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Clay Travis claims The Cheesecake Factory was a childhood luxury. Except it didn't open in Nashville until he was 26.
@Timodc and @PabloTorre investigate the curious case of his restaurant nostalgia:
“We are now swift boating Clay Travis for Cheesecake Factory stolen valor.”
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"The significance of Leipzig is not simply that an airport bus driver became an unlikely ninja warrior for a few seconds on a German runway. It is that those few seconds reveal the strange environment in which NATO deterrence now operates."
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"If it is truly civic and educational collapse, how can Douthat raise his family in a blue state? Why hasn’t he struck out for Wyoming or Kentucky? But then, that’s what this clown does, and always has done."
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Vance has spent two years nurturing a viral bigotry in his party....Had Dreher been capable of recognizing Vance’s flaws earlier, he may have been in a position to gather critical GOP opposition to the vice president’s political and moral recklessness."
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.@SarahAMatthews1 reacts to news Karoline Leavitt will leave her role as White House press secretary at the end of August.
"I will be curious to see if audiences show up for this, given the rigmarole surrounding its production/release....angry, loud folks couldn’t stop The Odyssey from being a big hit. But maybe they can help make Coyote vs. Acme a profitable proposition."
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"I’ll stick with my judgment from a week ago: We’re likely to see a real Democratic blue wave this November....And I’ll now add that the prospects for holding important governorships in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona also look good."
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Hungary is in a historic moment. The first “consolidated democracy” to fall prey to an authoritarian takeover, it now seeks to throw off the shackles of despotism and author a new democratic constitutional settlement.
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I always enjoy my conversations with @CitizenCohn - a very sharp thinker & writer. We talked about the vaccine executive order for his latest, which follows it from the Oval Office to the pediatrician's office. Worth reading:
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"Nothing bad can happen from what we’re doing," Trump said. But bad things are happening already, as the measles figures show, and more are on the way.
When all you have is nativism, everything looks like The Camp of the Saints.
Q: "Within 24 hours you got behind [El-Sayed's] campaign…Why would you do that?"
Haley Stevens: "That's called democracy, friend, right? You don't sign up for a Democratic Party to be salty grapes and just continue to hold a grudge. We have seen that play out. No shots here but we've seen that play out with out current president. Some might say Mr. Sanders pursued that approach as well when he didn't win a Democratic nomination."
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Trump: "The game tonight's going to be amazing. We're going to have a full team and Belgium is going to have a full team…If they beat us, we'll say it was — I say it was rigged just like the election was rigged in 2020."
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Mike Johnson: "If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats…will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body and they will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends. Half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I'll take care of you."
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