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6 May, 6 tweets, 4 min read
I swear, the only person who seems to really understand just what is happening to this country is a former Republican who had a major hand in making it happen: @stuartpstevens. I was skeptical of him for awhile. Not anymore. He knows we’re at a pivotal moment in …
@stuartpstevens history. He was just on with @chrislhayes and pulled no punches. My only criticism is he’s not setting his hair on fire on national TV and asking why in the hell people aren’t lining up to stop this anti-democracy movement. Where in the hell is America’s spine?
@stuartpstevens @chrislhayes How many more clues to you need to see that McCarthy and McConnell are full-on committed to this anti-democracy project, and if we are fucking crazy enough to let these craven pricks come back to power, it’s game over. They don’t even pretend to care about elections …
@stuartpstevens @chrislhayes anymore. If they hold the House and Senate again, no Democrat can ever be president again. They will just invalidate the election. That’s what ALL of this has been about. Stop the Steal, 01/06, Arizona; all of it. We are in the final throes of this democracy.
@stuartpstevens @chrislhayes Every liberal I see on TV is reading the same fucking speech @NicolleDWallace now makes 5 days a week. Isn’t it all just so terrible? (wring-wring). WELL LOTS OF THINGS ARE TERRIBLE! What’s more terrible is ZERO discussion of what the fuck we’re going to do about it.
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8 May
When you talk to most of your friends who were once Republicans, few of them are overt racists or greedy pricks. They were people raised with a set of beliefs that only time and life experience altered. No one wants a lifetime of beliefs to be upended by craven
opportunists. I think it’s good strategy to acknowledge their right to have had sincere beliefs, however wrong, and stoke their resentment over having their only party affiliation hijacked by unabashed zealots with no interest in disguising who they are.
Only15 years ago, it was common to hear both Democrats and Republicans say “I’m socially liberal but fiscally conservative.” Whether how they were raised or informed by their lives, such fence straddlers found homes in both parties. And it’s hard to leave home.
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8 May
It felt @AliVelshi was almost going to call them #FakeRepublicans this morning, during one of his typical righteous rants. I hope he does. Just think of the questions & narratives that those two simple words enable? What other two words do the same (across the aisle)?
@AliVelshi Think about it. There’s a reason why @RadioFreeTom, @Timodc @JRubinBlogger and so many others bailed from the GOP. They may have partly come to realize that their party always contained these insane racist actors, but they were at the fringe (in their minds,
@AliVelshi @RadioFreeTom @Timodc @JRubinBlogger anyway). It was the sudden surge of success by the Trumpist zealots who seized the Republican label and party that made staying in the party untenable for them. They weren’t driven out by factional ideologues. They were driven out by ruthless, power-hungry
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7 May
Here’s an idea. What if we kept it simple and branded the cosplay GOP as “Fake Republicans: cynical politicians with no track record, who hijacked your party and think its members are fools. Here’s a list of who they are and what they haven’t done. Have you been fooled?”
Talking about fascism , racism, justice or fairness is just a waste of time. Most of them don’t know what those things are, and the rest don’t care. We need to find a simple message that resonates. So why not just tell them the truth? With massive ad campaigns?
Trump cultists aside, most don’t like to be taken for suckers. Millions of Republicans know nothing about these rabble who have hijacked their party. Why not campaign on exposing these “Fake Republicans.” Ok, real ones ain’t great, but we can keep quiet about that.
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5 May
I just wish I could understand why American Liberals are so complacent with what is happening all around them. @FoxNews is actively deconstructing our democracy, and the GOP is far more extreme than Nazis ever were before Hitler ascended in 1933. We MUST stop it here.
@FoxNews I’m all for wokeness, but where these Republicans are heading may end of worse then slavery and the holocaust combined. The world has never see this kind of super-charged extremism seize a country in such a short time. WHY ISN’T YOUR HAIR ON FIRE? I just don’t get it.
@FoxNews We’re all complicit with helping the media monetize this crisis by watching each new obscenity unfold, while taking no collective action against MOST of it. And by the time we realize just how bad things are, Republicans will retake power thought purely corrupt means.
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4 Mar
I’m back. So how potentially serendipitous is this? Thanks to this med I will be on for life, I am now a chronic “dry mouth” (Xerostomia) sufferer (which can destroys teeth and sleep). Today I learned that one of my doctors has spent the last 2 years patenting a …
prototype device that solves the very problem. What are the odds? I mean, to paraphrase Rick, “Of all the doctors in all the towns in all the world, and I walk into his.”

Like many inventors, he’s so close to it, he’s focused on the details of making the product …
work perfectly, and not on the bigger production and marketing picture. Millions need his invention, but they will never afford the current $2500 price tag. It needs to be more like $500. I thought of 3 ways to slash his costs in one 20 minute discussion. A top …
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9 Feb
@RadioFreeTom @DanShenise @stuartpstevens Again, that’s isn’t his or my point. It’s not to blame them for everything since the 1960s. It’s for them to at least admit they were less than honest and forthright about their policy goals and prescriptions. What was all about deconstructing the New Deal was …
@RadioFreeTom @DanShenise @stuartpstevens posited as an existential war against communism, and it’s dreaded step-sister, socialism. How much of our national debate was wasted on that cynical, often vapid rubbish that served the GOP’s ends until abortion, Obamacare, Islamic extremism (and now Antifa) came …
@RadioFreeTom @DanShenise @stuartpstevens along. Most people can tell you what a dirty commie looks like. I still don’t know what an Antifa is. It’s just the same weak sauce bottled for a new generation. That’s what has to end. The sheer dishonesty of right wing ideology masquerading as sincere policy …
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