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29 Nov, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Things Republicans have fought harder against than the coronavirus:
- marriage equality
- the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- raising the $7.25 minimum wage
- the postal service
- free and fair elections
Incompetence, ignorance, and a more than a skosh of villainy: it’s a killer combination, literally.
Democrats tried to give more Americans health care. Republicans keep trying to give each other the virus.
I cracked that Democrats tried to give more Americans healthcare, while Republicans keep trying to give each other the virus.

I made a mistake: Republicans keep trying to give *everyone* the virus.
Maybe Republicans think of the virus as like a gun, and feel entitled to open-carry it.
Meanwhile, elsewhere today, as that Republican staffer at the Colorado legislature blithely dicknosed around:
Democrats try to give people access to health care. Republicans try to give everybody the virus.

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Greg Greene Profile picture
7 Dec
These cheapskate, penny-wise, pound-foolish, bloodthirsty motherf––ers take purposeful steps to get their fellow Americans killed when they aren’t even trying.

Idiots. Villains. Ghouls. nytimes.com/live/2020/12/0…
Absolute dunderheaded monsters, the entire lot.

If only they spared a tenth of a percent of the energy they devoted to defying the election results to saving anyone but their useless selves from this damned virus. Image
Mm-hm.
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26 Nov
Love to have a conservative majority in the federal courts that, contradictory to 230 years of precedent and practice, insists that governors lack plenary authority to control disease outbreaks.
I would say “we’re lucky that vaccines are close to authorization,” but tell that to the loved ones of anybody who dies unnecessarily because of right-wing jurists’ ideological power trip.
Mm-hm.

Joe Biden’s birthday was in the last week or so, right? What a gift.
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25 Nov
In the latest issue of my newsletter about the transition with @MelissaRyan and @justinhendrix, we talk about the outgoing administration’s reaching of the ‘acceptance’ stage of grief — and the damage it still might do before leaving power. americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/reasons-to-b…
“A colorful crew this is not — although its racial and gender diversity would fulfill Biden’s pledge to name a cabinet that looks like America. But after four years of chaos, dull looks gorgeous.” americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/reasons-to-b…
“Republicans at the state level have made a notable habit [of] stripping offices of power when Dems take them over. As they pack their belongings, administration officials can do something kindred in spirit: stripping their successors of policy options.” americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/reasons-to-b…
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24 Nov
I’m not a boomer — but the best move I made for my mental health and stability, over the last few years, has been mostly tuning out Facebook and Instagram.
FB's platforms are built by design to manipulate human psychology — to foster engagement and to keep people on the site.

Insta has pretty pictures — and both sites give me easy access to old friends. But the only way to win, when engaging on either, is not to play.
“Facebook knowingly pushes polarizing misinformation, particularly to conservatives, because it’s addictive and despite knowing exactly what they’re doing and why it’s wrong and making the world worse.”

Exactly. daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11…
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24 Nov
As a public-university alum, I have to cringe at what Senator Rubio’s logic here says about the value of a public-university degree.

(Also, who’s going to tell him that the outgoing president and his children went to Penn—while his dunderheaded son-in-law went to Harvard?)
Right. 💡
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22 Oct
Just put out the latest issue of my limited run newsletter with @justinhendrix and @MelissaRyan on all matters pre- and post-election rat-f––ing. Today, I looked at cues about who some people and institutions might partner with: americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/taking-sides
Presuming that the rule of law holds and a free and fair vote count proceeds, we’ll publish this through January 20, 2021. If that presumption proves false … well, we have much bigger problems than a newsletter.

Read and subscribe! americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/taking-sides
As if to prove my point in the newsletter that the right-wing justices of the Supreme Court have taken a side, this news comes about its latest foray into stifling votes:
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