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16 Feb, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Is this what Republiqans mean by "cancel culture"?
politico.com/news/2021/02/1…
I think maybe this is "cancel culture"?
bostonglobe.com/2021/02/16/nat…
Or perhaps this is "cancel culture"?
I'm confused.

sltrib.com/news/politics/…
This looks kinda like "cancel culture".
sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/…
This definitely looks like "cancel culture."

cbsnews.com/news/liz-chene…
This is getting close to "cancel culture," I think.
newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-goe…
Hey, if you condemn someone for engaging in "cancel culture", does that mean you're cancelling them? Image
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19 Feb
Texas isn't the first state Republiqans have destroyed. Does anyone remember what happened to Kansas? It wasn't a sudden disaster like this, it was a slow collapse, intentionally engineered.

This is what they do, one way or another. Any red state that hasn't collapsed yet, will.
Kansas ran an experiment in Republiqan economic theory, implementing all the tax cuts, deregulation and government service eliminations Republiqans have been pushing for. *Everything* collapsed. Duh.

This is what they do. They came this close =>||<= to doing it to America.
It still could happen to the nation as a whole, rolling through states, and then having Fascists re-seize control in Washington and implementing feudal-type monarchical disregard for everyone who isn't a Noble Lord. That's their goal.

Texas wasn't a mistake. It was a trial run.
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16 Feb
Politico article describing Republiqan hopes that it can turn parents' frustrations about COVID restrictions against Democrats.

That'll only work if President Biden doesn't solve the crisis before the summer's end. If he does, GQP will again look stoopid.
politico.com/news/2021/02/1…
Republiqan political strategy these days is always reactive, geared for the present moment, and never forward-looking. They assume whatever disasters are happening now will always be there (since they never actually solve anything)--or will be forgotten next week anyhow.
Republiqans do not know how to oppose (or even deal with) another political party that solves problems and directly confronts crises. The only approach the GQP knows is to stonewall and obstruct. That won't work this time, because Democrats control everything.
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13 Feb
Trump's lawyers missed a really big opportunity. I think there's a reason they did.

Pundits are making a REALLY BIG DEAL over Trump's tweet on 1/6 regarding Pence, and the timing of it, and what it says about Trump.

I think they missed the boat entirely. I could be wrong.

1/16
Background (please read): The Capitol was assaulted. Anti-American invaders rampaged the halls searching for Senators and Congresspeople and the Vice President, at Trump's direction. At about 2:15 pm, Trump tried to call Senator Tuberville. (WHY HIM? No one has asked that.)

2/16
But Trump accidentally called Sen. Mike Lee instead. Lee handed the phone to Tuberville. At that moment, the Secret Service had hustled Pence out of the Senate chamber, wafting him off to a secure location, because the room was about to be overrun.

Pay attention here.

3/16
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12 Feb
Schoen is pretending courtroom "due process" must be followed--after meeting with some of the jurors to plan strategy last night.
Schoen accuses Democrats of editing videos and taking comments out of contexts, after showing edited videos of Democrats and taking their comments out of context. I guess he wanted us to know he knows what he's talking about.
Schoen is showing longer clips of Trump speeches. The additional footage doesn't help Trump's case, unless you're a racist insurrectionist.
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12 Feb
I was right. "Lawyer" starts out with name-calling and an insistence that trial is "unconstitutional". He's saying Trump's 1/6 speech was rather bland, and pretending that was the only thing the House managers talked about, and the managers were "slanderous."

Bilious bullshit.
"Lawyer" is arguing that since there were objections raised by Democrats to some of the vote counts in 2016, that means Trump didn't engage in sedition.

I'm not sure how that logic works.
Now they're running a Trump campaign commercial.
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11 Feb
Trump's "lawyers" have said they only need one day (tomorrow) to defend Trump.

My guesses for what they'll do:

Distract, lie, distort, and deflect.

1/11
First, they will spend lots of time arguing that the trial is unconstitutional since Trump is no longer in office--even though the Senate has already voted on that and settled that question. Trump's lawyers will ignore that vote, and make the argument anyway.

2/11
Second, they will insist nothing Trump said on 1/6 was any worse than various random statement by random Democrats (elected, unelected, or retired) and civil rights activists over the years. They'll also concentrate on Trump's one reference to "peaceful" protest.

3/11
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