Trump flaunted CDC guidelines for COVID- led thousands, if not millions of his supporters to cavlier behaviors spreading infection- some died. Then when their recklessness at the WH causes an inevitable cluster- got state of the art treatment the regular public can't access.
2. The coddling of Trump, the Trump family, Republican politicians at both the fed and state level- all of that- must stop after this.
It can't continue w/o enablers like the presidential debate commission.
No masks/social distancing- no service
And people who are high risks
3. who are attending large rallies and in congregating and not masking, etc- these people are high risk. They should not be allowed to come into spaces with other people until they have quarantined after their last risky behavior. Stop making it easy for them to endanger innocent
4. people. Lives are on the line! If you are at the grocery store, the person in line behind you and how they are conducting their behaviors affect your probability to get this virus. Same for cashiers. Thus, having 40% of the country running around acting like there is no virus
5. is a massive risk for those of us trying to protect ourselves and our families. As @harrisonjaime just pointed out- @LindseyGrahamSC is one of these high-risk individuals. He is exposing himself to COVID deniers who are not masking and congregating and thus, its a matter of
6. when, not if, @LindseyGrahamSC gets covid. And how many innocent people will he infect in the process? Will any die. If you infect someone but did everything you could to avoid getting sick and passing it on, I assume you still feel terrible. When you infect someone and they
7. die bc you refuse to believe in science, you refuse to do what is right for your community, family, for neighbors, your co-workers, your employees, your friends, at least the ones trying to avoid getting sick then in my view if they get infected and die- you killed them. How
8. can anyone want that on their conscious? Literally, everyone involved in this "covid denialism" movement are getting people killed- bc voters trust their political leaders (from their own party) and when someone you trust, like the President you support is telling you there is
9. nothing to worry about, that wearing a mask is for the weak, that you should live your life back to normal, you believe them. So yes, Trump, these right-wing media figures, and GOP pols have been getting people killed. And when a debate commission allows them to not wear masks
10. they are enabling it. So let's be sure that we put an end to the enabling bullshit.
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🚨🔥🧵👇Herding Cats:
The Problem Isn’t Just Structural. It’s Behavioral.
Democrats are not just losing the information war because the other side has Fox News and a billion-dollar propaganda ecosystem. That’s a big part of it, sure—but it’s not the whole story. The comms asymmetry isn’t just structural. It’s behavioral. It’s psychological. It’s us.
Let me break this down for you, because until we understand the real problem, we’re not going to fix it. And if we don’t fix it, we’re not just going to lose elections. We’re going to lose democracy.
1. Democrats Want to Be Smart. That’s a Problem.
Democrats are smart people. Progressives, especially. They value intelligence. They curate it. They showcase it. They want to look smart, and more importantly, they’re terrified of looking stupid. This seems like a good thing—until you realize that effective propaganda often requires you to say things that sound stupid to smart people.
🚨🔥🧵Politicize Everything:
A Blueprint for a Party That Fights.
Let me start with the obvious: Republicans politicize everything. They politicize natural disasters. They politicize immigration. They politicize murder victims, train derailments, gas prices, egg prices, hamburgers, light bulbs, M&Ms, and your damn stove.
If a dog slips on the ice in Iowa, Steve Bannon’s podcast will have it chalked up to Biden’s America by lunchtime. Fox News will feature it on a five-segment loop under “Border Chaos.” By dinnertime, Ted Cruz is tweeting about how Trump would’ve salted the sidewalk himself.
Meanwhile, Democrats are out here still asking for permission to feel angry.
It’s 2025. If you’re just now figuring out that everything is political, you’re not behind the curve—you are the curve. And the curve is currently being flattened by a fascist movement that figured out 20 years ago that emotion beats policy, fear beats fact, and offense beats defense every damn time.
🧵Make America 1933 Again
The Rise of American Fascism
It can happen here. It already is.
Fascism doesn’t need to show up looking like the History Channel: swastikas, stiff-armed salutes, and jackboots marching down Main Street.
(Learn more 👇and RT so your friends can too!)
Contemporary fascism, here and abroad, wears their Sunday best and clutches a Trump Bible. Fascism in Germany didn’t start with deportations and gas chambers,—it started with the elimination of civil rights and a Big Gov surveillance system focused on “thought crimes.”
And the closer you look at the MAGA movement, the harder it is to avoid the conclusion that America is not just playing footsie with fascism. Millions are in bed with it, spooning it, whispering sweet nothings to it on Truth Social.
Let’s not get coy. There are BIG differences between Trumpism and Hitlerism, of course. But the ideological overlap is substantial—and disturbing.
The Cycle Monday Memo
Live Free. Die fast. Get Digested Slowly
Let’s begin with a quick vibe check. Are you breathing air with an AQI over 300 today? Wearing Crocs in public because it’s too hot for socks but too dangerous to go barefoot? Great. Then you’re ready for this week’s news.
The Elon Musk Civil War: America Party Edition
First up, our favorite discount Bond villain, Elon Musk, declared civil war on the Republican Party this week by suggesting he’s launching the “America Party,” a political vehicle so inspiring it was conceived during a Twitter poll with as much methodological rigor as your drunk uncle asking, “Who wants to go to Waffle House?” at 3am.
Now, Musk says he didn’t actually file an FEC filing for a new party. That’s what his lawyer told him, anyway. So maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. He’s a busy guy juggling at least 6 jobs with a ketamine and video game addiction.
What we know for sure: conservative influencers lost their minds at the idea.
In case you’re wondering how Trump feels about it, he issued his usual sized rant, to which Elon responded: I ain’t reading that.”
Elon Musk has decided America needs a new political party. And not just any party – the America Party, founded on the deeply inspiring and universally unifying mission of… eliminating the national debt??
(Please RT this!)
Don’t get me wrong, there is always decent public support for lowering the debt, theoretically.
Its when you get into the specifics of how to achieve debt reduction, which requires either massive tax increases or massive spending cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, that support drops massively.