If people want to drive sober they are free to do so.

Those who want to drive drunk shouldn't be shamed and government should not outlaw it.

We need to respect each other's decisions.
If folks don't want to get an abortion, they are free to do so.

Those who want to get an abortion shouldn’t be shamed about it, and government should not outlaw it.

We need to respect each other’s decisions.
If folks don't want to drive 125 mph, they are free to do so.

Those who do want to drive 125 mph shouldn’t be shamed about it, and government should not mandate speed limits.

We need to respect each other’s decisions.
If folks don't want to leave poison around their children, they are free to do so.

Those who do want to leave poison around their children shouldn't be shamed about it and government should not make it against the law to do so.

We need to respect each other’s decisions.
If folks want to wear clothes in public, they are free to do so.

Those who don’t want to wear clothes shouldn’t be shamed into it, and government should not mandate it.

We need to respect each other’s decisions.
If folks don't want to walk down the street screaming obscenities, they are free to do so.

Those who do want to scream obscenities shouldn't be shamed about it, and government should not outlaw such behavior.

We need to respect each other’s decisions.
If folks don't want to sell drugs to kids they are free to do so.

Those who do want to sell drugs to kids shouldn’t be shamed about it, and govt should not outlaw it.

We need to respect each other’s decisions.
If folks don't want to smoke cigarettes in bars and restaurants they are free to do so.

Those who do want to smoke cigarettes in bars and restaurants should not be shamed about it, and government should not outlaw it.

We need to respect each other’s decisions.

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More from @speechboy71

23 Oct
I've been working on a piece charting the worst indiscretions of Trump's presidency and I'd completely forgotten about the speech he gave to the Boy Scouts Jamboree in which he talked about a friend who had orgies on a boat nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Or the time he pushed the Prime Minister of Montenegro out of his way for a photo op
Or that time he cancelled a summit with the Danish prime minister because she wouldn't sell him Greenland
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29 Sep
Over the weekend, I wrote on why the doomsday scenarios about Trump trying to steal the election are largely misplaced. THREAD bostonglobe.com/2020/09/27/opi…
One point, in particular, featured in the recent piece by @bartongellman in the Atlantic, overstates the likelihood that Trump will be ahead on election night because of delays in counting mail-in ballots.
Since mail-in ballots are often reported first it's more likely that Biden Is ahead. There are only two battleground states - Wisconsin and Pennsylvania - where mail-in votes are not processed before Election Day.
Read 11 tweets
28 Sep
I'm not clear as to why it was necessary to tackle Parscale when he wasn't resisting and was following the commands of another officer.
I get that a lot of people on this website don't like Brad Parscale but police misconduct is police misconduct and no American should be subject to violence by the police ... that certainly appears to be the case in this video
If you’re response to this video is to rationalize police misconduct because Parscale:
- is white
- is tall
- was accused of DV
- worked for Trump
- wasn’t treated worse
You’re being a hypocrite
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25 Sep
So this is not really a critique of @bartongellman's piece but an observation on mail-in balloting. THREAD
There's a general assumption that Democrats will overwhelmingly vote by mail and Republicans will vote in person. Recent polling by Change Research confirms that view "
"Democrats are more likely to vote by mail (44% nationally, 54% in the battleground), compared to Republicans (8% nationally, 10% in the battleground)."

However, the numbers are shrinking: 28% say they will vote by mail. That's down from 33% in the summer.
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25 Sep
So I've been giving @bartongellman's long piece on how Trump could steal the election a close read and there's a major problem with his argument that needs to be pointed out. THREAD theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Gellman says, "Many states forbid the processing of early-arriving mail ballots before Election Day; some allow late-arriving ballots to be counted."

This is eliding important Information: FL, NC (and I believe AZ) process early arriving votes beforehand.
They will likely dump their mail in votes when the polls close, so in both states there's a good chance we'll know the winner on Election Night. If, for example, Biden is winning in Florida and/or NC we will know that night.
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21 Sep
This week in ... the lies conservatives tell themselves to justify abhorrent behavior
For anyone who has dealt with an extreme narcissist this is such familiar behavior.

Create an alternate reality based on alleged grievance. Use that alternate reality to justify bad behavior. Take no responsibility for acting badly
This column from @DouthatNYT is yet another example of this phenomenon: create grievance structure around Court decisions - and Court members appointed by Republicans - that you don’t like to justify pushing though a new conservative judge ...
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