1/ We’re coming out of one of the darkest times in American history, certainly the darkest time in the memory of most living Americans.
2/ Fear and hate have been the dominant national emotions during the last two Republican presidencies. They were used to lie us into a war in Iraq, and to tear us apart from each other for the last four years.
3/ Joe Biden becoming president means that we can focus on making life better for American citizens, rather than trying to demonize each other.
4/ A Biden presidency means we can begin rebuilding our country and infrastructure, rather than continuing to let it deteriorate and fall apart. It means we can begin to heal our environment rather than keep lobbyists for the oil and coal industry in charge.
5/ With Trump gone, the grifters and opportunists in his cabinet will be gone, too.
6/ The Education Department can once again focus on building a strong public school system. The Environmental Protection Agency can go back to protecting our environment.
7/ The State Department can work on rebuilding our international alliances and stop coddling dictators and autocrats. The Internal Revenue Service can aggressively audit rich people again, and the Federal Election Commission can hold fatcat cheaters to account again.
8/ As Trump goes on his “Death and Destruction Goodbye Tour,“ we can go back to thinking about friends, family, country and the future, rather than obsessively checking the news every 10 minutes to see what new fresh hell Trump has unleashed.
9/ It will take some time for America to recover from four years of continuous assault by a psychotic president. Most Americans are experiencing some form of political PTSD. But we will heal from this and a brighter future is coming.
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Two things could be going on with Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the election. /1
Either he’s dragging this out so he can raise money to line his own pockets, or he’s coordinating with the billionaire donors who largely own a number of Republican state legislatures to steal the election. Or both. /2
The Constitution says that individual states’ legislators can award their electoral votes to whomever they choose; it just takes an act of the state’s legislature, in most states signed by the governor. It’s never happened, but it is constitutional. /3
(1/13) Even losing will be a business opportunity for Trump
(2/13) When Donald Trump first decided to run for president, he confided to friends that his real goal was to get publicity for his brand and squeeze a larger payment out of NBC for his TV show. He even bragged he’d be the first person to make money running for the White House.
(3/13) Once he unexpectedly won, he turned that into a business opportunity, redirecting over $100 million of government money into his own properties and businesses.
(1/11) There’s a reason this election is this close. The old saying is, “Own the media, own the country,” and this election proves it true.
(2/11) Democrats have been totally stupid when it comes to the information wars. While Republicans built an enormous national “talk to people all day, every day, all year“ media infrastructure, Democrats only pour money into advertising once every four years.
(3/11) In the 1970s and 1980s, conservatives began building out an intellectual infrastructure to seize control of the political narratives in America.
(1/14) This election proves the need for a right to vote
(2/14) America needs an absolute right to vote, like most other major democracies.
(3/14) One legacy of slavery is that our Constitution does not contain an absolute right to vote for all citizens who have achieved the age of majority.
(1/16) Will America embrace or reject fascism in 2020?
(2/16) Fascists build walls, like they did around East Germany. Donald Trump is building a new, unscalable wall around the White House today, and the Republican party has spent the past four years celebrating a wall on our southern border.
(3/16) Fascists divide and imprison people based on ideology and race. Trump and the Republicans have put children in cages after tearing them away from their mothers, and built out a private for-profit prison system to hold refugees of color.
(1/26) On April 18, Bob Woodward recorded Jared Kushner saying that Trump had taken control away from the doctors and was going to open the country back up. Why then? What was happening right around that time?
(2/26) Trump’s official national emergency declaration came on March 11, and most of the country shut down or at least went partway toward that outcome. The economy crashed and millions of Americans were laid off, but saving lives was, after all, the number one consideration.
(3/26) Trump put medical doctors on TV daily, the media was freaking out about refrigerated trucks carrying bodies away from New York hospitals, and doctors and nurses were our new national heroes.