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13 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I think Dems should’ve called witnesses. I think this is a mistake. But we should acknowledge it wouldn’t have flipped votes. It would’ve been the right political move. But we should also find out if McConnell would have blocked all other Sen biz until the impeachment was over /1
Also consider that the White House may have signaled that they want this to end ASAP. /2
Big problem with today is that yesterday afternoon few expected Dems to call witnesses. But Dems were still elated over the case put forth by the managers. Then the Herrera-Beutler news came out, people got excited at possible witnesses, & now the emotion is disappointment /3
Reason hearing didn’t begin in Jan is it needed the consent of the maj/min leaders to reconvene early & McConnell withheld consent. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is McConnell could also withhold consent to suspend impeachment to do other business
This would be the exact reason to do it, to back the Trump base turn on McCarthy. I think that was worthwhile. But if McConnell did threaten to block all other biz—& don’t anyone argue he’s not that nihilistic—that’s a hard choice /5

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29 Jan
I wonder what percentage of people who 18 months ago were listening to Chapo are now QAnon loons.
Fun thing about tweeting about Chapo is that usually 1 of the 3 cowards does a screenshot, rather than link so I know who did it, & then my mentions fill with unclever & unfunny (& mostly homophobic) responses from angry dolts insecure about their masculinity
On second thought, this is unfair to Trotskyite-to-neocon Irving Kristol, because Kristol didn’t just listen to the radio, he actually read about politics.
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27 Jan
Chrales Blow on MSNBC attributed GA POTUS to growing black share of vote. Some truth to that. But look at 2020 vs 2004 (58%R/41%D) vs 2020 (49%D/49%R)

[share of total/R/D]

2004
White 70%/76%/23%
Black 25%/12%/88%
Rest 5%

2020
White 61%/69%/30%
Black 29%/12%/88%
Rest 10%

/1
So, yes, greater black share of GA electorate was significant. And white voters are still overwhelmingly R. But white voters went from R+53=>R+39. And the rest of the electorate grew significantly, at the expense of the white share, & was solidly Dem

So, it’s more complicated /2
Shorter version: monocausal explanations of elections are always wrong. /3
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26 Jan
Pay close attention to what people are saying about the Senate. There are a lot of people certain that Dems will cave. Maybe they will. But I think they’re just waiting for the Repubs either radically change their behavior (highly unlikely) or to change the rules & blame Repubs
I’m not predicting Dems will play hardball & significantly alter or completely eliminate the filibuster. But I’ll take that position & welcome the criticism if I’m wrong. But only if you hold the naysayers to the same accountability.
If you think the Senate Democratic caucus is pretty much the same today as it was in 2009...we’ll, maybe you’ll be proven right. But I don’t think so. /3
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22 Jan
BREAKING: NYT criticizing Biden for wearing a Rolex vs “Everyman timepieces like Times & Shinola”

RELATED: NYT thinks “everymen” spend at least $400 (the cheapest Shinola) on something they don’t need if they have a cheap phone in their pocket google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
[FTR, I love watches. I haven’t had a running watch since I stopped being able to run, but I’ll buy one when I can run again. But if I ever spend money on something completely frivolous but that I’ll enjoy it will probably be on a Shinola

But I prob won’t wear it in a PA diner]
FDR claims to care about working people, but look how out of touch he is! Image
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21 Jan
Just got an email informing us that starting Monday they are no longer in the afternoon pod, the pods are being combined, it will be one class with30 kids & they need to be ready at 9:00am

Lori Lightfoot is sticking to her plan to begin F2F school, even though 80% won’t attend
Have people stopped caring about the Chicago Teachers Union?

CPS has:
-Stuck to plan to begin F2F 2-1
-Denied 80% of requests for exemptions to teach F2F
-Not told principals who is/isn’t coming back
-if teachers try to teach from home they will shut down the feed to kids.../2
...offered zero guidance to principals on how to structure the F2F/online hybrid
-Told parents nothing
-Given no evidence of a plan to vaccinate teachers
-Provided no PPE

All of this despite the parents 80% of students saying their kids are staying home /2
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6 Jan
So, there is coordination between the insurrectionists at the Capitol & the insurrectionists in the White House.

I’ll also point out we’re currently under a massive & gravely damaging cyber attack by Russia. We shouldn’t assume all these things aren’t coordinated
The business of Congress should resume under the assumption that listening devices are being placed in sensitive places in the Capitol.
They knew there wouldn’t be a violent response xhttps://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1346934387598876673
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