Dear fellow white southerners, if you are truly proud of who you are, where you come from, may I pease ask you to show some pride and honor and bow out gracefully? Hand the reins of power to the majority and let’s start the process of learning our lessons with a shred of dignity.
@ericareport It’s 67+ years now!! Didn’t the Republicans claim that they weren’t touching Social Security and Medicare? Look at the list of those that LIED to the nation
We had so many amazing discussions in “1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed” that we had way more content (& kids) than we could fit in an hour. Thankfully, @hbo is letting us put some out!
Here’s some all about mixed folks hair!!!😬
Watch the film on @hbomax.
This is flawed and frankly dangerously shortsighted thinking.
It’s not an issue of agreeing or disagreeing. We aren’t talking about different approaches to policy or platform. It’s not about ‘staying in a silo’… this is about giving a platform to someone who used his reach to incite a violent attack on our Capitol in an effort to subvert the will of the people & install himself as a dictator.
Donald trump knows that his words can incite violence. He’s tested it and it’s worked.
He’s not going to stop.
Let me ask @andersoncooper this - what if Nick Fuentes were the “frontrunner” for the nomination?
What if it was David Duke? And what if they had already proven that they would use platforms to both legitimize and encourage violence against minorities?
Would you say that those of us who didn’t think those people should be given a platform were choosing to stay in “silos” because we didn’t agree with them?
Or would you agree that it would be wrong to help them amplify their hate? Wrong and dangerous?
How is trump any different?
Dear Anderson Cooper,
If it’s wrong to want to be in a “silo” with other likeminded sane people who don’t want a madman’s vitriolic rhetoric to be legitimized and refuse to allow a pathologically lying, coup plotting, insurrection inciting, nuclear secret stealing sexual predator to ascend to the very office he tried to steal through deadly violence, then yes… I would very much like to be in that silo please.
Who’s with me? ✋
@mlauriat “Tyson allegedly “funneled $600,000 to a dark-money group, Grow United, that supported three ghost candidates running for Florida’s Senate, according to court records. The candidates had no political experience and did not campaign.”
@dcpetterson I am in the south. In a local store today a young man and his Grandpa were clearly upset about some kind of racist remark that had been made. The young man warned Grandpa they were probably the only Dems in the store. I said, no your not and so did everyone in that line.
There likely are other reasons also. But the poor whites who live in rural places and can't afford to live there, can't really understand anything else.
I am not defending their bigotry. I'm saying we have challenges if we want to change their minds.
8/9
Red states are red because they don't know any better. They can't. They don't have sufficient contact with the outside world, and they struggle to stay alive, and they have poor education, and they're not exposed to the rest of the world, so their bigotry is unchallenged.
7/9
The #FBI has identified many people who incited violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, but it still needs your help to bring others to justice. If the person in this photo looks familiar, submit a tip at https://t.co/LRUnRA40bG or 1-800-CALL-FBI, and mention photo #88-AFO.
If we defaulted on our debt, the middle class would hurt.
8 million jobs lost.
Social Security and Medicare payments could be halted or delayed.
Retirement accounts would be hit.
Costs would go up.
It's time to end the gamesmanship and get to work. America pays its bills.
⚡️Russian brigade flees Bakhmut.
Ukraine's Third Assault Brigade confirmed on May 9 that the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces has fled Bakhmut.