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30 Dec 21, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Like his father, Donald Trump relied on the laxity of New York and federal law enforcement, who looked the other way at his alleged tax dodging and magical real estate asset re-valuations. America should be relieved that Cy Vance is headed to the exits.
Vance was also easy on Donald’s friend Jeffrey… vox.com/2019/7/11/2069…
And also Trump’s sleazy kids… newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
It kind of looks like a pattern…

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
30 Dec 21
That is to say 60 percent of the unvaccinated in the U.S. are Republicans or lean Republican. kff.org/coronavirus-co…
The rest of the story: kff.org/coronavirus-co…
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28 Dec 21
There’s a legit conversation to be had re why the mainstream media fixates so strongly on Republican voters, even when Democrats are politically ascendant. Republican voters are 90ish percent white, heavily working class &/or rural which has long been equated to “real American.”
U.S. popular culture has almost always centered this particular type: the white guy who frequents a certain kind of diner, has a working class job and a stay-at-home wife as the central character in the American story. That guy and super rich white men get main character billing.
Everyone else, including white “hippies” and POC are often treated as supporting characters. In TV/movies they’re often the best friend who parachutes in with on-time wisdom and support. In news they’re often the crime, sports or entertainment headline or the rare Obama type pol.
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23 Dec 21
Take in for a moment the likelihood that the leadership of the U.S. military held back the National Guard from protecting congress, for fear the then-president would switch their mission to clearing the Capitol to halt the certification of Biden’s election; i.e., a military coup.
Meanwhile Republicans tried to put on the January 6 investigating committee, someone everyone paying attention knew would ultimately be called before the committee: Rep Jim Jordan. Kevin tried to make him ranking member! They’re openly obstructing the investigation.
Trump tried to corrupt the defense department, the justice department, the congress, the vice president, state elections boards, governors and the courts, all in a desperate bid to stay in power. He launched a literal coup attempt. In plain sight. In America.
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22 Dec 21
Great segment on @allinwithchris on the American right’s open embrace of violence, including the presumed power of one group: conservative white Christians, to visit death on fellow citizens; to protect property, even if not theirs-or to undo an election that didn’t go their way.
There’s a long history of right wing violence that stretches all the way back to before this was a country— violence to keep enslaved people enslaved or to intimidate their descendants out of voting, or just to flex white nationalist power. And it has festered in both parties.
Republicans are having their go with the infestation, and they are showing no signs of wanting to shake off the virus. The quest for power — the desire to rule— and the temptations of this brand of low rent populism apparently are just too powerful to resist.
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20 Dec 21
When you and your family’s comfy personal future doesn’t depend on how much the massive numbers of poor people in your largely poor and struggling state suffer, or whether we remain a democracy, because you and your family are financially set, you might be @Sen_JoeManchin
When things fall apart there are always the Manchins & Sinemas who’ll let it all burn, believing they’ve built themselves high enough walls and stashed away enough cash & favors that it won’t matter when the wolves come, the soil is soured and the suffering spreads like wildfire.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if neither of them runs for re-election in 2024. They’re showing all the signs of people who are cashing out, their constituents, party & country be damned. They’ve chosen sides with the super rich against the struggling people in their own states.
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14 Dec 21
A brutal open from 1/6 commission chairman @BennieGThompson. Addressing Meadows, Bannon and Clark: “History will be written about these times… and not look upon any of you as a martyr. History will not look upon you as a victim. … 1/
“History will record that in a critical moment in our democracy, most people were on the side of finding the truth… and history will also record, in this critical moment, that some people were not.” 2/
He then addressed Meadows’ seven years in congress including serving as ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, saying “it’s not hard to locate records of his time in the House and find [him] full of indignation because… 3/
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