snikkins

Awesomeness.

[snikkins @snikkins]

@ls87NY @daveweigel It's because "normal" is shorthand for "white and straight."

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Seems like they want to force him to withdraw his name rather than suffer the indignity of voting for him.

[snikkins @snikkins]

l o l

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited:

“Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval.

"In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good

“We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋

He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.

[snikkins @snikkins]

And then when the vote actually comes, they'll all vote yes. Except maybe Murkowski, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

I think this is the list on Gaetz as AG so far:

Explicitly NO (2):
Collins (R-ME)
Murkowski (R-AK)

Likely NO (6):
Cornyn (R-TX)
McConnell (R-KY)
Tillis (R-NC)
Young (R-IN)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Curtis (R-UT)

Leaning NO (4):
Graham (R-SC)
Britt (R-AL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Grassley (R-IA)

[snikkins @snikkins]

They do and they don't care.

I don't understand why this is so hard for people to say. This has been the goal for 50+ years - dismantling the government.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Mhm. Supposed to buy that it's a marketing issue. Sure.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Former AG Kamala Harris enjoyed a glass of wine while playing a game with kids.
MAGA: THAT IS DISQUALIFYING WHO DOES THAT!!!!

Potentially future AG Matt Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking kids.
MAGA: THIS IS EPIC!!! CRY HARDER LIBS!!!

But tell me more about those eggs.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The people who say they want to see a revival of US manufacturing often don't actually support it. They're the ones who will buy the cheaper t-shirt every time, which means the one made abroad. Meanwhile, the luxury consumer doesn't care where something is made but will pay $$$.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Actually, you can deport people without due process. We have a super opaque and shady court system called "alien removal courts" that were established by response to the OKC bombing. 😬

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

For the record... No, you can't just deport people without due process. No, you can't just fire countless government employees without due process. And no, you can't just impose tariffs without due process. He's gonna try, and he's gonna get shot down.

[snikkins @snikkins]

It's not going to be interesting because this will cost lives!

Hope that helps.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The “Crawl Test”: Autocrats like to make minions crawl.

Gaetz and Gabbard nominations will test Republican senators’ willingness to crawl for Trump.

Should be interesting.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Nah this is exactly what they voted for.

[Martin Heinrich @SenatorHeinrich]

People voted for cheaper eggs, not whatever the f@#€ this is.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Twice! He did it twice! (2020 was the same but the Dems had their own white guy that time)

[snikkins @snikkins]

That and the progressive policies that Americans do want can only come from white men.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I think one of the most difficult reckonings of this election is that the incentives we thought inspired voting choices -- a better life for your family and future for your community -- may not be as decisive as the desire to dominate and inflict cruelty on outgroups. Explanations that don't grapple with this point generally read to me like liberal wishcasting.

[snikkins @snikkins]

As soon as politicians realized they could use "mandate" after literally every election, it became meaningless. Same thing here.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Except to say that Biden has "Alzheimer's adjacent behavior" happening 😬

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

Oldest candidate to ever win an election and just like that, the media never talked about age again

[snikkins @snikkins]

Yeah people don't know that the Dept. of Ed is responsible for ~10% of the funding of schools - it's already in the hands of states and local governments, hence such disparity in outcomes.

All this will do is make it harder to go to college and for disabled students.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

The Department of Education has the smallest staff of any cabinet agency.

91% of its budget goes to Pell Grants, Student Loans, underresourced elementary and secondary schools, and special education.

I'm sure the states will manage that well.

[snikkins @snikkins]

I think it's because they really expected a big subscription boom again.

And welp.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Stephen Miller will be Trump’s policy deputy.

Miller runs America First, which is the resurrected fascist movement that was thriving here in the US until Pearl Harbor.

Not once did major media cover this.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Especially as it becomes more and more clear they have no "coherent" reason to do so outside of racism and sexism.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

I’m still stuck on “you need to listen to people who voted for a rapist felon to be the president of their country.”

[snikkins @snikkins]

@vanillaopinions The 1950s are calling in more ways than one, it seems.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Yeah bc the media is talking about them now. 😮‍💨

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: We just had an almost TWO YEAR LONG election cycle and NOW you are researching Trump’s plans? We tried to warn you. Good luck America.

[snikkins @snikkins]

Because they know the answer is nothing so there's no reason for them to talk about it.

They've made it abundantly clear these last few months that they're not interested in holding Trump accountable or even reporting accurately on him.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Pretty wild that we just went through an election where a top foreign adversary aggressively tried to stop Democrats from voting — including calling in bomb threats to swing state polling locations — and there’s zero media interest in learning what Trump plans to do about that.