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Apr 22 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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A few awesome lines from @VetsForRL board member Lindsey Schiro in her OpEd in the @fayobserver.
“With the possibility of Donald Trump reclaiming the presidency in November, voices from the veteran’s community must speak up…”
Link at the end…
2/ “…Trump has never understood us, our devotion to service and our faith in each other. We don’t always agree on politics, but we share a common understanding of duty, honor and country.”
Mar 9 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
1/ A thread on honesty, lies, & Laken Riley.
Last month, a 22yo nursing student was on a run at the University of Georgia. Laken Riley was an innocent woman that was killed by blunt trauma. The man arrested is a Venezuelan in the U.S. illegally and has been charged with murder. 2/
This is a tragedy. A promising young life taken by violence in a place she should be safe.
We clearly need to do a better job of controlling who enters the U.S., both for identifying threats & for making sure everyone here has documentation.
Jan 6 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Three years ago, thousands of people broke into the @TheUSCapitol, assaulted @CapitolPolice, and tried to violently stop the peaceful transfer of power.
This insurrection was intentionally fomented by its beneficiary- Donald Trump.
#NeverForgetJanuary6th
There will be people today that will tell you that you what you saw happen - in real time - didn’t really happen.
Some of them will have changed their story from condemning the violence to excusing or even denying it.
They’re cowards & crooks.
#NeverForgetJanuary6th
Jan 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
As Trump slinks away, we’re left wondering if perhaps America was lucky.
Lucky that our 1st national taste of fascism came from someone with disastrously good instincts, but without the drive or the competence to pull it off.
Even with thousands of lives destroyed, we escaped.
Let us resolve to never come so close to the edge again.
To hold to account those who brought this tragedy, with the law where appropriate, but socially & politically in all cases.
To raise the memories of the fallen and the stories of the abused prominently & respectfully.
Sep 4, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Sometimes I wonder what story John Kelly tells himself in the dark hours of the night.
That his “service” of putting children in cages justifies the contempt @realDonaldTrump had for his military career or the sacrifice of his son?
That Sgt La David Johnson’s widow should be disrespected so he could help @realDonaldTrump send the Kurds to@their slaughter?
Jun 4, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Thread: @VetsForRL, was formed by veterans of the American military who stood not only against @realDonaldTrump, but the infection of Trumpism in the United States.
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Belittling American greatness, kowtowing to despots, and “flood(ing) the zone with shit”, is amongst the many evils of the man and his enablers, but it was his destruction of our common identity that is most troubling.
