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@dcpetterson
Sep 24, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Here are four recent news stories that show just how desperate Trump is, how terrified he is, how certain he is that he will lose.

These stories don't mean what you think they mean. I'll get back to that. Don't listen to the spin. It means we're winning.

1/9
The first is a story you've all heard, how the Trump Reich is screwing with the Post Office in an attempt to 1) slow delivery of ballots, and 2) question the legitimacy of vote-by-mail. You all knew this. Keep it in mind.

2/9
 vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/d…
The second story: The Trump Reich, with the cooperation of the entire Fascist Party, is recruiting an army of
"poll watchers"--thugs, really--whose purpose is to intimidate voters and feloniously interfere directly with attempts to vote.

3/9
 nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
The third story: Trump is mounting a legal challenge in an attempt to force federal courts to declare a winner on election night, before all the mailed ballots can be counted. (Many states are counting them already, because they're already arriving.)

4/9
 huffpost.com/entry/trump-wa…
And the fourth story: Trump wants state legislatures to pick Electors, bypassing voters completely, in effect nullifying any votes for president cast in those states, whether mailed in or even at the polling sites.

5/9
 vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/t…
On this last matter, the Constitution says State legislatures get to decide how Electors are picked. Every State has opted to let citizens select them by voting. Trump wants to do away with voting, and have legislators pick them.

Yes, Trump wants to end presidential voting.

6/9
All of these are desperate measures. All are fascist measures. All are signs that TrumPublicans know the odds of Trump winning are very, very poor.

There are some pundidiots who want you to panic and wave your arms and run in fear--and just give up.

7/9
No. The meaning of these moves is that Trump Reich, and the Fascist Party, are terrified. They know they're in deep trouble. They know even the vote suppression efforts they've been building for decades won't stop us from unseating them.

They know our votes will stop them.

8/9
These acts of desperation aren't going to work. That doesn't mean we can be complacent. It means we must redouble our commitment to get our ballots cast, and to make fucking sure everyone we know casts a ballot.

#VoteBlue, or fascism wins. It's that simple.

9/9

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Apr 15
Let me remind you of the events of Friday, October 7, 2016. I bet you've forgotten all but one of these--or, at the least, you've forgotten they all happened on the same day.

There's a =reason= they all happened on the same day. And there's a reason you forgot.

1/19
Now bear in mind, Friday is usually a slow news day. Few people are paying attention to the news on Fridays. People who have some news to release, and that, for one reason or another, =have to= release it--but don't really want anyone to notice it--often do it on Fridays.

2/19
Also remember, Friday, October 7, 2016 was one month before a monumental presidential election: November 8, 2016. The day Trump was given the presidency.

All this set the stage for what happened that day.

3/19
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Apr 10
Voting for Biden in November isn't a personal favor for Biden or for the DNC.

It's about how if you don't, two or three more Supreme Court Justices will be replaced with 35-year-old Nazis.

It's about stopping Benedict Donald's second term.

It's about keeping America.

1/7
Ask any of the 1,200,000 dead Covid victims (so far) if Joe Biden has to "earn your vote." Trump killed them, Ask their families.

Ask the three million Black voters Republicans cut from the voter rolls under Trump's watch if it's ok with them for Republicans to get control.

2/7
Ask the tens of millions of women and children who have lost access to healthcare and SCHIP services.

Ask any woman who needs reproductive services, or anyone who wants to use contraceptives. (Yes, Republicans want to outlaw contraceptives.)

3/7
Read 8 tweets
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Apr 6
Article in Politico by Nicholas F. Jacobs objects to the idea of "white rural rage".

See, for some reason, whites in rural areas really hate Democrats, Biden, "wokeness", Black people, immigrants, education, LGBTQ, and, well, normalcy.

1/8
 politico.com/news/magazine/…
A recent book, "White Rural Rage," by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, attempts to explain (as the title says) this rage felt by whites in rural America. (See the excerpt from Jacobs' article below ⤵️).

Jacobs objects to this view.

2/8 Image
Jacobs (some of whose research was used in Schaller and Waldman's book) insists there's no such thing as "white rural rage". Instead, whites in rural America are =resentful=, not enraged. Jacobs insists "rage" is irrational, whereas resentment is not.

3/8
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Mar 27
On January 6 2021, the Republican Party staged a violent coup attempt. Their armed mob invaded and seized the Capitol Building, the temple of democracy, held it for five hours, threatened the lives of every Senator and Congressperson, and tried to install a fascist dictator.

1/5
They called for the death of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. They spread urine and feces on the floor and walls of the Capitol. They desecrated statues, smashed windows, killed a policeman, and injured over a hundred Americans.

2/5
This violent armed mob had been egged on, for months, by the sitting president, who had been supported by America's greatest foreign enemy. His media and Congressional enablers received funding and propaganda support from Russia.

3/5
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Mar 25
Everyone, calm down a little.

Trump was found guilty of fraud, and owes the State of New York nearly a half-billion dollars. That still stands. He gets to appeal, but for every day he waits to pay, he owes nearly another $150,000 in interest.

1/3
A 5-judge appeals panel in New York ruled that he can take an additional 10 days to put up a bond (that's almost another $1.5 million he'll owe in interest), and he "only" has to post $175 million in bond rather than $454 million. But he still owes the whole amount.

2/3
Furthermore, this was a state judgement, not federal, so even if he gets elected in November (which, goddamit, it's YOUR JOB to make sure that doesn't happen!) he STILL owes that money.

So chill. Yeah, you wanted blood today. You'll have to wait a little longer, that's all.

3/3
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Mar 23
I want to remind everyone of the fear we all felt four years ago, as Trump's intentional mismanagement fed a terrifying pandemic. Here are some random news stories from the period Mar 20 - Mar 25, 2020.

1/8
First, dire forecasts of what the world might look like after the plague had torn through. Some have proven accurate. Some, not so much. But the point is the horror that Trump's inaction rightfully inspired in us all.

2/8
 foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/20/wor…
Second, a discussion of how other deadly pandemics had been fought--what worked, what didn't, what failure and success could teach us.

Trump followed none of the guidelines.

3/8
 scientificamerican.com/article/lesson…
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