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) 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.
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.”
Conservatives whitewash Civil War history, saying it was about “states’ rights” & not slavery. Here’s a thread to help you make up your own mind and to share. Not my words - the words of the Confederate authors.
2) “Our new government’s foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery - subordination to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition.”
Alexander Stephens has no place in the US Capitol.
3) Why did Georgia secede?
The prohibition of slavery… hostility to it, the equality of the black & white races… were boldly proclaimed by its leaders & applauded by its followers… The prohibition of slavery in the Territories is the cardinal principle.”
81) Sen. Doug Ericksen was on Trump’s transition team & served as communications lead at Environmental Protection Agency. Ericksen was a vocal opponent of COVID restrictions, saying he would introduce a bill opposing vaccine mandates.
83) Roger Dale Moon, unvaccinated false prophet & pastor of Revelation Fire Ministries in South Carolina said “You have the power to say, ‘This is Not how my Life will end. God is my strength… I will live a victorious life’” He died shorty after contracting #COVID19#Spreadnecks
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Tonight’s topic: Slavery
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Time for our next game of #StumpARepublican - the finest Twitter trivia game to ever stump a Republican!
>>> According to the 1860 Census, what percent of Southerners owned slaves?
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HINT #1
There is a strong, persistent myth pushed by historical revisionists and slavery apologists about slave holding in the Southern states and confederacy.
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