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Feb 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When I was a kid, TV reception was spotty. Some days it was terrible. You had to adjust little wire antennas on the top of the TV. And point them differently for each station. Of which there were 3, maybe 4. Maybe 2.

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Now, I'm old. I live 30 miles from the nearest small town. Up in the mountains. I don't have cable. I don't even have cell reception. I can't get any "local" channels. Denver is 150 miles away.

I have a satellite internet dish. It's slow. Some days it doesn't work well.

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TV reception is fuzzy, and I only get shows or events that have internet streaming services. When the reception is good enough.

I'm not complaining, really. I love living here, and this is a small price to pay.

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I hope you all get to be as lucky as I am. I hope you appreciate what you have. I hope you work your goddam ass off to make the world better for your kids than it is for you. And for everyone. Even people who are not like you.

#VoteBlue.

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Feb 10
INCREDIBLE dishonesty.

Rick Scott is here comparing Republican cuts of over $800 billion to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, to the savings of close to $300 billion in the Infrastructure Reduction Act, which are achieved by letting Medicare negotiate drug prices.

1/9
Of course, saving $300 billion for Medicare by reducing its costs, WHILE STILL PROVIDING ALL SERVICES TO SENIORS, is =not= the same as reducing benefits by over $800 billion.

So there's that, because:

The proposed Republican cuts under Trump would have reduced benefits....

2/9
But allowing Medicare to negotiate prices reduces COST while still providing ALL the same benefits.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, all this is a distraction that Rick Scott raised to excuse his desire to END Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

3/9
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Feb 9
President Biden pointed out in the SOTU that "some" Republicans want to sunset Social Security and Medicare.

Rick Scott objects, because he wants to sunset EVERYTHING, not just Social Security and Medicare.

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Rick Scott also doesn't listen very well (or doesn't understand much, or lies) because here claims President Biden said Scott wants to "cut" Social Security and Medicare. No, the President said "some" Republicans want to "sunset" these programs--which is what Scott said.

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Rick Scott can't stop lying. Here he claims Democrats "cut Medicare just last year." No. The Inflation Reduction Act allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which will save $280 billion.

If hamburger prices go down, you didn't get your paycheck cut.

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Feb 3
We ALL want DOJ to indict Trump for January 6 crimes--and other crimes.

I don't know if he will be. I do know he WON'T be until everyone lesser has been. Because that's how corrupt criminal organizations are prosecuted.

And I mean "everyone."

Deal with it.

1/10
No, Merrick Garland is not "dragging his feet." He is not "corrupt." He's not "timid." He's doing it right. He's doing it the only way possible. This is how it's done.

Deal with that, too.

(Oh, this applies to Jack Smith too. These guys are superheroes.)

2/10
Also, indicting Trump won't prevent him from running for office, because there's no law or constitutional prohibition on someone accused (or even convicted) of a felony from running for office.

Learn to accept that.

3/10
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Feb 1
Republicans want to demand spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. They've been insisting, for decades, we need to balance the budget, and the way to do that is to cut spending.

The problem they're having now is, they think they've got the power to do that.

1/10
The reason this is a problem is that they're not discovering IT CAN'T BE DONE.

The federal budget cannot be balanced through spending cuts. It's not possible.

So they don't know what to do now. They want to demand spending cuts, but they don't know what to cut.

2/10
Republicans were gonna use "Balance the Budget!" as an excuse to dismantle Medicare and Social Security--but see, these programs don't affect the deficit. They're paid for by FICA taxes, which cannot be used for anything else.

3/10
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Feb 1
I study history, mostly because I want to understand the mistakes that were made so I can warn people about them. But also because I'm a geek.

I will say the following, not to criticize anyone in particular, but to make sure the lessons are understood.

1/17
Bernie Sanders ran the stupidest possible primary campaign in 2020. He got trounced, and deservedly so, because he had the most absurd and idiotic primary strategy anyone could ever imagine.

Say what you will about his policies. Like them or not.

His strategy was dumb.

2/17
Sanders went into the 2020 primary knowing he couldn't possibly get more than 25 or 30 percent of the Democratic vote. He had no chance to get majority support even from Democrats, and he knew it. Yet he wanted to run for president. (Stupid mistake #1 right there.)

3/17
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Jan 30
Then-VP Biden sat with then-President Obama in 2011, the last time Republicans tried to use the debt limit as extortion to demand policy changes they couldn't otherwise get.

Obama negotiated in good faith.

Republicans didn't. Because they don't.

1/6
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In 2011, every time a deal was close, Republicans demanded more. Whenever Republicans are met halfway, they back up to put more space between them and any possible deal.

They haven't gown up any. The Chaos Caucus did that to McCarthy over his Speakership.

2/6
During the humiliating 15-ballot marathon to choose a Speaker, McCarthy gave up so much to the House Cthulhu worshippers that Matt Gaetz eventually said he couldn't even think of anything more to demand. And he =still= didn't vote for McCarthy in the end.

3/6
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