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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
👀 He’s already stated he wants border guards to be able to shoot people on the other side of the border at will...and we still have thousands of refugees locked in cages. They don’t need zip ties to take them hostage, they already are.
He’s traveling to the border this week. In Texas. Where both the Governor, Attorney Genera, both U.S. Senators, most Congressional members and most of the state legislature are batshit die-hard supporters.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I don’t know what the hell he has in mind but some of his thugs were already planning on massacring up to 500 members of Congress, I don’t think they’d bat an eye at massacring thousands of already-caged immigrants who they don’t think of as human to begin with.
Chilling, disturbing question: If Trump-loyalist CBP/ICE thug types were to do the unspeakable, would they be charged under federal or state charges? I have a sinking feeling it'd be federal...and even if it was state, again, look at the TX Gov & AG.

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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
11 Jan
Interesting implications for possibility of expelling some of the House/Senate members...
I believe 138 GOP House members voted to block certification of one or more of the states on 1/06.

There's 435 House members, but 3 vacancies at the moment (NY-22 still undecided; Cedric Richmond resigned to join Biden Admin; GOP Luke Letlow died of COVID), so that's 432.
2/3 of 432 = 288.
Dems hold 221 seats w/out Richmond or Brindisi, so they'd need 67 GOP to expel any of the other GOP.

There's 211 House GOP total. Subtract 138 seditionists = 73.

So...Dems would need 92% of non-seditionist GOP Reps to vote to expel any of the other 138.
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
10 Jan
Thanks to @katbuns for alerting me to a deeply disturbing video on Parler. I'm not RT'ing the link, but here's some captures.

The audio is Trump blathering on about his holy army of assholes. The video is various slo-mo shots of his thugs, interspersed with these graphics: 1/ ImageImageImageImage
There's multiple references to this being a literal "holy war" etc etc. 2/ ImageImageImageImage
Oddly, they slip in a shot of Mike Pence as well, even though Trump set him up to be lynched on Wednesday.

The "Birth of a Nation" KKK reference isn't exactly subtle.

3/ ImageImageImageImage
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
10 Jan
📣 BREAKING (h/t @rachanadixit): @BCBSAssociation cuts off donations to ~130 GOP House & Senate members for their part in failed coup attempt:
acasignups.net/21/01/10/bcbsa…
Via @OpenSecretsDC, it looks like BCBSA donated ~$8.2M total this cycle; @rachanadixit says it went 2:1 GOP, so that's ~$5.5M.

Not massive $, and not all of it went to the ~130 seditionists, but symbolically huge & hopefully the start of a larger corporate cut-off movement.
In addition, of course, the significance re. healthcare policy is even bigger. A significant number of Dems support *banning* private insurance outright in favor of M4All, while the GOP is trying to strike down the #ACA even as I type this, so...
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
10 Jan
The only legit concern I've heard about DC is the question of what happens to its current 3 Electoral Votes, since technically the remaining portion of DC (The Mall, etc) would still retain 3 EVs even though only a handful of people would live there...including the President.
So, as I understand it (and I could be wrong), the new *state* of DC would get 3 EVs for its new House district & 2 Senators, but the tiny enclave within it composed of the White House, Capitol etc. would *also* get 3 EVs.

If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Re. the Guard, I don't know how jurisdiction would work, but if I'm correct that "DC" would be reduced to the Mall area, would that mean the new *state* of DC still couldn't send Guard troops past the border? I suppose it'd be small enough they could simply surround it, though...
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9 Jan
⚠️ Weekly Update: Which *counties* have the highest per capita rates of #COVID19 cases & deaths? 1/
acasignups.net/21/01/09/weekl…
Counties w/highest #COVID19 cases per capita:
1. Crowley County, CO
2. Dewey County, SD
3. Lincoln County, AR
4. Norton County, KS
5. Bent County, CO
6. Bon Homme County, SD
7. Lake County, TN
8. Buffalo County, SD
9. Chattahoochee County, GA
10. Trousdale County, TN
2/
27.8% of Crowley County, Colorado has tested positive for #COVID19. Yes, there's a prison there. They're still people.

83 of the top 100 counties voted for Trump...which nearly matches the 82% of *all* counties nationally which voted for him. COVID is truly nonpartisan now.
3/
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8 Jan
📣 This may seem a bit off given (waves arms around at everything), but 2021 #ACA Open Enrollment IS STILL HAPPENING in the following states: 1/
acasignups.net/21/01/04/updat…
📣 CALIFORNIA:
--Enroll by 1/31 for coverage starting 2/01

#GetCovered at CoveredCA.com today!
@CoveredCA
📣 COLORADO:
--Enroll by 1/15 for coverage starting 2/01

#GetCovered at C4HCO.com today!
@C4HCO
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