Thread by @MicheleDTweets

@CourtneyBanks I will humbly and proudly tell you I was on the Biden bus from wire-to-wire.

Not because I started off rah, rah, rah Joe Biden. I look at the path, I did the math. I took as much emotion out of it as I could, my answer no matter how impossible it looked was the same.

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@CourtneyBanks Did I have doubts, absolutely. Was I certain, nope. HOWEVER, I was 100% sure Joe Biden was the only Democrat the would beat the Maniac of Mayhem.

I’d go into an app, “Electoral Map” and update, I kept a spreadsheet with all the candidates. Even before anyone announced…

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@CourtneyBanks I went to see then former VP Biden on his “Promise Me, Dad” book tour. I think I was pretty convincing because he remembered me when I saw him next at his first big fundraiser in our area.

I told him if he didn’t run, we wouldn’t beat former guy. He’d have to live with…

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@CourtneyBanks looking in the mirror every day at the man who could have beat him. Did he think he could live with that on his conscience?

I have never thought he’d be a perfect President. I’ve been disappointed, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. We’re just starting year 2.

There’s a…

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@CourtneyBanks HUGE mess to clean up. Ever been to a white guy frat house during Hell Week the day after a big party night? I have. It’s FFFugly beyond belief. That’s our whole system of government, our country and our reputation with our allies.

President Biden is NEVER going to…

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@CourtneyBanks complain or blame the Maniac of Mayhem for how bad it is or tell us. He’s just going to fix it; right the ship.

If he can get you, Sen. Sanders, me and a few other folk in a room, I can assure you we won’t storm out in a food fight.

Things will be accomplished. You know…

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@CourtneyBanks who’s sleeping better at night than he has in the past 5 years, Moscow Mitch.

No drama, no surprises. Don’t forget as much as he was President Obama’s VP, he was also part mentor.

I won’t tell you to cut him some slack. I hated that 1994 Crime Bill, but we have to own…

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@CourtneyBanks it too. Rather some do. Some knew better. Thankfully, my folk knew better. We got tripped up later on other things — Seattle…

Stay strong. Keep fighting for what’s right, but always press forward. Like my grandmother said, “You can’t step backwards on your shadow.”

In peace.

@CourtneyBanks P.S. I don’t know whether or not Joe Rogan is a racist. I know he hasn’t always been an anti-vaxxer. Leslie Jones revealed that…lol!

What I know, I learned from one of NASA’s first Black astronauts. Dr. Julian Earls, in a leadership academy many moons ago.

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@CourtneyBanks Dr. Earls taught us when to trust someone unequivocally.

When you have witnessed docile behavior in the presence of shed blood on more than one occasion. Until then, you should assume the fish is a shark.

By the above definition, Joe Rogan is a shark.

med.upenn.edu/shorterlab/Pap…

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