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@magi_jay
Dec 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Per Politico, Mark Meadows sent an email on Jan 5th about having National Guard on standby to protect "pro-Trump" people. Per previous reporting by the WAPO, some Pentagon leaders feared Trump would misuse the National Guard. Others feared the Guard would be baited into violence
Per the WAPO report, Top Brass even changed the chain of command for ordering deployment of the National Guard, which, reportedly, may have led to a delay on January 6th. washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
Also per the WAPO, on 1/3, the Capitol Police Chief requested National Guard be stationed at the Capitol. He was rebuffed. Mayor Bowser was also worried about the Guard abandoning their posts on Jan 6 (being pro-Trump). Others, in military & in Congress, cited optics concerns
So what's going on here? Why did Meadows feel he had the Guard on standby to protect pro-Trumpers? Had he actually gotten assurances from the military? Or were military leaders, as they've intimated, hesitant about a preemptive guard presence?
The "keep general peace" excuse doesn't work in terms of Meadows' email. 1st of all, he specified Pro-Trump Protection. Also, Mayor Bowser was having different convos about the Guard: fearing they would turn on the gov't. Finally, the Cap Police requested the Guard & were denied
It's important to know what was going on w/ the military. Military involvement is what turns a soft-coup hard. If the military was at odds w/ each other, that's also a dangerous situation. If some military were at odds w/ the POTUS & others aligned w/ him, that's also dangerous
No matter what, if this Meadows email is real, that's a huge scandal. The President's CoS said the Guard was on standby to protect a specific group of "protesters" who were intent on overthrowing the results of an election, all while the CoS himself plotted to delay certification

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If we look at the electorate broadly--not the extremes--the clear picture is that voters do not want to hear about I/P anymore. Even if they tend to be vaguely anti-Israel, they don't want to hear about it. They find it confusing, depressing, & disconnected from their lives.
Americans have *never* liked hearing about foreign policy, for the record. Post-9/11 was a unique era and, I'll add, a time when what Americans heard about foreign policy was a bunch of bullshit w/ a subtext of jingoism.
The only people who want to hear about this issue--either from the pro- or anti-Israel side--are those who already belong strongly in those camps. Meanwhile, there will not be consensus in the Democratic party on the issue & the moral recriminations are strong.
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spaniards always take issue when i talk about antisemitism in spain. i respect different personal experiences, but you will never be able to convince me that antisemitism is not a problem in a country where my own fiancé's grandmother told me, "you look less like a jew today."
i'm not even jewish, for the record. i insisted that despite my last name--'jacobs'--my father's family, as far as i knew--were protestants. what did these "fact" get me? people made jokes about my 'dirty blood'. a jew disguised as a protestant! the worst!
granted this was two decades ago, so i'd be perfectly willing to say, 'hm maybe things have changed in spain'. and, in fact, they have changed! in the direction of more antisemitism eurojewcong.org/news/communiti…
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We've also never had a real convo about the fact that Biden really did try to go as progressive as he possibly could & not only did the center punish him, the left punished him too. B/c it was never enough. These people aren't just a curse on Dems. They're a curse on progress.
If you actually go out & talk to voters, you will never hear the end of this sentiment: "Biden campaigned as a moderate; went too far left as POTUS." I'm talking about people who voted for Harris. It's what they believe.
Here's the thing: Maybe people wouldn't have this perception if more progressives had actually stood by Biden. Cheered him on. "Yay for progress!" But these narcissistic chuckleheads didn't do that, did they? No they just complained "not good enough."
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This week I wrote an 11 page summary of violence my 6-yr-old stepson witnessed. I provided this to his biological mother. The bio parents each gave their accounts to the therapist. My stepson, based on my testimony, provided by bio mom, got enrolled into DV-specific therapy.
It is such a strange, horrific experience. To document one's own abuse so extensively for another woman. In this case, my partner's ex-wife. The rewards can feel so small. But therapy is not small. I told the truth. To other adults. A child will not live in that darkness alone.
That's how I got separated from all of my things. I had a whole escape plan. But I was so scared for my stepkids. I made a calculation. I asked their bio mom, "Will you use your legal power to put them in therapy?" She said, "Yes." Then I told her, "Ok, I'll give you everything."
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Extreme interpersonal psychological abuse is, I am coming to understand, something we don't at all have a good cultural handle on and also much more frequent than I would have previously assumed.
The more I talk about psychological abuse--and I am cautious in speaking about it--the more people contact me & I realize it's something that has affected many lives. I wish I had been better educated on the matter.
I remember I texted a friend this summer and I was like, "Is this real?" And he was like, "Yes, it's fucking real and you need to get the fuck out of there. Now." He was my calmest, most analytical friend. Which is why I texted him. I didn't think he would be worried. But he was. Image
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Just as a matter of shared truth/history: there was a period in the Summer of 2024 when Black Democrats were begging "activists," et al. to vote for Kamala Harris for the good of Black Americans & others who would be especially vulnerable under Trump. They were met w/ racism.
This is something that happened. Because it happened, we should acknowledge & document it, at the very least.
We can get into the details of the Israel vs. Hamas war, which, perhaps, could be more aptly named Hamas vs. Israel, given the belligerent party. Any reasonable person should see, however, that it was a long, complicated conflict over which the U.S. did not have that much control
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