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9 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
THREAD: This is so important @yashar @jaketapper @soledadobrien @Maria_Hinojosa Days after election in 2020, Donald Trump, for reasons nobody understood, replaced a number of key high ranking folks at the Pentagon with a series of partisan hacks. WHY? 1/ defense.gov/Newsroom/Relea…
Well let's look at them one by one. Kash Patel, former staffer for Devin Nunes, with "unique access" to the Prez, known to give "out of scope" advice to him, and already on record as looking to block much of the transition work he was appointed to do.2/
politico.com/news/2020/11/2…
Anthony Tata. Former Fox commentator. Called Obama a Muslim and a terrorist. Pushed a conspiracy theory that Brennan was trying to overthrow Trump. Described by some as unconfirmable. In charge of defense policy now 3/ cnn.com/2020/06/12/pol…
Ezra Cohen-Watnick. Rose abruptly out of nowhere to extremely close relationship to Pres. Worked for Flynn, Sessions AND Nunes. Promoted false rumor about Obama wire tapping Trump. When McMaster tried to sweep out Flynn loyalists WH protected only him 4/ timesofisrael.com/official-who-b…
Christopher Miller. 31 yrs in Spec Ops. Vocal Trump loyalist. Tried to make an end run around Pompeo to open his own dialogue with Somalis in Qatar and what fired for it. Rose in only a year from mid-level advisor to top pentagon official. Fishy. 5/ nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/…
At the time, it felt to me like the only reason a lame duck pres would have to make such sweeping and controversial appointments would be in preparation for a coup. Friends dismissed this as crazy. But why did the Pentagon hold up the National Guard for so long? Just sayin' END

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10 Jan
The other bone Trump tickled for small business people and aspirants was his hostility to taxes and regulation, the two things that feel the most arbitrary and capricious to someone trying something very difficult which is to get a small business to profitability.
If you are trying to start a restaurant, and a black or latino, or god forbid, female AND black or latino city worker comes to inspect and finds a small problem, or the government is telling you what the minimum wage must be, or the ADA is requiring a ramp when you've (ct'd)
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Here’s my list for 2022. These mofo’s need to go DOWN. 1) Ron Johnson WI. Won his race in 2016 with 3.4%. Led the nit brigade today. Vulnerable.
2) Pat Toomey PA Won his race by only 1.5%. Tried to see above the fray today but has been a trump booster from the get go. A classic ends-justify-means evangelical who can only think about stopping the ladies from using their vaginas. Must go.
3) Richard Burr ND squeaked into office in 2016 by 2.8%. ND is a battleground. If we organize something fierce it can turn into our second Georgia.
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6 Jan
Thread/ Let’s be clear. This was never ever not going to happen. Not when Reagan eviscerated all public spending and accused anyone who questioned this a communist. Or when he started the death by a thousand budget cuts 1/
of our sacred covenant that every citizen deserves a good education and a decent change at a decent life. It was never not going to happen when Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 2/
Not when the NRA called ATF agents “jack-booted thugs.” Not when oops, the anti-choice language about murder led to the killings of several doctors at clinics. Not when Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld chose fascist language like “Homeland Security” to exploit 9/11 3/
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30 Sep 20
What did I tell you? The layoffs were always coming. Today Disney chose to layoff nearly 30% of their workforce on the same day as the first presidential debate. Hoping, I am sure, to have the news of this drowned out by the news of that. 1/
Josh D'Amaro's "it's incredibly painful" reminds me of when I was a kid and my father was getting ready to spank me and he'd say "this is gonna hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me." It was bullshit then and it's even more bullshit now. 2/
The layoffs are apparently heavy on part-time workers and it should concern you that such a high percentage of their workforce is part time. That's because, like so many other companies relying on an hourly labor force, lots of shenanigans are used to prevent.3/
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THREAD/ There is a deep rot at the core of American fundamentalist capitalism. Over the years a greed-is-good mindset has taken hold across corporate culture. And CEO's have taken the ball and run with it. They populate their boards with other CEO's 1/
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