Thread by @RachelBitecofer

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus Pretty much every R that went Never Trump deserves a shout out (& someone best be giving my girl, @JRubinBlogger one on here!) bc as I taught my students, going NT means a lot more than giving up your party. It means social isolation. It means being severed out of an entire world

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger , black-balled, out-casted, and frankly, depending on what you get up to, being a straight-up traitor. And I have news for you, reading this post, confident that you'd do the same thing if the situation was reversed. But don't be so sure. Statistics governing human behavior would

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger have to be completely defied for that to be true and we know that wouldn't happen. So we KNOW that many of you wouldn't, even though you are very confident right now that YOU would. Interesting, huh?

Something to keep in mind next time you flip on that progressive programming.

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger So yes- what you guys see on here is their best outcomes, their happiest times, & their successes- largely. And you're seeing the tail end of a painful 5 years. And keep in mind- right now, I am working hard on trying to avoid a situation where the Republican Party, its president

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger its vice president, its Attorney Gen, its party chair: will deploy a strategy to prevent the election from being certified so they can try to create a minority vote-winning prez. As crazy as that sounds if you could put Barr & McDaniel on truth serum, this is the plot they'd

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger confess too. Its a ludicrous, long-shit strategy, but then, it seeks to reinstall a ludicrous man that can't win a majority of votes under a free & fair system. Which is why, Rubin, @SteveSchmidtSES, @stuartpstevens, @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom,

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol, @davidmweissman, @MichaelSteele, @Shermichael_ - every single American of integrity that had to give up their most important identity outside of their family identity to quite literally put #countryfirst do deserve to be lauded. And, when relevant, forgiven for

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ any previous trespasses they may have committed while in the campaign politics trenches. Politics is mean, nasty, & cruel sport-& those are the nice parts! Does that mean YOU have to? You do not. But I will tell you that some of the most effective messaging of the 2020 cycle

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ has come from NT, from @ProjectLincoln, from @RVAT (and before that, their old group, Reps for the Rule of Law). When the Dems did their usual "M.I.A. vacuum" stuff,t at void was filled by LP and RVAT- and WELL-filled. I'll remind my friends now that almost 50% of voters are just

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat just now, for the very 1st time ever this cycle, paying ANY attention to politics so a reprise of their greatest hits, w some updates, might be good- esp now that the sick little fuck called just received the most elite access to med care in the world lincolnproject.us/video/mourning…

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat and then shit all over it, shit all over US, over our dead grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, by spending the last 3 weeks of the campaign on a freak show, traveling circus super spreader nightmare- lying to the participants, telling the audience

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat audience the virus is "going away" and they might as well just get it bc its no big deal! So yes, NTerspaid one hell of a price, but never has a group of people been better vindicated by history. As for the hangers-on- let me tell you where this shit show IS heading next.

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat The @GOP is moving their game pieces to attempt to avoid declaring @JoeBiden the majority vote winner, even if it is obvious he is. They believe they can accomplish this via heavy reliance on vote by mail necessitated by the pandemic. It is, I have no doubt, painful to believe

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden that rank-and-file Republicans, people that are our friends, our family members, our colleagues, would turn a blind eye to such shamelessness. As I have said before, due to the right-wing media ecosystem, most rank and file Rs have been aggressively targeted w the false narrative

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden of voter fraud, esp through the mail, and in prep for the election, the propaganda on that channel on this topic has been intense. So please, understand. If it gets to that point, your friends, mom, dad, neighbor: they will believe they are doing the right thing as they tank

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden American democracy. But fear not. IF, on Election Night, it is clear that Trump is getting trounced, their plan will not work. Much of that will depend on results in FL and NC- both of which have vote by mail but also have had it in place previously. In the case of FL, in fact,

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden although technically NOT the birthplace of vote by mail, FL is the place where the GOP perfected it as a means of winning elections in which they were numerically disadvantaged. And they are masters of vote by mail in FL. However, that has been undermined by Trump's "war on vote

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden by mail" which has seriously undermined each state chapter's ability to turn out R voters via that method (where applicable). And In FL, that is very applicable. And as I have pointed out previously, bc the FL GOP created and perfected vote by mail as a means of holding onto

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden tough races like their 2018 fight against Gillum, in which party turnout (% of reg Rs versus % of reg Ds was THE decisive factor- spoiler alert, even w every fundamental working against them, Rs won that battle. A shameful, shameful fact that I know weighs heavily on FL Ds). But

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden yeah, one days a few months ago- as the pandemic moved in, the more GOP Chair of FL was sitting there, watching Trump go on a tirade about voting by mail and thinking, "oh fuck." Of course, this "fuck" really screws Trump more than anyone- as that is HIS reelection plan he's

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden he's screwing! But I digress. BC the FL GOP used that vote by mail system, bc it was their baby, and bc they controlled state govn't (bc of it!) for so long- they used that party control to codify a lot of the elements AROUND it. So the vote by mail ballots folks- guess what

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden must be counted 1st. Before the other ballots. Which means they allow for early counting, unlike all these other states, who only recently added mail voting and thus have not yet figured out how long it takes to count them, and that you need to start counting them as early as

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden you possibly can- or else your election ends up as a cluster fuck. So FL, lovely little bellwether FL, will be counted, if not entirely, very damn close to it, on Election Day. And that state will tell us quite a bit about what is happening. It is a must-win for Trump. If he does

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden not win FL_ that's game over- while Biden can lose FL and still enjoy multiple pathways. That said, a FL loss might suggest the kind of prolonged, nailbiting vote-counting process the anti-democratic Trump people are counting on. So people who wish to not continue under the Trump

@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger @SteveSchmidtSES @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @SarahLongwell25 @RadioFreeTom @BillKristol @davidmweissman @MichaelSteele @Shermichael_ @ProjectLincoln @rvat @GOP @JoeBiden regime has but one BEST course of action- vote like your lives depend on it. BC they do. As does America's.