Thread by @DempseyTwo

If you think your drink is packed with sugar, wait until you see how sweet the government is. On January 6th, during the insurrection, our twice impeached inept leader tried to call Tommy Tuberville. He reached Mike Lee instead, who handed the phone over during evacuation.🧵👇🏻

Why did trump specifically want to talk to Tuberville? Had he tried others? Unlikely, or we may have heard about it by now. McCarthy reached out to trump to call it off at some point but that doesn’t matter. That only helped seal *his* fate. No, trump wanted Tuberville.

A cult of personality candidate with zero government experience, Tuberville was a football coach from Alabama. How did a football coach beat Doug Jones, a civil rights icon, in Alabama? Money. Lots of sweet, sweet money.

There is a PAC called WINRED. In recent filings for 2019-2020, they spent...sit down for this...$2,085,389,680.65 to elect republicans.

That’s 2 BILLION DOLLARS in one election cycle from one PAC.

One Florida family really wanted Tuberville to win in AL. So much so, this one family contributed $1,006,235 to an SEC rival coach. Heresy. This family happens to own Domino Sugar. Can your family afford to give $1m to people who will not represent you? promarket.org/2016/09/19/sug…

Personal contributions cap at $2,800. Maybe your family can afford to give that money to someone willing to represent your interests in your state. But to raise that same $1m contribution amount, 359 of your neighbors would also have to contribute $2,800. Unlikely.

So the Florida Sugar family contributed $1m to Tuberville in Alabama through a PAC that spent $2B in one year. Oh, and those contributions came to WINRED through a place in West Palm Beach FL. Isn’t that where the failed one termer who called Tuberville on Jan 6 was holed up?

There is no surprise as to why the Republicans are loathe to have an investigation into the Insurrection. They know what will be found. They know an investigation will be akin to a cavity search. Sugar is just the sweetener....because of course there is more.

You see, that sweet family in Florida didn’t just give to that one PAC. Nope, they also gave to another one. On the same day. For $580,000 to the trump victory PAC. Also through West Palm Beach FL. Is it beginning to crystallize or do we need more?

On the FEC website, they show 327 contributions made by this family! I stopped adding the total given in this one year period when I reached the $3,754,100 mark and saw a homemaker contributed $35,000. That’s not even a 3rd of the number of contribution entries and I’m tired.

@SenWhitehouse has been looking into dark money. This is dark money, folks. This Florida family sprinkled their sugar everywhere. They donated to the Alaska Republican Party. Recall the huge sugar cane fields in Alaska. They gave to the fertile untapped sugar reserves of NV GOP.

They even hedged their bets by donating to the DCCC and Nancy Pelosi! Of course, they didn’t get near as much...just enough for a taste and to provide themselves with a layer of both side’s gaslighting deniability later should anyone like @SenWhitehouse want to talk about it.

And it is dark money. Because like I said earlier, a personal contribution maxes out at $2,800. But a PAC can receive money from anyone, anywhere, at any time, for any amount. It would seem sugar *is* in everything.

Have you ever been to a diner? Are you at one now? Look at the sugar packet on the table. I know it’s there. What brand is it? And we haven’t even talked yet about the amount of sugar in your Coke, brother.

Why did trump call Tuberville on January 6th? Why him specifically?

By not having an investigation, McConnell is also protecting his donors, protecting their investment. He is working for them, not the people. Those donations are being used to create voter suppression laws. They’re funding the destruction of democracy.

A 56-35 majority bipartisan vote is not enough to even ask questions anymore. If the scoreboard at the end read Auburn 56 Alabama 35, would coach Tuberville be ok if the tide rolled out with the Sugar Bowl?

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