Thread by @JuliusGoat

Mitch McConnell’s Senate has effectively broken our government.

The Senate is a part of the government in the same way a deadly intestinal blockage is a part of the body.

https://twitter.com/SenTinaSmith/status/1328869292117532674

We aren't witnessing a failed coup. We are witnessing a successful coup that has momentarily lost its grip on the presidency, and which clearly intends to use extra-legal means to try to get it back, and to negate it for however long it doesn't have it.

https://twitter.com/SenTinaSmith/status/1328869293438734336?s=20

It's a negation coup.

A coup of the judiciary by only appointing judges when they control the appointment.

A coup of the House by refusing to pass bills.

A coup of everything else through vote suppression and gerrymandering, and now outright thievery.

It's a coup.

Republicans don't give a shit who dies or suffers—just that others will suffer worse than them.

They don't give a shit about reality—they invent their own and try to force others to live in it.

They don't care about the future—they sold the future off so they could buy a boat.

The Republican coup is an overthrow of basic human decency on every level, for the sake of an almost unfathomable selfishness.

It's an evil thing to be a part of. It's pure evil.

We should say so.

I do not mean this.

I mean the Senate has enacted a coup of the House, by refusing to pass the House's bills, until it can use disenfranchisement, suppression, and outright cheating to win it back, at which point they will begin passing bills again.

https://twitter.com/thornton_mandy/status/1328998180248236034?s=20

The Republican Party is a organization with a fascist agenda that is involved in the effective overthrow of the government of United States.

Therefore: there exists no valid Republican in office. They should all be deemed illegitimate actors.

The entire party has to be purged.

There exists no valid discussion of "divisiveness" without a clearly foregrounded admission of the fact that an empowered shrinking minority is using increasingly unlawful means to negate the clear will of a growing majority of us, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.

Republicans very clearly and very simply do not believe any other people should share any part or have any say in policy or public life.

They have invalidated themselves. They aren't our enemies because we seek enmity, but because they have insisted that we are theirs.

They are our enemy no matter what we do about it, in the same sense that somebody who is deliberately drowning you is your enemy, whether you fight back or not, whether you win or lose.

They're drowning the country, and we, the people, are the country.

It's a coup.

And the center of the coup is perhaps our government's greatest single point of failure, which is the U.S. Senate.

And at the center of the Senate is this fucking guy. The most evil man of his age. Perhaps the most evil man this country has produced.

Any action taken to diminish McConnell's power and influence is movement toward health—even actions that would be alarming in a time of health, which these are not.

A colostomy bag isn't a sign of health; but if you have an intestinal blockage, it's a necessary path to health.

Biden should be prepared to take dramatic sweeping executive action against a lawless Senate and a politicized judiciary.

Don't tell me he's unlikely to. We know he's unlikely to. This is about what's needed, not what's likely.

Figure out how you're going to help force him.