Drew Holden Profile picture
Feb 9 5 tweets 3 min read
I still can’t get over this @tedlieu tweet applauding Newsom for relaxing the Covid guidelines.

Lieu urged masking when cases in California were *1/10th* the current level in April 2021 & *1/7th* current in March.

How do these numbers add up?
(Here are the numbers - now vs. early March 2021 vs. early April 2021)
Yes, of course it’s good that states are relaxing their guidelines, which never made sense anyway.

But doesn’t it matter that elected officials are so clearly full of shit when it comes to the rationale? Doesn’t that matter?

Don’t you care that they’re lying to you?
They have told you time and again that The Science is guiding these decisions. It couldn’t be more clear that this isn’t the case.

And now Dems are trying to escape their lead balloon poll numbers by pretending it never happened.
They’ve been telling you that the sky is green for two years. Now that they’ve finally been forced to admit that it’s blue, are we supposed to pretend all the sky-is-green BS never happened just because the Dems’ poll numbers have forced them to concede the truth?

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Drew Holden

Drew Holden Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @DrewHolden360

Feb 11
🧵THREAD🧵

Blue states across the country are finally allowing kids to go to school without masks.

You may remember, a few short months ago, Florida was demonized for allowing the same.

Who’s up for a little side-by-side? And where does @GovRonDeSantis go for his apology? ⤵️
You may remember that, when DeSantis banned mandates, @CNN put together a heart-wrenching story about how even 12 year old kids knew that masks were necessary in schools.

But when it isn’t Florida allowing kids to be unmasked, we just get the facts.

Why the change? ImageImage
Over at @CNNPolitics, the same agitprop story got recycled in Florida.

But now? We’re told “Democratic governors outpace the White House with masking pullbacks.”

Oddly, I don’t recall the term “outpace” being used about DeSantis. ImageImage
Read 25 tweets
Jan 26
🧵Thread🧵

It seems not all cases of a president swearing at a reporter are created equal.

When Trump used an expletive about journalist Chuck Todd, it was a crisis.

When Biden did the same thing to Peter Doocy? Well, let me know if you can spot a different attitude.⤵️
First, some context. Back in 2018, then-President Trump called Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press, a “son of a bitch” at a rally. The MSM was apoplectic.

Yesterday, Biden used the same term in response to a question from Fox’s Peter Doocy during a presser. This time, no outrage.
@politico captures the difference well.

Back when Todd was on the receiving end of an insult, Politico wrote a piece titled “When the president of the United States calls you a ‘son of a bitch’” but when Biden does the same he’s just making “plain his opinion” about a reporter.
Read 19 tweets
Jan 21
“Nurses don’t like Joe Rogan”
I mean. Just read the signatories. ImageImage
I mean no offense to the Science Correspondent at the “Unbiased Science Podcast,” the various veterinarians and their associates, the marriage therapist (licensed!) and the “science communicators” of course. ImageImageImageImage
Read 4 tweets
Jan 20
🧵THREAD🧵

An explosive story from @NPR and @NinaTotenberg about supposed high drama around masking at the Supreme Court imploded today.

I want to take you through how misinformation like this gets mainstreamed by the corporate press and others.

Start here ⤵️
First, some background. @NPR reporter @NinaTotenberg reported that tensions were high at SCOTUS, particularly because Justice Gorsuch had supposedly refused a request from Chief Justice Roberts to put on a mask to help protect Justice Sotomayor.
But then the story started unraveling. First Sotomayor and Gorsuch put out a statement disputing some aspects of the reporting/narrative.

Then, this afternoon, Chief Justice Roberts went on the record to say the masking story was bogus.
Read 25 tweets
Jan 19
I have a feeling this will not tamp down the rage that a certain type of lefty blue check feels toward Gorsuch supposedly on Sotomayor’s behalf. ImageImageImageImage
Although as others have pointed out, while this statement clearly shoots down a Twitter talking point, it doesn’t directly dispute the reporting by NPR.
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

:(