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30 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
FFS, WAKE UP PEOPLE! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

@TheDemocrats Are Running Out of Time by • @RonBrownstein

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@TheDemocrats @RonBrownstein We won’t get a Mulligan. Once they turn us into Turkey, Hungry, China, or Russia, where the rules are written so only those in power are ever elected, there is literally no way back from that, except revolt. Armed revolt.

Letting it go that far is simply fucking insane.
@TheDemocrats @RonBrownstein We are here because what was always unthinkable has become the thinkable. Why the fuck would anyone not expect it to only get worse from here? If we don’t take away this treasonous GOP’s ability to rig future elections in dozens of states, this democracy is over. Period.
@TheDemocrats @RonBrownstein We need some of you famous motherfuckers to start setting your god damn hair on fire until everyone understands exactly what Republicans are doing. You won’t get a chance after they do it. The courts won’t save us and I doubt even armed rebellion could at this point.

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31 May
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The ones I often cited were:
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22 May
I’ve said for years that we’re post electoral politics and it’s bizarre that we’re just allowing a clearly seditionist movement to flourish while we dither.

The author, @PerryBaconJr says “We have 4 huge problems. I don’t see solutions to any of them.”

Well, I do.
@perrybaconjr Our system of government is now completely broken and it has no constitutional tools with which to fix itself. The founders left gaping holes for evil people to seize our process, and we are living under a mass delusion that a process can fix it. It cannot. But we must.
@perrybaconjr As I just said privately…
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21 May
No matter you try to game-out where our society is heading, nor what assumptions you use, it’s hard to find room for optimism. We’ve have turned our civilization over to oligarchs—and their mass media—that will always be able to influence us. We have very few weapons.
And yet we still remained locked into this mindset that only “peaceful change” will serve our interests. How can anyone assume that, when almost all pivotal events influencing the evolution of our modern world were all violent events. It’s curious and suspicious to me.
I mean think about it. Is not what Republicans are now doing the same kind of bullying of the people that dictators and ruling classes have always done? But they have become such a cult, with such enormous media reach, that they make anti-democracy sound like democracy.
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So, after getting a new phone, Black lady pulls up beside me in a shiny new F-150. She has gorgeous, natural eyelashes. I roll down window and say to my new friend Wanda, “Excuse me. I just love your eyes. May I ask a personal question?”

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Me: “Nailed it.”

Both: “LOLing.”

Me: “So what’s up with that look? I never begrudge someone’s fashion 2/5
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Wanda: “No one does, darling. Let me tell you, I own a salon, I’ll never get it. I told one customer to GTFO cause I couldn’t do nuthin’ for her. Some bitches wanna be ugly I guess.”

Me: “So, where did it come from, and what 3/5
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I’ve been speaking to a lot of 20 somethings all week. 13 different convos from the gym, to volunteers, to Office Depot. Cnclusion? You people who swear this generation is so sharp must be defensive as parents because these kids are woefully uninformed, uncurious,
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But go ahead and say it’s just my generation crapping on the one before. Except that I crap on my own a a lot. It allowed this to happen. But it has happened, and denying it is a really bad idea. We need to fix it, not pretend it never happened. It happened. We’re dumb.
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.@offerup Your user experience blows chunks and it’s your fault. You have 1000s of devices listed without THE MOST BASIC info such as “model number, size, etc.” If you just urged sellers to photograph the item name-plates, you’d quadruple your sales. #PreventableLameness Image
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