Inflation impacts people. It’s reality, and we have to face it. But rather than stepping up to help combat it, Republicans are cheering it on. So let’s look at some of the causes, and what can or can’t be done to help. (Thread)
1. One cause of inflation is a market recovery. People have more money to spend, due to relief efforts and booming jobs. While someone like @RandPaul thinks giving Americans funds to stay afloat during a pandemic was a bad thing, people with more money to spend is positive.
The good news: this one will level off. Coming out of a pandemic, it’s like opening a dam. The water pours out hard and fast—but the market catches up, and the flow will find a normal rate soon, absent forces working to keep it artificially high.
2. The supply chain has been clogged up, in part due to the rise in demand. So why does @RandPaul cheer for more clogging? Because he wants the problem to last at least through the midterms. He openly wants to make this worse.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
While the GOP cheers for an extended crisis, Democrats are working for solutions. The infrastructure bill will help moving forward, while more hiring and eventual easing demand will help with the current situation.

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3. Corporate greed plays a role here too. This thread from @owenslindsay1 lays out nicely how many large corporations are inflating prices not to keep up with rising costs, but to supercharge their own profits:
So let’s look at competing visions for corporate America. Democrats want corporations to grow and succeed, while regulated to curb excesses at the expense of workers and consumers. The GOP wants to cut restraints and give corporations more room to do things like exactly this.
So in summary, one party wants to address the causes of inflation to find solutions; the other wants inflation to last through voting this fall—if not all the way to the next presidential election.
When you see Republicans crowing about inflation, ask why. Ask whether they have solutions, and what they are. Don’t let them use your suffering for their political profit.

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Feb 13
When we watch someone like @RepKatiePorter work, we marvel at how clearly she breaks everything down. She is brilliant—but shouldn’t we expect this from everyone we elect? If, when confronted with a problem, someone starts throwing out buzzwords, ask yourself why. (Thread)
Finding solutions to seemingly intractable societal problems is hard—but it gets infinitely more so when you don’t take time to understand the problems. An elected official should start there: what is the problem? What causes it? What solution would help?
When you hear most Republicans speak these days, they are doing one of four things: they are (1) making up problems that aren’t really problems; (2) working to divide people; (3) working for the interests of their donor class; or (4) shouting utter nonsense into the wind.
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#FridayLimericks today go to @RealPNavarro for truly not knowing how anything works. #LimerickRhyme
Pete Navarro hopes all will succumb
To his own little slice of the dumb.
When Pete opens his mouth,
Common sense goes straight south;
Just ignore as a good rule of thumb.
Navarro is good for one feat:
So few men are as bonkers as Pete!
When the crazy’s unfurled,
His mind’s out of this world.
Buckle up—and hold on to your seat.
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Besides being nuts, he’s a jerk;
Many say he’s abusive at work.
Pete will thump on his chest—
But when put to the rest,
Fragile egos like his go berserk.
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Feb 11
Freedom of the press exists to protect democracy by keeping citizens informed. The freedom stems from the notion that an informed populace is essential for voters to be able to hold government officials accountable, and to make informed choices at the ballot box.
What Haberman did here flips that on its head. She used her access as a journalist not to inform the public, but to increase her own ability to profit off of hoarded information. This isn’t free press; it’s complicit press.
This nation’s mythology reveres individualism and a person’s power to succeed. But when the institutions of democracy silo off access to information and power for the benefit of insiders, it makes that American Dream unachievable. You can’t aim for something you can’t see.
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Dec 10, 2021
The DC Court of Appeals opinion released today that shoots down Trump’s increasingly frivolous executive privilege claim is another excellent piece of legal writing and reasoning. Worth a full read if you have time, but distillation follows here. (Thread)

cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opini…
First, the upshot: Trump has no right to have his documents withheld. He has 14 days to appeal, and he will, to the Supreme Court. While the Court has a disturbingly partisan streak right now, bowing to a wholly specious argument seems a bridge too far for most of the Justices.
In terms of the legal arguments, Trump’s position deserves little more than “Motion for injunction denied, because this claim of executive privilege is meritless.” But the Court isn’t writing for Trump; it’s writing for posterity when this country has to decide what it will be.
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Dec 9, 2021
This is an interesting article, and not wrong, but I think it’s a little beside the point. Whether Biden is treated better or worse by the press, he is simply a qualitatively different president from Trump.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
The press should be an active force to reveal the truth in our cities, states, nation, and world. They don’t owe it to any politician to be positive or “nice.” The problem is that they are continuing to treat this as merely opposing political forces with different ideals.
That simply isn’t the state of our nation. The former president is a liar and a fraud, who served and serves only himself: his power, his financial interests, and his ego. But his daily idiocy provided shiny objects for the press to chase, for clicks in a 24-hour cycle.
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Nov 29, 2021
For those who believe voting doesn’t matter, because “both parties are the same,” “there’s no real difference,” or some version of this, I get it. You want to see a difference in your life, and don’t care about squabbles in D.C. But there are critical differences. (Thread)
1. Republicans want you to believe government doesn’t work, so it should just be Freedom, O.K. Corral style. Democrats want to create laws and policies that make government work to help people.
2. Republicans believe the richest Americans need tax breaks to work harder and get richer. Democrats believe taxes are an investment that allows government to work better—and it’s fair to ask those to whom America has given the most to pay their fair share.
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