, 2021

There isn`t a lot of sense of urgency that I personally see among Democrats to understand that they`re not facing just, you know, Bob Dole, the late Bob Dole, or just sort of old Reagan Republican Party, that this is a different kind of…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 8, 2021

I mean, Matt Gaetz has made it very clear that, A, he`ll try to make Donald Trump the next speaker of the House, which he theoretically could do.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 7, 2021

It was refreshing to have a president again who actually stands up to Vladimir Putin, rather than sort of hugging him and sitting in his lap and kissing up to him.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 6, 2021

Who cares about the pain and anguish of those poor families that they`re feeling as they`re still burying their children?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 6, 2021

It`s an open question if or perhaps when conservatives will ever utter a word of criticism against the Crumbleys.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 5, 2021

Well, listen, I mean, this is her moment. She -- look, she has gotten where she is through the death of hard work...

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 5, 2021

Do you have Republican voters in Georgia who believe in the rule of law more than they love Donald Trump or not?

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 5, 2021

If you are a governor, and you are going to be replaced, because you upheld the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution, that is no longer a partisan issue. That's an American issue.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 3, 2021

The more accurate term is that they’re pro-birth, because, once that baby is born, they stop caring.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 2, 2021

It`s crazy to have a narcissistic sociopath who lost in the last election running an entire political party, but that`s how it is right now for Republicans.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 2, 2021

This is an abhorrent policy put into place by Donald Trump, advocated by the Republican Party pursued in lawsuit by two right-wing attorneys general in Texas and the famous border state Missouri.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 2, 2021

It was not Joe Biden or Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or anyone in the Biden administration or the Democratic Party who wanted to do this.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 2, 2021

The idea the president falsely testing positive before the debate is not exactly the kind of shocking revelation that sells books.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Dec 2, 2021

It remains fact that Russian hackers and spies helped his campaign. It remains fact that the Trump campaign welcomed the help.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 1, 2021

There are people that were reckless, and we knew they were reckless.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 30, 2021

And once they take away your rights over your own body, you will see what happens to come next. It`s never good.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 29, 2021

We know what the purpose of this case is. And we know why Republicans picked the particular justices they picked to be on the Supreme Court. So it is, frankly, a matter now of preparing for a return to American women having to seek out…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 24, 2021

It turns out you cannot chase someone just for being a black man jogging down the street. You cannot lynch a black man in broad daylight in 21st century America and just expect to walk free.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 24, 2021

It's time for them to step up, because it's not about party. It's about them being the only party left that cares about democracy.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 24, 2021

We don't have an anti lynching law in this country so in terms of federal law, we don't have an anti lynching law.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 23, 2021

I guess they don’t care that 150 scholars from Duke to Stanford issued a recent letter warning that, if state Democrats -- Senate Democrats don’t get their priorities straight, American democracy will be at critical risk.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 23, 2021

I guess they figured that our crumbling democracy can wait just a little bit longer.

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