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19 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
You believe that Bill Gates, George Soros etc. are about to impose a "great reset," abolish the US dollar, impose globalist tyranny.

How will guns help you? You're planning a one-person shoot-out against an elite hat up-ended the US govt?

How is THAT going to go?
Maybe they think it'll be like those ninja movies, where the 50 martial-arts masters politely line up so the movie protagonist can fight them one by one. "Civilization may have collapsed, but surely good sportsmanship will still count for something?"
You know what will really hold the Visigoths at bay? Paying your fair share of taxes to the world's strongest state to field the planet's most effective national security apparatus. Then arrest the Visigoths.
... that up-ended ...

I posted this tweet like 3x and mistyped something every single time.

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20 Sep
August 2021 poll of vaccine hesitancy among parents of school-age children, reported by @EducationNext 1/x educationnext.org/parent-poll-re…
@EducationNext A majority of parents say they will definitely or probably vaccinate their school-age child when possible. 2/x
@EducationNext Democratic-identified parents are more enthusiastic about vaccination than Republican parents. A majority of Republican parents say they definitely or probably won't vaccinate. 3/x
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17 Sep
No, no, no, no, no (Thread coming)
First NO:

"Vaccinate everybody" is a clear and enforceable rule.

"Vaccinate some but not others depending on the results of a blood test as interpreted in light of medical science's ever-changing best guess as to their individual personal risk" is a muddle and a chaos.
Second NO:

"Vaccinate some, exempt others according to their bloodwork" is actually a way *more* invasive and privacy-threatening rule "vaccinate everybody."

"Show your bloodwork" is "show your papers" on steroids.
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15 Sep
a lot of the reaction to the Milley story is a reaction to over-dramatization of the Milley story
As I read the reporting, it's not at all clear that Trump was uninformed about what was happening - or any more uninformed than usual. "He wasn't listening" is not the same as "he wasn't informed."
Anyway, time to relink to this 2018 article warning against over-reliance on Woodward reporting theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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14 Sep
You don't need a new book to tell you that Trump tried to overturn an election and the Constitution by violence.

Or that House/Senate Republicans refused to impeach/convict him for his violent attempt.

Or that Trump is the front-runner for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination.
At this point, the news is not what Trump did in January 2021.

The news is the ever-growing number of Republicans willing to excuse, justify, exonerate, and repeat what Trump did in January 2021.
I know it's hard to keep being shocked.

But it did really actually happen that as a sitting president Donald Trump tried to overturn the US Constitution by violence.

And that a big chunk of the Congress and the country shrugged off the attempt as no big deal.
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12 Sep
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? At United Airlines, 50% of unvaccinated employees have already complied in the first 3 weeks of the 5 week grace period, according to CEO Jack Kirby. npr.org/2021/09/10/103…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? At Delta Airlines, the vaccination rate has risen to 78% in just two weeks since a mandate was imposed, with no resignations, says the company's chief health officer. seattletimes.com/business/delta…
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In her excellent biography of Nancy Reagan, @ktumulty debunks the claim that Nancy's conservative Republican stepfather Loyal Davis swayed Ronald Reagan's political views. Instead, says @ktumulty, there's only one documented instance of Davis influencing Reagan ... 1/x
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@ktumulty Davis disapproved of the New Deal, but he put on record his distaste for organized religion of any kind and his lack of faith in Christianity in particular. Politics then was different from politics now. 3/3
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