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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Dems' strategy is to keep the pressure on the @GOP. There's no penalty for Dems to #ImpeachTheMFerAgain, but high cost to the GOP if they decide to keep protecting Trump. This also ties Trump's thoughts up on his own post-term legal exposure and enables others to ignore him.
You can't leave Trump alone in these last 13 days. Make him feel like he's embattled and on the run. Dems seem to get this. Use every tool in the toolkit and force the GOP's hand.
The biggest risk to the Republic imho is Trump invoking the Insurrection Act to cobble together a paramilitary type force (much like the one Barr did for him in June) to take over DC and prevent Congress from opening and the inauguration from occurring.
Moving to impeachment makes the GOP make a decision on 25A. McConnell doesn't want his side to take votes that split his caucus. Dem pressure is the only scenario where he asks Pence to take one for the team and go 25A.

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9 Jan
If you watched the tea party's rise, you could see this coming. There was no rational reason to be that incensed over a Black man getting elected POTUS in the midst of a failed war and the Great Recession...other than the fact that said Black man's 'blackness' triggered them.
At the end of the day, the root of Trumpism is America's long standing disease of racism. Racism for America is like herpes. It's flares up and subsides but it's always there. Too many white folks are simply oblivious to what people of color have always seen.
On the other hand, a lot of white folks do recognize that they see the world in racial zero sum terms and are perfectly ok with fascism as a choice instead of co-existence under a rule of law. Unity among all Americans doesn't exist for them unless they're undisputedly on top.
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9 Jan
Text of the Impeachment Resolutionhttps://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2021/01/Articles-of-Impeachment-Incitement-of-Insurrection.pdf ImageImage
It's very simple & short as it's a little over 3 pages. Article 1 is entitled, "Incitement of Insurrection". It focuses on the Trump rally in front of the WH during the deliberations on the electoral vote count in Congress in which he made false claims about the election.
The resolution next states that Trump "willfully made statements that encouraged—and foreseeably resulted in—imminent lawless action at the Capitol." He incited a riot which resulted in a mob attacking the Capitol and interfering in the process to certify the results.
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8 Jan
Proof that #impeachment works: "Only...after the Capitol had been besieged by death and destruction and a growing chorus of lawmakers had called for his immediate removal from office, did Trump grudgingly accept his fate." washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
WAPO also confirm that Pence, Acting DoD Sec Miller, JCS Chair Milley, Pelosi, Schumer and McConnell coordinated to address the security issues during the Insurrection. Trump was disengaged and didn't participate. He didn't delegate his authority. Pence acted w/out authority.
Pence, Sec. Miller and Milley did what was necessary to quell the coup, but they acted outside the chain of command. They acted illegally.
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8 Jan
In moving to #ImpeachTheMFerAgain, let's not forget the deep seated misogyny of those responsible. Rioters stormed her office, took her things & showed her disrespect. The Trumpers targeted her.
The Capitol Police Chief didn't even return her calls after failing at his job at putting lives at risk. The DoD failed to provide security for the #3 public official in the gov't (and also the #2).
On top of that, as soon as Congress returned, a majority of House Republicans continued their seditionist lies that spawned the insurrection in the first place, often hurling them while she sat in the Speaker's chair.
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27 Dec 20
Per @IgnatiusPost, Trump may be planning to use MAGA groups to instigate violence on 1/6 as a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act to mobilize the military. washingtonpost.com/opinions/until…
Trump would then use this form of 'martial law' to implement the idea suggested by Michael Flynn where Trump “could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election.”
The implication here is that Trump would look for a thinly veiled pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act (think Gulf of Tonkin resolution which paved the way for the US to enter Vietnam), and rely on executive power to withstand SCOTUS scrutiny.
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22 Oct 20
FL's EV has a lot of initial good news for Dems. The main thing I'm focusing on is turnout of registered Dems per county. In several key counties, Dems are near or past the half way mark to a 75%-80% turnout rate.
Here's a sampler: Blue/Purple counties that are close to or above 40% turnout of registered Dems (half way or better to a 75%-80% turnout): Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Pinellas, St. Lucie, Monroe, Alachua, Broward, Osceola.
In addition, other blue/purple counties are at least 40% of the way to a 75%-80% turnout target: Miami Dade, Leon, Duval, Seminole. These counties will probably cross the half way mark by tomorrow (or tonight).
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