Scott Dworkin: The debate was a landslide win for Biden. Trump was awful; just because he kept his pants up didn't mean he did well. He didn't address policy; he had no empathy for any problems he's caused or for families who've lost loved ones. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: Trump lied more during this debate because he had more time to speak. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Rick: This debate exposed how little Trump knows after being President for this amount of time. Biden hammered him on point after point.
Scott Dworkin: And then Trump couldn't remember why he brought up Abe Lincoln. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: You could tell Trump was on the ropes when Biden talked about Russian disinformation & their interfering in our elections. Trump had no defense. He failed at his mission. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: Since Trump spoke a few full sentences, it was probably his best debate to date. He had no defense for his Chinese bank acct & seemed surprised it was brought up. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: Not as many people watched this debate; I think it was because they'd made their decision after the previous debate. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: This is when we put the pedal to the metal & push Biden/Harris 24/7, along with the down ticket. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: It was interesting that Trump kinda listened to the rules & didn't try to push it too much. He couldn't heckle Biden from the sidelines. Also, everybody around him kept telling him he couldn't go full crazy, that he needed to be calm. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: I've found Trump, and his three oldest kids, working in many countries around the world, & it's shady. Did he pay taxes in those countries? It's not right. If you're a politician, money can't be your motivating factor. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Rick: We as voters should have demanded Trump's tax returns back in 2016. Nothing should have moved on without them.
Scott Dworkin: We need to go back to a zero tolerance policy in D.C. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: We have a list of crimes Trump & family & cronies committed while in the White House. If Trump pardons himself & his family, great--they can still face state crimes. The second he leaves the WH, his protections are gone. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: The worst crimes are the ones we don't know yet that Trump committed. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: When people can accept that we were conned by Trump, by Russia, that we allowed ourselves to be manipulated, they'd be voted out of office in a fair election. We won special elections across the country & have great momentum building. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: We need to overhaul everything & use this as an opportunity not to go back but to make things as they should be. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: We need to make examples out of people so that history doesn't repeat itself. Show there are consequences for interfering in our elections. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: Corruption is so widespread that we need a shock-and-awe response. There are people who've died because the of the Trump admin's corruption & policies. What crimes did they commit? How can we hold them accountable? @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: How many companies are linked to Mnuchin & Trump & PPE money? That money was intended for real business people. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: What did Trump do, when did he do it, how extensive were the crimes & corruption, & how quickly can we make sure it never happens again? @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: In order to protect our country, we need to protect our elections. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: I don't know if people realize that what happens online & on social media affects real life. Now that we're spending more time at home, I hope people realize this. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: The scramble is going to be to save lives. That has to be our first priority. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: Trump can win, so we need to make sure we get out in overwhelming numbers to vote. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: We need to get as progressive as we can to save as many lives as we can. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: People like Moscow Mitch are abusing their power. There's nothing we can actually work with them on. You can't negotiate with a person you can't trust being around. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: If Biden wins, we have to investigate the Barrett & Kavanaugh confirmations, in addition to many other issues, like Deutsche Bank. @funder@TheDemCoalition
After talking to a Trump supporter about socialism I'm literally speechless given the fact that he complains about working for 2007 wages, a diminished standard of living that has him working harder and longer for less, and worried his kids are going to be worse off then he is.
He is completely unwilling to accept the reality that the wealthy are robbing him blind and NOT the welfare mother or immigrant, yet we know there has been a massive $2.5 trillion redistribution of wealth yearly upward and that income inequality is at historic highs.
We know stagnat wages has increased debt so families can continue a reasonable lifestyle. We know capitalist banksters are willing to extend credit to the working class who has no opportunity for wage increases because unions are weakened by decades of attacks.
Bob Ney: Purdue Pharma is pleading guilty; $8.3 billion settlement. There will still be 1000's of cases brought by states & families. Purdue put out a stmt that they were sorry for what they did & admitted to putting out drugs "without legitimate medical purpose." @bobney
Rick: Somebody has to be put in jail for what Purdue Pharma did. Behind the tiny little windows Trump keeps talking about.
Bob Ney: Clearly Biden won the debate. His closing stmt was good; he looked at the camera & spoke directly to us. In a generic way, the big key was not to have a gaffe. Biden didn't have one but Trump wasn't as out of control as usual for the most part. @bobney
Lance L. Longenbohn: At our transit agency, if they have the quantity of masks Trump is claiming, they're keeping them locked up. We had to obtain our own masks, +- 6,000, & distributed those to our members. We're still waiting for a reasonable supply to be established @ATUComm
Lance L. Longenbohn: Our members are being given cloth masks & face shields. Our operators have struggled for years with getting sick on the job--bus drivers are on a Petri dish on wheels. This isn't an ordinary sickness, [the coronavirus] is lethal. @ATUComm
Lance L. Longenbohn: We need our riders to wear masks, too. Once a person rides who isn't wearing a mask, we're all at risk, and we're not delivering the virus, not passengers. @ATUComm
Diana Boesch: According to Trump during the debate last night, everything is great! I saw Trump lying, blatantly ignoring the facts about how the country is doing; this is one of the worst economies for women--we need to pay attn to that. @CAPWomen@CAPAction
Diana Boesch:This is the 1st recession where service sector jobs are the jobs we've lost. Previously it was production/manufacturing jobs. Because of the coronavirus, we can't be together indoors, & that's why service sector jobs, performed by women, are lost @CAPWomen@CAPAction
Diana Boesch: A lot of the relief measures from the spring stimulus package expired over the summer. Women are the ones to suffer; they are the ones whose jobs are not coming back. They have the bulk of child-rearing responsibilities & need the relief pkgs. @CAPWomen@CAPAction
Jamie Martin: We're talking about "integration plans" to combine PA universities--we don't know what the plan is yet. The only thing that's been done so far is an analysis to see if it makes fiscal sense to do this, so any plans are premature. @jmartin_iup@APSCUF
Rick:What would happen to the local communities?
Jamie Martin:Yes, and what about athletics,especially our student athletes who are on scholarships?There are so many questions that need to be answered; students, staff, alumni, local businesses should weigh in @jmartin_iup@APSCUF
Jamie Martin: PA students graduate with among the highest student loan debt in the nation; unfortunately, faculty gets blamed when in reality public universities haven't been properly funded in years. @jmartin_iup@APSCUF
Stefanie Rysdahl Fuhr: I appreciate your focus on public education, Rick. Thank you. I'm a former public school teacher, I graduated from public school, & I have kids in the public school system. @BadassTeachersA
Stefanie Rysdahl Fuhr: The mandates for reading have trickled down to kindergarten; within a couple of weeks of kindergarten, students are being tested to see if they're deficient readers. Then it becomes teaching to the test, which is concerning. @BadassTeachersA
Stefanie Rysdahl Fuhr: We need to have literate children but this is not doing that--if anything, we are hindering children. Kids come into kindergarten having to take a computerized test which then labels them & sets their path. @BadassTeachersA