1/ The GOP is no longer a legitimate political party: it’s a cult. It’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans that the Republican Party only stands for one thing: the privilege and power of wealthy white men.
2/ Over the last 40 years they have devised increasingly byzantine rules to prevent low income whites and people of color from voting and are now trying to outright throw out ballots in Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
3/ They’ve worked for decades, at both the state and federal level, to make it harder for women, particularly low income women, to get access to birth control, women’s health services, and abortion.
4/ When the coronavirus hit, most developed countries made direct payments to unemployed workers; Republicans only tolerated that here for a few months, and the price was trillions, which continue to flow, to fat cats and big corporations.
5/ They’ve worked for years to gut workers rights and destroy labor unions, while holding the minimum wage below starvation levels.
6/ They put the profits of polluting corporations above the rights of average Americans to have clean air and water and a safe food supply.
7/ They fight to help monopolies and giant corporations control market share, while wiping out small and medium sized businesses across dozens of sectors.
8/ They’re working as hard as possible right now to destroy America‘s national parks and wild areas so their fossil fuel donors can extract more profits from land that was wisely put in trust for all Americans decades and centuries ago.
9/ They openly promote lies about global warming to help those same fossil fuel donors, at the expense of a possibly civilization-ending environmental catastrophe.
10/ They have supported a president who lied about masks and other simple public health measures, while the wealthy and billionaire class live safely cocooned on their palatial estates and travel on their private jets.
11/ Their “Law and Order,“ “Save Our Confederate Statues and Military Base Names,” and “Jobs Not Mobs“ campaigns and slogans have openly targeted people of color for more than a half century. From Nixon’s Southern Strategy to Birtherism, hating on Black people is their polestar.
12/ While the majority of people in this country illegally came in as tourists and overstayed their visas, they have supported an ineffective wall on our southern border as a proud symbol of their racism.
13/ It’s become impossible, for over 40 years, to name even a single major initiative or piece of legislation promoted and put into law by Republicans that benefits average Americans.
14/ To the contrary, they have worked tirelessly to privatize Social Security and Medicare, and eliminate food stamps, school lunches and other programs the support people trapped in poverty.
15/ Now, to hang on to enough suckers to keep them in power, the GOP has resorted to embracing Nazis, religious fanatics and conspiracy theorists.
16/ The GOP is no longer a legitimate political party; it has become a race and wealth-based cult that pathetically hangs onto slogans like “small government“ and “fiscal responsibility” that they completely ignore when actually governing.
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This press conference with Texas officials about the latest mass shooting is amazing. They are all acting like it’s a natural disaster. Thoughts and prayers. Nothing else. No one has said the word “gun” or “we will do something“ at all…
And they keep saying what a great thing it was that the police officer was there quickly so “even more people didn’t die.“ Which raises the question:
Why is it that one person can kill so many people so quickly — but only in America?
And nobody ever mentions the gun violence is the number one leading cause of death among American children — but nowhere else in the world, even in most war zones.
1/ Let’s put the House Ways and Means Committee releasing Trump’s tax returns in context. While Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon’s vice president, he was taking bribes in the White House. Literally. People came to the White House with briefcases full of money for him.
2/ Agnew was taking bribes for years prior to that, when governor of Maryland. Nixon, the nation later discovered, was ALSO taking bribes. The milk lobby brought him a half million dollars in cash, as did Jimmy Hoffa to stop the DOJ from prosecuting him.
3/ When Congress learned about the Nixon/Agnew bribery scandals, they acted. In 1977, Congress passed a law *requiring* the IRS to *automatically* audit the tax returns of *every* president from that point going forward.
(1/24) Three republican presidents did it to hold onto a Republican Senate cuz back then the GOP represented democracy & the Democratic Party was the party of the slaveholders & their Jim Crow heirs. Lincoln did it. Grant did it. Harrison did it. It’s time for Democrats to do it.
(2/24) Recently I saw Mitch McConnell was on TV telling wealthy donors at a fundraiser in Kentucky, “We’ve got a 50-50 Senate right now. We’ve got a 50-50 nation.”
An hour later I heard it again from a Republican, this time on CNN: “America is a 50/50 nation.”
(3/24) This is the new GOP meme — if you listen to the news, particularly the political-leaning shows, you’ll hear it frequently — and it’s a complete lie.
America is not a 50/50 nation. Not even close. But Democrats can fix this. 
Thoughts on Pence testifying before a grand jury against Trump:
If he’s going to challenge Trump & become the Republican heir apparent, he has to testify to convict & imprison.
But he has to put that off to Xmas weekend, when nobody’s paying attention, like GHW Bush did in 1992.
Here’s George HW Bush and how did it in 1992, blowing up the Iran/Contra charges that he and Ronald Reagan conspired with the Ayatollahs to screw Jimmy Carter. Bill Barr was Attorney General in 1992, and he ran the whole thing. Pence will try the same… hartmannreport.com/p/why-are-we-s…
Looks like Cheney is thinking the same.
(Times’s Peter Baker: “Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump. ‘When you strike at the King, Emerson famously said, ‘you must kill him.’)
(1/5) Is Herschel Walker in big trouble? I mean, beyond all the obvious stuff? Is he now caught between Donald Trump and the GOP?
(2/5) Consider this scenario. Trump is going down in flames right now, being rejected by the Murdoch empire and mainstream Republicans. He’s desperate to regain the spotlight and to “prove” that he’s not a “loser.”
(3/5) Therefore, he’s going to be leaning really hard on Herschel Walker to talk about the “stolen election“ of 2020. However, the more Walker talks about stolen elections and other Trump-related BS, the more it will hurt him.
1/ The Reagan Revolution Changed America's Values to "Greed Is Good" - Can We Take Them Back? (A thread)
Many Americans, looking at the GOP’s position on the issues, find themselves confused.
2/ Why would the party claiming to be the last bastion of reverence for “life” in America also be the party that supports 50,000 American gun deaths every year, the leading cause of death among children and more than every other developed country in the world combined?
3/ Why would they support anti-abortion laws that don’t even contain exceptions for the life of the mother?