Whatever story you’re telling yourself to absolve yourself, @HawleyMO, is bullshit and you know it, Senator.
.@HawleyMO, You chose something as trivial as your political ambition over our country.

Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting, Senator.

I can’t even imagine entertaining such a choice, let alone making it.

What kind of an American does something like this?
You, @HawleyMO, and @tedcruz and the rest of your pals need to pull out your phones and record a video demanding this stop. Right now, Senator.

You started this fire. The least you could do is TRY to help the rest of us put it out.
You lied to these people and told them an election was stolen. Well they believed you and now they are trying to take their country back by force.

This isn’t a game, Senator. You need to tell them you weren’t being honest, that it was all a lie.

For goodness sake, be a man.

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4 Nov 20
For something a bit lighter, here’s some @TedLasso content. After I posted this on IG yesterday, a lot of people recognized it from the show and asked where they could get it. Here ya go: threekcclothingco.com
Cool story behind the tee btw:
@JasonSudeikis is a proud son of #KC and I’m lucky to count him as a friend. A while back, we were at a local bar playing darts and hanging with a couple of his high school pals. One of them, Brendan, a teacher, had just started a t-shirt biz.
Brendan pulls out these tees and was like what do y’all think of them? We loved them obviously. And he gives us each one. Jason wore his on the show. (The tee is a very “inside KC” BBQ joke but believe me it’s brilliant)
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28 Aug 20
If you’re experiencing campaign fatigue, you’re not alone, but we can’t afford to let our motivation falter, so I offer you this little pep talk about the recent past, the present, and the potential future we can set in motion in just 67 days. (1/x)
The past 4 years have been a grind. It’s easy to forget just how close we came to enormous, tangible leaps forward. By Nov 2016, we had voter suppression on the ropes. Courts all over were striking down Photo ID laws. GOP legislatures were beginning to give up. (2/x)
We were within sight of keeping the White House and taking the Senate, which would have resulted in a pro-voter, pro-democracy majority on the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, as we all know, that didn’t happen. (3/x)
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29 May 20
If you don’t plan to watch the video of #GeorgeFloyd’s murder, a few things you should know:

1. He said, “Please, Officer” numerous times.

2. He struggled to breathe, pleading for his life, for several minutes.

3. The officer remained on his neck after he lost consciousness.
4. At no point does #GeorgeFloyd appear uncooperative.

5. Citizens begged unsuccessfully for the officer to get off of him or to at least check his pulse.

6. The other officers present appear to have done nothing - physically or verbally - to protect George from his attacker.
Those are just some of the facts.

Here are some thoughts of my own.

It is not inconsistent to be a patriotic American and simultaneously angry that racism remains inextricably woven into our national culture. You can love America and demand she change.
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18 Mar 20
GOP still - amazingly - sticking to supply (management/business) side economics when regular people are producing very little demand (income).

Companies don’t get subsidies and say, “We got all this $...let’s pay some people!” #StimulusPackage2020
When regular people get subsidies, they say, “We need some stuff. Let’s buy stuff we need.”

Then companies say, “People are buying stuff and paying for services! Let’s pay some people to make stuff and provide some services!”

#StimulusPackage2020
Now, there will be companies that need corporate welfare to get across this massive chasm. Let’s focus on manufacturing sectors that must be preserved but won’t be patronized even with cash injections to individuals: everything from aerospace to restaurants. BUT...
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15 Mar 20
This somewhat prevalent “social distancing = weakness” take on #COVID19 reminds me of a story.

For three weeks in October 2002, a sniper terrorized the greater D.C. metro, murdering civilians who were guilty of nothing other than going about their lives:
Carrying groceries to their car, sitting on a park bench, or mowing their yard. These victims were chosen at random.
 
At the time, I was a Georgetown student and an Army ROTC Cadet.
Local officials – as well as University leaders – were unified in their message to the public: “If we stop going out and spending money, the terrorists win.”

It was simply uncool to admit you didn’t want to go out for lunch, walk across an open campus, or drive to work.
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12 Feb 20
So many people are choosing a candidate based on who they think can beat Trump. This is the wrong question for the following 10 reasons:

1. Nobody knows who “matches up” best.
2. Voters are not good pundits.
3. Pundits aren’t even good pundits.
4. Campaigns are emotional. How you “feel” matters. General election voters will vote emotionally, not intellectually.
5. If we pick a candidate analytically, we are doing the opposite of what it takes to win the general.
6. If you’re a progressive Dem like myself, you’re the wrong person to guess who moderate Rs and Independents will vote for. This is why you found Huntsman and Kasich less crazy than the rest of the Rs in 2016 and they both went nowhere.
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