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1 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Keep your apology. It's worthless.

In the midst of a pandemic, idiots like her, the Kardashians and others keep pretending like it's easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission to be stupid. How about just following instructions?
yahoo.com/news/rita-ora-…
While useless, narcissistic, photo op media whores insist on being seen, they have no regard for the health and safety of the workers serving them who are exposed to harmed just so these folks can put more BS up on Instagram.
Those workers have no choice if they're to put food on the table. The celebrities do.

And don't hand me any crap about those people having no jobs or income during the pandemic if it wasn't for these celebrities.
The business owners support for bad government policy that screws their employees is as much at fault for the state of affairs as the pandemic itself.
I don't care how much I like you as an entertainer, when you have no regard or respect for the people, you deserve none from them.

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1 Dec
I've come to like Tom Friedman, NYT, over the years, and it took a lot for me to get there. But the kinds of characterizations and assumptions he makes below are why getting there has been a struggle.
nytimes.com/2020/11/29/opi…
For him to state that that it's not the same middle East that he once knew verges on being hubristic.

Everyone who cared to pay attention to what has happened in the middle east over the past 4 years did.
And what happened there wasn't lost on of the people who did pay attention. Despite all of the changes, all of it is still predicated on Iran's nuclear threat potential regardless of the other alliances, or Iran's refined and upgraded tactical capabilities.
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1 Dec
I'm just not having it.

Republicans - particularly @JohnCornyn - have no right or any business attempting to pick apart any of Joe's nominees. This is especially true for @SallyQYates and @neeratanden.
The republicans have been missing in action for the past several years in that they made no effort to vet any of Trump's totally unqualified and corrupt nominees.
Then at other times, Trump simply ignored congress altogether as he installed acting secretaries, directors and other principals while following not rules, and with no accountability ore repercussions.
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26 Nov
Why it's important to listen to the news, really pay attention, and then take each thing reported with an individual healthy dose of salt:

In Atlanta, one report discussed the extreme difficulties and hardships people are experiencing caused by the #coronavirus.
The report discussed how many people never got their unemployment compensation despite having requested it. The systems for handling and managing unemployment are outdated, dysfunctional, and overwhelmed. People are out of work and many businesses have closed, some permanently.
People are suffering because the promised relief under the CARES Act never arrived. Lines for food banks and Thanksgiving assistance are longer than ever.
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15 Nov
REFLECTION:

I always get in trouble for thinking aloud, so why stop now?

Aside from the spectacular success and game changing effect of mail-in ballots, the DNC, DCCC, DLCC and the DSCC all seem to spend as much time and effort running the same money raising political...
...campaigns and strategies as 25 years ago. And they all seem to spend way too much time relying on polls and fundraising from their offices as opposed to getting out in the field with the grassroots organizer who actually know what's going on. It seems kind of hubristic.

Why?
Mail-in voting is to be the most creative thing accomplished since the passage of the Motor Voter Act of 1993. Some states are ahead of the game and have been doing it for years.

So what's the excuse in other states that are dominated by democratic legislatures and governors?
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13 Nov
Can we talk?

Republicans proved from Day One of the Obama administration who they are. In the ensuing 12 years of internecine conservative warfare, things have only become more hostile, deprave, and literally deadly. They deserve no bites from that apple now under a Biden admin.
It's long past time to stop pretending that republicans will regain their sense and sensibilities, and come around to the notion of normal, regular, mature governance, ever. The republican party of the 1980s is gone.
I hope Biden doesn't waste too much time or effort coddling republicans who, as a practicing principle, will never cooperate because they see no benefit in doing so. All of their power comes from obstruction, dismantling, or breaking systems of governance to block the majority.
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10 Nov
PERSPECTIVE:

ARE WE LOOK AT THE WRONG THING IN THE WRONG PLACE?

@maddow
always says watch what they do, not what they say.

It's notable that with Esper's firing, Trump is moving FAST to place policy and intelligence people in at DoD. 1/
Why?

While it's both scary and important to be mindful of any attempt to use the military to derail the election results and transitions, you don't really need policy people for that. So what else would Trump need to move policy people into place at the last second? 2/
Trump's biggest deliverable for Putin is breaking up NATO. Outside of putting troops on the streets, that is the single biggest and most destructive action that he could take. To do that he would require at least a semblance of policy to justify the change no matter how thin. 3/
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