1/ It wasn't a conspiracy theory, it was a #CrimeAgainstHumanity...and it came from Florida. 🧵

The GOP started lying about COVID when Trump called it a "hoax". THAT lie has cost hundreds of thousands of American🇺🇲 lives. It also made them and their friends billions $$.

#Facts
2/ Trump said it was a hoax on Feb 27, 2020. Community transmission was being confirmed in multiple cities in the US. Around the world, case numbers were increasing exponentially everywhere one was found, and economic disruptions began roiling global financial markets.

#Covid19
3/ Four Republican Senators on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee who knew how bad the virus was, sold their stocks ahead of a market collapse which saw equity valuations plunge up to 40% worldwide in a matter of weeks.

#HoldThemAccountable
fortune.com/2020/03/20/sen…
4/ Meanwhile, in Florida, spring break raged. Ron DeSantis encouraged it for 3 wks before declaring Spring Break "over", but he still refused to close businesses and beaches. #COVID19 spread MUCH more quickly around the country because of this dereliction.
businessinsider.com/coronavirus-fl…
5/ Spring's first deadly wave of the #pandemic began to subside in April as nationwide lockdowns and health protocols took effect, the #Florida Chamber of Commerce convinced @RonDeSantis to prematurely reopen everything against the guidance of the @CDC.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_C…
6/ While @GovRonDeSantis ignored the @CDC, his Department of Health fired data scientist #RebekahJones for refusing to manipulate #covid data on the state's case tracking dashboard. They wanted her to make it look like it wasn't as bad as it was.

usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
7/ The #coronavirus stimulus packages had passed #Congress, and an $8 trillion #bailout went to #WallStreet, hospitals, insurance co's, local govt's, and corps. Workers and individuals got practically nothing. They STILL won't expand #Medicaid even today.

orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne…
8/ In June, #2020, FL had the quickest resurgence of #Covid19 of any state. We are a tourist destination, this helped spread the virus across the #USA to places that would've otherwise been spared. Predictably, the racist #GOP blamed #GeorgeFloyd protests.
vox.com/future-perfect…
9/ Also in June 2020, #BetsyDeVos announced that she would be using the #pandemic and her authority as Secretary of Education to accelerate the #Privatization of public education.

#Greed
#GOPDeathCult
nea.org/advocating-for…
10/ Most shocking of all was a #July4th email from a #Trump appointee in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services @HHSGov to #MikeCaputo saying we "should fully reopen" "we want people to get infected".

#CrimeAgainstHumanity
#GOPDeathCult
politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
11/ This deliberate disregard for human life by our President and Governor inspired "#lockdown protests" across the country, where angry Trump supporters demanded that everything reopen, calling the pandemic a #hoax, and attacking health care workers and government buildings.
12/ As if that wasn't enough they threw #SuperSpreader beach parties and #BoatParades without any regard to #Covid19 or other people's lives. Calling it #DepravedIndifference is accurate.

#CrimeAgainstHumanity
#MAGAisDumb
/13 @DWUhlfelderLaw who had fought in court for open beaches and #CustomaryUse, went on national news dressed as the #GrimReaper, and sued to close the beaches to save lives. FL courts tried to punish him for it, calling the effort political.

Read:
sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/f…
14/ In winter of 2020/2021, the deadliest wave of #COVID struck and the coup failed. Vaccines were now becoming available. Misinformation about #vaccines and the effectiveness of COVID masks began spreading at an alarming rate.

Article from Jan 5th 2021:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
15/ Case #'s dropped significantly as people became #vaxxed and wore masks. @RonDeSantis did a victory lap selling beer coozies and t-shirts on his campaign website mocking Dr. #Fauci and masks. This, AFTER learning of a new much more contagious #coronavirus #deltavariant.
16/ With school approaching, #coronavirus numbers increasing, #Republican governors required students and #teachers return to school in person AND the #GOP governors began to prohibit local #schoolboards from issuing #maskmandates.

#HoldThemAccountable
wpbf.com/article/florid…
17/ Many #Florida school boards defied the governor's orders, and issued mask mandates anyways after it became apparent that, as predicted, #COVID cases spread rapidly through classrooms and schools, literally killing people.

#GOPDeathCult
#COVID19
politico.com/states/florida…
18/ In #Florida, the Aug/Sept. surge in #COVID was the deadliest yet. It overflowed hospitals. #MomsForLiberty and #insurrectionists spread misinformation, fought and protested mask mandates. This resulted in widespread threats and acts of violence.

19/ While all of this Anti-mask, anti-vaccine hysteria spread along with COVID, Ron DeSantis was promoting treatment over prevention, downplaying the effectiveness of vaccines and masks, but opening up many subsidized, expensive treatment centers.

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…
22/ So what's next? In Brazil, their government has referred their president's nearly identical and abhorrent approach to the virus to the International Criminal Court, calling it a "Crime Against Humanity"...which is accurate.

npr.org/2021/10/27/104…
23/ Perhaps the most telling #Irony in all of this, is Trump's supporters started calling #COVID a #ChineseBioweapon back in 2020, but when asked why they are helping to spread it, they come up stupid.

#HoldThemAccountable
politico.com/news/2020/06/0…
24/ ...Or maybe it was when they started taking a sheep de-wormer called #Ivermectin to treat #COVID-19 and adding poison overdoses to the strain of already overflowing hospitals while calling other people "sheep".

#Boebert
/25 The end result speaks for itself. In the U.S., 800,000 people are now dead which is the highest per capita number(~2400 per million) of any modern nation. Our per-capita death toll is literally 60 times more than Australia or South Korea(~80).

statista.com/statistics/110…
26/ In fact, just today, a congressional report confirms that the Trump admin did deliberately make #Covid19 worse.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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19 Dec
1/ What is Moms For Liberty? 🧵

This new REPUBLICAN group started in #Brevard County, FL. They spread across the country(like COVID), calling themselves "non-partisan" and "grassroots", they are neither. Last week, they formed 4 large PACs. Let's dive in!

#OperationAvalanche ImageImage
2/ FACT: The Republican agenda IS to privatize public education, and put that tax money into their own private piggy banks. They have already taken several steps down that road, and that's not an exaggeration.

newrepublic.com/article/163817…
3/ Matt Gaetz sponsored a bill in 2017 that would have completely elimated the U.S. Department of Education @usedgov

#Wokened
#OperationOrangeJuice
thepulsepensacola.com/2017/02/gaetz-…
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19 Dec
1/🧵Tiffany Justice may not be as well connected with these political circles, but she is right down the road, and had her share of scandals. She is the current spokesperson for the Moms, probably bc she doesn't have the same kind of hiding financial connections as the other 2. ImageImage
2/ Her tenure as a school board member was marked by several scandals, accusations of an affair with the superintendent, and abuse of her office. She even tried to have someone criminally prosecuted for gossip.

veronews.com/2020/06/04/jus…
3/ Of course her political views were generally racist, papered over with pretend Christianity like the KKK does, and she again overstepped her bounds in trying to control a committee that was set up for parents to help close racial achievement gaps.

veronews.com/2018/03/08/ind…
Read 5 tweets
19 Dec
1🧵/ Bridget Ziegler is a current school board member in Sarasota County, FL. She has stepped aside in her role with the Moms probably b/c of the conflict of interest with her job as a school board member, running for re-election.

vice.com/en/article/k78… ImageImageImage
2/ Also in Sarasota is traitor Mike Flynn, racist State Sen. Joe Gruters, Chair of The RPOF, the #CyberNinjas who did the #Fraudit in AZ, and the founder of the MAGA Patriot Party.

3/ Some excellent research on Joe Gruters Chair of #RPOF, Christian Ziegler(Bridget's husband, and Vice Chair of RPOF), and the scummy world of political financing they all dwell in, by @gal_suburban 🍻

Read 6 tweets
19 Dec
1/🧵 Tina Descovich is the ringleader of the "#MomsForLiberty" circus. She is a former school board member in #Brevard, and she was defeated by #JenniferJenkins for her seat in 2020. The same Jennifer Jenkins who State Rep Randy Fine is being investigated for threatening. ImageImageImageImage
2/ The "small office" she claims to work out of is also home to many other interesting things, including an org she had with the other founding "mom", Bridget Ziegler, over 2 years ago. ImageImageImageImage
3/ Before she was a school board member, her website says she was a marketing/PR/HR professional who has close ties to the defense industry. With Randy Fine, we can add casinos to that list.

Playing russian roulette with kids' lives during #Covid makes a little more sense now. ImageImage
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18 Dec
News you can use. Scroll down under this tweet to see today's collection of things I found interesting. Try not to laugh...

December 18, 2020.
Derelict?

He incited the mob with lies, he invited the mob to D.C., he encouraged the mob and they became angry, he directed the mob and they marched to the capitol. And he had lots of help. That's not dereliction, thats insurrection.

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