Thread by @JuliusGoat

Republicans really are going to try to pretend things were better this time last year like they think we all have memories as selective as their voters, or goldfish, extraordinary.

https://twitter.com/marshablackburn/status/1395025494840680454

Just going to flat lie as if we don’t remember the time everyone lost their jobs and the economy needed trillions in stimulus just to keep the lights on, amazing cynicism here.

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1395167290665041920

Just extraordinary. They can say anything, fully confident their followers will believe it: as if memories don't exist, as if there isn't video, as if we didn't all experience it. Amazing. Tens of millions of people eager to instantly metabolize lies.

https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1395391475941261312?s=20

Our undergirding crisis is a reality crisis.

All our institutions are designed to cater exclusively to a massive minority segment of conservative white people, to such a degree this segment believes even reality will change to suit them, should they refuse to believe in it.

Conservative white people have, by and large, abandoned reality. Reality doesn't suit them anymore. It doesn't let them do whatever the hell they want.

Conservative white people have asked to speak to reality's manager, and are dissatisfied with the outcome.

As if Trump didn’t dismantle the pandemic task force, lie for a year about the danger, sabotage national response, withhold supplies, oppose testing, politicize masks, as if it weren’t all televised, as if we didn’t live through it.

Our underlying crisis is a reality crisis.

https://twitter.com/ctironman/status/1395860116029775877