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Joe Manchin is a Coal Baron. Joe Manchin has a Dirty Empire. Through these operations Manchin receives hundreds of thousands of revenue every year. [...] For decades, they have relied on mines and refuse piles cited for dozens of Mine Safety and Health...
by CorpFlunky
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on Sat Oct 16, 2021 at 09:23 AM PDT
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It appears that there is a choice facing Democrats: (1) Raise the debt ceiling without GOP votes via reconciliation or (2) vote for BIF and BBB via reconciliation. The GOP is essentially betting that Democrats will be the responsible ones and give up...
by ManOfNoCountry
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on Tue Oct 05, 2021 at 12:08 AM PDT
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We have to make the Republicans acknowlege that Joseph Biden was duly elected as President of the United States as a condition of being seated as a member of Congress. In addition, Congress must have a rule thats states that anyone who...
by HappyDestiny
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on Sat Dec 12, 2020 at 05:18 AM PST
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Senator Mitch McConnell plays hardball. He did it as Minority Leader when he gummed up judicial nominations by abusing the filibuster and then again as Majority Leader when he refused to even consider Merrick Garland and dozens of other...
by CubanoInLA
261 comments
on Sun Nov 08, 2020 at 09:21 PM PST
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Since we are all social distancing for the foreseeable future who would you like to see get the permanent position at MSNBC at 7 PM? One of the hosts of another show or one of the regular guests/substitute hosts? John Heilemann is subbing for Nicole...
by ProjectsKid
96 comments
on Mon Mar 16, 2020 at 02:14 PM PDT
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Chris Matthews opened Monday night’s show with a surprise announcement, saying, “Let me start with my headline tonight. I’m retiring. This is the last Hardball on MSNBC.” Matthews went on to thank the audience and talk warmly about his career: “Every...
by Walter Einenkel
418 comments
on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 04:42 PM PST
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Chris Matthews just announced at the start of his Hardball broadcast that today will be the show’s last episode. He made it sound like he had come to mutual agreement with MSNBC to end their relationship. It also sounded like it may have been about...
by According to Fish
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on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 04:06 PM PST
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Developing, I just heard him. Will update
by El Mito
34 comments
on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 04:03 PM PST
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Chris Matthews opened tonight’s “Hardball” by announcing his retirement after conversations with MSNBC. He said that tonight will be his last show. Matthews said it was time to make way for a “younger generation.” I would guess that some of his recent...
by Charles Jay
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on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 04:07 PM PST
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Holy mother of god, grab your pearls, kidz.
Ken Starr has some “concerns” he’d like you to be aware of, and no, it is not that A.G. Barr has both shared an ongoing criminal investigative report from the DOJ with the White House (a former ‘red line’)...
by 4CasandChlo
42 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2019 at 05:00 PM PDT
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For years Donald Trump has been hiding his tax returns like Jeff Dahmer guarded the crisper drawer in his Frigidaire.
The question has always been “why?”
We all have an inkling, but David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
161 comments
on Sat Apr 13, 2019 at 08:59 AM PDT
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It’s only MSNBC — Hardball and All In with Chris Hayes mind you, but I’m seeing a shift in how the MSM is viewing Kavanaugh. And it ain’t good news for Kavanaugh. Maybe the Kavanaugh nomination to the SCOTUS is in real trouble?
First up, I tuned...
by Merlin1963
59 comments
on Mon Sep 17, 2018 at 05:36 PM PDT
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If this Pennsylvania focus group of Trump supporters led by Emory University is any indication of what’s happening on a national level, it’s another sign Donald Trump may very well not make it to the end of the year. When his supporters begin to turn,...
by Leslie Salzillo
22 comments
on Thu Aug 31, 2017 at 02:06 PM PDT
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Trump does (did) have a loyalty oath. In my opinion, Spicer and other members of the Trump administration signed loyalty oaths.
Conservative Kathleen Parker said on “Hard Ball” — I have a friend who is leaving because she refused to sign...
by john s mill
142 comments
on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 06:18 PM PDT
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A few hours before the wealthy orange barbarian Donald Trump decided to blow things up in order to stop the disastrous coverage of his equally disastrous presidency, Chris Matthews had four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey on his show Hardball. Gen....
by Walter Einenkel
85 comments
on Fri Apr 07, 2017 at 09:58 AM PDT
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Very simply, the transcript from Chris Matthews’ closing Thursday night. I guess when he gets mad, he can really excel at what he does.
Tomorrow’s Friday. If the president were to rise at ...
by EducatetheMasses
334 comments
on Fri Mar 17, 2017 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews decided to support fascism
CHRIS MATTHEWS (HOST): I'm joined right now by Margaret Carlson of the Daily Beast and Eli Stokols of Politico. I know -- and Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post. We don't have...
by voracious
318 comments
on Thu Feb 09, 2017 at 09:12 PM PST
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When the political costs to the GOP is greater being associated with Trump’s american carnage than the cost of pissing off Trump’s rapid base, we will see either impeachment proceedings or a way to invoke the 25th amendment. At this point we can...
by palop
21 comments
on Thu Feb 02, 2017 at 06:42 AM PST
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I know all you folks love Joe Biden. I don’t. One of the reasons why is his phony white working class schtick. Watch him on with Tweety last night
The whitewashing of the racial element of why “white working class” voters disdain Democrats is, to...
by Armando
433 comments
on Wed Oct 26, 2016 at 09:56 AM PDT
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I usually avoid Chris Matthews but tonight he is actually allowing other people to talk and Joy Ann Reid is kicking the shit out of Michele Bachmann. If you decide to watch for yourself, skip past Bachmann’s intro because she calls Hillary Clinton...
by voracious
29 comments
on Fri Oct 07, 2016 at 04:36 PM PDT
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