Thread by @punkboyinsf

Well I woke up to the realization that the democrats have jumped the shark. They no longer have any compunction even pretending like they want to win the election. The decision to invite a cop onto the November ticket (even a 'black' one) cements their idiocy. #FuckBiden

I was delighted to watch #Tulsi2020 take down @KamalaHarris in the start of primary season. She's done little to defend working people from the banks. Failed to go after @stevenmnuchin1 for his part in the forclosure crisis. She thought the way to address truancy was to attack..

working parents and throw them in jail, rather than addressing the underlying systemic issues. She smoked pot for years while enabling her departments to continue to arrest black and poor people for the same thing. She is so out of touch with what needs to happen to accect..

change at this moment in history. The choice of an law enforcer to join him on the ticket, continues their stance as a party that now only exists in response to and as a reaction to every terrible position the GOP makes, confirms that they are incapable of real leadership.

There was a time when the left took the high road in debates. When actual justice and morality were the norm in their crusades. But the domination of the popular media by corporations, and the unintended consequences of the internet's integration into our daily lives via social..

media and smartphones, leading to the mega acceleration of consumer consumption and selfie based FOMO and hedonism have brought us to the place we are now, funded by those who most profit from #CitizensUnited and #Neoliberalism. I thought the height of the ineptitude in our..

political farce they insist on calling a democracy was the 2012 election. We had @BarackObama running against @MittRomney with a primary issue of healthcare being debated. Obama had campaigned on a #SinglePayer platform, decided to shove the GOP's plan that Romney had implimented

in Massachusetts, doing some good, but mainly serving as further extraction of wealth from the poor, should have been enough to piss off his progressive base. But he played it off and spoke eloquent enough, he convinced the country to go along with it.. Then in nominating Romney,

one of the strangest debates I've ever seen came to pass, with no one in mainstream media pointing out it's absurdity. Romney was forced to criticize #ObamaCare (which was essentially #RomneyCare) as terrible policy. I thought this was the epitome of political satire. I was..

certain that this must have been a joke. It wasn't. The joke was on all of us. Those four more years got us @realDonaldTrump in the #WhiteHouse. A more divided nation then almost any other time in our history, besides perhaps the lead up to the #CivilWar. Maybe this is a lesson..

and a warning. I have a sneaking suspicion that there is more at stake than the presidency. This misstep by #Biden2020 and his ilk just might be the straw that spurs the country into the streets to actually affect change? Does that method of defiance still hold validity in the..

time of #CoronaVirus? Is the #50CentArmy partially responsible for getting us to this point as well? The trade wars #Trump spurred were inevitible. He might not have been the preferred mouthpiece for those truths to be brought to the light, but addressing the 50 foot panda in..

the room has needed to happen ever since @BillClinton sold out the economy with #NAFTA and the petitioning of the #WTO to accept #China into it's cabal, turning a blind eye to the #CCP, it's totalitarian domestic policy, and it's human rights abuses and violent repression of..

it's religious minorities. Somehow, @realDonaldTrump has been generally on the right side of this arguement (crude as his choice of words might be). He's called out trade inequities, the outsourcing of nearly all of our domestic manufacturing, and highlighted the consequences ..

of doing such. One only need to look at the current pandemic to see where that has left us. When #Covid19 hit our shores and we discovered that nearly all PPE was being produced in China, this was an opportunity any intelligent leader would happily have jumped on. Trump however..

took that moment as a way to put his foot in his mouth again and fed the trolls by feeding into divisive ideologies that he believes got him elected. Playing up racist denials as patriotism, and playing a blame game with the lack of PPE, rather than requisitioning existing..

factories in the US to immediately begin retrofit to produce an abundance of N95 respirator masks. We are over 6 months into this pandemic, and the fact that hospitals are still having to reuse PPE and that widespread testing is still a pipe dream in most areas of the country..

astounds me to no end. This is supposedly the richest country in the world. How is it that we cannot accomplish even this most simple of tasks? During the previous world wars, people came together under the banner of self sacrifice to make sure that people had the resources to..

go into the fight and to be victorious. Saner countries and governments took the aftermath of the destruction to their countries as a battle cry to enact a national healthcare program to take care of all of their citizens, as it was an issue that wasn't controversial, nor..

partisan. It seemed people in other countries thought that people should have the right to not fall ill and have it bankrupt them. But this country took a different approach. I digress.
Point being, #China has been in the midst of enacting a new cold war against the west..

The fact that @realDonaldTrump just happens to be the messenger of this revelation shouldn't cloud its' necessity or relevance to the current moment in history. For the better part of 5 years, anti-west propaganda has been percolating and the #CCP has set it's sights on..

infiltrating and usurping the west and it's means of self sustenance. They have been telling the people in China that we are the ones trying to infect them with the virus and that it was US military who unleashed it in their population vice.com/en_us/article/…

They have been ramping up anti-west sentiment, and their treatment of 'foreigners' has reached a level of xenophobia unmatched in recent history. china.usc.edu/american-youtu…
cnn.com/2019/06/05/asi…
This started before the #coronavirus, and seems to be part of a larger power grab..

that has much to do with China's encroachment into the South China Sea among other things. With the explosive growth China experienced as a result of the west's outsourcing of manufacturing gradually slowing, as well as the investment schemes of Chinese ghost towns starting to..

implode, the #CCP has found a rallying cry of xenophobia and nationalism as the perfect pacifier to keep their population from criticizing their own government and policies. I believe we are becoming familiar with this tactic here as well now. Trump obviously has an affection..

for these tin pot despots leading autocracies around the globe and most of his actions since taking office are but second hand methods used in those regimes. Blaming other countries for our own ineptitude instead of dealing with those issues seems to be the order of the day.

We can't let @BarackObama off the hook, either. We all knew what the signing of the 2012 #NDAA and it's allowance of indefinite detention of American citizens would lead to, and we are reaping those consequences now in Portland and Chicago for starters..

Clandestine operations are the norm now. The disgust I felt watching federal officers effectively black bagging protesters in the northwest, while Trump reiterates his position as a law and order president should have brought the left together to espouse what they believe the..

right path should be, moving forward. Instead, #Biden2020 has decided to match that rhetoric by inviting a cop to the ticket. With the #BlackLivesMatter movement accomplishing so much in the last couple months, who in the #DNC leadership thinks this is a smart move to motivate..

their base? How do they think those progressive activists who are finally making headway in confronting the systemic racism that has been swept under America's carpet for far too long will react to a prosecutor as the running mate of a guy who helped author a crime bill that..

helped to incarcerate a large percentage of the black population, but also created civil forfeiture laws allowing outright theft by police, among others? On top of the history of plagiarism and lying about his education early on in his political career.