Fascinating look into what's driving today's Republicans.

1. Top 2 issues that GOP voters care about? illegal immigration and lack of support for the police.

(Neither of which affects their lives on a daily basis)

#DemCast Thread/1

nytimes.com/2021/03/26/opi… What do GOP voters think?
2. Politics is not about enacting good public policy, but "ensuring the country’s survival as we know it“
3. They suffer from Religious persecution(?)
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"I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes...What animal would say such a thing?” DT

Animal DT:
“I like people who weren’t captured”
“I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier."
1/10
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/… Sometimes, it's what Trump doesn't say that shows his distain for American Troops.

Putin paid bounties to Taliban enemies to kill American soldiers and not a word from Donald Trump

thehill.com/opinion/white-…

Trump has met his commitments to LGBTQ?

Let’s count the ways he’s systematically stripped protections:

1) All mention of LGBTQ issues removed from the WH webpage 2 hours after he was sworn in

2) DOJ stopped enforcing protections for transgender students
washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump… 3) Devos revoked transgender student protections under Title X

4) Struck questions on sexual orientation and gender identity from the 2020 census

5) Refuses to support Equality Act

6) Executive Order to allow DOJ to permit discrimination on the basis of “religious freedom”

What’s life like in America’s concentration camps for kids? Here are their stories.

M.G. Is a Mexican teenager. "I cried every day because I didn’t want to be there," he said. "I felt so alone that I was even losing my appetite. I didn't leave the bed.”
miaminewtimes.com/news/children-… M.G. was put in solitary confinement for 8 days

He spent his 16th birthday crying. Early last July, he asked to go home. That was when he was sent to the roomful of bunks and left there by himself for more than a week. He never found out why — not even when his mom called to ask

10 Footnotes you need to read from Mueller’s report:

On October 30, 2016, Michael Cohen received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze that said, 'Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else. Just so you know”

https://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/1120524468760264706

Trump wanted Clapper to say the dossier was bogus:

"See 1/11/17 Email, Clapper to See I /11 /17 Email, Clapper to Comey ('He asked if I could put out a statement. He would prefer of course that I say the documents are bogus, which, of course, I can't do.')

Mueller is tasked with investigating foreign interference and any conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.

Will Trump be indicted or named? We don’t know.

Even if he’s not, here are 10 other investigations by 9 different entities that may expose additional crimes Investigation 1

Violation of campaign finance laws being investigated by the
Southern District Of New York

After all, Michael Cohen plead guilty to an indictment naming Individual-1.

vox.com/2019/2/27/1824…

Leaked emails show that
Maria Butina and Russian Central Bank Governor Alexander Torshin facilitated a NRA delegation to Moscow.

NRA officials believed they were meeting with Kremlin power players who could connect them to Putin./1

thedailybeast.com/nra-heavyweigh… The organizer of the trip, Republican Paul Erickson, believed he was securing an interview with Putin and believed the trip could have “enormous diplomatic consequences.” The email, sent in Nov 2015 came just months before the Kremlin’s election meddling went into full gear./2

Is Trump a Russian Agent?

Let me count the ways
Thread:

1) From 2003 to 2017, people from the USSR made 86 all-cash purchases, (money laundering?) of Trump properties, totaling $109 million

2) The Russians interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help elect Trump president. 3) Trump encouraged the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails on July 27, 2016

4) 101 contacts between Trump’s team and Russia linked operatives and the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them.

Let’s have some truth bombs before tonight’s address:

#NoWall Fact 1:
Illegal border crossings are way down

In the early 2000’s, 1.3-1.6 million people were apprehended crossing the border.

2018? <400,000

cbp.gov/newsroom/stats…

#TrumpAddress #NoWall Fact 2:
Undocumented Immigrants are not causing a crime wave at the border, in fact the southern border counties are among the safest in the country!

#BoycottTrumpsAddress

washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…

Hey @ABCNetwork I won’t be watching your New Year’s Eve show because @JennyMcCarthy is one of your hosts.

Her opinion on vaccinations:
“If you ask a parent of an autistic child if they want the measles or the autism, we will stand in line for the f***ing measles.” Since it’s been proven that vaccines DON’T cause autism, people who continue to promote this nonsense are actually harming kids who can’t be or are too young to be vaccinated.

#VaccinesWork
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Mueller is closing in.

Conspiring with Russia:

Donald Trump, his campaign, his organization and his associates knew of the intent of the Russian Federation to carry out the Russian Intervention as early as November 2015. /1
#WhitakerMustRecuse Donald Trump, his campaign, his organization and his associates illegally conspired to expand its involvement with Russia beyond the Russian Intervention itself, through efforts from November 2015 at least until June 2016, to negotiate and build the Moscow Trump Tower Project /2

Profiles in @GOP misogyny, ‘18 Senate candidates

#Kavanaugh allegations are:

Dean Heller(NV): a hiccup
Kevin Cramer(ND): absurd because they “never went anywhere”
Kevin Hawley(MO): an ambush
Blackburn(TN): delay tactic
Patrick Morrisey(WV): no reason to delay vote Since Doug Jones’s win we only need a net of 2 seats to #TakeItBack in the senate!

Contribute and support:
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@clairecmc
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@SenatorHeitkamp
@JennyWilsonUT

It’s time for a #StormChat ⚡️

Dr. Ford suffered doxxing, impersonation and death threats for coming forward with her story of assault.

Trump piled on and questioned her credibility.
#WhyIDidntReport #BelieveChristine

FBI:Less than 2% of reports are FAKE. 98% are REAL. /1 When women are assaulted, what happens to the perp?
99.4% walk free.

310/1000 are reported to the police, 2% end up in jail. /2
#WhyIDidntReport

During yesterday’s #TreasonSummitt, Putin offered to allow American investigators to interview the 12 Russian intelligence agents just indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for allowing Russians to have access to @Billbrowder.

Why? Putin is scared of him. /1 .@Billbrowder is the person responsible for getting the Magnitsky Act passed in the United States in 2012. This is a law that allows the U.S. government to freeze assets and ban visas of human-rights violators around the world. /2