(PS) Obviously I'm always hopeful people will listen to interviews I give about Proof of Corruption, but I want to drop a note to say that from the 3- to 6-minute mark of my WAMC interview I close the circle on Trump, China, and COVID-19 in a way I think *many* will want to hear.
(PS2) From 6 to 8 minutes in the interview, I summarize events in Iran—that got us to within an hour of a new war—in a way I suspect you haven't heard before. Give a listen, and I'm pretty certain you won't say I've oversold this. What happened in Iran remains a historic scandal.
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Just a quick note here in advance of Trump and Musk crashing the economy in 2025: Trump voters are going to blame Democrats for that too.
Read up on fascism and cults and stop assuming we have a rational electorate that’s actually looking at economic indicators. It simply isn’t.
If anyone is looking ahead to 2025 and thinking that when Donald Trump breaks things, kills people, ends alliances and treaties, and endangers all of us he’ll be blamed for it, think again. You can’t *imagine* the degree of pain he’ll need to cause people before they turn on him.
Trump is a proxy for issues in people and culture Democrats can’t resolve via politics. He is a fever that will either kill this country dead or bring it so close to death—and I mean spectacularly, painfully close to death—that the fever breaks. Democrats better learn that quick.
(🧵) ELECTION THREAD: I’ve been waiting all night to say anything substantive about what’s happened, as I felt—I still do—that I might say something I’d regret.
I hope you’ll consider following along as I try to process this with you all, and try to do it responsibly. Please RT.
1/ The New York Times gives Trump more a 90% chance of winning the election. Barring a miracle—and none is on the horizon at present—he will win.
And if by some miracle Harris won, it would be such a shock that it would almost certainly cause widespread Trumpist violence anyway.
2/ He isn’t just winning. At present this is shaping up to be a landslide. This is not Harris doing as Biden did. This is not Harris doing as Clinton did. This is Harris losing Texas by 15, Florida by 13, Iowa by 14, Ohio by 11...
(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump and MAGA's Kremlin Allies Planning Terrorist Attacks Inside the United States; Trump and MAGA's Support for Putin and Russia Remains Unaffected By Prospect of September 11th-Style Attacks Committed By Their America-Hating Political Partners
MORE/ Retweet this widely so that all Americans can understand that the Kremlin and Trump have exactly the same political agenda—to stoke not just figurative but actual chaos and mayhem across the United States. MAGA is an anti-American political movement. wsj.com/world/russia-p…
PS/ Here's what you *won't* see in light of the news of coming 9/11-style terror attacks committed by Putin, the Kremlin, and Russia: you won't see Trump distance himself from Putin, the Kremlin or Russia. You won't see MAGAs distance themselves from Putin, the Kremlin or Russia.
This is... maybe the most horrifying political ad I have ever seen.
Partly because of the content, partly because it's a reasonable portrayal of the world we are in and will be heading deeper into if we men don't vote in massive numbers for Kamala Harris.
I hesitated to post this, because it is so deeply upsetting.
But then I asked myself a simple question: is it accurate? Are women dying because of the decisions of Republican congressmen? And the answer is yes.
The answer is yes.
And *men* need to help put a stop to this evil.
F*ck—this ad made me cry.
As a husband, all I can think about is my wife. I can't imagine being in a situation like this and being utterly helpless. But there are now many men like me nationwide who are going through this.
(🧵) I don’t pretend to be an expert on women voters. I can only say what I see them saying on my social media feeds (1.2M+ followers): they don’t like that he’s a serial adulterer, serial sexual predator, and adjudicated rapist who wants to control their bodies and healthcare.
(🧵) They don’t like that he serially sexually harassed women on TV. They don’t like that he repeatedly cheated on Melania—Steve Bannon says with at least 100 women, including while Melania was pregnant—and hasn’t been faithful to any woman he’s been with. theweek.com/donald-trump/6…
(🧵) They don’t like how he said in 2016 that he thought women should be “punished” for getting an abortion. They don’t find him miming multiple sex acts with a microphone—this was yesterday—funny or charming. They don’t like the 28 Sexual Assault or Rape allegations against him.
You do not have to be any sort of partisan to know that a presidential candidate in the United States who regularly speaks of murdering his critics has no place in the Oval Office
It has nothing to do with policies, it has to do with not being a *manifestly horrible human being*