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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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Apr 18
Just a reminder for the people who clearly don't understand this: due process is only necessary for people who have been accused of wrongdoing. That's the entire point. Unless you're just a gleeful fascist you should support due process for all accused persons. A brief 🧵...
2/ I'm tired of these folks saying stupid shit like "what about the due process for people who've been harmed by 'illegals'...? Huh, what about Laken Riley?" STFU. Those people don't need due process they need justice, and THAT requires due process!...
3/ Because without it, you can't be sure you got the right person who harmed your loved one, or whatever. Jesus, some of y'all hate the Constitution so much it's amazing you can still wave a flag. You don't love this country. You despise everything that makes it decent.
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Mar 11
People who say Social Security is a Ponzi scheme are the most uninformed people in the world. The argument, it seems, is that because current workers pay current retirees it's some kind of scam, like a Ponzi, but this is just silly. A 🧵...
2/ First off, the only way SS could have been set up was for current retirees to have their benefits paid by current workers, because when it was established, retirees obviously hadn't paid in enough to fully fund their retirement accounts. So yeah, that's how it works...
3/ But that doesn't make it a Ponzi. Everyone gets retirement money commensurate w/earnings. No it's not YOUR money you get back (there's no lock box where contributions are stored), but it's an amount based on what you DID pay in, which was previously paid to earlier retirees...
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Feb 16
Saying "He who saves his country does not break any law," is not only ridiculous, legally, but it's an incitement to extremist violence. Whether one is "saving one's country" is a matter of interpretation. And to Trump, anything that makes America whiter saves it.

A 🧵...
2/ This is the position of every neo-Nazi and other white nationalist too. So whether it's anti-Black violence, anti-immigrant violence, or other related forms (anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish), extremists will see this statement from Trump as a green light...
3/ And the threat is not academic or hypothetical. Right now the DOJ is prosecuting leaders of the Terrorgram Collective -- a white supremacist group designated as a terrorist org in the waning days of the Biden administration. So far Trump's DOJ is still prosecuting them...
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Jan 20
MLK believed in the equity efforts Trump opposes (including affirmative action). He fought to end housing discrimination. Trump was sued for practicing it. He acknowledged America's systemic racism problem. Trump would ban that concept in schools and government trainings. A 🧵..
2/ I realize many of you don't know any of this about King's views bc all you've heard is one line (out of context) from one speech and you never read his books. If you had even listened to the entire I Have a Dream Speech you would know better...
3/ In that speech he accused America of giving Black folks “a bad check." Then in 1964 in Why We Can't Wait he mocked those who opposed what we would now call affirmative action for not understanding what equal opportunity required. Here's what he said...
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Jan 15
Gad is bad at stats. Very bad. Follow along because I'm going to explain this to you. A 🧵...
2/ First, as @kareem_carr noted, there is no source offered to verify this data, and there's good reason to believe it's made up, bc the FBI doesn’t release data two weeks into a new year, on last year’s homicide rates. The data lag tends to take longer than that...
3/ And yes, that matters because it calls into question why someone would just make up these numbers and share them like some bombshell. The motivation can only be, logically, to stoke racial fears and resentment. There is no innocent explanation. None...
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For people who assumed the NOLA truck terrorist was an undocumented border crosser, despite no evidence (he was, in fact, born in the US), what is wrong with you? Do you even care that your ignorant hot takes are wrong? Or is deception OK in the service of your cause? A 🧵...
2/ Will you now just pivot to Islam and call for crackdowns on Muslims, including citizens, since the terrorist had an ISIS flag and (from what we can assume) was motivated by Muslim extremism?...
3/ And that begs the question: what would you have called for if this guy had been white and/or Christian? When a white dude blew up a half-block of downtown w/a truck bomb in Nashville several years back y'all went quiet soon as his ID was made. We know why...
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