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Tim Hogan

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15 Oct

1.1928, the stock market was rolling along when an anti-prohibition Irish Catholic ran as a Democrat. Anti-Catholic hate raised its ugly head and Hoover won by a landslide. Then the stock market crashed in October 1929.

2. Factories closed and commodity prices plummeted wiping out the farm economy. By 1932 people were desperate and fearful and the map flipped from red to blue. FDR began is promised recovery but it was stymied by right-wing activist judges who shared Judge Barrett's views.

3. Like her they sought to roll back health and safety protections and block FDR's recovery plans. So FDR threatened to add justices. But the conservatives relented, with two crossing over. Liberty, worker protections and the safety net are a one-way street. We're not going back.

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Tim Hogan

@TimInHonolulu

14 Oct

@FBI

1. During WWII, my maternal granfather, Timothy Murphy, was a Holyoke MA, Detective Sergeant. My mother told me about his interactions with the @FBI who were doing investigations both background and national security related. Investigating a Holyoke

2. native who was being considered for a top secret job, he told the FBI, “Oh for Christ sake, he’s fine. He’s Irish.” The FBI agent said, “No Tim, we still have to check him out.”

@GroverNorquist

3. Guess what Charles Koch’s foreign-born grandfather did when the FBI would have been doing their detective work in the Texas oil patch? He blew his brains out. #Spooks @GroverNorquist @NSAGov @FBIWFO @FBIKansasCity

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Tim Hogan

@TimInHonolulu

11 Oct

@SenateGOP

1. Will @SenateGOP religious extremism bring on a period of overt religious sectarian conflict because beliefs can be made the subject of attacks and ridicule by a Catholic #SCOTUS? If Christian right need not respect others' religious beliefs, why should others respect theirs?

2. Will Catholic belief in the Holy Trinity and virgin birth, LDS beliefs in Latter Day Saints, Evangelicals' belief that prayer is maters over good works, become the subject of overt sectarian attacks? Why shouldn't people who don't adopt the Evangelical, Mormon,

@CatholicBishops

3. Catholic view of life be subject to the others' religious beliefs and overt sectarian hatred but Evangelical, Mormon, Catholics, not expect it in return? It's easy. It's in the Constitution stupid. @CatholicBishops @SenateMajLdr @SenMcSallyAZ @SenatorCollins @SenCoryGardner

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Tim Hogan

@TimInHonolulu

11 Oct

1. #CourtPacking: On Feb 5, 1937, #FDR announced his #courtpacking plan to deal with a conservative Supreme Court that was acting as a super-legislature to overturn the desperately needed recovery acts that were attempting to save America from total economic collapse.

2. Congress' attempts to fix the economy were repeatedly stymied by the imposition of a judicial activist theory of "substantive due process" that created a right of contract that trumped all Constitutionally granted legislative power. By 1937, FDR had finally had

3. enough and announced his #courtpacking plan that would increase the number of #SCOTUS justices to as many as 15. The reaction was similar to what we are seeing from the Conservatives who this time seek to turn the US into an extremist white supremacist Christian theocracy.

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Tim Hogan

@TimInHonolulu

10 Oct

1. The US should not pull out of any conflicts until the election is over. The sacrifices of our brave men and women and their families and loved ones should never be in vein. Lincoln said it best:

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as

2. God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish

@youtubemusic

3. a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."🇺🇸✌️

Fight Song via @youtubemusic
@USArmy @USNavy @USMC @usairforce @USCG @NSAGov @CIA

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Tim Hogan

@TimInHonolulu

10 Oct

@FBI

1. The nitwits who answered Trump's call for armed insurrection are likely scrubbing their online lives but it's too late. @FBI has evidence that can turn this armed terrorist threat into an army of disarmed criminal defendants in shackles held without bail on 20 year felonies

@NRA

2. The #Kremlin infested @NRA has set up the mother of all gun-nut round ups. The honest loyal gun owners have nothing to fear. I'll support more rational #NFA regulations for the loyal gun owners but full background checks and no more gun-show loophole are certainly coming.

3. The armed seditious conspirators need to run and hide but it won't save them if they don't stop their criminal conduct. Just go home and put your guns in your safe and save your family.

Fun Fact: I came up with the settlement of the #RubyRidge civil case while on vacation in

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