Not mine but so good:

A day in the Life of Sue Republican

Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards…. With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer's medical plan….

Two women I know ‘beat the system’ by opting out of getting vaccinated based on a ‘religious exemption’. They work at a nursing home caring for many people they grew up with.

Let me share with you a story that made me livid when I found out… My husband’s best friend was diagnosed with bone cancer right when COVID hit. While we were obsessed with trying to find toilet paper he was trying to find places for chemo and bone marrow transplants. He was in various hospitals for over a year…..

Susan Roesel:

I was 30 years old.
I was married.
We were happy.
We were established.
Our 401k runneth over.
We decided to start a family.
I got pregnant right away.
Like right away.
We were over the moon.
I kept a journal of every day of the magic.
I got a bump.
… I felt our baby kick.
I embraced it fully.
I rejected tests because "it won't change our path"
Emily sent out baby shower invitations.
The nursery was under way.

And then.

I'm almost halfway there!
I'm 18 and a half weeks pregnant.
The doctor called.
It was 7pm.
…

Message from a physician who wishes to remain anonymous:

We wanted to help people
We were smart and driven
We loved science and physiology, humans and disease
So we made a commitment
We signed up
It was an honor
We read thousands of pages
Attended hundreds of lectures
1/9 Pulled all-nighters
Took more exams than we thought possible
Finals week felt insurmountable
But it didn’t break us
It made us stronger
We learned statistics and biochemistry
Immunology and pathophysiology
We mastered genetics, virology and pharmacology
2/9

“In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress.. that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's...

Our Drunk Driver President
By Richard Oxenburg
What is the appropriate way to feel about a serial drunk driver who has plowed his car into others on the highway, killing and maiming many, but who is now in the hospital himself,... being treated for the damage his own car crash has caused him?

Is sympathy appropriate, given all the suffering he is experiencing? Is rage appropriate, given all the suffering he has caused? Might one feel some glee that "karma" has caught up with him?...

I have to admit I am sometimes envious of Trump supporters.

It must be nice not to have the news make your heart pound with rage and fear, with the daily revelations of just how far trump’s tentacles of corruption run.
1/5 It must be nice not to care that your guy has not made one attempt at uniting the country. Owning the libs must be exhilarating.

It must be nice seeing the government you have been convinced is corrupt is being destroyed daily by chosen sycophants.
2/5

[Everything that went wrong with America’s response to the pandemic was predictable and preventable.
•A sluggish response by Trump allowed the coronavirus to gain a foothold.
1/5 •Chronic underfunding of public health neutered the nation’s ability to prevent the pathogen’s spread.
•A bloated, inefficient health-care system left hospitals ill-prepared for the ensuing wave of sickness.
2/5

From Joselyn Demuth: “I have been thinking a lot about Kyle Rittenhouse. I know this boy. No, not personally but after teaching boys for 26 years, I know him still. High school can be a cruel place for boys - (girls too but this is not about them). 1/10 Looking at this boy, I am going to guess that he isn't an athlete - no crowds cheered for him on the court or the field. I am also going to guess that he felt passed over by girls. 2/10

Not sure why Trump thinks he has a winning hand with attacking Biden on China.

•Biden would have worked more closely with China on COVID. He will reinstate the Pandemic Response Team and have a CDC presence in China again
1/4 •Biden enabled the U.S. to exert international pressure on China that proved effective in forcing cooperation in areas where it was in the American interest in..

•Xi’s support of the Paris agreement on climate change,

•the Iran nuclear deal and
2/4

“Of all the pompous illegality this week, branding the skies behind the Washington Monument was the most repugnant display.
We live here. The approach to DC from Virginia is one of the most awe-inspiring vistas you can imagine as an American. 1/4 Come around the bend in highway 66 and the Washington Monument appears, and then you take in the ornate bridges from another era before the Potomac even appears.
You know, no, you feel in your heart, that you are in a special place. 2/4

Dan Rather:

Pick a day. Almost any day in the last three-plus years. Chances are you'd find a day where President Trump and his administration did something or said something (or didn't do or say something they should have) that would have been unthinkable political suicide... for any previous president.

Now, these stories seem to be swept aside by lunchtime, swamped by a flood of craziness, corruption, and dysfunction that is further being roiled with the hurricane-force societal headwinds of a public health and economic emergency.
...

You Can’t Gaslight a Pandemic, Donald
FEBRUARY 27, 2020 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ

You look scared, Donald.

You should be.

A pandemic is problematic for you.

You can’t gaslight a pandemic.

You can’t bully it into compliance.

You can’t lie to it and hope it won’t run a fact check1/12 You can’t pay for its silence or promise immunity.

You can’t threaten its reelection bid if it breaks ranks.

You can’t fire it when it dissents from your ramblings.

You can’t impugn its character with baseless attacks.

You can’t fool it with talk about God.
2/12

This assessment of Putin from 2017 is flat out chilling in the context of today’s news. The author asked Trump to admit that Russia helped elect him but he has not. We now face Political warfare that is meant to achieve specific political outcomes favorable to the Kremlin: 1/5

https://twitter.com/mollymckew/status/815721182003609601

it is preferred to physical conflict because it is cheap and easy. The Kremlin has many notches in its belt in this category, some of which have been attributed, many likely not.2/5

So, let me see if I understand this..

- We have a government leader who believes he is above the law, and blatantly and flagrantly abuses his position. 1/17 - We have top cabinet officials who understand their job not as serving the country, but as serving the government leader.
- The leader's party sees their job as defending and protecting their leader, not as serving their constituents.2/17

From Heather Cox Richardson

“I see people asking many times why the Republicans are bending over for Trump, what does he have over them?

That’s the wrong way to look at it.

It’s not JUST TRUMP. 1/19 Look at everything that is going on through the lens of the Republican leaders giving up on democracy because they have lost the tide of demographics.

They have publicly discussed this amongst themselves for many years.2/19

6 Reasons Trump needs to be impeached and removed:

1. As your average third-grader could tell you, but your average GOP senator could not, this was cheating. And cheating is wrong. 2. This was cheating in a presidential election. We need to let that sink in: Trump was not stiffing another contractor or underpaying his taxes. He was trying to manipulate a presidential race, an assault on the assumption of electoral fairness that lends legitimacy to democracy

LONGISH THREAD:
If you’re in a mood to kick him while he is down.

Someone on Quora asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote this magnificent response... A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem...

Yeah but how’s she gonna pay for Medicare-For-All?
1) Employers will still pay 98% of what they pay now, not to CEOs but to Medicare
•Look at your check, see the amount they take out for insurance? That’ll be 0.
•How much do you pay in deductibles and co-pays? That’ll be 0. 2) Medicaid (state and federally funded programs for the poor and disabled) money will go into Medicare...everyone covered by Medicare.

THREAD

Of all the horrible things Trump does, this is the most outrageous.
1) California’s economy is the strongest in the country. 5th in the WORLD. Any other President would help California for economic reasons, if nothing else... 2) Only 3% of forests are managed by the state. THE MAJORITY ARE MANAGED BY TRUMP and he has cut over $23B in funding for forest management since he was President....

THREAD by Heather Cox Richardson: Today, when pushed to talk about the fate of the Kurds in Syria, Trump said: The Kurds "are very happy about the way things are going." (In reality, the Kurds are continuing to die; the "ceasefire" did not hold.)... Then he added: "We've taken control of the oil in the Middle East ... the oil that everybody was worried about." ...