1/7 To paraphrase Clausewitz, GOP views politics as war by other means. Hell, they view it as an opportunity for violent oppression. We need to be on offense and whining over how money making DC Dem consultants suck at messaging ain't gonna get it done. #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
2/7 Simply put DNC's @harrisonjaime and national DC Dems like @SenSchumer are not having any epiphanies in 2022. So we're gonna have to organize and go offense for them within our own communities. From the ground up we MUST frame this as a fight between good and evil.
3/7 We represent America's decent patriotic MAJORITY that believes in freedom AND responsibility for ALL and from EVERYONE. We do NOT shoot or rape innocent children. We do NOT support child marriage that makes rape of girls permissible. We do NOT value wealth over humanity.
4/7 We MUST draw sharp contrasts between good and evil. It's simple. GOP is evil. Accusing a 10 year old victim of rape as RANKING House Judiciary Cmte member @Jim_Jordan did is evil. That man's ENTIRE F**K**G LIFE has been in servitude to evil. NEVER apologize for saying it.
5/7 Neville Chamberlain appeasement style politics that's afraid to offend won't get it done. We're in a fight against evil. Yes evil Republicans are often insipid and behave like cartoonish assclowns. But they understand imposing their depraved will on the majority is war.
6/7 If an evil GOP prevails America we all knew will be gone and democracy worldwide will be in even greater peril. So you MUST engage with neighbors even in blue states. Don't assume your local school board has good people on it. Evil infiltrates our institutions via apathy.
7/7 This generation is being tested. It's our time in the barrel so to speak. And it's a challenge to #DefendDemocracy while earning a living, raising a family or dealing with aging parent issues. But if we won't do it who will? There is no good democracy fairy. It's up to us.
What I meant to say is Jordan accusing a 10 year old rape victim of lying about it is evil. And it is.
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1/ It was the fall of 1982. NFL players were in the midst of a seven week strike and my dad was watching one of those evangelical preacher scam artists on cable TV. It was a teaching moment.
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2/ Today, August 24th would have been my dad's 90th birthday and random memories are popping up like this one.
NFL player's strike had disrupted our Sunday routine. Nonetheless, dad was an observant yet liberal Jew, so I was confused as to why he was watching this preacher.
3/ Dad like many Jewish Americans felt threatened by the assault on separation of church and state waged by the so called "moral majority."
At 13, thanks largely to him, I was already a political current news events junkie thinking about larger issues.
1/ I've struggled to finish this🧵 numerous times since JD Vance's 2021 comments about "childless cat ladies" resurfaced. What he said is also hurtful to us childless lonely men.
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2/ People waging their finger at you about being alone or not having kids is inexcusably cruel, condescending and insulting.
We all have unique back stories, traumas and circumstances that shape our lives. And there are moments when being single and alone cut to the bone.
3/ One such moment happened to me just prior to Covid sheltering NY in place. I was in Astoria Queens scheduling a colonoscopy for February 2020 at a GI doctor's office. A young woman passed on info I needed. She then tells me it's required I be accompanied to the procedure.
1/ Lizard Brain. It's the most primitive part of our mind regulating survival urges and instincts warning of danger. It's our inner lizard that controls our desires and responses to threats.
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2/ We all have a lizard brain. Indeed, we all need it to live. Our impulses to mate, feed, fight or flee, stem from the always alert inner lizard in our minds. Our inner lizard also helps us survive winner take all hostile social environments such as middle school or an office.
3/ Example, as a financial crimes compliance professional, I depend on my inner lizard. Investigating transactional activity that facilitates crimes such as human trafficking while surviving backstabbing corporate politics is a job for my inner lizard.
Roaring whiney white men has defined the GOP since 1964. It's now been 60 years of the GOP offering nothing of value to most Americans. That's all they got.
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2/ Their decades long misogynistic and xenophobic primal scream has been a cultural weapon of mass destruction. The real purpose of their white men hear us roar paradigm was to dupe working people into accepting a grotesquely unfair risk/reward life ratio.
3/ It's a formula Republicans adopted from racist Dixiecrats within the Democratic Party. Remarkably, whiney roaring white men racism facilitated acceptance of cultural misogny from white women. Meanwhile, their misogynistic patriarchy was embraced by too many non-white men.
🧵@MarlingaForMI10 belongs to the political party that champions freedom for all and as responsibility from all and also knows when to mind its own damn business. GOP incumbent John James is an enabler of hate, anger and oppression.
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🧵It's called synergy. Volunteer, donate and turn out the vote for Pennsylvania congressman @ChrisForPA and you also help @VP win the state. Win Pennsylvania and we defend freedom against oppressive evil weirdo MAGA GOP terrorists.
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