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Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

11 Jan

Final thought of the evening:
As is true with so much other *crime*, if we took violent threats against women seriously, and punished the people when they did it, we'd stop so many of the violent threats against everybody and everything else.

So many of these people, now banned from Twitter for inciting violent acts against the government have, for years, been using their social media to make threats, some veiled, some not even, against women. If you banned them then, you'd wouldn't have needed to ban them now.

And, while we're here, let's not forget that Trump has been accused by 26 women of sexual misconduct, harassment, or rape.

If that was a DEAL BREAKER for people, he would have been gone a long time ago.

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Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

8 Jan

I can't get over this video, you guys. I can't even express the *depths* of racism in a society that allows one group of people to punch the window out behind the ear of a cop, but allows other cops to shoot an unarmed black man in the back 7 times.

I just can't.

I get scared when my children RUN NEAR a police officer. I can't risk my boys BUMPING INTO a cop.

And these white people just punched out a window, and not only did they *live*, but the cops walked away.

IT'S NOT FAIR. And I know that saying that is just a pathetic, useless complaint in this racist place, but it's not fair. It's not okay. It's not something that I should be expected to just SUCK UP to make white people feel better about their goddamn society.

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Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

7 Jan

@realDonaldTrump

Things we knew about @realDonaldTrump before yesterday:
* He tried to delegitimize a Black president with a racist trope.
* He called for the execution of Black teenagers who were innocent.
* 26 women accused him of sexual misconduct, following an M.O. he admitted to on tape.

* He created a religious test for entry into the United States.
* He tried to build a racist wall by declaring a fake national emergency and stole billions from the defense budget.
* He ordered the kidnapping and caging of babies, and didn't keep track of their parents.

* He praised a Klan rally which killed a woman.
* He promised to pay the legal fees of his supporters who beat up people at his rallies.
* He declared the American media the "enemy of the people."
* He encouraged police to rough up people who were under arrest.

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Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

6 Jan

Literally every Black person who has ever protested right now: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? They're gonna let white people take over the Capitol but will shoot me to protect a fucking TARGET?

I ONCE HAD THREE COPS SURROUND ME FOR BLOCKING A WALKING PATH ON CAMBRIDGE COMMON

How many of these white people will even be arrested??

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Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

6 Jan

*Some* people seemed confused about my rage at Garland for AG, so let me put this where the goats can get it:

When you are in power BECAUSE black people put you there, then you pick an AG with a RECORD OF HOLDING POLICE ACCOUTNABLE. Not a milquetoast compromise white prosecutor.

@Sifill_LDF

You LISTEN to voices in the Black community, like @Sifill_LDF and @TheRevAl, when they meet with you and tell you to pick somebody who will SIGNLE to the Black community that you have their back against these police terrorists.

You understand that of ALL your cabinet picks, your AG is the one who has to HONOR the desperate protests in the streets that Trump spent the past year denigrated.

YOU PAY IT THE FUCK FORWARD

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