Thread by @mog7546

50 things that are better already

1. You can ignore Twitter
2. The White House briefing room is not a nightmare of lies
3. We are now confronting white domestic terrorism
4. We are not paying for golf trips
5. No presidential relatives in govt

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6. The tenor of hearings is sober and serious
7. Qualified and knowledgeable nominees have been selected
8. We have a first lady who engages with the public
9. We have not heard a word from presidential children
10. We are now tough on Russian human rights abuses

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11. We get normal readouts of sane conversations between the president and foreign leaders
12. The philosophy is to underpromise and overdeliver
13. Manners are in, bullying is out
14. You feel calmer after hearing the president
15. Fact-checkers are not overworked

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16. Quality entertainers want to perform for the White House
17. We have seen the president’s tax records
18. The president is able to articulate policy details, coherently
19. The president’s watch... only negative
20. We have a White House staff that looks like America

21. We have a national covid-19 plan
22. Fauci is liberated, sounds happy and even looks younger
23. Fauci, not the president, briefs on the science of covid-19
24. Masks and social distancing in the White House
25. They have policy initiatives and proposals

26. The administration is committed to releasing information, not covering it up, on the slaughter of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
27. The Muslim ban is gone
28. It is the Republicans not the Democrats who are in disarray
29. The NSA advisor has not been fired for lying

30. No Soviet-style fawning over the president
31. The president takes daily, in-person intel briefings
32. The president does not care about Air Force One colors
33. We have a president familiar with the Constitution
34. Real cable news outlets get high ratings

36. Voice of America is back in the hands of actual journalists
37. We get memes about #Sanders, not crowd size
38. We are back in the Paris climate accord and the #WHO
39. Instead of running it like a business, the new administration will try running government competently

42. Amanda Gorman is a household name
43. 2/3 of Americans approve of the White House covid-19 approach.
44. No more work-free “executive time”
45. We have a churchgoing president “who has spent a lifetime steeped in Christian rituals and practices.”
46. We have first dogs

47. The vice president’s spouse does not teach at a school that bars LGBTQ students
48. The White House takes the Hatch Act seriously
49. The administration wants as many people as possible to vote
50. The president will talk more to our allies than to Putin

51 NO LIES