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#SOTU 🧵
1/ This was an amazing speech, period. Many will speak to the iconic moments, such as when Biden turned the tables on the GOP and made them commit to protecting SS and Medicare, but my focus here will be on the many things Dems stood for while McCarthy remained seated…
1/ This was an amazing speech, period. Many will speak to the iconic moments, such as when Biden turned the tables on the GOP and made them commit to protecting SS and Medicare, but my focus here will be on the many things Dems stood for while McCarthy remained seated…
2/ I’m sure I didn’t catch every time McCarthy declined to stand, but the list was long, so this should more than capture at least the general flavor:
- Job Creation
- Preserving democracy
- Bipartisan bills
- Building a strong middle class
- 50-year low unemployment
- Job Creation
- Preserving democracy
- Bipartisan bills
- Building a strong middle class
- 50-year low unemployment
3/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:
- Creating American Jobs
- Americans starting new businesses
- Bipartisan chips and science act
- Supply chains beginning in America
- Great-paying manufacturing jobs in Ohio (you’re welcome Gym)
- Bipartisan infrastructure
- Creating American Jobs
- Americans starting new businesses
- Bipartisan chips and science act
- Supply chains beginning in America
- Great-paying manufacturing jobs in Ohio (you’re welcome Gym)
- Bipartisan infrastructure
💯High energy and hopeful message. "We're just getting started," @POTUS @JoeBiden
Gutsy. "I'll see you at the groundbreaking," he said to the Republicans who did not vote for the infrastructure law but are happy to take the money and build the projects.
#SOTU #DarkBrandon
Gutsy. "I'll see you at the groundbreaking," he said to the Republicans who did not vote for the infrastructure law but are happy to take the money and build the projects.
#SOTU #DarkBrandon
"We're building back pride."
That's the line. That's the message. Thank you, Joe.
That's the line. That's the message. Thank you, Joe.
😍This is my love language. "The tax system is not fair. It's not fair."
Huge applause when he corners the Rs into agreeing they won't cut social security
#SOTU
Huge applause when he corners the Rs into agreeing they won't cut social security
#SOTU
the ganja malarkey will end #darkbrandon
folks, you've got to pass the dutchie on the left hand side, im serious ladies and gentlemen
(for an american with a jamaican background, i have the most terrible marijuana references and i am sorry. in my defense my whole family is a bunch of straight edge types. my dad was literally the only *reggae musician* who didn't smoke weed.)
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Biden's latest address Is unprecedented in a lot of ways, and I've seen a lot of interpretations... but I haven't seen anyone really grasp the implications or the real Horror of what it probably represents.
Biden's latest address Is unprecedented in a lot of ways, and I've seen a lot of interpretations... but I haven't seen anyone really grasp the implications or the real Horror of what it probably represents.
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Firs things first: this Aesthetic does not happen by accident
Prepared announcements like this that are meant to define election cycle are prepared weeks in advance, speeches pre-written, optics (Colors) chosen, the mere choice to have Marines involved the input of dozens
Firs things first: this Aesthetic does not happen by accident
Prepared announcements like this that are meant to define election cycle are prepared weeks in advance, speeches pre-written, optics (Colors) chosen, the mere choice to have Marines involved the input of dozens
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We've seen the memes... How Biden looked like every knockoff villain in pop culture history.
We've seen the memes... How Biden looked like every knockoff villain in pop culture history.
"The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you get one more yard"
The Espionage Act investigation into the former traitor-in-chief brings worse news for him and co each day now.
We are having to WAIT for justice, and even for basic national security.
Every day you get one more yard"
The Espionage Act investigation into the former traitor-in-chief brings worse news for him and co each day now.
We are having to WAIT for justice, and even for basic national security.
We? Yes we. I'm a New Zealander and like people in every other country outside the US, I can see that these crimes led to a clear (and possibly imminent) threat to national security everywhere.
No one knows how much damage has already been done. We may never know.
No one knows how much damage has already been done. We may never know.
This discussion on the day's events is pretty informative and accessible:
The four panelists are among the best of the best.
The four panelists are among the best of the best.
At some point, I think #jagarhar and #nafo are going to be a useful comparison to make in terms of popular-movement responses to disinformation.
Both cases are user-generated content movements with strong personal affiliation components.
180° opposite cultures, though.
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Both cases are user-generated content movements with strong personal affiliation components.
180° opposite cultures, though.
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Three sources on #jagarhar:
dw.com/en/german-anti…
theguardian.com/world/2019/jan…
bbc.com/news/blogs-tre…
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theguardian.com/world/2019/jan…
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“My top-level, expert legal analysis of the [Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI search] affidavit is: Why ain’t this dude in jail? What does this man have to do to go to jail?”
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
“Just the classification markings referred to in this [redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant] affidavit — made the hair on the back of my neck stand up… Literally human lives can be at stake.” @FrankFigliuzzi1
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“There is a feeling here that [if] Merrick Garland decides not to prosecute Trump, how do you hold anyone else accountable for violating classification rules going forward in the U.S. government?”@JaxAlemany
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“This was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditated misconduct — a cover-up [with] false statements and lies to Congress and the American people.” #LockTrumpUp
“Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, says that Trump wants the Department of Justice to release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.”@therecount
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
CPAC 2022: “We are all domestic terrorists.”
“#EspionageAct [doesn’t] mention classification at all. It talks about a specific type of information: national defense… The real question is, why would Trump WANT to declassify secrets that could harm the U.S.?”
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
“Trump has still not said a word of explanation as to why he took the documents, why he did not return them all, and what he was doing with them for over 18 months.” @AWeissmann_
🎶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblack…
🎶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblack…
“[Donald Trump] has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again… You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.” Adam Schiff
I am finished 😂
Look who is following my parody account @SenatorMyBoo
Not a WHOLE US CONGRESSMAN!!!
The entire Hill is going to be calling Senator Jon Ossoff “Senator My Boo” by Monday
Look who is following my parody account @SenatorMyBoo
Not a WHOLE US CONGRESSMAN!!!
The entire Hill is going to be calling Senator Jon Ossoff “Senator My Boo” by Monday
I need you to understand there is no way someone can confuse “Senator My Boo” for the real Senator Jon Ossoff 😂
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I am living for this chaos
All the #DarkBrandon you can handle...Part 1:
All the #DarkBrandon you can handle...Part 2:
All the #DarkBrandon you can handle...Part 3:
“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter…It mustn’t happen again. We can’t let it. We simply can’t let it happen again.”
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
“California [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all…
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
“Freedom is under attack in [Florida]… In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom.”
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
“That could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortion—on the order of the U.S. Supreme Court… They will now wield [power] however they want…to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.”@maddow
“What makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Court…would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? I’ll tell you the answer: THEY WON’T…as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our country…”
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
“[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ‘60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.’ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.”
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott
Just 3 minutes after President* Trump’s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking “courage,” a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Dr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was…a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
“I've lost my name [and] sense of security—all because a group of people…scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.”
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker
“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
