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Bethany S. Mandel Profile picture
@bethanyshondark
Sep 25, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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I'm having 2016 flashbacks and I'm not sure why Democrats aren't.
You've tried this strategy already. "I'm not Donald Trump" didn't work for you four years ago.

This is what happens when you spend years pretending that people voted for him because of a phantom Russian conspiracy instead of accepting that he won a legitimate election.
I know what the polls are saying, but I also know what they said last time too. I also know that when I drive around suburban MD I see almost no Biden signs, and when I drive in rural VA, I see wall-to-wall Trump signs.
Almost every single R-leaning friend who didn't vote for Trump last time is planning on voting for him this time, without any apprehension. Every single friend who voted for him last time is pulling the lever for him again, quite enthusiastically. Almost none say it publicly.
Perhaps the best representation of how poorly they campaigned was when HRC spent election night signing these covers. And up to the wire, Trump was campaigning in Wisconsin, etc (and was being called crazy to spend his time there!) telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/1…
Y'all need more Aesop's Fables in your lives because 2016 and 2020 are 100% "Tortoise and the Hare."

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Disclosure: I’ve been on Zepbound since June or July.

I thought this for a long time. Low key kind of still do. But I decided the know known (that obesity is bad) was worse than the unknown known (that this could give me some freak form of cancer or heart failure.
I went to the doctor for the first time in many years and discovered I was very close to diabetic (my parents and paternal uncles all were). That’s what tipped me to do it. I’ve lost 50lb since summer. I’m hotter, yes, but I’m going to bet that losing it will extend my lifetime.
All of these drugs have been on the market for a long time. We haven’t see the monkey paw.

I know obesity is the gorilla paw.

I’ll take my chances.
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Nov 17, 2025
I once famously got into a fight with @ConceptualJames about the fact that Jews don’t cause antisemitism.

I was only kind of right.

Seeing how some Jews have behaved here the last few weeks has made me want to slam my head against the wall.
Tucker is bad. People refusing to distance themselves from him, also bad.

That’s the message.
Instead, I’m seeing people demand the VP renounce his staff member because his dad and uncle are bad. No, that’s not how it works, nor should it.
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Sep 16, 2025
I am going to share a story, and keep it quite general intentionally.

Last week, my friend’s teenage daughter quit her job. On Wednesday night, she stood and listened to her teenage coworkers celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk and make a list of who they’d want to see next.
Her mom told me: “She's always been low key, not advertising her conservative views to keep things peaceful, but this was too much for her.”
She went on, “It made her feel personally threatened and scared. They think she's wonderful. They like her because she's been so nice to them. They were upset she's leaving. They had no idea.”
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Aug 17, 2025
This is why I decided to delete that tweet

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I’m just curious @dani_gordonn — in your LinkedIn (hi to your employer @Fidelity) you say this.

I wonder how you can claim to be inclusive or respectful if this is how you talk to Jews online. Image
@dani_gordonn @Fidelity You wanted me to post this also, so might as well flag it for your employer, too. Image
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Jun 29, 2025
Out and about today at a museum in the DC area today, Seth mentioned that a woman in the cafeteria looked like Usha Vance. He said it couldn’t be her, because she was alone and buying stuff at the self-checkout and sitting at a random table. I looked, and yes, it was Usha.
I tried to chat with her, but she was in a hurry because she was alone, getting her kids stuff for lunch.

As much as I loved her before, I love her that much more now.
Anyway, @JDVance your wife is a delight and my kids now want to have their own astronaut costumes like yours lol
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Mar 11, 2025
Every time I turn on the radio to a certain station midday, the host talks about how she had a serious depressive episode. She discusses what her therapist tells her. On a midday show on a rock station. Has her therapist ever listened, and other things I wonder.
“Well, you’ll have better luck dating if you don’t talk about your struggling mental health on the radio every day.”
“Nobody wants to date a lunatic and you come off like someone days away from committing a mass shooting.”

I really want to know what these people talk about in therapy, and if their therapists say this stuff to them.
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