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Every time Mitch McConnell lets this administration get away with something, keep in mind he’s *personally profiting* from the corruption.
nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/…
Talk about buried ledes. The Senate Majority Leader and his campaign are making millions off abuses of power he’s supposed to serve as a check on.
How is the McConnell-Chao-Trump conflict of interest not a bigger story? Why aren’t reporters hounding him about it every time he enables Trump?
vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/m…
McConnell stole a Supreme Court seat and blocked a bipartisan response to Russia’s attack on our democracy. I don’t think Trump even needed to buy him off. But Trump bought him off.
newrepublic.com/article/154163…
Infuriating.
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Trump is an autocratic, kleptocratic, white supremacist, serial sexual predator with a personality disorder. He makes it all so damn obvious. But he gets away with it anyway, because this is a white supremacist, patriarchal psuedo-democracy with a culture of denial.
Trump isn’t just a symptom of what wrong with the GOP, or with the press. He’s a symptom of what’s wrong with whiteness and patriarchy. He’s a symptom of everything broken and neglected in our electoral and legal systems.
Trump is a symptom of the fact this country was created as a minority rule system and remains one. You don’t get Trump in a country that wasn’t already steeped in white male supremacist propaganda, lawlessness and denialism.
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Ed Overbeek
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The thing is, Barr’s been saying this stuff for decades, and worse. But it got zero press during his confirmation. Christian extremism gets to fly under the radar in America. An anti-democratic movement hiding in plain sight.
How many of you heard about this before his confirmation? And how many of you were told he was a respectable DC establishment figure?
.@C_Stroop has written a lot about the anti-democratic nature of the “respectable” Christian right.
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Ed Overbeek
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I prefer Warren over a lot of the other candidates, but let’s not pretend she has a monopoly on big structural change.
Electing a woman President is big structural change.

Electing an LGBT President is big structural change.

Electing a Hispanic, Black or Asian President is big structural change.

If you can’t see this, you understand America less than Trump voters do.
Not that other candidates don’t also have big structural *policy* changes in their platforms too! I just see a lot of my fellow straight white progressives/liberals falling into the same old trap of focusing on a certain set of issues in a certain sort of way. It’s not right.
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Did you know that there’s 10 House investigations & one Senate involving Donald?

Yup, add to that the 10 federal criminal investigations & 8 state and local cases, that comes to 28 open investigations.

Let’s look at the House investigations first:
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Mitch McConnell wrote an op-ed calling for bipartisanship, and people are not having it
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