Republicans are so flabbergasted over their inability to connect with young voters it’s almost comical. You wanna know why they hate you and upwards of 90% of them will never vote for you @GOP? I’ll break it down for you (Thread)
1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able to own a home, much less earn a living wage.
2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still $7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation, it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.
3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box, particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic (like young people and POC). You staged a fucking coup the last time you lost.
4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand poverty.
5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons; subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the @NRA.
6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.
7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each day
8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes.
9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in society.
10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.
11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth and drag queens.
12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it and it’s basically all you do.
13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason, hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and more.
14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.
15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich donors
16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting age
17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire “administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed
18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people like THIS
19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.
20.) You are the reason we can’t pass:
—Universal background checks
—An assault weapons ban
—The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John Lewis Voting Rights Act
—The ERA & Equality Act
—The Climate Action Now Act
—The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act
—SCOTUS expansion
21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily autonomy.
This is one of those threads I could probably continue indefinitely, but I’m gonna leave it for now. Thank you for sharing and welcome new followers! If you liked this thread, you’ll like my content. I write threads that obliterate the @GOP on pretty much every topic quite often.
22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.
Thread on the 147 @GOP lawmakers who tried to finish what Trump’s insurrection failed to do and overturn the results of the 2020 election, despite there being no substantive evidence of voter fraud or election interference:
Thread on the disproportionate representation of the United States senate and how Republicans have used this to hold the senate majority for 25 of the past 30 years in spite of representing ~40 million fewer Americans:
Thread on the disgusting traitorous bigoted disgrace @RepMTG who republicans not only reinstated to her committees, but made the face of their party despite her deep involvement in January 6th and open association with white supremacist groups:
Thread on the domestic terrorist and conspiracy theory group Q-Anon that @RepMTG and several of her Republican colleagues are proud members/supporters of, which is a rebranded Nazi cult of extremist lunatics:
Thread on how there is nothing pro-life about Republicans’ forced birth movement and their unconstitutional overturning of Roe saves no lives but endangers those of millions of women and children:
Thread on all the publicly available evidence we have against Trump and the @GOP for planning, executing, inciting, and doing nothing to stop the January 6th insurrection on the U.S. Capitol:
Thread summarizing the findings of the @January6thCmte that they presented in 10 televised hearings and made an unassailable case against Donald Trump and his enablers in the @GOP for conspiring to defraud the American people with his ‘Big Lie’ that incited the insurrection:
23.) You are anti-science, anti-education, anti-equality, anti-democracy, anti-diversity, anti-justice, anti-common sense, while being pro-white supremacy, pro-fascism, pro-domestic terrorism, pro-insurrection, pro-sedition, & pro-preventable mass deaths from COVID & gun violence
24.) You spit on our veterans & service members; those who have done the opposite of what you have and actually dedicated their lives to defend this country and our democracy. You deny them benefits; venerate ‘leaders’ who disparage them; and are trying to cut 22% of VA funding.
I just shared a theory of mine with @Grok about how @realDonaldTrump, @elonmusk, the @GOP, and the right-wing media machine stole the 2024 election and it told me I WAS CORRECT.
Here's what I posited:
"I believe the Republican Party waged a propaganda operation (of near psy-op level) to get Donald Trump back into office. In order to do this, they knew they needed to convince the American people that things were terrible under Biden even though they actually were not." (1 of 2)
"I have also always been wary of the way Biden was forced out over one debate performance that seemed to be more of an issue of a hoarse voice than cognitive issues, and yet simply because of how everyone misperceived it, Biden dropped out with only 108 days left in the campaign"
List of peace/ceasefire agreements broken by Russia:
❌1949: Geneva Convention I
❌1949: Geneva Convention II
❌1949: Geneva Convention III
❌1949: Geneva Convention IV
❌1966: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
❌1977: Geneva Protocols I
❌1977: Geneva Protocols II
List of peace/ceasefire agreements broken by Russia (cont’d: Part I):
❌1984: The United Nations Convention against Torture
❌1987: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
❌1990: Conventional forces in Europe Treaty
❌1992: Open Skies Treaty
❌1994: Budapest Memorandum
List of peace/ceasefire agreements broken by Russia (cont’d: Part 2):
❌1997: Chemical Weapons Convention
❌2005: Geneva Protocol III
❌2008: Ceasefire agreement (Georgia)
❌2008: UN Charter - Article II, Section 4
Tulsi Gabbard is a traitor who ensures we are effectively cut off from any intelligence being shared with us from our allies. This means if an allied nation gets word about the next 9/11-level terrorist attack being planned against America, we will remain in the dark about it.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is also a traitor who doesn’t believe in science or vaccines. He will ensure that tens or hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans die preventable deaths from outbreaks of eradicated diseases like Measles and Polio and new ones like Bird Flu.
Sean Duffy is a traitor who has helped Trump and Musk gut the FAA, fire thousands of ATCs, and freeze hiring and funding for the TSA which ensures our safety during travel, resulting in plane crash after plane crash after plane crash; all of which he’s blamed on President Biden.
Professors William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulson (conservatives):
“Despite its long slumber, Section III of the 14th Amendment is alive and in force. It remains fully legally operative. It is constitutionally self-executing—that is, its command is automatically effective and…”
…directly enacted by the Constitution itself—and it is sweeping: It sweeps over earlier and inconsistent constitutional provisions. It sweeps in a broad range of conduct attacking the authority of the United States.”
“And it sweeps in a broad category of former oath-swearing officeholders turned insurrectionists or aiders and comforters of insurrection or rebellion. It is enforceable by anybody whose duties provide occasion for judging legal eligibility for office.”
I’ll explain this again just to get ahead of the MAGA outrage at my “lack of civility/tolerance for people with different political beliefs.” If you voted for Trump, you and I do not have “different political beliefs.” We are at opposite ends of the cosmos in terms of character.
If you voted for Trump, you voted for the nullification of my marriage by your corrupt court of illegitimate religious extremists who we all know isn’t done taking a sledgehammer to our fundamental freedoms and most cherished victories for equality and civil rights.
If you voted for Trump, you voted for mass deportations, which will destroy the nation; crater the economy; tear apart MILLIONS of families. I cannot be friends with someone who supports something so needless, racist, inhumane, unconstitutional, and un-American.