๐ฃ๏ธ๐งต Two important speeches made by John Heilemann on Morning Joe:
"Joe, Iโm struck by the same thing you are, right, because weโre both students of history, in a midterm election where the empowered president has an approval rating in the thirties. 1/
And the main economic variable for a lot of people in their lives which is inflationโeven if itโs maybe getting a little more under control right nowโitโs still way too highโand people talk about it all the time out here in America. 2/
You know, in a circumstance like that, you should be looking at a landslide for Republicans and I think Republicans thought thatโs what we were looking at as recently as this spring and then a bunch of stuff happened. 3/
๐งต I'm reworking an old thread about Clarence and Ginni Thomas from 2018.
The Thomases have a friend named Harlan Crow, a very rich real estate developer who has sculptures of Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Karl Marx, Nicolae Ceausescu, Che Guevara, etc. in his backyard garden.
I would say the most egregious "favor" Crow did for them was uncovered by @mmcintire in 2011. Crow financed the restoration of A.S. Varn & Son Oyster & Crab Factory, a cannery outside Savannah, GA & built an adjacent museum, The Pin Point Heritage Museum. nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/โฆ
This was a "pet project" of Clarence Thomas', according to the article.
๐ฃ Jonathan Swan: Letโs talk about a candidate you have talked about: Herschel Walker, the leading GOP candidate in the vital Senate race in GA. You endorsed him. Yet his ex-wife says he pointed a pistol at her head & said โIโm going to blow your fโing brains outโ andโฆ
Swan (contโd): an ex-girlfriend has accused him of threatening her life. Why is he a suitable candidate?
Mitch McConnell: Herschel Walker has addressed that issue repeatedly over the last 10 years. I think heโsโ
Swan: Itโs a heck of an issue.
McConnell: Well, he admitted he had had some troubles in his life. Heโs been an exemplary citizen in recent years. Heโs a hero in GA. Almost every candidateโs had troubled periods.
Swan: I mean, I donโt know that almost every candidate has pointedโ
๐ฃ โI really hope that Russiaโbecause I really believe that President Putin would like to do something. I really hope that you and President Putin can get together to solve your problem. That would be a tremendous achievement. And I know youโre trying to do that.โ โฌ๏ธ
Trump to newly elected President Zelensky. A not-so-thinly-veiled threat since Russia had already invaded Crimea in 2014 and had started a war in Donbas in eastern Ukraine. Thatโs why Zelensky needed weapons to defend his country. 8:30 in. 9/25/19
Trump was impeached for the first time on December 18, 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Trump withheld aid from Ukraine in order to attempt to influence the Ukrainian government to announce an investigation on Joe Biden, his opponent.
I've been screaming about this since 2018. Canada ๐จ๐ฆdeveloped the โLearn to Discernโ program which taught 15,000 Ukrainians ๐บ๐ฆ how to detect and decode misinformation and propaganda.
If the Ukrainians did not have this training, they might be begging Putin to annex them.
Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ, the Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ, Poland ๐ต๐ฑ & other European countries are also took measures to educate the public on Russian propaganda and cyber attacks. We continue to do nothing. #RussiaReport
โ๏ธ Why in God's name haven't we done this in the U.S. the #propaganda and #disinformation is OUT OF CONTROL here! It is the biggest problem globally, without question.
Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, etc...all need to be regulated somehow.