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30 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
The GOP plan was to sabotage herd immunity and blame Dems for it. For all the praise Rs received for changing tune on vaccination after a surge was already upon us, they haven't changed course: They sabotaged herd immunity, now they're blaming Dems for it. mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
This is obviously vile behavior, but I do think Dems ought to take a page from the general playbook Republicans use to advance their goals: Jump in with both feet, then figure out how to swim. Inverting that formula tends to lead to bad places. crooked.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=88…
Republicans are also trying to blame Democrats for the insurrection, but it won’t work, because Dems (finally!) decided to cut them loose and point fingers. Now imagine if Dems had forthrightly accused Republicans of sabotage—of killing people for partisan gain.
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30 Jul
They’re lying trash but they also think you’re stupid.
Repugnant, bottom-feeding trash.
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The FOP has gone full ostrich on 1/6, allowing their allied Republicans to escape political repercussions for supporting a mob assault on cops.

The Democratic response to this devil’s alliance boils down to: well, #actually! theintercept.com/2021/07/28/pol… Image
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All for a little light trolling of Republicans for defunding the police and presiding over a huge isometric violent crime spike across the country, but the people who represent the actual cops don’t seem to care who funded them.
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27 Jul
Cheney just echoed Schiff, “we must issue and enforce subpoenas promptly.” Suggests a process more like the impeachment inquiry than the rest of ‘19/20 oversight. And Schiff implied criminal contempt, with DOJ engaged, will be the will be the tool they use to enforce subpoenas.
This is good news, also just the standard the committee *should* be held to.
For all the “gift to Kevin McCarthy” reporters out there: don’t you think it’s interesting that Liz Cheney accused her own party of engaging in a coverup from the dais today? I thought coverups made for juicy stories and were bad news for the perpetrators?
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23 Jul
Democrats accept moderation as key to political success —> Demonstrating moderation is hard, but “bipartisanship” is empirical —> Dems equate moderation with bipartisanship —> Six months lost, hundreds of billions conceded, democracy protection crowded out mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
In the Senate, Republicans delayed, reneged, and ultimately filibustered debate on their own deal; and the upshot for Dems is no guarantee that GOP votes will materialize, and a new GOP threat to withhold all support on the debt limit. crooked.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=88…
House Dems conceded to a toothless bipartisan 1/6 commission, Republicans reneged, Dems created a 1/6 committee, appointed Cheney to it, but when Pelosi drew the line at pro-insurrection members, the media verdict was: both sides to blame! Six months of investigative time lost.
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17 Jul
People still underrate the “undermine Biden” intent here, but perhaps it will become clear if/when the same figures who said COVID was no big deal (but also a devious Chinese plot) last year start deriding ‘Biden’s failed Covid response’ or whatever.
And we’re live!
After all these years there’s still a tic in liberal punditry to be seen ascribing this kind of antisocial behavior to something other than malice, when it’s obviously just rolling coal applied to everything. Affective high-mindedness at the expense of clear thinking.
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16 Jul
Democrats seemingly *have* learned lessons from the past. But they aren’t applying those lessons consistently. And over the next few weeks, their willingness or unwillingness to apply them will shape the country for years and years to come. mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
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Their approach to democracy reform is more wanting, but the challenges are different, and a ton of the flack they take stems from treating them as basically the same. I’m not optimistic, but I see a method here. ImageImage
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