Tim Alberta

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

btw the irony is 1) no way Cotton's proposal receives this sort of scrutiny and debate had it been published anywhere else; 2) the NYT dissenters have reminded us that op-ed pages are garbage and big ideas belong in stories or preferably in long, kick-up-your-feet mag pieces — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Am I allowed to empathize with journalists (and friends) of color who feel a unique vulnerability in this moment while rejecting the notion that they (or anyone) will be made safer by shielding readers from a proposal that is circulating at the highest levels of government? — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

This from @RyanLizza is a nuanced, textured look at what’s happened on the ground in DC this week. https://t.co/20aj3Ku5xm — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

"Never did I dream that troops taking that [oath] would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief." - General James Mattis, into the history books — PolitiTweet.org

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lololololololol — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @Yair_Rosenberg: Whoa: The White House is circulating a video which it claims shows a cache of antifa bricks, but the image is actually… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @derekwillis: Deletes are not endorsements? https://t.co/GqSB4bw0D0 https://t.co/kfgYYAfRrh — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Folks. The blocks around 1600 Penn Ave are the most monitored in the world. On top of that, a thousand iPhones are rolling. Don’t you think if rioters were throwing bricks—if the crowd was violent—we’d see footage? That’s why, instead, we’ve got a semantic debate over “tear gas” — PolitiTweet.org

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Even in defeat, Steve King’s legacy is secure—and it goes way beyond the xenophobia. More than any Republican, King turned the tide against comprehensive immigration reform in summer 2013 as it sailed through the Senate and barreled toward the House floor. The rest is history. — PolitiTweet.org

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This all comes down to purposely conflating the peaceful protesters with the rioters, looters and anarchists. Once you've done that—erased any distinction between the criminals and the citizens exercising their 1A rights—you can justify any action, any abuse. That's the playbook. — PolitiTweet.org

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WILL HURD statement: “Instead of barreling over a bunch of peaceful protesters in a park, maybe they should have been focused on the rioters in other parts of the city. ... The use of tear gas and rubber bullets was an unnecessary escalation of tactics.” — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

It's hard to see W endorsing Biden. But boy, this statement today -- read it carefully -- sure has "I abandoned free market principles to save the free market system" feel to it. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@KFILE Trump even apologized! https://t.co/zXIh4VWGTU https://t.co/0rtGIyGghQ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

I've been thinking all weekend: It's strange that lawmakers were NOT joining these protests. An easy way to show solidarity, experience events on the ground for themselves, and draw their own conclusions about both the demonstrators and law enforcement. Good on Warren. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

I know, I know -- that can't be true. Right? Wrong. Google it. Maybe the most astounding/alarming/unbelievable factoid in American politics. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Yes, and Tim Scott is the ***only black person ever*** to serve in both chambers of Congress. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Little bit of divergence on the left re: Sasse https://t.co/XMxwEyQVTz — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

I see your Bible photo-op, and raise you a Scripture reading — PolitiTweet.org

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@daveweigel yes and yes — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

BEN SASSE statement: “There is no right to riot... But there is a fundamental—a Constitutional—right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop." — PolitiTweet.org

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“He took race back to the sixties. ... The country had moved toward bending over backward to create equality. But then suddenly, with Obama, he just lit the fires. I thought when he was elected that was the big victory, that we had put racism behind us." - a think tank president https://t.co/mrue0YIiVh — PolitiTweet.org

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@TomFitton "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Yes -- and understandably so. But what does that have to do with agents of the state using unprovoked force against peaceful protesters? These were not rioters or looters. Conflating the patriots w/ the troublemakers is a recipe for true disaster. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

You see, I've spent 4 years studying how Republicans contort themselves to excuse, justify, and enable the behaviors of Donald Trump. It's become predictable to the point of parody. But this? Tear-gassing citizens to facilitate a photo-op with a Bible? No idea how they spin this. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

We need to document every single defense of what the president (and the law enforcement at his disposal) did tonight to peaceful, law-abiding citizens exercising their rights under the First Amendment. I am beyond curious to see/hear the justifications for what just occurred. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

ahhh so that's the play. my idea was better. https://t.co/WmvraKL0sC — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

https://t.co/rz2TkoYark — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

You see, folks, it's *Congress* that shall not prohibit the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Doesn't say anything about POTUS or federal law enforcement! https://t.co/BSaOPcPAB6 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@ChadLivengood @kroger @meijer Damn. I've got a collection in my garage that rivals a Sunday morning in East Lansing. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

duct tape and blindfolds optional — PolitiTweet.org