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26 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1/ Grifter @SidneyPowell1 and her Q-addled fan base apparently think that just bc you file a lawsuit w/affidavits from people, that constitutes "evidence" sufficient to invalidate the votes of millions. It doesn't. People can say anything in an affidavit for a court filing...
2/ Punishment for this kind of perjury is mild and not likely anyway, plus in prior such examples already discussed in court in MI and PA, the court found the affidavit claims to be not credible, based on misunderstanding, etc., even if not deliberately deceptive...
3/ Lots of these GOP "poll watchers" skipped the training they were supposed to get first, so they didn't understand the process and how it works...as such they thought things they witnessed that were exactly proper were actually pernicious. Because they're gullible idiots...
4/ Folk who think her lawsuit is going to win also think Trump is going to bust a child sex ring run by Hillary Clinton. They are beyond help. But please keep telling me how we must reach out and empathize w/their pain & disappointment. No. We just need to cause more of it.

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27 Nov
1/ If u wouldn't spend time/energy reaching out to folk who believe Pizzagate BS or that the DNC killed Seth Rich or Obama isn't American, why would you spend time/energy reaching out to those who think Trump 'won in a landslide' but the election was stolen? All are irrational...
2/ Literally every second you waste trying to bring these people to the light of reason is a second you could be spending organizing those who already lean progressive, or at least comprise the current anti-Trump coalition into more progressive formations...
3/ I will never understand the irrational faith in the power of pure reason so common among typical liberals. The idea that if we just show people the facts, the data, or put together the right class analysis, they'll switch and vote their "self interest"...
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26 Nov
1/ The SCOTUS decision in favor of the "religious freedom" to gather in large groups despite the pandemic is part of a larger effort to elevate so called religious liberty above all other freedoms, but not in the way most agree with...
2/ Most everyone would agree that people's right to worship as they see fit should be protected, to believe as they wish, free from persecution, etc. That is not what this is, or what other religious liberty cases are about...
3/ These cases are about elevating the rights of persons claiming to be acting on the basis of religious belief, to engage in activity that injures others, without consequence. So here it means the right to worship in large groups even if it endangers public health...
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11 Nov
1/ Let's be honest: how many of you "reasonable" conservatives imploring Dems to reach across the aisle and make nice with Trump voters would have demanded that Trump voters to do the same if he had won? And what are the odds they would have listened to you? Yeah, so...be gone...
2/And if he were to somehow convince GOP state legislatures to submit GOP electors to the EC to steal the election (he won't, but play along), how many of you would demand such GOP ecumenism? Or be in the streets demanding his removal? Gimme a break...
3/ In that scenario Kasich, Santorum & writers like Thiessen & Olsen would be saying they wish he hadn't done it that way but gosh the Constitution allows it, and maybe if the left hadn't talked about the Green New Deal and Medicare 4 All it wouldn't have been necessary but gee..
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10 Nov
1/ I've heard some conjuring the notion of restorative justice to suggest we have an obligation to reach out to Trump voters and offer them the opportunity to rejoin the beloved community, to understand them, etc. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how RJ works...
2/ The concept is not a "get out of jail free" card for one's transgressions. It is not an absolution ticket one can wield so as to let bygones be bygones. RJ requires that those who injure take responsibility and make amends for their actions (in this case injuring so many)...
3/ AND RJ presumes that those who are injured have the primary say over what the transgressor needs to do. So this means that in order to apply RJ to Trump voters they must...
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7 Nov
Come on Ian...did they do this in 16 for Clinton supporters? No. Would they have done it for Biden supporters if they'd won this time? No. When we lose, we grieve for those who will be hurt. When they lose, they grieve because they can't keep hurting people the same way...
tired of "being the bigger person," when the smaller people continue to focus on cutting the bigger folks off at the kneecaps...Our ecumenism will not change them or get them to reciprocate, and you cannot point to any real evidence that it will...
I'm not saying be mean to people, obviously. But the idea that the burden is on us to reach out to them? No...they lost. It is their job to figure out why most Americans reject their movement and views...not our job to keep justifying ours
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7 Nov
Funny how conservative EC defenders make arguments like this while worshipping the market for reflecting consumer preferences...perhaps people vote with their feet when they choose where to live and that too is "the market." Face it, y'all are RC Cola, and most folks prefer Coke.
The fact that few want to move to the small towns and rural communities that the right fetishizes and thinks should wield outsized influence via the EC says a lot: you think places where people WANT to live should be punished for being in concentrated areas?
there is no other market u would treat this way...demand suggests preference. Hell, even when some of y'all move to red states, you move to the Blue areas bc that's where culture & life are. To wit, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren and Candace Owens all moving to Nashville, NOT rural TN
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