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2 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
You know how "progressives" keep insisting Sen Manchin won't agree to the Build Back Better plan unless the hold Bipartisan Infrastructure hostage?

Now "progressives" are trying to stick things into BBB that Manchin already rejected.

The tables are turned. I warned y'all.

1/4
No experienced Senator can afford to look like he's caving to blackmail from a bunch of snot-nosed inexperienced House members who've never accomplished anything.

Manchin might refuse to vote for BBB until BIL passes.

I warned y'all.

Listen, important lesson:

2/4
You don't demand ransom unless you're willing to shoot the hostages.

House "progressives" have already said they're willing to accept NOTHING unless they get everything. They don't understand how politics in America works.

We had a deal. They're trying to change it.

3/4
If this all falls apart, it's because "progressives" are not only inflexible, but didn't really want to enact anything anyway. They think they'll be okay if 1) nothing changes except 2) fascists create a thousand-year reich.

Privilege is a drug.

4/4

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1 Nov
Remember during the Newsom recall vote, we were told this was the first test of Democrats in the post-Trump era, and how the result of that vote will tell us all about how Democrats will do going forward?

Then Newsom won, resoundingly, and we didn't hear anything more.

1/10
We =didn't= hear, "Look at that! Democrats really are on a roll! The defeat of Trump wasn't a one-shot! Republicans are on the ropes! Trumpists might as well just give up!"

No. What we heard was 🦗🦗 crickets.

Now there's a governor's election in Virginia.

2/10
We're being told this is the first test of Democrats in the post-Trump era, and the result of this vote will reveal all there is to know about how Democrats will do in the 2022 midterms.

This sounds familiar. I'm not sure, but I think I've heard this line before.

3/10
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21 Oct
The Challenge:

Show me where in the Bible there's a passage forbidding an employer to pay for employee health insurance that includes contraceptives.

Or show me where it describes the stone tablet that says, "Thou shalt not bake wedding cakes for same-sex couples."

1/5
Failing that, tell me where the Bible says life begins at conception. (Hint: It doesn't. But it does say, three times, that the soul enters the body when a newborn takes his or her first breath.)

I could have missed the passages I'm asking about, but I doubt it.

2/5
Because if those passages existed, the so-called "religious right" would have been screaming them at us for decades.

These are not "religious" stances. No one believes these things because of "religious conviction." They don't exist anywhere in Christian scripture.

3/5
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21 Oct
Some good news: the number of daily new cases of COVID in the US has been dropping for the last seven weeks or so, with the 7-day average now at about 80,000 / day, down from about 160,000 / day at the end of August.

1/3
Daily deaths is also down from its peak in late September (it's a trailing indicator) from about 1900 / day to about 1500 / day.

2/3
The number of Active Cases (people currently infected) also seems to have peaked and should begin to fall.

Despite Republican efforts to make the pandemic worse, President Biden's program for fighting this deadly disease seems to be working.

3/3
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21 Oct
I did some tweets that should be in a single thread.

It's about the enormous size of what Democrats have achieved in a few short months.

First, remember the American Rescue Plan (ARP)?

A $1.9 trillion bill signed into law in March of 2021.

1/13
wisbank.com/2021/03/americ…
Then, in August, the Senate passed a $1.1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (BIL)--which will pass the House when, well, "leftist" Democrats decide to pass it. Some estimates put it at $1.4T, some at $1.9T, but we'll take the smaller number.

2/13
npr.org/2021/08/10/102…
The Senate is current assembling the "Manchinized" Build Back Better (BBB) Reconciliation bill, which will be between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion. Again, let's take the smaller number.

3/13
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9 Oct
We got an extension on the debt limit thanks to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

They threatened to vote for a filibuster carve-out for debt issues. Within hours, McConnell agreed to suspend the debt ceiling until December. And he arranged for 11 Republican votes to do it.

1/7
All you people who insist Manchin and Sinema will never, ever, no no not ever agree to tank the filibuster--they know when to threaten to do it. And they forced Traitor McTurtle himself to ignominiously cave.

Will it work again? I don't know. But I do know this.

2/7
Even Manchin and Sinema will do what needs to be done when the time comes.

Told'ja so.

The stakes are too high for any Democrat to let failure happen. Yes, it'll be slower and more painful full of more teenage angsty drama than any of us want. But it'll happen.

3/7
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7 Oct
We watched Tommy for the first time in decades last night. It's an even better film than I remembered. The film says important things about the nature of enlightenment and the commercialization of religion--o wonder none of the critics understood it.

1/8
The performances are stunning. Except Jack Nicholson--they should have gotten someone for that part who could sing that melody. He butchered it. Tina Turner is absolutely terrifying. Elton John is delightful. The Who are brilliant, particularly Roger Daltrey and Keith Moon.

2/8
We're all agreed Eric Clapton is an asshole, but he plays an ethics-free grifter so maybe it was typecasting. Oliver Reed is absolutely odious.

And then there's Ann-Margaret. I don't have to say more. Wow.

The music holds up well too. And for fans of the original opera...

3/8
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