What we're up against: I just tore a sign off the traffic light near my house that said this ⤵️
It's easy to come up with catchy and appealing slogans when you're not worried about truth and you are targeting people who resist nuance.
Yes, the right-wing kooks in my neighborhood put stickers on public property.
I do my public duty by tearing them down.
The owner of a business in my area put up a sign that said she was having trouble hiring people because of Biden's socialist handouts. I asked her whether she offers benefits and a good wage. The conversation didn't go well after that.
Ever since then, I've been doing her a great service: I've been making sure everyone I know goes to a different place of business. That way she won't suffer from being shorthanded.
The only way we win this is to show up in large numbers where it matters, particularly for local elections.
P.S. I thought more people would tell me I'm a meanie, but her competitor across down has enough staff and they seem happy, so🤷♀️
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
This is how he will create the narrative that any prosecution is political. For Trump, the truth doesn’t matter. What matters is that enough people believe it.
This is from a book I published in 2014, so it's dated, but I have it handy⤵️
Americans are in love with prison.
Without going into details, our modern police and prison system picked up where slavery left off. "Law and order" meant putting the poor and minorities in jail.
2/
The 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) has a loophole. Forced labor is legal after a person has been duly convicted of a crime.
Initially, it was easy: Beat a "confession" out of Black man, convict him with an all-White jury, and put him into a chain gang.
I think what the mermaid🧜♀️ is saying is that we end up giving huge platforms to people who are (and always have been) reactionaries and regressives simply because they dislike Trump.
People on the left like seeing attacks on Trump, so they retweet and follow.
Related: Some accounts grew large because they were good at attacking Trump. But some don't know how to do anything except attack, so they turn their attacks on the Democrats.
Similarly, Republicans are good at being an opposition party. They can attack but can't build.
Don't get me wrong. We need to work with the Republicans who are opposed to Trump. They are our partners in beating back the extremist element of the party.
And many former Republicans now truly embrace democracy.
Others may be right about Trump, and wrong about much else. ⤵️
In John Eastman's application for TRO fighting the Jan6 committee's subpoena, he argued that (1) the committee lacked authority to issue the subpoena, and that the subpoena violated his 1st and 4th Amendment rights.