“For every complex problem there is a simple solution that is wrong." -George Bernard Shaw.
I didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me.
@GavinNewsom
Does this mean you can still have expensive dinners with lobbyists at French Laundry? I'd hate to see you deprived of essential activities.
Alternate: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset that 23 Republicans (and some Democrats we won't mention) voted against a meaningless resolution mention to provide cover for anti-Semite Ilhan Omar."
Dear God, Governor. Do we even live in the same state? Was this a bad joke? People can't afford decent homes; gas over $4 a gallon, thanks to Sacramento; human feces and needles on the streets of San Francisco; typhus in LA city hall; a trillion dollars in public pension debt?
California’s what happens when rights are respected. When work is rewarded. When nature’s protected. When diversity is celebrated and free markets are fair markets.
We are nothing less than the progressive answer to a transgressive President.
#CADEM19
Says the guy who deliberately leaked classified information in order to trigger an investigation into a crime that never occurred, based on a dossier the FBI knew was error-laden.
"You cannot have a President who's a chronic liar," says fmr. FBI Dir. James Comey.
The President can't be "someone who lies constantly," he says. "I thought Republicans agreed with that. It's one of the reasons I'm no longer a Republican."
#ComeyTownHall
1. I was adamantly never Trump prior to the election. You can check my timeline for proof. And I left the Republican party when he won the nomination. Still haven't rejoined. And I maintain an ingrained distrust of populism. However, something happened on 11/8/2016
#thread
@AOC
States that ended slavery before D.C.:
Vermont - 1777
PA - 1780
NH & MA - 1783
CT and RI - 1784
The Northwest Ordinance banned slavery in the old northwest in 1787. None of the states formed from it (OH, IN, IL, WI, MI) allowed slavery.
Put down Zinn and read some real history.
@chasestrangio
That's because they aren't, in fact, "real girls." They're genetic males who have been surgically and chemically altered to resemble females.
And it is unfair.
10. So, good luck at The Bulwark. I wish you well. I, however, and many like me, are going to look at the choices and adapt Queen Victoria’s advice: lie back, think of America, and vote for Trump.
3. I don’t like the way he behaves; I wish to God he had more self-control and wasn’t such a barroom loudmouth. But, for all that, he’s better than the alternatives. They’re downright frightening.
Right. Because it was the height of civility, comity, and collegiality for Feinstein to hide Ford's letter from Grassley; for Hirono to proclaim that men should shut up; and for Gillinbrand to say Kavanaugh does not get a presumption of innocence. Got it.
True feminists are the women of the
#IranianProtests
, declaring their freedom by ripping off their scarves and chadors. The Linda Sarsours and the pink hats of the world are pathetic jokes in comparison.
I’m angry. I just came from my local grocers, where I found boards on the windows. It wasn’t because of earthquake or accident. They put them up because they’re scared of election-night riots if Trump wins.
This. Should. Not. Be. Not in America, damn it.
#thread
So wise that he brokered peace between two countries that weren't at war. Next, Biden solves the seemingly intractable conflict between Sweden and Norway.
🚨 Wow. History is being made right now at Camp David as President Biden brokers peace and cooperation between the United States, South Korea and Japan.
Who is president matters, folks. These things just don't happen. This is because of the decades of experience and wisdom of…
8. What I can’t understand, let alone respect, is nuking from orbit everything we hold dear because we hate one man and his fans so much. That’s not “principled.” That’s juvenile.
"Ahead of the first Trump impeachment, you said the committee had not spoken to a whistleblower. In fact, that turned out not to be true."
ADAM SCHIFF: "I should've been more clear."
As we recognize that covid-19 is not a deadly or even severe disease for the vast majority of responsible Americans, we can stop agonizing over “cases” and focus on those who are hospitalized or at risk of dying.
2. Trump won. And so I did what I did when Obama won: give him a chance & see what happens. In the 3.5 years since, he’s been much better than I feared policy-wise. Not on everything, but on enough.
You said "from the river to the sea" which signifies annihilating Israel and has for years. Words have meaning, and you either meant exactly that, or you don't know what the devil you're talking about. Which is it?
Yesterday, I gave a speech at the UN in which I critiqued Israel’s polices and practices toward Palestinians. It’s baffling how people are not responding to the critique, but instead responding to things I didn’t actually say.
5. Bulwark wishes to “conserve conservatism.” Pray, how is that done by enabling ever-larger and oppressive government, statist economics, hostility toward free speech, and an identity politics…
No one should be the least bit surprised that an FBI agent would want to bring to justice someone who is openly collaborating with Russian intelligence in order to capture the American presidency. There could hardly be a more important mission for the FBI.
My 1st job was as a janitor scrubbing toilets at 2AM. It didn't make me resent those who had more than me (plenty of friends had parents well-off enough that they didn't have to work), it made me want to work hard to earn my way to a better life. Resentment doesn't build a thing.
Yep. As everyone knows, I grew up between two worlds + experienced 1st hand how a child’s zip code can shape their destiny.
It was scrubbing those households’ toilets w/ my mother that I saw and breathed income inequality.
I decided to make a difference.
You decide to do this.
These fires are the result of a) annual hot, dry winds that have been happening for centuries; b) poor forestry management forced on us by enviro-zealots; and c) utilities being "encouraged" by progressives to invest in "Green" tech rather than maintenance and upgrades. Go. Away.
This is what climate change looks like.
The GOP like to mock scientific warnings about climate change as exaggeration. But just look around: it’s already starting.
We have 10 years to cut carbon emissions in half. If we don’t, scenes like this can get much worse.
#GreenNewDeal
4. Harris, Warren, Sanders. They’ve all expressed a desire for presidential rule-by-decree. Biden’s grasp on reality is tenuous at best – and slipping. These are all preferable to Trump?
Mueller has no arrest powers: he's a prosecutor conducting a counterintelligence investigation, you morons.
Jeebus. Between the TDS crowd and the MAGA groupies, is there anyone sane left online these days? 🧐
Mueller should arrest Trump. Retweet if you agree. Then listen to the song we did titled: “We wish you a Mueller Christmas,” sang by patriots in The Resistance, including
@Funder
. 🇺🇸
My
@NRA
membership card came in the mail today. I'm still not filled with feelings of White supremacy, rage, resentment, or a need to commit mass-murder. Weird.
6. ...that is itself racist? That is what the Democrats are offering: a putrid slough of policies antithetical to everything we as a nation supposedly hold dear. Strategically vote for this?
Democrats should stop hiding and start fighting Republicans on hot-button education issues like battles over teaching racial issues in school, according to polling from the American Federation of Teachers.
@dccc
@JoeBiden
Two whole cents per gallon. Give me a moment while I fall to my knees and weep with gratitude.
(Were you lot embarrassed to send this out? I'd like to think you still have a shred of a sense of embarrassment somewhere.)
9. It’s throwing a tantrum. It’s smashing your head repeatedly against a wall to punish those who will not give you what you want. The worst part is you hurt everyone around you by doing it.
I’m sick of it, I’m angry, and they all can go to Hell. If the choice is between a flawed guy who can be a royal jerk on the one hand and a party that winks and nods at burning buildings on the other, I’ll take the jerk.
And I did.
MUST READ Ilhan Omar thread --
The
@StarTribune
ran a dishonest, cowardly piece of journalism tonight.
For 3 years, the paper ignored the work of reporters Preya Samsundar, Scott Johnson, and myself on
@ilhanMN
’s disturbing past. Ignored our emails offering new evidence. (1x)
He had had learned something indicating the President had committed an unconscionable act, but didn't go to his NSC boss because he was too busy?
I believe that falls under the category of "Now pull my finger."
The assassinations of McKinley, Kennedy, and King. The attempted assassination of Harry Truman (2 dead). The terror bombings of the 60s-70s. The 1983 US Senate bombing. The Oklahoma City bombing.
You people are laughable.
"150 days since the worst single act of political violence since the Civil War, and the man who incited it is crying about being kept off social media."
Just saw my first "proof of vaccination required to dine in" sign. While I'm vaccinated and plan to get the booster, I refuse to participate in the "papers, please" culture. I think it's terrible of local governments to make businesses enforce this garbage.
Inspector Generals scandal. Delphi auto parts pensions. Weaponizing the IRS. Spying on journalists. Fast and Furious. Spying on Congress. Benghazi. Spying on the opposition's presidential campaign.
You got away with a lot more, Michelle.
Mexico City is being flooded by Americans -- including legions of remote workers drawn by cheaper rents.
They're transforming classic neighborhoods, the housing market and even racial dynamics.
More and more, locals are asking them to please go home.
7. I can get a principled, conservative never-Trump position that chooses to vote third party or not vote at all. I disagree with it, but I can respect it.
@SethMacFarlane
@TheOrville
Really nice, Seth. Maybe you could do a little something to help this woman, whose business has been put out of production:
Bar owner in Los Angeles CA is livid to see that mayor Garcetti has approved an outdoor dining area for a movie company directly across from her outdoor dining area (which was shut down)
Several states run by Democrats are pushing for stiffer rules on the spread of false information, while Republican-run states are pushing for fewer rules. In this deeply polarized era, even the fight for truth breaks along partisan lines.
Either we're going to learn a hard lesson about projecting from crowd sizes, or the polling industry is about to be destroyed. There is no middle ground.
Alternate headline: "Federal judge misapplies law to order current president to reinstate a program that the prior president had no constitutional or statutory authority to initiate."
This. I was leaning toward Trump waiting and using the nomination as an electoral issue, but the prospect of an 8-seat court dealing with the inevitable fights over votes? Yikes.
@David_Leavitt
@OralB
@Target
Seriously? You wasted police time on this and now want to waste a court's time? And you're posting that woman's picture, exposing her to harassment?
You tell'em, Ed! It was outrageous when Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz threatened retribution on the Supreme Court!
Wait... That was
@SenSchumer
and
@SenWhitehouse
. Never mind.
Republicans politicized, delegitimized, and broke the Supreme Court. The way we we repair it is straightforward. We expand the Court with four new seats.
#ExpandTheCourt
(Okay, I'm mad now. Pardon in advance for the language.)
That is a goddamned lie,
@PeteButtigieg
, and you fucking well know it. How dare you use your position to spread the 1619 Project's garbage? JFC, and here I thought Warren was a shameless, cynical hack. My bad, you win!
Dr. Deborah Birx: "I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection and I think we overplayed the vaccines ..."
Claims vaccines "protect against severe disease and hospitalization" before saying that 50% of those who died via Omicron were older & vaccinated.
.
@GavinNewsom
on poverty: “We’ve got to do better. Millions and millions of Californians are suffering every day. We’re better than that...I know we can do so much more.”
#TeamGavin
#Vote4Equality
This "genuinely good man" spent decades knowingly and wrongfully blaming an innocent man for his 1st wife and child's deaths. He knowingly and willfully took part in the slandering of Clarence Thomas at his confirmation. This is not a "genuinely good man."
.
@MittRomney
: "Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust. A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable."
@HillaryClinton
True. Your husband survived impeachment only because Democrat senators made breaking an agreement with Gingrich on entitlement reform a condition for voting "not guilty."