David Van Os

Union-side labor lawyer, civil rights lawyer, socioeconomic justice activist, 2006 Texas Democratic nominee for TX Attorney General, lifelong Texan

[David Van Os @DavidVanOs1]

I keep thinking of how Britain and France refused to move against Germany when it invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Poland in 1939, despite the UK's and France's guarantees. Ukraine has been similarly abandoned.

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@BillKristol The purpose of his original announcement that he would appoint a Black woman was to win the South Carolina primary. Pure politics. The right wingers are surely planning to harp on it as an improper litmus test. Mr. Kristol you are right about the correct path.

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We are still fighting the civil war.

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@saribethrose And so the Civil War goes on and on.

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@SanAntonioDSA Love your banner of solidarity with the SA symphony musicians strike.

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@JRubinBlogger As I have tweeted since January, Biden should have attacked Trump head-on for building a fascist movement in America.

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3/ As a result the whole Dem party and all its candidates may be headed to a midterm disaster a la 2010. That landslide loss was caused by a weak Dem administration that did nothing in the way of big ideas for working class people. Don't blame it on R's for doing the expected.

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2/ It was hopelessly gullible for Biden to think McConnell would not do to him the same thing he did to Obama - demagogically oppose everything for the sake of Republican partisan power.

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1/To my previous tweet about the supine Democratic party I want to add weak Dem president as well. As I have tweeted since January, Biden should have attacked Trump for building a fascist movement in America. If he had it would have encouraged more folks to join in speaking up.

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When is the supine Democratic Party going to awaken from its stupor and make the anti-vax crazies into the face of the Republican Party? And further, to attack the MAGA cult as a genuine fascist movement to overthrow democracy?

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@WalshFreedom We need a revival of the People's Party of the 1890's, that great incubator of populist thinking. You would belong there (a compliment!) as I think I would too. A lot of populist ant-corporate monopoly thinking is traditional in Texas, from where much of the sentiment was born.

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Somebody needs to step up and revive the People's Party of the 1890's, that great organ of democratic populism. Too many Terry McAuliffe/Joe Manchin Democrats are such conduits for corporate power they can't realistically be in the same party as Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez.

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Three of my 4 adult children were recently diagnosed with Covid. One is an adamant Trumster anti-vaxxer but the other 2 were fully vaccinated with at least two shots. Omicron = bad news.

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(2) The Dems need to fish or cut bait. As things are going now Biden and the Dems are losing the young progressives whose margins put them in office.

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The Democratic Party ever since the Reagan presidency, at least, has been an attempted coalition between wealthy corporate enterprises and the working class. Push come to shove the corporate interests win out. Check with Joe Manchin.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is an American hero. Retweet if you agree.

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@CalltoActivism Yes

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I posted on May 14: Biden and his team fucked up by refusing to engage with Trump and call MAGA out as the fascist movement that it is.

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I posted on June 10: Dems are moaning about Biden's agenda floundering. What did they expect? Biden refused to confront and expose Trump's fascist effort to overturn the election with a Big Lie, thus ceding all the ground to Trump and leaving the congressional Dems out to dry.

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I posted on Sept. 19: If Biden had attacked Trump head-on in January over the real truth, that he and his following were a genuine fascist movement, its Big Lies would not have spread so rapidly and easily. It's easy for one side to win a fight if it is the only side fighting.