Jamie Malanowski

Politics

JANUARY 2017: “THE MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION”

1.31 Last night, within hours of refusing to defend Trump’s executive order on immigration, Sally Yates was fired from her post as acting attorney general. 1.30 Senators McCain and Graham object to the travel ban. Powerful GOP Senators John McCain, of Arizona, and Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, issued a joint statement blasting Trump’s move …

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JANUARY 2017: “NOT A LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT”

1.13 Rep. John Lewis: “I don’t see thispresident-elect as a legitimate president. I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.” released by "Intelligence" even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. My people will have a full report on hacking within …

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LAST CALL 2016

Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Michael Strahan, Kelly Ripa, Huma Abedin, Alex Rodriguez, Angelina Jolie, Ryan Lochte, Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Colin Kaepernick, Heather Bresch, Hillary Clinton, Matt Lauer, Ghazala Khan, Khizr Khan, Gretchen Carlson, Roger Ailes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Hall, Anthony Weiner, Beyoncé, Martin Shkreli, Elizabeth Holmes, Harold Bornstein, John Stumpf, Sean Hannity, …

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DECEMBER 2016: ““IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO HIM, IT HAPPENS.”

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2016 12.31 Anthony Bourdain in Reason: “The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, …

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NOVEMBER 2016: “THE SOUND OF FREEDOM”

11.30 Scottie Nell Hughes, Trump spokesperson, on “The Diane Rehm Show”: “There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, of facts.” 11.20 ny.eater.com: Trump and Reince Priebus take Mitt Romney to dinner at Jean-Georges: “The flagship restaurant of Alsatian-born chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who officially became a US citizen two years ago — only serves prix fixe menus, …

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“WE HAVE JUST THROWN A GOOD PART OF OUR POPULATION UNDER THE BUS”

11.13 Frank Bruni in the New York Times: “Obama’s presidency will end with Democrats in possession of 11 fewer Senate seats (depending on how you count), more than 60 fewer House seats, at least 14 fewer governorships and more than 900 fewer seats in state legislatures than when it began. That’s a staggering toll. While …

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AND YET, IT HAPPENED

Despite attaining more than two million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. In Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, the Stanford philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that what he called the left would come to give “cultural politics preference over real politics”. This movement would contribute …

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