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.
Since this blew up, I’m attaching some additional threads for those interested.

Thread on @GOP being the party of hypocrisy:
Thread on Mitch McConnell’s abuse of the filibuster to block legislation that the overwhelming majority of the country supports:
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 how the @GOP doesn’t just love cancel culture, they invented it:
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.

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Jul 29
🚨Donald Trump *admitting* that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre from one of his properties—is DEEPLY ALARMING for several reasons:
1. Trump Admits Direct Knowledge of Epstein’s Trafficking Activity

“Epstein…hired people from the spa… I told him we don’t want you taking our people… He did it again, I said out of here.”
Trump is casually describing Epstein recruiting or poaching young women from his own establishments—possibly underage girls working in a Trump property spa.
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Jul 28
🚨 NEW: Trump now claims he “wouldn’t talk to Epstein for years” because “he stole people that worked for me” and “hired help.”

This is a brand new excuse. Let’s take a stroll through his ever-changing lies about Epstein and their relationship (THREAD)🧵
Trump has repeatedly claimed he “had a falling out” with Epstein — but has never provided a consistent reason.

At various times he’s said:

• “We had a falling out”
• “I knew him like everybody knew him”
• “I threw him out of Mar-a-Lago”
• “We weren’t close”

ALL. LIES.
Here’s the truth:

Trump and Epstein were extremely close throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

• Trump partied with him constantly
• Called him a “terrific guy”
• Said Epstein “likes beautiful women… many of them on the younger side”

That’s ON RECORD.
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Jul 25
No, Ghislaine Maxwell was NOT granted immunity. Here’s the truth.

People are misinterpreting the Trump DOJ giving Ghislaine Maxwell “limited immunity.” What she got is called proffer protection — and it’s not what you think. Let’s break it down (THREAD 🧵)
“Proffer immunity” (aka “Queen for a Day”) means that she could talk to the DOJ and they generally can’t use her words against her — UNLESS she lies or commits perjury. It’s not immunity. It’s a legal safety net for one conversation.
Maxwell met with DOJ officials for 9 hours over 2 days. She didn’t plead the Fifth. She cooperated. But her lawyer confirmed: “No deal (was offered or accepted). No immunity (was offered or accepted). No promises (were made).” It was a conversation, not a plea or a pardon.
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Jul 21
The official @WhiteHouse account just posted this fanfic meme of Trump strutting through fireworks and money, flanked by bald eagles, bragging about deportations and “memes.”

Six months in, and the fascism isn’t creeping. It’s sprinting — and it brought a fucking emoji pack. Image
Let’s talk about the real “accomplishments” of this regime. Not the propaganda. Not the cosplay.

The actual consequences of this unhinged cult taking power again.

Spoiler alert: it’s not a “Golden Age.” It’s a dystopian hellscape with a laugh track.
✅ DEPORTATIONS ARE BACK

But not just that. They’re being celebrated from the podium.
Human lives reduced to punchlines in a meme. Due process eliminated. Families destroyed, asylum seekers turned away, and ICE unleashed like a paramilitary goon squad.

That’s the “win.”
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Jul 16
If his tax returns didn’t expose crimes, they’d be public

If the Putin transcripts didn’t reveal treason, we’d have them

If the WH visitor logs didn’t prove corruption, he’d have leaked them himself

And if the Epstein list didn’t implicate him, HE’D HAVE ALREADY WEAPONIZED IT
It’s amazing how the guy who NEVER SHUTS UP suddenly goes silent when the receipts would BURY HIM

Everything he hides is a CONFESSION

Everything he attacks is a PROJECTION

MAGA logic: “He’s innocent, and that’s why he’s deliberately hiding everything that could prove it.” 🤔
“But you have no proof!”

The proof is in what he won’t show us. Innocent people don’t act like this.

“Biden didn’t release it either!”

Trump had the Epstein list while in power, with his own DOJ & FBI director. Why didn’t he release it then?

Because he’s MOST LIKELY ON IT!
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Let’s break down what Trump’s comment about Ghislaine Maxwell really tells us (THREAD)🧵

Trump: “I’ve met her numerous times since they lived in Palm Beach and I guess I lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well.” 😬
Ghislaine Maxwell is not a political prisoner.

She wasn’t a wrongly accused whistleblower.

She was convicted of grooming and trafficking children for sex.

Let’s be very clear about that.

And when Trump was asked about her, he said:

“I wish her well.” 🫢
Trump didn’t just say “I’ve met her.”

He said:

“I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach.”

That’s not just a passing acquaintance. That’s SOCIAL FAMILIARITY — and an admission they ran in the SAME CIRCLES for MANY YEARS.
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