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@svdate
Aug 31, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
It didn’t have to be like this. #UsefulIdiot

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On Sept, 8, The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party With Racism and the Rest of Us With Coronavirus will explore that question.
The rich got their taxes slashed. The oil companies got pristine wilderness opened for drilling. Vladimir Putin got the chaos and the broken alliances he dreamed of. What did the rest of us get?
This week, I'll be previewing the story of how Donald Trump and his Republican Party brought America to its knees. The #UsefulIdiot is available for pre-order now.

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Apr 27
NEW COLUMN - It turns out the Supreme Court has no army, no police force, to carry out its rulings. Nor does Congress.

They, and all of us, are dependent on Donald Trump to honor the rule of law.

However scared you are, you're not scared enough.
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The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, has been step-by-step following the autocrat’s playbook. He has gone after universities for not obeying his decrees.
He has extorted law firms for having on staff, or just once-upon-a-time having had on staff, people who crossed him. He has targeted for prosecution former aides who challenged him. He has arrested a local judge for not helping him round up migrants for deportation.
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Mar 11
PUBLIC SERVICE EXPLANATION ON HOW TARIFFS WORK:

Some years ago I needed a spare paddle for my self-steering gear. I was in Spain, but was on my way to Gibraltar so had it shipped to the marina I was going to tie up in.
Checked the mail coming in to the office daily, and one morning there was a notice for me to come collect my package at Her Majesty's Customs.

I walked down the quay, was given my package and a bill -- for the import tariff that was due.
I paid it and only then was able to take my spare paddle back to my boat.

TO RECAP:

The exporting manufacturer did not pay the tariff.
The exporting nation did not pay the tariff.
*I* paid the tariff. Moi.

And I 100 percent did not think of it as a "tax cut."
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Mar 6
NEW -- Remember that reporter who asked Zelenskyy why he wasn't wearing a suit?

His former "news" outlet has taken $192,000 from the Trump campaign -- nearly half of which took place while he was program director director there.

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Brian Glenn does not seem to think there was any problem with a news organization taking money from the subject it was covering.

Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as “production” costs.
He then pointed to the row of television cameras set up in the back of the White House briefing room.

“Who pays for them?” he asked, suggesting that the major networks like NBC, CNN and Fox also accept money from the entities they cover.
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Jan 30
NEW -- Kash Patel has hawked a sketchy supplement to undo the effects of the COVID vaccine, promoted the QAnon cult, spread Trump's lies about a stolen election, and already has a 60-name enemies list of Trump critics.

Soon he could the FBI director.
Should he win confirmation, it would put an end to the concept of the FBI as a non-political law enforcement agency, and unwind the reforms put in place after the abuses by J. Edgar Hoover.

Republicans and Democrats call him Trump's most dangerous pick.

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Reading back through this before filing, I was taken aback that someone could do and say the things Patel has over the past years and STILL likely be the next FBI director.
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Jan 22
NEW -- Donald Trump incurred no legal consequences for his Jan. 6, 2021, attempted coup, and now members of his mob who assaulted police officers in his name that day will no longer be held accountable, either.

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Trump has lied, repeatedly, about what the people who were sent to prison for this Jan. 6 actions did.

No, grandma taking selfies was not sent to a super max.

Here are some examples of what his "hostages" and "political prisoners" did:
They included Trump supporters like Andrew Taake, who received 74 months at a federal prison in Beaumont, Texas, for pepper-spraying police officers and hitting one with a metal whip.
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Jan 22
Isn’t the Silk Road drug dealer guy?

Convicted by a jury?

Why is Trump releasing a convicted drug dealer? Image
Oh. He used crypto to do his crimes.

Therefore he had to be freed.
From the ICE press release upon his conviction: Image
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