I'm thoroughly disgusted with the woman who was on @JoyAnnReid's show explaining why she didn't need to be vaxxed because she already contracted #COVID19 TWICE as if somehow it's all about her. Not only were her statements humiliatingly stupid, much of it was factually wrong.
And she lied by inferring that the vaccine didn't prevent infection: It was never purported to do so at any time. But what it does do is minimize serious illness and death, it helps to reduce the spread of the virus.
The reduction of spread not only keeps other people including health care workers safe, it slows the creation of mutations. That's the ONLY thing that will keep even her safe in the future.
She is an embarrassing, disgusting, narcissistic buffoon, but we need to see them and know who they are.
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11 Jan
I think it's safe to say that it's completely unreasonable for anyone to continue to presume that people who showed up at the Capitol on 1/6 didn't understand why they were there and didn't expect it to get violent. It was billed that way from the start. That was the entire goal.
There's no way they couldn't have known as the violent intent was clear for weeks in social media where it was advertised. Pretending otherwise is as silly as going to a sale, but not expecting a sale upon arrival. So as a nation, it pisses me off when folks propose otherwise.
Anyone who defends than position is a tool for gaslighting and propaganda, perpetuates lies, propagates the Big Lie, and is helping to rewrite history regardless of their political beliefs.
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10 Jan
A GA state senator was arrested for knocking on the governor's office door because she tried to witness a law law signing to which other legislators were invited. The vast majority of DC Capitol rioters were never arrested. She's black; the others are white.

This is America.
There will always be unrest as long as there is no accountability, because when people aren't punished for the crimes they commit, they tend to do it again. Many who ARE punished still repeat the crimes because there's no incentive for them to do differently.
That's why recidivism is recidivism.

There will never be peace, let alone comity, in the US as long as people responsible for enforcing the law pretend that they can unsee what happened on 1/6.
Read 5 tweets
8 Jan
The more I think about it, the more I believe that while the SCOTUS conservatives are socially ignorant, they're not stupid. They aren't epidemiologists, but they DO understand things when they're explained.

That's why I believe were virtue signalling to their MAGA public.
All of the ridiculous talk they put out yesterday about #VaccineMandates only makes sense when you consider the audience for whom it was intended. After all, they've made previous decisions about mask mandates just within the past few months that were totally coherent and sane.
The logic behind the antimasking arguments regarding colleges and universities was much the same as those behind the antivax mandates now. The arguments favoring masking were based on epidemiological and public health factors. The only thing different was the political audience.
Read 7 tweets
8 Jan
I would be remiss if I signed off tonight without acknowledging the lives of Lani Guinier and Sidney Poitier. They were both defenders of democracy and fierce civil rights warriors. They were both trailblazers who made the way for millions of others.
They set examples for us that can and should be followed for generations. Even today, so many people are still not aware that there was so much more to Mr. Poitier's life than acting. His courage, leadership and service were stellar.
And I am still heartbroken that, as one of the finest, most brilliant attorneys and legal scholars this country this nation has ever known, Ms. Guinier was denied the opportunity to serve as Attorney Genral because of rank partisan politics and racist animus.
Read 5 tweets
7 Jan
A lot of people are praising Karl Rove for his statement about his party today. It's being called courageous and forthright. Yes, he does deserve some praise for it, but let's be as careful as we are as real about it: He is largely responsible for the current state of his party.
More to the point: the genesis of the Big Lie can be traced directly back to him.

Back in about 2004, when the republicans were feeling the oats of their empire and colonialist exploits in the midst of the so-called war on terror, Rove said this:
Rove was bragging about conservatism creating their own reality construed out of complete unreality for politics and power. It was the same creation of a web of unreality that led to the lies that precipitated the Iraq war in the first place.
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6 Jan
There's a long tradition in America of not negotiating with terrorist, kidnappers, hijackers, extortionists, etc., or those used to be our purported mores anyway.

Does anyone else remember it that way?
Well, republicans not only support the actions of domestic terrorists, but they have them within their ranks. They've hijacked governance through pure and total obstruction and sabotage. They've attempted to extort the public using the filibuster in an attempt to kill democracy.
We all know that Manchin has his own personal benefit and interests first in mind. He doesn't need to invoke the bogus notion of bipartisanship to hide behind just to block progress in order to achieve his personal agenda. The senate rules allow him to do that.
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