New House Speaker Mike Johnson is both a diehard Trump supporter and a radical Christian fundamentalist. In this 🧵, I examine how Trump synchs up with Johnson’s 10 Commandments. (I used a Baptist version of the commandments since Johnson is Baptist). Please follow along.
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Money is Trump’s god. “The beauty of me is that I’m very rich,” he once said.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
Golden statue of Trump at right-wing CPAC meeting in 2021.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Politico: "‘Using the Lord’s name in vain’: Evangelicals chafe at Trump’s blasphemy" politico.com/story/2019/08/…
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother.
Trump wins this one. His father, who was once arrested at a Klan rally, gave his son $400 million so he could pretend to be a self-made man.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
Trump lied about a deadly pandemic.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
"I moved on her actually, she was down in Palm Beach and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try to fuck her, she was married ... and I moved on her very heavily.”
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🧵A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for …
Vladimir Putin, beating up Capitol police, pathological lying, RFK Jr., repealing the Affordable Care Act, cognitive decline, theft of classified documents, racism, quack cures for Covid, a huge sales tax on imported goods ...
(🧵A vote for Trump, cont.)
... police brutality, convicted felons, Project 2025, fascism, women dying because of abortion bans, scams against students, marital infidelity, Elon Musk, Supreme Court corruption, demonizing immigrants, sexual assault, tax cuts for billionaires ...
(🧵A vote for Trump, cont.)
... QAnon, public discussion of a dead golfer’s penis, family separation, mockery of the disabled, betrayal of NATO, “termination” of the Constitution, an anti-vax campaign welcoming back polio, climate change denial, school shootings ...
For the first time, no major Chicago newspaper will endorse a candidate for president.
The Tribune is owned by Alden, which announced in 2022 it would end such endorsements. The Sun-Times is part of a nonprofit now, and under IRS rules can’t endorse.
I have thoughts. 🧵1/8
Yesterday it was revealed that the Los Angeles Times editorial board wanted to endorse Kamala Harris but owner Patrick Soon-Shiong ordered it to endorse no one. This seems like cowardice or, as those who study fascism call it, “anticipatory obedience.” 2/8 semafor.com/article/10/22/…
In the past, I haven’t supported newspaper endorsements for president. Endorsements may help in lightly covered local races, but people can get info about presidential hopefuls. And there’s a danger that people assume straight news coverage is biased because of endorsements. 3/8
Great work by @ProPublica in exposing how a “pink slime” outfit called Metric Media is publishing right-wing disinformation like the “Catholic Tribune,” which has nothing to do with the church. They’re trying to trick voters to push a fascist agenda. 🧵1/5 propublica.org/article/church…
ProPublica’s story gives us yet another reason to boycott the Uline shipping supplies company. Owner Richard Uihlein bankrolls “pink slime” outfit Metric Media, as does JD Vance’s owner and operator, Peter Theil. #BoycottUline 2/5 cjr.org/tow_center/the…
Here’s a good article explaining how these “pink slime” outfits pretend to produce legitimate local news when they’re really spreading disinformation. (WaPo gift link) 3/5 wapo.st/3NAFcxn
Here’s my updated list of reasons to vote against Trump. Pick your favorites and share them with any persuadable voters you know. 🧵 1. Trump incited a deadly assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 2. His extremist justices took away women’s right to control their own bodies.
(Trump🧵) 3. He wants huge tariffs, which are in effect a tax on American consumers. 4. He stole top secrets and left them in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom. 5. He bragged about grabbing the private parts of women he’d just met.
(Trump🧵) 6. He called for a “day of violence” in which police could do whatever they wanted with no accountability. 7. He says his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants will be “a bloody story.” 8. He pushed the fake-electors scheme to overturn a fair election.
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Ask the Trump supporters in your family if they know these things:
Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bibles were printed in China.
Trump secretly shipped Covid test kits to Putin when they were needed in the U.S.
Trump says he’ll let California burn if the governor opposes him. ...
🧵(Talk to your family, cont.)
There is credible evidence that Egypt gave Trump a $10 million bribe.
Trump wants to pardon the rioters who beat up Capitol police officers.
Gen. Mark Milley, the top-ranking military officer under Trump, says Trump is “fascist to the core.”
🧵(Talk to your family, cont.)
Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago with a neo-Nazi who joked that the Holocaust was like baking cookies in an oven.
Trump promised to come up with a health care plan nine years ago, and we’re still waiting to see it.