Thread by @AmoneyResists

The @GOP gave up on offering legislative solutions a long time ago. Now, their platform consists of generating outrage through either non-existent problems or ones they have deliberately exacerbated by undermining the Biden administration, then blaming Biden for not fixing them.

For example, you’ll be hearing “Bidenflation!” from now until the midterms. Is it Biden’s doing? No. Republicans gave $2 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires and repeatedly refused to provide or extend relief for working families all so they could blame Biden for inflation.

They also banned, blocked, or outlawed all common sense health precautions against COVID so they could blame Biden for not ending the pandemic. They’re still screaming “UNMASK OUR KIDS” and “END THE MANDATES” daily. If doing so is a disaster, which they want, they’ll blame Biden.

Here’s a handy meme @OccupyDemocrats made of one of my tweets about this that you are welcome to use to reply to that one in particular:

They’ll keep screaming about the non-existent “Biden border crisis” from now until the midterms. This is pushed particularly hard by @GOP senators and representatives from southern and border states where they knew this kind of racist fearmongering will resonate with their base.

They keep the streets flooded with guns and police who are militarized and know they’ll face no consequences for killing people on the job (thanks to union contracts and “qualified immunity”) all so they can blame Biden for “rising violent crime rates” in American cities.

They’re currently organizing trucker protests in America to shut down vital throughpoints for delivery of goods so they can continue blaming Biden for “empty shelves” and “supply chain crises.” @RandPaul, Russia’s favorite senator after @RonJohnsonWI, is leading these efforts.

We have a Democratic President who has accomplished a monumental amount in his 1st year in office in spite of a Republican Party that has made it their mission to sabotage, obstruct, and castigate his initiatives incessantly. This is then compounded by “both sides” media coverage

So just keep this in mind whenever you’re watching or reading the news or talking with friends about politics because the @GOP has been so surreptitious in these efforts and it’s been so largely ignored or even assisted by the media that people end up with a very skewed picture.

.@GOP is making it their mission to block efforts to save American lives, grow our economy, and provide assistance that working class people & families desperately need all so they can lie and blame Biden for the ensuing consequences. Anyone wanna vote for that party? Me neither.

The best way to get them to admit that this is all they have to offer is simply to pretend like you believe they’re making a valid criticism in good faith, and simply ask them what we should do to fix it? Ask them for specific policy suggestions or changes that they advocate for

This only works for things like inflation, which republicans have no interest in fixing nor any serious constructive ideas for how to fix. It won’t work with mandates because they never accepted the pandemic as real so they have no compassion or interest in curbing the death rate

I will be releasing either a video or recording soon outlining all the ways the @GOP has continued Trump’s cataclysmic strategy of denial, deflection, and sabotage when it comes to COVID. Here’s a refresher on how Trump responded, which the @GOP is arguing we need him back for:

https://twitter.com/amoneyresists/status/1248473670604881926

The most glaring indication of this is how Republicans are only ever interested in discussing issues when they can point their finger at Biden in a negative way. When gas prices are high, “Biden’s fault!” But when they’re low, they don’t give Biden credit. They’re just silent.

Presidents of course do not set gas prices, which they know.

But you can probably come up with a half dozen examples of crises they insisted were a sign of impending armagaddon that just miraculously disappeared from their coverage. “Inflation” and “crack pipes” are just the new “migrant caravans” and “War on Christmas!” They have nothing.