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Charles C. W. Cooke

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American by choice. Moderate to severe Italian wife. Senior Editor at National Review.

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1Feb 26, '24"What's your favorite sandwich?" “The spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A.” "Wrong!"38.2×1.8M9.8k1k664
2Jul 15, '23In which Jennifer Rubin writes a piece in the Washington Post on Friday that is based around the massive mistake that Business Insider made—and then corrected—on Tuesday. “Does she30.3×1.5M4.5k924104
3Jul 21, '23I read through FL’s new curriculum. It is difficult to convey the astonishing extent to which Kamala Harris is lying about it. To illustrate it, I've copied and pasted all 191 of i27.7×1.3M7.7k3.2k868
4Jul 6, '25Where to start? The leaflet referred to here—“A Last Appeal to Reason,” by Adolf Hitler—was dropped en masse on August 1, 1940. By that date: 1) Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy t20.5×985k7.5k1.5k1.3k
5Jan 21, '25This is illegal. The law was passed by Congress, and its terms are clear. They do not include this option. The executive can delay in such case as a written agreement is being fina20.1×962k4.4k830249
6Oct 21, '25This would be so impeachable there are barely words to describe it.19.9×953k16k1.4k461
7Nov 4, '24Just to lay down a marker by which you can judge me, in case everyone does indeed switch sides: The electoral college is an excellent institution, and my arguments for it are wholl17.6×843k5.8k668198
8Sep 21, '25This story consists of 20 paragraphs, and at no point in any of them does NBC relate that the shooter shouted “free Palestine!” before he opened fire. To find that out, I had to re16.5×790k19k5k901
9Oct 8, '25Is Katie Porter the least likeable politician in the entire world? She makes Elizabeth Warren seem like Dolly Parton.16.2×779k8k716205
10Oct 22, '25This is an amazing tweet. This couple chose to retire early, in their early 50s, on a $127,000/year government pension. They already get $5,500/year in subsidies for health insuran15.9×764k15k2k543
11Aug 4, '24An amazing fact about this election is that the Republicans could have chosen someone else.15.7×755k8.6k866100
13Oct 8, '24I understand that, in the real world, with mortgages and children and a job on the line, this can be difficult for good people to do. I honestly do. But the correct answer in this 15.2×730k7.6k1k214
14Aug 29, '24Instant classic from Kamala Harris in tonight's interview (excerpts are now up): "The climate crisis is real that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that inclu14.5×694k6k829199
15Jul 3, '24If you’re looking for a broader takeaway from all this, take how the press covered up Biden’s infirmity because it wanted to protect the Democrats, and apply it to literally every 14.1×677k9.5k2.7k535
16Sep 16, '25This is illegal. He’s not allowed to do this. There’s nothing in the statute permitting this. He isn’t “delaying” it; he is refusing to enforce this law.13.3×637k7.3k1k210
17Feb 18, '25All it took for Pete Buttigieg to finally take an interest in transportation was for him to no longer be the Secretary of Transportation.13.3×636k46k5k293
18Jul 22, '24Paid or not, this guy is truly one of the weirdest people in our political life.12.8×612k15k26678
19Mar 16, '25“We”?12.7×607k8.9k704178
20Nov 16, '24In other words, Joe Biden destroyed his presidency within two months of taking office by pushing a ridiculous spending binge that we all knew would be inflationary because Jon Meac12.6×603k4.7k819240
21Oct 2, '23Insane framing. They borrowed money and spent it on a product that they received. They then got a three year break from paying it back—at taxpayer expense. The media can’t cover th12×577k6k1.3k54
22Nov 9, '24This is an amazing clip, because it shows exactly how our debates end up being rigged by those who claim offense. The solution—“solution”—that is suggested is for Singleton to comp11.9×571k7.9k1.2k759
23Nov 18, '23We have an entire class of journalists that believes that nothing is real, and that everything is about words, and that the public’s obvious concern about the tangible problems tha11.8×564k4.1k882196
24Jun 19, '24No doubt the working people of America are thrilled to step in because, despite having received the service you took out the loan to buy, you couldn't be bothered to pay off $8,25011.6×556k9.2k1.6k160
25Jun 2, '25It’s interesting to note that the same people who pop up with “fascism expert here!” whenever anyone suggests that we ought to change the sales-tax rate always seem to stay deathly11.2×538k6.2k860267
26Sep 10, '24“They finally added an ‘Issues’ section to her website . . . Unfortunately for Harris, its release was undermined by a simple but telling error: The page’s source code revealed tha10.7×513k5.7k1.8k308
27Aug 25, '24An odd thing to tweet about someone who won’t do an interview and has renounced all her past positions without explanation.10.4×499k9k1.6k98
28Jul 17, '24I’m told by a doctor friend that Biden has that strain of Covid that requires him to quarantine until he’s officially the nominee of the Democratic Party. It’s a brutal mutation.10.3×493k12k1.5k203
29Oct 24, '25This remains the weirdest shutdown in years. The Democrats shut down the government, and have a set of particular demands to reopen it. They’re clear about those demands, but, at t10.0×478k10k1.2k247
30May 8, '25"Leo" is fine. But, in my opinion, the first American Pope ought to be called Wyatt or Randy or Chuck.9.8×473k19k814286
31May 8, '25Trump can still be made Pope, if only Mike Pence has the courage.9.8×470k8.6k665220
32Apr 9, '25One thing I genuinely like about Trump is that he always pulls the rug out from under his sycophants.9.3×447k4.3k511334
33Mar 26, '24I’m worried about this too. Imagine if, in a transparent attempt to control information, Twitter blocked access to true stories in major newspapers on the grounds that those storie9.1×438k6.1k954117
34Oct 30, '24The Politico story is wrong. Biden said what was initially reported.9.1×436k7.2k1.3k162
35Jul 4, '24This piece describes a political conspiracy. The people who orchestrated it extend well beyond Joe Biden. They include his most likely replacement—Kamala Harris. It cannot be fixed9.0×432k4.1k963290
36Nov 11, '24The Senate gets to decide who may be appointed to the executive branch. Any senator who is willing to diminish his own branch's power to please the leader of a different branch sho8.9×429k4.3k602110
37Jun 28, '24This is a great point. One of the big themes in the Federalist Papers—particularly where separation of powers is concerned—is that the main purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to p8.9×426k6.4k1k147
38Nov 4, '24Reiterating my view that every state should hire the people who revamped Florida’s election system after the debacle of 2000 and implement their system in the remaining 49.8.6×410k4.5k63999
39Jun 5, '25They can't grasp it, can they? The whole point here is that there's no such thing as "reverse discrimination." There's just discrimination. It attaches at the individual level. The8.5×409k7.4k1k280
40Aug 21, '24This is the Secretary of Commerce.8.5×408k7.9k1.9k335
41Aug 28, '24The press has started talking about Harris like my history teacher talked about ancient civilizations about which we had almost no information—and no plausible way of getting more.8.3×397k4.3k90175
42Aug 7, '24I’m not convinced that Tim Walz comes across in the way that I’m being told that Tim Walz comes across.7.8×375k5.3k37260
43Nov 11, '25Have you noticed that whenever the press does anything bad, your “two cents” is always that it’s the fault of the “right wing” for noticing, that it doesn’t actually matter, and th7.8×374k6.4k806165
44Oct 1, '24Can you imagine how loud the media drumbeat would be if all this were happening while an absent, senile, incapable Republican president were in office? But they got what they wante7.8×374k4.3k98166
45Apr 30, '24Just occupied the local BBQ joint and indignantly demanded brisket on vague human-rights grounds. Will update you all as necessary.7.6×365k5.8k335103
47Jul 21, '24Watch the press turn on a dime. Within an hour, Kamala Harris will be the greatest person in American history.7.6×363k7.3k97867
48Jul 19, '25At root, the NPR story and the Colbert story are the same: progressives took over a product, made it so that people didn’t want to pay it for it—whether via advertising, subscripti7.5×361k14k2.1k457
49Nov 27, '23“For those pointing out that my argument was stupid, rest assured that I am capable of making an even more stupid one if pushed.”7.5×358k4.7k50532
50Mar 6, '25It's truly unfortunate timing for Hunter Biden that his artistic inspiration dried up at the exact moment that his father ceased to be president.7.4×354k7.4k1.3k215
51Oct 18, '24This isn’t true. It might feel good to say it, but it’s not true. And if we make it true by redefining words, we’ll need new words to describe the immutable reality that remains.7.4×353k7.1k553137
52Sep 4, '25Indeed. This is a strong point from Mr. Posobiec, of the Mayflower Posobiecs.7.2×347k5.6k344203
53Mar 15, '25The filibuster is indispensable, and @kyrstensinema’s “told you so” is richly deserved.7.2×347k4.9k48366
54Jul 30, '24The Democrats are literally holding whites-only calls that are being praised by Richard Spencer, and MSNBC is busy insisting that a Dad of three mixed-race children wants only whit7.2×346k5.6k1.7k197
55Mar 16, '25Wait until they find out about the history of the [checks notes] entire German car industry.6.8×328k8.1k79084
56Oct 18, '25Oh, definitely. That’s why Mangione was charged with murder: Because of Donald Trump. Mangione was just hanging around in New York, minding his own business, and then along came Tr6.8×325k11k928230
57Feb 16, '25Margaret Brennan’s lunacy on free speech is shared—and devoutly believed—by an enormous number of people in the press, and by an even greater number of people who teach your childr6.0×287k7.7k1.3k161
58Jun 28, '24Robert Hur deserves an apology.5.9×284k5.3k83858
59Jun 8, '25Illegal immigrants are not legal immigrants, rioters are not protesters, and exercising explicit federal powers is not usurping the authority of the states. The press deliberately 5.8×277k9k2.2k362
60Oct 30, '24I’ve watched the video three times this morning—once slowed down to half-speed—and I’m beginning to hear an umlaut.5.5×265k4.2k31046
61Jul 25, '24No, he didn't "step" away. George Washington stepped away. Biden was pushed away. There is an enormous difference. And the thing is: We all just saw this happen. We read the pieces5.5×262k5.7k1.4k82
62Feb 8, '24In his defense, Biden is in better mental shape than both François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl.5.3×253k4.2k60841
63Apr 30, '25There is not. There has, in fact, never, ever been less of a clamoring for anything that is on offer. In the history of clamoring, no people has ever clamored less than the America5.2×249k5.9k934141
64Aug 27, '24She really is a couple of days away from saying that she's never been vice president.5.1×245k4.9k1.3k128
65Aug 14, '24Fun to watch the shift in the press from “Biden was the greatest president in a century,” when he was the nominee, to “Harris had nothing to do with all that,” now that he’s not.5.0×238k5.4k1.4k106
66Dec 10, '24I love this argument. I truly do. People post the most remarkably stupid things on the Internet, and then when everyone says "that was really, truly, amazingly stupid," the poster 4.9×237k5k54071
67Sep 25, '24Imagine how soulless you have to be to say this in public and then be able to sleep at night. Even President Biden isn’t pretending this any more.4.9×236k5.7k76061
68Sep 2, '24My eight-year-old is doing his math homework—division and multiplication, etc.—and he's noticeably quicker at anything that involves a seven. My wife eventually asked why that is, 4.8×230k4.8k21163
69Mar 31, '25I’m sure Le Pen was mixing party and parliamentary funds. But the thing is: a) so does everyone else in the EU parliament; b) the elevation of this into “embezzlement” is absurd an4.8×229k4.7k608185
70Apr 6, '25That’s because it isn’t true. As the DA has confirmed, she will not be—and cannot be—charged for having a miscarriage. She was charged because she threw the baby into a public tras4.8×228k4.7k81493
71Aug 30, '24She at no point did anything of the sort, and nor was she asked to.4.7×224k7.2k90049
72Jun 5, '25She’s not being punished for her father’s crimes, though. She’s been charged with nothing that he did last weekend. She’s being deported because she, in her own capacity, is an ill4.6×221k9.2k1.1k144
73Oct 8, '24Harris under the bus.4.6×219k4.5k46565
74Mar 26, '25Seems like a no-brainer to me. “Removing non-citizens from all welfare and entitlement programs, not just Medicaid, would save about $1 trillion over the next decade.”4.5×217k7.4k1.4k212
75Feb 28, '25The presumption of innocence as a cultural—not legal—norm is at its most useful when the person to whom it’s being applied hasn’t said publicly, “yes, I did that, it was me, I like4.4×211k4.3k659142
76May 13, '25Don't overthink it. They knew about Biden, just as we knew about Biden, and a supermajority of Americans knew about Biden. They lied about it, because they didn't want Trump to win4.3×206k7.3k1.3k124
77Jun 9, '25Every time.4.2×202k5.8k679124
78Sep 24, '25The Stochastic Terrorism Experts are very quiet, once again. It’s almost as if the concept was always cynical, partisan nonsense.4.2×202k4.2k638102
79Jan 23, '25That’s because it was bullshit. Hope this helps.4.1×196k6.6k58135
80Mar 13, '25He didn’t say this, but he did say—this week—that the tariffs were an “act of war.” So kind of the same, if you just brazenly lie about it.3.9×189k5.4k44189
81Sep 4, '25He is, though. The fact that lots of other people are kooks doesn’t make him less of one. It means that he’s a kook, and so are lots of other people.3.8×182k5.1k40785
82Mar 6, '25Wild that Biden tried to pretend that this was a problem caused by a lack of legislation, rather than by his total and deliberate unwillingness to enforce the law.3.8×181k4.3k760135
83Jun 10, '25This is a tell. If they were actually comfortable with what's happening they wouldn't have to pretend it's something else entirely.3.7×176k4.1k45897
84Sep 25, '24All I want is an interviewer who will ask “but what does that actually mean?” three times in a row or more. It would end the careers of both presidential candidates in ten minutes 3.6×174k4.5k55470
85Feb 23, '24BREAKING: After an impressive interview, Google Gemini has been chosen as the new president of Harvard.3.5×166k4.8k61941
86Sep 13, '25He was not, and this is grotesque.3.4×165k4.3k42952
87Aug 15, '24One might even call it the "Biden-Harris administration."3.4×163k5.8k69734
88Oct 30, '24If you read the transcript, you’ll see that Hillary actually meant deplorable’s.3.3×159k5.7k62364
90Oct 24, '25But you literally did make this up? She was asked if there were any other construction projects at the White House, and she answered that narrow question. You clipped all the conte3.2×155k5.5k63493
91Sep 16, '25So, just to check, given the encouragingly universal reaction to Bondi I’m seeing this morning: We’re all agreed, going forward, that there’s no such thing as hate speech, and that3.2×152k6.8k75897
93Aug 11, '24The weirdest thing about the press’s current behavior is that it has forgotten both that Joe Biden is still president and that Kamala Harris is the vice-president. The whole thing 3.1×147k5k1.2k65
94Oct 28, '25Not a single problem would be solved by doing this, and many other problems would be made considerably worse.3.0×145k5.2k40555
95Dec 2, '24My worry here is that if Joe Biden lied about this, maybe he told other lies as president, too?2.9×137k4.6k42450
96Jun 4, '25This is hilarious. [2022-2024] "Everything Biden did was correct." "Everything Biden did was correct." "Everything Biden did was correct." "Everything Biden did was correct." "Ever2.7×129k5.6k684190
97Jul 19, '25Perhaps Colbert can go to NPR, which has a built-in audience of millions of rural Americans who I’m told leave their radio dials perpetually tuned to it in case it has unique infor2.2×107k6.8k68069
98Oct 21, '25New James Bond plot just dropped! In his toughest challenge yet, Bond has to thwart a dastardly decades-long Russian influence operation that has convinced the American president t2.2×106k4.2k498118
100Oct 23, '25Which is . . . exactly what he wants you to think.2.0×97k6.7k31099

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