MelissaA

Mom of 4, former prosecutor, proud Resister

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@HTMSCobb Congratulations! Well-deserved!!

[Can 🍊👹 Die Already?🙄 @voteheaux]

Dear White Women:
I’M WITH YOU WHEN YOU RIGHT BABY!💪🏾

Rev. Karla is absolutely, historically, factually, & spiritually right here. I might post this once a day for the next week to make SURE it gets attention. Cause everything she said is spot TF on.

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

Yup - this right here.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Thoughts from the US

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

This.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We are already seeing the rationalizing of how we got here and the blaming of the political party that, though flawed, actually reflects multiracial democracy. We must resist this. Voters knew exactly who Trump was and chose him anyway. This is not about the so-called excesses of the left. As the NYT editorial board writes, Trump ran the "most racist, sexist, and xenophobic campaign in modern history." As NYT reporter Lisa Lerer wrote today, "This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history." This is the unsparing truth that we must confront.

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@RebeccaGaunt WTF? Do they ever consider context?

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@RebeccaGaunt So, they can’t broadcast that language, but kids in the room could hear it, thus defeating the purpose of removing the book, no?

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@RebeccaGaunt At least an hour

[Imani Gandy is at BlueSky Now @AngryBlackLady]

As far as I know, no president has given birth, so Kamala Harris fits right in.

Fuck your patriarchy and your gender essentialism.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Armed security didn’t stop the gunman at a store in Buffalo or a nightclub in Orlando. They couldn’t prevent shootings at schools in Santa Fe, Parkland or Uvalde. And now, even Secret Service couldn’t stop a shooting at a political rally in Pennsylvania.

It’s the fucking guns.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

If you believe God intervened to save former President Trump, but didn’t intervene to save the kids in Uvalde or Parkland or Santa Fe or Sandy Hook, then you are worshipping partisan politics, not Jesus.

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

Long but spot on.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Best take I've seen so far in regards to Trump's assination attempt.

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

Sociologist @JessicaCalarco hit the nail on the head when she said: “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”

That, she argues, is a policy choice—and it's "leaving our whole society sicker, sadder, and more stressed." https://t.co/XswYC6spEc

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

This article is a MUST read.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Before everybody goes into #debate mode, let me grab 5 minutes of your time to explain how Amy Coney Barrett outlined precisely how she and the conservatives are going to veto a "Restoring Roe" bill, should Biden win and the Democrats pass one.

https://t.co/iMtHU4cJep

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@JLLSU @RebeccaGaunt I find Ragsdale to be even more repugnant when he talks about transience.

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@RebeccaGaunt Love the inclusivity.

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@RebeccaGaunt BTW, this attitude is how 11-14 year old girls end up pregnant and in labor without understanding how or why they are in said situation. Ask any labor and delivery nurse.

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@RebeccaGaunt I’m not sure how, but the quotes were even more stupid than I thought possible.

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@RebeccaGaunt Of COURSE they did. 🙄

[MelissaA @melissaamerault]

@lisacaseyart @Wheeler_High Beautiful!