@ninaturner
@POTUS
He's telling us why Democrats don't do anything
b/c it's hitting poor women and girls the hardest
If it were hitting rich women the hardest, it would've been fixed long ago
@Simon_Whitten
Progressives, for years "There seems to be a fascist slant in newspapers"
Centrists "OMG you see fascism EVERYWHERE"
Fascist newspaper writers "Fascism is great, isn't it?"
@Freeyourmindkid
@RezOKC
I think scenes like that are specifically what drives racists to hold onto power: The fear of being rendered subservient to minorities.
@Tazerface16
@elonmusk
@historyofarmani
That's twitter, man
I've been on here for four years, fighting against Trump, giving out great jokes, being woke af, and I've still got <1k followers, get hardly any likes/retweets
I'm a former marine who's invoked my oath to the Constitution - no-one cares
@BreeNewsome
NATO security officials are calling it a full-on attempted coup
with security forces collaboration
This was far worse than 9/11: The president violently attacking Congress and the vice president
@bensiegel
NATO security experts are calling the attack on the Capitol a coup
Trump brought them to a boil, pointed them at Congress & Pence
and security forces failed to do elementary preparations - or even reactions
That reeks of real coup
@HomelandKen
I literally cannot count how many worse injuries I've had from playing sports
from Marine Corps training
Hell: from performing chores around the house
Yet you whiny babies beat us for standing up for our rights and complain about your scratches?
@haileybranson
So mass incarceration is a jobs program? One that steals the freedom from people of color and benefits rural Whites?
There's nothing else we can pay those rural people to do, like fight fires instead? Something that helps us all, and doesn't destroy lives, families, communities
If Trumpists feel that they are above the law
and continue to attack
and continue to be effectively above the law
they will create fascism that way
This is a real threat, one that helped to drive Germany into fascism
@leftfield6
@RexChapman
I'm pretty sure that he's in panic mode
between it and adrenaline, he's able to move away
He probably felt like total shit about 20 minutes later, when his body comes out of fight-or-flight
I bet he won't be able remember climbing out of the window or walking away
@ScoobyMcpherson
A lot of people will disagree with me
but I say:
1) Detach from societal carrots & sticks
2) Become a truly moral/virtuous person, as best as you can
3) Earn a clean conscience as best as you can
4) Know that nothing can truly protect you from trauma/tragedy
5) Don't lose hope
@AdamSerwer
They don't really mind totalitarianism as long as it's White-supremacist/Christianist
It was really about having to obey anyone else's rules
@PplsCityCouncil
that's the whole Boomer thing
going from demanding that they not be sent to Vietnam, later demanding that their own kids be sent to Iraq & Afghanistan
@trapmasterrick
@JamilSmith
People who attack others with police calls should definitely be punished.
The upside: The hid has gotten a surge of business as a result of the whole thing.
@iLoveTheUWS
All the fascists on here:
"Something bad happened, especially to someone running a business? Time to make America fascist!"
Bad things invariably happen under any and every system; blaming a free society for street thugs leads to every part of society being run by street thugs.
@sandboxpete
@CNBC
The government is to blame
It didn't take any of the possible serious steps that other countries took to stop/slow the virus
It didn't take any of the possible serious steps to save Americans from homelessness
The government did this - a government most didn't vote for
@oneunderscore__
Can we make up the term "envisionary" for people like that, who envision lots of things that don't happen
It could be useful for everyday interactions, calling people out for following bone-headed fantasies
@MorePerfectUS
I worked in Oakland Unified before it offered free breakfast & lunch, and work there now that they've been offering it
The kids behave & learn so much better with food in their stomachs
That's more than reason enough - let alone the humanitarian side of just feeding hungry kids
@TimOBrien
The insurrection had help from the inside, to try and slaughter the legislative branch - or at least all those in it who were not sufficiently pro-Trump
It was a coup attempt
@jelani9
It never occurred to me that America would shrug its way into authoritarianism
It still might not, but...
Sorry: Was just staring off into space trying to find any meaningful way to finish that sentence
@MattGertz
A key moment in the rise of the Nazis was their burning down their parliament building
and then blaming it on the communists
enabling their rise & the growth of their power
@StefComedyJam
Tracy Jordan, though
and it isn't available, but there's an episode when he suddenly asks everyone in the strip club who *wasn't* molested as a kid, I believe - from the way he said it - that he implies that he was, too
@stevesilberman
I think that Republicans and Russians are allies against the American republic. Both want America to be authoritarian, and so are working together to make it happen.
@jjmacnab
According to mainstream American society:
Being a white terrorist means that you're basically good but mixed-up by understandable forces
Being a person of color and *suspected of a crime* means that you're basically bad, and that way for all the wrong reasons.
@GianmarcoSoresi
a kid who did a bunch of horrible stuff to me reveled in telling me that I am going to hell and he to heaven b/c he's a christian and I'm not
christians should focus on their own predators rather than condemning and controlling
@maturensensible
@TheOnion
Yes. He is the greatest satirist in Western history, and I think that he would be profoundly glad that The Onion is doing such a powerful job of carrying the torch through our dark days.
@nhannahjones
If a cop kills a child through willful violence
the debate should be between life in prison and execution
There need to be serious reins on police. We are living in a world where basically the opposite is true - and children dying of police violence results:
Serious punishment
@davidgura
America has become a nation that puts children in concentration camps.
We must stop being a nation that does so, and we must reckon with what we have done, or suffer the tragic fates of those who never repent.
@GOPChairwoman
The incumbent president should definitely be removed from office b/c of how they handled the COVID pandemic
For some reason, though, you believe that Biden is the incumbent. Can you not use Google?
Are you certifiably insane?
@kenklippenstein
just as in my upcoming biopic of Hitler, I show him using an Acme explosive plunger and dynamite to raze the Eiffel Tower
a fast way of saying he took [checks notes] France
@samswey
In dictatorships, low-level people are severely punished for minor - or even no - offenses
and the highest-level people are above the law.
That is what modern Republicans want - dictatorship.
Simply:
Trumpism is white supremacy for regular white folks, runaway corporatism for the rich, & rampant corruption for politicians
all enforced by authoritarianism
To create this state, Trumpists consistently use pure Doublespeak (eg defending the Constitution is attacking it