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Jeanette K Stone
@JeanetteKStone1
U.S. Army (Ret.). Poor, white, rural appalachian foster care kid who enlisted. Formative years spent with other white folk. No supremacy observed.
Dec 26 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Trump has once again become focused on elections. Not next year’s midterms, necessarily. Instead, he’s begun touting new 'evidence' of fraud in the 2020 election.

'The election was rigged in 2020—we have all the information, all the stuff.... It's coming out in truckloads.'"
1/ "Where will these 'truckloads' of evidence come from? In a word: Georgia. Trump has never strayed far from his lies about the 2020 election, mentioning them frequently over the years. But his recent statements allude to something more concrete than his usual meandering rants."
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Dec 23 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"The new National Security Strategy announced that the Trump regime will treat the democratically elected governments of most Western European nations as adversaries of the United States—and unveiled a plan to join longtime adversaries in seeking to undermine NATO and the EU."
1/ "While such a course of action would gravely damage the US, it is of a piece with Trump’s assaults on the nation he was elected to lead.

As the first year of Trump’s would-be dictatorship concludes, it’s clear that he considers the rules-based democratic order [a problem]."
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Oct 24 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
"For years, conservatives loudly complained that government spending was opaque, that their hard-earned dollars were being secretly misused, and that the government definitely did not need all the money it was taking from them.

That was always hyperbole…until now."
1/ "These days, your money belongs to Donald Trump, and he does whatever he wants with it. The White House belongs to Trump, and he does whatever he wants with it.

That’s what kings do."
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Oct 13 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Against all odds Democrats seemed to have gained the upper hand in the conflict over the government shutdown—in part by sticking relentlessly to their demand that enhanced subsidies for buying health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) exchanges be extended."
1/ "In response, Republicans are insisting — with increasing volume almost tipping into anger — that they very much care about Americans' access to healthcare, all evidence to the contrary."
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Oct 10 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?'

That was Donald Trump, making an incredible admission to Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek that he was confused about unrest in Portland while watching TV."
1/ "The call took place on September 26. That same day, Fox News ran two segments in which b-roll of rioting in Portland from 2020 ran in the background as guests spoke to on-air personalities.

[Trump]: 'There are fires all over the place…[Portland] looks like terrible.'"
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Oct 8 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Republicans in modern times have never more power than they do right now.

That presents a problem for a movement built on anger, resentment, and the feeling of victimhood."
1/ "It’s a familiar routine: An element of pop culture becomes slightly less exclusively white, male, straight; ...right-wing figures tell their audiences that the America that used to belong to them is being stolen; then they advocate...performative displays of anger."
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Oct 6 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"It honestly isn’t clear where we go from here. There are no mechanisms in the structure of American democracy for one state to defend itself against another or to defend itself against the federal government. There’s no precedent for this—until Trump, [it was] inconceivable."
1/ "The Trump administration’s war on cities just entered a new, more terrifying phase.

What stage of fascism is it when the president defies a court order and sends troops into a city anyway? Because as of Sunday, that’s where we’re at."
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Oct 3 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Out of control federal agents invading the nation’s cities and kidnapping people en masse, a president and his cronies fomenting public anger and fear of immigrants, and dissent suddenly declared to be an illegal threat to national security....

[This] also happened in 1919."
1/ "[I]n 1919, at the height of what came to be called the first Red Scare...a young J. Edgar Hoover and his new federal police force led a crackdown on dissent, focused on 'radical' Americans born abroad."
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Oct 1 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
"[SecDef] Hegseth...delivered a speech to the nation’s top generals and admirals that laid out his plans to re-envision the military as a ruthless fighting force that has no place for rules and norms like equal opportunity for women or even tolerance for 'fat generals.'"
1/ "Hegseth went on to say that the military would no longer be restrained by 'stupid rules of engagement' — including, apparently, at home.

That chilling speech was followed by an even scarier one from Trump himself."
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Sep 19 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"The law firms that capitulated to Trump are finally having to make good on their deal with the devil.

It's worth pausing here to contextualize just how extraordinary this all is—big Law firms have never before done free work for a sitting president, let alone pro bono work."
1/ "Back in March, when Trump first began to issue executive orders punishing law firms for associating with his personal enemies, it is likely that some of the firms yet to be targeted thought that they could avoid a similar fate."
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Sep 3 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Trump’s entire political career, and particularly the last six months, has been characterized by an often desperate effort to change the topic with ever more dangerous authoritarian gambits.

These gambits are distractions, but they are also catastrophes."
1/ "In 1783, Grigory Potemkin, a general and lover of Russian Empress Catherine II, prepared a special treat for Catherine’s tour of the territories Russia had taken by force from the Ottoman Empire and renamed New Russia, including Crimea and other parts of what is now Ukraine."
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Aug 25 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Last Friday, FBI agents raided the home of former national security advisor and current Trump critic John Bolton, ostensibly to gather evidence about Bolton’s handling of classified information.

But we know better."
1/ "Everyone understands that Trump has been using federal law enforcement to harass and bully those he perceives as enemies — former FBI boss James Comey, for instance, is under investigation for posting a picture of seashells on the beach."
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Aug 12 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
"Congratulations, men of America: The crisis of manhood is over.

You have been liberated from the shackles of political correctness, free to be as sexist and crude as you like. The government in Washington is committed to ensuring that men will wield the power they deserve."
1/ "DEI has been banished from public and private institutions alike. The 'manosphere' dominates online culture. Before you know it, men, you’ll have the professional prospects & romantic success you’ve been longing for—this was one of the core promises of the Trump restoration."
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Aug 11 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"The White House has seized on two unrelated incidents of street crime as a pretext for a federal government power grab at a time when violent crime has in fact dropped across the country."
1/ "The attempted carjacking of Edward 'Big Balls' Coristine in Washington DC and a street brawl in Cincinnati are the latest cause célebrè on the American right, which has long supported Trump’s plans for military and law enforcement crackdowns in largely Democratic cities."
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Aug 6 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Donald Trump’s clumsy attempt to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein has driven a wedge through his base. But his flailing is a symptom of a deeper problem: the cult leader has begun to lose control of the flock."
1/ "America’s would-be dictator won’t fall because he’s acting like the mastermind of the 'deep state' conspiracy he’s coached his fervid followers to believe. But the cracks in the Trump regime — which have been growing — are all but certain to widen into dangerous crevasses."
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Aug 6 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"One of Donald Trump’s tells is his talk of the 'Russia hoax.' When that phrase passes his lips, it’s a sign that the president is agitated about something."
1/ "In the past two weeks, for example, as questions about the administration’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein have dominated headlines, Trump has been talking often about 'the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, and many other hoaxes too,' as he put it."
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Aug 5 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"When he signed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act in 2012, Barack Obama insisted that 'the powerful shouldn’t get to create one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everybody else.'"
1/ "Members of Congress were buying and selling stocks in sometimes alarming amounts, and it was at least suspected that many were doing so based on the information they learned in their jobs."
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Jul 30 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Ghislaine Maxwell has one card to play, and she’s playing it well. The convicted sex trafficker knows that there is just one way out of a cell in Tallahassee, and she is dancing hard for that golden key."
1/ "Maxwell needs a presidential pardon if she wants to see the outside of a prison before she’s 75, and so she’s hawking her wares all over DC, promising the White House and Congress that what she’s got will blow their minds."
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Jul 25 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Can you believe it has been over a year since the conservatives on the Supreme Court invented a very special immunity for a very special president?...

And it isn’t a reach to say that if there had been no immunity decision, there likely would be no Donald Trump second term."
1/ "Without the immunity decision, Trump would probably still be dragging out his appeals in his multitude of criminal cases, and the rest of us would be living in a world where the federal government remains functional."
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Jul 22 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"Gabbard’s statement, which explicitly threatened the alleged wrongdoers...with prosecution for 'treasonous conspiracy,' not only vindicates the Trumpian narrative of the 'Russia, Russia, Russia hoax' but represents a disturbing escalation in Trump’s vendetta[s]."
1/ "Yet even a cursory look at the actual substance of Gabbard’s dramatic claims shows...no actual substance. Instead, there is blatant sleight of hand and manipulation of evidence, debunking a theory of Russian election interference that the Obama administration never endorsed."
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Jul 20 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
"For Trump and his cronies, the prospect of losing power could prove to be catastrophic because of their reasonable fear of being held accountable for criminality that dwarfs Trump’s first term. Unlike January 2021, [Trump & Friends] will have new tools to carry out a coup."
1/ "Six months into the second Trump administration, two things are becoming clear: First, the president remains a nearly entirely non-strategic actor, motivated only by an abiding desire to accumulate ever greater power, adulation, and wealth."
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