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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
@JuliusGoat
Aug 14, 2019 • 23 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
Once again, the worst thing Trump supporters can imagine is being known for what they are.

The worst offense they can imagine is accurate criticism.
They aren't being called 'animals' by the president.
No stadiums chanting "send them back"
No bathroom laws for them.
No travel ban.
No concentration camps.
No child separation.

Just that look in our eyes.

Just that look on our face.

Just an accurate appraisal.

The nerve.
No marriage nullified for them
No dishonorable discharge
No high executive calling them "enemy"
No years living without water
No dying without insulin
No dread of seeing a rapist in charge
No dread of seeing a sex criminal in the highest court

Just that look on our face.
No bakers refusing service for them
No conversion therapy
No stop and frisk
No school lockdown drills
No racist gerrymander
No disenfranchisement

All they have is everything else

They have everything else, and they're still not happy

They have everything, except our approval
Get used to it, MAGA America.

Get used that look in our eyes.

Get used to that look on our faces.

Get used to that accurate appraisal of your moral character.

it’s going to last a while.
Don't ever dare think that accurate assessment is something being done to you, Trump America.

Think instead, for the first time, of what's been done to everybody else.

Enjoy your everything. You won't like having it.

And who cares?
Every abuser, every villain, demands to be seen both as hero and victim of their own story.

When the villain succeeds, the audience boos. When he's defeated, they cheer. The boos and cheers aren't something they do *to* the villain.

They're commentary.

People's natural reaction when Republicans admit their affiliation isn't partisan, and it isn't something being done *to* them.

It's commentary.

You're *still* on board? Really?

With *this* guy? Really?

desmoinesregister.com/story/news/pol…
You're *still* on board?

Really?

Save your reasons.

Do you think your reasons matter?

You're *still* on board?

Really?

No wonder you don't feel as if you can admit it.

What you're experiencing is shame, which is a natural and healthy response to atrocity.

As is anger. wjtv.com/news/children-…
You're *still* on board?

Really?

We can all see this stuff, you know.

It eats at us.

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
This is exactly the stuff we all warned Trump would bring.

You said "that won't happen."

Now it's happening, and you're pretending it's not.

So we clearly know it's not you didn't think it would happen; it's either you wanted it to, or you didn't care.

washingtonpost.com/national/after…
Get used to the look in our eyes, the look in our face.

It's just us, seeing you clearly.

Get used to it.
What you're feeling is guilt, Republicans. What you're feeling is shame.

It's a natural and appropriate response to cruelty.

As is rage. As is disgust.

You're *still* on board?

Honestly don't know what you expect from us.

apnews.com/290fe000b4584d…
In Trump America, children have to fight a legal battle for soap and showers. It's a huge win for them to get them, in Trump America.

Think what else is being done, if that's what they have to fight for

You support this? Still?

Take the consequence.

You’re still on board?

Still?

Then yes you should be ashamed to admit it.
You’re still on board?

How do you expect us to respond?
The fact that some people still have consciences isn’t an aggression against people who have sold theirs away.

You’re still on board?

Still?

How do you expect us to react?
Still on board?

Still?

How do you expect us to react, honestly? Do you expect to be treated as if you’re not in support of this?
Do you think we can’t see you?

We can see you.

You don’t want to receive accurate criticism?

Change.
Still on board?

STILL?

You are what you are. People will notice.
Still on board? Still?

How can you expect to maintain the same comfortable relationship as before with people, now that they know what’s acceptable?

STILL ON BOARD?

You expect us not to react?

What do you think of us? buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…

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Oct 28
There's a moment in Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic where the newly freed drug boss says to the drug lawyer who had been working behind his back "do you know the difference between a reason and an excuse? Because I don't."

At this point the lawyer knows he is in deep shit. 🧵
(By the way this thread is part of a longer essay, but if I lead off the thread with a link to an outside source, it usually gets crushed by this site's dork owner and his algorithm shenanigans, so here you go.)

the-reframe.com/out-damned-spo…
Anyway the lawyer knows he's in deep shit because "do you know the difference between a reason and an excuse" means "I'm not buying your bullshit," and if newly-freed-drug-lords-behind-whose-back-you've-been-working aren't buying your bullshit, then it is murder goon o'clock.
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Oct 24
One thing I’ve noticed is, the meanest tables are often popular ones. Sometimes they are the most popular. My observation here would be that bullies know that cultivating friendly relationships is useful and necessary for effective bullying.
Any abuser knows they need accomplices. If dad is getting drunk and beating mom up he’s going to need everyone to keep nice and quiet about it, and if anybody squawks then it’s got to be quickly framed as something bad being done to him rather than the other way around.
If it looks as if the truth of the story is about to get around he’s going to need people to stand up for him in that moment and say things like this: “Nooooo! Not him. I know him. He would never. He has never been anything but nice to me.”
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Oct 22
I’d like to talk about what leadership is and what governance is. I’d like to talk about the compass, the navigation, the travel, and the corrections.

the-reframe.com/the-compass-an…
When people decide to leave the place they are and move to a different place, there’s an observable order to it. The order is very important.

So, in movement, there is the moment of arrival at the destination.
But before that moment, there is the actual journey. We began here. We moved until we got there. We put one foot in front of the other. We set sail and kept going until we arrived. The aircraft cut its way across the sky. This is the journey.
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Sep 24
There's so much scandal all the time, it can be hard to remember where we are, much less how we got here. But they say it's important remember the lessons of the past, or else we're fated to do...something, I forget what, I forget, I forget.

Full Essay: the-reframe.com/the-rot-goes-t…
Where we are.

It's really hard to know where to begin when it comes to where we are. There's only so much sheer volume of blatant corruption and noxious hate that a person can stay aware of even if they're trying. Eventually something pushes out.
It came out this week that NC Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has in past years spent his time posting pro-slavery and pro-Nazi comments on porn sites, and other things of that nature, many of which are so bad CNN, who broke the story, declined to print them.
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Sep 18
Conservatives keep telling us they're oppressed, and when they define what form the oppression takes, they explain that other kinds of people ... exist.

You know what? Let's do it. Let's actually do it. I think we ought to oppress conservatives.

Other people *should* exist. 🧵
Let's oppress conservatives with a kind and open and generous world that they will hate and fear specifically because it will care for everyone, even them, while it refuses any longer to accommodate the revenge fantasies that they call "self-defense."
At the bottom of it all, it strikes me that conservatives are driven by fear. They're big fraidy-cats, scared specifically of the ongoing danger of good and necessary things, of openness and diversity and peace and plenty.

We should stop accommodating those fears.
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Sep 15
Last Tuesday Donald Trump shat his pants on national TV. Ever since, he's been scooting his butt around on the national carpet to dislodge the detritus of loserdom. It's standard wounded narcissist self-care behavior, and it would be nice if all of this could be *only* funny. 🧵
Unfortunately, it can't be only funny; Trump and his gang are engaged in some shockingly evil rhetoric even for them—promising that, for the crime of existing while undesirable to conservatives, as many people as possible will be hurt, as soon and as badly as possible.
Incidentally, this thread is part of an essay that you can read right here on my weekly newsletter, The Reframe.

the-reframe.com/its-time-to-op…
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