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Sheldon Whitehouse Profile picture
@SenWhitehouse
Apr 25 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
What did Doggie doo? Looks like not much but destruction. No surprise.
reuters.com/world/us/100-d…
Who could possibly have imagined that letting loose on our government an addled eccentric billionaire (with a chainsaw and a pack of juvenile Musk-rats) might do more harm than good?
He paid $250 million dollars in Trump contributions for the pleasure of this rampage and getting all that attention. (Plus whatever he lost from crashing Tesla.) When you get that rich I guess your entertainment needs get a little weird.

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Apr 24
Let me get this straight: the party that defends dark money, which by definition can come from overseas since the donor is kept secret, is complaining about foreign influence?
nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/…
And the guy who benefited from Russian money, pouring in to influence our American elections to try and help him get elected, is the guy leading the charge?

Do they know that ActBlue delivers *declared* contributions under federal disclosure laws and regulations?
And that Trump and the Republicans would sink into insignificance and lose every election were they not floated by fossil fuel polluter money routed through front groups, 501c4s, and on to big-money superPACs?
Read 4 tweets
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Apr 14
It’s incredibly weird how many people around Trump seem to get an unhealthy pleasure from other people’s pain, distress, and humiliation. It seems abnormal.

🧵
It’s weird and twisted how fixated they are on a brutal Salvadoran prison, and taking photos with people behind bars, and bent-over shaved men. (Even caging children at the border, back in Trump One.)
It’s weird how they derive joy from firing perfectly harmless people and walking them out of their offices on short notice between security personnel. And how often it’s women who get that humiliating treatment.
Read 8 tweets
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Apr 3
Here’s how Trump betrays his voters:

🧵

1.  Tariffs add thousands of dollars in added costs to families every year — north of 3 grand already, before more retaliatory tariffs.
2.  The market rout trashes 401ks and pensions — ~$2 trillion lost already.

3.  Families counting on Medicaid get hit for nursing home, childbirth expenses — could be as bad as $800 billion.
4.  Homeowners insurance already up average 50%; in high-risk regions costs are doubling and tripling, if insurance is even available.

5.  National debt going up by $5 trillion, raising interest rates and pressuring government budgets.
Read 4 tweets
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Mar 20
Trumpsters pretend that the courts are out of line, even that judges should be impeached when they don’t like the rulings, but that’s hogwash. Even Chief Justice Roberts is calling out that crap, which is saying something.
What’s actually happening is a pattern of very bad, even dangerous, courtroom conduct by Trump lawyers, I guess thinking that being MAGA entitles them to special rules and privileges — but not so. Here are examples.
1. Trump lawyers were warned by in-house agency counsel — twice — that saying employees were fired for poor performance would be “fraud” on the court. Yet they went ahead and did it anyway. It was expedient.
Read 11 tweets
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Mar 16
I voted against the horrible MAGA “continuing resolution” — a fake and partisan CR loaded up with executive power for Trump. I hated it. But respected colleagues voted otherwise, and not just to “cave in” versus “stand up.” 🧵
I did a lot research into how a shutdown might play out, and there was lots to fear; not least that the Trump/Musk/Vought axis of MAGA extremists would love a shutdown, and want a long one, and use it to cruel advantage. What was there to fear?
In shutdown, executive powers are at their apex, including power to close whole departments and agencies and divisions, “Reduction in Force” all their personnel, and make massive cuts of programs and firings of people they deem “non-essential.”
Read 13 tweets
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Mar 15
Here’s how I think the Social Security attack plan works: 🧵
One: Trump and his vassals tell lies that there’s no plan to cut Social Security.
Two: Trump and Musk lie loudly about imaginary Social Security “fraud” to lower public confidence in the program.
Read 7 tweets

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