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15 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
As Trump aides emerge from hiding, our worst suspicions of Trumps incompetence & the damage it inflicted on America are being confirmed. His 1st Secretary of State, Tillerson, gives a brutal interview this week to @ForeignPolicy. I’ll attach excerpts.../1

foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/11/rex…
....Tillerson gives the quick summary. Trump screwed up almost everything internationally, because he is stupid, didn’t want to learn, and made arbitrary irrational decisions based on how he felt about other leaders.... Image
...while idiots like @Franklin_Graham sing praises of Trumps foreign policy based on their mutual stupidity, Tillerson states that everything was squandered, nothing worked, because Trump understood nothing and was too stupid and lazy to learn.../2 Image
...as we heard, Trump needed pictures and small bits of information,action to pay attention and still couldn’t manage to have a conversation. He was unbriefable and his decisions were based on ignorance... Image
....worse, the idiots fluttering around the White House - likely he is talking about Jerrod et al - fed Trump bullshit like conspiracy theories based on no facts. Yet they tried to create policy based on these fantasies spun by stupid people. Stupidity reigned. Image
People are saying “he should have spoken out sooner.” I suppose so, but it would have done nothing. Whenever anyone spoke out, the Trump White House went into rage mode, and the GOP/Fox etc joined in. Hell, they turned their onetime pinup boy John Bolton into their own devil.

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...strategically. The mission in Benghazi, just like the embassy in Cairo, was overrun by a bunch of people enraged by the video, but within the group at Benghazi were tactically trained terrorists from Ansar al-Sharia. They saw the opportunity and took it. This is why.../2
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.@RepBonnie @RepJayapal @RepSchneider have to sue the @HouseGOP who recklessly exposed them to COVID for assault. And, since there was an organized effort to ignore safety rules, civil conspiracy.

Good thing is, a case I brought against a MAGA who assaulted me shows the way.../1
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Ive been speaking to friends who have been frightened by the events of 1/6. I will share here what I tell them.

This country had a cancer. Many of us were screaming about it. Not as many were willing to listen. On 1/6, the cancer was proven. We have begun chemotherapy.../1
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...by his followers. 2. Hypernatiionalism. 3. Separation of those followers from reality through relentless use of propaganda that places them in a delusional world separated from fact. 4. Creation of "the other" - almost always liberals, immigrants, "socialists," minorities.../3
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