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29 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It’s a good thing we aren’t a democracy then. Also, I love all these guys pretending like the 11 Senators just abstained by accident. The system is meant to make it difficult to implement significant changes and requires consensus. That’s a good thing for stability.
The debate over the filibuster isn’t about one particular bill or policy because it’s about how our system works, though those that only care about short-sighted gains keep pretending otherwise because the goal is to bully supporters of the filibuster into just giving in.
The government’s role isn’t to constantly radically change the direction of the country. That’s exactly what you will have if you remove this essential check & a party w a bare majority in Congress and control of the WH can pass anything. Esp w how polarized things are now.
None of these people had a problem with the filibuster when Dems were using it to block Republican priorities in the last few years. But they assume they can get rid of it now, radically transform the country, & then never lose power. It’s a recipe for disaster & short sighted.

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29 May
I'm just going to do this once, then ignore the angry comments.

1- Many on the right have gone out of their way to wrongly downplay 1/6. An angry mob, fueled by 2 months of false conspiracies, tried to take over the Capitol and attacked Capitol Police.
Cont) There was no chance of them being successful, but the goal was clearly to alter the outcome of the electoral process.

2- Some on the left and in the media are now exaggerating the situation to score political points. As an example, it was not comparable to 9/11.
3) The initial reports on Officer Sickick being killed due to a blow to the head were wrong. He died of a stroke and claims he was murdered are incorrect. That does not mean that the events that day did not play a role in his death. Unknowable to what extent.
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29 May
Put this in the context of the filibuster debate: Dems forced through a really questionable oversized 2.2T relief bill because they could pass it without any Republican buy-in. Only now are we having a debate about the potential harms as inflation concerns are growing.
Biden admin ended up negotiating a few small details w Manchin and then just passed it without any actual attempt at compromise. Now imagine that extends to other significant topics. It's supposed to be hard to pass big legislation because it has real impacts. You need concensus.
As for the economic debate: You still get the feeling that a lot of academic economists are either ignoring or downplaying extent of inflation in the market (esp in manufacturing). Spending additional trillions we don't have now would be a big mistake.
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27 May
These people can admit to being wrong or that people they don't like were right so instead they dig deeper and have embarrassing double downs like this.

Tom Cotton asked the right questions. Tom attacked him for it & now is desperately spinning to justify being wrong.
Tom accused Cotton of being a "conspiracy theorist" for merely asking the same questions that now everyone agrees are legitimate.

Then when called out for it back then, he kept falsely accusing Cotton of suggesting it was a bioweapon.
can't*
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26 May
This is the Washington Post fact-checker posting an opinion piece full of absolute falsehoods and smears with a map meant to intentionally misinform readers.

Our media really is garbage.
Just to be clear, the person whose piece @GlennKesslerWP just promoted is a former PLO spokesperson.

Here is her defending Hamas while being grilled by Jake Tapper:
Seriously watch that video. It’s 6 minutes of her defending and obfuscating on behalf of a terrorist group. That’s whose voice Kessler and the NYT choose to promote right now.

Garbage.
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23 May
This guy is everything wrong with the conversation right now. A guy writes a thread about how American Jews are being attacked in the streets and can’t find solidarity and he responds with ignorant nonsense about the Middle East.

Morally depraved.
That guy is a professor at Georgetown. Look at how many others responding are saying similar things. Again, the clear message to Jewish victims is that the attacks on you don’t matter. And it’s being sent by many with large platforms.
That thread had 0 to do with the fighting in Israel/Gaza. It was about attacks here on Jews. Imagine the outrage if a Professor responded to a thread about an African American family concerned with a rise in racist attacks with whataboutism.

But here we get silence.
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22 May
I appreciate the sentiment, but it's something many of us saw coming. If you normalize bigotry, the violence becomes inevitable.
Step 1: Falsely accuse the world's only Jewish state of trying to kill innocent people.

Step 2: Suggest America is complicit in Step 1 as a result of Jews controlling gov't/media.

Step 3: Act shocked that violence breaks out targeting American Jews.
The justifications/smears in steps 1 and 2 change over time, but we always end up in step 3. Some accused Jews of drinking children's blood, killing Christ, betraying Germany, oppressing the poor etc.

The result is always the same. As is the silence from so many.
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