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Liberal. Democrat. Yankees, Jets, Knicks, StarTrek & Classic Rock. Blocked by Rudy Giuliani. #BLM #ONEV1 #ResistanceUnited NO LISTS & NO DMs UNLESS I KNOW YOU!
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Apr 24 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is a fictional scenario to highlight the urgency of our current moment in history.

Its's June 2025 as Jane Smith stands in her backyard in Syosset, NY on a serenely beautiful Saturday morning.
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#VetsResist 2/ Jane's thoughts however are anything but serene as her husband John steps out to join her. John's face has a pinched expression reflecting stress, fear, shock and guilt. John has been a lending officer at a local bank for fifteen years. Jane's been a stay at home mom and wife.
Apr 23 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ Among my fondest bonding memories with my Dad was attending NY Jet games, especially at Shea Stadium. He had purchased season tickets before I was even born.
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#VetsResist 2/ My Dad who was born in the Bronx was also a Yankees fan. So we attended plenty of baseball games at Yankee Stadium, as well as Knick games at Madison Square Garden. Enjoying professional sporting events was not beyond the purview of the working and middle class in those days.
Apr 22 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
🧵*Content of below thread are mock satirical personal ads for some of America's most toxic assclowns endangering freedom and democracy. This for me is a cathartic exercise that hopefully entertains and inspires activism.
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#VetsResist 1/ SWM, Age 68. I fart when sexually aroused. Trump using my name in a speech or online turns me on. So anytime he incites racial violence, promotes misogyny, or uses my name, I stink up a room. If he seizes power again, I will cut the cheese a 1000 times a day. Please love me.
Apr 22 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
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1/ Oligarchs, theocrats, terrorists, racists, misogynists and silent enablers worldwide believe oppression a la carte is feasible. What do I mean by that?
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2/ An a la carte menu offers folks an option to order food as separate items rather than part of a set meal. Hence, many married white women racists voted for Trump twice, believing people of color and immigrants could be oppressed without putting their own freedoms in jeopardy.
Apr 21 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ First time I saw a woman topless was on a Canary Islands beach on December 20, 1989. I was studying abroad in England and wanted to get some sun during my winter break.
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#VetsResist 2/ Canary Islands is a popular vacation spot for folks in England and Europe. As a young student, I was lucky enough to get an affordable deal. I was also a shy kid conditioned by America's unique combination of Puritarnism & overly sexualized popular culture portrayal of women.
Apr 14 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
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1/ As pro-democracy activist patriots, we must share intelligence, observations, successes & hard lessons learned with each other so we can save our country through our collective efforts.
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#VetsResist 2/ I engage with a professional and personal circle beyond my perspective bubble. Through engagement, I've learned my gut is often more accurate than my attempt at rational interpretation of my interactions or polls as I try to be a Democracy Multiplier.

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Apr 7 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Content below is a fictitious scenario.

1/ As my followers know, I've branded the toxic synergy between corrupt oligarch crony capitalists & white supremacist xenophobic misogynist Christian nationalists as Fascism Inc.
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#VetsResist Image 2/ Here's a silly mock fictitious scenario to illustrate how this depraved synergy between corrupt corporate monopolies and hateful oppressors works.

Suppose we have a conglomerate that's cornered the market on products such as facial and toilet tissues called Patriotic Paper.
Apr 6 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ Are you familiar with SCOTUS's Griswold v Connecticut 1965 ruling? Do you understand what will happen to birth control when SCOTUS overturns Grisswold?

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#VetsResistsupreme.justia.com/cases/federal/… 2/ History & context of this case is vital as SCOTUS will likely repeal it next year making electing Democrats this November more important than many citizens understand. We activists must therefore educate our friends, family & neighbors about the stakes.
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Mar 27 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is mock fictitious personal ads of America's most toxic influential assclowns. Partly this is a cathartic self-indulgence for me. Hopefully it also entertains & motivates pro-democracy activists.
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#VetsResist 2/ Married Thrice, Divorced Twice. Sex predator, sociopath, con man & fascist. I have the impulse control of a chimpanzee on crack cocaine getting an enema. If I get a 2nd chance at the White House, no one is gonna stop me from using nukes to take out a hurricane. Please love me. Image
Mar 24 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ Among the news business oldest cliches is "if it bleeds it leads." Additionally, sensationalism, sex and political demagoguery that incite and enrage is an industry in itself.

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#VetsResist 2/ Simply put, tranquility, competence and honesty never sold newspapers or garnered ratings on radio or TV. Ergo, a NYC subway slashing, corruption at City Hall, kidnapping of a pretty white girl, heated political combat or a celebrity sex scandal always gets top billing.
Mar 24 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
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1/ Will dictators even murder those most loyal to them to create martyrs as a pretext for genocide as well as consolidate absolute power? It's a plausible fate for GOP politicians.
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#VetsResist 2/ Let us review the political life and controversial assassination of Lenigrad communist party boss and devoted Stalinist, Sergei Kirov. Why? Because history's lessons matter as GOP apparatchiks and thugs plot our own republic's destruction in real time.
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Mar 16 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
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1/ Fear and aspirational hopes compete for our hearts and minds on a daily basis. Politics in dictatorships and democracies reflect this human experience.

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#VetsResist 2/ Fear itself is not always a bad thing. Indeed, fear is indispensable to survival. That impulse to fight or flee can save your life.

But the aspirational is what makes life truly worth living. Yes, we all want to feel safe but life fulfillment requires some courage and risk.
Mar 10 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ In the summer of 1991 after graduating college I sold overpriced latex gloves part time to nursing homes to pay rent as a telemarketer. It was deflating, humbling and degrading.
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#VetsResist 2/ As some of my followers may recall I had a junior year abroad in Oxford, England.

But for many of my fellow Gen Xers our post college lives started out in recession courtesy of the failed trickle down policies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Mar 3 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ Democracy cannot endure without moral authority among key institutions and power centers in government, law enforcement, private sector and academia.
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#VetsResist 2/ Absence of moral authority breeds chaos and anarchy. Chaos and anarchy facilitates oppressive autocracy in the name of law and order. Ergo those who strive to impose minority rule first seek to undermine moral authority of the governing state prior to seizing total power.
Mar 2 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
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1/ As some of my followers may recall, I work in the Financial Crimes Compliance industry as governed by the Bank Security Act which was enacted in 1970.

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#VetsResistfincen.gov/resources/stat… 2/ Regulatory regime pertaining to Financial Crimes Compliance was further expanded by the USA Patriot Act after 9/11 to combat terrorism.

It often astounds me I'm in this industry as my passions were always more artistic or academic as I love history.
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Feb 25 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my posted letter to Mitch McConnell.

Dear @LeaderMcConnell,

1/ Back in September I posted a letter to you after Dianne Feinstein's passing.
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2/ Perhaps someone on your staff or the staff of your GOP colleagues read it. Numerous of my fellow Democrats did not agree with my attempt at gracious persuasion. My post today is because I'm thinking of this scene from the 1968 movie, "Lion In Winter."
Feb 24 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is a sarcastic role reversal to make a broader point.

1/ I am turning against democracy because I'm just too weak for intellectual freedom, responsibility, critical thinking and knowledge.
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#VetsResist 2/ Let's start with the freedom to worship as I choose or not at all. Let's face it folks, Thomas Jefferson was a heretic. Dude actually said, "But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
Feb 19 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ A center-left Democratic POTUS attacked by the far right and left. An insipid hostile press. Isolationists who prefer to disengage from a dangerous world. A do nothing congress.
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#VetsResist 2/ The presumptive GOP nominee from NY who lost once before favors the wealthy and offers no solutions beyond empty rhetoric. Yet one poll after another favors this Republican empty suit as the Democratic party faithful miss his more charismatic and transformative predecessor.
Feb 18 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion

1/ Our center of political gravity was always defined by racism. This is true of wealthy elites jealously defending their privilege and folks with dirt underneath their fingernails.
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#VetsResist Image 2/ Hence, well intentioned liberals have often had to negotiate with racists to either make some kind of socio-economic progress or possess enough power to achieve any progress at all. Why? Because power without principle is barren but principle without power is futile.
Feb 11 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

Understandably, seditious border politics has many citing American history dating back to the Confederacy rebellion as well as Eisenhower enforcing integration in Little Rock, AR.
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#ONEV1 2/ Yet I find myself instead comparing our dangerous border politics with the 1948 Atalena Affair in Israel. Yes, I realize there are infinite differences with what's happening today in Texas and this incident in Israel that occurred over 75 years ago.
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Feb 10 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.

1/ Republicans view politics as total warfare and oligarch media monopoly overlords are at best the equivalent of arms dealers profiting from their hate industrial complex.
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#VetsResist 2/ It really is that simple. Just as arm dealers have no moral compass in selling to both sides to earn millions from death, oligarch corp media monopolies have zero conscious in fanning flames of pseudo moral equivalence outrage for billions of dollars and access.