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29 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I’m a very imperfect but Bible believing Christian who believes in the rule of law and values faith and facts. Not into weird conspiracy theories. Never even thought about invading the US Capitol.

I need a break from seeing crazy people in the news identifying as Christians.
It’s way too frequent that I hear somebody promoting some severely insane theory about something bad about the COVID vaccine, how they think Trump won the election or they tried to do something extreme and then I hear them make reference to their supposed Christian faith. Stop!!!
Just once, can we have a story about somebody who invaded the Capitol or who went into a tirade about vaccines during a PTA meeting get interviewed by reporters and say “I celebrate Festivus” or something?

Just a couple? Please!
I’m starting to feel the same way as a Christian as I feel as a black guy.

Hear a story about something embarrassing happening. One of my first thoughts: “Lord, please don’t let the one who did this belong to MY group! Now people are going to use this against all of us!”

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29 Sep
How much have COVID vaccines, which themselves have absolutely nothing to do with politics, become politicized? Here's how much.

Here are two tables that show the states in order of the percentage of their populations which are fully vaccinated along with how they voted in 2020.
On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 means there is no relationship and 100 means they are totally related, the relationship between the percentage of a state's population that is fully vaccinated against COVID and the number of points by which Trump won or lost the state is a 78.
For a few examples, Vermont is the state with the highest vaccination rate (and, by the way, happens to have a Republican Governor). And it's the contest where Trump did second worst (only in DC did he lose by a greater margin).
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27 Sep
Unforgivable!!
@SenateGOP

nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/…
You guys were in charge while the debt increased by almost EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS in EXACTLY FOUR YEARS! And now you want to stop us from PAYING THE INTEREST on that debt!!!

Fiscal Responsibility my rear end!
Since the Senate Republicans want to go this route, let’s do some math, shall we:

The @SenateGOP took control of the US Senate on 1/3/2015. On that day, the National Debt was:
$18.081 trillion.

Trump was inaugurated 1/20/2017. On that day, the debt was:
$19.947 trillion.
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27 Sep
I wanted to take an empirical look at various aspects of the state of the country at this point in Biden's term and compare it to both this same point in Trump's term and where the country was when Trump left and Biden took over.

Here's what I came up with. References included. Image
During Biden's term so far, America has had two straight quarters of greater than 6% GDP growth, the latest being at 6.6%. At this point four years ago, the GDP growth was 2.3%.

The US has seen 4.454 million jobs added to US payrolls since 02/2021. Four years ago it was 1.312M. Image
The most recent unemployment rate is higher (5.2%) than it was four years ago (4.4%). We did have a recession last year and this was not the situation in 2017.

More Americans think it's a good time to find a good job than was the case four years ago. Image
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25 Sep
How did Trump take over the Republican Party so completely?

I often criticize Trump’s negative attributes but I am about to compliment one skill that he possesses which all bullies have. He can smell weakness and fear from a mile away.
Remember back in 2015 when a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was a man of courage, that Ted Cruz was a Constitutional Conservative and that Lindsey Graham stood for actual things? We thought that. We we were wrong. Trump never saw thaf. He saw through them and he was right.
Trump attacks people. But he focuses his attacks on people he sees as weak. He doesn’t tend to continue attacking people who consistently stand up to him. Which is one reason he attacks Mike Lee and Lindsey Graham and not so much Mitt Romney.
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25 Sep
45 different men have served as US President. And 11 of them have been voted out of office. Losing is not in itself something to be ashamed of. It happens. About a quarter of the time.

But Donald Trump is the only POTUS in history to deny and try to overturn his loss.
#TrumpLost
Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush all spent their post-Presidential careers after being voted out as respected elder statesmen. They all used their experience to help those who came to office after them in one way or another.
In contrast, Donald Trump is going to spend the rest of his sad life pathologically denying the fact that he lost while trying to overturn both his loss and dismantling democracy itself.

Getting voted out of office is not the thing that makes a former US President a “loser.”
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25 Sep
States with the highest number of COVID deaths per Capita over the period from 9/17/21 through 9/24/21:

Alabama (pop 5.0 mil)
New deaths: 1,065
New deaths per 100k pop: 21

Florida (pop 21.5 mil)
New deaths: 2,769
New deaths per 100k pop: 13
9/17/21 - 9/24/21:
West Virginia (pop 1.8 mil)
New deaths: 210
New deaths per 100k pop: 12

South Carolina (pop 5.1 mil)
New deaths: 548
New deaths per 100k pop: 11

Georgia (pop 10.7 mil)
New deaths: 975
New deaths per 100k pop: 9
9/17/21 - 9/24/21:
Mississippi (pop 3.0 mil)
New deaths: 260
New deaths per 100k pop: 9

Alaska (pop 0.7 mil)
New deaths: 64
New deaths per 100k pop: 9

Texas (pop 29.1 mil)
New deaths: 2,443
New deaths per 100k: 8
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