Folks, I worked at a polling place in Kansas yesterday, and I want to let people know how it went.
First of all, I'm not going to lie. I had to get up at 04:30 to make it to my assigned site by 0600, so we could start setting up to be ready for the first voters at 0700.🧵 It's hard work. We set up all the paper voting privacy booths, the touchscreens, the poll pads, the door bell so disabled voters could get help in their cars, everything. It's relatively demanding, physically.

We start packing up after 1900, when the polls close. /2

I cannot get over the folks who apparently cannot remember when trump separated babies from their families at the border, f’ed up a call to a pregnant grieving widow whose husband was killed in Nigeria, when trump got laughed at at the UN (he wasn’t telling a joke) 🧵 shoved the PM of Montenegro out of the way, kowtowed to Putin in Finland, saluted a North Korean general, let Erdogan’s bully boys beat up a guy in front of the White House, had dinner with a white supremacist/nazi fan boy, had BLM protestors peacefully assembled gassed

Here’s a part of history people would be well-advised to learn from Ken Burns’ Holocaust series: Fascists are always trying to expand their victim pool.

It may start with the Romany, then the Jews, but it ALWAYS spreads to anyone insufficiently identical to them.🧵 If your absolute desire is to establish a white theocracy, it’s a short stretch to decide (for example) Catholics are not sufficiently “white” and their religion is “wrong”. That eliminates non-Protestant Christians. After that, it’s a short walk to targeting 2/

The Republican Party has hated Social Security since its introduction by FDR, and have tried to figure out how to do away with it.

The only reason their opposition to the popular and necessary program has been mentioned for axing this year is that they thought 🧵 really thought they had the numbers tied up. They thought there was nothing we could do to stop them, between gerrymandering and voter suppression and knee-jerk Republican voters who were too dumb to object until it was too late. But they made a grave error…

This was my first ever election as a poll worker.

I have some thoughts.

First of all, this was probably NOT the year to start as a poll worker in Kansas, with a referendum that could very well allow the legislature to enact draconian anti-choice legislation 🧵 In the aftermath, my experienced co-workers told me that they had never seen a turnout like there was today, even in a presidential election. It was very clear to me that the Kansas GOP tried to slide this measure in during a summer primary. This was gross malfeasance, IMO. 2/

What the extremist SCOTUS majority thinks they have done is assure an underclass of the poor for the next several generations-women in red states forced to give birth, doomed to low-wage, low-respect helpless hopelessness, perpetuating the cycle of poverty. They have symbolically pissed on the rights of ALL women.

If we cave to them, women and girls will DIE needlessly, because the need for abortion is still there. It will always be there, because it is a medical procedure women require when pregnancy goes wrong.

When health service providers on the news-cable or otherwise-say we’re about to exceed our capacity, do you know what that means?

The short version is that the death rate is going to accelerate dramatically. Sick people will be dying in hallways. 🧵 Not just ICUs, but EVERY cranny and nook in every hospital will be filled with the dying.

It’s not as scary when they say “exceed our capacity”, though, is it?

Scientists are trained to remain calm and factual, so the public often fails to grasp the danger./2

A little mask-math:

If you go to an indoor gathering of 100 people, and 2 of them are asymptomatic but positive for COVID-19, what are your chances of contracting the novel coronavirus if no one is wearing a mask?

Answer: It depends.
1/ It depends on how close you are.
It depends on how much people are laughing, or singing, or talking.
It depends on your general health, and underlying preconditions.
It depends on how closely-packed the room is.
It depends on how long you stay.
2/

The fact is, the MSM has not really done an adequate job of documenting the numerous, vigorous protest efforts that have swept the nation after the various assaults we have endured from the Cabal of Corruption.

Starting with the Keystone Pipeline protests. 1/ Protesters trying to protect their sacred lands and their water were soaked-in the middle of winter-by people trying to drive them away.

The day after the inauguration, massive protests swept the world.

I don't even know how many "pussy hats" I knitted. 2/

I am not usually a big fan of yelling at elected officials-no one is rendered more amiable by being harangued by a crowd.

But I applaud the fans at Nationals Stadium for letting *45 have it last night, and here’s why: First, and most obviously, he’s been existing in a fool’s paradise, coddled and cushioned by his many layers of sycophants, completely shielded from any input from the public. There have been protests in front of the White House for over 400 days.

Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her
The one thing the Cabal of Corruption failed to consider is that a career diplomat would take her oath of office to heart. Honor. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… The Cabal of Corruption has no honor.

They do not recognize it in others, nor do they believe in concepts like "integrity" or "honesty" or "oaths".

They have no regard for truth, and do not adhere to a code of conduct.

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Here is the problem with allowing off-shore drilling: the oil and gas industry have absolutely NO IDEA how to clean up after themselves after creating disasters.

Seriously, when your primary response to an inevitable event like the Deepwater Horizon 2
is to rely on Dawn dishwashing liquid and paper towels (seriously), and you spend $0 out of your budget researching ways to decontaminate land and water you have poisoned for generations, you are obviously not trustworthy.