Bruce Bartlett

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1Jan 11, '25Fun fact: Adolph Hitler was also a convicted felon when he took office in 1933.138×3.5M150k13k2.5k
2Oct 28, '24As long as I live, I will never respect anyone who votes for Trump in 2024.68.3×1.7M61k7.9k493
3May 10, '25Reagan did 11 times.53.2×1.3M90k5.4k759
4Jul 8, '24Why don't we call them what they are: concentration camps. Anyone who can't see that immigrants are to Republicans what Jews were to the Nazis is willfully blind. All authoritarian48.4×1.2M15k6.1k446
5Feb 2, '25Am I the only one out there who knows that the Smoot-Hawley tariff was the principal trigger for the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression?47.7×1.2M20k3.8k1.4k
6Sep 7, '24Hillary's emails were a story every day despite no actual wrongdoing, but Trump's felony convictions and criminal charges are non-news. Biden's age was front page news for weeks, f44.5×1.1M38k9.4k602
7Jul 1, '24Hitler passed a law called the Enabling Act to legalize his dictatorship. Republicans plan their own Enabling Act called Project 2025. SCOTUS is letting us know it will rubber stam40.8×1M32k9.9k928
8Oct 12, '24What my governor did is clearly illegal. It's illegal because if you drop people from the voter registration rolls less than 90 days before an election they don't have time to fix 34.9×882k23k5.6k305
9May 21, '23The real cost of a Treasury default isn't that the economy will crash and unemployment rise, it's that interest rates on Treasury securities will be higher FOREVER. This will cost 33.1×836k7.7k2.2k129
10Jan 25, '25The most frightening thing about Trump's blizzard of executive orders isn't their substance so much as the certainty that he has no clue as to what he's doing. He's just signing pa25.9×654k22k3.4k651
11Oct 25, '25Our asshole president is the biggest baby in the history of the earth. The Canadian ad that hurt his feelings was 100% accurate. I know, I worked for Ronald Reagan in the White Hou24.7×625k26k5.8k451
12Oct 5, '24Democrats are running a very good race under exceptionally good economic conditions. Republicans are running a very poor race with an exceptionally weak candidate at the top of the21.9×552k6.3k889160
13Jun 12, '24Former Treasury economist here--she's right.18.6×469k11k3.6k216
14Jul 6, '24Joe Biden may be 81, but Rupert Murdoch is 93 and still working every day to destroy American, British, and Australian democracy. Murdoch is aided by Charles Koch, age 88. Why does16.7×421k21k6.2k262
15Mar 4, '17Take Nixon in the deepest days of his Watergate paranoia, subtract 50 IQ points, add Twitter, and you have Trump today.16.6×028k13k11
16Feb 3, '25When the nation is in danger, we can depend on Democrats to do nothing.16.4×414k3.3k463231
18Feb 5, '24The movement of the New York Times from the left to the right is the biggest untold media story of the last 25 years. It's disguised by the fact that the rest of the legacy media h15.4×390k2.3k700139
19Jun 13, '24How did ordinary Germans treat known Nazis after the war? Were they treated as lepers or did people pretend that Hitler never happened? I ask because someday the Trump insanity wil13.5×342k3.8k69569
20May 29, '23I'm preserving this tweet because Dinesh will probably delete it. I would.12.8×324k2.6k574117
21Sep 17, '24Speaking of assassination attempts, how come this one completely disappeared off the radar screen?12.7×322k16k5.6k153
22Nov 9, '16The lesson of this election is that when the media normalize racism, sexism, fascism, lying & stupidity, it has political consequences.11.3×013k12k0
23May 23, '23I don't think President Biden realizes how dismaying it is to his supporters to see him negotiating with a bunch of unserious clowns attempting to extort totally unjustified polici11.1×281k3k55426
24Oct 28, '17I will not be able to vote for my old friend Ed Gillespie for governor. His pandering to racists & neo-Confederates is reprehensible.10.9×024k6.5k0
25Sep 7, '24Trump's obvious mental impairment is the biggest unreported story in America. Every time he speaks, nothing but gibberish comes out. But in stories about his speeches, the quotes a10.3×259k6.6k1.8k65
26Feb 5, '18The stock market just noticed that an unstable lunatic is president of the United States.9.4×020k5.9k1
27Jul 31, '24Unless 100% of my personal demands are I met I will vote to abolish democracy and impose a right-wing dictatorship.8.2×208k5.8k53847
28Sep 1, '24Trump's advanced age should be a major story. So should the failure to release his tax returns or a health plan. The failure of so many of his former cabinet members to endorse him8.2×206k3.7k1.1k84
30Mar 30, '23As predicted, CNN's lurch to the right cost it viewers on the left while gaining zero new viewers on the right.8.0×203k3.4k39370
31Sep 30, '24They say there are no atheists in foxholes. I bet there aren't many libertarians in a flood waiting for the free market to rescue them.8.0×201k7.2k1.3k145
32Apr 9, '22Rush Limbaugh left nothing behind. No one quotes him, no one references him, his vast fortune didn't go to support any of the causes he supposedly believed in. The various Fox News7.1×018k2.6k103
33Jul 1, '24People must understand that today's court decisions didn't appear in a vacuum. They are the culmination of a 50-year plan by conservatives that has taken place in plain sight. But 6.6×168k3k679111
34May 10, '17In other news, director of the Census Bureau was forced out today, giving GOP opportunity to do more gerrymandering.6.4×05k7.4k1
35Nov 27, '17Literally the second the ink is dry on the tax cut, deficit hawks will emerge from their hibernation, where they have had nary a word of criticism about increasing the deficit by $6.2×010k5.2k1
36Sep 8, '24Learned a new word today: "sane-washing." It's the process whereby the media cover up Trump's unintelligible gibberish by cleaning up his quotes, never reporting his mental deterio6.1×155k5.7k1.7k89
37Jul 31, '23Huge difference--Clarence Thomas is one of the most powerful public officials in America, Hunter Biden is a private citizen with no power whatsoever. Conflating their ethics proble6.1×154k3.5k57012
38Sep 14, '24I have said before that immigrants are to Republicans today exactly what Jews were to the Nazis--someone to hate irrationally. I will keep saying it as long as it's true.5.8×148k2.5k70349
39Mar 20, '18I am not familiar with any period in American history when an entire political party was as frightened of its own leader as Republicans are of Trump. They are all scared little chi5.8×012k3.5k7
40Jun 23, '18Should be noted that Sarah Sanders used her official White House press secretary Twitter account to try and hurt a private business and settle a personal score. If anyone in the Ob5.8×012k3.5k8
42Nov 20, '18Why is this news? When Brett Kavanaugh was deeply in debt and suddenly had his debts paid off, no one in the mainstream media cared.5.5×012k3.1k23
43Aug 17, '24When you are running for president and your wife won't appear with you in public.5.2×132k6.9k58715
44Sep 28, '24One thing that's curious about Trump is that despite serving as president for four years, he's just as ignorant about everything to do with government as he was in 2016. You'd thin4.7×117k6.6k1.4k50
45Sep 9, '24Immediately after the debate, Harris should call an impromptu press conference and systematically go through the questions and Trump's answers (or non-answers). She should stay all4.6×116k4.5k96545
46Dec 16, '17The New York Times should be ashamed of itself for describing Marco Rubio this way: "A longtime champion of the working class..." This is a total crock. No Republican gives a rat's4.6×08.5k3.1k0
47Jul 7, '24Joe Biden is like Coke. Lots of people at the company thought a newer, sweeter version of the product would sell better. Old Coke was replaced by New Coke, which all the pollsters 4.1×103k2.7k56255
48Mar 12, '17The most racist statement I have ever heard from a sitting US congressman.3.8×06.1k3.2k0
49Sep 30, '17Trump has spent more than $70 MILLION of taxpayer dollars golfing. That would provide a lot of aid to Puerto Rico.3.5×04.6k3.5k0
50Jun 21, '23Free article. The Supreme Court is an ethical cesspool, and Chief Justice Roberts does nothing about it.3.5×88k2.4k1.1k33
51Oct 16, '24The reason why Hillary's emails were an issue in 2016 was simply because Trump talked about them all the time, which made a nothing issue into something. Harris can do the same thi3.5×87k2.2k53839
52Aug 24, '24I think a key reason why Democrats have a hard time reaching out to Trump supporters is because they simply can't conceive of why anyone would support an obviously corrupt, incompe3.4×85k2k24951
53Nov 29, '17Marco Rubio admits that the huge tax give-away for the rich he will vote for tomorrow just sets the stage for slashing Social Security & Medicare later. If only there were some3.1×04k3k0
54Mar 2, '18Here's how it works--the "liberal" New York Times has 3 right-wing columnists who each write 2 columns a week; the right wing Wall Street Journal has no liberal columnists. "Libera3.1×06k2k15
55Apr 5, '20Obama left Trump with fully-stocked warehouses full of pandemic supplies. When Trump says that Obama didn't, Trump is lying.3.0×04.1k2.7k143
56Apr 8, '20Biden was never my choice for the Democratic nomination. I supported Warren and would have supported several others before I got to Biden. But his election is literally a matter of3.0×07.4k1.2k7
57Sep 14, '24If you like getting Listeria from the Boar's Head lunch meat sandwich you ate, you are going to love Project 2025, which eliminates much of what little regulation of the food indus2.9×74k5.4k2.3k60
58Dec 6, '17Democrats are so stupid. The obvious thing to say about the Al Franken business is that he will resign the day Trump resigns.2.9×04.7k1.9k0
59Aug 12, '25Seniors should know that the COLA on their Social Security benefits is tied to the CPI. If the CPI is artificially reduced, as Trump wants, your benefits will be reduced.2.9×72k3.1k1.6k163
60Aug 19, '24I've already stated that I will vote for Harris/Walz, but would like to remind people that I, like my friend Michael Luttig, was a Republican for a long time. I was driven out of t2.8×70k3.4k68631
61Mar 17, '17Trump is on track to spend $1 billion in 4 years housing his wife in NYC and vacationing in Mar-a-Lago virtually every week.2.5×02.3k2.6k0
62Mar 16, '22Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups: "If you had to guess, what percentage of American adults..."2.5×04.2k862553
63Sep 10, '18Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot, Trial Reveals2.5×02.2k2.5k52
64Nov 28, '17The funny thing is all the Republicans voting to increase the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion will switch 180 degrees to being deficit-hawks the second Trump signs the tax cut. T2.3×03.7k1.9k0
65Dec 16, '16I hereby pledge the same degree of loyalty to President Trump that his party gave to President Obama for 8 long years.2.2×04k1.6k0
66Jul 10, '19Kansas raises taxes and its economy booms--the exact opposite of what Art Laffer, Steve Moore and other right-wing economists predicted.2.2×03.9k1.6k101
67Mar 26, '17I'm old enough to remember when the State Department protested this sort of thing, from 1945 to 1-19-17.2.1×03k1.9k0
68Dec 16, '16The lesson of the last 8 years is that Republicans can do anything, no matter how undemocratic, without ever paying a political price.2.1×02.9k1.8k0
69Oct 22, '17Republicans plan to sell their tax bill as "revenue-neutral" using Laffer curve nonsense that bankrupted Kansas.2.0×02.1k2.1k0
70Oct 15, '24It's quite clever for Harris to play clips of Trump's mental deterioration at her rallies. It serves two purposes--it brings his dementia to the attention of reporters who appear i2.0×50k2.2k48135
71Nov 10, '17Prediction--the second the tax cut is signed, OMB will issue new projections showing the deficit is far worse than imagined. Bond market & Pete Peterson-funded groups will dema2.0×03.2k1.6k0
72Nov 18, '17On Lawrence O'Donnell's show tonight I said that the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which lowered the corporate tax rate by 12 points, led real wages to fall for 10 years. Here is the dat1.9×02.1k2k1
73Dec 26, '17If we don't starve people how can we force them to take shitty jobs?1.9×03.2k1.4k0
74Mar 5, '20The Trump regime is the most corrupt in American history.1.8×03.2k1.4k77
75Nov 18, '17White House says we don't have the money to pay for a trivial amount of disaster relief but we absolutely must raise the deficit by $1.5 trillion to give the Trumps of the world a 1.8×02.9k1.6k0
76Oct 1, '17Has any Republican in Congress said a word about the crisis in Puerto Rico? Just asking.1.8×03.4k9540
77Nov 24, '17Strange how the media never tired of repeating Trump's baseless charges against Hillary, but seldom ever reports about the ongoing suffering in Puerto Rico, children going w/o care1.7×02.7k1.5k0
78Sep 23, '18So Kavanaugh has a calendar from 1982 that does not show any rapes on his schedule and a list of 65 women who say he didn't rape them. Is this the sort of evidence he finds compell1.7×03.5k9846
79Oct 29, '19Did CBS radio hire Joseph Goebbels to give commentaries during World War II to provide balance for Edward R. Murrow's news reports? I think not. So why does CNN hire Trumpsters to 1.6×03.5k87914
80Aug 26, '17Why was slavery racist when 100% of slaves were black?1.6×02.6k1.3k0
81Feb 12, '18Yet another example of a Trump appointee getting away with ripping off the taxpayer.1.5×02k1.5k0
82Jul 30, '20That argument didn't work at Nuremberg either.1.5×03.5k80520
83Nov 11, '17Neville Chamberlain on Adolph Hitler, 1938: I believe him. Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin, 2017: I believe him.1.5×02.6k1.2k0
84Dec 6, '17The issue is not whether charges against Franken are true; I assume they are & charges against Trump are also true. But I don't hear progressives demanding that Trump resign, o1.5×02.4k9810
85Dec 20, '17If Susan Collins believed her bullshit rationalization for the tax cut, she's stupid. I don't think she's stupid. I think she's a brazen liar.1.4×02.7k9060
86Nov 25, '18I'm old enough to remember when firing weapons across the border into another country was an act of war.1.4×03.3k7591
87Oct 16, '18Complete nonsense. They never believed that lie for a second. The loss of revenue was always expected and a prime feature of the tax cut. The goal was to create a deficit so large 1.4×02.4k1.1k10
88Dec 23, '17We don't allow foreigners to make campaign contributions because they are not eligible to vote here. So why can corporations make campaign contributions when they cannot vote?1.4×02.4k1k0
89Feb 13, '17I'm old enough to remember when Republicans were concerned about the mishandling of classified information--3 weeks ago.1.3×02.1k1.2k0
90Jun 24, '22If Joe Biden was smart (I know, I know) he would announce a federal maternal care program tomorrow that paid for all deliveries and other birth costs, months of maternal and postma1.1×02.6k47940
91Jul 1, '19I don't care how far left the Democrats move, I will still vote for the Democratic nominee over Trump. The only question is what philosophy will gain the maximum number of electora1.1×02.5k45710
92Mar 28, '20Your daily reminder that Trump's stupidity, incompetence, corruption and criminal malfeasance made the virus far, far worse than it had to be. He has blood on his hands.1.1×02.1k73440
93Dec 11, '17Steve Mnuchin is the worst Treasury secretary in history. Alexander Hamilton is rolling over in his grave.1.1×02.2k7310
95Apr 7, '18The stupidest, most incompetent Treasury secretary in history.1.1×02.3k5361
96Jun 27, '20The entire budget of Fox News should be treated as an illegal campaign contribution to Trump and the Republican Party.1.0×02.1k6207
97Dec 2, '17Martha Stewart went to jail for it.1.0×02k6730
98Feb 24, '18God help me. I'm now retweeting Bill Kristol not out of irony but because I actually agree with what he is saying.0.9×02.4k1910

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