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1/ A common human experience is to be led astray by our heart. Sometimes, that occurs through fear with a suitor that knows just how to manipulate and exploit us. Indeed, it can happen to the best of us. We feel alone and on the outside. And then (Cont)
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2/ someone comes along who says only I understand your pain. They have charisma and attitude. And they seduce you, make promises and take every cent you got. When friends and family try to intervene, it seems as if they're judging you and act superior. So you dig in harder (Cont)
3/ even as you're finally entertaining doubts privately. Eventually, such people who were manipulated can turn vindictive. Mussolini found that out the hard way when he was hung upside down with his mistress. This, of course, is what happens to those recruited to join (Cont)
1/ These four freedoms represent core sacrosanct Democratic Party values:
➡️Freedom of Speech
➡️Freedom to Worship or Not
➡️Freedom from Want
➡️Freedom from Fear
They were articulated by FDR on 1/6/41. Forty-One years later to the day, Trump incited (Cont)
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➡️Freedom of Speech
➡️Freedom to Worship or Not
➡️Freedom from Want
➡️Freedom from Fear
They were articulated by FDR on 1/6/41. Forty-One years later to the day, Trump incited (Cont)
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2/ an insurrection because these four freedoms are obstacles to his seizing absolute power. Simply put Democrats are fighting for these freedoms to be universal regardless of race, creed, religion, class, or who you love. Republicans are exploiting every lever of power (Cont)
3/ they have to take those four freedoms away. Lesson for all of us is that these freedoms should NEVER be taken for granted. As long as Republicans or any party are dominated by malevolence and sadism, ALL of our freedoms are in danger. If you value a society based upon (Cont)
Disclaimer before it even starts- Lyme patients that fought to have the Lyme ‘vaccine’ removed from the market are NOT antivaxxers
I know this because I am 1 of them
Anyone who follows me KNOWS that I’m pro science, pro vaccine & pro public health
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I know this because I am 1 of them
Anyone who follows me KNOWS that I’m pro science, pro vaccine & pro public health
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I wrote this very personal thread, despite hating opening myself up to the inevitable BS that will come from discussing 1) #LymeDisease in general & 2) anything to do w/ vaccines for 2 very specific reasons
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Discussions of the Climate Crisis has brought about an uptick in posts about Lyme Disease & blaming antivaxxers for there no longer being a Lyme vaccine
I can 100% assure that antivaxxers had almost nothing to do w/ LymeRix being taken off the market
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Discussions of the Climate Crisis has brought about an uptick in posts about Lyme Disease & blaming antivaxxers for there no longer being a Lyme vaccine
I can 100% assure that antivaxxers had almost nothing to do w/ LymeRix being taken off the market
1/ Most of us prefer a community ethos in which we enjoy freedom and collectively live up to our responsibilities as citizens. That will never be achieved unless our economy works for all and laws apply equally to everyone. That's why Joe Biden (Cont)
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2/ and the Democratic Party zealously pursues economic and social justice. Simply put, we're not interested in getting even, nor do we desire revenge. Rather Democrats are the party that wants EVERYONE to get ahead. Anyone can thrive in a society that promotes freedom AND (Cont)
3/ responsibility. Naturally, grifters and toxic mediocore beneficiaries of institutionalized price gouging monopolies want you to believe rules, civic character, and true patriotism are for suckers They want you to accept that prosperity must ALWAYS be a zero-sum game as (Cont)
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I don’t talk about this much on Twitter because honestly it’s my escape from thinking about or dealing w/ the effects of Lyme disease & the associated tick borne illnesses
I mean it-ALL DAY, EVERY DAY my life is Lyme
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I don’t talk about this much on Twitter because honestly it’s my escape from thinking about or dealing w/ the effects of Lyme disease & the associated tick borne illnesses
I mean it-ALL DAY, EVERY DAY my life is Lyme
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Rage tweeting & ranting about politics is my break from just how devastating #Lyme & the associated illnesses is
& the frustration of having to fight basically the same sh*t every day for more than 2 decades with no end in sight
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& the frustration of having to fight basically the same sh*t every day for more than 2 decades with no end in sight
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The first time I was diagnosed w/ Lyme disease was in 1982 when I was 10 yrs old.
I was fortunate to have been diagnosed at all. I contracted from a tick bite I received on summer vacation in the Hamptons. I was given some antibiotics & told I’d be fine
No real follow up
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I was fortunate to have been diagnosed at all. I contracted from a tick bite I received on summer vacation in the Hamptons. I was given some antibiotics & told I’d be fine
No real follow up
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I can't let this day go by w/o
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This is the 75th Anniversary of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948.
What does that mean?
Since 1948, women have been full members of the Armed forces, with full opportunity for...1
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This is the 75th Anniversary of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948.
What does that mean?
Since 1948, women have been full members of the Armed forces, with full opportunity for...1
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a career in the Armed Services.
More than 3 million women have or now serve in the military with honor and distinction.
Women have died in service and received devastating injuries while serving in combat zones. They fight, fly fighter jets. They serve aboard ships & subs...2
More than 3 million women have or now serve in the military with honor and distinction.
Women have died in service and received devastating injuries while serving in combat zones. They fight, fly fighter jets. They serve aboard ships & subs...2
Women are full fledged members of the Armed service. They win medals in service. They are honored for bravery and meritorious service.
"All gave some, some gave all."
Services for all Veterans have been extremely deficient with salaries for doctors, nurses and allied health...3
"All gave some, some gave all."
Services for all Veterans have been extremely deficient with salaries for doctors, nurses and allied health...3
1/ Reconciliation and a just lasting peace, whether between nations or a divided country, requires both grace and toughness. Perhaps no leader understood this better than Abraham Lincoln. In 1865, Lincoln ended his 2nd inaugural with famous words (Cont)
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2/ words:
that included, "With malice towards none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up all the nation's wounds ..."
Lincoln was also tough and ready to hold traitors (Cont)
that included, "With malice towards none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up all the nation's wounds ..."
Lincoln was also tough and ready to hold traitors (Cont)
3/ accountable. But he also knew that unless our wounds were bound, both black and white would be worse off. Blacks, of course, would be victims of white supremacist violence and institutional racism. And many whites would suffer as the wealthy exploited racism as a means (Cont)
1/This George Orwell quote from 1984 defines the GOP:
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or happiness: only power, pure power. (Cont)
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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or happiness: only power, pure power. (Cont)
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2/We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."
Orwell's quote is the GOP's true mission. Only difference between Republicans and Orwell's 1984 party is that they're also devoted to redistributing wealth from wage earners to their elites. (Cont)
Orwell's quote is the GOP's true mission. Only difference between Republicans and Orwell's 1984 party is that they're also devoted to redistributing wealth from wage earners to their elites. (Cont)
3/And if Republicans prevail in 2024, they WILL NOT relinquish power in most of our lifetimes. Given that reality, merely voting yourself is NOT GOOD ENOUGH. We must all become force multipliers for democracy. Engage, persuade, and mobilize as many friends, family, and (Cont)
1/ Fellow resisters, up to January 20, 2025, events are going to test us. Let's stay calm, always act with courageous integrity, and remain persistently vigilant. We should not overreact with irrational exuberance to good news until our democracy (Cont)
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2/ is secured. Likewise, we should not reflexively assume the worst with every setback. Jack Smith's case from what we know is strong. And judge Aileen Cannon being assigned to it might actually work to our country's advantage. It's not so easy to "fix" a strong case like (Cont)
3/ Smith has with the whole world watching. Meanwhile, Trump/Putin Republicans won't be able to whine about the DC venue or an Obama appointed judge. Either way, we must NOT sit back and wait for multiple prosecutions to save us. Rather, we must continue to resist GOP (Cont)
1/ At Thanksgiving in 2019, I warned my cousin that if defeated, Trump and his supporters would react as Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party did to his capture and trial in 2003. Just as there was no way Hussein and his core Sunni supporters would (Cont)
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2/ ever let its majority Shia population peacefully move on without him, Trump and his MAGA cultists would be ready to wage civil war. And we damn near had one. Trump's assclowns nearly pulled it off. Suppose Trump had succeeded on January 6th? Could you have just (Cont)
3/ accepted his coup and moved o with your life as if nothing had happened? Contrary to our pacifist image, millions of America's silent majority would've risen up against Trump's GOP MAGA Baathists and their AR-15s. Trump and his armed cultists would've, in turn, pursued (Cont)
1/ Starting with FDR, we liberals became too icon dependent. Unless a political personality such as JFK or Obama inspired us, we, too often, disengaged. In 2020, we we rallied to defeat evil. But otherwise worthy and capable public servants such as (Cont)
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2/ Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton did not benefit from the passionate activism they deserved. Meanwhile, Republicans didn't necessarily need to be inspired by an iconic figure such as Ronald Reagan to engage. As the cliche went, "Democrats fall in love and (Cont)
3/ Republicans fall in line." Yes, Gore and Clinton won the popular vote and were screwed by the electoral college. And yes, their media coverage was absurdly unfair. But the carping about their perceived imperfections by Democrats made the elections close enough for (Cont)
1/ There is an entrenched history of false moral equivalences and gaslighting liberals in our politics. George McGovern is an instructive example. This dude flew 35 missions as a B-24 pilot in WWII and was married to one woman for 64 years. But... (Cont)
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2/ he also dared to promote peace and confront economic and social injustice. To be sure, McGovern was a flawed politician. Yet this patriot and family man from South Dakota was portrayed as a symbol of unpatriotic decadence. Indeed, Newt Gingrich often attacked Democrats (Cont)
3/ as "decadent George McGovern liberalals" to lead his far right political insurgency. Gingrich was a draft dodger who had cheated on his terminally ill first wife. We have seen this sort of gaslighting over and over again. George W Bush, a toxic mediocore man of little (Cont)
1/ Life and career of longtime GOP Senate leader and 1996 POTUS nominee Bob Dole is instructive on the GOP's descent from respectability to depravity. Dole was someone I never liked but had at one time respected and even (Cont)
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2/ admired. Dole grew up in rural Kansas during the Depression. He enlisted in the army in 1942 and was wounded on the battlefield in Italy in 1945. As a result, he had limited mobility in his right arm and numbness in his left. Simply put, there's no denying Dole's valor. (Cont)
3/ And Dole overcame his injuries to lead an important and distinctive life. He joked that when he decided to run for office in 1950 for the KS House, he did so as a Republican because there were more of them in his district. Dole was elected to the U.S. House in 1960 and (Cont)
1/ Rise and fall of Joe McCarthy is instructive in understanding today's GOP. McCarthy epitomized the ascension of toxic mediocrity. He was an intel officer for a dive bomber squadron in WWII. Although his claims of heroism were exaggerated ... (Cont)
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2/ McCarthy was promoted to major. He was elected a WI senator during a GOP 1946 wave. Initially, McCarthy gained little traction or attention. Simply put, he wasn't very good at his job. But in February 1950, McCarthy's fame skyrocketed when he claimed to have a list of (Cont)
3/ communists in a spy ring working in the State Department. His claims were bullshit. But McCarthy got off on the attention, and his lies kept coming with claims of communist infiltration of the Truman administration. McCarthy also accused various politicians of communist (Cont)
Beware. GA Governor Brian Kemp has Presidential aspirations. He could win.
Here’s why. He stood up to Donald Trump and, in many Georgian’s eyes, that made him a hero. That made it okay to vote for him. Forget that he supported Trump.
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Here’s why. He stood up to Donald Trump and, in many Georgian’s eyes, that made him a hero. That made it okay to vote for him. Forget that he supported Trump.
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That dynamic will work outside of GA, especially because they haven’t seen Kemp in action. Add to it the facts that he speaks without sounding batpoo crazy, looks like everyone’s benign Grandpa and has some very smart people on staff. (He himself, not so bright)
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Kemp would have us believe that he’s fiscally responsible. After all, he has a budget surplus, raised teacher’s pay and may pass out tax refunds. He forgets to mention the role Federal funds—which he disapproves off, but quickly grabs anyhow—play in his largesse.
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1/ This Memorial Day, I was planning on liking and sharing a few tweets and leaving it at that.
I’m not feeling very patriotic, nostalgic or waving the flag back and forth
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1/ This Memorial Day, I was planning on liking and sharing a few tweets and leaving it at that.
I’m not feeling very patriotic, nostalgic or waving the flag back and forth
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2/🇺🇸👋ing has been ruined for me.
After witnessing the desecration committed by MAGA, I have a visceral reaction when I see a large 🇺🇸 being flown on a truck or at a residential 🏡 s
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2/🇺🇸👋ing has been ruined for me.
After witnessing the desecration committed by MAGA, I have a visceral reaction when I see a large 🇺🇸 being flown on a truck or at a residential 🏡 s
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3/ When I think of Memorial Day, I see a veteran who’s having a breakdown in his car because he can’t get help from the VA.
Do we(as a country) even care about our veterans?
Can we prove it through policy?!?
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3/ When I think of Memorial Day, I see a veteran who’s having a breakdown in his car because he can’t get help from the VA.
Do we(as a country) even care about our veterans?
Can we prove it through policy?!?
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1- No Trump couldn’t possibly be a Russian asset? I mean, we're talking about the individual running for president who hired a campaign manager that received $66 million from Russian intelligence services through Putin-friendly oligarchs. This money was used, in part, to support
2- Russia's efforts to establish a puppet government in Ukraine back in 2010. Additionally, the campaign manager was paid a million dollars annually to strengthen the dictator of Zaire's ties with Moscow.
Not only that, but this same campaign manager, Manafort, exerted pressure
Not only that, but this same campaign manager, Manafort, exerted pressure
3- on the Republican Party to remove any references from their platform that defended Ukrainian democracy. Furthermore, Manafort provided Russian agents with highly classified insider information about voters in six crucial swing states.
1/ One catalyst to misogynistic toxic masculinity is men feeling left behind or alone. That's not an excuse for oppressing and abusing women. Not at all. Rather, we need to overcome the false MAGA narrative that progress for me and mine has to be (Cont)
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2/ a zero-sum game that requires revenge and retribution to win. The MAGA way is a recipe for calamity and catastrophe for all. Democrats are enacting policies to benefit all. Indeed, men without a college education are the primary beneficiaries of Joe Biden's (Cont)
3/ infrastructure and clean energy policies. Dignity of work and self-worth is a vital component to masculinity. GOP wants us men to feel left behind, victimized, and alienated as if only others who are angry accept us. Let us acknowledge that being a man poses (Cont)
1/ Fair or not, our center of political gravity is defined by the party or coalition on offense. I think I speak for many Democrats in saying we're fed up playing defense. Since 2017, we've outperformed the GOP at the ballot box, yet our democracy (Cont)
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2/ is being dismantled for millions in Red States. As a New Yorker, I can tell you Blue States are not safe either. Whining about "both sides" media bullshit or their corruption is not gonna save us. Unless a modern Fairness Doctrine is enacted, that's not gonna change. (Cont)
3/ Indeed, it's bitterly ironic that on a weekend, we honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom, autonomy of women over their own bodies or a POC's right to even vote is under assault. And "only" 78 years after black Americans that defended us against Hitler (Cont)
1/ A decade ago, I debated tactics with a friend that worked for DC Democrats. She was a lovely person who died from Covid in 2020. Anyway, she liked to say that we needed to fight fire with water until the far right's fever broke. I fiercely retorted ...
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2/ that's what the Weimar Republic believed until it was too late. She claimed we could fix all with GOTV success. Folks, Dems have done remarkably well at the ballot box since 2017 despite gerrymandering. Yet our democracy is still being systematically dismantled at ...
3/ every level. Saving democracy means prevailing against a kind of asymmetrical warfare that's happening all over America. Yes, we must continue to organize and turn out voters. But we also need a strategy to mobilize and promote a non-violent but ferocious movement ...
1/3 Remember Dennis Hastert? He was the longest serving GOP Hse Spkr in history. As Spkr Hastert covered up GOP rep Mark Foley's sex abuse of Hse pages. And in 2016 Hastert was sentenced to 15 yrs in prison because of ....
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2/3 structured bank withdrawals to coverrup his abuse of teenage boys when he was a HS wrestling coach. Past was prologue given the many GOP pedophilia sex scandals, support of child marriage, and Russia's trafficking of Ukranian children. Yet these depraved freaks have ...
3/3 weaponized the term groomers. GOP is the party that thinks a raped and impregnated 12 year old girl should be forced to marry! And of course, they would never allow that same 12 year old girl to read a book. Republicans either do evil or enable evil. They're all slime.
You left out the fact our Lt Governor @ltgovmcnally offered this young man a job working with @GovBillLee which he was completely unqualified for, while grooming him on his nearly nude photos beginning when he was a 17 year old minor child. wsmv.com/2023/03/16/ten…
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I’m completely unsurprised by this decision.
They need Randy’s vote to ensure victims of rape & incest are forced to give birth.
"Mississippi lawmakers seek return to Jim Crow with separate white system of Justice"
Republicans are upholding white supremacy, I'm not being hyperbolic. Learn more about Jim Crow. Become armed with the knowledge they wish to restrict.
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Republicans are upholding white supremacy, I'm not being hyperbolic. Learn more about Jim Crow. Become armed with the knowledge they wish to restrict.
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For example, did you know Nazis took ideas from the US like the eugenics of Indigenous people and Jim Crow laws to adapt into policy aka the Nuremberg Laws?
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MAGA GOP are the Party of Putin & have been for quite some time. They can whine, moan, b*tch & complain all day long on this is untrue or never said this nor that. Bringing some receipts you MAGA office holders. Let's begin...
MAGA GOP are the Party of Putin & have been for quite some time. They can whine, moan, b*tch & complain all day long on this is untrue or never said this nor that. Bringing some receipts you MAGA office holders. Let's begin...
As the diagram lays out, TFG failing at everything & bankrupting knew he couldn't stay afloat. As reports has shown his little Moscow trip for a pageant gave KGB Putin the perfect time to groom his little b*tch, a**, pu**y to finally attack America from within.
Putin knew after testing their capabilities regarding cyber warfare were effective, they expanded the covert operation by getting key figures in place. Powerful oligarchs with tons of $$$ to start injecting into the GOP. The GOPs lust for greed & power was the bait & was taken.
