2) In 1987 Soviet diplomats & KGB arranged a Moscow visit. On his return, Trump spent $100,000 on full-page ads criticizing US foreign policy on “why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves."
3) Trump’s love affair with authoritarianism & dictators is nothing new. Trump saw breakup of Soviet Union as weakness, praised communist China for massacre at Tiananmen, & praised China’s Xi for becoming “President for life.”
4) Trump withheld certified, Congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine, violating the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which prohibits a president from doing so without Congressional consent. He was impeached. Republicans did nothing.
6) Putin earned KGB creds in brutal East Germany. His job was collecting “kompromat” on Westerners (compromising information for use in blackmail or manipulation for political purposes). Trump’s 1987 Moscow hotel room was bugged. This KGB defector warned us about #ActiveMeasures
Conservatives whitewash Civil War history, saying it was about “states’ rights” & not slavery. Here’s a thread to help you make up your own mind and to share. Not my words - the words of the Confederate authors.
2) “Our new government’s foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery - subordination to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition.”
Alexander Stephens has no place in the US Capitol.
3) Why did Georgia secede?
The prohibition of slavery… hostility to it, the equality of the black & white races… were boldly proclaimed by its leaders & applauded by its followers… The prohibition of slavery in the Territories is the cardinal principle.”
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Tonight’s topic: Slavery
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>>> According to the 1860 Census, what percent of Southerners owned slaves?
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HINT #1
There is a strong, persistent myth pushed by historical revisionists and slavery apologists about slave holding in the Southern states and confederacy.
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59) Nurse Shanda Parish has cancer, but won’t get vaccinated, even after losing both parents to #COVID19. She resents judgment from friends asking why they didn’t get vaccinated: “people make us feel like it’s our fault they’re gone.”
60) This “Christian” radio host became infamous for reading obituaries from people who died of AIDS while playing the Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust”
Now Bob Enyart bit the dust.
But who did he infect? What variants did he breed?
61) Gregg Prentice, Hillsborough County, FL @GOP accountant & chair of the committee for election integrity, who wanted to “end Faucism” dies from #COVID19. He said, "we need more socialist distancing than we do social distancing."
I will not criticize President Biden for the collapse of Afghanistan. I will not criticize our military & families who endured 20 years of sacrifice propping up that government and training and supplying its troops.
Criticism should lay squarely with the Afghan Army & Government
I disagree with those saying this is a “sad day for America.” Quite the opposite. It’s a betrayal of America. Our troops endured multi-generational deployments. We built a 300K-strong army. It’s amazing what the US did. But if 20 years of support and billions of American dollars
didn’t give the Afghanis the motivation to defend their country, it shows there is no loyalty to the “nation.” It’s a country of warlords vying for power. Another 20 years would not change this outcome.
17) H. Scott Apley, a councilmember of Dickinson, Texas and member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee, mocked vaccines for months. He just died from #COVID19.
18) Travis Campbell of Tennessee & his wife didn’t bother getting vaccinated. He now holds on for life in ICU & pleads with others to #GetVaccinated. He also infected two of his little kids. Who else did he infect? What variants did he breed?