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Hurricane Watcher πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ | #DemocracyWins Profile picture
@FreedomFriesInc
Oct 2, 2020 β€’ 20 tweets β€’ 9 min read β€’ Read on X
(1) I just decided, to hell with it. I want to listen to 80s music and think about how we won the Cold War.

If you're with me, reply with your Gen-X tidbits, even if you weren't born between 1964 and 1980.)

Our time has come. #GenXWillSaveTheWorld
(2) See, I'm 99% certain it's Gen-X doctors who are treating Boomer-in-Chief President @realdonaldtrump at Walter Reed. Call it a hunch.

This song brought the 80s back for me: "A Big Country." Turn up the volume.

(3) No celebration of the 1980s, especially 80s music, is complete without the unsolicited input of honorary GenXer Colonel @KurtSchlichter.

#caringπŸ¦„

Not sure what songs he will suggest, but let this one be a placeholder for now.

(4) Mandatory earworm song about My Corona:

(5) Thanks for all the song suggestions! Folks, have a look down in the replies for them, and I'll try to add as many as I can here. YouTube-generated links sometimes don't work in other countries (lame copyright laws) so tell us the name of the song and artist too.
(6) Simple Minds "Don't you forget about me" came to mind right away but I knew some would mock me for it lol.

IDC, and neither does our friend below.

Watch the movie "Breakfast Club" if you haven't already.

(7) London band The Clash, "Rock The Casbah."

Imagine releasing a song and music video like this today. Wouldn't happen.

In the 80s we were more #free to express ourselves. With Trump we are getting that #freedom back. Watch.

(8) George Thorogood, "Bad to the bone."

(9) The Clash's "Should I stay or should I go" was often played at the end of the night.

I'm going to dip into the 90s for the next song.

(10) Semisonic - "Closing Time" (1998). A great melody and great lyrics.

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

That line will get you through anything, trust me.

(11) Before Los Angeles became a shithole city, there was a wonderful Olympic games (1984) with a guy flying in on a jetpack.

We're getting the games back! 2028 will be awesome. Despite those who will try to wreck them.

(12) Love these song ideas from @LarrySchweikart.

🚨He's live on election night with @Peoples_Pundit & @TracyBeanz.

"Turn up the Radio" Autograph
"Don't Stop Believin" Journey
"I'm High on You" Survivor
"Here I Go Again" Whitesnake
"The Reflex" Duran Duran
"Billie Jean" MJ
(13) Indeed there is not, Frank.

Billy Idol... love him.

(14) Jon Bon Jovi is one of those acts that I have always loved, then I saw him cozying up to the Crooked One in the last election, like Springsteen and the rest.

These artists are musically great, but lacking in personal courage. Still, great songs.

(15) Newsflash: We conservatives can like whatever music, movies, and sports we want to, even though many of the people behind them are brainwashed losers, or worse.

That's what #freedom means. You stay outta my life & I'll stay outta yours.
(16) Lee Greenwood #GodBlessTheUSA seems to be @realdonaldtrump's favorite song.

Study the lyrics & it will be yours too. Being a free American is more important than anything else. You can _always_ start again, in the USA.

(17) This is so true! I have heard a similar story from so many people, about coming of age around the time of #Reagan80. There was a huge shift in consciousness.

And, thank you for your service. I mean that, it's not an empty comment.❀️

(18) Oh man I just heard this song (ACDC Thunderstruck) and was gonna hit the skip button but actually, it's so bad it's good. I'm sure there are a few fans out there. Good Road Trip music.

(19) The Hooters "And We Danced" takes me back to the Reagan era, every time.

(20) Love this.πŸ˜‚

Sister Christian "Night Ranger" AKA "Motoring!"



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Hurricane Watcher πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ | #DemocracyWins Profile picture
Jan 5, 2023
Well said, @DonnaLeeSun. I have the same approach.

Donna is "Unapologretically Canadian."

I am Unapologetically New Zealander/Kiwi. Granted, "sorry" has a special meaning in Canada, eh? But our countries do have a lot in common. Mini-thread:
I really get what Donna is saying in her Twitter bio:

"Trumpism has a strong foothold in Canada & we ignore it at our peril. Pay attention, esp. to PP, former PM Harper & idiot Premiers!"

The same is true of New Zealand, Australia, and our OG mothership: The UK.
PP stands for Pierre Poilievre, who became the leader of Canada's conservative party on 10 September 2022.

For me it's super simple: Far right extremism gained a foothold in the US, only to be rejected by majorities of voters multiple times since. Because #DemocracyWins.
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Hurricane Watcher πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ | #DemocracyWins Profile picture
Dec 30, 2022
"Misogyny" is a trigger word for the far right-controlled Republican party. But the ideology is real, and it can lead to people getting killed.

Bryan Kohberger
George Huguely
Elliot Rodger
Andrew Tate
Donald T****

#RespectWomen is a public health and safety issue.
Evidently, my above use of the term misogyny has triggered a few of them.

They're trying to insinuate that Kohberger was a liberal which, even if true, would have nothing to do with the points made in my tweet. We already know several things about him, and his crimes...
Further, when writing the above list of 5 known and/or confirmed misogynists, some of whom have killed at least one woman, I considered a range of factors that put them on that list.

I want to encourage discussion about misogny and the targeting of women by violent offenders.
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Hurricane Watcher πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ | #DemocracyWins Profile picture
Dec 5, 2022
"Elections are decided by women." So true.

Esp. the 2020 US presidential election, and others where right wing governments were (and will soon be) punished for anti- public health and safety, anti-science, ignorant approaches to pandemic response.

We manage household health!
Do politicians and their advisers get this yet? In most households, it is one or more women who take basic health and safety seriously, & who develop a superior knowledge base due to our more complex biology, higher rates of illness, & greater need for infection control measures.
Of course there are many men with the same health knowledge and risk management priorities as women, but we are talking about "in general" here, and how that applies to elections.
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Hurricane Watcher πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ | #DemocracyWins Profile picture
Nov 30, 2022
Gotta laugh, my tweet generated the following reply from a maga account:

"Ukraine flag in bio"

Ad hominem/genetic fallacy is all they have. They deflect by targeting the player not the ball. Because playing the ball is too hard for them. It requires honesty & courage.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
I recognize this form of gaslighting because I learned it from others and even used it, during my time* in Cult 45. (* Ended TWO years ago, OK?)

Any sign that someone is outside the cult is used as a way to disregard whatever the person says.

I proudly attach πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ to my a/c...
And I will keep the Ukraini flag on my account for as long as it takes. Full independence, with pre 2014 borders, nothing less will do.

Cult 45ers viscerally hate Ukraine and Ukrainians.

They have to, in order to protect the scaffold of lies they have been fed.
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Nov 23, 2022
Thread: Mass shooting in a Walmart store, Chesapeake, VA

Here is the latest at 4am Eastern. At 8am Eastern, local police will hold a media briefing.

Yet another shooting. There are some relatively easy ways to prevent most of them...

edition.cnn.com/2022/11/22/us/…
I'm talking about changing the way domestic violence incidents are handled, and doing more to put long term distance between known DV offenders and their legal access to guns.

An idea best espoused by the outstanding @BeauTFC. Link to follow.
The outstanding @BeauTFC talked about this issue here:


(The video he was referring to is this one: )
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Nov 14, 2022
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I wonder what price between $8 billion and $44 billion Elon Howard Hughes Musk might consider to sell this vital pro-democracy communications hub before he completely destroys it.

I mean, that's his goal, right?
He paid waaaay too much for it. Value currently estimated at $8 billion. Surely there are billionaires out there with the ability to build a consortium to entice it out of his grubby little hands?

There's a good argument for the US federal government buying it, too...
Or a group of countries. It's not all about the US, you know.

What does the Putin regime have on Musk, that could get him to over-spend so much money? The global fascist movement is the only winner out of this. Or was it the Mercers?
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