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Feb 25 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Pundidiots and cynics have been conditioned by four years of Trumpian lies, and decades of Republican bullshit into believing all politicians lie.

President Biden told us Russia was about to invade Ukraine, and they didn't believe him.

Learn something, okay?

1/5
It's time to pull your heads out of whatever orifice you've shoved them, and realize not all Administrations are the same. Republicans lie. It's what they do. It's what they've always done. And you're buying their message, which is that =everyone= lies.

2/5
That is the basic message the fascists are using to destroy YOUR faith in American democracy. Back to Reagan: "The nine most frightening words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help'."

Fascists WANT you to give up on American governance.

3/5
AG Garland told us clearly in his Jan 5 speech this year that he's prosecuting the insurrection as he would any big criminal conspiracy--from the bottom up--and will hold to account everyone responsible "at any level."

Pundidiots and cynics don't believe him.

4/5
Don't help fascists destroy America.

5/5

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Feb 14
I'm a writer. I know very well, words have power.

Some words are so damn powerful, one must be careful in using them.

Words can harm or heal. Words can sway armies and move mountains.

It is possible to rob words of their power, but it often is useful not to.

1/12
The comedian Lenny Bruce and the social commentator George Orwell both understood the arcane power of words.

Orwell taught us how limiting vocabulary and altering meanings controls how we think.

Bruce taught us the force of using or avoiding words.

2/12
One of Bruce's most hilarious and obscene stand-up routines involved not saying a single dirty word. He merely implied. He said "blank" whenever he meant anything suggestive. We all knew what he meant.

He also went to the other extreme.

3/12
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Feb 11
The dichotomy between Republican faux-freakout over Hillary's emails (on the one hand) and their non-reaction to Trump's destruction of White House documents (on the other) highlights that Republicans are not hypocrites. They're fascist authoritarians.

Hear me out.

1/14
First, let's make sure we've highlighted the important similarities.

Republican propagandists feigned being aghast that Hillary Clinton had official State Department business in her private email server. They insisted there were classified communications there.

2/14
Republicans even claimed Secretary Clinton had improperly (even illegally) deleted some of those emails.

Turns out, she didn't have anything classified there, and she deleted nothing but private emails unrelated to official business, and she did nothing illegal.

3/14
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Feb 11
I love when I point out Presidents don't tell Attorneys General what to do,

and then pretend-leftists say, "What about Trump and Barr?"

Because they're trying to tell us fascist authoritarianism is the way it should be.

And then I can laugh and block them.

1/4
This isn't the only example.

Also when I say, "DOJ doesn't talk about ongoing investigations," and they say, "What about Comey?" like they're arguing what Comey did should be the example we should follow.

Laugh. Block.

2/4
Or, I say, "Investigation comes BEFORE indictment. In America we don't lock people up until prosecutors can make a case in court," and faux-leftists say, "Well, poor people are locked up all the time!" as if corruption SHOULD BE the norm.

Yeah, but no.

Final conclusion:

3/4
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Feb 10
I've noted a tendency for Twitts to say "I think..." followed by meaningless bullshit intended to create distrust, division, cynicism, and hoplessness.

Example: "I think <DemLeader> is compromised, and is really supporting Trump and on the take from Big Hamburger."

Why?

1/6
"Because <DemLeader> isn't doing <X>!!"

Try to dispute that nonsense, and you're told, "It's just my opinion, so shuddup!" which is the faux-left version of "I was just joking!" when you call out a racist on their racism.

2/6
We're supposed to treat a load of horsecrap as if it's worth something, as long as it starts with "I think..."

No. An uninformed, unsupportable, nonsensical "opinion" is propagandistic bullshit, especially if the obvious intent is to tear down the defenders of democracy.

3/6
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Feb 8
We keep hearing how Trump does what he wants, always succeeds and gets away with it, and there are no consequences.

All that is false. Every word of it. Trump is a complete failure, nothing he does works, and he has faced massive blowback.

I'll give some examples.

1/10
Trump University was forced to close. That grift had been a big moneymaker for the Don the Con. He was forced to pay a $25 million settlement to the people he defrauded.

2/10
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Trump Foundation was dismantled. He had been cheating charities, and had to repay $2 million. This was while he was president. You may not have heard about it.

3/10
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Jan 26
The man who won World War II was not hailed as a hero until midway through the 2010's. Most people still don't know his name. I bet many of my Tweeple do, because you peeps are smart.

1/8
The depth of his classified record wasn't revealed until the 1990s. I knew about his achievements in the 1970s, because I'm a computer science geek and a history freak. And I'm old.

He committed suicide in the 1950s, at the age of 41.

2/8
He killed himself because he'd been persecuted by the British government for something right-wing American fascists and televangelists again want to make a crime.

Some think we might have beaten Hitler without this man's help.

3/8
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