1/ Fellow resisters, up to January 20, 2025, events are going to test us. Let's stay calm, always act with courageous integrity, and remain persistently vigilant. We should not overreact with irrational exuberance to good news until our democracy (Cont) #ResistanceRoots #ONEV1
2/ is secured. Likewise, we should not reflexively assume the worst with every setback. Jack Smith's case from what we know is strong. And judge Aileen Cannon being assigned to it might actually work to our country's advantage. It's not so easy to "fix" a strong case like (Cont)
3/ Smith has with the whole world watching. Meanwhile, Trump/Putin Republicans won't be able to whine about the DC venue or an Obama appointed judge. Either way, we must NOT sit back and wait for multiple prosecutions to save us. Rather, we must continue to resist GOP (Cont)
4/oppression against POC, LGTBQ folks, women, and their ongoing assault on decency and incitement to violence. They will try to intimidate us from canvassing and mobilizing voters with violence and their guns. That's scary. Never forget our vets we're also scared when they (Cont)
5/ sacrificed themselves to defend our freedom. Hell, members of the French Resistance were scared in Vichy France. Civil Rights activists were also scared and endured beatings in the 50s and 60s. If they could act with courageous integrity, we can stay strong and resist (Cont)
6/ depraved treasonous child marriage supporting MAGA assclowns. At stake is preserving America's journey to becoming a more perfect union as a diverse multicultural society. Our cause is just and a global community of folks committed to democracy are also depending on us (Cont)
7/ not to fail. Indeed, our cause is to f**k**g important to fail. So stay strong and with patience and persistence continue to engage friends, family, and neighbors in Red and Blue America. We must all be force multipliers for democracy. Merely voting and waiting on (Cont)
8/ Jack Smith to save us isn't enough.
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1/ Decades of activist experience has convinced me only by branding Democrats as the freedom party can we move our center of political gravity toward an inclusive populism.
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2/ It is the singular message to engage and persuade small town rural America, independent conservative leaning voters, our core urban/suburban metro base and disillusioned progressives. Other strategies and messaging, well intentioned as they may be, is ineffectual noise.
3/ Hence, as my followers know, my messaging touchstone stems from FDR's "Four Freedoms Speech" to congress on 1/6/41 when democracy was on the brink:
➡️Freedom of Speech
➡️Freedom of Worship (or not to worship)
➡️Freedom from Want
➡️Freedom from Fear
1/ If I had a child who's recovery from drug addiction was jeopardized by sanctimonious sadistic political adversaries, there is no way could I summon any grace.
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2/ We all know if Hunter's last name were "Smith" there would be no trials regarding his gun purchase or for tax offenses that had already been remediated via payment over $1 million of a tax liability that no longer needed to be collected.
3/ When deciding whether to move forward with criminal trials, prosecutors and judges are supposed to weigh the spirit of the law and if justice itself is being served. Hence, the end result for non-violent crimes is often plea agreements if defendants are already making amends.
🧵Thread below is in the voice of Star Trek DS9 character, Garak to make a broader point.
Dearest Humans,
1/ I know a thing or two about lying. As a legendary operative for Cardassia's Obsidian Order, lying was my trade.
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2/ My father, Enabran Tain was the head of the Obsidian Order. All I ever wanted was his approval and acceptance. So I told lies that toppled planetary governments opposed to Cardassia's empire and preserve our orderly state.
Lying you see becomes a kind of drug after awhile.
3/ In Cardassia, more lies we Obsidian Order agents told, the more we needed to say to justify our authoritarian state. In Cardassia, checks and balances meant competition between my former intelligence agency & the military led by aspiring tyrants such as my old enemy Gul Dukat.
1/ This thread represents observations, challenges encountered and lessons learned from my recent engagement with an independent right leaning voter after Trump's conviction.
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2/ This voter resides in a NY district that put control of the House in GOP hands in 2022. As a Blue State activist, one way I try to be a strategic Democracy Multiplier is to engage my network of friends, family & acquaintances in such districts that are fickle yet persuadable.
3/ I post such threads periodically of successes, failures and lessons learned to hopefully inspire as well help empower others in our resistance community to engage and persuade. My interpretation of these encounters are of course subjective.
1/ If Joe Biden is still POTUS in 2025, those who opposed him and their families will not be murdered, incarcerated or deported. The same cannot be said of those who opposed Trump.
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2/ Nikki Haley understands this. So does Bill Barr, Tim Scott, Mitch McConnell etc. Their flip flopping on Trump is not just about their own ambitions or unscrupulous positioning for access, power, relevance and money. It's literally life and death for them and their families.
3/ That is what happens in authoritarian regimes. As an historical example, I refer you to my below thread and what happened to Saddam Hussein's political opponents on July 22nd, 1979, six days after he became Iraq's president.
1/ Remember the 1987 movie Wall Street starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko? Most recall his iconic "greed is good" line. But this is THE scene.
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2/ Gekko asks Charlie Sheen's character Bud Fox, "Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you Buddy?" Then Gekko boasts how he creates and builds nothing yet is still part of an elite 1% that controls most of America's wealth and makes the rules.
3/ On Memorial Day Weekend we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice. They believed or were told they were going to war not for the "free market" but freedom itself. Those of us who did not serve are at least obliged as citizens to respect the real principles of freedom.