Republicans have spent decades trying to abolish gov’t agencies including EPA, FDA, & FBI, pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy & big oil, eliminate minimum wage, slash Medicare, & dismantle Social Security.
Marco Rubio getting honest on the Republican play book: Cut taxes on the rich, use their resulting deficits as ammo against Democrats and an excuse to gut programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Republicans have been planning to gut Social Security and Medicare for decades. They’ll do anything to crash the economy to say we can’t afford these essential programs.
Why do Republicans repeatedly bankrupt us & drive staggering deficits? To hurt economy, blame Democrats, & say we can’t afford Social Security & #Medicare
Trump’s 2020 Budget cut #SocialSecurity. Republicans haven’t given up. It’s “Starve the Beast”
Trump’s 2018 budget slashed $1.7 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. Republicans, to pay for their $2 trillion tax giveaway to the wealthy, proposed a cut $5 trillion, including $2 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid, & Affordable Care Act.
My dad died when I was 10. Mom struggled. We received dad’s social security survivor benefits. But then Reagan happened. To pay for his massive tax cuts for the rich, he eliminated death benefits. Cruelty is the point.
1/6) How is anyone surprised Trump bombed Iran and believed he's anti-war?
His poll numbers are tanking, he criticized Obama and Hillary Clinton for not sending American ground troops to Libya, agreed with the Iraq War, and thinks we can plunder oil.
Thread:
#Iran @BarackObama
2/6) “@BarackObama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election" - Donald Trump
#Iran
3/6) "We should...immediately go into Libya, knock this guy [Gaddafi] out very quickly" - Donald Trump
1/10: Pass Universal Background Checks:
33 states don't require background checks for all gun sales. Close the Gun Show Loophole & expand background checks to include magazines and ammunition.
2/10: Close the Charleston Loophole:
Each year hundreds of thousands of potentially prohibited people buy guns from licensed dealers without a completed background check. Extend the time to complete one.
2 - On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it’s fun to remember how he took my dead father’s social security survivor benefits away from my struggling single mom, taxed social security to pay for massive tax cuts on the rich, & how Republicans are pushing for more!
3 - On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it’s fun to remember how he reclassified KETCHUP as a vegetable to cut funding for school lunches while he transferred billions to the top, exploded deficits, and widened income inequality with his trickle down idiocy.
1) As Russian forces close in on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and face brave resistance, I wanted to share a short story of my mother, a Freedom Fighter from another brutal Russian invasion: Hungary, 1956.
She taught me freedom is not free. History repeats.
#Ukraine
2) The Soviet Union occupied half of Europe after WWII & built a very real iron curtain right down the middle. Ignoring agreements, Stalin redrew the map and installed puppet governments. He even took a piece of Hungary & annexed it to Ukraine, dividing families for decades
3) Khrushchev’s "secret speech" in February 1956, denounced the crimes of Stalin and his cult of personality. This "de-Stalinization" led reformers across the Eastern bloc to openly express their discontent with Soviet occupation and oppression.
2) In 1987 Soviet diplomats & KGB arranged a Moscow visit. On his return, Trump spent $100,000 on full-page ads criticizing US foreign policy on “why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves."
3) Trump’s love affair with authoritarianism & dictators is nothing new. Trump saw breakup of Soviet Union as weakness, praised communist China for massacre at Tiananmen, & praised China’s Xi for becoming “President for life.”