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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
"Trump and his backers are threatening public officials, including the Georgia Secretary of State, in an attempt to get Trump an illegal second term. Don't play it down: this is what an attempted coup looks like in a mafia state." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
"Under Trump, we have had an endless array of death threats toward public servants including representatives, judges, juries, whistleblowers, witnesses, journalists. It is a culture of threat that no one in power tries seriously to stop." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
"Whatever inclination Biden has to 'move forward' and ignore the crimes of Trump's cohort -- it's impossible. Immoral and impossible. Even if Trump goes, the mafia culture of threat will remain, and it will target the Biden admin too." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
"Whatever positive changes the Biden admin wants to bring will become much more difficult to implement if they do not tackle this culture of corruption and we are still dealing with the subsidiaries of a mafia state." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…

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18 Nov
"The fragility of the US election system is shown in how much it relies on individual actors -- and how those actors can be threatened into complicity or cultivated as enablers. We see this in Emily Murphy, who is blocking the transition." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
"Trump was mentored by mafia lawyer and GOP operative Roy Cohn, who famously said: 'I don't want to know what the law is; I want to know who the judge is.' Trump's team applies that tactic not just to judges but all civil servants." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
"It's frustrating that many officials put protocol first when the Trump team annihilated protocol. Protocol isn't law and you can't go by the book when the book is burning. Officials have to bulldoze past Trump and prioritize the public." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
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18 Nov
"We are still under an attempted coup. He won't concede, public officials are being threatened, he blocked the transition. Don't sugarcoat it. Every coup reflects its own cultural and political context. This is an American attempted coup." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
"What Trump is doing, by blocking Biden's team from doing critical work during a pandemic, is mass murder. Doctors Without Borders -- which works in war zones, refugee camps -- is now in the US. It's a humanitarian crisis." -- @AndreaChalupa, @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
"In 2020, Trump lost the election, bur Trumpism is here to stay until we dismantle the systems that allow it to flourish. Hitler regrouped after his trial and 10 years later was in power. Where will the Trump family be?" -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/actual-n…
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11 Nov
"There were long periods in the Trump admin where we had no Sec of Defense. We only had 'acting' officials to dodge oversight. Esper stepped down saying he won't be Trump's 'yes-man'. Esper's not a good guy, so you have to think -- what *wouldn't* he do?" patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
"Trump is surrounded by Iran war-mongers including rapture fiend Mike Pompeo, who is planning to meet with Netanyahu. Netanyahu is an indicted PM who Israelis have been protesting for twenty weeks. Trump and Netanyahu are both imperiled." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
"I'm worried about war in Iran. I'm also worried about arms sales, and if Trump and his cohort are selling them, where they're going. Trump has a long history with illegal arms traders and is tied to the world's most dangerous mobsters." -- @gaslitnation
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11 Nov
"There are debates about 'How do we talk about the coup?' You of course don't want to legitimize the coup. Biden is president-elect. He should carry on as president-elect and speak to the public about the issues that affect our lives." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
"We should act like Biden is the president-elect, because he is. But we also need to say outright that this is an attempted coup. This is the GOP backed by a transnational crime syndicate attempting to create a one-party autocratic state." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
"This has been in play for years. It was a coup in 2016 and it's a coup now. The more the GOP try to coup it out, the more they establish their brand as dictators. Maybe those slow media folks in the back finally get it." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
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11 Nov
"People who lived in countries that endured war or occupation said that the US celebrations last weekend over Trump's loss reminded them of what they witnessed when their own dictator or occupier was finally defeated." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
"It was the relief of tyranny collapsing and the iron grip of a dictator letting go. The problem of course is that it hasn't let go. We've got 70 days until inauguration and we're going through an attempted coup." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
"That energy you felt over the weekend, that sense of possibility returning -- hold on to that. You're going to need that strength and that vision of the future to propel you forward for the next two months." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/klown-ka…
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8 Nov
The same people who said "It can't happen here" and then "No one could have seen it coming" will now say "It wasn't really that bad." It was. Do not let anyone rewrite the history of the Trump admin years. History must be remembered to ensure it does not repeat.
One reason Trump got into office was denial or ignorance of history -- how fascism rises, the emergence of far-right movements globally in the 21st century, and especially the selective autocracy always practiced against marginalized racial and ethnic groups throughout US history
Forget this history at your own peril -- and at the peril of the world. We have defeated an aspiring autocrat at the polls. We have not dismantled the corrupt conditions that made him possible and that will make successors possible. Trump was a culmination, not a fluke.
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