Quick 🧵on why @GOPLeader is scrambling around like a raccoon on an overturned garbage can.
Sometime last month, he got a poll back showing that suburban white voters were either staying home or voting blue. They freaked out and called in Gingrich and Frank Luntz 1/
They went into overdrive, probably spending a shit-ton of money on more polling and focus groups and came up with their half-baked “commitment” to America. Problem, though: all the messages are so thin as to be meaningless. “Better economy” - good one, Kev. 2/
On the other side, though, they found that #UltraMAGA voters don’t really love anyone, either. Enter the racist bullhorn brigade. When all else fails, scare the white people. 3/
Kevbo’s problem, though, is that he’s not very good at this. He’s a half-assed political athlete (Uncle Rico) who now has to fear the likes of @EliseStefanik and @RepMTG. Both would defenestrate him for their own purposes (metaphorically, of course) 4/
@GOPLeader’s operation has leaked like a sieve. The messaging leaked. The video leaked. The website leaked. He wasn’t a good whip, he’s not been a good leader. He won’t have to worry about being Speaker. 5/
Lastly, @RepMTG’s appearance on the stage today in Pittsburgh tells us everything about who’s really in control of the @HouseGOP, and it’s not Kev. 6/x
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Quick 🧵 on the return of violence in Trumpland messaging. First, it's not for you, me, or anyone in the pro-democracy movement. It's for the #UltraMAGA - conditioning them for the day when violence occurs and it will seem normal. This is all on ONE side. 1/
Trump's threats represent a rare failure of his lies to give him an escape route with his supporters. Since the Mar-A-Lago search broke the lies have evolved: illegal, they planted evidence, he declassified docs, they're his, have failed to keep the outer rings in line. 2/
As Trump's grip loosens, even slightly, he and his circle will make the idea of prosecution more and more egregious to the #UltraMAGA faithful. It's also a dare to DOJ to move ahead with a prosecution: whatever happens post-indictment will be Biden's fault. Trump warned them. 3/
.@JuddLegum's write-up on corporate PAC giving to Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election is a must-read. A few things to consider: 1) Companies said they wouldn't give to seditionists in the wake of #January6th. Some, like @ATT and @Cigna broken the promise 1/
Others, though, like @Allstate, @BlackRock and @CBS have kept their promises. These, and the dozens of other corporations who've kept their money on the sidelines should be models for others. But also a reminder to keep the pressure on 2/
The Politico article quotes GOP mega-lobbyist Brian Ballard as saying, "Time heals all wounds" in regards to 1/6 and corporate giving. But it shouldn't. Seditionists have no place in positions of public trust. Also a reminder that DC lobbying is a transactional business...3/
Today marks 58 years since Dr. King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.”
“An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.” - Letter from a Birmingham Jail - April 16, 1963 #SB202
“...injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” - Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
Each of the speakers at #QPAC2021 will serve as the opening acts and window dressing for Trumpism’s debut this week in Orlando. There will be no end to the #BigLies Trump’s acolytes attempt to inject into the American body politic. 2/
Members of the GOP House and Senate leadership will decry non-existent voter fraud. They will rejoice in the violence of January 6th and call those who sacked the Capitol “heroes” and “patriots” and “very good people.” They will extol the virtues of the Dear Leader 3/
.@IvankaTrump & Kushner have been the subject of many stories like this one by @NYTLiz. They deserve no sympathy, and no easy return to society, polite or otherwise. They took from the American people - from the moment they arrived at the White House. nytimes.com/2020/11/24/us/… 1/
The families and friends of 250,000 Americans - millions of people - suffer because of Kushner’s inability to recognize his own incompetence, a desire to retain power and punish political opponents. He’s the banality of evil incarnate...2/
Both Jared and Ivanka are exemplars of dilettantism. They’re the spoiled children of reprobates who achieved little to nothing of their own accord and rose to the highest posts in the land only on the back of nepotism. Cloistered in the WH, they used the levers of government...3/