"Donald Trump is a terrorist attack on America. What he's doing is what he intended to do all along. He was put in to weaponize the worst of America against those who are trying to live in a free and safe country." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"You can dislike Biden all you want. But what it comes down to is you have one admin that wants to kill you and profit off your death, and one that wants to cure you. This is another reason Biden must be protected from Trump sabotage." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"We're fighting nazis on US soil while the covid death count approaches WWII levels. Trump has actual stormtroopers targeting public officials. Trump studied Hitler; Trump used to sleep with his speeches by his bed." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"The death merchants must be prosecuted. People like Kushner and Trump who shook down governors; Senators who engaged in insider trading based on covid information. We know they knew in February and they chose to profit off mass death." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"There's been talk of 'we need to move on; let history judge them'. Well, a lot of people who would have judged them are dead. They're dead because of Trump and his admin's actions. Their voices are silenced in history's judgment." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"It's not just up to the survivors to judge them either. It falls on people in positions of power who are obligated to prevent another atrocity like this from happening. That is why everyone on Trump's covid team must be held accountable." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…

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14 Dec
I have lost track of the times in this attempted coup where I've speculated on what they'll do next or simply described what they're doing now and heard "But they can't do that; it's against the law!"

Yes. That is why it is a coup. A coup is, by definition, against the law.
A coup is *against* the law -- not just illegal, but against the belief that established legal documents and legal precedent hold value over their own attempted power grab. When a coup is successful, they rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it.
There is nothing that they will not try because it is "against the law", because power trumps law in their view (so to speak) and because -- most importantly -- there have been few to no repercussions for their prior crimes committed in plain sight both in office and before.
Read 4 tweets
9 Dec
"The GOP's already sick excuse that they were letting people die of covid 'for the economy' was a cover for something even worse -- an annihilatory death cult. We're not just trying to survive the pandemic. We're trying to survive Trump." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"We are trying to survive a political death cult that attacks anybody who tries to protect the lives and health of Americans, anybody who tries to prevent suffering. They target doctors, nurses, scientists. It is so incredibly cruel." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"When you don't fight this on a political basis -- the aspiring autocracy, the mafia tactics -- you end up with a public health catastrophe at a scale we've never seen in this country." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
Read 6 tweets
9 Dec
"You should take Trump's attempted coup very seriously, not only for what may happen but for what has already happened. The US will never again be able to say that it is a country that always practices the peaceful transfer of power." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"The US will never again be able to say that its presidential candidates always concede when they are defeated, and that they do not resort to violence and intimidation in an attempt to harness an illegitimate takeover." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"Americans will never be able to look at attempted coups in other countries and say 'That can't happen here.'

"Americans should have never said 'That can't happen here' in the first place." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/donald-t…
Read 6 tweets
2 Dec
I appreciate the clarity and force of this man's words so much. We have been living under a culture of threat for so long and it is rare when any public official stands strongly against it. So heart-breakingly rare.
It is easier to deal with a predictable threat from a mafia state that advertises its cruel intentions. It is harder to cope with the collective abandonment by those whose job it is to protect the American people. Their utter apathy to constant threats of violence, and to trauma.
My complaint is non-partisan. Nearly all officials failed the American people. Yes, there are different levels of failure and different motives. But at a certain point, negligence becomes malice. And complacency becomes complicity.
Read 7 tweets
2 Dec
"Michael Flynn has been given a sweeping pardon that absolves him of future offenses that 'might arise'. This is like a reverse Minority Report for pre-crime. He's getting pre-pardoned for pre-crimes." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/purge-44…
"The pardon is also sweeping due to the volume of past crimes Flynn committed: lying to FBI, trying to kidnap Turkish cleric in US, unregistered foreign agent for Russia and Turkey, illegally trying to sell nuclear material to Saudis..." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/purge-44…
"It's worth looking again at what Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about: working with Russia to manipulate a UN law over Israeli settlements. The witness to this, Russian ambassador to the UN Churkin, died six days after Flynn left office in 2017." patreon.com/posts/purge-44…
Read 10 tweets
2 Dec
"Kushner is currently meeting with his axis of autocrats in the Middle East -- an axis not constructed in the interest of 'peace', but for big money, personal favors, and possibly war with Iran." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/purge-44…
"Kushner was preceded in his visit to the Middle East by Mike Pompeo, a rapture fiend who has long lusted for war in Iran and for a man-made apocalypse in general." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/purge-44…
"According to quoted officials, Trump gave Pompeo permission to do anything in Iran but start WWIII. I believe the quote, but not the sentiment. Does Trump want the *blame* for starting WWIII? No. Would he want a war he can spin? Yes." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/purge-44…
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