Ben from @MeidasTouch exposes how legacy media helps #Trump by lying about his crowd sizes instead of covering what he says.
As Ben points out, Trump’s crowd in South Carolina looked like it was about 5,000 people and a random Secret Service agent supposedly said 5,000 were inside and 10,000 in line.
But Trump and his minions claim 75,000 and Politico said 50,000. And they wrote as if Trump was literally a rock star and not a dangerous lying lunatic.
So, reasonably accurate figures of 5,000 to 15,000 people at one rally, in one state, indicate ALL those cultists support his:
🔻LIES
🔻CRIMES for which he’s been indicted in two actions so far
🔻ORGANIZING & INCITING INSURRECTION / Possible Sedition
🔻WHITE SUPREMACY
🔻AUTHORITARIANISM (His Dictatorship)
🔻CONTINUED ATTACKS against personal freedoms/liberty for minorities, women, LGBTQIA, migrants, asylum seekers, students
🔻NO SUPPORT FOR #ClimateCrisis or #environmentaljustice
🔻CONTINUED GROWTH of the fossil fuel industry & American oligarchy
🔻DEGRADATION OF INT’L ALLIANCES (again) & love letters to fascist leaders.
🔻A REPEAT OF OUR 2016-2020 NIGHTMARE, only worse next time.
FFS, We have to stop this insanity or we literally lose this Republic!
I spent part of a 5-hour flight into Philly writing #PostcardsToVoters to encourage #NewJersey-ans to register and #VoteBlue in the general election (local and entire NJ Assembly and Senate this year). What did YOU do for #Democracy today? #GOTV#vote
On an ABC YouTube video, Mike “McFly” Pence is quoted as praising the win for freedom & religious liberty re the Colorado SCOTUS case…you know, the hypothetical case with fake complainant that kicks LGBTQIA people in the gut.
The case wasn’t real
Religious liberty was not at stake
No one was harmed
except LGBTQIA Freedom & rights were greatly diminished
It was all BULLSHIT - just as is 99.99% of everything promoted by MAGA-GOP.
He also murmured that as a “Bible-believing Christian” he believes in marriage between one woman and one man. 🚨🔔🔔🔔 WARNING BELLS!
@flexghost
What you’re illustrating is the prospect of our personal rights and freedoms being subsumed by (Catholic) religious doctrine - beginning with abortion and continuing through the entire spectrum of sexual behavior, long codified & with eternal damnation attached for “sinners.” They’d include masturbation if they could figure a way to monitor.
The USA is a constitutional Republic - NOT a theocracy. We must fight this.
We've all had a day or two to process what the Supreme Court just did.
The battle for our country and for the rule of law, not of oligarchs, lies ahead of us. Let us recommit to it now, and with grave determination resolve to turn this tide back in 2024.
Our job is to get out the vote. Elections have consequences. Trump, who was bigoted from the start, should never have gotten into the White House where he could put bigoted people on the Supreme Court. #supremecourt#bigotry#elections#gotv
Quote from article: The only way we can avoid repeating the experience of Spain, Germany, Hungary, Russia, and Chile (among others) is to overwhelmingly repudiate — defeat — Trump’s and the MAGA Republicans’ movement at the polls.
And the first step to that is to wake up everybody we know. As Leadbelly famously said, “Stay woke!”
@flexghost
How about a class action suit against the House Majority Leader on behalf of the hundreds of millions of Americans who wait in vain for bipartisan support on critical issues that impact all of our lives:
🔹#ClimateCrisis mitigation
🔹Opioid addiction
🔹Humane and constitutional immigration reform
🔹Women’s reproductive rights
🔹True equality for every US resident in every arena of our life
🔹Voting Rights
🔹Election Security/Accessibility
🔹Unreasonable cost of higher education
🔹Security of paid & unpaid entitlements (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, etc)
🔹Universal health care
🔹AI Threat
🔹Separation of all religion from all legislation
🔹Everything else I can’t think of
Low-life scumbag Republicans suck up their taxpayer-funded salaries and peachy benefits but DO NOT DO THEIR JOBS in serving their constituents.
We deserve a fully-functioning Congress! We deserve that the elected actually WORK for the American people.
"#DeSantis seized on the unusual retirement of three liberal justices at once to quickly remake the court.
He did so with the help of a secretive panel led by #LeonardLeo — the key architect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority — that quietly vetted judicial nominees in an Orlando conference room three weeks before the governor’s inauguration in 2019."
SOMEONE with a loud, powerful, effective, impactful voice MUST get the word out about this practicing fascist before Republican politics, gerrymandering, lax voter laws and corruption put him in the White House.
The Republicans I know (which comprise almost all the people I know IRL) have recognized Trump as a loser, but they enthusiastically support DeFascist.
We gotta, we gotta, we gotta keep him out of national politics!!
It is unbelievably disheartening to scroll through YouTube news channels and see, from all across America including my own #Sacramento area, shooting after shooting after shooting. Family killings, drive-bys, festival shootings, random crime, hostage situations, accidental gunshots, even a downtown SF gun battle — an endless litany of death by bullet…and it’s every damn day. This area has had 15 shootings in two weeks.
WTF?
Ordinary life presents brings deaths through disease, accidents, lifespan limitations — yet we’ve CHOSEN to allow this awful, deadly culture of added random or intentional death-by-gun.
I don’t understand why 27 MISINTERPRETED words in the Second Amendment continue to uphold a “freedom” that literally threatens every single person in America.
I don’t understand why we collectively - as victims, survivors, or potential victims - continue to accept this as a new normal.
It isn’t normal. It isn’t “freedom.”
🔷DEMOCRATS ALONE support reasonable gun safety laws. #GOTV #gunviolence
Live in or near Tucson, AZ, Pittsburgh, PA, or Austin, TX and can canvass door-to-door?
The Environmental Voter Project holds year-round, door-to-door canvassing efforts in Pittsburgh, Tucson, and Austin. Volunteers knock on the doors of people in these cities who are registered to vote, and who consider climate change and the environment as their highest-priority issues, but are not consistent voters. No experience necessary. They train you. #GOTV
If there is an indictment either in DC or #Florida it will happen when it is ready nothing more. Hyping up a potential indictment is never good for the GJ and everyone involved the only thing that does is provide TV ratings likes boosts retweets depending on what platform you use.
@alfredo_liberal I hope it does, and if I was a praying man I would pray it does. But fascism has succeeded before. It's come close here in the U.S. a few times. I'm not comfortable with more than hope.
America foolishly thought Trump couldn't beat HRC. Let's not foolishly think he couldn't beat Biden, now.
When Kansas and Kentucky voted overwhelmingly to protect choice last year after the SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, you know the anti-choice crowd is a minority. And they know it. South Carolina residents don’t support these bans. Republicans want to control every aspect of our lives.
Republicans need to get pounded into the ground like a tent stake at the ballot box.
@TonyStark
“South Carolina residents don’t support these bans…”
“Texas residents don’t want these gun laws”
“Florida thinks their Governor is a fascist”
“North Carolina voters don’t agree with their state legislators”
STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS!
Every single Member of Congress was just re-elected in 2022.
35 US Senators were up for election in 2022.
Hundreds of state, county, local officials were on ballots in 2022.
OBVIOUSLY, voters ARE choosing Republicans at District polls, which have been gerrymandered and which voting laws have been skewed out of recognition.
WORK TO GET OUT THE VOTE.
every vote for a Republican is a vote for fascism and the forces of power and money over DEMOCRACY.
If the far-right Ohio GOP's amendment passes in August, a 40% minority of voters will be able to block any amendment the majority wants. That's un-democratic and un-American.
🚨Vote NO August 8th!🚨
Let's get the vote out: by mail or at early voting. #GOTV
Free time this evening? A text bank you can join. See my pinned toot about Pennsylvania’s special state house election next week and give us a hand. Thanks!
Biden can be a transformational president if we can get him enough support. It's time to bury Reaganomics forever.
If you want an economy and policy that works for the people of this country, and this counts for those way up top because it eventually gets to them, too, vote wisely.
Respectfully, “vote wisely” is encouraging— but not enough. As a nation, we haven’t reached 70% voter turnout since the 19th century. (electproject.org)
2024 puts the choice between maintaining our constitutional Republic and actual MAGA-GOP fascism on the ballot.
Getting out the vote MUST BE our priority, particularly in the reality of active voting suppression laws and strategies.
After years of hard work, Pennsylvania Democrats finally took back the PA House, which Republicans have dominated since 2010. But we have a very slim majority and a special election coming on May 16th.
We have a great candidate, Heather Boyd, who is a teacher, and more recently the District Director for Representative Mary Gay Scanlon. This is a D district, but Republicans are desperate to take it.
Text “Hello” to 484-275-2229 and follow the prompts, or go to Abby on the PostcardsToVoters Slack channel if you’re an approved writer. If not, text “join” to the same number to sign up.
Or sign up with Promote the Vote PA to call voters in HD-163 to let them know about the Special Election. (Over Zoom with training and support.)
Some of the things President Biden has done:
Aided Ukraine against Putin’s invasion
The CHIPS Act
The PACT Act
The Inflation Recovery Act (really a clean energy bill)
The infrastructure bill
A budget proposal to reduce the deficit
What Republicans promise:
Book banning
Persecution of marginalized people
Tax cuts for the wealthy
More gun violence
No rights for women
Destruction of public education
Authoritarianism
@TonyStark
To anyone paying the least bit of attention,
And who can be the least bit objective, Pres. Biden and his administration have done a phenomenal job since his inauguration. Don’t believe it? Look at the numbers.
DONATE!
JOIN ACTIVIST GROUPS!
WORK TO GET OUT THE BLUE VOTE!
The only thing between the American people and FASCISM is our blue ballot.