I'm confident in a Biden/Harris win but woke up enraged. It's going to take at least 16 years to get the USA back on a positive trajectory because of Donald. Covid 19 can be contained, hopefully by 2021 but the racism & xenophobia he made mainstream will linger. People chose him.
Republicans didn't want to stop Trump. "They knew he was a merciless narcissist, without empathy or compassion. They knew he was corrupt & dishonest. They chose him anyway" because they wanted minority rule of a diverse electorate with white men in control usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
Trump had all the information needed to contain covid but instead decided to let people die since it impacted predominantly Black & brown people. Trump knew a covid 19 surge was coming in rural areas but he hoped it would hit after November 3. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
Donald literally kidnapped children (real Qanon?) & the people who supported that decision are trying to act like they're heroes for coming forward during the election. They profited off of his racism, xenophobia & his daily chaos campaign.
Republicans have spent decades trying to keep people from voting & now trying to stop votes from being counted. They spent none of this time trying to protect Americans from contracting & dying from covid 19. They will try to distance themselves from Donald like a coffee boy.
Republicans have always been the party of racism, voter suppression & xenophobia. They don't like Trump's overt racism & prefer subtle systemic racism that keeps white men at the top of the racial caste system. Reagan Republicans are fine with racism & xenophobia as a wedge issue
Plutocrats have 2 options to stay in power, implement policies that benefit more people (nope, because they hate poor people, Black people & Hispanic people) or consolidate power to increase minority rule (aka gerrymandering & voter suppression). dailykos.com/stories/2017/8…
Republicans didn't remove Trump after he was impeached because they're complicit. Lamar Alexander concedes Trump did it. Republicans have rigged elections for decades. GOP admits if Black people voted Republican, voter ID laws wouldn't exist. vox.com/2016/9/2/12774…
Republicans tried to add a citizenship question to suppress Hispanic Census responses that “would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” & “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,” according to a document filed in federal court. thinkprogress.org/thomas-hofelle…
Republicans don't want DC or Puerto Rico to get statehood because they have no plan to win those voters, mostly nonwhite, with any policy ideas. Trump is not an aberration. The Republican party created him for over 50 years & are switching sides, temporarily, after their arson.
MAGA meant bringing back 1968 civil unrest, the 1929 economic crash, the 1918 Spanish flu & the 1861 failed confederacy all at the same damn time. In a few more hours it will be over & Donald will try to burn the country to the ground until January 20. Will Republicans stop him?
Donald survived impeachment, 2 divorces, 6 bankruptcies, 26 accusations of sexual misconduct, & an estimated 4K lawsuits. His lifelong evasion of consequences ends when he loses to Joe Biden. Cyrus Vance & Letitia James are pursuing criminal charges. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
"26 women have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. VICE News' Isobel Yeung has spoken to several of these women and they’ve agreed to share their stories with us. "
Deutsche Bank plans to cut ties with Trump after the election and could seize his assets if he can't pay back his debts reuters.com/article/us-usa…
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South Korea ramped up production of PPE in February and rolled out a national plan for testing, contact tracing & isolation. Meanwhile, Trump was lying to us but giving Bob Woodward the facts.
Nancy Messonnier rang the alarm early on in February saying parents should ask their children’s schools about closures; businesses should consider telecommuting options to their employees, & hospitals might need to look into expanding telehealth services. statnews.com/2020/02/25/cdc…
Trump discovered a lucrative new revenue stream: people who wanted something from the president. An investigation by NYT found over 200 companies, special-interest groups & foreign governments that patronized his properties while reaping benefits from him. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Individuals, groups and companies that patronized a Trump property and had business before the administration are represented by dots. Arrows show the flow of money to Mr. Trump by way of his properties."
"Just 60 customers with interests at stake before the Trump administration brought his family business nearly $12 million during the first two years of his presidency, The Times found. Almost all saw their interests advanced, in some fashion, by Mr. Trump or his government."
@AdamInHTownTX@4everNeverTrump@JustinGrayWSB Or we could just have cops pretend Black people who assault them or steal their tasers are White. None of them quit after White men embarrassed them. All I have to say. In January: A suspect steals cops taser. He is still alive. whio.com/news/crime--la…
@KosherSoul Good idea since so many people don't know the Civil Rights Movement was far from peaceful. Some have a whitewashed idea of what happened when cops & white citizens turned violent against peaceful protesters. History is repeating.
@KosherSoul 5 Other Race Massacres That Devastated Black America beyond Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921.
COLFAX, LOUISIANA, MASSACRE (1873)
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MASSACRE (1898)
ATLANTA MASSACRE (1906)
ELAINE, ARKANSAS, MASSACRE (1919)
ROSEWOOD, FLORIDA, MASSACRE (1923) bet.com/news/national/…
@KosherSoul The Colfax Massacre and U.S. v Cruikshank
It's been a crazy morning going over legal documents to determine rights since businesses closing by order of governors. I came across this Y2K language & was reminded that there were so many IT professionals working behind the scenes that some people said Y2K was a hoax (thread)
since they didn't know IT professionals who worked on Y2K for several years prior by editing & scrubbing code to make sure we noticed no changes. Software applications with 2-digit years were replaced or altered if fixable. Some people are now saying coronavirus is a hoax despite
the rising positive cases & rising death toll. We could have been prepared but Trump fired everyone on the pandemic response team in 2018 & kept downplaying it & said it was a Democratic hoax. Taiwan prepared & has only 59 cases with 1 death. nbcnews.com/health/health-…#TrumpPlague
I woke up early on my day off to move my SUV (alternate side parking) & am still pissed off that Michael Bloomberg has the audacity to be running as president. For anyone who doesn’t think broken windows policing that targeted black & Hispanic people for minor crimes with stop &
frisk caused any harm, I can assure you that it did & all evidence proves stop & frisk did not reduce crime. NYPD radically cut back their use of stop-and-frisk & crime didn’t spike, but was reduce yet again. propublica.org/article/in-new… We are personally still dealing with the
fallout from stop & frisk in 2019. Bloomberg & Rudy Giuliani are both racist assholes who used stop & frisk to harass black & brown people in NYC for years. Bloomberg was defending stop & frisk until January 2019 cnn.com/2019/01/22/pol… although a NY court declared stop & frisk