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The right has weird ideas about their ideological enemies: we're "groomers," we're secretly on a billionaire's payroll, we hijacked education to promulgate revisionist histories, we steal elections, and, of course, w're plotting to take over America and subjugate them. 1/ 
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The weirdest thing about this is that it's the right that engages in revisionist race-history:
teenvogue.com/story/the-myth…
And it's the right who stole a presidency:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Br…
Election-rigging is a right-wing specialty:
pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/sta… 3/
teenvogue.com/story/the-myth…
And it's the right who stole a presidency:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Br…
Election-rigging is a right-wing specialty:
pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/sta… 3/
They’ve just discovered a 3rd treasure trove of classified documents in #JoeBiden’s possession. I’m glad there was enough public outcry to pressure #MerrickGarland to appoint a special council to investigate, but now it’s time for us to demand an #FBI raid & photo op!
Chapter 15
of *Culture War, Class War: Truth & Generations*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“Creating a Totalitarian Mind:
“Recipe for The Matrix: Misinformation, Repetition, Impoverishment”
THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Blue #Matrix #Midterms #Republicans #FBR
CW22 15/1
of *Culture War, Class War: Truth & Generations*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“Creating a Totalitarian Mind:
“Recipe for The Matrix: Misinformation, Repetition, Impoverishment”
THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Blue #Matrix #Midterms #Republicans #FBR
CW22 15/1
“[*Chapter 15 text begins:*] “The Rise & Fall of ‘Obvious Truths’” discusses the history of the American Republicans’ incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive, seemingly coordinated fifty-year campaign…”
THREAD… wp.me/p1C4cs-2HP
CW22 15/2
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“[Republicans’ incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive, seemingly coordinated fifty-year campaign] to gain advantage & wealth for their benefactor corporations & the “filthy rich” thru totally concocted untruths.”
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CW22 15/3
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Chapter 14
of *Culture War, Class War: Truth & Generations*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“Truth & Liars:
“Obvious Truths” (Actual Untruths) Were Employed Together with an Exact & Strategic Use of Misinformation
READ BOOK> sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #BlueWave #Matrix
CW22 14/1
of *Culture War, Class War: Truth & Generations*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“Truth & Liars:
“Obvious Truths” (Actual Untruths) Were Employed Together with an Exact & Strategic Use of Misinformation
READ BOOK> sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #BlueWave #Matrix
CW22 14/1
“[*Chapter 14 text begins:*] In Part Four of *Culture War, Class War 2022* we look at how the Big Lie continued in the past five decades of America.”
READ BOOK… wp.me/p1C4cs-2HP #Blue #Matrix #Midterms #Republicans #ClassWar #BlueWave #FBR #resist #lies #BLM
CW22 14/2
READ BOOK… wp.me/p1C4cs-2HP #Blue #Matrix #Midterms #Republicans #ClassWar #BlueWave #FBR #resist #lies #BLM
CW22 14/2
“We delve more deeply into the Class War that has been behind the Culture War as laid out in Parts 1, 2, & 3. We see the 50-year invisible “family” revealed—the “community” that surrounded all Americans & affected every aspect of their lives..”
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CW22 14/3
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CW22 14/3
Chapter 13
of *Culture War, Class War: Truth & Generations*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“A Culture War Rages:
“Monsters Never Really Die in Horror Flicks...
“The King on Life Support & The Consequences of an Abomination”
THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Midterms
CW22 13/1
of *Culture War, Class War: Truth & Generations*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“A Culture War Rages:
“Monsters Never Really Die in Horror Flicks...
“The King on Life Support & The Consequences of an Abomination”
THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Midterms
CW22 13/1
“[*Chapter 13 text begins:*] With these factors in mind, what have we experienced in the last two decades, as the Sixties Generation finally got its turn at the wheel?”
THREAD… wp.me/p1C4cs-2HP #Midterms #BlueWave #Trump #MerrickGarland #MAGAts #ClassWar #FBR
CW22 13/2
THREAD… wp.me/p1C4cs-2HP #Midterms #BlueWave #Trump #MerrickGarland #MAGAts #ClassWar #FBR
CW22 13/2
“*America Since Its “Pleasantville”*
“As expected, it was at first quite different from what the WWII Generation had been serving up during its forty-plus years’ reign.”
READ/DWL BOOK... drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO… #Midterms #BlueWave #Trump #MerrickGarland #MAGAts #FBR
CW22 13/3
“As expected, it was at first quite different from what the WWII Generation had been serving up during its forty-plus years’ reign.”
READ/DWL BOOK... drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO… #Midterms #BlueWave #Trump #MerrickGarland #MAGAts #FBR
CW22 13/3
Dear #MerrickGarland @DOJCrimDiv : 65% of the electorate is counting on U to protect us from the MAGAS, the 35% of voters who have evil intent toward non-MAGASs. Who hate us & attempted to kill our representatives on Jan 6. No doubt prosecuting Trump will send them into the
2) stratosphere with hate & vindictiveness but frankly that’s their everyday attitude re: anything that pushes back against their fascism. Have courage & stalwartness & don’t let them intimidate U into letting the one man crime spree known as Donald Trump off the hook. He needs
3) to face the exact same consequences that any other citizen faces & if he’s convicted & sent to prison & it means they have to build a bigger cell to accommodate his Secret Service protectors, SO BE IT. But let it be Tony Omato &Robert Engel who protect him in federal prison.
Watching some more video from the #LetJulieSwim rally in Port Townsend, & really disappointed to see the police letting trans rights extremists intimidating, and physically assaulting women exercising their 1A right. #LetWomenSpeak #WomensRights
Reminder to elected officials of Port Townsend, WA 👉 older Americans are the most reliable voter block. Who pays taxes to keep your town running? (Hint: it's not the petulant activists living in their parents' basements.) #LetJulieSwim #LetWomenSpeak thedistance.substack.com/p/mayor-police…
Attacking women in their 70s & 80s to keep them from speaking is not a way to win hearts & minds. It makes you look like cowards who know you have no real arguments to make. All you have left is physical intimidation & assault. I hope you get arrested.
video link for AG Garland live at 2:30 pm Eastern (I'll jump in with updates) 🧵justice.gov/live
criminal-mafia gop whipping lunatic followers to frenzy is feature not a bug; violence is their default position
just ask @RepSwalwell #Garland
irshadgul.com/rep-eric-swell…
just ask @RepSwalwell #Garland
irshadgul.com/rep-eric-swell…
#Garland should be commended for trying to calm down the Red Hats but not even Yam Tits can do that reuters.com/world/us/fbi-s…
This raid of #MarALago is a jaw-dropping, mind blowing, hair- raising, eye-popping moment: the home of the former president #DonaldTrump raided by the FBI. An astonishingly striking move by an Attorney General hitherto known for being overly cautious
You would have to believe that the AG, #MerrickGarland knew what the Feds were looking for. And every i and every t would have been dotted and crossed before this raid would have taken place
The politics of the #DonaldTrump raid is complicated. The #January6thHearings has been devastating for Trump’s reputation - but, but, but. This could make him a martyr, and fire up a base that had started to drift away
This is a recap of an article from The Atlantic regarding Trump's Zero Tolerance/Family Separation policy. I've included important excerpts here.
It should enrage you.
The article is 30,000 words and is attached at the end. It may have a paywall
It should enrage you.
The article is 30,000 words and is attached at the end. It may have a paywall
This excerpt speaks for itself.
The children were ripped from. Their parents arms and crammed into "cages."
This was done by the Republican Party who insist they care about children
This was done by the Republican Party who insist they care about children
“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
1/ My starting point for #SupremeCourt jurisprudence since 2000 is a telling quote from Joel Klein's "The Natural" in which a Republican Senator concedes to Clinton that Republicans don't believe in government, but they love power.
2/2000: #BushvGore, the Supreme Court stays the Florida recount with any opinion justifying the stay and then reverses the Fla. Supreme Court recount order as violating the Equal Protection Clause in a per curiam opinion that can't be cited as precedent.
3/2002: President Bush signed the #McCainFeingold campaign finance reform law, which foolishly included a restriction on the use of independent expenditures for commercials 60 days before an election.
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
@MargaretHoover I'm a great fan of you & @JohnAvlon, but you should not buy the attack ads of losing Dem candidates. I'm a Democrat. Here are #facts on the ground in #Virginia CRT is sold as something it is not. #FactsMatter It is pernicious, destructive,toxic, and more. @Acosta
#CancelCulture attacks #Mathematics Opponents of CRT are NOT all right wing. The people who elected @GlennYoungkin were Biden voters, Asian parents, black parents who want better schools for their children. Asians are being hurt. Below: CA lowers standards
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@MargaretHoover @JohnAvlon @Acosta @CondoleezzaRice articulates the issue best. But there is a disturbing expansion of a surveillance state. I don't see masks or vax as that, but BBB contained bank surveillance, #MerrickGarland actions described below, threadreaderapp.com/thread/1456648…
@StephenAtHome Sorry but YOU need to know what #CRT is really about. It is NOT teaching "real history" of race. Marxist in premise & praxis, it teaches whiteness is evil, makes white children stand up & confess "I am white, I am privileged, I am an oppressor" & blacks can't learn
@BillClinton setting priorities from BBB would have been better. Work requirements make sense. But there are also #PelosiPoisonPills the $275 Billion SALT tax cut for the rich and disturbing trend in many areas by this administration, surveillance of individuals bank accounts.
Surveillance of #Parents after calling #Moms #DomesticTerrorists calling for @TheJusticeDept to invoking #PatriotAct to have @FBI surveil, investigate #Parents is Orwellian. #MerrickGarland is harassing, intimidating ordinary people legitimately concerned about their children.
I know some of these folks in NoVa concerned about their children. They are NOT the #Jan6thInsurrection crowd @BillClinton No one is herding the cats.
Cabinet secretaries are acting, making very bad decisions - @SecMayorkas at the border,@SecCardona in Ed. #MerrickGarland - COI
Cabinet secretaries are acting, making very bad decisions - @SecMayorkas at the border,@SecCardona in Ed. #MerrickGarland - COI
Dec 18th Boston #FreeAssange rally Fresh Pond Mall, Cambridge.
Great turnout despite rain, sleet and snow! Supporters' speeches, and handouts distributed.
Lots of honks and thumbs up!
#AssangeDefenseBoston
#MerrickGarland #DropTheCharges
Thread 👇
Great turnout despite rain, sleet and snow! Supporters' speeches, and handouts distributed.
Lots of honks and thumbs up!
#AssangeDefenseBoston
#MerrickGarland #DropTheCharges
Thread 👇
"Assange stuck his neck out & released the Iraq War Logs, Afghan Diaries, Guantanamo Files..& he is paying the consequences.He had a stroke in prison..he is in frail health..if he dies, it will be on the @JoeBiden administration.
Susan McLucas Co-organizer #AssangeDefenseBoston
Susan McLucas Co-organizer #AssangeDefenseBoston
"Assange shouldn't be under the jurisdiction of the US at all. He's not an American citizen, he didn't do any of his work publishing in the US, & yet somehow he's the one who's threatened. The threat is that any of us who publish info might be prosecuted." Jeanne Winner, activist
