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Aug 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
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"Take away your guns, destroy your Second Amendment, no religion, no anything," says Trump of Biden. "Hurt the Bible, hurt God. He's against God, he's against guns."

We should talk about this, because Trump is revealing a lot more here than his position on God and guns. 1/5
"Hurt the Bible, hurt God." It has all the elegance of "Me Tarzan, you Jane," right? And while the ability to take complex ideas and communicate them in simple terms to a mass audience is invaluable to a politician, let's get real: That is not at all what Trump is doing here. 2/5
Trump isn't using simple words to explain complex ideas because Trump is incapable of forming complex ideas in the first place. The way he speaks betrays the way he thinks. He speaks in staccato, brutish shorthand because he thinks in staccato, brutish shorthand. 3/5
His vocabulary & sentence structure is simple in the extreme because his range of thought is that simple. He is prone to conspiracy theory because making sense of the world without conspiracy is impossible for him. He lacks the patience, curiosity and mental acuity to do so. 4/5
So, if you want to know why Trump makes so many bad, even self-destructive decisions, his rhetoric tells you why. If you want to know why he can't adjust his "thinking" or "grow" in office, his rhetoric tells you why.

Simply put, the man just ain't very bright. 5/5

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Jul 12, 2024
Something crucially important is happening right now in Georgia!
The state's Republican establishment has remade the Georgia Election Board, stripping it of most of its sane membership and cramming it full of pro-Trump election "truthers." That action is now having consequences.
Cleta Mitchell, the lawyer celebrating in the above tweet, led the effort to overturn the 2020 election in GA. She was on the phone call with Trump pressuring the secretary of state to "find" 11,800 votes.
And if Cleta Mitchell is so happy, you should be very worried.
Today, the GOP's 3-member "truther" majority on the election board called an "emergency" meeting on a Friday afternoon, without legally required public notice, to try to cram through rule changes to allow them to block results of the 2024 election if it doesn't go their way.
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Dec 7, 2023
Trump’s lies are legion and legendary, but it’s important to note that even he has trouble lying about certain things that are important to him. When he was asked to condemn the Nazis at Charlottesville, the easy thing was to do so. Instead, we got “good people on both sides.”
When asked whether he would accept a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election, the smart thing was to say sure. He could not do that. When asked about the Proud Boys, he could not condemn them; instead, we got “stand back and stand by.”
When pressed by his family and staff to condemn those who attacked the Capitol, he instead said "we love you" and called them "very special." He later said rioters "were there with love in their heart" and called January 6 "a beautiful day."
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May 10, 2022
The notion that Americans do not have a right to privacy because the Constitution does not guarantee us such a right is basically an argument that the only rights we enjoy are those granted to us by gov't.
And what gov't grants, gov't can take away.
Well, screw that. 1/9
The Declaration of Independence, written 13 years before the Constitution, says it is "self-evident" that we enjoy "certain unalienable rights," rights that King George did not give us and could not take away, including the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 2/9
The Ninth Amendment further tells us that "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The Founders knew that the rights of a free people are too many to be contained in any list. 3/9
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Mar 18, 2022
The idea that unpopular speech should have no consequence is naive.
Almost 20 years ago, a relative few of us vocally opposed the war in Iraq, and for that we were shamed and shunned. Ask the Dixie Chicks. Then ask them whether they would do it again. Of course they would. 1/7
The editorial says people should be able to "take unpopular but good-faith positions on issues society is still working through — all without fearing cancellation."
OK sure. But the phrase "good-faith positions" is doing Atlas-upholding-the-Earth-type duty in that sentence. 2/7
The truth is, every single human interaction is calculated in some part, consciously or unconsciously, to the response it is likely to draw. "Freedom of speech" can never mean "freedom from social consequence." It means freedom from gov't consequence. 3/7
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Mar 18, 2022
The idea that unpopular speech should have no consequence is naive.
Almost 20 years ago, a relative few of us vocally opposed the war in Iraq, and for that we were shamed and shunned. Ask the Dixie Chicks. Then ask them whether they would do it again. Of course they would.
The editorial says people should be able to "take unpopular but good-faith positions on issues that society is still working through — all without fearing cancellation."
OK sure. But the phrase "good-faith positions" is doing Atlas-upholding-the-Earth-type duty in that sentence.
The truth is, every single human interaction is calculated in some part, consciously or unconsciously, to the response it is likely to draw. "Freedom of speech" can never mean "freedom from social consequence." It means freedom from gov't consequence.
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Jan 7, 2022
The claim the FBI organized and provoked the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol is ridiculous and utterly without factual basis, but it's astonishing how quickly it is becoming accepted truth among conservatives. It's testament to the efficiency of their bullshit factory. 1/4
It's like they have a 3D printer to fabricate a new "truth" whenever they need it. In this case, they needed some way to absolve their movement of guilt for Jan. 6 -- the "antifa" thing didn't quite work out -- so they just invented one. Necessity is the mother of invention. 2/4
And it doesn't really matter if this invented truth is fact-based or convincing. There are no tethers to reality here. All that matters is that they all agree to be convinced by it. It is the believing that makes it real, that gives it heft and makes it impervious to logic. 3/4
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