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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 22, 2021

The modern Republican Party is filled with, as John Boehner put it, people who spend more time tearing things apart than actually building anything.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 22, 2021

I love that THE BEAT is a democracy. I love that. We love democracy. I`m pro-democracy, right?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 22, 2021

We know that his wife, Jackie, Jacqueline Jackson, is not vaccinated.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 22, 2021

I`m with Paul Krugman, who talked about the frustration of those of us who have given up all of our going outs and all of our everything to do the right thing and do as we are told as the science changed.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 19, 2021

This too could be yours in roughly one month if Governor Gavin Newsom loses the recall election on September 14.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 19, 2021

You have to speak out against it. You have to debunk them. You have to call it for what it is. And he is still responsible and I hope he owns it up to what he said and retract his comments. What he said was wrong, offensive, and should not…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 19, 2021

If more than 50 percent of voters fail to recall -- vote to recall Governor Newsom, if they vote, yes, recall him, then the replacement candidate with the most votes becomes the governor, even if they have far fewer votes than Newsom.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 18, 2021

I want to know to what you want to know, how do we get them out of there.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 18, 2021

I am far more interested in how we get that mission done than in knowing what Joe Biden knew from the CIA on Saturday.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 18, 2021

He’s threatening to financially punish local school boards who try to enact mask mandates.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 17, 2021

A Trump supporter has pleaded guilty to threatening the life of Raphael Warnock.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 16, 2021

The American people overwhelmingly wanted out of Afghanistan. This is what it looks like when you get out, when you rip the band-aid off.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 12, 2021

And the fact that he`s actually against masks, with no reason, rationale whatsoever, and simply making this a political issue, is simply inhumane and simply derelict.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Aug 11, 2021

This is in the Texas state senate, where they’re trying to stop the Republican voting restriction bill.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Aug 11, 2021

This is a bad enough situation in the states now that it’s also going to be a new test, I think, of the federal government’s ability, the Biden administration’s ability to target literally disaster resources to places in our country where…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Aug 11, 2021

We are seeing a marked increase in diversity in our country. Population growth is driven entirely by people of color.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Aug 10, 2021

Today, after months and months of back and forth, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate passed a $550 billion infrastructure bill and they did it together.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 5, 2021

Donald Trump’s failed coup was worse than we thought. The unnervingly plausible path to steal the election. I frankly don’t have the word to describe what a cataclysm this all would have been.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 5, 2021

Those abuses are among the reasons that former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade and other legal scholars are calling on the Justice Department to begin a criminal investigation of Trump`s dangerous course of conduct.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 5, 2021

We have also learned a whole lot about his parallel effort behind the scenes to overturn the election from inside the government.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 5, 2021

Biden is trying something new... using federal regulatory power and a threat of withholding federal funds from institutions to get people vaccinated.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 5, 2021

Mark Meadows had helped introduce Trump to DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark who is putting together a secret plan to oust Rosen, the Acting Attorney General, and force Georgia to overturn its results.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 4, 2021

Let the adults in the room deal with Cuomo, meaning the New York attorney general, Letitia James.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 4, 2021

If Governor Cuomo had a reasonable conscience he would resign.

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