SHUT DOWN THE COUNTRY

MANDATE MASKS NATIONWIDE

GIVE PEOPLE A MONTHLY STIPEND

CANCEL DEBTS, RENTS, & MORTGAGES

Stop using people's bodies as fodder to enrich big corporations and billionaires.

#COVID19 #coronavirus
To anyone purposely misreading "shut down the country." Obviously, the most essential work will have to continue and we should give maximum support to essential workers.
To libertarians/rightwingers swarming this thread:

You guys are just fine with hand-ups to billionaires during this pandemic. It's the idea of money to working people that has you up in arms.

You're showing your true colors.
Fire drills.

Mandatory evacuations.

Vaccinations for schoolkids.

Speed limits.

Restaurant inspections.

All of those are fine with the "libertarians" swarming my tweet. But preventing hundreds of thousands of deaths and giving people the resources to do it is a problem?

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27 Oct
MY 2020 VOTE -> THE GREEN PARTY

I'm in a deep blue state.

I choose @HowieHawkins and @AngelaNWalker.

I respect leftists & progressives, particularly in swing states, who have decided to strategically vote for Biden.

Either way, we must #vote AGAINST Trump and his goons.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN

The past few years have been a very public soul-searching process for me. I've become radicalized by the realities around me and I've returned to my anti-establishment roots from the Bush era. The system is deeply corrupt. I will not uphold it one more day.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN (cont.)

I've given 20 years of my life to fighting the GOP. I quit the Democratic Party this year because the leadership has enabled & empowered Trump. Just like they coddled war criminal Bush. Schumer fast-tracked Trump's judges. Pelosi funded his abuses.
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25 Oct
RANT - THE ESTABLISHMENT WINS

2020 is going to be a resounding victory for the Democratic establishment.

Donald Trump would lose to a rusty trash can, but when Biden wins, Dem leaders will claim that shunning the left and embracing Bush-era war criminals is what did it.
THE ESTABLISHMENT WINS

Under the "existential threat" umbrella, Dems convinced high-profile leaders on the left to get in line.

And egregiously, they did that while Pelosi and crew funded Trump's abuses and refused to exercise an iota of power to hold his thugs accountable.
THE ESTABLISHMENT WINS

The result will be a Dem leadership that treats GOP operatives like heroes and leftists like dirt.

And Trump will have locked in the judiciary for a generation, with the help of Dems who folded like a house of cards, most recently on #AmyConeyBarrett.
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PISSED OFF AS HELL THREAD

GOOD MORNING, I'M FURIOUS...

Furious at the monstrous, racist Republicans running the country.

Furious at the complicit, gutless Dem leaders who enable them.

Furious to hear that MILLIONS more are slipping into poverty while billionaires cash in...
PISSED OFF THREAD

I'm furious at the unthinkably evil policy of STEALING babies, perhaps the deepest pain you can inflict on a human.

Furious that no official, GOP or Dem, faces prison for committing (and funding) crimes against humanity at the border.

nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opi…
PISSED OFF THREAD

I'm furious that raging white supremacists occupy the highest offices in our country.

Furious that we're living in a police state where Black people are lynched at will by police, and protestors brutalized and carted off in unmarked vans.
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THREAD — "VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE"

What does that phrase really mean?

It means you're an adult with the capacity to exercise an informed judgment and make an ethical, carefully considered choice for president. It means you value your vote and understand the stakes in the election.
"VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE"

To vote your conscience is to analyze complex factors, to weigh the outcomes, to be guided by your moral compass, to assess the impact of your choice on others, and to be true to your values and principles.

EVERY vote should be a vote of conscience.
"VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE"

For leftists, progressives, and millions of non-voters who find the extremist GOP abhorrent and the Democratic Party complicit in perpetuating a corrupt, immoral, oppressive system, 2020 is hardly the easy choice it's made out to be.
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22 Sep
This is why I'm so pissed at Dems:

For nearly 4 years, they've enabled, accommodated, and empowered Trump. Funded his worst policies. (They did the same with Bush, then embraced him and absolved him of war crimes.)

Now, come election time: "VOTE BLUE OR THE WORLD WILL END!!!"
If he was such an existential threat, then why pass his bills, confirm his judges, give his cronies a free pass? Why punt every time you could use your power, lull people with theatrics like tearing speeches, then put the ENTIRE ONUS on voters when the shit hits the fan????
And establishment trolls have the nerve to yell at leftists "you're helping Trump!" while fawning over politicians like Pelosi WHO ACTUALLY HELP TRUMP.
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20 Sep
#Pelosi preemptively surrendered.

If you were wondering how hard establishment Dems would fight to protect the #SupremeCourt...

cnn.com/2020/09/20/pol…
I want all of you to understand what Trump is to politicians like Nancy Pelosi: A cash cow. A fundraising bonanza. Image
So much for the 2018 blue wave that gave Democrats the House. The Dem leadership has ONE solution for everything: Put the onus on voters and just clap sideways.

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