Bernie & Manchin have only cast opposing votes 13% of the time so far this term. But it was closer to 50% over the last few years.

Let's go back & look at some times where Bernie went rogue & voted NO when the Democratic Party voted YES!

(These are just a handful of examples) Image
Bernie was one of 2 Senators (along with Rand Paul) to vote against Iranian & Russian sanctions in 2017. Image
Bernie was one of 3 Senators to vote for maintaining the US Embassy in Jerusalem this year.

(1 of the other 2 was Elizabeth Warren) Image
Bernie voted against a voluntary background check review program for people who work with children or people with disabilities.

Manchin supported it. Image
In 2018 Bernie voted against flying flags at half-staff for first responders killed in the line of duty.

Manchin supported it. Image
Bernie twice voted against amending a bill that would allow the White Mountain Apache Tribe to use settlement funds to build and improve their rural water system. ImageImage
Last week, Bernie was one of 4 Senators to vote against oversight and supply chain transparency. Image
Bernie was one of 5 senators to vote against the Dept of the Interior providing containers to protect the caskets of veterans buried in National Parks. Image
Bernie voted against Biden's pick for Secretary of Agriculture, Democrat Thomas Vilsick. The other 7 no's were Republicans. Image
If you want to play along at home, here's where you can compare the voting records of any two Senators!

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23 Mar
Sunrise Movement has been getting a lot of attention in the last few days.

Just a reminder that in addition to everything else problematic about their organization, they have structured themselves to be the exact types of money they proclaim to hate:

πŸ’° dark money
πŸ’° SuperPAC
Sunrise's organizational status is a 501c4 nonprofit, which is what the term "dark money" almost always refers to in politics!

501c4 nonprofits...
β–ͺ️can take unlimited money from individuals, LLC's, etc
β–ͺ️can have political goals
β–ͺ️do not have to report their donors
And they also have a SuperPAC!

(They're technically a Carey/Hybrid Committee which just means they have both a PAC & a SuperPAC)

SuperPACs...
β–ͺ️can take unlimited money from individuals, LLC's, etc

But SuperPACs are not dark $ because they publicly report all donors to the FEC
Read 4 tweets
19 Mar
Here's a new thing the Justice Dems have started doing recently:

They've been creating & promoting these highly specific websites for their unreasonable demands of the week.

The domain names are in the same Demand+Thing+.org/com format.
And the website is just a petition.
I've found 8 so far, but there are probably more πŸ‘‡

β–ͺ️Abolish ICE
abolishicenow .org

β–ͺ️Cancel Student Debt
cancelstudentdebtnow .com

β–ͺ️Demand Market Equality
gamestopped .org

β–ͺ️Pass $2000 Checks
survivalchecks .com
β–ͺ️Hold Them Accountable
gopcoup .com
(This feels like the worst one to me 🀨)

β–ͺ️Expand the Supreme Court
expandscotus .org

β–ͺ️Demand a $15 Minimum Wage
demand15 .com

β–ͺ️Tell Congress: Medicare For All Now
medicare4allnow .org
Read 5 tweets
12 Dec 20
I started fact checking a few things in Cori Bush's past and ended up writing 2 max-length threads. Enjoy!

πŸ‘‡Cori Bush Deep Dive Part 1πŸ‘‡

(p1 is her background. p2 is campaign related)
Cori Bush's background eerily parallels AOC's.

And neither of them stand up to scrutiny.

I probably could have learned more about Cori as a person from "Knock Down The House" but you'd have to pry my eyes open like A Clockwork Orange to get me to watch it. ImageImageImage
We already know AOC "A girl from the Bronx" actually moved to Westchester County at age 5 & her family owned their house in Yorktown Heights...as well as 1.5 condos in the Bronx, one of which was her campaign address.

Nothing wrong w/that life but SHE told us a different story. ImageImage
Read 30 tweets
8 Dec 20
When I wrote this thread on Nov 9, AOC had only filed campaign data through Oct 14. I've been checking back every day to see when the rest of her data became available

Today's the day! πŸ˜ƒ

This thread might not be as EXCITING as the last one but I want to look at her final #'s
UPDATE: When I wrote that thread on 11/9, the AP & NYBoE cited NY-14 as "100% reporting"

And nothing changed until 12/4!

The updatedπŸ‘‡vote totals for NY-14

πŸ‘‰AOC: 71.6%, 152k
πŸ‘‰Cummings: 27.4%, 58k

(I can assume that's going to be used to discredit EVERYTHING I've ever said)
The vote counts are a little higher but nothing else changed. It doesn't affect her finances.

AOC still got a smaller share of the vote than she did in 2018. But there WAS a higher voter turnout.

AOC Vote Share
2018: 78.2%
2020: 71.6%

AOC Vote Count
2018: 110,318
2020: 152,661
Read 22 tweets
7 Dec 20
Ooh AOC filed another month of data with the FEC!

Why am I so excited about that
She spent almost $17M
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Read 4 tweets
6 Dec 20
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Let's see how much this stuff costs...
Jesus christ, this is only page 1 of 4 Image
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