This politico comparison of SCOTUS justices’ stated position on Roe at their confirmation hearings and their current position exemplifies exactly why the court has no legitimacy. Perjury is a felony. All 6 @GOP-appointed justices lied to get confirmed. politico.com/news/2021/12/0…
Chief Justice John Roberts: Nominated by George W. Bush and Confirmed in 2005
Justice Clarence Thomas: Nominated by George H.W. Bush and confirmed in 1991
Justice Samuel Alito: Nominated by George W. Bush and confirmed in 2006
Justice Neil Gorsuch: Nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed in 2017
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: Nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed in 2018
Justice Amy Coney Barrett: Nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed in 2020
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Truman rebuilt the interior after it literally fell apart
FDR expanded the West Wing to improve workspace
Kennedy restored historic art & furniture
Obama made the building more energy efficient
None of them BULLDOZED AN ENTIRE WING to build themselves a $200 million ballroom
Trump isn’t just knocking down walls — he’s defacing our history. The White House IS NOT HIS to redecorate/destroy. It belongs to the American people. Every inch of it represents democracy, continuity, and the sacrifices made to preserve it.
Bulldozing part of the East Wing to build a personal $200 million ballroom is a grotesque display of ego and ownership. Presidents are temporary stewards of that building — not kings building a palace to immortalize and glorify themselves.
1. House Republicans pushed through an extremist reconciliation bill that has poison-pill provisions — including one that lets ACA subsidies expire at year’s end, yanking affordable health coverage from ~15 million people and hiking costs for millions more
2. The bill also included deep cuts to programs that tens of millions of Americans rely on to LIVE like SNAP, Medicaid, and renewable-energy investments — all designed to appease the MAGA hardliners and Freedom Caucus (even though MAGA actually gets screwed the *most* by these).
MAGA is incensed that their false prophet didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, actually. Trump even being *floated* for the prize is not a compliment. It’s a SICK MORAL JOKE — political malpractice dressed up as a medal that would have ended the award’s prestige (THREAD) 🧵
The man they want to celebrate spent YEARS cozying up to autocrats, praising strongmen, and kowtowing to dictators who crush dissent. That is the LITERAL OPPOSITE of peacebuilding.
He weaponized lies to justify cruelty at home — FAMILY SEPARATION, CHILDREN IN CAGES, PEOPLE SHIPPED OFF TO FOREIGN TORTURE PRISONS WITHOUT EVEN A TRIAL, the list goes on — and then pretended that cruelty was “strength.” That’s not leadership. It’s CRUELTY-AS-BRAND.
Why is @JDVance always whining that people don’t “show enough gratitude”? Let’s break down the psychology behind his fixation — because it says way more about him than anyone else. (Thread)🧵
First off, “gratitude” is Vance-speak for subservience. For submission. He doesn’t mean “you need to show more thanks.” He means: you need to sit down, shut up, and be deferential to people like ME. It’s about HIERARCHY, not humility.
Vance constantly projects his own insecurities. He clawed his way from poverty to Yale to MAGA darling by performing gratitude for elites like Peter Thiel. Now he expects everyone else to play the same role — or be condemned as “ungrateful.”