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Sep 11 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
@Bubblebathgirl @KamalaHQ 🧵Sure, that’s what we said in 1914 when the Austrian Archduke was asassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. We did not get involved until 1917. This delay caused over 100,000 American and countless European deaths. Prompt allyship with Europe saves American lives. This was proven again
@Bubblebathgirl @KamalaHQ from 1938-1945. Europe and the US largely ignored Germany’s illegal annexation of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia in 1938. It was “a quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing.” WWII started the following year, 1939. The US failed to stand with its
Dec 5, 2022 • 73 tweets • 11 min read
THREAD. Author unknown - but it is one of the best, most complete brief summaries of the trump years that I have ever read:
"I really don't owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology. I've been critical of the Trump presidency these last several years and am still exhausted from
the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad…………. ..other than when he incited an insurrection against the government, mismanaged a pandemic that killed a million Americans, separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy,
Feb 6, 2020 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
@brycetache via @mashagessen: "I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I have learned a few rules for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect. It might be worth considering them now:"
@brycetache@mashagessen via @mashagessen "Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization...."
Confirmed Infections: 20,413
In US: 11
Reported Deaths: 427
Apparent Recoveries: 657
No. of Countries, Incl. China: 27
Source: Johns Hopkins University Live Map
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis
Jan 9, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Tweets: note that folks using this public forum to actually threaten the life of the president have been visited by the Secret Service. That's their job.
"The statute prohibiting threats against the president was enacted by Congress in 1917. The maximum fine it allowed was $1,000
2/ The law was amended in 1994 to increase the maximum fine to $250,000....Prisoners are sometimes charged for threatening the president though they lack the ability to personally carry out such a threat. The courts have upheld such convictions" - Wiki
