"Be kind to people for no reason"
--- Poshmark
I try to live my life that way.
Sometimes the kindest thing is to ignore those that beg for hate. I'm working on that part.
There is going to be a lot of people who didn’t know they were voting for a mandate to deport 15 million people, cut the budget beyond measure, fire thousands of federal employees, stop building factories, bridges, and more. It will be a rude awakening. My latest post (1/2).
This is on them. The American people knowingly chose a cruel, dishonest, lawless authoritarian to be their president. Some who voted for him said “I don’t care” that he’s a cruel, dishonest, lawless, authoritarian. And others who voted for him said “I want to be ruled by” a cruel, dishonest, lawless authoritarian. But either way, this is now on them. They ALL will deserve everything a cruel, dishonest, lawless authoritarian does to them. And does to America.
So, you want me to believe that you voted for a racist, rapist, convicted felon, business fraud who incited a deadly attack on our Capitol after losing the last election because of the price of eggs?
That you voted for the orange-dipped dude who ran with a different VP because the last one was nearly hanged for not breaking democracy, because you’ve been getting fewer hours at your job these days?
You want me to believe that you voted for someone who nearly every economist in the world has said will grow our debt (which he did by the third largest amount ever the last time), increase our costs, raise inflation and destroy our GDP because a burger and fries at Five Guys is more expensive than it used to be?
You want me to believe that you voted for the drink bleach guy who golfed while thousands of Americans were dying a day because you had it so much better then, when you were stockpiling toilet paper, than you do now?
You want me to believe that you voted for the guy who had 4 years to pass an infrastructure bill and didn’t, the guy who promised Mexico would pay for the wall when they didn’t, the guy who promised to bring manufacturing back, lower the cost of prescription drugs and end the opioid crisis but didn’t, because you preferred his “policies”?
You want me to believe you voted for the “grab em by the pussy” guy who wants to destroy the Department of Education and to repeal the ACA despite the fact that he has nothing more than “concepts of a plan” to replace it, the guy who will roll back environmental protections, strip women and minorities of more rights, the guy who will hand Ukraine to Putin and Gaza to Netanyahu, the guy who has said he will be a “dictator on day one”, because you’re worried about losing your gas stove?
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe any of that, and frankly, I’m not sure you believe it either.
Because the truth is that your vote wasn’t about any of that.
You voted for the traitorous embodiment of the 7 deadly sins because when it came to casting your ballot for a Black woman, you just couldn’t do it.
And because you like getting away with being your worst self.
And because life is a whole lot easier to stomach when all that has gone wrong for you, is someone else’s fault.
Let’s be honest here, that is what it was.
So when the price of eggs is $18, and your Latino neighbors have been deported or moved to some f’d up “camp” to pick the strawberries none of you will pick, and your miscarrying wife has to contend with sepsis before she’s allowed to have an abortion, and your autistic child is unable to get the early intervention they desperately need, please remember what it really was that you voted for.
Because I promise you the rest of us will never, ever forget.
.@POTUS, this is not about a “smooth transition”; this is a matter of national security.
You have an obligation and a sworn duty to faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States. There is nothing about passing the office over to a man who you know from intelligence briefings is actively working with Vladimir Putin to destroy this country, that is “…faithfully executing the Office of President of the United States.” Nothing. That is as UN-American and UN-Presidential as it gets.
Hey white women Trump voters,
Do you believe what you do with your body should be a man’s choice?
What about your daughters, your sisters, your aunts, your mothers and your friends?
Because a whole bunch of dudes who also voted for Trump are saying that your body IS their choice.
So, is it?
I have a question for girl dads who voted for Trump,
You say it’s your job to protect her.
So if a year from now, she is lying in a hospital bed dying from sepsis after being denied miscarriage care, what will you say when she asks you why you didn’t protect her from Trump?
@GrammyLiz55 @thejackhopkins Not watching any new channels…except weather time and sports! Fuck the national media…they made him normal 🍊frito …fucking disgrace…sad world we live in
@thejackhopkins Fear. They are shit scared they’ll be locked up without due process and no constitutional rights. I don’t blame them but I also get annoyed at their reticence to speak up. Democracy doesn’t just die in darkness, it does in apathy, reticence and cowardice.
@thejackhopkins Fuck all the media! They had a hand in the bullshit! Lawrence is the lone crusader. He’s the only one who consistently called that mofo out on his bs!
@LawrenceHughes I saw a similar tweet of yours earlier and bookmarked it, because yes I have seen numerous instances of that.
It's hard for me to verify the veracity of those accounts, but who knows? It sounds like a real thing.
@mmpadellan Are you seeing all the posts from swing state Dems who voted by mail-in ballots - when they try to track their ballots now, it says "received" but NOT counted - or "No record found!" Could this be why 15 million votes are missing?? Swing state mail-in ballots tossed/not counted?
TWEEPS: In the days since the election, my account has lost 23,000 followers -- mostly bots, I assume. But I wanted to make sure Elmo isn't unfollowing us from each other once again.
Do me a favor: RT this and check to make sure we're still following each other, as we'll get through this together.
Please and thank you! 🙏💪
Y’all, the replies are a fucking shitshow on a level I’ve never seen before, but I’m still scrolling through them to find you. And I won’t stop.
Keep posting. Don’t cede this space.
Fuck them.
John McCain and I didn’t always agree, but he understood that some values transcended parties. He knew that if we got in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party orthodoxy, our democracy will not work.
John McCain had character. That’s what I think about so much these days because it’s so different from what we see out of the Republican nominee.
BREAKING: The United Auto Workers union throws down the gauntlet to Donald Trump by challenging him to work a 12 hour shift after he disparagingly says a “child” could do their job.
This is too good…
“I want to see you assemble parts ‘out of a box’ for 12 hours,” said union member Dawnya Ferdinansen in a newly released video. “Until you actually work a manual labor job, you keep the name of the UAW out of your mouth.”
“Solidarity y’all!” she added.
Trump made his offensive remarks during an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago—
“They build everything in Germany, and then they assemble it here,” he said. “They take them out of a box and they assemble them. We could have our child do it.”
Clearly, Trump is bitter against the UAW for endorsing Kamala Harris.
“Donald Trump is a billionaire who’s never worked a real job in his life,” said UAW President Shawn Fain.
“He doesn’t know the first thing about hard work, and he wouldn’t last a day in an auto plant,” he added. “He isn’t fit to be an autoworker, and he certainly isn’t fit to be the President.”
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