We're all dealing with a lot. Here's what I'm going through. I hope it finds its way to someone who needs to know they're not alone. Thanks for reading, and bearing with me. ❤️
It will be REAL hard for Trump Republicans, who are now suggesting we risk 2.5% of the population - or 8+ million people - so we can prematurely reopen the economy, to make the pro-life case after this.
The press is not the enemy of the people. The press is the enemy of the powerful, unaccountable and corrupt. The unjust, unethical, and dishonest. The bully, the blowhard. The cover up, run around and false pretense. Let’s be clear: that’s made the press the enemy of one person.
Trump LOST: the presidency, the House, the Senate, the trust of American voters, the belief in free and fair elections, the credibility of the Republican Party, the admiration of our allies, the fear of our enemies. What exactly are Republicans defending?
America is burning because America is in pain, angry, suffering, grieving, agonizing, traumatized. If you think any of this is making America great again, you’re part of the problem. America is broken, and needs love, healing, and most of all leadership.
GOP, he used you to get elected. He corrupted the party and your “principles” while in office. Now he’s burning your party and the country down on his way out. Stop being cultists. Start being patriots.
Let me end the suspense: Biden won’t get everything right, and he will do things I and many people will disagree with. But if you believe we need to make America GOOD again, he’s coming from a place of decency and integrity that is paramount and consequential.
Let me end the suspense. Trump’s called multiple women fat, slobs, pigs, dogs. He bragged about grabbing us by the pussy. He attacked female journalists and wishes we’d be more like a subservient 1950s housewife. So, yeah. When Pelosi calls him obese I find it f*cking hilarious.
I'm wondering if
@SECupp
and others would find it knee slapping hilarious if President Donald Trump called someone morbidly obese or would the words fat shaming be trending? I want to make certain we are playing by the same rule book.
Republicans: Trump is out. Do what’s best for the country in your final acts. Protect the people from COVID. Protect America from disinformation. Protect democracy from corruption. Do the right thing.
Anderson Cooper just tried to show Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who wants to reopen casinos, a graphic depicting the spread of coronavirus in a restaurant in China.
Mayor Goodman: "This isn't China, this is Las Vegas."
Anderson: "Wow, that's really ignorant."
19 kids are dead today. I used to make the argument that guns aren’t the problem. Years ago I stopped doing that. Because they are. We MUST stop doing what we’ve always done. To all my law-abiding gun owner friends, PLEASE, put down your politics and be a part of the solution. 💔
Instead of just going after her record, Republicans and MAGA are calling Kamala a whore, a criminal, a fraud, incompetent, a DEI hire.
It’s ALMOST as if she’d had multiple affairs, including with a porn star, was convicted on 34 criminal charges, defrauded the state of NY, was
When pressed by Anderson on whether she'd join casino workers on the casino floor if they reopened, Mayor Goodman's response was, "Well, I don't gamble."
That sums it up, folks.
Dealing with a family issue and I’m reminded of my own attempted suicide from long ago. I feel compelled to put it out into the universe that IT GETS BETTER. I know the hopelessness. But you CAN get past it. To anyone thinking about it, just hang on. There’s light at the end. ❤️
In some potential good news, it looks like Rep. Steve King, whose overt racism, backwards bigotry and self-righteous ignorance has been a cancer on this country for 17 years, is about to lose his primary. 🤞🏻
Biden campaign was broke. He barely campaigned in some of the states he won tonight. Voters turned out for him despite this. When Sanders people tell you the primary is rigged against him, ask them how, exactly?
It took a lot to get me here. It took Trump, and 4 years of corruption, incompetence, division, immorality, greed, and a dissembling of the democratic ideals I believe in. Tomorrow, I’m a Republican for
@JoeBiden
, because I believe we need to make America GOOD again.
#vote
The president is an utter disgrace. What a wasted opportunity to address a grieving, angry, traumatized, suffering -- and by the way, still sick -- nation, to ignore what's happened in Minneapolis and instead drone on about China. That's not leadership. It's cowardice.
Your job as a journalist is not to be liked. It’s to hold people in power accountable, even if it means they dislike you. If you have friends in high places you’re doing it wrong.
All these “on the brink,” end of days reports about Trump almost taking the nation off the deep end belie one crucial point: none of that happened over night. It happened every day, little by little, over four years, as Republicans looked on either silently or approvingly.
Hey guys. Seeing all the additional videos now, and I 100% regret reacting too quickly to the Covington story. I wish I’d had the fuller picture before weighing in, and I’m truly sorry.
Feel like Trump telling China to go ahead with their concentration camps would be career-ending for any other president. But somehow, it’s just “a Thursday.”
Anyone else remember when John McCain canceled everything but official business on the first day of the RNC in 2008, "to do away with our party politics and act as Americans"...because a hurricane was barreling down on the Gulf Coast?
Asking for a friend.
#RNCConvention
Jesus himself could testify against Trump, and they’d be like, “Yeah...but he’s probably just a deep state Obama hack.” And Trump would say “He was crucified. I like people who weren’t crucified.”
This is astonishing. The sheer number of American vets the Trumpists will insult, slander, and mock for the sake of their corrupt, draft-dodging dear leader is just astonishing.
The level of ghoulishness, soullessness, and moral bankruptcy required to not just mock a CHILD…but a child with special needs…for LOVING his dad…is utterly incomprehensible.
Trump and Biden should do a joint presser in coming days. Unite the country, remind people this is an election not a war, call for civility. Would be politically good for both of them, would be existentially necessary for the country. 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Want to stay healthy? Wear a mask.
Want to keep your family safe? Wear a mask.
Want businesses to come back? Wear a mask.
Want to go out to bars and restaurants and beaches soon? Wear a mask.
Want your kids’ schools to open? Wear a mask.
Want freedom again? Wear a mask.
I think it’s appropriate and human to be very sad and fearful for the govt officials who have COVID, including the President, while also being very angry that they misled us, mocked masks, spread false cures and disinformation, and then spread it among themselves.
Whatever your politics, we should never ever again elect someone so ignorant of foreign affairs, so blind to geopolitical implications, so bereft of moral and ethical compunction, and so apathetic to history’s long gaze. Syria will be a lasting stain on the Trump presidency.
Standing ovation for Amb. Yovanovitch drowning out and effectively answering the limp GOP objections at the end of her testimony was poignant and perfect.
New rule: Anyone who’s not a doctor saying we have to just accept SOME deaths to reopen the country needs to take their family to a crowded place and serve food to anyone who needs it.
Apropos of nothing, these are the nine traits of a sociopath: Lack of empathy, Manipulative, Difficult in relationships, Deceitful, Callous, Hostile, Irresponsible, Impulsive, Risky.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but now that there's a Democrat in the WH, Republicans and right-wing media are likely going to get WORSE...not better.
THREAD:
If you think Putin’s invasion of Ukraine seems so cruel, unnecessary and pointless, let me tell you how Syria started.
A few kids in Dara’a sprayed anti-Assad graffiti on a high school wall. 15 kids were arrested, beaten, tortured, had their fingernails ripped out.
Very disheartened to see many in media covering the Don Jr divorce news with glee, making jokes and memes about it. Divorce is sad and hard on kids, I speak from experience. Let’s have some sympathy and restraint.
The other protester yelling at Flake was an immigrant, Ana Maria Archila. Maybe you could wait a generation or two before screaming at us about how to run our country.
I know I watched it in real time. I know I've seen the videos. But hearing this emotional testimony by police officers, I still CANNOT BELIEVE this happened. In America. And that Republicans, Trump and millions of his supporters are still lying about it, even defending it.
RNC chair Ronna McDaniel blasts Democrats for opening their convention with actress Eva Longoria...
Republicans opened their convention with actor Jon Voight.
#RNCConvention2020
I had to clip this because it is unbelievable. President
@realDonaldTrump
just said this: “Hopefully, George is looking down right and saying this is a great thing that’s happening for our country. It’s a great day for him, it’s a great day for everybody.”
#GeorgeFloyd
S.E. CUPP | I’m voting for Biden because he’s a good person
I won’t agree with everything Biden does. I’m okay with that.
After four years of a corrupt, unethical, jerk in the W.H., goodness has been gone for too long.
@SECupp
reveals why it matters:
It’s telling that the GOP is MOST worried about MORE democracy. More voting, more protesting, more speech, more press. You only attack democracy when you’re truly out of ideas.
When Trump attacks the media, he wants you to hate people like me. I’m fine with that. But the “media” is also thousands of reporters on the frontlines of THIS crisis and others, in war zones, refugee crises, genocides, and now COVID. Please don’t take your politics out on them.
I’m so G-D sick of the “privately, Republicans say” and “if there were a silent vote” stories. What good is your PRIVATE or SILENT protest, Republicans? It’s not just your party’s legacy on the line...it’s YOURS, personally. We’re all watching you. 👀
Former GOP Senator Jeff Flake:
“I heard someone say if there were a private vote there would be 30 Republican votes. That's not true," Flake said during a Q&A. "There would be at least 35."
I remember when my dad died. There were lots of things unspoken. Had he embraced me like this I might be a different person. The idea that anyone would shame
@JoeBiden
for his unconditional love of his kid says more about them than him. I love him even more. ❤️
Presidential candidates do interviews with their running mates. Like, for always. To suggest
@KamalaHarris
needs
@GovTimWalz
there as some kind of crutch is pretty much the epitome of sexism.
It blows my MIND that one President will be singularly, 100% responsible, not ambiguously, for unleashing hundreds of thousands of terrorists into the Sahel, Europe, and possibly the US. And he’s gloating about it.
I usually save my "Fuck That Guy" segment for our podcast, but Officer Aaron Torgalski of Buffalo PD...Fuck that guy.
Knock an elderly man to the ground, the walk casually by as he is bleeding on the street.
Years ago I got a scathing email from my estranged late father, who was disappointed in my politics. Even though, and maybe especially because we didn’t have much of a relationship, it stung. I’m so sorry for anyone who’s lost family over politics. It hurts.
Rep. Newman’s daughter is transgender. Public servants of good faith argue policy. Ghouls who believe they’re only representing themselves, not actual people, get personal and nasty.
Our neighbor,
@RepMarieNewman
, wants to pass the so-called "Equality" Act to destroy women’s rights and religious freedoms.
Thought we’d put up ours so she can look at it every time she opens her door 😉🇺🇸
GOP's painting Jim Jordan as a victim of Pelosi's partisanship, natch, but the other way to see it is funnier: that he is so batsh*t and toxic, he was used by his OWN party as a poison pill to blow up the commission.
Graffiti on a high school wall. That’s all it took for Assad and Putin to murder half a million people. So if you’re shocked that Putin can do what he’s doing in Ukraine, which did nothing to Russia, just remember they don’t need a reason. They are butchers. 🇸🇾🇺🇦
All Trump had to say to white nationalists was, “I am not with you. Don’t do this in my name. You will have no safe harbor here.” Instead he said, “I’m a nationalist.” There is no debate about whom he harbors.
NASCAR just released this photo of what was found in Bubba Wallace's garage at Talladega. I'm no garage expert but this doesn't seem like your typical "garage pull."
The giddiness among Trumpsters over the Smollett news is gross. This story is awful. He allegedly abused police resources, exploited raw divisions in this country, and made it harder for every victim of a hate crime to report. This is sad no matter your politics.
On
@CNN
just now,
@RepCharlieDent
on the three Congressmen - Brooks, Biggs, Gosar -- who allegedly helped the protest that turned into the mob: "There's no doubt, they'll have to lawyer up pretty fast."
Every single one of the rioters who breached the Capitol and put police and lawmakers in harms way needs to be prosecuted. And guess what, “patriots”... felony charges mean you lose your GUN rights.
After saying Biden can’t go on stage without making a horrible blunder, Eric Trump accuses Democrats of manufacturing Coronavirus shut downs to prevent Trump from holding rallies. He goes on to claim after Election Day, “Coronavirus will magically disappear” like it’s a hoax