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5 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
If McConnel keeps the Senate, it's time to acknowledge the reality that there is no longer a deliberative body known as "The Senate," but only a hijacked blockade to governance, and Biden should appoint who he wants during their recess by executive order.
This would not be an unprecedented damage to our governmental norms. It would be an acknowledgement of the reality that our governmental norms have *already been destroyed,* and as necessary as seizing control of a cockpit from a pilot who has steered the plane toward a mountain.
Time is up. Our challenges lie directly ahead of us. We really don't have time to fuck around with Mitch McConnell's anti-governance bullshit anymore.
Quite true. Biden should appoint the judges by executive order, and trust that the Democratic-held House will not impeach him, and will vote to dismiss any Senate impeachment.

Let them scream and carry on and talk about executive overreach and call him a socialist dictator, which is exactly what they were going to do anyway.

Let them call show hearing after show hearing, which is exactly what they were going to do anyway.

Just circumvent them.
lol no

This is about "should happen" not "will happen."

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7 Nov
Wondering when rural elites will reach out of their conservative bubbles to understand how they can win over the hearts and minds of hardworking Real Americans from the urban heartland, some of whom work multiple jobs but get as little as 10% as much representation in government.
Faraway rural elites don’t understand the struggle and economic anxieties that heartland urban Americans are going through in our neglected cities. I visited this Cleveland parking lot barbecue to interview “real Americans” on what their concerns are and what motivated their vote
It won't be enough for rural elites to simply express their outrage at the vote from urban areas; they're going to have to engage in introspection and listen to the real concerns that working-class everyday Americans have, who live in the cities they've rarely—if ever—visited.
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6 Nov
White people are the problem.

There are probably other, lesser, takeaways from this election, too.
The question is, what could possibly shock white people enough to turn away from our nation's foundational lies, rooted in white supremacy?

Being abandoned to die in a global pandemic won't do it.

The active dismantling of democracy in broad daylight won't do it

What, then?
Active threats to national security? Nope.

Praising murderous dictators? Nope.

The demolition of our global standing in the world? Nope.

A trade war that decimates the farming industry? Nope.

Trillion dollar tax cuts to billionaires at the expense of working people? Nope.
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6 Nov
The Electoral College is an embarrassment and a nightmare.
Every vote in Georgia carries 400x more weight than a general national vote right now. That makes no sense and I’m embarrassed for anyone trying to argue it does.
Here's what we do. Keep the Electoral College.

Pass a law that simply gives every U.S. citizen a single electoral vote.

Each state has as many electoral votes as it has citizens.
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5 Nov
B: I'm going to kill all of you
A: Hey let's compromise on that
B: Sounds good
A: I'd like you to kill none of us
B: Nothing doing
A: OK how about you only kill half of us
B: Sure, great
A: And then you'll stop killing right?
B: Oh yes absolutely
A: Shake on it partner
B: lol ok
B: Hey I still want to kill all of you
A: You already killed half
B: Yeah but I want more
A: Can we compromise on that?
B: lol, really?
A: Yes, to show I'm reasonable
B: uh ok
A: I'd like you to kill none of us
B: no way
A: OK how about you only kill half of us
B: this is awesome
C: what are you doing?
A: what do you mean?
C: you let him kill 75% of us
A: yes but he wanted to kill us ALL
C: he IS killing us all!
B: hey man I still need to kill
A: fine but only half
B: cool
C: WHAT THE FUCK MAN?
A: I just saved half of us
C: YOU DID NOT
A: you're welcome
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5 Nov
Do you know the difference between standing up for something and lashing out? Because I do.
It's funny isn't it how for compromise trolls, standing up for other people is always always always framed as "wanting to destroy" the people bullying them?

How taking a stand against injustice is always "lashing out?"

How defense is equally as aggressive as the attack?
It's almost— *almost* —as if concern trolls are actually aligned with the bullies.

It's *almost* as if they know that compromise helps bullies, who have no interest in compromise but appreciate complicity, but that someone fighting back doesn't help bullies.

Almost exactly.
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5 Nov
None of that is true of Trump and to say so is to participate in a very dangerous lie.
And this is why the lie is dangerous.
Trump ran without any policy proposals whatsoever. The GOP "platform" distilled to "whatever Trump says." They ran on something best described as proposed national murder/suicide.

And: it's so close we still can't call it 2 days later.

We'd better remember how close we came.
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