1/ Biden could have ended this race for good if he had just looked into the camera when Trump was being especially belligerent and constantly interrupting to try and smear Hunter (or really at any point) and said the following...
2/ "Ya know, Donald Trump once gave an interview in which he said, proudly, that he was basically the same person now, in terms of temperament, as when he was 5 years old. As he's proved tonight, it's one of the few true things he's ever said...doesn't America deserve better?..."
3/ "When asked to wait his turn he interrupts like a child, when frustrated he lashes out like a baby, demeans others, even questions their intelligence by making fun of the college they attended. What does that say about how he views millions who didn't go to college at all?.."
4/ "...including the millions of his own voters who didn't? It says he views them all -- YOU ALL -- as suckers and losers, as marks for his scam. But regardless of your politics surely you know we deserve better than this. Enough. Enough. Enough."
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For people who assumed the NOLA truck terrorist was an undocumented border crosser, despite no evidence (he was, in fact, born in the US), what is wrong with you? Do you even care that your ignorant hot takes are wrong? Or is deception OK in the service of your cause? A 🧵...
2/ Will you now just pivot to Islam and call for crackdowns on Muslims, including citizens, since the terrorist had an ISIS flag and (from what we can assume) was motivated by Muslim extremism?...
3/ And that begs the question: what would you have called for if this guy had been white and/or Christian? When a white dude blew up a half-block of downtown w/a truck bomb in Nashville several years back y'all went quiet soon as his ID was made. We know why...
Funny (but not surprising) how John McWhorter in today's NYT (link at the end) took my quote about Daniel Penny's killing of Jordan Neely and proceeded to "rebut" it while ignoring two-thirds of what I claimed, and the argument underlying the other third. A 🧵...
2/ First, I called Penny a "racist, classist, ableist murderer." I said it. I meant it. I stand by it. Interestingly, McWhorter ignored the classism and ableism pieces altogether, even though I deliberately included them and view the three things as intersectional here...
3/ ...meaning, I think it was the combo of Neely's blackness, his economic status, and his mental illness (disability) that made Penny's reaction more likely. So, for instance, I doubt he treats a Black stockbroker in a suit that way on the subway, even if acting a bit "off..."
I don't think going on Joe Rogan would have helped Harris. But if it's true that progressive staffers were the reason she didn't -- because they think it's beneath her, or would provoke backlash -- those staffers are puritanical idiots. A brief 🧵...
2/ I detest progressives who think we shouldn't "legitimize" folks like Rogan by appearing on his show. Um, hey precious, don't know if you noticed but he doesn't need our legitimacy. He has the biggest podcast in the world so...
3/ This asceticism which leads some on the left to want to avoid anything that might be less erudite than Rachel Maddow is maddening. Grow up. I know Rogan et al are absurd and ignorant. And I also know millions find them persuasive and important, so now what?...
Folks blaming wokeness for Harris's defeat are hilarious in their ignorance. She did not run on a woke platform. She ran on protecting the border, owning a gun, being a prosecutor, loving capitalism, and rarely talked about anything related to racism, sexism, etc...
2/ The fact that the right decided to tag her w/the label of identity politics is on THEM. It's what they do to Dems whether they are people of color or not, bc MAGA's politic is about white racial resentment and male grievance and Dems are the cause of it all in their mind...
3/ But you can't blame Dems or Harris, for MAGA's inaccurate and deceptive portrayal of their/her politics. The responsibility rests with those who lied and the low information idiots who believed them. The problem is not antiracism or anti-sexism...
MAGA White people are the biggest purveyors of victimhood in America. Always whining about what other people (especially people of color) are doing to them, and rarely taking personal responsibility for their lives. A 🧵...
2/ And so, let us count the ways MAGA whites think they've been victimized or "held down" by people of color, shall we? By:
-- DEI efforts and affirmative action;
-- Critical Race Theory;
-- Immigration (but only by brown and Black folks)...
3/ -- Taxes (which they think, falsely, mostly get redistributed to people of color);
-- Crime by people of color (even tough white folks are 4-5x more likely to be victimized by another white person);...
For those white liberals talking about how they're "mourning," "in shock," and afraid...FFS buck up. I was just in KC at the 17th Annual Urban Summit, w/ a couple hundred Black folk and they are NOT crying or cowering. They are down to fight, like they've always had to. A 🧵...
2/ This is what makes me crazy about white libs/progressives. They do this thing where they get surprised whenever America (the noun) decides to America (the verb). But Black folks have been watching America America for 400+ years...
3/ We act like "this isn't who we are," and damned near every Black person over 40 (and most who are younger too) is is like "where y'all been?" This is among the reasons white progressives need to study the Black freedom struggle more closely...