Miranda Weigler

Thinking on 15 levels at once and still trying to make sense to anyone/ everyone else.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia The battle is not only for the 1.8 million hard-working Americans who belong here in our country. The battle is for the soul of the nation. The stakes are that high.
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia Perhaps when they fail and we can no longer pretend our exceptionalism is somehow above morality, we can have an honest national conversation about what “American” values really mean. We can decide if we still believe in the Preamble to the Declaration.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia Don’t make the deal. They have a majority, they should use it. If not perhaps they will finally admit how broken we are and we can finally get to work fixing it.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia This is a time to ignore human pundits, ignore the “polls", ignore the fundraising calls and stop the insanity. Believe in the truth of the cause. Find the soaring rhetoric to ask people to find their better nature. It’s time for Winston Churchill.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia This is not a time for politics, this is a time for leadership.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia Making the deal enables the failing Republican party to continue abusing our public sphere instead of facing their own failings. It enables the less insane members of the party to deny responsibility for the child molesters, bigots and out-and-out nazis.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia We have long since ceased being served by the hypocrites who make up the majority of the GOP infrastructure. Its not rude to admit that in polite company, its just fact.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia As you have pointed out, the majority of the public are at consensus about DACA, gun control, and a desire when they are ill to stay home and have the option of seeing a doctor.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia They will blame us for whatever happens anyway. That is how projection and delusion work. We can pay attention to the lessons from academia and research, even if they don’t.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia So let them run it, and let them own the ramifications of engendering ignorance for 50 years. They made a deal with the devil, Democrats have no responsibility to carry that water.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia There are literal nazi marches. I expect Donald Trump to be a jackass, but Flake, McCain, and Cheney all set that table. They are all liars. DJT is the simulacrum that allows the others to perform ‘normal politics’ while displaying raging hypocrisy and gaslighting

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia unleashed the worst excesses of a deeply troubled domestic law enforcement community, and enabled kleptocracy on a scale we haven’t seen in almost a century. (2/2)

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia We spent a good portion of the last year hearing how Republicans, finally in charge, will be able to fix what was “wrong." Instead, they have dismantled the functional pieces of government as fast as they can, 1/2

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia Unlike his failed businesses, we can’t declare democracy bankrupt and move on without consequence, a fact which the majority of the electoral college chose to ignore and an alarming number of the public don’t seem to understand.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia DJT making a speech about fairness in international trade is as ironic as it is offensive.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia We have been unable to move forward in almost any meaningful area of policy since the Clinton years and despite holding the world’s reserve currency, our president just managed to negotiate his way into exclusion from the immediate future of global trade.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia Our primaries encourage extremism. As a result of the current Republican donor base, (a small group of retrograde angry old white men) there is no functional, credible opposition with which to engage.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia We have allowed our system of governance to be bought and sold because we can no longer conceive of a portion of a public sphere that can’t be solved by the “market."

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

@crookedmedia No, I would not take the deal. American politics have been broken for over 20 years because Democrats refuse to hold moderate Republicans to account for the delusional, I-have-the-freedom-to-be-ignorant portions of their base.

[Miranda Weigler @mweigler]

So excited to hear @jonlovett talk about the failing federal government (SAD) in PDX tonight!