THREAD: As Trump announces Amy Coney Barrett, read this March 31, 2016 speech Hillary Clinton gave that the national media mostly ignored:
"In a single term, the Supreme Court could demolish pillars of the progressive movement. ..." 1/ thenation.com/article/archiv…
HRC, 2016: "I see this as make-or-break. If you care about the fairness of elections, future of unions, racial disparities in universities, the rights of women or future of our planet, you should care about who wins the presidency & appoints the next Supreme Court justices.” 2/
In the 3/30/2016 speech, HRC also rejected GOP claims that they believed in the principle of presidents not choosing new SCOTUS justices in election years:
"We chose a president...twice. And I’ll tell you, those are not high-minded principles—they are low-minded politics." 3/
HRC, 3/30/2016: “By Election Day, 2 justices will be (over 80)—past the Court’s average retirement age. The next president could end up nominating multiple justices. That means whoever America elects this fall will help determine the future of the Court for decades to come.” 4/
Google shows the top stories about Hillary the day after she gave that Supreme Court speech:
1. Fortune: "This is Why We're So Obsessed With Hillary's Hair" 2. WP: "What Some Men Have Against Hillary Clinton" 3. The Atlantic: "On Hillary Clinton as a 'Congenital Liar'" 5/
The first 9 Google results for news articles about "Hillary Clinton" on March 30-31, 2016 were not about her big Supreme Court speech on March 30.
Here's result 10:
The Nation: "Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed" 6/
"Nothing sums up the high-drama, low-substance nature of 2016 race coverage more than the underplaying of a serious speech about the Supreme Court."
—@NicholsUprising on March 31, 2016
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley took notice though, saying of Clinton's Supreme Court speech:
“This is simply a blatant attempt by Secretary Clinton to politicize the Supreme Court and to change the conversation [from her emails]." 8/ reuters.com/article/us-usa…
By the way, if you hear anyone call the idea of expanding the Supreme Court "extreme," here's another 2016 article for you:
"If Clinton Wins, Republicans Suggest Shrinking Size of Supreme Court" 9/ npr.org/2016/11/03/500…
"In a single term, the Supreme Court could demolish pillars of the progressive movement. ... you should care about who wins the presidency and appoints the next Supreme Court justices.”
—Hillary Clinton, March 30, 2020
A speech in WISCONSIN that most national media ignored. 10/
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"I grew up in Austria. I'm very aware of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a rampage against the Jews in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys.
Wednesday was the Day of Broken Glass Right here in the United States...in the windows of the U.S. Capitol."
"I grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. I was surrounded by broken men drinking away guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history. Not all were rabid anti-Semites Nazis. Many just went along, step-by-step, down the road."
"My father would come home drunk once or twice a week and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother. I did not hold him responsible because our neighbor was doing the same to his family. And so was the next neighbor over. ... They were...in pain for what they saw and did."
While insurrections were storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Mississippi State Rep. Dana Criswell posed with protesters at the MS Capitol.
They want a vote to bring back MS's old Confederate-themed state flag. This protester carried a full-blown Confederate flag to demonstrate.
While supporters of Mississippi's now defunct flag hope to get it on the ballot, that will almost certainly fail.
Mississippians voted 73%-27% to adopt the flag below on Nov. 3.
On Jan. 6, the MS House (incl Rep. Criswell) voted to adopt it 118-1; the Senate adopted it 43-7.
So while some (and I mean just a handful) of Mississippi Republicans will still post photos posing with Confederate flag supporters to boost cred with that constituency, only 8/174 members of the Legislature are now willing to oppose the majority 2-1 preference for a new flag.
The email lady was saying this almost 5 years ago while CNN was still both-sidesing everything and entertaining the idea that @HillaryClinton was a criminal while ogling Trump like a new cash cow.
A Nevada GOP Chairman sent this BONKERS letter to Republican voters:
"Let me be clear: Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president. Yes, I know those are shocking words in these crazy days."
Next, he accuses Pence & the Cabinet of treason.👇🏻1/
Next, like a cherry-picking preacher twisting God's words, the GOP chairman says this:
"Go back and listen to the videos all the way through. At no point does Trump even mention Biden’s name. At no point does he say he concedes. ..." 2/ 👇🏻
Nye GOP Chair: "(Trump) does say that there will be a peaceful transition to a new admin & he does say this is only the beginning."
"Indeed, we will have a new admin made up of a new VICE PRESIDENT and CABINET as the current ones have all made their TREASON complete." 3/ 👇🏻
I lay awake haunted on Nov. 8-9, 2016, by searing visions of torch-wielding Brownshirts marauding violently in the streets & storming halls of gov't; of immigrant families rounded up & locked in concentration camps; & of mass death due to a careless leader.
NEW: The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Bennie Thompson, is calling on Congress to impeach and "immediately" remove President Donald Trump from office, saying he is "a direct threat to the homeland each remaining minute he is in power." mississippifreepress.org/8026/trump-is-…
“What occurred yesterday at our nation’s Capitol was—pure and simple—domestic terrorism incited by President Trump, his enablers, and those seeking to overturn the results of a legitimate election," said House Homeland Security Chair @BennieGThompson. mississippifreepress.org/8026/trump-is-…
“Never in my life did I ever expect to see a sitting president incite violent extremists at a rally and, after they stormed both the House and Senate chambers, raised the Confederate flag and erected a noose, tell them in a video that he loved them."
—HHS Chair @BennieGThompson