Thread by @JuliusGoat

Always remember that as bodies piled up, these Republicans held this line all year long and made the deaths happen.

There need to be trials.

https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1241743756925308934

There needs to be a reckoning for this.

https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1242336342589095937?s=20

There needs to be a reckoning.

https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1261613663926059013?s=20

There needs to be a reckoning.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1337090605889904642?s=20

There needs to be a reckoning.

We can't be a society of people with convenient memories anymore. The memories of the dead demand remembrance. Moreover, we can't afford the cost of impunity any longer.

https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1318150657929609224?s=20

There needs to be a reckoning, goddammit.

Tear down the walls we've erected between ourselves and the inconvenience of caring.

Justice for our lovely dead. Consequences for our living monsters.

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1308208138475180034?s=20

These fuckers need a reckoning for the trauma they've caused.

Those they've traumatized need the comfort of seeing it happen. How dare we instead give them the spectacle of us forgiving those who did it to them, on their behalf, without consulting them?

https://twitter.com/DNCWarRoom/status/1304179744297156608?s=20

There needs to be a hard line drawn.

No more moral subsidies to those who have chosen to ignore the difference between right and wrong. No more conscience laundering.

We need a reckoning in this country.

https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1290249724440633345?s=20

Careers that never should have started need to be ended. People who betrayed the public trust need to be hounded out of the public sphere forever.

Forever.

Those who would still defend them need to be shunned.

There needs to be a reckoning.

https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1285199041417158663?s=20

There needs to be a full account. There needs to be reclamation of the numbers—the real numbers.

There needs to be an open publication of what was suppressed, and by whom, and what they did to suppress it.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1283292374735691776?s=20

No more comfortable silence for those who would support this. No more comfortable silence for those who provide you with the rationales they give themselves so they can still look themselves in the mirror.

There needs to be a reckoning in this country.

https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1312875105706545158?s=20

There are people make their careers in shaping public opinion, and the opinions they shaped, and the way they shaped them, should be assessed and addressed.

No more careers for shaping public opinions in genocidal directions.

There needs to be a reckoning.

I actually believe that we shouldn’t let people who used their positions, their power, or their platforms to sow murderous negligence and confusion, enabling the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, to ever live it down in their lives, ever.

There needs to be a reckoning.

Which means it's up to us to demand it, and replace anyone who won't deliver it.

It's not that we *want* a reckoning. We *need* one, as a matter of survival, to turn us from a suicidal course to a sustainable.

https://twitter.com/DougBierend/status/1340277634165563392?s=20

Public policy is shaped by public opinion, and public opinion can be shaped by *your* opinions—yours and mine.

Never forget. Stay aware.

What happened happened, and we know it.

We need a reckoning in this country.

https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1155459618832883713?s=20