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Aug 27, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Let's take a step back, and review what's happened in recent months:

- Trump steals nation's secrets, lies about it to FBI. Historic security breach.

- Trump's CFO pleads guilty to 15 felonies.

- Trump takes the fifth 440 times in an investigation into his crooked finances.
- Jan 6th investigations establish Trump led a massive illegal conspiracy, involving hundreds of GOP officials incl Sens Graham and Johnson, which sought to overturn an American election and unleashed a violent attack on Congress as part of its strategy.
- The Trump family took $2b from the Saudi government, and launched a new business venture with them here in the US.

- The Supreme Court goes on an extremist field day, ending Roe, legalizing coercive prayer, weakening common sense guns laws.
- States pass medieval abortion restrictions, creating a public health crisis in the United States.

- A leading Republican organization brings Putin's closest ally in Europe, Hungary's Orban, to US while we are fighting Putin in Ukraine.

- More mass shootings.
- Election deniers have won GOP primaries across the country. Some of them will get elected this fall.

- Liz Cheney lost her primary to an absolute fucking lunatic.

- Trump has encouraged violence against the FBI/DOJ and attacks have taken place.
It's been a tornado of malevolence and venality unlike anything we've seen in American history.

It's why this election matters so much. Voters must reject what the GOP has become or it will get worse.

Things are moving our way but we cannot let up.

And there is growing evidence that all this criminality, awfulness and extremism - MAGA - is causing the GOP itself to crack, splinter and meltdown in the closing days of the election.

Praise f---ing be.

Thanks to the insights of readers one more example of recent MAGA malevolence:

- We learned just how much Barr corruptly whitewashed Mueller's findings on Trump's rancid relationship w/Putin; little doubt now Barr's betrayal of US natl interest among worst in US history.
W/knowledge now of Putin's attack on Ukraine/West, this historic natl security breach and Trump's ongoing attacks on our democracy, Barr/McConnell's efforts to bury Mueller and Zelensky blackmailing will become known as among darkest acts in US history.

Another addition to the outrageous litany of criminality, extremism and illiberalism of MAGA in recent months:

- we've learned that the Trumpists' penetration of our physical voting systems was far greater than had been understood.

thebulwark.com/how-team-trump…

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Apr 8
In other news it is now undeniable that there is a Russian fifth column operating in United States trying to destroy the country and the global democracy movement from within.

In the last week Kennedy made it clear he is seeking to become a leader of this fifth column.
That MAGA is a Russian fifth column is now being openly discussed by Republican leaders themselves as they look on in horror at what has become of the party of Reagan.

Could RFK have constructed a more pro-Russian position?

“This is the reality that every American Citizen faces — from Ed Snowden, to Julian Assange to the J6 activists sitting in a Washington DC jail cell stripped of their Constitutional liberties.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
Read 4 tweets
Apr 6
With another roaring jobs report - 303,000!!! - my monthly jobs tracker now comes in at:

33.8m jobs = 16 yrs Clinton, Obama
15.2m jobs = 3+ yrs Biden
1.9m jobs = 16 yrs 2 Bushes, Trump

8 times more Biden jobs than last 3 R Presidents COMBINED. 1/ Image
The rate of job growth has been 40 times higher under Biden than it was under the last 3 GOP Presidents. 40 times. Last month's 303,000 jobs would be 2 1/2 years of job growth under Republicans. 2/ Image
Since 1989 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million - 96% - of those have been created under Democratic Presidents. Essentially all of them, over 3 and half decades. 3/ Image
Read 4 tweets
Feb 28
Morning after Michigan thread:
- Biden wins big, breaks 80%, uncommitted at a very modest 13%. Opposition to Biden foreign policy limited, but intense.
- Trump underperforms public polling again, 4th state in a row. Trump/RNC are struggling. More 👇1/

hopiumchronicles.com/p/bidens-succe…
For Dems, big takeaway - there just isn't a big backlash in party against Biden's handling of Israel-Hamas:
- Uncommitted got 11% vs Obama in 2012, 13% vs Biden
- In Econ/YouGov Dems approve of Biden for pol 71-21, 18-29s year olds give good marks. 2/

hopiumchronicles.com/p/joe-biden-is…
As @Lawrence and I discussed last night on @TheLastWord, Dems are having a real debate about foreign policy right now, and that's healthy. What democracies do.

Biden has work to do to get his coalition together, as all candidates do 8-9 months out. 3/

Read 6 tweets
Feb 21
Stop calling Trump a strong candidate. He
- isn't leading or favored in national polling 👇
- was outraised by Nikki Haley last month
- is burning through $$$$
- underperformed NH polls by 10-15 pts
- is losing all his court cases, badly
- his party is broke, struggling
- NY-3!
The GOP = unprecedented shitshow:
- got beat in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, struggling in early 2024
- leadership ousted, dozens indicted
- broke, burning cash
- House Members abandoning ship
- flacking Russia disinfo, serially betraying the country
- nominee is bat shit crazy
Listen to this interview.

THIS IS A MASSIVE SCANDAL. It’s an unbelievable betrayal of the country. Media has to stop covering these guys as any thing other than rancid Russian fifth columnists.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 14
As we await the results of NY-3 tonight, a reminder that the Democratic Party has been on a remarkable run of late.

More in my analysis below, and a few points here in a thread. 1/

hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-democrat…
Dems have won more votes in 7 of past 8 Presidential elections, the best popular vote run of an American political party in history.

In the last 4 Pres elections, we've averaged 51%, Rs 46%. It's our best run since FDR's 4 elections 80+ yrs ago. 2/
hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-democrat…
In 2016 Trump barely prevailed, even with:
- extraordinary intervention by Russia
- decapitation of the DNC
- FBI's unprecedented intervention

He never was a strong candidate, with a special connection to the electorate. Polls weren't wrong - Comey changed election at end. 3/
Read 11 tweets
Feb 2
Holy moly - a huge jobs report!

479,000 new jobs with revisions, average hourly earnings up 0.6 in a single month! Let's get to the mighty monthly jobs thread...

33.8m jobs = 16 yrs Clinton, Obama
14.8m jobs = 3 yrs Biden
1.9m jobs = 16 yrs 2 Bushes, Trump 1/ Image
Jobs have been created at more than 40 times the rate under Biden as under the last 3 GOP Presidents.

Note that R Presidents averaged 120,000 jobs created PER YEAR for 16 yrs, while 353,000 were created LAST MONTH alone. 2/ Image
Since 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and a new age of globalization began, 51 million net new jobs have been created in America.

49 million of those, 96%, have been created under Democratic Presidents. Essentially all of them. 3/ Image
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