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@timjacobwise
Sep 13, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ Listen, Donald Trump has no intention of leaving office. Don't allow yourself to think otherwise. What norm has he not shit on at this point? And what norm have Republicans not LET him shit on? Name one. What makes you think they'd move to remove him if he refuses?...
2/ What makes you think the GOP led Senate will stop him if he moves to invoke the insurrection act to put down protests after insisting the vote was rigged against him? What makes you think his supporters won't start mass violence if he loses? He is all but telling them to...
3/ For him to say, as he has, that "the only way Biden can win is if they steal the election," is a clear sign. It's something no sane person could believe -- after all, we're a pretty divided nation, where elections can go either way, obviously and legitimately...
4/ So the only reason to say that is to lay the groundwork for right wing insurrection if you lose. By signaling to your base that anything other than a win was obviously stolen from them...and the GOP will let this happen. If I'm wrong, give me evidence as to why?...
5/ Find me the republicans in the senate who would right now go on record committing to haul his ass out of the White House if he tried anything like that. NONE of them will agree to this. None...we all know it, and we all know why...they are complicit...
6/ Barring an absolute blowout -- I'm talking massive -- we'd better get prepared for something far worse than any of us have imagined...I mean, prepared.

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Nov 13
I don't think going on Joe Rogan would have helped Harris. But if it's true that progressive staffers were the reason she didn't -- because they think it's beneath her, or would provoke backlash -- those staffers are puritanical idiots. A brief 🧵...
2/ I detest progressives who think we shouldn't "legitimize" folks like Rogan by appearing on his show. Um, hey precious, don't know if you noticed but he doesn't need our legitimacy. He has the biggest podcast in the world so...
3/ This asceticism which leads some on the left to want to avoid anything that might be less erudite than Rachel Maddow is maddening. Grow up. I know Rogan et al are absurd and ignorant. And I also know millions find them persuasive and important, so now what?...
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Nov 13
Folks blaming wokeness for Harris's defeat are hilarious in their ignorance. She did not run on a woke platform. She ran on protecting the border, owning a gun, being a prosecutor, loving capitalism, and rarely talked about anything related to racism, sexism, etc...
2/ The fact that the right decided to tag her w/the label of identity politics is on THEM. It's what they do to Dems whether they are people of color or not, bc MAGA's politic is about white racial resentment and male grievance and Dems are the cause of it all in their mind...
3/ But you can't blame Dems or Harris, for MAGA's inaccurate and deceptive portrayal of their/her politics. The responsibility rests with those who lied and the low information idiots who believed them. The problem is not antiracism or anti-sexism...
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Nov 13
MAGA White people are the biggest purveyors of victimhood in America. Always whining about what other people (especially people of color) are doing to them, and rarely taking personal responsibility for their lives. A 🧵...
2/ And so, let us count the ways MAGA whites think they've been victimized or "held down" by people of color, shall we? By:

-- DEI efforts and affirmative action;
-- Critical Race Theory;
-- Immigration (but only by brown and Black folks)...
3/ -- Taxes (which they think, falsely, mostly get redistributed to people of color);
-- Crime by people of color (even tough white folks are 4-5x more likely to be victimized by another white person);...
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Nov 10
For those white liberals talking about how they're "mourning," "in shock," and afraid...FFS buck up. I was just in KC at the 17th Annual Urban Summit, w/ a couple hundred Black folk and they are NOT crying or cowering. They are down to fight, like they've always had to. A 🧵...
2/ This is what makes me crazy about white libs/progressives. They do this thing where they get surprised whenever America (the noun) decides to America (the verb). But Black folks have been watching America America for 400+ years...
3/ We act like "this isn't who we are," and damned near every Black person over 40 (and most who are younger too) is is like "where y'all been?" This is among the reasons white progressives need to study the Black freedom struggle more closely...
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Nov 10
For those who suggest the big problem for the Dems was information silos -- the fact that Trump targeted livestreamers/podcasters/YouTubers -- and that's where a lot of people, especially young people get info, that's true, but, there's something to consider. A 🧵...
2/ First off, it wasn't Gen Z that delivered the WH to Trump. It wasn't. Yes, Trump did better there than usual but it was really Gen X (my gen) that did this, for reasons I've discussed before. It makes sense. Gen X sorta sucks, however much we like to brag about ourselves...
3/ Second, to the extent those alternative media outlets were implicated (and I agree they were), it's not like that is enough to explain the outcome. It still begs the question WHAT were folks hearing on those platforms? And this is the key, bc the content they heard matters...
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Nov 10
Anyone who thinks Trump's win was a "mandate" or landslide, let alone the biggest in 40 years as Tucker Carlson said, is a fool or liar. It isn't close to Obama's wins, or even Clinton's in the EC. Though a clear win, it wasn't an endorsement of his key policies. A 🧵...
2/ So, for instance, voters in states he carried overwhelmingly voted to overturn abortion bans, meaning they didn't endorse the MAGA position on that issue. Same with immigration. Check the exit polls...
3/ When asked about deporting undocumented folks, only 39% favored deportation of all or most, while 56% favored a path to citizenship. If he gets 51-52% of the popular vote but only 39% favor his signature idea, that says something...
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