This is all true. None of this will change. If you’re not preparing for local “trench warfare” in your local elections next year, your not part of the only solution we “little people” can put forward. 👇
“Republicans are poised for an investigative tsunami designed to paralyze the Biden administration and dominate news cycle after news cycle with hearings and outrageous, salacious accusations.” 👇
“Republicans learned during the Obama years that the media will be their best partner in this effort as long as they put on a show day-in-and-day-out.” 👇
“For four consecutive election cycles, Republicans were able to hold on to their congressional majority by producing zero legislative accomplishments by still controlling the narrative with their oversight onslaught.” 👇
“Absolutely nobody cares what polls say about how popular policy items are. Absolutely nobody is moved by think-tank talking points and good intentions.”
I agree. I would love to see this happen. Spoiler: It’s not happening. It would be an historic shift of tectonic proportions if it did.
“Democrats need to start operating from a position of strength and they need to start putting Republicans on the defensive.” 👇
Further to that point, you don’t start playing ML ball without years & years of practice, honing those skills. Democrats haven’t even started studying the rules of the game, and aren’t going to be playing in the majors by next November. 👇
“Republicans are waiting in the wings to assume the reins of power and the moment they do, they intend to make life a living hell for President Joe Biden and Democrats. The GOP knows exactly what to do with power. Democrats at times, seem almost embarrassed to use it.”
The other day some ignoramus posted a comment that the thing truckers want most is de-regulation. Let me tell y’all a bit about #TruckerLife And no, de-regulation isn’t one of their concerns. 👇
My son drives a big rig from MI out to the PNW every two weeks. Heads out every other Friday. With luck he gets all deliveries made, gets his return load in a timely fashion, heads home, and has, on average, TWO DAYS to do laundry, shop, prepare meals and then head back out. 👇
He left MI on 12/10. So far, high winds in the plains that closed freeways, and snowstorms in the mountain passes have had him motionless for FOUR DAYS. Truckers DON’T GET PAID WHEN THEY’RE NOT MOVING! 👇
I mentioned the press’s incentives. Those incentives include abject fear of RW criticism:
“The point here is that it is nothing new for editors at the New York Times and elsewhere to be uneasy about calling too much attention to reality — when that reality has a liberal bias.”
“that friction is particularly at issue today, at the Times and elsewhere, as political reporters and their editors struggle to accurately and sufficiently convey facts about the Republican assault on voting rights and democracy.”
“The fear of taking sides is very obviously holding them back.”
“Political hostility to public education in the Republican-dominated Idaho Legislature is causing some businesses to doubt the wisdom of moving to or expanding in a state that…”
“ranks at or near the bottom in what it spends on K-12 students and has one of the nation’s worst graduation rates.”
“For preschoolers, lawmakers earlier this year rejected a $6 million early childhood learning federal grant from the Trump administration. One Republican lawmaker said he opposed anything making it easier for mothers to work outside the home.”
🧵 While it is very troubling to see people much more knowledgeable than I sound these kinds of alarm bells, maybe it’s time we talked about what an actual civil war might look like.
Talked with an elected official tonight, one with decades of experience at the city, county & state level. We discussed the movement to introduce chaos into the state- and local-level election machinery. 1/14
He indicated that thus far much of the activity has been in major-party-controlled appointed positions - state and county boards of canvassers. 2/14
But I believe this can be expected to intensify both in efforts to create intimidation vacancies and to get extremists elected to fill them. And not just in positions directly involved with election administration. 3/14
“This pre-planned coup is what President Biden enables when he refuses to raise the filibuster in speeches and does not signal that this is a red line for his party.”
“It is what Republicans in right-wing media, in office, in think tanks and elsewhere enable when they make excuses for Trump, push the ‘big lie’ and refuse to repudiate violence.”
“It is what mainstream media outlets enable when they draw false equivalence between the parties, refuse to grill Republicans on their willingness to overthrow democracy and use squishy language to explain the effort to subvert democracy rather than stark, plain language.”