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Charles Gaba ✡️ Profile picture
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May 16, 2019 • 27 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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⚠️TRIGGER WARNING...BIG TIME: In light of the recent horrific developments in Georgia, Ohio, Alabama and other GOP-run states, it’s time once again to remember that Republican ignorance of, cruelty about and obsession with all things rape-related has been a thing for decades. 1/
I therefore am once again taking you down memory lane, with a few case studies from the Republican Rape Advisory Chart:
goprapeadvisorychart.com 2/
1988: Republican State Representative Stephen Freind of Pennsylvania. 3/
1990: Republican Gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams of Texas: 4/
1995: Republican state representative Henry Aldridge of North Carolina. 5/
1998: Republican state Senator & U.S. Senate candidate Fay Boozman of Arkansas. 6/
2002: Republican state senate candidate Dick Black of Virginia. 7/
2003: Republican Governor Jen Bush of Florida. 8/
2005: Republican state representative Mark Anderson of Arizona. 9/
2005: Republican state representative Wards Nichols of Arizona. 10/
2006: Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck of Colorado. 11/
2006: Republican state representative Bill Napoli of South Dakota. 12/
2008: Republican state representative Jonathan Strickland of Texas. 13/
2010: Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle of Nevada. 14/
2010: Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa. 15/
2011: Republican state representative Kathleen Passidomo of Florida. 16/
2011: Republican state senator Brent Crane of Idaho. 17/
2011: Republican state representative Pete DeGraaf of Kansas. 18/
2011: Republican Governor and Presidential candidate Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. 19/
2011: Republican state representative Roger Rivard of Wisconsin. 20/
2012: Republican state representative John Ragan of Tennessee. 21/
2012: Republican Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. 22/
2012: Republican Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas. 23/
2012: Republican state Senator Chuck Winder of Idaho. 24/
2012: Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith of Pennsylvania. 25/
2012: Republican Congressman and Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri (he was the "inspiration" for my decision to start tracking these statements). 26/
I'll stop for now.
Note that I'm only up to 2012.
I added over SEVENTY MORE to the archive over the next 4 years before becoming too sickened to continue after Donald Trump was elected President.

You can view them all, with source links, here: goprapeadvisorychart.com

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Jul 4
Thread. ~20 years ago, one of the minor controversies surrounding then-President George W. Bush was after being warned that something he wanted to do was unconstitutional, he allegedly angrily replied that the Constitution is "just a damned piece of paper!" 1/
I don't know whether this actually happened or not, but regardless of how appalling it my is, on the most basic level that's actually *correct*: The Constitution *in and of itself* *is* "just a damned peice of paper." It's not a talisman. It doesn't have any magical powers. 2/
The power of The Constitution is in the hands of whoever the American People happen to be at any particular point in time.

If those in charge *and* enough of those who aren't either actively want to ignore the Constitution or just don't care enough to defend it, guess what? 3/
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Jul 3
🧵 I just had a lengthy conversation with someone who wanted some insight as to how I've been so successful with my Democratic fundraising project over the past few cycles.

(obviously it wasn't called that in 2020 or 2022) 1/Blue24.org
For those unaware, I've raised nearly $8 MILLION *directly* for hundreds of Democratic candidates since 2019. And I've done it *without* a mailing list or texting anyone. I've done it without a PAC or a staff.

It's all been done purely online via social media. 2/
The reason I started "formally" raising money for Democrats online (as opposed to just occasionally retweeting some candidates ActBlue link now & then) is because I kept seeing Dems griping that they didn't trust how the DCCC/DSCC was allocating funds, etc. 3/
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Jun 29
ELECTIONS. HAVE. CONSEQUENCES.

WE SCREAMED ABOUT SCOTUS FROM THE TOP OF OUR LUNGS IN 2016 AND Y'ALL SHRUGGED IT OFF.

NOW WE'RE FACING THE CONSEQUENCES.

Biden is appointing judges at a furious pace, but our ONLY shot at fixing SCOTUS is to re-elect Biden & keep Senate control.
"So if we do that, Biden fixes SCOTUS?"

I said it's our only *chance* of doing so. It would also require, within the next 4 years, either:

1. Both Alito & Thomas retire (hah) or pass away.

Or...

2. Congress passes legislation to either expand or otherwise modify SCOTUS.
Even THEN, the damage done by the SCOTUS majority (half of which appointed by Trump) *until* either of those things happens would still take YEARS or DECADES to repair.

And some of it can never be repaired.

...all because some of you refused to vote for Hillary in 2016.
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Jun 27
🚨 STATE BY STATE: How much more will YOU pay if enhanced #ACA subsidies aren't extended? (Massachusetts - Missouri):

acasignups.net/24/06/27/state…
The original ACA subsidy formula was decent at low incomes, stingy at moderate incomes & nonexistent at middle class incomes.

ARPA/IRA had solid subsidy upgrades, bringing them up to where they should have been in the first place...but they're scheduled to revert in 2026. 2/
If the upgraded subsidies are allowed to expire at the end of 2025, up to *20 MILLION* #ACA enrollees will see their net premiums spike dramatically.

Many will no longer be able to afford this & will be forced to either downgrade to far worse plans or drop coverage entirely. 3/
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Jun 27
As someone pushing HARD for folks to donate to Democrats up & down the ballot, I’d like to note something about the AIPAC money brouhaha re NY-16.

Yes, money CAN make a significant difference in a race, but only up to a point. After that there’s diminishing returns. 1/
My guess is the first few million dollars AIPAC spent on the NY-16 race probably helped Latimer by a point or two. After that, however, it probably didn’t make much difference at all & may have even hurt him a bit due to residents getting sick of the constant ads/mailers etc. 2/
As a different example, in 2020, the poster child for throwing money down the drain was Amy McGrath for Senate in KY. She raised an insane $90 million & lost by 20 points. Even more insane is she probably would have lost by about the same margin if she’d spent 1/10th as much. 3/
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Jun 10
🧵 EV Infrastructure Update:

I just returned from my 4th road trip from Detroit to DC & back over the past 2 years. Since it's the same route each time I have a pretty apples to apples comparison on EV public chargers over time. 1/
The good news is that it looks like Electrify America, which makes up most of the chargers along the route (I-275/280, I-80/90 (OH Turnpike), I-70/270 (PA Turnpike), seems to be in the process of upgrading their charging stations; the newer ones seem to be more reliable. 2/
The bad news is that they've raised their prices substantially, at least at the stations along this route--they were usually $0.35/kWh 2 years ago; now they're charging $0.56/kWh.

By comparison, residential electricity in Oakland Cty, MI is around $0.18/kWh. 3/
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