In February 2020, just 2 years ago, 52 of 53 Republican senators voted to allow (then) President Trump to block congressionally authorized sale of critical military supplies to the courageous President Zelensky of Ukraine, unless Ukraine manufactured anti-Democratic propaganda.
I insulted
@elonmusk
yesterday on
@Twitter
, so for the next 24-48 hours there will be 100's of replies drowning out whatever I say w/ something witty like "shut-up Jew". Fulfilling Elon's vision of "free speech" utopia where anyone who speaks truth to power is drowned out w/ hate
When someone assassinated a *Democratic* federal judgeโs family, and had detailed on Sotomayor as his next target: Republicans laughed. No problem with regular protests at Pelosi & Schumerโs homes. But interrupt Kavanaughโs dessert and we should end First Amendment?
It is getting nasty on the floor of the senate. Democrats hammering on provision of Trump/GOP bill that gives windfall to Hillsdale College (just Hillsdale College), which is funded by Devos (huge Republican donors) family.
@tedcruz
The problem is not Biden noting
@tedcruz
&
@HawleyMO
similarities to Nazi propagandists, the problem is two sitting US senators orchestrating a bloody takeover of the Capitol in order to try to install a white nationalist regime after voters overwhelmingly turning them out.
@realDonaldTrump
This statement perfectly sums up the Trump Regime: bragging about the ratings for the death & suffering caused by his willful incompetence.
1 of 53 Republican senators voted against withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for anti-Biden propaganda:
@MittRomney
. He deserves praise for bucking his party, and standing up for democracy over authoritarianism.
.
@elonmusk
joined
@ggreenwald
to attack
@MollyJongFast
with super witty 1984 jokes AND her home address (in response to her statements regarding rich white men bullies who feel threatened by progress): this version of "free speech" (bullying, hatred, doxing) stifles speech.
@elonmusk
Sir, has your strategy of assuring MAGA leaders you are going to turn this platform into a MAGA Hellscape, firing key people in content moderation, and generally acting erratic not worked to assure advertisers this is a safe place to sell their goods & services?
Whatever those 52 senators say now about how tough they're on Putin (criticizing Biden for not being tough enough) is insulting & useless BS until they acknowledge & apologize for their vote to allow Trump to blackmail Zelensky for their support of authoritarianism over democracy
Dude agreed to buy
@Twitter
for $44 billion: now trading at <$30 billion. In his public meltdown to get out of deal he can no longer afford due collapsing stock price of his core asset, electric car company, he cannot stop bashing Democrats, who subsidize & buy electric cars.
I am a skeptical Biden voter who thinks he is doing a *way better* job than I thought he would. I am not a representative voter, but there are probably 10's of millions in US who agree with this, and it is super weird they are never asked their thoughts by mainstream media.
@elonmusk
@SenMarkey
@washingtonpost
Your strategy of mocking Democratic senator over sincere question regarding security Twitter after you fired everyone who does security, and continue to act erratically, will certainty quell political concerns you're catering to MAGA extremists & susceptible for foreign influence
All of the talk on this platform about whether or not Democrats ran a good campaign misses this simple fact: regardless of what topics Democrats choose to focus on is basically irrelevant, because mainstream media chooses to focus on whatever Republicans tell them to focus on.
I know we are only supposed to care about the feelings of white nationalists, or as
@HawleyMO
calls them โreal Americansโ, but The People just voted in Democratic president & senate & house, and a lot of US are pretty raw about Republicansโ bloody coup to stay in power.
Insane we have 104,000 *confirmed* dead, economic collapse, escalating tensions in the streets, and incumbent Presidentโs incompetence, corruption & cruelty just makes this worse, yet we are debating his likelihood of reelection rather than demanding his immediate resignation.
Idea that teenager kept detailed calendar of daily events, including small, spontaneous, house parties during the summer, is absurd. Fact that Team Kavanaugh is even introducing this is insulting to everyone.
@realDonaldTrump
We held a general election in 1864 during the Civil War and in 1944 during World War II: We are going to hold a general election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 come hell or high water.
Republicans: If we don't slash social safety net for poor & veterans by 50% AND make permanent massive tax cuts for rich (plausibly raising our debt) we will crash world economy in name of fiscal responsibility
Mainstream Media: why aren't Democrats meeting Republicans half way?
@realDonaldTrump
President Trump demanding that New York stop investigating the crimes of him & his Family for New York residents to get federal services.
Groups President Trump have blamed while avoiding any responsibly for his willful negligence & corruption that have killed 43,000 (and counting): Chinese, Democratic governors, Media, doctors & nurses, WHO, immigrants.
@marcorubio
Not every republican is a fascist
But every fascist is a republican
And every republican is complicit in promoting their authoritarian power over US
A big fuck you to every media operation that carries President Trump's 1-2 hour nightly show. It is not news: It is dangerous disinformation that endangers all of US, for the sake of ratings.
Florida is going to have a massive spike in COVID-19 because their governor left the fucking beaches open and hosted spring break a week after everyone else was already in lockdown. Their problem is their fault of their governor & president. Full Stop.
@realDonaldTrump
Why should the people and taxpayers of Democratic States like New York & Illinois be bailing out poorly run Republican States (like West Virginia & Mississippi)? Not just once: but every fucking year. I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?
Not sure who needs to hear this, but if a political party introduces a "policy plan" that does not actually include any policies or plan, then it is not a policy plan and it is irresponsible to report on it as a policy plan.
Dude is a cult leader to 25% of US population, 48 senators, and majority of Supreme Court. He orchestrated a failed coup attempt just 5 months ago, and is bragging through his journalists that he is going to do it again. So, yeah, I take him seriously & literally.
Republicans blaming gun control advocates for mass shootings, because gun control advocates not doing a good enough job in stopping Republicans from eliminating basic gun control in Republican states (which have more/deadlier mass shootings AND much higher violent crime rates)
No, YOU F off. I am sick and tired of nothing changing after mass shootings bc we get mired EVERY TIME IN THE DAMN GUN DEBATE. You have LOST. Itโs DONE. For the love of God what else can be done? You are ruining any chance at change by not admitting that the gun debate is lost.
Anyone who thinks
#MoscowMitch
would have shrugged his shoulders and gone home if he wanted something done, but only had 50 votes + house + president is delusional. He would have burned the place down to get his way.
What President claimed is untested, not approved, and possibly dangerous. Please do not listen to this madman, listen to trained medical professionals: he will get people killed.
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts."
President just stated that he wants to send US military into a US city and shoot people for looting (presumably killing many peaceful protesters). Authorities killing people on street suspected of property crimes is how we got here
Judaism is a religion and should not be intertwined, in any way, with Israeli nationalism, restrictions on free speech, or hatred towards other minority groups. This is not good for Jews and not good for US.
President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, thus bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out "Boycott Israel" movements on college campuses
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Under your father, the Dear Leader of the Republican Party, 4 US military died in a botched operation in Niger: Trump mocked the pregnant widow of one of the fallen, the mainstream media just buried the entire fiasco โฆ
@realDonaldTrump
Scary to watch President Trump re-write history as it is happening, as if we do not have video of him mocking coronavirus up until days ago, and: REPUBLICAN SENATE STILL BLOCKING FIRST NECESSARY BILL TO INCREASE CAPACITY & ACCESS TO TESTING and EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR HOURLY WORKERS
@realDonaldTrump
Saudi Arabia is waging a terrible war in Yemen, which we are supplying despite a clear rebuke by Congress, and Yemeni forces attacked them. If they want to stop attacks on themselves, they should try ending their war in Yemen, not dragging US into an insane war against Iran.
@realDonaldTrump
If Section 230 is eliminated (ending liability protection for platforms over what people say on their platforms that may cause damage), as Republicans are demanding, the first thing platforms would do is ban Republican leadership because they regularly lie & incite violence.
@Mike_Pence
(1) Trump sent violent mob to murder you so he could end republic (2) Trump took boxes of classified documents from White House & is known to destroy documents (3) Trump won in 2016 because FBI intervened on his behalf over โconcernโ about Clintonโs document retention & security
There were 130 million men, women, children in the US in 1939, are you trying to claim is plausible there was a year prior to 1939 where we gained 6.5 million jobs? Could you be more absurd in how you reach to attack Biden? You are broken
@nytimes
.
We have learned of absurd corruption by Alito (free flights), Thomas (free house, vacations, etc), Roberts (wife places lawyers in firms arguing before Court for $ millions), Kavanaugh (who paid that credit card debt anyway?), Gorsuch (mysteriously successful property sales) ...
Oh, my, the questions:
First, who orchestrated this weird pre-buttal with the infamous WSJ Polluter Page, and did Alito get help from a PR firm?
If so, who paid?
President Trump wants to kick 20+ million off of healthcare in the middle of the pandemic: "I hope that [the Supreme Court] end [ObamaCare] it, it would be so good if they end it."
Appreciate all of the detailed notes on senate procedure, but bottom line (1) Republicans want to tear things down, and you can always do that with 50 votes (2) Republicans just fired the parliamentarian last time he got in their way (3) Filibuster is anti-civil rights relic.
Saudi Arabia is not an ally in any sense of the word and it is INSANE that US President would defer to them on what to do in a crisis or go to war (a holy war for radical Sunnis, that has nothing to do with US) on their command.
President Trump is frantically tweeting out affirmations of his crowd size. Really sad stuff. How is someone that rich/powerful so pathetically insecure? And what does someone with this much power, and that much insecurity, do to validate himself?
@NikkiHaley
Some people care about safety & prosperity of American people. Other people, like
@NikkiHaley
& rest of Trump sycophants, care about what helps them most in their quest for money & power. Disgusting that mainstream media held her up as one of the good ones. There Are No Good Ones
@JohnCornyn
Democratic House passed necessary emergency measures to get free tests, ensure treatment, cover lost wages for hourly workers for all affect by coronavirus: keeping US safe and prosperous. It is not law yet, because Republicans Senate is on vacation sipping Corona.
Wild that entire mainstream media has decided that it would not make a good story to report on richest man in world buying key communication platform and spending all day conversing with right-wing extremists sharing hardcore white supremacist, antisemitic, homophobic content
@SenTedCruz
Just 5 months ago you orchestrated an insurrection against US. Your terrorists literally tossed US flags off the side of the Capitol to raise Trump flags.
@realDonaldTrump
Is this the US President threatening the life of a US Congressman, a leader of the opposition party? Does not really matter: Fact we are having a legitimate debate about whether or not President is ordering hit on Congressman means we have already lost our way as a republic.
@tedcruz
"Every terrorist needs to be fully prosecuted?" Just the foot-soldiers you sent into the Capitol, or you,
@HawleyMO
,
@realDonaldTrump
, and the other Republican leaders who orchestrated the domestic terror attack?
President Trump wants NASCAR's only black driver to apologize for the overwhelming concern about this noose found hanging in his garage. And NASCAR's decision to not fly pro-slavery flags at their races anymore, which Trump obviously blames their only black driver for.
Yemen forces have taken responsibility for the attack on Saudi Arabia and Iran has denied responsibly: both of these are more reliable sources than either President Trump or Prince bin Salman, who are desperate for an excuse to drag US into war against Iran.
US military gave their lives protecting perimeter of a massive US withdrawal from a 20 year disaster: they are heroes, and President Biden, a man who has buried too many children, feels the pain of their loss because he is a good man & accepts his responsibility in this war โฆ
@realDonaldTrump
Mail-in ballots heavily favor Biden because you told your supporters to *not* mail-in ballots, while Biden told his supporters to mail-in ballots.
@realDonaldTrump
Translation: fuck the hard-working Americans who need relief due to pandemic & economic depression, instead ram through kicking 20+ million off of any healthcare (in middle of pandemic), criminalizing women's healthcare, giving corporations more power over working Americans.
@julialindau
@vicenews
If Trump Regime does not check you for coronavirus, then we can keep the number of *known* cases low and President Trump can get good press. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?!?
NEW: Midwest governors Gretchen Whitmer, Mike DeWine, Tony Evers, Tim Walz, JB Pritzker, Eric Holcomb and Andy Beshear just announced they will coordinate to reopen the economy in the Midwest region.
As if the abuse-of-power was not enough (again extorting a government to give *HIM* something in exchange for something*WE* own) he is also mocking "state's right" by demanding New York implement Republican policy.
People use the terms "political correctness" and "woke" rather than mentioning what they represent, because the actual things these terms represent are super popular & moral.
@SecPompeo
When you think about it, you quickly realize that the people complaining about "cancel culture" or "wokeness" are almost always (1) not actually cancelled (2) obsessively trying to cancel entire groups of people with hate and/or with government spending and/or regulations.
@realDonaldTrump
President Trump admits that every decision he is making in this ongoing crisis is first about his personal wealth then his power (reelection). Does he consider the health and safety of the 325 million people in the US? Clearly not.
@realDonaldTrump
@JayInslee
When the US President promises US military invasions of Democratic cities to overthrow duly elected government & will-of-the-people, I take that literally & seriously.
@FLOTUS
Here is the full quote that the Republicans are trying to make the story of the day: "The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he canโt make him a baron.โ That is it, and the speaker apologized.
@SCOTUSblog
The grave, unforgivable sin is the women whose lives will be destroyed due to lack of healthcare, not some partisan hacks in robes being revealed to be partisan hacks in robes.
US President Trump is awaiting orders from Prince bin Salman of Saudi Arabia on whether to start an absurdly stupid, costly, futile war with Iran, on behalf of radical Sunnis.
We really need to know *now* what financial ties Trump Family, especially Jared, has with Saudi Arabia.
@realDonaldTrump
All kidding aside, sort of dangerous for US President to tweet cryptic shit like this out. Probably nothing, but military around world are probably on high alert in case the โbig thingโ is that the erratic lunatic in charge of US just started a war or something.
@elonmusk
"Political Correctness" of late 1990's and early 2000's was all about not calling LGBTQ and African-Americans horrible slurs to their face. Still perfectly legal, but still not something I want to see in-real-life or on my social media feed.