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Rep. Omar wasn't born in the US so she couldn't do it anyway. Yay, nativism baked right into our constitution!

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You right. I guess I really mean "will be permitted to win"

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I’m voting for her Tuesday, because the DNC needs to know.

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I think those voters would already have come out. I'm talking about people like the Bernie Bros and the "Jill Stein" voters.

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I wanted her to be our mommy--she'd make us learn, mind our manners, eat our vegetables, and get a hella shitton done. damn. we are stuck with old white daddies. one of my cynical friends suggested the first female president will be a repug . . . i feel like nobody will every burst through the wall-nobody will ever be good enough.

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Those people are unconvertible. They are already saying, "Bernie or Burn It Down."

So we're gonna have to energize every last non-bro to maximum effect.

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So did I. All those years teaching law at Harvard, you know she's got dealing with spoiled rich entitled pricks down to a science.

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Liz and Hillary are like Moses on Mount Nebo. They've been to the top of the mountain and looked over the other side. They couldn't get there themselves, but they can see the promised land.

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His twin brother Adlai could, too. Unfortunately, he was so boring that nobody even remembers how to spell his name.

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"washes his face"?

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That's my wife that came up with that. She's a lawyer

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"Show me the LGBTQ, POC, and women the GOP has in the Senate."

Tim Scott. You're being silly to ask for me to point out any gay people, since no Republicans are gay.

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"Men stormed to social media to explain why Warren's loss had nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with her possessing negative traits traditionally associated with women who seek power on their own." Stephen, I was a hard-bitten newspaperman for a long time, and I am glad I did not have a mouthful of refreshing beverage as I read that line. It's one of the funniest and truest lines I have seen in quite some time. In my mind it had a touch of Twain. You do good work.

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Yeah, I should have been more clear. I mean people LIKE the Bernie Bros. Not the actual Bros. :-) Well, maybe we can get some of the less bro-i-er of them.

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Damn, that is good. I just saw it as I read it. And it hit hard.

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