Since Trump is running again, let’s re-sensitize ourselves to the experience of those 4 years with a trip down memory lane. #Election2024 #Trump #Vote
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I owe all you Trumpers an apology. I’ve been critical of him from day one & I’m still exhausted from the experience.
2/ But to be fair, he wasn’t that bad.
Other than when he...
▪️abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the US during the war
▪️abandoned our allies, the Kurds, to Turkey
▪️absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it & refused to give them back when feds
3/ asked nicely
▪️accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his SOTU address
▪️acted as if US AG was his personal attorney
▪️actively discouraged COVID testing
▪️allowed his staff to repeatedly violate Hatch Act
▪️allowed political hacks to overrule govt scientists
4/ on major reports on climate change et al
▪️allowed WH staff to use personal email accounts for official business after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same
▪️announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria, which not only handed Russia & ISIS a win, but
5/ prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest
▪️apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
▪️appointed an anti-abortion advocate to oversee family planning funding for low-income communities
▪️approved a devastating oil pipeline through Native lands
6/ ▪️asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign – and got it
▪️attacked Dr. Fauci
▪️attacked SCOTUS when it ruled against him
▪️believed Frederick Douglass was still alive
▪️berated & belittled his hand-picked AG when he recused himself from Russia probe
▪️binge-watched
7/ Fox "News" when he should’ve been working
▪️blamed mental illness & video games for gun violence
▪️blew off honoring American war dead in France because rain
▪️blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
▪️botched COVID vaccine rollout
▪️bragged about
8/ firing FBI director on TV
▪️built an incomplete border fence that wasn’t needed, doesn't work & wasn’t paid for by Mexico
▪️called a US Senator “Pocahontas”
▪️called an AA Congresswoman “low IQ”
▪️called BLM a “symbol of hate”
▪️called city of Baltimore “worst in the
9/ nation”
▪️called Haiti & African nations “shithole” countries
▪️called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
▪️called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution
▪️called Muslim mayor of London a
10/ “stone cold loser”
▪️called neo-Nazis “very fine people”
▪️called veterans & soldiers who died in combat “losers” & “suckers”
▪️caused the longest govt shutdown in US history
▪️charged Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties
▪️claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve
11/ stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
▪️claimed black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
▪️claimed COVID would “magically disappear”
▪️claimed FBI failed to capture Parkland shooter because they were “spending too much
12/ time” on Russia
▪️claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln
▪️claimed he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere
▪️claimed his losing tariff war was a win for the US
▪️claimed if we
13/ tested fewer people for COVID, we’d have fewer cases
▪️claimed legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts”
▪️claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security
14/ guard there
▪️claimed migrants seeking a better life in US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists
▪️claimed military was out of ammunition before he became president
▪️claimed other countries laughed at us before he was president when several world leaders
15/ were literally laughing at him
▪️claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute power
▪️claimed there were airports during the American Revolution
▪️claimed to have bone spurs to get out of military service
▪️claimed without evidence the
16/ Obama administration bugged Trump Tower
▪️colluded w/McConnell to push through fed judges & 2 SCOTUS justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judge
▪️constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president, which presumably includes 4
17/ who were assassinated & his predecessor, whose legitimacy & birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV star named Donald Trump
▪️constantly interrupted Joe Biden in the first presidential debate
▪️continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11
18/ responders
▪️covered for leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution & dismemberment of a US-based journalist
▪️created a commission to whitewash American history
▪️cut CDC funding
▪️cut corporate tax rate to the lowest it's been since 1939
▪️delayed signing
19/ COVID relief bill
▪️deliberately f*cked up the Census
▪️demanded Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade
▪️demanded “total loyalty” from FBI director
▪️deported US veterans who served their country but were undocumented
▪️did absolutely nothing after Russia
20/ hacked US
▪️did so few of his duties, his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”
▪️didn’t disclose his private meetings w/Putin,
21/ so US had to find out via Russian media
▪️directed his lawyer to commit campaign fraud to cover up that Trump cheated on his wife after she had recently given birth
▪️discouraged exercise because he believes bodies are like batteries, with a finite amount of energy
22/ ▪️dismissed any bad news about himself as “fake”
▪️diverted military funding to build his fence
▪️doubled membership fees at his resort hotel after election
▪️drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane
▪️ejected
23/ reporters from the WH briefing room who asked tough questions
▪️eliminated the WH office of pandemic response
▪️falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police
▪️falsely claimed Boy Scouts told him his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts
24/ ▪️falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
▪️falsely claimed factories were reopening when they weren’t
▪️falsely claimed he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year
▪️falsely claimed he won the 2016 popular vote
▪️falsely claimed
25/ mail-in voting is fraudulent
▪️fired acting attorney general for not defending his Muslim travel ban
▪️fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him
▪️fired FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia
▪️fired head of election cyber security after he
26/ said the 2020 election was the most secure in US history
▪️flip-flopped on whether WH ordered USS John McCain be hidden so he wouldn’t get mad (it did)
▪️flushed documents down the toilet
▪️forced Cabinet to praise him publicly like some cult leader
▪️forced press
27/ secretary to claim, without merit, that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history
▪️forced SS to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
▪️forced through denied security clearances for his family
▪️gave himself an A+ for his handling of the
28/ pandemic
▪️gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressmen who amplified his batshit conspiracy theories
▪️gave Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom at SOTU address
▪️got impeached
▪️got impeached again
▪️got into a telephone fight with the leader of
29/ Australia (!)
▪️got played by Kim Jong Un and his “love letters”
▪️grossly abused the presidential pardon on his way out the door
▪️had no problem with his VP potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d sent to the Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power
30/ ▪️had press secretary who claimed Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they gassed 6 million Jews
▪️had SOS who called him a "f***ing moron"
▪️had three of the highest annual trade deficits in US history
▪️ had worst jobs record
31/ of any president in modern history
▪️held blatant campaign rallies at WH
▪️held COVID super spreader event in Rose Garden
▪️held private meetings with Putin without staff present & stole note taker’s notes
▪️held rallies filled with maskless supporters during a pandemic &
32/ made them sign waivers
▪️held super spreader rally that may have led to death of Herman Cain
▪️hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebration to give a partisan speech
▪️hired senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
▪️hired
33/ shady figures who were eventually convicted of federal offenses, including his campaign manager & national security adviser
▪️hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
▪️hired unqualified daughter & SIL to work in WH
▪️hired white supremacist Stephen Miller
▪️ignored evidence of
34/ Michael Flynn’s meetings with Russia
▪️ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings
▪️incited an insurrection against the govt
▪️incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic
▪️increased national debt by nearly $8
35/ trillion
▪️insisted “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”
▪️insulted leader of Britain
▪️insulted leader of Canada
▪️insulted leader of France
▪️insulted leader of Germany
36/ ▪️insulted leader of Sweden (!)
▪️insulted members of Congress & media w/infantile nicknames
▪️insulted own Cabinet on Twitter
▪️insulted reporters of color
▪️insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death
▪️insulted women reporters
▪️insulted women reporters of
37/ color
▪️interfered with plans to relocate FBI because it might compete with his hotel
▪️invented three million “illegal” voters to explain Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote
▪️invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to a secret meeting in the Oval Office,
38/ where he blurted out top-secret intelligence
▪️“jokingly” said on multiple occasions he deserved to be president for more than two terms
▪️led a political party that couldn’t be bothered to draft a policy platform
▪️left a NATO summit early in a huff
▪️lied nearly 30,000
39/ times
▪️locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones
▪️lost 60 election fraud cases in court, including before judges he'd nominated
▪️lost a winnable election, then refused to accept the results – or his own
40/ responsibility for losing
▪️lost separated children in the bureaucracy
▪️mismanaged a pandemic that's killed nearly a million Americans
▪️mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
▪️mocked wearing masks to guard against COVID
41/ ▪️named as head of federal personnel a 29yo who’d previously been fired from the WH for allegations of financial improprieties
▪️nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet
▪️never came up with a healthcare plan
▪️never came up with an infrastructure
42/ plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks”
▪️never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
▪️nominated climate change skeptic to chair committee on environmental policy
▪️nominated corrupt head of EPA
▪️nominated corrupt head of HHS
▪️nominated
43/ corrupt head of Interior Dept
▪️nominated corrupt head of USDA
▪️nominated worst Education Secretary in history
▪️obsessed over low-flow toilets
▪️opened up pristine federal lands to development & drilling
▪️openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at
44/ Mar-a-Lago, where everyone could hear
▪️openly embraced & amplified QAnon conspiracy theories
▪️ordered release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
▪️“ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
▪️overturned energy
45/ conservation standards that even industry supported
▪️pardoned several of his shady associates
▪️pardoned war criminals
▪️passed huge tax cuts for corporations ― and massively grew national debt
▪️placed corrupt political hack in charge of USPS
▪️politicized the civil
46/ service
▪️praised conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles
▪️praised dictators & authoritarians while criticizing allies
▪️pressured governor & SOS of Georgia to “find” him 11,780 votes
▪️pushed leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op
47/ ▪️pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID
▪️pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans
▪️raked in cash from foreign interests at his Washington hotel in an operation described as “epicenter” of a
48/ corrupt presidency
▪️received $60,0000 for hosting an event for Kuwait
▪️redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle
▪️reduced number of refugees US accepts
▪️refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
▪️refused to allow
49/ presidential transition to begin
▪️refused to attend his successor's inauguration
▪️refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power
▪️refused to concede the 2020 election
▪️refused to reaffirm US commitment to defending NATO allies
▪️refused to release WH visitor logs
50/ ▪️refused to send federal aid to NYC amid first COVID wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest
▪️removed protected status from 59,000 Hatians, forcing them to return to disaster-ridden Haiti
▪️repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people”
51/ ▪️repeatedly refused to release his tax returns
▪️retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
▪️retweeted gif calling Biden a pedophile
▪️rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury & asbestos
▪️rolled back regulations that
52/ stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers
▪️said any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
▪️said Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs
▪️said he had a special aptitude for science
▪️said head of CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
▪️said Japanese
53/ would sit back & watch their “Sony televisions” if US was ever attacked
▪️said nothing when Putin poisoned his leading opposition
▪️said police should rough up suspects
▪️said US rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
▪️said US should buy Greenland
54/ ▪️said wind turbines cause cancer
▪️seemed not to know Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
▪️separated hundreds of children from their families & lost them in the bureaucracy
▪️shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
▪️spent an
55/ obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing President Obama for playing (far less) golf
▪️stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
▪️started a losing tariff war w/China, forcing US taxpayers to bail out farmers
56/ ▪️stood before the sacred CIA wall of heroes & bragged about his election win
▪️stopped funding for the UN Population Fund which supports family planning across the globe
▪️stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
▪️struggled to navigate a ramp after claiming
57/ his opponent was feeble
▪️suggested COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered (w/help of top govt doctors & treatments not available to the public)
▪️suggested he was fine w/China’s oppression of the Uyghurs
▪️suggested govt should nuke hurricanes
▪️summoned PA state
58/ legislative leaders to WH to pressure them to overturn election
▪️suggested US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher
▪️suggested US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country
▪️suggested vaccines
59/ cause autism
▪️tear-gassed peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church
▪️thought Africa was a country
▪️thought people needed an ID to buy cereal
▪️thought repeating “person, woman, man, camera, TV” would assure
60/ Americans of his mental stability
▪️thought Virgin Islands had a president
▪️threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted
▪️threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution
▪️threatened to withhold federal aid from states & cities
61/ with Democratic leaders & states that didn’t vote for him
▪️threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them
▪️told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID even though they work
▪️told Bob Woodward in private that COVID was a big deal
62/ but downplayed it in public
▪️told Proud Boys to “stand back & stand by”
▪️told police to rough up suspects
▪️told a sheriff to ‘destroy’ the career of a senator who opposed police ability to seize assets
▪️took advice from the MyPillow guy
▪️took Putin’s word over
63/ US intelligence community's
▪️touted hydroxychloroquine to cure COVID
▪️touted injecting bleach to cure COVID
▪️touted ivermectin to cure COVID
▪️touted “super-duper” secret “hydro sonic” missile, which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all
64/ ▪️touted ultraviolet light to cure COVID
▪️tried to ban Muslims from entering US
▪️tried to ban TikTok after teens claimed credit for half-filled seats at his ‘comeback’ rally in Tulsa
▪️tried to cheat to get himself nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
▪️tried to extort
65/ Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden
▪️tried to fire special counsel Mueller repeatedly
▪️tried to force G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
▪️tried to get Russia back into G7
▪️tried to launch a 'voter fraud hotline' that was flooded by prank
66/ calls
▪️tried to penalize sanctuary cities for migrants
▪️tried to pressure UK to hold British Open at his golf course
▪️tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
▪️tried to rescind protection for DREAMers
67/ ▪️tried to start a boycott of Goodyear because of an Internet hoax
▪️tried to stop transgender students from using school bathrooms in line with their gender
▪️tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a black man
▪️tried to
68/ take credit for COVID vaccine
▪️tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter banned him
▪️used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus”
▪️used his platform to ‘cancel’ a tire company
▪️used soldiers as campaign props
▪️used Twitter to blast Nordstrom
69/ when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise
▪️vetoed defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers
▪️violated emoluments clause
▪️walked out of a medal ceremony in the Oval Office
▪️walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl
70/ ▪️wanted to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor
▪️wanted to withdraw US from NATO
▪️was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women
▪️withdrew US from Iranian nuclear deal
▪️withdrew US from Paris climate accords
▪️withdrew US from Trans Pacific
71//
Partnership, which was designed to block China’s advances
▪️withdrew US from WHO during a pandemic & a whole bunch of other things I can’t recall at the moment.
But other than that. . . 🤷🏻♂️
This is how history books will read because these are provable facts. #MAGA
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White Americans cling to guns as a symbol of strength & independence. They see its loss as a final, fatal blow.
2/ Yes, the gun lobby & weapons manufacturers fuel the violence with easily available assault-style weapons, whose small caliber 5.56 mm cartridges make them largely useless for hunting. Yes, the lax gun laws & risible background checks are partially to blame. But America also
3/ fetishizes guns. This fetish has intensified among white working-class men, who have seen everything slip beyond their grasp: economic stability, a sense of place within the society, hope for the future & political empowerment. The fear of losing the gun is the final crushing
Marching, protesting, demanding, calling, writing, testifying, donating, advertising – none of these will bring the change we must have without voting.
The one way to effect change on gun legislation in this country is to vote for the person who will change laws.
Vote like you mean it.
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Please follow them, RT & donate!
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I owe all you Trumpers an apology. I’ve been critical of him from day one and I’m still exhausted from the experience.
But to be fair, he wasn’t that bad.
Other than when he...
▪️incited an insurrection against the govt
▪️mismanaged a pandemic that's killed nearly a
2/
million Americans
▪️separated hundreds of children from their families
▪️lost those children in the bureaucracy
▪️tear-gassed peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church
▪️tried to ban Muslims from entering the
3/ country
▪️got impeached
▪️got impeached again
▪️ had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history
▪️tried to extort President Zelenskyy/Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden
▪️fired FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia
▪️bragged abt firing FBI director
𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗼 𝗖𝗔 – 𝟭𝟲 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱
Lt. Mike Madden, who's job is largely administrative:
"The realization came to me – I think I'm the first guy here. The first officer on scene has
2/ some decisions they have to make & I had it set in my mind that I wanted three more officers to go in with me...None of us were SWAT guys. If you were trying to formulate a team to make entry...the four of us would not be on your roster.
But that was the team that we had.
3/ That was the team that we were rolling with.
After Columbine...it became the responsibility of those first officers on scene – whether patrolman or detective or sergeant or some stupid lieutenant who happens to be in the area – it's our responsibility to get there, form up a