Among the more disgusting, moronic, pathetic takes I've seen in recent days has been from Republican voters. Unable to deal with their own role in what they've done to their country, they've decided that it's all the fault of... Democrats.

Yes, that's right. Democrats. 🙄🙄🙄🤮
"You started it by not accepting Trump!"

No you fucking morons. We WARNED you again and again and again about what would happen if you voted in someone so completely, totally, 100% unfit in every possible way.

Where the US is now is the inevitable consequence of what YOU did.
- You voted him in despite knowing he'd committed sexual assault and bragged about it

- You voted him in despite knowing he was a racist, sexist and misogynist

- You voted him in despite knowing that far right fascists supported him

And why? Your bank accounts and pocketbooks.
That was, quite literally, all that mattered to you. "I'll be a bit richer so fuck everyone else".

How did Democrats respond? With horror, revulsion, fear... and NO violence. Did Democrats try to commit a coup and want to execute Republicans? Did they plan armed insurrection?
And you know what Democrats spent the next 4 years doing? Trying to keep your country safe from someone who wanted to turn it into Nazi Germany with nuclear weapons.

So they impeached the bastard. And the Republicans wouldn't even allow witnesses at his trial.
Because OBVIOUSLY, that's what innocent people with nothing to hide do, huh?

"The party of law and order" couldn't give a damn about law and order for rich white people. 'Law and order' means if you're not part of their corrupt, criminal club, you can get stuffed.
The same bastard:

- Refused aid for Puerto Rico, killing thousands
- Separated families at the border and threw kids into cages
- Kidnapped peaceful protestors in Portland
- Is responsible for THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR THOUSAND dead Americans through his wanton negligence
- Called neo-Nazis and Klansmen "very fine people"
- Told the neo-Nazi Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by"
- Told the whole country that he'd refuse to accept it if he lost
- Spun a web of lies that killed 6 people (including 2 police officers) and could've killed hundreds
If it wasn't for the Democrats, your whole country would be gone. Finished.

Democracy gone, rule of law gone, basic civility on any level whatsoever gone.

They saved your country. They maybe even saved your life. And look at the thanks they get.
Conservatives with a conscience stood up against this madness, this tyranny, this treason long ago.

If you're still making excuses even now, you don't have a conscience. And you too are a collaborator. No difference between you and those "obeying orders" in the Third Reich.
Democrat voters were right not to accept this disgusting piece of filth as their President. And the reason for that? They care about you. All of you.

It's much, much more than you pathetic, spineless, selfish cowards and lickspittles deserve.

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13 Jan
Two things happening concurrently now. One good, one terrifying.

1. The dam is clearly breaking re: impeachment. I think it's going to happen. He's going to be convicted. Whether before or after January 20 is the question. But this thread isn't about that.
2. We now have testimony, both from footage on here and from Congresspeople that:

- Republican members were giving reconnaisance missions to terrorists the day before the attack

- Some police were helping the terrorists

- Republican members were revealing Democrats' locations
- AOC had an encounter in which she thought she was going to die

- Republican members insist on carrying weapons into the chamber and are bypassing metal detectors

Hint: they're not doing that because of their "2nd amendment rights".
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12 Jan
Electricity is a state monopoly in Uruguay. And because I'm a 'good payer' (ie. I always pay on time), I received a 100% discount on my December bill. 🙌 Thankyou UTE.

When you compare that with what the Tories do to Britain's starving kids, it's a completely different planet.
In Uruguay - in many Latin American societies - there's also a concept called a 'canasta basica' (basic basket). Which monitors the prices of essential household items, and is used to define relative and absolute poverty.
In 2012, with inflation running at 10%, the government stepped in to control the prices of those items for a period of time. I was fascinated at the very idea - and that contrary to the right wing economic illiterates who are ten-a-penny in the UK, no, the sky didn't fall in.
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12 Jan
Can't wait for Kuenssberg's take on this.

"Families are receiving this food FOR FREE at the taxpayer's expense. And it's much better than spending it on drugs, said a senior government source..."
"The portion sizes will teach children the valuable life lesson that there is no magic money tree. If they're poor, it's all their own fault. They should tell their parents to stop buying iphones and widescreen TVs..."
"And besides, our great, glorious and heroic government has maxed out the national credit card! So cuts have to be made somewhere.

(But not to my publicly funded salary, obviously).

This is Laura Kuenssberg for BBC News. When will I be receiving that damehood again, Boris?"
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11 Jan
Since 1988, there's been an emerging Democratic majority in the US. The Republican Party has won just one - ONE! - presidential popular vote in that entire time: achieved solely through fear, ie. 'The War on Terror'.

And that's extremely relevant to the here and now.
What happens to a party of rich white men who think they're born to rule but can no longer win? A conclusion the GOP reached finally and irrevocably in 2012.

Answer: spread fear, spread lies, and suppress the vote.
Make it harder and harder and harder for anyone not rich or not white to vote. At the same time as whipping up the rhetoric; going to undreamt of lengths to anger and inflame and divide... because that'll inspire 'the base', and get out new voters. Racist, ignorant ones.
Read 13 tweets
11 Jan
Think, just for a moment, about the ridiculous fear drummed into so many Americans about "antifa".

First, "antifa" don't even exist as an organised group. Second, what is "antifa" short for? Antifascist. Y'know: like the entire Allied force in World War Two was antifascist.
Any fully joined-up member of the human race is antifascist, anti-racist, and pro-democracy.

THIS is what people are scared of? Seriously?

If you're scared of that, I can only conclude you're a fascist yourself.
"They are taking our country away from us!"

1. Who is 'they'? The People, over 81m of whom voted for Joe Biden?

2. Or do you mean 'Black people'? "Black people are voting democratically! The horror!"

That's what this all boils down to, isn't it? American racism.
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11 Jan
I write as someone from an extremely dysfunctional family.

I write as someone with no family of my own: a deliberate choice owing hugely to the point above.

I write as a Remainer who will always support freedom of movement.

I write as someone tired of political illiterates.
Labour *should be* the party of 'family values' because Labour *should be* the party of community values.

Labour should accept Brexit because it's done. Over with. Finished. The end. Correctly, it voted for it.
Labour cannot win another election EVER unless it regains the trust of working class voters. As far as I can see, there's tons of people on here who demand Labour do this... while being every bit as liberal and left wing as ever, if not even more so.

Doesn't work that way.
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