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28 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
People are complaining that #COVID19 isn't going away, and they're blaming Biden for it.

That's stupid.

There are about 100 million unvaccinated people in the nation who are walking virus incubators. If you don't blame them instead of blaming Biden YOU are the A$$.
Now let's look at it from a different angle: Trump discouraged masking, social distancing, made no effort to help schools or kids during the crisis, and tried to reopen America way too quickly. He didn't even bother to do a vaccine rollout because he was too busy planning a coup.
Had it not been for Biden's rollout - no matter how flawed - many of the roughly 200 million vaxxed wouldn't be, and there would probably be more like 2-3 million dead.

So, there is that.
And before anyone responds that some folks can't be vaxxed for medical reasons EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. They're not the problem. And, they're a minute fraction of the 100 million unvaxxed, and they're all the more reason that the unvaxxed by choice need to grow up and be responsible.

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29 Dec
Republicans are still outright useless obstructionists, but people like Romney still think our heads screw on backward.

Why?

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That's one of the purposes of Temporary Aid to Needy Families program (TANF.) TANF came into existence in 1997 when the republicans on insisted, and democrats capitulated, and they killed welfare under the guise of "welfare reform."
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22 Dec
It came up in a conversation a while ago but bears repeating:

Conservatives hate BBB because it gives people options. When people have options they have real independence and autonomy over their lives.
When people have autonomy, they're less likely to be oppressed, abused or led astray by other people's agendas because they'll be able to actually focus on their own best interest. When people have what they need they are less focused on what others have or might take from them.
In reality, when folks can take care of themselves, they are more likely to progress and thrive. Then there's almost no reason for resentment of others.

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15 Dec
Too many Americans tend to see voting rights and any and all other issues as somehow bifurcated. Maybe it's because if they vote regularly, or perceive voter nullification as a problem that minorities only the problem is invisible, and voter nullification doesn't effect them.
They couldn't be more wrong. The only reason anything ever happens in this nation is at its roots connected to and facilitated by voting. If every vote doesn't count, then essentially none do. The people then don't decide anything, the vote counters do. And they are republicans.
The goal is to not count any non-republican votes. That renders your race, ethnicity, wealth, social status, professional position, associations, community involvement, beliefs, voting history, zip code and everything that gives you agency as a citizen moot.
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15 Dec
I don't like how @Lawrence framed the comparison between voting rights and saving our children with gun laws in his interview with @ChrisMurphyCT. That's because he's wrong. It's not an either/or proposition.
Of course our children must be protected, but we have NO CHANCE of doing that without protecting voting. If anything, voting rights should be elevated because we CAN'T get appropriate legislation for guns to protect our kids.
And as poignant as the issue is today on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, gun safety and voting have been critical issues in black communities for decades with little interest or fanfare.
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15 Dec
McQonnell and Paul could care less about other states, even red states, when they are in physical crisis and mortal danger. Those dangers will increase in frequency and severity due to global warming that they ignore because they're beholden to their donors and special interests.
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For as much as I like @NicolleDWallace, she is wrong about McCain concerning Putin. For as much as he may have condemned Putin, in 2014, McCain essentially called Obama weak in the international press.
nytimes.com/2014/03/15/opi…
There's no benefit in coloring his history especially now that democracy is under threat. McCain's issues we're political disagreement concerning operations in Syria, but the ramifications of his words we're far deeper and irresponsible. He undermined Obama on the world stage.
Immediately after that, numerous high ranking individuals in the GOP began to praise Putin. That's all Putin needed. The door was thus open and the republicans had invited him in to intervene in U.S. politics. That's why domestic politics should always end at the water's edge.
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