A distraught friend yesterday boiled it down perfectly:
"If we won, we'd be celebrating how many of them would get healthcare, education, or student loans canceled. But they won, and they're celebrating how many of us they get to kill."
Tells the whole story, doesn't it?
Palestinians are still going to die, probably at a greater rate than before, but at least Jill Stein made enough money this election not to have to dip into her $14M estate to pay her own bills. Congratulations, suckers! You got played, again.
I thought this would hurt more than 2016 but it doesn't.
That was a shock. This is just confirmation.
We now know that 2016 wasn't a fluke or an aberration, that this is what the majority wants: whiteness, patriarchy, nationalism, hatred, nihilism.
Whether I want to spend the rest of my life in such a place is something my mind isn't prepared to consider.
Right now, I just know that I'm seeing the nation with my eyes fully open and there is no mistaking what so many people I Ioved and once respected, actually value.
As heartbreaking as that is, I now know where they stand, and I know it's nowhere I want to be.
Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed. 🧵
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Trump is a totalitarian
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
A confused & addled Trump made his most incoherent speech ever yesterday, making false & confused statements about Iran, hurricanes, cell apps, Germany, Africa, sex changes, brain injuries, climate change, etc, all while slurring & mispronouncing words. https://t.co/AyyXLrDRUC
The influences behind the two parties today are totally different, so your argument is a false comparison. You are assuming the political situation is relatively normal when it truly is not normal.
Trump's agenda and narrative have caused many wealthy Republicans to flee the party and join the Democrats because their beloved party has been turned into a cult of personality with Trump at the center.
He has corrupted the party so thoroughly that traditional Republicans like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Jeff Flake, Adam Kinzinger, Judge Luttig, and more have said their beloved party is no more and they will need to start a new conservative party under another name in order to win back lost trust and respect.
So, the left has become heavily weighted with the disillusioned right joining their ranks. One is still a valid, identifiable political party, and the other is a mere cult, worshipping their political prophet at all cost.
There is no comparison between the two. There is no equivalence between the two. The traditional Republican Party is experiencing its death rattle, gasping for air, but finding only a toxic ether filled with bigotry, hate, intolerance, disinformation, character denigration, contrarianism, and lies. It will not last.
BREAKING
In a rare moment of honesty, Trump admitted he stiffed his workers:
“I hated to give overtime. I hated it. I shouldn't say this, but I'd get other people in. I wouldn't pay."
If you want to see all the factories close, watch your neighbors lose their jobs, and John Deere go out of business after 187 years, by all means vote for Donald Trump and his tariffs.
Dear swing race candidates,
If your paid comms doesn’t tell voters your Republican opponent is a big gov extremist coming for their freedom, they will never know.
You must tell them.
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The National Hurricane Center is now forecasting an "unsurvivable storm surge" of up to 20 feet from Hurricane Helene for the Big Bend of Florida. THIS is what that looks like...