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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 15, 2021

We will have those investigations so long as the Congress remains in the control of the party that actually cares about democracy and is opposed to insurrections. If it flips, whole different scenario.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 15, 2021

They could give a damn if Nicki Minaj gets COVID and dies. They don’t care about us.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 15, 2021

I understand the hesitancy. Listen, I was hesitant when Donald Trump was out there controlling the CDC and controlling the FDA and manipulating them and making them put out falsehoods.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 15, 2021

They feel they have a right to spread a deadly disease, like they might as well have the measles blankets in the 1600s and say, I have a right to throw it on you.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 15, 2021

Republicans forced the state of California to spend close to $300 million in taxpayer money to conduct an election that was driven by Republican delusion.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 14, 2021

We have elections in this country where we the people decide who our leaders are, and those people are all gone.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 13, 2021

We need to make sure that that third of the country doesn't do what 15 percent of South Africa did and rule because they deleted democracy.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 12, 2021

This should probably come as no surprise as Trump (INAUDIBLE) 2020 playbook is now being rolled out as their modus operandi.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Sep 10, 2021

I think the Democrats have moved left are more progressive on issues of foreign policy, foreign wars, human rights, the addition of people like AOC and Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal and Ro Khanna to the House Caucus, I think has been very…

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Sep 10, 2021

We’ve declared war on terror on an abstract noun, which was never going to be one.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Sep 10, 2021

I think we saw leaders tell us lies over the last 20 years. Tell us many, many lies.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 10, 2021

The pushbacks to the President’s vaccine requirement yesterday was immediate, cries of tyranny claiming it’s an overreach, a blatant power grab.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 9, 2021

It helps that Newsom`s leading opponent is Larry Elder, the conservative talk radio host and Trump fan who has made it clear he would turn the great state of California into another Texas or Florida.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 9, 2021

The recall itself is nothing more than a Republican power grab organized by right-wing activists and financed by wealthy conservative donors.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 8, 2021

If Democrats want to be on the record for making necessary systemic change in this country, this bill... might be their only chance to do it.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 7, 2021

Texas is hurtling towards a voter suppression election next year, with Greg Abbott signing his so-called election integrity bill into law yesterday.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 7, 2021

Practice fighting on your own. Practice fighting with Joe Manchin.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Sep 7, 2021

I invite your viewers to think, what will all of this be like in a few months if the speaker of the House is a Republican, which could well happen, and if the leadership of the House of Representatives and half -- and maybe the Senate too…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 7, 2021

President Biden will travel to all three sites on Saturday, Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 7, 2021

That racist lie about Muslims celebrating was, of course, later refuted by video.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 7, 2021

Former President George W. Bush will speak at the memorial in Pennsylvania, because that is what presidents do.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 7, 2021

Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend a ceremony in New York.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 2, 2021

Those are not deeply held beliefs. Those are political briefs adopted in service of ambition.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 2, 2021

You can’t call yourself pro-life if your policy goals are to allow polluters to despoil the Earth and wreck the environment, so that more people die as a result of increasingly violent storms and hurricanes and floods and wildfires.

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