Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

Good point, @SCOTUSBlog.

Supporters of the former guy who say his tax records should remain private are missing the point. The records show evidence of longstanding white collar crime, which exposes the fact they fell for a scam & enabled a Kremlin-compromised, violent traitor.

https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1587443254034927616

That's right. I called him a:

>longstanding white collar criminal
>scammer
>Kremlin-compromised
>violent
>traitor.

Each of those points is supported by a massive amount of credible evidence. One label would be enough, but he is all five.

As an empathic, educated person it was still possible for me to believe the lies, until it wasn't. The nature of the scamming, manipulation, gaslighting & brainwashing was & is such that many otherwise good people are still in it's thrall. That is heartbreaking to their families.

Also heartbreaking to families are the many violent and/or deadly incidents resulting from the current Republican party scam inflicted on the American public since 2015.

Literally millions of deaths so far, worldwide.

And the attempted murder of an 82 year old man last week.

When you join in with the dishonesty campaign about a wholly innocent victim of violent crime, you render yourself no better than the individual allegedly wielding the hammer into the bones of a man's skull, hands and arm.

What is wrong with you?

I was am relieved to hear Paul Pelosi's doctors say "he is expected to make a full recovery" but we all know that his life and those of his loved ones will never be the same.

I can't imagine the physical let alone mental trauma that has been inflicted on him and them.

#StochasticTerrorism is designed to intimidate political candidates, election officials, and the public as a whole.

The individual who is so concerned about concealing his tax records is the person who clearly incited his followers to carry out acts of violence then and now.

And just as culpable as the stochastic terrorist are the millions of enablers, esp. those closest to him professionally and personally. The more you enabled him, the greater your culpability.

A few have said #MeaCulpa, such as @MichaelCohen212. His conscience is now clear.

My conscience is clear, too. As a foreigner, I couldn't legally vote for the cult leader, but if I could have, I would have. I (wrongly) assumed that the obviously violent, fascist part of the movement was shunned and contained. Then it was personally ushered to the forefront.

In hindsight, I now see what others saw all along: That the openly fascist part of the Republican party finally seized control in 2016 and mass violence would follow. Those outside the cult always said 45 would have to be dragged kicking and screaming from the WH when he lost.

Yes, mass violence:

>Terrorist attacks (incl. against Pelosi)
>140 injured cops at the US Capitol, multiple LEO deaths
>Avoidable Covid-, Taliban- and Putin- related deaths
>Avoidable mental illness and suicides
>Avoidable climate change-related deaths

and many more.

The tax records of one failed, increasingly broke, real estate con artist pale into insignificance against the honest, factual body count of today's openly fascist Republican party.

The records will inevitably be made public. This is an administrative, temporary stay only.

The tax records will show what (the open-minded, informed) observers like me realized some time ago: That T**** had utilized inherited wealth and white male privilege for his entire life, to escape accountability for serious criminal offending and even get elected to high office.

Everyone who knew the facts of his long white collar crime career, his mob boss tactics, & his deeply held white supremacist, antisemitic, Islamophobic beliefs, knew that he was in every way unfit for office.

He managed to brainwash enough voters to yet again get away with it.

It's over now, and he knows it. The brainwashing of enough people, I mean.

The violence, fascism, and consequences borne by others, are most certainly not over.

Voting Democrat right down the ballot this year is obviously necessary, but not sufficient.

There is so much work to do, and not just in the US.

Far right AND center right governments are being voted out of office all over the place since the first phase of the pandemic. But it's like cancer surgery. Often you need radiation and chemo to stop it coming back.

If we don't do everything we can, wherever we are, to protect and nurture our democracies, we will lose them.

It's democracy v autocracy, as it has been since the great Age of Enlightenment. We got too comfortable after 1945. The threat of fascism will never go away.

Fascism can only be contained, not destroyed. Striving for a rule-of-law respecting country & world is the only effective way to achieve lasting peace, both internationally & domestically.

I'm excited about this fight & our future. Stay engaged, get involved. And, vote blue.