Jamie Walker

@jaidawny #AlwaysHarrisWalz
Resist, resist, resist. No DMs.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Senators Jean Shaheen and Jack Reed have sent a letter to the Pentagon demanding they investigate Elon Musk’s business contracts with Russia due to his new role in the federal government.

RETWEET to thank these Senators for standing up for our democracy!

[👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 @WonderKing82]

This was not a fair election. And Trump knows it. That's why he was telling people he had enough votes. They screamed rigged, so the Democrats can't scream rigged election. The reverse psychology of a criminally minded person. It's the same reason Musk knew the election outcome.

[Sam @SamCaudell]

This is Columbus, Ohio. Reprehensible!

[Mediaite @Mediaite]

Florida Town Votes to Remove Fluoride from Water, Citing Trump’s Appointment of RFK Jr as ‘H-Something-Something Director’ https://t.co/sqVFZa8rgZ

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Hey MAGA - get ready to pay more in junk fees because there is no way Trump or the Republican Congress is going to stand up to all of these predatory corporations trying to rip you off 👇

[Michelle @Michell33650674]

Do you know who DESPERATELY WANTED HARRIS TO WIN? Women of all ages, demographics, and socioeconomic situations! Young people wanting a better future! Black and brown people tired of being discriminated against! LGBTQ'S wanting equal rights! TRUMP DID NOT LEGITIMATELY WIN!

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

There were people who had suffered from childhood cancer, beat it, hit their 'lifetime maximum," and were uninsurable for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.

Trump want to bring this back.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

This graph is amazing.

It shows you that right around the same time the GOP destroyed the working class with Reaganomics, they made the working class hate us while we continued to deliver them policy after policy in the Clinton, Obama, and Biden admins.

All from propaganda!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Reminder: When you invest in the American people, the middle class expands, and the economy grows.

When you cut taxes on the rich, the rich get richer, and the gains don’t trickle down.

It’s that simple.

[Jamie Walker @jaidawny]

All with only a 100-day campaign

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

Kamala Harris has, as of this writing, the fourth-most votes of any presidential candidate in U.S. history, the most by any woman, and the second-most by any Democrat, ever. She’s won about 4 million more votes than Barack Obama in 2008, 7.2 million more votes that Obama in 2012, 7.3 million more votes than Hillary Clinton, and 10.1 million more votes than Donald Trump in 2016.

https://t.co/pCjYpkk7Wa

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Joe Biden & Kamala Harris must not normalize the real threat that Trump is. Biden should NOT have invited Trump to the White House, and Biden & Harris should NOT attend his inauguration. It’s time for Democrats to fight back and make a fucking statement. Do not normalize Trump.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If you come from the working class, you can expect to live a significantly shorter life than somebody who is very wealthy.

Why?

Because the stress of being poor in this country wrecks your body and your mind.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Marc Elias’ take on Donald Trump:

“Donald Trump is not Hitler. He is not Stalin. His vision of America is neither pre-war Germany nor the post-war Soviet Union. The United States is not at risk of falling into totalitarianism.

The United States has its own history and culture. It has a unique way of manifesting its politics. That does not mean, however, that we cannot learn from other places and other times. As Mark Twain, the most American of American writers, wrote: “History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

So, let’s start with what we know. Trump is a deeply unserious man. In a different era, he would have been a carnival barker. If not born to privilege and wealth he would be running a low level scheme or selling supplements on a sketchy website. Instead, he is the president-elect who, in addition to hawking schlocky items on the internet, will soon command the highest, most powerful office on earth.

We know that he admires modern day dictators and strongmen. He seeks their favor and rejoices in their flattery.

He rejects liberalism — things like the rule of law, impartial government and fundamental rights. He has contempt for democratic norms and institutions. Elections are only fair when he wins and rigged when he loses.

For Trump, the presidency exists to exact the spoils of electoral victory rather than a public trust.

Like many of you, I have spent the last few days trying to make sense of things — asking how this happened and what comes next. As for the second question, I have been doing a lot of reading.
It is something that preoccupied the Founders, who were afraid of the reemergence of a king. Decades after the founding, John Adams was still concerned. In 1814 he wrote to a colleague that “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

As part of my processing, I went back and reread several of Hannah Arendt’s works. She is best known for her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in which she coined the phrase “banality of evil.” In her telling, the Nazi SS leader was a mediocre joiner. In her words a “clown.”

But, in my opinion, her most important book was The Origins of Totalitarianism, in which she attempts to explain the mechanics of how totalitarian movements come to power. One observation of hers strikes me as most relevant today.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” 

It is hard to make sense of Trump’s recent cabinet nominations without coming back to this central truth: He is nominating “crackpots and fools” because that is what Trumpism requires. It is required both by Trump himself but also by his followers.

As a narcissist, Trump surrounds himself with people who, like him, reject science, expertise and the idea of objective facts. As a leader, he must continue to promote ever more extremist conspiracy theories to explain why his last conspiracy theory failed to come true.”

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[Inside Political Chaos @ChaosPolicy]

@jaidawny Impressive following. Like you I've spent lots time spreading the word. Can you help by reposting the tweet you liked? Thanks.

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

🎯 Drop a 💙 (or two) for the vets! 🙏💙💙

[Victoria Brownworth @VABVOX]

"Stop shaming people for their votes!" is another mantra Dems are preaching. Nah. People own their votes. If you voted Trump or Trump proxy, you put us here. The very least you can do is take responsibility for the horror you inflicted on the rest of us.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it's not just spinelessness, it's complicity.

[Jan Schakowsky @janschakowsky]

Medicare coverage for telehealth is set to expire at the end of the year.

Telehealth is essential for delivering care to vulnerable populations, including seniors and people with disabilities.

Congress must extend this coverage to ensure people don’t lose access to vital care!

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s new Interior Dept pick says he’ll stop the ‘attack’ against American energy, but energy production is at an all-time high and oil production is higher than it’s ever was under Trump.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Him: “It’s cute you think you know things but don’t EVER talk to me about politics again missy.”

Me: “Don’t speak to me that way it’s not appropriate”

Him: “You used to be intelligent - you’re a disgrace & need to learn more respect for men”

🧵 on rising misogyny & ableism /1