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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Trump "was riveted to the TV screen, watching his most glorious moment and ignoring pleas from, among others, his daughter Ivanka and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to stop the violence."

#Jan6
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"Why would Trump want to interrupt his dreamscape of loyalists taking over the government to reverse his defeat?

The guy who has only ever cared about winning wasn’t about to end that show."

#Jan6thInsurrection
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"The president of the United States watched with delight what the rest of the nation watched with horror.

And, still, they want him back?"

#Jan6NeverAgain
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"Authoritarian leaders rarely do their own dirty work. They get other people to do that for them. Walk down the street to the Capitol, Trump said, and off the mob went.

Trump went back to the White House to watch how his minions fared."

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7 Jan
"They watched Fox News all day & they lost their humanity...

They became, literally became, different people.

It was horrifying. Like watching a loved one eaten alive by Alzheimers"
~@Stonekettle

Fox Talk channel(I refuse to call it news) is a cancer.
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"For evil to flourish, good men forget who they are...

they begin to regard duty and the obligations of civilization itself as oppression. They raise up ignorance, hate, and especially violent rage as strengths and sneer in contempt at compassion, charity, and selflessness." Image
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6 Jan
Do yourself a favor and look through @AnnTelnaes visual & textual representation of those involved in Trump's attempt to overthrow American democracy and install himself as an authoritarian leader over the USA.

#Jan6thInsurrection
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"Then the assistant attorney general, Clark sought to topple his boss, acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, by agreeing to do for Trump what Rosen refused to do — bully Georgia election officials."

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"Ali Alexander with GOP Reps. Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar

Alexander, leader of Stop the Steal, said in a since-deleted video that the three Republican congressmen helped plan how to put “maximum pressure on Congress” during the counting of electoral college votes." Image
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5 Jan
"Precisely because this GOP opposition is a foregone conclusion, Republicans are too rarely asked by reporters to justify it. This in turn causes that opposition to become accepted as a natural, unalterable ... condition of political life"
~@ThePlumLineGS
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"[GOP] opposition fades into the background as a factor in what’s happening. It faces less serious scrutiny, and the story that’s foregrounded is that Democratic infighting is the only reason for congressional inaction."

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"The current Democratic package is called the Freedom to Vote Act. This proposal has a lot of individual provisions in it.

But how often does media coverage dissect why Republicans oppose each provision?"

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"In an interview ...Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro lays out the plot to overturn the election.
...
what’s remarkable here — while also familiar — is how forthrightly Navarro is copping to the plot, as if it was no big deal, really."

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"It’s been no secret that Donald Trump tried to leverage VP Mike Pence’s historically ceremonial role overseeing the counting of electoral votes in his effort to overturn the election. But it wasn’t until September that we got a sense of the full scope of the plan"

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"Navarro doesn’t bother with the pretense that this was anything other than an effort with a predetermined outcome."

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20 Dec 21
"we should pay more attention to the news that Goldman Sachs has downgraded the US growth forecast, in response to Manchin’s opposition to BBB."
~@ThePlumLineGS

The #ManchinSlowdown
could lead to the #ManchinRecession

Does @Sen_JoeManchin care?
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"Goldman projects that if BBB does not pass, that fiscal picture will be “more negative” than it might have been."

#ManchinSlowdown
#ManchinRecession
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“Instead of having a Biden boom, we could have a Manchin slowdown"

#ManchinSlowdown
#ManchinRecession
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"Eight ways the House select committee is changing the conversation on Jan. 6"

A thread of the @JRubinBlogger article:

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"Unlike many in the media and the White House, they made clear this was an attempt to overthrow democracy."

#Jan6th
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"As Cheney said, “These text messages leave no doubt ... multiple Fox News hosts knew the president needed to act immediately.”

And they leave no doubt about their cringeworthy pandering to Trump and his base, whom they helped radicalize."

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