The most vicious & destructive political idea is that “freedom” includes freedom to f#CK over other people, including by (for example) making them sick & polluting our shared planet. Freedom to kill endangered species (see Eric & Don Jr) is effed up too. You shld be ashamed. 1/
2/ In the midst of the Flint water crisis, House Speaker Paul Ryan wrote an op-Ed opposing the EPA’s Clean Water Act, which several #KochBrothers businesses had lobbied against. Because they want “freedom” to poison our water. desmogblog.com/2016/01/19/fli…
3/ “What the Koch brothers have bought with their huge political outlays is, above all, freedom to pollute.” Leave it to the #Kochs to ruin a word like “freedom.” nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opi…
4/ Nice “freedom” you’ve got there. Freedom to kill endangered species for “fun”. Shame on your entire party.
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Before the election, Republicans killed a proposed law, the #SAFEAct, which would have required robust manual audits for all federal races & banned internet connectivity to voting systems. You & your Republican colleagues have unclean hands on the issue of election integrity. 1/
This is reminiscent of the US attorney firing scandal under Bush/Cheney/Rove. The concern was that they had fired US attorneys who refused to propagate the mass voter fraud myth. In response to a subpoena, the Bush WH claimed to have “lost” 22 million emails. 1/
Texas’ Rep. Louie Gohmert was "one of just four votes against bill to make lynching a federal hate crime
House voted 410-4 on historic Emmett Till Anti lynching Act, 120 years after first effort to enact a federal ban." 1/ dallasnews.com/news/politics/…
2/ "[F]or more than a century, a key impetus for a federal ban on lynching has been to allow federal law enforcement to step in when local police don’t."
3/ Nonetheless, Gohmert said lynchings should be prosecuted by states which provide stiffer sentences for lynching than the proposed federal Act would have provided, ignoring the concern that some states might not prosecute lynchings to begin with.
😳Before Lin Wood joined Team Trump, his former law partners alleged in a lawsuit that Wood had emailed them, saying 'God was....commanding or directing him to accuse (them)' & that 'God has given me permission to be profane in this email.'" 1/
2/ "According to the lawsuit, [Lin Wood's] email said, in part: 'You damn dumb mother------s… You are going to be ruined financially…Here are the findings of your final judgment day on earth for today, the day after my Valentine’s Day massacre.'"
3/ The suit further alleges that, in the fall of 2019, "Wood committed an 'assault and battery' on one of the attorneys who went to Wood’s home to check on him."