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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline

Dec 27, 2024

Democrats,
We’re Missing Something. Hear Me Out…

Do you remember how Dems used to refer to large sections of the United States as ‘flyover country’? Somewhere along the way, we realized that by using that phrase, we were canceling voters—making them feel unimportant and unheard. So, we stopped using it.

We stopped using that phrase, but we have the same problem. We aren’t listening to folks outside of metropolitan cities. And on top of that, we aren’t even speaking to them. We’ve become so politically correct with our language that we’re not relatable to many people who should be Democratic voters.
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For example, the party doesn’t address the closure of factories that policies—like NAFTA—caused. We can’t undo the past, but we need to acknowledge & listen to folks who suffered because of it. They blame Dems & voted for Trump because he makes them feel heard. He lies to them, saying he’ll fix it.

Take a look at towns and cities that used to be big manufacturing hubs. Now they’re poverty-stricken, deep in the opioid and meth crisis, and don’t even have Democratic candidates addressing these issues. Or if they do, they get no support from the party.
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RECAP: Once-booming towns collapsed because of NAFTA, a Democratic policy. They’ve fallen victim to cheap drugs, opioids, and meth, and the Democratic Party ignores them. Why would they vote blue?

Voters in these towns and surrounding areas have decided our party is not for them, and Trump stokes the fire with the idea that BIPOC and immigrants are the cause of their problems. A problem he claims he can fix by deporting millions and canceling DEI.

Trump and Republicans don’t address how they can make higher education affordable or the fact that we need to change what we manufacture in this country and implement retraining programs, but it doesn’t matter. Blame and hate are powerful drugs.
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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline

Dec 24, 2024

Lindy Li - “I’ve been a conservative all my life. I’ve been saying that, and they’re just not listening to me. All of a sudden, they’re saying that I shifted. No. I grew up as a Christian conservative. This is just who I’ve been.”

She also claims she’s being psychologically terrorized and might be attending Trump’s inauguration because they’ve been so nice to her.

Girl, F your Karen tears!

See some of @lindyli ’s previous thoughts on Trump and Republican Christian conservative values in the 🧵

Lindy Li’s previous thoughts on Trump and Republican Christian conservative values.
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More of Lindy Li’s previous thoughts on Trump and Republican Christian conservative values.
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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline

Nov 28, 2024

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This is why Black folks are fresh out of fu@ks! We managed to vote for Harris, and we would have voted for Biden. We understood what was at stake. We knew we had to vote for our survival, not the perfect. As always, we took it seriously and spread the word within our families and communities.

2/ We pushed back on MAGA nonsense when we saw it within our ranks. We made sure we voted. We did our job, but now we face the consequences of this election with everyone else. It feels like we could not have done more to convince y’all.

3/ The problem is, too many allowed Trump to convince you/them that because I’m gaining, you’re losing. It’s not true, but you/they hate us and “the others” for it.

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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline

Sep 23, 2024

JILL STEIN: Purity tests for thee, but not for me.

@DrJillStein is in her third losing bid for the White House, with not a single electoral vote to her name, and she’s dragging the Green Party down with her. Hear me out…

📌 Green Party Decline: Membership peaked at 319,000 in 2004 but has dropped to 234,000 today, largely under Stein’s leadership. Of approximately 500,000 elected positions in the U.S., from school boards and township supervisors to the presidency, the Green Party holds just 149. Stein does not have the ability to lift up candidates.

📌 Political Fraud: She has no real chance at winning. Stein is barely polling at 1%, but her candidacy can still influence who wins. GOP attorneys are helping her with ballot access, and Putin boosts her by spreading disinformation about elections and Democratic candidates.

📌 Financial Hypocrisy: She rails against Big Pharma and Big Oil, but has large investments in mutual funds with holdings in fossil fuels, big banks, Big Pharma, tobacco, and defense contractors.

📌 Political Hypocrisy: She calls Netanyahu a war criminal but can’t manage to call Putin the same. She uses the Israel-Hamas war as a verbal weapon, but is hands-off when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

📌 Basic Knowledge Fail: Stein doesn’t even know how many members are in Congress—she thinks it’s 600—and plans to rely only on executive orders instead of members of Congress as allies that any president would need to get their agenda passed into law.

📌 Every 4 Years: Stein only shows up during elections to criticize Democrats, raise money, and then disappears.

📌 Smears Progressives and Moderates Alike: She’s attacked Bernie Sanders and AOC and once claimed Hillary Clinton was a bigger threat than Trump.

The Green Party needs a candidate who isn’t a spoiler and a hypocrite if it wants legitimacy or it will continue to fade away.

WSJ: Republicans Boost Jill Stein as Potential Harris Spoiler
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The Guardian: AOC calls the US Green party ‘not serious’ – can it be more than a ‘spoiler’ in the election?
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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline

Sep 15, 2024

SPRINGFIELD: GROUND ZERO FOR THE NEW BIG LIE—and it’s endangering lives.

In 2016, Pizzagate got out of hand because we let it go. It seemed so crazy—who could believe it? But we were wrong. Let’s not let that happen with this conspiracy theory.

The new big lie about Haitians eating pets started with a single false post. ONE POST! Neo-Nazis, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other right-wingers ran with it.

Watch this news video for the backstory and to correct the record…

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Yesterday, I posted this NBC News segment reporting that Erika Lee, the woman behind the viral post that claimed her neighbor’s cat was kidnapped by Haitian neighbors, deleted her post and said it was wrong information.

I asked for help spreading the word to correct the record, hoping it might put an end to this disinformation campaign if the truth got out, but it clearly was not enough. So many replies were hateful and spread more disinformation.

Let’s go through…

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There was Erika’s viral conspiracy post. Simultaneously, there was the case of a woman who mutilated a cat. This also went viral. Not going into the gory details, but she was not Haitian, nor was she an immigrant. She was a mentally ill U.S. citizen, and the video was taken in Canton, not Springfield.

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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline

Aug 31, 2024

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This @MSNBC segment is about mixed-race voters' take on this election. It includes people of diverse political persuasions as well.

One of the participants makes a quick comment that you might miss but shouldn’t ignore: “I never heard her identify herself as a Black woman.” He implies that Kamala Harris is being dishonest about her race because he “never heard” her say she was Black until she ran for president. That’s how effective Trump’s lie has been.

I’ll circle back on that brother in a minute, but first…

There’s an important aspect of being multiracial that I’m not seeing discussed—the cultural piece. It’s not just your DNA that affects your identity; it’s how you are raised and who raised you.

The most important person in my life is biracial. Her father passed when she was very young, so she was raised by her mom, a Black woman, along with some fabulous Black aunties who were central to her upbringing. She’s always identified as Black—not because she is in denial of her other half, but because these are her people.

We don’t know these things about people based on how they look, and they don’t owe you or anyone else an explanation.

So if they tell you who they are, or if for some reason you feel the need to know and decide to ask them, don’t be an ass about it.
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Now, back to brother @AliAddul. Addul is a Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina, and he makes the following comments about Kamala Harris during the interview:

“I don’t think that Kamala Harris has anything vested in the—air finger quote—‘Black or Hispanic experience.’”

“I didn’t know she identified as Black because everything I saw was first South Asian, first Indian…”

“Going to Howard don’t make you Black.”

“I never heard her identify herself as a Black woman.”

Addul has subscribed to and is perpetuating the lie that Harris is somehow being dishonest about her race. I’m going to drop a few older videos in the thread where Kamala refers to her racial identity. She has always claimed to be Black, in addition to the pride she shares about her Indian mom.

But also consider the cultural element of her identity.

Harris was raised by her mom, who’s Indian, but she grew up in Oakland, California. I’ll let you do your own research on the significance of that. She is a Howard University alum, an HBCU, and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a Black sorority. These are her people, her culture, and a big piece of who she is.

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