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#SOTU šŸ§µ
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 seatedā€¦
2/ Iā€™m sure I didnā€™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
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 (youā€™re welcome Gym)
- Bipartisan infrastructure
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šŸ’ÆHigh 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
"We're building back pride."
That's the line. That's the message. Thank you, Joe.
šŸ˜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
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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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šŸ§µ1/

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.
2/

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
3/

We've seen the memes... How Biden looked like every knockoff villain in pop culture history.
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"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.

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.
This discussion on the day's events is pretty informative and accessible:



The four panelists are among the best of the best.
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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.

180Ā° opposite cultures, though.

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#NAFO got "recognized" by the @DefenceU official account, so there'll be more news articles I'm sure...


3/10
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ā€œMy top-level, expert legal analysis of the [Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI search] affidavit is: Why ainā€™t this dude in jail? What does this man have to do to go to jail?ā€

@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
ā€œJust the classification markings referred to in this [redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant] affidavit ā€” made the hair on the back of my neck stand upā€¦ Literally human lives can be at stake.ā€ @FrankFigliuzzi1

@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
ā€œThere 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?ā€@JaxAlemany

@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
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ā€œThis was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditated misconduct ā€” a cover-up [with] false statements and lies to Congress and the American people.ā€ #LockTrumpUp
ā€œTrumpā€™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.ā€@therecount

#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
CPAC 2022: ā€œWe are all domestic terrorists.ā€

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ā€œ#EspionageAct [doesnā€™t] mention classification at all. It talks about a specific type of information: national defenseā€¦ The real question is, why would Trump WANT to declassify secrets that could harm the U.S.?ā€
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
ā€œTrump 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.ā€ @AWeissmann_

šŸŽ¶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblackā€¦
ā€œ[Donald Trump] has betrayed our national security, and he will do so againā€¦ You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. Whatā€™s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.ā€ Adam Schiff

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I am finished šŸ˜‚

Look who is following my parody account @SenatorMyBoo

Not a WHOLE US CONGRESSMAN!!!

The entire Hill is going to be calling Senator Jon Ossoff ā€œSenator My Booā€ by Monday ImageImageImage
I need you to understand there is no way someone can confuse ā€œSenator My Booā€ for the real Senator Jon Ossoff šŸ˜‚

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I am living for this chaos
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All the #DarkBrandon you can handle...Part 1: ImageImageImageImage
All the #DarkBrandon you can handle...Part 2: ImageImageImageImage
All the #DarkBrandon you can handle...Part 3: ImageImageImageImage
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ā€œWE COULDNā€™T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughterā€¦It mustnā€™t happen again. We canā€™t let it. We simply canā€™t let it happen again.ā€
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
ā€œCalifornia [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to allā€¦
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.ā€
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
ā€œFreedomĀ is under attack in [Florida]ā€¦ In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Donā€™t let them take yourĀ freedom.ā€
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022

@GavinNewsom:
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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 fā€”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: Thatā€™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 maā€™am.
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ā€œThat could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortionā€”on the order of the U.S. Supreme Courtā€¦ They will now wield [power] however they wantā€¦to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.ā€@maddow

ā€œWhat makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Courtā€¦would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? Iā€™ll tell you the answer: THEY WONā€™Tā€¦as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our countryā€¦ā€
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
ā€œ[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ā€˜60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.ā€™ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesnā€™t, I want to know why it doesnā€™t.ā€
Jane Elliott
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Just 3 minutes after President* Trumpā€™s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking ā€œcourage,ā€ a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.

#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings

ā€œDr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign wasā€¦a coup in search of a legal theory.ā€
Judge David Carter 3/28/22

#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
ā€œI've lost my name [and] sense of securityā€”all because a group of peopleā€¦scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.ā€
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
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ā€œPresident* Trumpā€¦followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giulianiā€”to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulentā€¦ Millions of Americans believed him.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œThe Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ā€˜The Official Election Defense Fund.ā€™ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œI said to him: ā€˜Are you out of your fā€”ing mind?ā€™ I said, ā€˜I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.ā€™ā€
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21

@AccountableGOP šŸ¼ #January6thCommitteeHearings:
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ā€œI made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolenā€¦which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshitā€¦ The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.ā€ Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: ā€œDid that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?ā€

Ivanka Trump: ā€œIt affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œAny legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States ā€” all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.ā€
Bennie Thompson

#January6thHearings:
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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. (šŸŽ„:#RealSports 2014)

Gun show loopholes still exist.

Senate Republicans wonā€™t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
ā€œWe are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movementā€¦ 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.ā€@CoryBooker

ā€œWomen and mothers have political powerā€¦ We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers donā€™t act, hold them accountableā€” [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.ā€
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
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ā€œJustice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. Thatā€™s simply not true. Weā€™ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.ā€
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
ā€œJustice 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.ā€
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
ā€œOut of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ā€˜Justiceā€™ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.ā€
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesmaā€¦
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ā€œWe now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.ā€ Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what ā€œis being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on boardā€¦ to take the next election regardless of who wins.ā€

@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
ā€œIn America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortableā€¦ If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.ā€
@Trevornoah #WHCD

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