🧵1. DON’T MAKE ME PULL THIS CAR OVER…Dear @MSNBC and all the other supposed “liberal” MSM. Where are you? I’ve heard tell of your existence but, I gotta tell ya, I’m not seeing it.
As you spend most of your time focusing on DT, don’t you realize…
2. … that you are doing his work for hm? I get it, indicted on 37 counts, it’s “unprecedented” (Thank you Gerald Ford)… but most of the time there’s nothing new. It’s just a re-hash of what we already know.
Don’t you see…
3. …that every minute you spend talking about DT and not covering the current administration’s many victories, it’s a win for the GOP.
Did we learn nothing from 2016? He is a media whore and an attention vampire who sucks all the air out of any room he’s in. …
4. … You don’t need to help him, he does fine all on his own..
Maybe you could devote a little time to cover @POTUS and what he’s been able to accomplish with a small/no majority and with members of his own party seeking to sabotage him at every turn. …
5. All I’m saying is this… you’re already maligned as the “Liberal Media”, might as well start living up to it.
🧵1. #ResistanceUnited
A LOVE LETTER TO GEN Z…
You’re dealing with a world that is changing all around you, and not always for the better. I get it. It’s a lot to deal with. But, if I may, as a Boomer I offer these words in hopes they will ease your journey…
2. … through the tumultuous times ahead.
As Boomers we know a little bit about tumult. We lived through what is, perhaps, the craziest decade in recent history… the 1960’s.
This is the decade that began with “Ozzie & Harriet” and ended with “Laugh In”. …
3. … A decade that opened with Connie Francis and closed with Janis Joplin. It went from wearing suits & ties… to tie dye. We went from JFK to Richard Nixon. From “duck & cover” drills to landing on the moon.
That’s a whole lot of shit to go through in just 10 yrs! …
🧵1. DEAR LIFELONG REPUBLICANS:
Today’s GOP would have you believe that they care about you… they do not. (Unless you’re a member of the uber wealthy club). Here’s how it works… for the sake of this conversation, let’s say it takes $2Trillion to run the country…
2. … that means $2T must be collected in taxes, just to run the country. That’s the BUDGET. (Not to be confused with the DEBT)
Well, if you cut taxes (in some cases, completely) for the top billionaires/corporations then that shortfall has to be made up somewhere else. ….
3. Because you still need $2T to run the country. With me so far?
So, where does the GOP go to collect what’s needed? They turn to you and me. Our taxes get raised. They cut funding to things like public education, the VA, public health, low income housing, scientific research…
Your attempt to defend your network’s decision to spotlight a treasonous dictator wanna-be was pathetic and, quite frankly, beneath you.
But you didn’t stop with defending CNN… no. You decided to then go a step further…
2. You decided to go the condescending route of painting everyone who didn’t watch, with the brush of people uninformed and “living in silos”. Did it occur to you that the reason we didn’t watch was because we were, in fact, fully informed?
3. I can’t speak for all who chose not to watch, but as for me…
I didn’t need to watch. I knew exactly what he was going to say because they were the same lies, conspiracy theories and insults he’s been spewing since 2016. …
1. A HISTORY LESSON:
People cringe when the current trump GOP is compared to the nazi party. But, like it or not, there is a correlation. The playbook is the same. Creating mistrust of the media, demonizing certain groups of people, inciting violence…
2. …fear and paranoia. Sound familiar? And now, the GOP is threatening to default on our debt. So, here’s the history lesson… Immediately following the end of WWI, Germany’s economy was in shambles. Unemployment was high, food was scarce and the German people…
3. … were struggling. It was the worst economy Germany had ever experienced. It was in this climate, that the nazi party seized the opportunity to sew mistrust of the current government and point fingers at who was to blame. …
Ok so let me get this right… you’re outside at 11PM, shooting your AR-whatever for no apparent reason. Your neighbor comes out & asks you to stop as their infant is trying their sleep.
With me so far?…
2. … This neighborly request for basic consideration of the people around you, was such an affront to your manhood that your only option was to become a mass murderer. Killing 5 people, including an 8yr old child. Devastating a family forever. …
3. That this happened is a tragedy… that it happened in Texas, with its nonexistent gun laws, is predictable.
This horror could’ve just as easily happened in my state (Ga) since our Gov has similar laws (or lack thereof) on the books here. …
1. In today’s episode of “IT’S COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!”
The debate rages on the Default on America Act (raising the debt ceiling). In it, the GOP proposes to cut spending by 22%. Since they have said these cuts will not include Military spending,…
2. … and don’t be fooled, “Military spending” has nothing to do with those who serve, it means no cuts in $$$ given to Military contractors. And since the GOP has said they will not make billionaires & corporations pay 1 more penny in taxes… these cuts will have to…
3. … come from elsewhere. Which translates into a 22% cut in:
Schools with low income students & students with disabilities. (Would effect 25 mil. students)
380,000 students would lose access to Head Start and child care