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As a proud Democrat in the fight against fascism in America, my wife says I'm on the right side of history. As an unapologetic "girl dad" to a fierce world changer, I am determined to save democracy for her. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈💙🌊🔵 FFS🚫NO PORN🚫NO CRYPTO🚫NO DM
I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
We are Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
She warned that Democracy dies not mainly through force, but through manipulation of fear, identity, and resentment.
Today, all the warning signs are evident. Those that aren't paying attention must be made to see and then forced to choose between America......or fascism.
Dorothy Thompson, America’s most powerful journalist of the 1930s–40s and one of the earliest voices to warn the world about Hitler, once wrote:
“The people do not believe in the Big Lie. But they believe in the little lies, and then in the medium lies, and then in the big lies.”
Lots of people are asking me why DOJ is leveraging the ICE deployment in Minnesota to obtain unreacted copies of the state's sensitive voter file data. I recently explained why this is the biggest legal story and may be the biggest political story of the year.
Watch and share.
I'm sure that Joe Biden is to blame for this somehow -- and for the Epsteinth time, no less!
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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When politicians say Americans “don’t have to apologize for being white,” it’s worth revisiting a very different vision of this country. Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis is a powerful reminder that America moves forward not through grievance or dominance, but through empathy, truth, and moral courage.
I found this really fascinating. If we think of gender as not being a binary choice, or even a "sliding bar," but as a spatial cube, it actually makes the most sense and answers the question: How many genders are there? There are as many as there are people.
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THIS!👇
"[A]n elite class of white supremacist billionaires [have captured] the Republican Party [...] to steal trillions from the American people—to deprive us of our power, labor, and resources, to enrich themselves and create an underclass of peasants."
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Truly turbulent times. Stay hopeful and know that you are not the only one committed to the rule of law and democratic norms -- we will prevail, because we must. ✊
Leader Jeffries: Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut “before he gets someone killed.”
Holy sh!t -- this is crazy! When will we finally learn, we must prosecute the wealthy when they've broken the law?!?!?
And then changed again to, "Bubba."
He is always "playing the US citizens," that's for sure! But, I hope that there are not only "file redundancies," but that any and all changes to said files are monitored and time stamped so as to prevent internal corruption. That said, I agree, "this dance [may still be] very far from over."
Tell me you're in the files without saying you're in the files.
Thanks, my friend. It's been a pleasure speaking with you. Let's keep it up as the circumstances call for it.
To be sure, there are a number of conscious and subconscious motivations for following Trump -- but to your point, the most concerning among them is that he provides a permission structure to be unapologetically immoral, and not just devoid of empathy, but to attack the empathy held by others.
I hear you! Thing is, if it comes to light that Trump has been covering for sex traffickers, or worse, he turns out to be a pedophile, it will upend his cult's foundational belief that he is an undercover agent fighting global elite/deep-state child sex trafficking. Then it's game over.
I have my concerns about the seemingly unending stability of Trump loyalty too. But if anything will change hearts and minds, it's abusing children. Also, as for motive -- Trump is always in it for the sex, money, and most importantly, the power.
That's the thing about conspiracy theories. They offer the perfect basis for creating a cult mythos. If a hole gets poked in your original theory, you can always invent another conspiracy to plug the hole. It's never ending! 🤦
When it comes to Epstein, everything is on the line for Trump. The entire MAGA worldview hinges on him being a divinely guided warrior battling a satanic cabal of child sex abusers. A conviction would shatter the core myth -- and he will stop at nothing to prevent this.
It wouldn’t just be a political blow -- it would be an existential, even theological crisis that would most assuredly upend MAGA's unwavering trust and support for the president. At that point, everything that Trump has ever claimed to be true, will have to be reevaluated. Everything!
It would shatter the core myth, collapse the “trust the plan” narrative, and expose how deeply the movement relied on projection and denial.
...namely that Trump is a messianic figure in a cosmic war between good and evil, a divinely guided warrior battling a satanic cabal of child abusers. If Trump were to be implicated in the Epstein child-sex-trafficking ring, it would be nothing short of devastating for MAGA.
While the structured movement based on the cryptic "Q drops" has faded, the core beliefs and ideas popularized by QAnon have become more widespread and embedded within mainstream MAGA conservatism...
It's already happening. Trust in Trump is waning.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
"The GOP kids are not alright. For a significant and growing faction of the early-career operatives entering the party ranks, irony-drenched, nihilistic transgressiveness and theatrical bigotry aren’t just considered acceptable—they’re at the heart of politics."
Despicable and utterly inexcusable. Take note of those that are aiding and abetting -- there will be a reckoning.