Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Like the Colin Powell piece in the magazine by Robert Draper, it shows the lengths to which good people will go in an administration to hold onto to their jobs, even if they end up becoming enablers of horrible policies. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JonathanCohn @ProfCiara I read this skeptically, since I look at all ads at this stage in a primary campaign with skepticism, but I was totally bewitched. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Subject line on an email that I did not open: "You + President Trump. It'll be a great time." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Headline from press release which is presented without comment: "HAMPTONS EATERY SETS FIRE TO SEX ABUSERS EPSTEIN & HARVEY WEINSTEIN TABLE." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JacobHeilbrunn @lmlauramarsh Serves me right for writing anything from memory without double-checking. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JacobHeilbrunn @lmlauramarsh But Trollope had a big incentive -- as I recall it, he could only go fox hunting after he met his word quota for the day. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Bencjacobs Yet. It’s early. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@CharlesPPierce But only after federal rouge cops in camouflage would have stuffed John Lewis into an unmarked car and refused to let him call a lawyer. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

From what I can tell, the headline should read, "Flag grudgingly lowered at the White House on Saturday..." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Ditto. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown due to the pandemic." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Only four states (NY, CT, NJ and Maine) are top-rated for their current ability to minimize Covid-19. The Jays in Buffalo would mean that three teams would play within these relatively safe states. But 11 teams are in dangerously out-of-control states: https://t.co/X7jbYQWEke — PolitiTweet.org

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So you fell for the Democratic plot? The secret plan to get all the Bernie voters to instead vote for Biden because he would be their ticket to a Marxist Revolution that even Pol Pot might envy. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@lefoudubaron With a pandemic raging and a crazed president and a depressed economy, I put black-clothed white would-be anarchists pretty far down on my list of current concerns. I am appalled by them, and hope that legitimate protesters of racism exile them back to their parents' basements. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron Zero. But a researcher died with the 1970 bombing of the Physics Building at the University of Wisconsin. Should that have justified Nixon bringing in secret federal forces to snatch suspicious looking people off the streets and hustle them into unmarked vans? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron What are your sources for following events in Portland closely for years? Also, having experienced the Weathermen in a place called Ann Arbor long ago, I am a lot less alarmist than some. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron Okay, then, have you been to Portland recently? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron What "people get wrong about this place, though, is that they see the protests and the right-wing coverage and the city is depicted as convulsed and collapsing. It’s not true. You go three blocks from the center of downtown and life goes on as normal." https://t.co/i4Dgxb2Nre — PolitiTweet.org

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Love the tiny telling details that great reporters like @maggieNYT use to garnish articles: "Mr. Trump’s adviser, Hope Hicks, recommended he bring a Bible, and aides were told to secure a 'pretty Bible,' according to people familiar with the episode." https://t.co/QrLtLKUViU — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron So? It is not exactly the Civil War or even the anarchist bombings of the 1880s. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@lefoudubaron I don’t see a prior threat that requires grotesquely unconstitutional means to deal with. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DickPolman1 Good. Trump would probably claim that because of himself people are hearing more and more about John Lewis these days. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Ed_Realist Sorry that I disappoint you yet again. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Actually, they are hacks who would happily sign on to use their thuggish tactics on behalf of a "falling junta dictator in a Third World country." They don't even have the good sense to realize that the Trump Show will be canceled in November. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuliaManhattan: Here's @Amazon's contract truck & crowds of contract workers colonizing #UWS's Amsterdam Avenue & using the entire widt… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

As I recall, Christie's people like Bill Stepien said a few years ago that we have to take risks by shutting down key lanes on the entrance to the George Washington Bridge. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newrepublic: .@MrWalterShapiro talks to @lmlauramarsh and @pareene about the grifters of the Trump reelection campaign in this episode… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I think this election will pivot on the skywriting vote. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JosephMoscato1 @JRubinBlogger Totally agree. Or simpler, "A better and smarter way to police our cities and towns." — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero Of course, a lot of those Republicans circa 2004 have seemingly endorsed Biden. — PolitiTweet.org