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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🧵Reality Bites:
Trump’s Voters Have Just Found Out They’re on the Menu
When the government reopened, cable pundits called it a cave. Twitter called it surrender. I called it a win—because from where I sit, Democrats didn’t lose the shutdown fight, they won the long game and gave the ACA its only chance of survival.
The point was never to “hold out” for an Affordable Care Act subsidy extension that Republicans were never going to give in the shutdown. The point was to force them to take ownership of killing it. That’s exactly what just happened.
Now, as December premiums land in mailboxes across America, voters will have one party to blame for the sticker shock. One man, really—Donald J. Trump—and the Republican Party that spent fifteen years promising to repeal and replace the ACA without ever producing a plan that wasn’t a dumpster fire. They voted to gut it once to end the shutdown, and they’ll have to do it again in the glare of public outrage. That’s not losing; that’s setting a trap.
They Wanted to Save Germany. Instead They Destroyed It
When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, it wasn’t because he seized power. It was because Germany’s conservatives gave it to him.
He didn’t storm the Reichstag. He walked through the front door — ushered in by aristocrats, generals, and businessmen who thought they could use him to save themselves from democracy.
They weren’t Nazis. They were the respectable men in suits, the “adults in the room.” President Paul von Hindenburg, the aging field marshal who still dreamed of empire. Franz von Papen, the slick conservative politician who fancied himself a kingmaker. Alfred Hugenberg, the media tycoon who used his newspapers to rehabilitate the far right. They were Germany’s establishment — men of property, pedigree, and power.
🚨🧵Why We Can't Panic
Humans Are Designed to Keep Calm and Carry On
Ten months into Trump’s return to power, America feels like its full of pod people (you youngsters can go ahead and Google that one).
The FBI and DOJ have been purged and now serve as Trump’s personal revenge machine.
The so-called “Countering Domestic Terrorism” memorandum re-brands nearly half the country—anyone left of MAGA—as a potential extremist threat.
Kristi Noem is on airport TVs blaming “radical liberal Democrats” for the shutdown. The law doesn’t matter. The Hatch Act doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. And the public reaction is… nothing. I used to think the problem was information—that if people knew, they’d act. I’m not so sure I believe that anymore.
Here’s why:
The Diary in the Dark
When I first started studying the Third Reich, I kept circling back to a single line from a Warsaw Ghetto diary.
The writer had already lost his home, his livelihood, and most of his family. He was starving in a room shared with five other families, living inside walls his own people were forced to build. Rumors were spreading that deportations east meant death, and he wrote something along the lines of
Coordination the American Way:
Inside Trump’s Plan to Turn the U.S. Government into a Weapon Against Us
When historians describe how Nazi Germany became a dictatorship, they don’t start with the camps. They start with coordination — Gleichschaltung — the process by which every institution in Germany “aligned” itself with the will of the regime.
No orders had to be barked. People, fearing irrelevance or punishment and watching colleagues be purged, simply did what was expected. Courts, newspapers, universities, police — each coordinated.
Now, a century later, we are watching the American version unfold in real time.
Reuters just pulled the curtain back on a chilling plan inside Trump’s second administration: a coordinated effort among the FBI, the Justice Department, the IRS, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate, harass, and potentially prosecute liberal and Democratic-aligned organizations.
🧵We're Deep in the Shit Now
The Only Way to Win the Shutdown Was Not to Play
The Shutdown Power Grab
The government is shut down. That alone is bad enough, but here’s the kicker: Trump and his people have already said out loud that they’re going to redefine what “essential” means. Under normal shutdown rules, the basics keep going: Social Security checks, veterans’ benefits, air traffic control, border patrol, some law enforcement. Everyone else gets furloughed. It’s disruptive, but it’s not supposed to be apocalyptic.
But this isn’t a normal shutdown. Trump isn’t Ted Cruz throwing a tantrum in 2013 or the Freedom Caucus in 2018 trying to leverage a short-term crisis. He doesn’t want the government back open. He wants it broken. And a shutdown is the perfect crowbar.
Smart People Are Dumb, Dumb People Are Experts:
Welcome to the De-Enlightenment
To tens of millions of Trump supporters, expertise itself is proof of corruption. The more qualified you are, the more you must be part of “the deep state.”
This isn’t just dumb. It’s coordinated dumb. It’s the De-Enlightenment: a deliberate inversion of the values that built modern society.
I monitor MAGA for a living. My feed is a constant firehose of crazy — conspiracy memes, medical quackery, climate hoaxes, and 19th-century economics dressed up as “America First.”
And the pattern is always the same: the very markers that once signaled someone was trustworthy — credentials, experience, a government position — now mark them as suspect. To tens of millions of Trump supporters, expertise itself is proof of corruption. The more qualified you are, the more you must be part of “the deep state.”
This isn’t just dumb. It’s coordinated dumb. It’s the De-Enlightenment: a deliberate inversion of the values that built modern society.
The Enlightenment (which religious nuts hate) Changed to Entire World
The Enlightenment was a global jailbreak. In the 17th and 18th centuries, thinkers like Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Kant blew open the old world of kings, priests, and mercantilism. Isaac Newton’s physics gave us a cosmos governed by laws, not whims. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations gave us comparative advantage, free trade, and the idea that nations prosper by specializing and exchanging, not hoarding and walling off. The Enlightenment’s gift was method: reason, evidence, and institutions that force power to justify itself.