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Larry Middleton, Proud Liberal Vermin 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
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Sep 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
this is why I like @michelleinbklyn.
nytimes.com/2020/09/24/opi…
"Trump may be behaving like a strongman, but he is weaker than he’d like us all to believe. Autocrats who actually have the power to fix elections don’t announce their plans to do it; they just pretend to have gotten 99 percent of the vote.
It’s crucial that Trump’s opponents emphasize this, because unlike rage, excessive fear can be demobilizing. There’s a reason TV villains like to say, “Resistance is futile.”"
"Trump is an aspiring fascist who would burn democracy to the ground to salve his diseased ego. His willingness to break the rules that bind others gives him power out of proportion to his dismal approval ratings."
"Still, Trump can be defeated, along with the rotten and squalid party that is enabling him. Doing so will require being cleareyed about the danger Trump poses, but also hopeful about the fact that we could soon be rid of him."

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Larry Middleton, Proud Liberal Vermin 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Apr 22
Up until about 16-18 years ago, I watched Fox about as much as I watched CNN and MSNBC. It had a bit of an addicting quality because it felt a little like watching fight club. But by the time Obama ran for president, the subtle racism and lies started becoming front and center.
Suddenly, it wasn't subtle but over, direct, assaultive, and persistent. There was no coded language, cleverly cloaked rhetoric, or thinly veiled dogwhistles. It was as as if someone entered the room, flipped on the stereo switch, and turned the volume way past 10.
And while until then they pretended to extend an olive branch to people who look like me, at some point, someone in their infinite wisdom made a conscious decision to hack off any attempt at appealing to a wider audience like they were cutting a nuisance branch off a tree.
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Larry Middleton, Proud Liberal Vermin 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Apr 16
I know that we use the word "grift" a lot - and we should - because there are a lot of gnarly, nasty, greedy, self-interested grifting parasites attached to the government, most of whom are republicans. But sometimes I think we confuse '"grift" with "graft."
Grifting is unethical; Graft is illegal. Ivanka, Bannon, Candace Owens are grifters. They hustle government, political processes, voters, etc., for their own benefit in every way possible. But while the collect all of the crumbs and scraps off the floor, they make no decisions.
They're scavengers. But people like Mnuchin, Jared, Clarence Thomas, and every republicans in elected office commits some form of graft because they take bunches of cash and gifts in exchange for favors and influence because they were/are decisionmakers in their legal capacities.
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Apr 11
It, apparently, never ceases to shock racists - or to humor me in a "look at that pathetic fool" kind of way - that they think that can simply look at black or brown faces and can say (or do) whatever they want.
I run into it a lot from the "brave" keyboard terrorist and internet commandos on this platform. They are empowered to feel like either superheroes or megalomaniacs out of the cartoon comic strips as long as they can be in cognito and maintain their anonymity.
I'm also positive that, in many ways, women get the same or very similar treatment, too, in the deluge of harassment or worse that practically every woman who's ever walked the earth has undoubtedly faced at some point over the course of a lifetime.
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Larry Middleton, Proud Liberal Vermin 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Apr 10
People, stop being shocked, surprised, horrified, and dumbfounded because the GOP hates:

-Women
-Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, other PoC
-LGBTQ,
-Children
-Seniors
-Veterans
-Anyone not white male christian
-Voting rights
-Labor rights
-Fair pay
-Reduced student debt👇🏿
It's maddening hearing that people are still "surprised" at what's happpening at this late date in history. WHY? Be honest. It's foolish and naive. We know who and what they are because they told us exactly who they are and what they're gonna do. Which part don't you get? 👇🏿
Black people have said it for years. But while you're being stunned by their actions, they continue to march down the road with expectations of total domination. While you worry about decorum, rules, and fairness, they're running through your picnic with a John Deer tractor.👇🏿
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Apr 7
This is dark, but necessary. 👇🏿
Maybe it's just me and I don't known what it is, but there's something inside MAGA brains that won't allow them to process that people who are different from them or who disagree with them intellectually don't necessarily hate them. They can't or won't make that distinction.👇🏿
There are other issues, too, such as a virtual lack of capacity for detail, nuance, facts, truth, filtered thoughts and speech, and basic honesty to avoid real conversation or debate. But those things can't be approached because the demonization of others is total and complete.👇🏿
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Apr 6
It's fascinating and almost comical how MAGAs and Qs post silly, ridiculous, outrageous, ignorant stuff, then cry when they aren't taken seriously and folks don't engage them in debate. Much to my delight, they hate being blocked and dismissed.
It would be comical if they weren't so dangerous. They aren't just counterfactual. They're anti-factual. They're trolling, deliberately so, and they've received far more attention than they have ever deserved. So, the time for engaging them in active conversation is done.
We've been enterataining their nonsense for almost a decade. While we've been having serious conversations on serious issues, at no point have they ever taken it seriously.
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