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Sarah Kendzior: Caputo said he's taking 60 days off, which means he'll come back after the election. His job, in reality, is to spread lies for Trump. Caputo should have been fired, not given two months off, for the things he said about the CDC.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: Trump will call for violence from his supporters; we've been seeing examples of what's to come in Portland & Wisconsin. It's all very concerning. Even if Biden gets in & stays in, we'll still be dealing w/ all these problems.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: People have had 4 yrs to prepare for this but they instead stayed in LaLa Land & did nothing.
Rick: We've done nothing to secure our ballot boxes, & now with the pandemic, do we believe what comes out of the ballot box?
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: Hand-marked paper ballots are the best way to go, & I've been calling for them for four years. Electronic voting machines can be hacked. It's highly likely that votes for Hillary were changed to votes for Trump; that vote should have been audited.
@sarahkendzior
Sarah Kendzior: We've had silence & vacation from the Democrats instead of trying to secure the ballot box. States like mine have confusing rules about mail-in ballots.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: People have to chose the Biden route. It won't solve all our problems but it's a step in the right direction. The Republicans are stripping down our country & selling it for parts. Biden will try to prevent this.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: The coronavirus will be handled differently by Biden & Harris; that alone is reason enough to vote for them.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: Woodward revealed we nearly did go to nuclear war with N. Korea in 2017. I was talking about it back then & wasn't taken seriously.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: When people say Q-Anon is nonsense, it makes Q-Anon stronger.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: I have friends who made calls for Dems & ppl are saying they did vote blue & felt nothing was done, that Pelosi didn't do anything, so they aren't voting this year at all. It's a shame. We need the Dems to win the Senate & WH to turn things around
@sarahkendzior
Sarah Kendzior: There are other mechanisms that could have been used. It was blindingly obvious in March that Trump wanted people to die from the coronavirus. Now we're getting the, "Oh, I guess he DID want to kill us."
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation
Sarah Kendzior: We see the same thing with climate change, that people didn't take it seriously, and now look at what's happening--the entire west coast is burning. We should have taken it seriously 30 years ago.
@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

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