“Radical Right=Radical Left=Radically Wrong.” Disinformation betrays all who fought for freedom #IAmJohnBrown #GunOwnerForGunReform #TrickleUp #StumpARepublican
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Apr 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 10 min read
0/10: What can we do about the gun violence epidemic? As a #GunOwnerForGunReform, I can tell you we can do plenty.
My article, "It's the System, Stupid," lists 10 concrete steps we can take now that don't infringe on anyone's gun rights.
Thread > @fred_guttenberg@ryandbusse
1/10: Pass Universal Background Checks:
33 states don't require background checks for all gun sales. Close the Gun Show Loophole & expand background checks to include magazines and ammunition.
1 - On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it’s fun to remember how he called African delegates to UN “monkeys uncomfortable wearing shoes.”
#GOPFascists
2 - On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it’s fun to remember how he took my dead father’s social security survivor benefits away from my struggling single mom, taxed social security to pay for massive tax cuts on the rich, & how Republicans are pushing for more!
Oct 24, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Republicans have spent decades trying to abolish gov’t agencies including EPA, FDA, & FBI, pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy & big oil, eliminate minimum wage, slash Medicare, & dismantle Social Security.
Don’t let them. This November tell @GOP#HandsOffMySocialSecurity
Marco Rubio getting honest on the Republican play book: Cut taxes on the rich, use their resulting deficits as ammo against Democrats and an excuse to gut programs like Social Security and Medicare.
1) As Russian forces close in on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and face brave resistance, I wanted to share a short story of my mother, a Freedom Fighter from another brutal Russian invasion: Hungary, 1956.
She taught me freedom is not free. History repeats.
#Ukraine 2) The Soviet Union occupied half of Europe after WWII & built a very real iron curtain right down the middle. Ignoring agreements, Stalin redrew the map and installed puppet governments. He even took a piece of Hungary & annexed it to Ukraine, dividing families for decades
Feb 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Putin said it was “madness” to allow countries like Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to leave USSR.
Trump also opposed breakup, accusing Gorbachev of weakness & praising Communist China for showing strength in massacring students.
Coincidence?
#TrumPutin 2) In 1987 Soviet diplomats & KGB arranged a Moscow visit. On his return, Trump spent $100,000 on full-page ads criticizing US foreign policy on “why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves."
Conservatives whitewash Civil War history, saying it was about “states’ rights” & not slavery. Here’s a thread to help you make up your own mind and to share. Not my words - the words of the Confederate authors.
#StumpARepublican#AskAConfederate2) “Our new government’s foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery - subordination to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition.”
Alexander Stephens has no place in the US Capitol.
Dec 19, 2021 • 21 tweets • 19 min read
81) Sen. Doug Ericksen was on Trump’s transition team & served as communications lead at Environmental Protection Agency. Ericksen was a vocal opponent of COVID restrictions, saying he would introduce a bill opposing vaccine mandates.
#Spreadnecks82) An unvaccinated man from Texas, whose death was the first confirmed #Omicron-related in the US, had previously been infected with #coronavirus.
He made his choice, but who else did he infect? What variants did he breed?
Almost time for our next game of #StumpARepublican - the finest Twitter trivia game to ever stump a Republican!
Tonight’s topic: Slavery
Be sure the check back on this thread for hints, vote and retweet!
Time for our next game of #StumpARepublican - the finest Twitter trivia game to ever stump a Republican!
>>> According to the 1860 Census, what percent of Southerners owned slaves?
Be sure to check back for hints, vote and retweet!
Sep 14, 2021 • 44 tweets • 39 min read
59) Nurse Shanda Parish has cancer, but won’t get vaccinated, even after losing both parents to #COVID19. She resents judgment from friends asking why they didn’t get vaccinated: “people make us feel like it’s our fault they’re gone.”
Who has she infected?
#Spreadnecks60) This “Christian” radio host became infamous for reading obituaries from people who died of AIDS while playing the Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust”
Now Bob Enyart bit the dust.
But who did he infect? What variants did he breed?
I will not criticize President Biden for the collapse of Afghanistan. I will not criticize our military & families who endured 20 years of sacrifice propping up that government and training and supplying its troops.
Criticism should lay squarely with the Afghan Army & Government
I disagree with those saying this is a “sad day for America.” Quite the opposite. It’s a betrayal of America. Our troops endured multi-generational deployments. We built a 300K-strong army. It’s amazing what the US did. But if 20 years of support and billions of American dollars
Jul 30, 2021 • 64 tweets • 66 min read
16) 39yo father of five dies after texting fiancee: “I should have gotten the damn vaccine”
He didn’t care about leaving his family fatherless. Whom did he infect? What variants did he breed?
Republicans like @SenTedCruz are spewing disinformation that Democrats are seeking bans & #guncontrol legislation that will "do nothing" to save lives
This #GunOwnerForGunReform reviews US gun laws & exposes Republicans for yet another "Big Lie"
#HR8#NoRA2) No law can stop all crime. What laws do (like laws against running red lights) is give law enforcement a way to deter, enforce, and prosecute.
More Americans have died by gun since 1968 than ALL US Wars combined. Here are a few ideas to save lives.
Ted Cruz flew to CancĂşn while the people he supposedly represents suffer and die from cold due to continued, systemic Republican incompetence. No signs of Heidi, though. She must be busy managing the fallout in her Texas energy portfolio for Goldman Sachs.
@tedcruz@SenTedCruz
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
@tedcruz@SenTedCruz is just another Republican proving Orwell right. Orwell was meant as a warning, not as a GOP play book.
Dec 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 8 min read
@GOP strategist @rickwtyler told @AliVelshi Trump turned the GOP into a party of “cowards” & “eunuchs.”
DISAGREE! Republicans built Trump over 6 decades of courting radicals. He delivered dreams of unqualified judges; billions to the top; and dismantling of a century of progress 2/5 @GOP strategist @rickwtyler told @AliVelshi Trump turned GOP into a party of “cowards” & “eunuchs.”
DISAGREE! Republicans built Trump over 6 decades of courting radicals. He delivered dreams of unqualified judges; billions to the top; & dismantling of a century of progress.
2. Don’t praise brutal communist regimes that massacre pro-democracy students.
Jun 5, 2020 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
1/12 Allow me to share a little story on this anniversary of the #TiananmenSquareMassacre. While in grad school @ElliottSchoolGW, I organized students to protest the crackdown at Tiananmen. I called every university and as many student organizations as I could find in the DC area
2/12 I soon started getting calls in Asian accents saying “we are watching you.” This was before social media; I expected a few hundred to show, but thousands came. We shut down the streets leading to the Chinese Embassy and spent three days in the little park in front.
Apr 4, 2020 • 17 tweets • 16 min read
1) As the US nears 300,000 cases & surpasses 7000 deaths, I offer a chronological thread on Trump's lies & inaction on #coronavirus from January 22 to March 10 - the day before the WHO declared the #COVID19 outbreak a pandemic. The Trump #kakistocracy kills
#TrumpOwnsEveryDeath2) 1/22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. WE HAVE IT TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL. It’s going to be just fine.”
So, Marco Rubio defended Trump’s extortion on China, saying he “didn’t think it was a real request," and Trump “did it to gig” and “provoke” the media.
He once called Trump “unfit” and a “con artist.” Here’s a little thread about the great opportunist and hypocrite #MarcoRubio
Hi. My name is Marco Antonio Rubio. I claimed my parents came to the US fleeing a brutal Castro regime in 1959. I used that story for political gain. Reality? My parents came in 1956 seeking a better life. Now, I work to ensure others cannot do the same. @marcorubio