Morning thoughts after the #Debates2020 We have been living in the midst of evil for 4 years. For all of us with tender hearts this has felt intolerable. /1
2/ Last night Donald trump has an opportunity to express empathy for the families of 220,000 dead Americans - many of whom died alone. He was not able to do so
3/ Last night trump was offered an opportunity to express compassion for the children he ripped from parents arms to sleep alone on concrete. He could not offer a single shred of care
Wait did ratcliffe just say that Iran’s attack on the voting process is an attempt to hurt trump? The one that was threatening voters using the proud boys lists? #FBI
“The U.S. government has concluded that Iran is behind a series of threatening emails arriving this week in the inboxes of Democratic voters, according to two U.S. officials.” This does not HURT TRUMP. it targets DEMS! #FBI
The GOP & DJT have severely underestimated the depth of our fury. I'm no election expert but this is what I see in the long lines waiting to vote, & the enormous early voting #'s. Most of us have sacrificed in profound ways while DJT dances /1
2/ at his ego-filled, mask-less rallies, while McConnell laughs at a question on COVID relief, while Mike Lee shouts maskless in a hearing that shouldn't even be happening... Millions of us have not left our homes since March, struggled with work disruptions & unemployment
3/ shown up at food banks in numbers not seen since the Great Depression -- while DJT's admin & the GOP have FAILED to create a national mask mandate, have FAILED to figure out COVID relief, have FAILED to produce enough PPE (STILL) for health workers who STILL
1/ It is absolutely a shanda (deep disgrace) that there has been no national mourning for 200,000+ Americans dead from covid. That, too, will have to wait until Biden.
2/ In addition McConnell & Trump didn’t even wait 24 hours before their attempt to go against RBG’s dying wish. & to call her granddaughter, who is in mourning, a liar. These people need to be defeated & decency returned.
3/ Ginsburg’s family can’t even sit shiva until she’s buried. They are in a holding pattern in terms of jewish mourning practices. How DARE trump/McConnell disrespect them like this?
1/ From Rabbi Emily Segal - "there is a Jewish tradition that those who die just before Rosh Hashanah are extraordinarily righteous & truly precious to God. We are taught that each Rosh Hashanah it is written who will live and who will die in the year to come... @caffeinatedrav
2/ "So last Rosh Hashanah, it was determined that RBG would die before this next year came to be...God did not want to let this precious, righteous person go... " #RIPRBG#RoshHashanah@caffeinatedrav
3/ "God wanted to cling on to every second of having this person on earth. But, God is God... and God knows that this person's name is not written in the Book of Life for the year to come...So God waits until the very last possible moment of the year... @caffeinatedrav