Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

From my @guardian piece on guns: "Tipping points exist in political life, even in a gun-saturated land like America. As the late economist Herbert Stein memorably declared, 'If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.'” https://t.co/mzxrNiOJyA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LukeEpplin: And, yes, for anyone wondering, Charles Schulz did tackle the issue of gun control. Here's a strip from December 17, 1988.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Message for de Blasio: Despite being mayor of the richest city in America, Marianne Williamson has 10 times as many donors and raised three times as much money. https://t.co/vPFmiGKYbb — PolitiTweet.org

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Not every grifter in DC is in the administration. — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe they can also ask Trump whether he blames Obama or maybe Biden personally for the security breach that allowed the Duchy of Grand Fenwick to obtain the Q-bomb. — PolitiTweet.org

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The jurist who ended the 1994 baseball strike, as I recall. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady @dkahanerules @joelmsiegel @hgoldman77 By the way, one of my favorite NY words is "taxpayer" to describe a two-story building. What's fascinating is that some of these spots (like the corner of 85th and Broadway) have temporary buildings for 30 or 40 years. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dkahanerules @EBOlady @joelmsiegel @hgoldman77 Thrilled that we agree on something economic. But we both agree that empty storefronts, chain clothing stores, bank branches and chain drug stores do not a city make. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady @joelmsiegel @hgoldman77 Don't know since I first read about this problem in a piece on Soho about two years ago. All of this makes me (a non-real-estate magnate) passionately support commercial rental control for small businesses. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady @joelmsiegel @hgoldman77 I think it is because the landlords don't have the money they've borrowed based on the aspirational rent. So the biggest threat is the bank calling in the loan. So they deal with the carrying costs in hopes that someday, a new drugstore chain will arrive on 86th Street. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady @joelmsiegel @hgoldman77 Yup. I have seen this is about four different articles in places like the WSJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joelmsiegel @EBOlady @hgoldman77 From what I’ve read , a lot of it is that landlords have loans based on a certain aspirational rent level. But there are only so many banks. But if they lower rents to meet the market, the banks call in their loans. — PolitiTweet.org

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There used to be West Side Judaica, West Side Barbers and West Side Laundry all next to each other. Great old NYC places and the least original store names in history. — PolitiTweet.org

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@terryshumaker And somehow this has become a lonely crusade as if the DNC mandating 130,000 donors for the September debates was discovered on a third set of stone tablets found on Mount Sinai. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would like to know how much money worthy candidates like Klobuchar, Booker and Castro have squandered on online advertising to meet DNC’s cockamamie debate rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron Hate the show. Respect most of the candidates. — PolitiTweet.org

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I believe that the DNC requires all candidates who appear in a debate to agree not to participate in any debates that are not sanctioned by the DNC. So if the rejected hold their own debate, they can’t be in future real debates. So there is no kiddie table next door. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomdiemer You missed my subsequent apology for not explicitly saying what I thought was obvious — that this was a joke. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @suellentrop: Agree with @MrWalterShapiro that the DNC debate rules for September created a perverse--and probably unanticipated--incent… — PolitiTweet.org

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My piece from Detroit post-debate. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @newrepublic: This is a time when the candidates should be going local, focusing on the early races in Iowa and New Hampshire. But Perez… — PolitiTweet.org

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@kcfennessy @nminow “This is the life we’ve chosen.” It fits journalism almost as well as it does the mob. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The DNC is encouraging bad strategy. This is money that should be spent organizing in Iowa.” That's a 2020 campaign manager to me about how Tom Perez is forcing candidates to squander millions on premature online ads to qualify for a September debate. https://t.co/kYwYjA0sFK — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newrepublic: Candidates should be focusing on retail politicking in Iowa and New Hampshire. Instead, they're wasting money trying to me… — PolitiTweet.org

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@page88 Tulsi billboards have been in Manchester NH for months. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yikes, I guess I have to learn how to use "it's a joke"emojis. Sorry if it was unclear. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think it is now beyond dispute that de Blasio has convinced everyone that he is most likable candidate on the debate stage. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm waiting for the over-wrought headline or TV chyron: "A Crucial Debate for Gabbard." — PolitiTweet.org

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Most moving piece that you will read today. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @jbenton: Honestly, you could catalog all journalism's faults just from watching debate moderators. An obsession w/conflict over explana… — PolitiTweet.org