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8 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I'm seeing some competing narratives in the right-wing media this morning, all revolving around pushing the Dems In Disarray! idea.

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One revolves around Ocasio-Cortez (whose appearance in mainstream media is almost entirely due to her popularity on FOX "News" who can't seem to get enough of her). Supposedly, she's attacking Democrats because Dems lost in bright-red House districts.

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 foxnews.com/politics/aoc-s…
Another is the idea that "progressives" powered Biden to victory, so Biden better knuckle under to what they're gonna demand. (Of course, ALL Democrats are progressive, so this is a little silly.)

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 independent.co.uk/voices/joe-bid…
A third is that "progressives" better listen to American voters, who overwhelmingly rejected cosplay socialism. (Since literally no one wants to defund police, it's not a good idea to pretend you will.)

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 bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
On the other hand, what seems really to be happening is that Democrats are more united now than we've been in decades. The Dems In Disarray! narrative, once more, is all about creating conflict where it doesn't exist.

Who do you think that helps?

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 yahoo.com/news/aoc-urges…

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10 Nov
Saw an excellent presentation by some of Biden's legal people today.

Short version: Trump's legal challenges are nonsense and are going nowhere. Biden will be inaugurated on Jan 20. All this talk about somehow invalidating the election is nonsense.

Don't spread fear, guys.
The challenges brought in various states are all getting thrown out of court because the Trump Campaign has no evidence whatever supporting their conspiracy theories. No court is even entertaining them.
The idea that Republican legislatures can now, after-the-fact, create their own slate of electors that will do something other than what the voters of the states told them to do--that is also nonsense. Won't happen. Can't happen. No state is even considering that course.
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8 Nov
A discussion is being had about how to unify the country after one of the most polarized periods in our history.

It's possible to overcome rancor. German, Italy and Japan are now our allies, after the most destructive war human civilization has ever seen.

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To oversimplify a bit, what brought us together was the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after the War, and the equivalent effort to rebuild Japan.

America and our allies invested heavily in helping our devastated former enemies get back on their feet.

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In modern America, red states are crumbling. They survive only from a massive influx of money from blue states. But red state governments mostly control where that money goes, and it's not really helping the people. It's just propping up red regimes.

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8 Oct
Kamala looks great!

Then there's Mike Pensive.
moderator says she'll enforce the rules. Good.
Kamala talks about how to deal with #TrumpVirus. The greatest failure of any presidential administration in our history. Tells America that Trump and Pence were informed and did nothing.
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7 Oct
Big events change culture. The Civil War, WW1, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, WW2, the Civil Rights movement--all these things (and others) altered our language, our habits, our imagery, and even our myths.

Covid will do so as well.

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"One small step for man"... "Ask not what your country can do for you"... "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"... "Fourscore and seven years ago"...

Even "Beam me up, Scotty."

We can go through history and pull quotes, images, customs that are created by events.

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Growing up, I was taught to always rinse a glass before using it. Take it from the cupboard, half fill it with water, swish it around, pour it out. Then fill it with whatever you were going to drink (milk, water, whatever). This is what we all did. I never understood why.

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30 Sep
Trump is so damn scared he can't even let CHRIS WALLACE finish a question.
Trump keeps changing the subject. He can't address the questions asked. He pivots almost immediately to personal attacks.
This is the worst possible "debate" format. It's all about letting Trump speak over everyone.
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29 Sep
A not-political thread.

My dad was (among other things) a draftsman when he was young. He made blueprints and drew technical pictures. He had an impressive drafting table and some really cool drawing tools.

This was WAY before computer art.

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He had a set of drawing tools--a compass, a ruler, stuff like that--he once told me had paid for the downpayment on the first house he bought.

I remember that house. It was a tiny 2-bedroom thing in a Chicago suburb. I was five when we moved out.

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Dad qualified for the mortgage loan on that house because he got a VA loan. He was in the National Guard during the Korean War, and until I was about six. They taught him drafting. They also taught him to play the tuba. He was in the marching band.

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