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31 Jul, 6 tweets, 1 min read
DEMS: Police brutality is the problem
GOP: The protests are the problem

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DEMS: The pandemic is the problem
GOP: The lockdowns are the problem

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The GOP is more upset about the way problems are addressed (which they find inconvenient) than with their root causes.
DEMS: Donald Trump, a compulsive liar who doesn’t understand how anything works, is the problem

GOP: The media is the problem for saying such mean things about Donald Trump
DEMS: It’s almost impossible to explain anything to Trump supporters; they reject everything we tell them, up to and including the 2020 election results, because they’ve been brainwashed by Fox News

GOP: The Democrats are the problem because they are so biased and condescending
DEMS: The problem is that America has a history of institutional racism which still affects our society today

GOP: The problem is that people are attempting to explain that to children
DEMS: The problem is that the cost of health care is skyrocketing, gun violence is rampant, and climate change continues unabated

GOP: The problem is government attempting to do anything about any of those things
DEMS: The problem is that racist & sexist ideas are still considered part of the American mainstream, and that will continue until marginalized communities and their allies speak out against them

GOP: The problem is Cancel Culture

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30 Jul
DEMOCRATS: The two worst things to happen in the last year were the Coronavirus outbreak and the January 6th insurrection

REPUBLICANS: Our current mission is to furiously fight all of your efforts to ensure that they don’t happen again
GOP: Clearly, the worst thing to happen in the last year is the inescapable trend of woke public school teachers screaming at white children & calling them racists

DEMS: Are you completely sure that is happening

GOP: Let’s yell about it at school board meetings until we’re sure
GOP: We are also deeply concerned with the Democrats’ mission to force masks & vaccines on us, which is part a sinister plot for the Deep State to control us

DEMS: Virtually all new COVID patients are unvaccinated

GOP: I have no choice but to conclude the hospitals are lying
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22 Jul
The problem here is that it’s impossible to talk with a Trump supporter for longer than 30 seconds without becoming completely exasperated dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
I know this is the Daily Mail, and therefore we have no idea what the View is planning to do. But our two political parties are now defined as Sanity vs. A Firehose of Horseshit, and one wonders what would be gained by balancing the four voices of sanity with a new firehose.
There was much about Meghan McCain I found infuriating & exhausting (search “dreamweasel meghan” for receipts), but her saving grace was that she saw Donald Trump for who he was.

If you’re pro-Trump, your perspective is simply not grounded in any kind of reality.
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22 Jul
The only people who truly believe the January 6 investigation needs to be “bipartisan” are the ones who wanted the January 6 insurrection to succeed washingtonpost.com/politics/pelos…
That’s the real ideological divide.

It isn’t “Was Trump responsible for the deadly attack?” We all know that is true.

It’s “Was Trump justified in his interference with the certification of Biden as President?”

Like it or not, the GOP overwhlemingly believes that he was.
I share with you my thoughts at the time, which I concede have not aged as well as I’d hoped.

I had momentarily forgotten that there is no “mainstream” in American politics anymore. We have committed liberals, committed conservatives, and people who simply DGAF about politics.
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20 Jul
1. The Cult of Trump is still very much alive and well
2. Your hypothetical scenario would be strengthened with the inclusion of an actual candidate who could beat Trump in an upcoming Republican primary
3. And no, the “shrug” emoji is not a valid substitute
I’m not trying to piss you off, but I am trying to illustrate how thoroughly the Republican mainstream is still very much in thrall of Trump. They don’t see things the same way we do.
Anyone who still supports Trump in 2021 believes one of the following things:

1. Trump won the election
2. 1/6 was not a violent insurrection
3. The violence on 1/6 was Antifa’s fault
4. Even if none of the first three are true, they’re okay with it because Democrats are worse
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19 Jul
R: YOU PUSSIFIED LEFTISTS CAN’T MAKE ME WEAR A MASK! THE PLANDEMIC IS A HOAX! IT’S NO WORSE THAN THE FLU! I WILL NOT BE BRAINWASHED BY THE DEEP STATE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! LIARS! LIARS! LIARS!

CDC: How do we get these people to take the vaccine

NRO: Maybe you should be nicer to them
ERICKSON: First Dr. Fauci said we didn’t need to wear masks, & LATER he said we did! How are people who refuse to listen to the CDC in any sort of good faith supposed to know who to trust?

D: That was over a year ago

E: AND IF GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL, THEN WHY IS IT COLD OUTSIDE
R: Clearly it is in your best interest to tailor your pro-vaccine message to reach as many of us as possible, whereas it is in our best interest to stick our fingers in our figurative ears and scream “FAKE NEWS!”

D: How is that in your best interest

R: I meant politically
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17 Jul
I’m wondering which of your unspoken premises is less grounded in reality:

1. That Trump would do the right thing and urge his followers to become vaccinated

2. That there is a pro-vaccine message that would resonate with the “THE GOVERNMENT CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!” crowd
Listen to the backlash against Dr. Fauci if you seriously think there’s a better technique for Telling Trumpers What They Don’t Want to Hear
As a counterexample, remember that Trump was an early advocate of hyroxycholoquine, a malaria medication that was only experimental in the treatment of the Coronavirus. The CDC never endorsed it (and warned of risks), but MAGAts were bullish because it was fully backed by Trump.
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