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25 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Best way to understand Tucker Carlson's abuse of General Mark Milley tonight is as confirmation of the accuracy of the stories Gen Milley told about rebuffing ex President Trump's order for a massacre in Portland, Oregon.
Here's the story Milley told. cnn.com/2021/06/24/pol…
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"Just shoot them," Trump said on multiple occasions inside the Oval Office ... When Milley and then-Attorney General William Barr would push back, Trump toned it down, but only slightly ....

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Trump wanted his own Amritsar massacre in Portland, Oregon. Milley wouldn't deliver. Then Milley told a reporter what Trump had said.

The reporter's story saw light today - and so tonight Trump's mouthpieces revile Milley. It's not complicated.

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25 Jun
Dinesh D'Souza got a 5 year prison sentence for organizing straw donations like those at the center of the below scheme
Step 1: concoct wild fantasies about your political opponents;

Step 2: devise crazy schemes in response to your own fantasies;

Step 3: commit major felonies to advance your crazy schemes;

Step 4: feel supremely sorry for yourself after you are indicted for your felonies.
That's the story of Project Veritas, but also of the January 6 attacks, also of those recurring incidents of Republicans arrested for voter fraud, and also so much else.
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6 Jun
So there it is
In one party, a crucial blocking group condones and excuses the 1/6 attack on Congress.

In the other party, a crucial blocking group insists that democracy-protection can only proceed with permission from the first party.

That's not a stable equilibrium, to put it mildly.
The British comedy duo Flanders & Swann used to do a bit explaining UK politics to US audiences: "We have the Labour party, which you in America would call a socialist party. Facing them are the Conservatives, which you in America would call ... a socialist party." 1/x
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4 Jun
The Tulsa pogrom of 1921 was only one of a wave of race riots that bloodied the cities of the United States in the aftermath of the First World War.

In the single year 1919, some 250 black Americans were killed in some 25 riots. detroitnews.com/story/news/nat… 1/x
Most of us have a rough idea of the origin of the 1919-21 race riots. The war had drawn African American families from southern fields to northern factories.

At war's end, these new arrivals faced resentment and violence from demobilized white soldiers. 2/x
All true! But there's more to the story - and that "more" is every bit as relevant to the politics of the 2020s as the race pogroms of 1919-21. 3/x
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27 May
It's worth thinking about how much lower long-term federal spending would be had Hillary Clinton won in 2016 instead of Trump. 1/x nytimes.com/2021/05/27/bus…
Had Clinton won in 2016, GOP would have surely kept House in 2018. Coronavirus would have been dealt with much more effectively in December 2019-January 2020 than under the inept Trump. Much, much less money would then have been needed for COVID relief. 2/x
Facing a Democratic president in 2017-2021, congressional GOP would have continued to demand lower spending, smaller deficits. 3/x
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22 May
I don't think everyone realizes that the phrase "Roaring Twenties" - referring to the decade of the 1920s - was not coined entirely as a compliment. 1/x
The phrase "Roaring Twenties" was derived from the "Roaring Forties," the very powerful westerly winds that blow between 40 and 50 degrees latitude in the southern hemisphere. The Roaring Forties could hugely speed sailing ships - but also swamp and sink them. 2/x
Whoever borrowed the adjective "roaring" for the decade of the 1920s didn't mean to say that the decade was serenely prosperous, but that it was wild, nerve-wracking, and dangerous, like the far south seas below Australia. 3/x
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19 May
This piece has sparked a lot of comment, some of it very angry. Almost all the comments are answered in the body of the piece, but let me underscore one point here ...
The origin of the coronavirus - in a Chinese lab, in an animal - remains unsettled. It's important to resolve the question as best we can. The Chinese authorities have not been transparent - and that's itself a warning that something important may be buried here. 2/x
If the lab-theory proves true, the political consequences will be serious. There's a whole other article to be written gaming out what those consequences would be, but ... serious. 3/x
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