📌Went out with a post sticking up for VP Harris. Took issue with the lack of respect she's gotten from Day 1. Opined that a lot of it had to do with her race and misogyny in this country.
📌The hate that post unleashed was chilling.
📌Get this:
📌Last I checked, there were over 13,000 QTs just slamming her and me. It was a feeding frenzy.
📌My feed and DMs were littered with some of the most disgusting stuff I've ever seen -- perverted, threatening ...
📌There was also some polite pushback, but very little of it.
📌I take heart with the 55,000+ out there who supported her and the tweet, and the many thousands more who RT'd.
📌But I had to delete the thing, because I'll be honest, it got scary. So apologies.
📌I don't care if you read it, I really don't. I do care that everybody takes good care out there, because there's a real evil in this country that was unleashed into the wide open on November 8, 2016.
📌Everything is not OK in America, and the only way I see to fix it is to #VoteBlueIn22 ... Seriously, VOTE, dammit.
📌Thanks for listening and your support. Apologies again for pulling the tweets down.
-Earl
📌ADDENDUM: Just a note of gratitude to all the folks who have had a look at this thread. I am bowled over. I endeavor to read through all your comments this morning. As you know, inclusivity is a strength. It is our superpower, and must continue to be unleashed in this country.
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🗞️Just so you know, 99% of the print journalists out there are disgusted by what these NYT reporters are pulling with this fucking book deal.
🗞️ I know folks are plenty fed up with journalism in this country, and I get it. So a quick defense and a scolding ...
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🗞️ What these NYT reporters pulled with this Kevin McCarthy scoop is not taught anywhere, and is certainly not practiced in any of the newsrooms I am familiar with.
🗞️ Print journalists are taught, and reminded, again and again that they work for one person -- THE READER.
🗞️ Every decision that is made in a newsroom should consider only ONE thing: How will this decision affect our readers who trust us and pay our salaries?
📌America needs to understand what is happening here in Wisconsin 485 DAYS after Joe Biden won the election by 7+ million votes.
📌The fathead pictured here is Michael Gableman, an enemy of democracy. The State GOP used $676,000 in taxpayer money & hired him to find fraud ...
📌They did this, of course, because the twice-impeached, one-term huckster, full-time loser, covid-spreading, and Putin ass-kisser, Trump, had a gun to their head and ordered them to.
📌Let me say this again: THEY USED TAXPAYER MONEY TO DO THIS ...
📌So yesterday, this blowhard turned around a 136-page "interim report" which is full of so much crap, there's not a dog in the state who will even sniff it.
📌There's already been hundreds of thousands of additional taxpayer money spent in the courts that turned up NOTHING.
🇺🇸 I am past weary of the false argument I am seeing burning through the Twitter landscape by Trump's GOP that we are a "Republic" and not a "Democracy."
🇺🇸 They are doing this for one reason: to justify voter suppression and minority rule.
1/4
🇺🇸 Lincoln, a Republican, described the American experiment by using a textbook definition of Democracy:
"Of the people, by the people, for the people."
🇺🇸 NOT of the few, by a few, for the many.
🇺🇸 Reagan, Nixon & the Bushes referred to America's democracy myriad times.
2/4
🇺🇸 Be very weary of what Republicans are doing right now, but mostly of WHY they are doing it.
🇺🇸 This false argument is about justifying and conditioning us to minority rule, because they KNOW they will never win the majority of votes in a presidential election again.
3/4
HOW in God's name do Republicans live with themselves?
1) Engulfed in the crush of rioters storming the Capitol, D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith sent his wife a text that spoke to the futility and fears of his mission.
2) London has fallen,” the 35-year-old tapped on his phone at 2:38 p.m. on Jan. 6, knowing his wife would understand he was referencing a movie by that name about a plan to assassinate world leaders attending a funeral in Britain ...
3) The text confirmed the frightening images Erin Smith was watching on live stream from the couple’s home in Virginia: THE CAPITOL HAD BEEN OVERRUN ...
📌Ahem, liberal friends, read this quickie thread. GUARANTEE it will cheer you up:
📌Trump’s former world is crumbling around him. President Biden handily defeated him in November. His neighbors are trying to ban him from living at Mar-a-Lago where, after leaving office ...
📌... he lost the special permit to have a helicopter pad. Buildings emblazoned with his name are trying to remove their Trump insignia ...
📌... the PGA of America pulled its 2022 championship from one of Trump’s golf clubs and the lobby of the former president’s namesake Washington hotel now sits conspicuously empty just five blocks from the White House ...