Thread by @DempseyTwo

Mitch McConnell is on the floor of the senate gaslighting the nation once again. He is saying that tomorrow will be Joe Biden’s 1st year in office and he hasn’t brought the nation together yet.
The debate is on voting rights. I am done. A wee rant🧵👇🏻

Mitch is saying the democrats are using fear and panic to silence millions of Americans. This is not correct. Right now the Republicans are passing laws in the states they control to make it harder to vote. This notion of ‘silencing’ voters is so disingenuous.

The way a voter is ‘silenced’ is if they can’t vote. We have continually heard that 70 million Americans have been silenced in the last election. How are they silenced if we know they voted? There is a difference between being silenced and losing an election. They lost.

Silencing voters is eliminating ballot drop off locations, denying the ability to collect ballots from those unable to get to polls themselves, eliminating polling precincts in high population areas causing long lines, requiring in person voting during a pandemic. Death silences.

Mitch is saying why haven’t the democrats focused on more pressing issues like the ‘seemingly endless’ pandemic. Seemingly endless? What the f***, it is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated because republicans refuse to accept science. They refuse to address this as Americans.

Biden hasn’t failed to unite all on his own you know. It takes the republicans to be willing to work with him. They aren’t. This is a fascist tactic McConnell is using. He is setting the stage to blame everyone else for he himself is doing and the country can not heal.

He says the democrats are using fear and panic. What is he using? He just said the Dems should be more concerned about the border, murder rates, inflation (created by republican owned business). Are these dogwhistle not scare tactics?

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1481280391176724485

He says they are concerned with fake panic about elections laws that exist only in their imaginations. F*** I am going to have a stroke.

These laws are not imaginary. Right now, there is a law in Georgia that makes it illegal to pass out water to people in line waiting to vote.

Think of that. They’ve made humanity illegal. But only after they made the voting lines longer. If there is only one voting precinct in a large community, and there is large turn out, then the lines get long, in Georgia. Can your grandmother stand in an 8 hour line to vote?

McConnell uses polling data to say virtually no one thinks election law is our number one problem. Well, Mitch what were the choices? Did they think that a fascist coup was more important? He cherry picks facts. He is not interested in governing.

There are other laws not in my imagination but in writing making their way through state houses that would eliminate drop boxes, that would allow for the elimination of nonpartisan election oversight. This is stealing your vote. This is silencing your voice.

Also citing (but not really citing the actual name of the poll or who conducted it, btw) the poll says that Americans believe election laws to be too lax and not restrictive enough. Perhaps it’s only republicans who qualify as Americans these days in Mitch’s mind.

Make no mistake. We are talking about white supremacy and systematic racism here. Those ballot boxes, those single polling precincts are in majority Black and Brown communities. White people can vote quick, fast and in a hurry but Black folks are waiting in line for hours.

If voting laws are too loose and insecure, they are saying that they themselves are too insecure of what might happen if everyone could vote in a free and fair election. They see that turnout always means the democrats get more votes. Perhaps it is their ideas that make it so.

The GOP failed to even put forward a party platform at their last RNC. Their beliefs were what trump told them they were. This is not governance, this is the tyranny they say the democrats are practicing in. Not wanting to be ruled by a tyrant is kind of why this country exists.

The Senate used to be known as the world’s greatest deliberative body. They no longer have to debate. McConnell further says killing the legislative filibuster will destroy the senate. He again is lying. There is no motion to kill the legislative filibuster.

The democrats are seeking a carve out for voting rights legislation. Mitch McConnell himself has carved away the filibuster for Supreme Court justices. Ask yourself why what he does is ok, but when the Dems to it save democracy and preserve fundamental rights, it isn’t.

McConnell says Obama was against eliminating the filibuster. He uses Obama’s words as a Senator against him. GOP was trying to nuke the filibuster! He takes these words out of context because he knows you won’t look up why he said them. So here it is.

obamaspeeches.com/010-The-Nuclea…

McConnell then moves on to talk about how quickly this elections bill is moving forward. How the senate never moves this fast. Really? Because wasn’t it Mitch McConnell nominating Supreme Court Justices hours after the death of RBG? Hours. After. Her. Death.

McConnell has no shame, no credibility and no business having the name leader anywhere around his name. If the republicans take the Senate in 2022, Mitch will be the first to kill the filibuster.

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1366768722313162753

McConnell says the senate is not broken because they passed bipartisan bills this year. But none that would help the people of KY. How are voting rights not a bipartisan issue? Because McConnell says they aren’t. McConnell is holding us hostage.

Watch the debate. See who is fighting for your right to vote, see who is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Today, each Senator etches their mark upon history. Vote accordingly.
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