THREAD (1/15): How I Spent America's Last Independence Day

It was back in 2024, before the US withdrew from NATO, the fall of Ukraine, and all the dominoes began to tip over in Putin's campaign of European conquest. 2/15. It was before the economic crash, before all the civil unrest, before the concentration camps, before the self-pardons, before the "official act" of suspending the 2028 presidential elections.

THREAD: Mark Meadows is a (politically) dead man walking. There is a very good chance he will go to jail regardless of whether or not he cooperates with the Jan 6 Committee. He knows this, and is deliberately making a choice to make his circumstances worse. Why? Were he to cooperate now and show contrition, it might well lessen the chance he will face prosecution or significant jail time. He isn't in office or running for office, so Trump can't hurt him by having him primaried.

1/2) This is the challenge we face when large numbers of the public become completely detached from reality and join a death cult. 2/2) After denying that COVID-19 was real, contracting it, and realizing he was dying, this man wrote effusive praise for the man whose willful negligence, deliberate malfeasance, inept leadership, and sociopathic narcissism led to his death.
boredpanda.com/covid-19-denie…

THREAD: Today let's talk about... SACRIFICE. As in, human sacrifice. /1 Many times in the past, America has asked its soldiers to risk their own death and/or kill others. It has always purported to have a purpose: to defend America and its values. Our men and women in service sacrificed to protect their loved ones and to serve the greater good. /2

"Jeff Kowalsky’s photograph of the “American Patriot Rally” at the Michigan statehouse on April 30 shows a large, bearded man, leaning forward, mouth open, screaming." 1/10 "Positioned between two police officers who are staring blankly ahead above their masks, he is focused on something they are preventing him from reaching: the legislature. His fury is palpable." 2/10

THREAD: I have a confession to make. I am the Whistleblower.

And so are you.

#IAmTheWhistleblower

dominoprinciple.com/2019/10/24/i-a…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1186985677176655872

I am the Whistleblower because I have seen you engage in the extortion of a US ally, holding them hostage by withholding U.S. military aid unless they further your personal political ambitions by falsely defaming your opponent. #IAmTheWhistleblower

THREAD: @CheriJacobus wrote: "His ONLY way out is to be convicted and ousted by the GOP Senate and have Pence pardon him before they are gone."

Nah, there are plenty of other possibilities here. Let us count the ways... 1/14

https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1121068398652346368

Some may seem absurd but they are really no more absurd than the idea that he got elected in the first place. STOP PRETENDING that authoritarian despots will make any attempt to follow the rules of democratic societies. 2/14

THREAD: Trump declaring a "National Emergency" to attempt to grab funds to build his wall would actually be a good thing. It is part of the best case path to his removal from office as quickly as possible and with as little damage as possible. /1 After declaring a National Emergency, Trump will then claim victory from his "bold action", and quite possibly agree to sign a continuing budget resolution without any funds for the wall. /2

My new column today looks at how America is deeply broken: Our politicians are broken. Our news media is broken. Our moral compass is broken. We've allowed Donald Trump and his cult to normalize terrible things in horrible ways with dreadful consequences.
dominoprinciple.com/2018/12/14/the… 2/ “Surrounded by the absurd and the macabre, we have permitted ourselves to seemingly accept the surreal as normal. America has crossed over into the Twilight Zone.”