🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith

Lawyer, ATLien, Politics and Pop Culture Junkie, Voter Protection Advocate, Fan of the Oxford comma. She/her. The thoughts are mine; the typos are Siri’s.

[Anne Smith @AnneS4Justice]

.@KamalaHarris calls for “an expanded playbook” on the following:

- Discuss the Electoral College
- Expand the Supreme Court
- Establish rules for the Supreme Court, including consequences for lying to the Senate
- Multi-member districts
- Statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important.

Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin, the only two candidates in the race with strong records of standing up for all Georgians.

Early voting is already underway and Election Day is May 19th. Find out where you can vote at https://t.co/OHJnsHnuiB.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@navin391 @mistergeezy “Democrats” is broad and false framing. “Democrats” also supported him and endorsed him, including the Chair of the DNC.

[Gorilla Explorers @GorillaExplorer]

@kylegriffin1 Hard to ignore the optics here. A major shooting unfolds at Brown, the FBI’s top evidence team is stuck waiting for a plane, and one of the bureau’s only jets is with the director in Florida. Leadership choices matter, especially when minutes do too.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@SoniaBaschez @thirty3i8ght @amandalitman This has to do with the generational space given for uncertainty. AW came up when swallowing your feelings (particularly as a woman) was leadership and projecting something other than confidence was a sign of weakness/incompetence.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@LauraRbnsn @mandalynns23 This is experimentation on a Black woman using her as a host. It’s ghoulish and harkens back to dark times of Marion Sims or Henrietta Lacks.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@CalltoActivism How is this shocking? He’s always been this way. He said what he would do and how he’d be when he ran.

There were off-ramps along the way and they chose not to take them.

[BRANDON @Brandon_Banner]

And that’s what Cowboy Carter was all about.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@dieworkwear Nope, because you can’t package that in a green powder and sell it for $129.99 a month on your wellness website.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Most Americans don’t like government waste. The goal isn’t the issue. The who matters. Elon Musk is not only unqualified to do this — his business interests make him compromised. He has proven to be a wholly untrustworthy person. He is the worst spreader of misinformation on this platform. I won’t even get into the Nazi salute, but he is aligned himself with dangerous, extreme politics abroad that should have everyone concerned.

But for the sake of argument, let’s take his politics out of it. USAID doesn’t even comprise 1 percent of the federal budget. By far the most wasteful portion of government is the department of defense — which no one wants to touch. Anyway, Musk has weaponized this platform by making false claims that USAID was creating bioweapons. No evidence. Zero proof. He’s amplifying fake videos and this is the person we’re supposed to trust to vet out government corruption? He made a dubious claim yesterday that FEMA used $59 million on undocumented people. Where’s the proof? Considered he’s lied countless times on this platform, why on Earth would you ever trust him in this position.

I apologize for the length of this post but suddenly the U.S. is targeting South Africa because of his influence. He’s the child of apartheid and he has convinced Trump to withhold aid from South Africa to return land to white landowners. Like … what? What has that got to do with America?

He is creating absolute chaos. And let’s not forget he’s targeting arms of the government that we’re investigating his specific companies. He is a billionaire who now has so much control in our government and I’m trying to figure why everyone else isn’t completely alarmed by this as well. Literally every red flag is there. But because we have a considerable amount of the population has lost trust in the government, and he feeds on this so you don’t pay attention to what he’s really doing. That man should not have access to sensitive financial information of the American people. We did not vote for him, and we didn’t vote for that.

Also, if USAID was as corrupt as we’re being led to believe … why was Marco Rubio in full praise of the organization a few years ago? Was it corrupt when Ivanka Trump used $50 million from the organization to aid girls and women in underdeveloped countries during Trump’s first presidency?

Again, I have no doubt that government could be leaner. Elon Musk is not the person to do that.

[Candidly Tiff @tify330]

Sarah doing civics lesson is my jam.

[Lawrence O'Donnell @Lawrence]

Why didn't tariffs get this kind of coverage during the presidential campaign?

Why did 99.9% of campaign coverage not mention tariffs?

Campaign press coverage simply does not cover what the campaign is actaully about.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@tify330 Say it louder for the people in the back. The assumption seems to be, if it happened the “feckless Dems” could’ve stopped it and didn’t. 🙄

[Candidly Tiff @tify330]

Trump’s cabinet nominees so far have all come out of committee and require individual votes. Dems cannot stop these nominations since they only have 47 votes.

Schatz is stopping bulk nominees denying unanimous consent. Thune will have to have vote on them individually or hold.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@yimbosf @owenrumney No. The media wasn’t interested in amplifying. And people chose to be incurious.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@kuroitsune @Physsss_ Given that she was a Disney star, that only feels right. 😂

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@WorldKnownArt @RossKneeDeep He’s working with what he has.
Biden tried to make this more widely available and he was stopped by the conservative courts.

Presidential elections have consequences and the judiciary is always on the ballot.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@PoliticusSarah Between holidays and post election fatigue, a dip and bounce back for Maddow’s 1x a week show makes sense. MSNBC giving Joe 4 hours daily was never a good idea, and after their trip to FLA, there are lots of folks who are not coming back.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@WhitneyChanell @JacobKishnevi @Phil_Lewis_ What you and I said are not inconsistent with one another.

[🍑🗳✏️⚖️💗💚💛Candace Smith @CandigirlATL68]

@Phil_Lewis_ A far cry from the early 90s, when there were more than three times that many Black students. But they graduated a future Black President, so we gotta stop that from happening again if possible. 🤯😒