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“wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.”
Mar 22, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
1) As many of you know I live in a mid-western state,in a rural community. Today my daughter (who has 2 small children and lives with us) went to work at Walmart.She was sent home because she had a sore throat.She was told to get a coronavirus test,stay home and not tell anyone. 2) She asked Walmart were she could get tested and they said they had no idea. She finally found an open Urgent Care and they took her temp and it was elevated. They told here there were no tests available and go home and self quarantine.
Jun 14, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
Can I tell you a story?

1)So my in-laws are coming into town,I tell my wife let's take them out to dinner since you don't see them very much.She calls them and they say OK we will meet you at the restaurant.
We go to the restaurant and wait.About 30 min.later they get there. 2)Along with my in-laws are 4 other people from their "church".
Now these people turn out to be bat-shit crazy,Trump loving,evangelical nut jobs
As we wait to get our food I have to sit through the stupidest bullshit I have ever heard."Trump is the savior,Muslims are terrorists.
Jun 7, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
Payday lenders have spent over 1,000,000 at Trump properties.
1)In mid-March, the payday lending industry held its annual convention at the Trump National Doral hotel outside Miami.
The industry had felt under siege during the Obama administration is now feeling much much better. 2)This is the same Payday Loan industry that would charge a young single mother almost 2000 in a year in fees for an initial loan of $425.00.
The original loan must be paid back in full every two weeks and then the money is reborrowed. Many have numerous loans out at same time.
Jun 26, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
5 books every #Resistance member should read.

1.1984 Geo.Orwell

2.The Femine Mystigue.Betty Friedan.

3.A Peoples History of the Uninted States. Howard Zinn

4.The New Jim Crow.Michelle Alexander.

5.The Grapes of Wrath.John Steinbeck.

Please add your own. This is such a great thread.I am going to pin it to my profile.