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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
We need to go beyond declaring these journalists enemies and develop ways to prosecute them, punish them, and deprive them of employment
You're not actually a journalist here, you're a regime bootlicker and you deserve to be ruined
It's one thing to shout "they're the enemy of the people," we are there. What is the next step to actually taking away their power and punishing them as political enemies not objective "truth tellers"
Every year journos help the security state destroy the lives of innocent people with impunity. That has to change

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13 Nov
One of the reasons there are so few right-wing muckrakers is that most Republicans, whether for or against Trump, are cowards. Something I run into often is hearing about how so-and-so has receipts that show this or that Republican or conservative figure is betraying the cause 1/
But so-and-so doesn't wanna go on the record or even comment anonymously because it might come back to them. The potential consequences are never like, "I'm afraid the CIA might kill me." It's more like, "I don't want to be disinvited from galas at Mar-a-Lago or DC" 2/
So what ought to be a bomb that rightly blows the lid off a scandal becomes an impotent complaint, a frustrated muttering under one's breath that ends in a pathetic rationalization for not pulling the trigger and doing the right thing because the right thing is scary 3/
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8 Nov
The Republican Party comes out of the closet at last as literally just the Democratic Party but with tax cuts
We are in a cringe arms race
Trump is pushing Republicans to copy the Democratic Party's gender/sexuality identity politics. The "pride coalition" announcement occurred after Trump’s America First Policy Institute gala on Friday.

In his remarks, Rick Grenell maligned Pat Buchanan. Trump’s GOP is awful.
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6 Nov
This isn't being pessimistic, this is realism and it is needed now so that the GOP doesn't so easily do (again) what it has done for the last 40 years: ride populist waves to electoral victories and even majorities only to squander them in the end
It's already happening whether people realize it and the only way to even slow it down is to accept that you can't beat the opposition without first beating your own party into submission. "Squandering" might be charitable, though, because this is a feature of the GOP.
What happened with the Tea Party has been happening with the "Trump Party": a grassroots revolt gets co-opted, diluted, riden to electoral victory, and then the populist horse gets sent to the glue factory
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6 Nov
If you thought Trump had learned from his first term, you're going to be disappointed

Trump's policy flagship for 2024 is not only run by the worst people from his admin but it is explicitly aligning itself with Heritage, AEI, and Cato

So much for draining the swamp 1/
The "senior Trump World source" is likely Brooke Rollins, who runs the America First Policy Institute, which is advised by Javanka. She was one of the advisors who softened Trump’s immigration policies and pushed jailbreak bills cooked up by the Kochs 2/
Trump recently headlined a gala for AFPI. It's not like he doesn't know. He either knows and approves or knows and doesn't care that his planned second term will be organized, again, by the people who didn't care about election integrity, law and order, or the working class 3/
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4 Nov
The national GOP's message to Virginians and Americans elsewhere is that the party plans to co-opt grassroots anger at things like CRT that directly affect families to push the same old Big Business policies, the kind of stuff Jeff Bezos and woke corporations that push CRT love
Nothing wrong with lightening the tax burden on the working/middle class but that's not what the GOP does. You get a little tax cut while your enemies get much more and your jobs get go overseas and the party floods the country with mass "legal" immigration
It's pathetic because corporations back the Democratic Party more than the GOP now, so this is basically GOP battered wife syndrome, begging corporations to notice them (at their constituents' expense and with their capital)
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3 Nov
White backlash is a completely real and completely legitimate political-electoral force and people shouldn't pretend otherwise
Don't see how this is controversial: if you are going to attack, shame, and slander white people as a group, then you shouldn't be surprised when they vote in self defense as a group
I also don't see how acknowledging the legitimate concerns of CRT's targets (white people) conflicts fundamentally with class stuff. Both of these issues are real and don't have to necessarily conflict, i.e., ruling class gins up hated of whites for its own ends
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