It’s easy to mix conspiracy theory whackiness with real issues in order to attack the unassailable truth that Trump’s attempts overthrow the results of this election, and Republican senators’ willingness to go along with it, is unprecedented. But fine, I’ll play.
Bush didn’t steal the election. The Supreme Court did it for him. After they stopped the counting, an analysis done by the NYTimes showed that, had all voted been counted, Gore would have narrowly won FL. Also worth repeating Dems have won popular vote 7 of to last 8 elections
The Taliban perpetrated 9/11, Bush didn’t. He was just warned and didn’t take the warning seriously.
Bush did lie about WMD. Is this even a question?
Diebold did not steal the election for Bush and he did win the popular vote in his reelection campaign. (See, it’s possible to concede that the other side wins when they do!)
Trump is a Russian asset. Not an agent, an asset. He furthers their national security interests, not the United States’.
Kavanaugh was credibly accused of rape and the accusations against him were never fully investigated.
There are peaceful demonstrations, there are violent ones. Some of the key moments of violence in MN were caused by rightwing accelerationists, for example.
Not all Republicans are Nazis. But this election, all Nazis voted Republican (or voted for Trump).
We don’t have to abandon our principles or deeply held beliefs to engage with each other, but the peaceful transfer of power should not be negotiable in a functioning democracy. Caricaturing positions of your opponent’s positions, past or present, doesn’t change that fact.
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Today Senate Republicans fired the commissioner charged with worker safety during a pandemic. And let’s be clear, the health crisis is *exactly* why they did this. Today they implied they will fire another commissioner every 30 days. There’s your tell.
Every 30 days the legislature must be in session to have an opportunity to remove the governor’s emergency powers. The GOP is, in the words of @kurtDaudt, holding all commissioners as hostages, lining them up for “execution” until the governor gives up emergency powers.
This is just another extension of the Party of Trump’s Covid Denialism. Remember when @paulgazelka told us the emergency part of the pandemic was over? That was July 13. By that day, 127,677 Americans had died from #COVID19: medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavir…
There is something odd happening with reporting of crime in Minneapolis these days. First, almost every reporter relays MPD’s statements as fact, even as they have all seen as recently as in their original recounting of Floyd’s murder, that MPD has a problem with the truth.
For example, take this from @WCCO (the station, btw, that employs Bob Kroll’s wife Liz Collins as a reporter and whose national network (coincidentally, I’m sure!) landed the only interview with that police union head. google.com/amp/s/minnesot…
WCCO, like others, report on crime as if it were somehow being caused by recent efforts to reimagine community safety in Minneapolis. But wait, MPD hasn’t been defunded or reimagined yet. If something is failing it’s the department in its current form.
Tired of Republican Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka protecting Bob Kroll & the police union? There are ten senate seats held by MNGOP that Walz-Flanagan won in 2018. If we flip them, Gazelka is no longer majority leader. Starting a thread to post info about DFL challengers.
With what we know about the lag time from infection to hospitalization, we can guess that this spike in care needs likely came from people getting infected about three weeks ago. m.startribune.com/minnesota-heal…
Remember these news stories about Minnesota moving from an A to a D in a social distancing report card? Dateline May 7th. This data is also what the governor referenced when he announced he was turning the dial up and allowing slow reopening of businesses minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/07/min…
While this spike is likely from infections that happened before the new orders—(again, assuming, given the lag time between infection and hospitalization)—it is worrying given that now people will be moving about even more. startribune.com/how-minnesotan…
I’m a little late to the latest in @aoc derangement follies, but...It’s not often that my old unfinished dissertation is useful for a subject of current debate, but I actually know a little something about “concentration camps,” both the practice and the origins of the term.
Nerd out with me for a minute if you will: “Campos de concentración” was a Spanish phrase, used to describe General Valeriano Weyler’s brutal method for putting down the Filipino rebellion against Spanish rule in the late 19th Century. That was the first use of the term.
It was a massive military operation— thousands of peasants in rebel areas were displaced, moved to live closer together, so they could be controlled more readily by the Spanish military. The brutality was successful and Governor-General Weyler’s reputation was cemented.