Ann G.

Old enough to know we need to keep fighting the good fight.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Karma hits the fascist Proud Boys hard as it's hilariously revealed that their leader Enrique Tarrio rejected a plea deal from the government before going to trial — and then ended up with an even longer prison sentence.

In October, prosecutors offered him 9 to 10 years behind bars if he agreed to plead guilty. Tarrio decided that it was far too much time to spend in prison and gambled that he would get less time without the deal. He was dead wrong.

Ultimately, the judge sentenced Tarrio to 22 years in prison.

Four other members of the fascist gang also turned down generous deals. All of them lost their risky bets.

Ethan Nordean got 18 years instead of 6 to 8.

Zachary Rehl got 15 years instead of 6 to 7.

Dominic Pezzola got 10 years instead of 4 to 5.

This is what justice looks like.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that these traitors deserve their sentences — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a “woke” new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribe app: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@OccupyDemocrats Tubberville could care less about any person serving the country. The only thing that matters to him is how to spin his lies & sickness to the voters in his state. He's not loosing any sleep.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trumper Senator Tommy Tuberville is hit with devastating news as the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force publish a brutal op-ed demanding that he end his “dangerous hold” on the confirmations of hundreds of military leaders.

I’m their blistering op-ed, the secretaries accused Tuberville of “attacking” the “men and women” who serve our country —- and of causing them personal and professional hardships simply because “a single senator wants to “politicize” our armed forces.

They wrote:

“We know officers who have incurred significant unforeseen expenses and are facing genuine financial stress because they have had to relocate their families or unexpectedly maintain two residences.

Military spouses who have worked to build careers of their own are unable to look for jobs because they don't know when or if they will move. Children haven’t known where they will go to school, which is particularly hard given how frequently military children change schools already.

These military leaders are being forced to endure costly separations from their families — a painful experience they have come to know from nearly 20 years of deployments to places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

All because of the actions of a single senator.

Rather than seeking a resolution to this impasse in that spirit, Tuberville has suggested he is going to further escalate this confrontation by launching baseless political attacks against these men and women."

You know that it’s bad when the secretaries or three major branches of the Armed Forces are publicly calling you out. Senator Tuberville bit off way more than he could chew — and American voters will make him pay for it.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank the Navy, Army, and Air Force Secretaries for setting Trumper Senator Tuberville straight — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,800,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $160,900,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $105,200,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is hit with more devastating news as a prominent Democratic Senator comes out in favor of banning Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — which bans insurrectionists from holding office ever again.

In a bombshell new interview, Senator Tim Kaine declared that “there’s a powerful argument to be made” for banning Trump under the 14th Amendment” because “the language of the amendment is specific: If you give aid and comfort to those who engage in an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States — it doesn’t say against the United States, it says against the Constitution. In my view, the attack on the Capitol that day was designed for a particular purpose — and that was to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power as is laid out in the Constitution.”

Senator Tim Kaine couldn’t be more right. Trump fits the intention of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment like a glove — so the Constitution demands that he be exiled from our political system.

Senator Kaine is now the highest profile Democrat to throw his weight behind banning Trump, the latest sign that the idea is gaining steam on Capitol Hill.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Trump MUST be banned from running — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The rise of white Christian nationalism in the United States is a direct parallel to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian playbook. @VanityFair’s @JeffSharlet breaks it down with @ReedGalen on the latest pod: https://t.co/KCJWFJUIC3

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: ABC News drops bombshell, reveals that “efforts to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment” are “gaining steam” as “election officials in key states are preparing legal challenges to Trump's candidacy.”

But it gets WAY worse for Donald Trump…

ABC reports that “Arizona, Michigan, and New Hampshire” are “gaining momentum” in their quest to keep insurrectionist Trump off the ballot — which would decimate Trump’s chances of winning in 2024.

Adding insult to injury for Trump, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson tells ABC News that “she and other secretaries of state from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire and Maine started having conversations over a year ago about preparing for the legal challenges to Trump's candidacy.”

This news comes as legal scholars across America — from both sides of the political aisle — are calling for Trump to be banned due to Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, which states that an elected official is not eligible to assume public office if that person "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against.”

That description fits Trump and his actions like a glove.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that EVERY state must ban insurrectionist Donald Trump from the ballot — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Essenviews @essenviews]

@JoyceWhiteVance Vote ALL Republicans out of office.

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@wrapthx @RpsAgainstTrump We're a democracy ruled by laws. So yes, anyone can be charged for committing a crime. That's the difference between a democracy & a dictatorship.if you are confused, check out @briantylercohen , he's very good at explaining #civics101

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Former Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen on MSNBC:

"I was appalled...watching the news and watching how Donald was brought to the Fulton County Jail. 40 motorcades in New Jersey, 40 motorcades  in Georgia. Why? He’s nothing more than an indicted defendant...

How much money did it cost the American taxpayers? How much money did it cost the people of Atlanta...For this man to roll up like he’s, you know, Caesar coming through the gates of Rome after victory. He is an indicted defendant on 91 counts. He should not be given this sort of royal treatment.”

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@nathaliejacoby1 I agree he shouldn't be alone in his cage. It's lonely. His entire crime family - syndicate should be there with him.

[Lesley Reardon @Lesley418]

@gtconway3d @ProjectLincoln @TheRickWilson @reedgalen

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@RpsAgainstTrump Unlikely. Power hungry thugs.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump gets brutal news as a Florida lawyer files a federal lawsuit to disqualify Trump from the 2024 presidential race due to the “disqualification clause” in the Constitution's 14th Amendment than bans “insurrectionists” from office.

But it gets WORSE for Trump…

The lawyer declared in his lawsuit that it is “crystal clear” that Trump’s actions leading up to, on, and after January 6 show that he “both engaged in an insurrection and also gave aid and comfort to other individuals who were engaging in such actions, within the clear meaning of those terms as defined in Section Three of the 14th Amendment.”

The lawyer also argues that “the 800-plus page report issued last year by the congressional committee that investigated Trump's role in alleged efforts to thwart the electoral process, as well as accusations he incited the violence on Capitol Hill that day, are grounds for disqualification.”

The amendment was ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, during Reconstruction, and also addressed the citizenship status of freed slaves and the re-integration of the defeated Confederate states back into the Union.
Applying the 14th Amendment's disqualification rule to Trump has been a rising talking point this month.

 The lawyer and a growing chorus of legal scholars, even prominent conservative ones, say that the amendment does not even require a conviction in the courts — but simply a finding that he violated the clause.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Trump MUST be banned from the ballot in 2024 — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@AshaRangappa_ Who cares. This is a nonsense childish distraction. The man is potentially an insurrectionist. Call his WW sponsor.

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@RpsAgainstTrump "moderate republicans " are extinct.

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@joncoopertweets No

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@ckj501 @CalltoActivism Lol.

[Ann G. @BreadAndBabka]

@GOPChairwoman you are so compromised & without a moral center, you obviously missed your bible lessons.