Hey--remember that time Meghan McCain cried on Joe Biden's shoulder on @TheView after her father died and Biden comforted her like he does? Well today, she's trashing him for not wearing a mask while he gave a speech in an empty part of the Capitol.
Pretty sure Biden is socially distanced here and he usually removes his mask when he gives a speech.
Stop thinking these people are our friends.
And never forget that it was Meghan McCain's husband, founder of The Federalist, who created the "Kamala is a cop" meme and monetized it, selling T-shirts.
*That is the Lincoln Memorial where President Biden is, not the Capitol. Mea culpa.
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Giving the GOP credit for the work of Democrats is indeed an "unpopular"--and inaccurate--take. The 150 GOP members of Congress who participated in the sedition are all still in Congress AND the leader of that fight to overturn the election is House Minority Leader, McCarthy.
The Constitution prevailed because Pelosi, Schumer, the Democrats and Mitch McConnell's fealty to his own power prevailed. And the police and National Guard removed the insurrectionists. But pretending we didn't come *thisclose* to losing this fight would be naïve madness.
Even this morning Kevin McCarthy is trying to claim that we ALL bear responsibility for the attack on the Capitol. Not only is this counterfactual, but that event was spurred by TWO MONTHS of Trump, McCarthy, Scalise, Graham, Cruz, Hawley & more claiming the election was rigged.
This is a pretty big story. Sen. Tom Cotton, youngest GOP senator and a putative 2024 presidential candidate, lied about serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wow. salon.com/2021/01/22/sen…
*Sorry I had to delete my first posting of this--the link was broken.
There really is no way to overstate how big a story this is. The question is--why are we just hearing about it now?
#NEW
Dr. Anthony Fauci held a 4am teleconference with the @WHO, which President Biden just rejoined yesterday with an Executive Order.
Fauci will also be part of today's press briefing.
First day of the new administration. Fauci is where he belongs: leading.
The Biden-Harris administration is making #COVID19 its central focus. Which the Trump administration should have done a year ago. The US is only 4% of the global population and 26% of the deaths from #COVID19. That didn't have to happen.
#NEW
The details of the Trump administration's #COVID19 plan reveals there is no actual plan.
This will further impede the new administration as it centers controlling the virus.
Chilling thought: How many would have died if Trump had succeeded in overturning the election?
I was on the Pompeo beat in 2020 and Pompeo's remaking of State and his dangerous reframing of USAID has linked the US with some of the world's worst actors.
Pompeo used USAID and its $40B budget to promote his own ideologies abroad & label them as US policy as I explained here. Biden and Blinken may not even know the breadth of what Pompeo has done via USAID,
THREAD📌 Since Jan. 20, 2017, I have been terrorized by the Trump presidency as a lesbian, as a #disabled person, as a journalist. I have reported hundreds of stories of how marginalized groups in particluar have been harmed by Trump's policies, even in his final days.
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I have reported on the uptick in poverty under Trump, particularly among women and LGBTQ people. I have written relentlessly about #healthcare and how each year under Trump fewer Americans had access to it and more people were bankrupted and having to crowdfund medical bills.
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I have written about violence against POC: the relentlessness of it. The anti-Black animus. The hatred of brown immigrants--even babies. I have reported on the way Trump and his extremist white nationalist cohort have stoked violence from Charlottesville to the Insurrection.
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