Thread by @michaelharriot

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A thread

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” -

Some guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence

Donald Trump:

“The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth.” the oldest functioning constitution in the world

Donald Trump

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/07…

In the first presidential election in the United States a town allowed a group of continental army to vote by mail “as if they were present themselves.”

In many Jim Crow states, Black soldiers quietly realized their votes would be counted if they used absentee ballots

Trump:

Sometimes it’s not his intent. Sometimes it’s just his incompetence.

Remember just before the biggest when he put a guy in charge of the post office who didn’t know what he was doing just before the biggest vote-by-mail election in history?

Or remember when Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security advisor had to resign because he ADMITTED lying about working with Russians and working FOR a Turkish dictator?

npr.org/2020/11/25/823…

Or remember when Trump himself just revealed national secrets to the Russians?

washingtonpost.com/world/national…

Remember when the Times had to literally make a chart to show how his campaign manager, son-in-law, daughter, national security advisor, foreign policy advisor & nearly everyone in his administration took money from anti-democratic foreign governments?

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Remember when he deployed undercover federal DEA and Border Patrol agents to snatch protesters off the streets?

Again, they ADMITTED IT

Remember when that Thomas Jefferson dude was hating on the Constitution because he thought the only way to guard liberty was to include a crazy-ass “bill of rights”

Well Trump is against nearly everything that dude wanted

Like remember when he called the moms of nonviolent NFL protesters “bitches?”

Or remember when he secretly sent undercover federal agents to kidnap protesters?

Or remember when he said that Obama’s “religion” was listed as Muslim on his birth certificate and later said he was open to closing mosques and creating a database tracking Muslims?

Remember this?

Or this?

I work in the media and I know it’s liberal.

But if a one single 1 of those pro-Trump politicians, judges, cops & election officials had a shred of actual evidence that the 2020 election was rigged, there isn’t a single reporter, outlet or network that wouldn’t break that story

I would, and I despise that MF

Now I admit that I don’t believe America is a democracy. It WANTS to be a democracy.

If it was a democracy, the winner of the popular vote would’ve been president in 2016.

If it was a democracy, the electoral college wouldn’t be a thing

If it was a democracy, people in Black neighborhoods wouldn’t have to wait longer to vote

If America was a Democracy, “black neighborhoods” wouldn’t still be a thing

scientificamerican.com/article/smartp…

If it was a Democracy the filibuster wouldn’t work, a minority of voters wouldn’t control women’s reproductive choices and school shootings would be down because, unlike the right-wing racial oligarchy we have now, we’d have common sense gun laws in a real democracy

If America was a Democracy, this thread wouldn’t exist because, remember Donald Trump has never competed in an election and won the popular vote.

Never.

And I know what the people who move their lips when they read are saying:

“It’s not a democracy, it’s a republic.”

It’s actually a Democratic Republic.

I’m just saying, WHATEVER we have, Donald Trump is a threat to it.

Unless, of course you want to live in a country run by a barely literate authoritarian racist who bankrupted every business & corrupted every person in his orbit

In which case, Donald Trump is no threat at all

Thanks for waiting

This ain’t that