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31 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Mainstream media does not acknowledge *objective fact* Republicans intentionally discouraged their supporters to not take the vaccine (so they could blame President Biden when their supporters got sick & died) because thing they fear most is Republicans calling them “biased” …
Time mainstream media feels more heat for their hardcore pro-Republican bias of false equivalency, refusing to acknowledge the horrible things Republicans have done to US in order to pretend our institutions our sound, because their silence is literally killing US …
In 2009 Republicans got away w/ intentionally hurting our economic recovery under Obama (mainstream media silent), so they hurt health of their own constituents to attack ObamaCare, now they go after their constituents’ health & our economy: they assume MSM will stay complicit.
If Republicans continue to get away with harming US (their constituents most of all) for short-term political gain, they will. Mainstream media is supposed to provide accountability, and they need to be pressured into doing that job for once.

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Thought experiment: imagine Trump loses the 2024 election and a bunch of Trump states leave the Union to join him under the Trump flag, and this time we don't stop them. We know they will beg to come back shortly: Trumpland is currently subsidized by Democratic states ...
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2020 Polling Error Report by @AAPOR super unsatisfying: authors are able to detail several likely causes of polling error that did not happen, but they admit there are several possible (maybe in concert) causes of polling error that may or may not persist aapor.org/Education-Reso…
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If you pass necessary aid to people still dying & otherwise suffering the fallout from COVID-19 Republicans cannot really undo later it because straight-out murdering people the bill saved it is not something government is equipped to do, even if a Republican majority demands it.
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