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@shipman96 She equated Jimmy D.'s simple "F you AOC" on youtube w/ actual violence. Which was a response to her gaslighting activists on forcing a M4A floor vote. And she seems to have an army of "shut down" trolls who speech-police people on the left for challenging her - 1/

 @Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 not via logical argument, but fallacious ad hominem & strawman attacks. Trolling, basically. And I've been noticing her own rhetorical tactics lately. She engages in a lot of disingenuous dissembling, which I find pretty creepy in a kind of foreshadowing sense as to where 2/
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 this is heading for her, politically. All her bullshit over tossed salad on home video RE VZ, too, along with her "I haven't decided yet about Assange." I mean, I'll say it too: fk you, AOC. 3/
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 On VZ she was literally spouting CIA and Big Oil talking points for overthrowing an elected gov for OIL. And she's supposed to be all about a GND? But she's plugging for an oil coup d'etat? And then she's so horrified by this storming at the Capitol bldg? 4/
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 What does she think she's promoting for Venezuelans? Someone posted today she follows Guaido's account & we've seen her post in response to anonymous VZ coupist accounts -obsequiously thanking them for their *erudite* political advice; i.e. the same way she fawns over Pelosi
5/
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 She seems to align herself in shallow ladder climbing ways. She's more interested in that than muscling through any real or significant legislation .. why she originally said she wanted to get elected.

Very disappointing.

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@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 7/7 The kindest thing I can say? I think the Dems were really stupid to put her out there in front on TV after what happened Wed. At best, she's too inexperienced.

But maybe they don't want to succeed in throwing Trump out. They should have done it at the beginning but it was
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 8/8 *only* ordinary Americans being killed - not members of Congress being threatened instead. And we all know they don't give a sh't about any of us.
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 9/9 One more thing .. I read - shortly before this Wed "storming" - and before the reelection of Pelosi - a small group of "Force The Vote" (for a M4A floor vote) non-violent activists conscientiously wearing masks went to the Capitol Bldg to have a sit-in at AOC's office-
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 10/ (as she has advocated for people to do to representatives) - and to talk with her about withholding votes for Pelosi. I'm understanding they weren't allowed into the building on the basis of the pandemic. Yet here they allowed an entire unmasked mob in -
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 11/ so, clearly they weren't worried about the pandemic. They felt instead threatened about being held accountable on single payer legislation -which they've been jacking the public around on - and bullsh'tting them on for decades to get votes w/out delivering the goods.
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 12/ AOC, now known to be no exception, herself counting on the reliability of American political amnesia. Meanwhile - on Wed, 4,000 American died of Covid-19 and by early Feb we are on track to see 1/2 million people dead bc of this pandemic.
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 13/ Yet what was AOC advertising herself as doing? Getting coffee and pastries guaranteed instead - and for her traumatized colleagues - along with on-site counseling - already paid for by our tax dollars for their cushy health plans, along with an additional 5 million dollars -
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 14/ we just gave these pol's for additional upgrades to their already deluxe on-site Congressional health clinic.

And while they refuse to hold a floor vote on Medicare For All.

You know if a floor vote was a bad idea, Pelosi would have done it already.
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 15/ These so-called progressives? They're Pelosi's window dressing. They're bullsh't. "Mama Bear?"
What kind of work culture is this? Make me vomit. More like Mama Mafia. They serve and protect her. Other Dems didn't have a problem not voting for her. Why should they?
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 16/ They act like she's Mama Mafia. Or even, the Madam of a brothel they work in. It's sickening. They don't act like law-makers. They can't even bring themselves to say to this 17 termer: "We won't vote for you if you don't do this. Take it or leave it." #FraudSquad
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 17/ The more they go after us for exposing them, the more they expose themselves. So they can either listen and deliver like grown-ups. Or they can nose-dive.
@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 18/
In the meantime, we are going to further begin discussing possible related strategies of no longer voting for prog Dems AT ALL.

Unless they deliver the goods on Medicare For ALL. #AllMeansAll

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2. It is intended to enforce a clear division between those who accept and are committed to democracy and those who are willing to turn to violence when the vote doesn't turn out the way that they want it to.

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4. In other words: democracy and armed factionalism are far closer than we think, or we would like them to be. This means that it is incredibly important to police the boundaries between them. Allowing some to turn to violence can lead to expectation collapse and cascading ruin.

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(THREAD) The Whitaker scandal is deepening, as it becomes clear that Sessions' Russia recusal was a coordinated sham and his firing an act of obstruction—and that his replacement is a White House plant inside the Mueller probe. I hope you'll retweet and read on for more details.


1/ From 2014-17 Whitaker worked for World Patent Marketing—which during his tenure defrauded consumers out of $26 million and was successfully prosecuted by the feds. His involvement in the scam confirmed he had loose morals and that the feds would never want to employ him again.

2/ Despite the seeming impossibility of a man with Whitaker's background getting a job at Justice ever again—he'd been found to have used his former title as a US attorney to fraudulently threaten consumers with valid complaints with criminal penalties—Whitaker found an opening.

3/ Within 60 days of parachuting out of World Patent Marketing as it was being fined $26 million by the feds, Whitaker was working for CNN and telling a fellow attorney panelist that his purpose in working for CNN was to get noticed by one man—Donald Trump—and thereby get a job.

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The initiatives of Congress are to come in two areas. One within the party and the other with other parties.
First Congress has to Improve its communication with people, cadres, leaders and supporters.
Rahul is mainly shouldering this responsibility. But why not other leaders.
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It may be argued that some leaders are doing it within their areas. What about other areas, other leaders?
There will be many contenders for posts, maybe even for President’s if given a chance.
Why not leaders volunteer to propagate views, counter the Modi regime on the field?
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Some leaders give out statements in media, write their views on social media. Are they enough? Are they doing justice to their potential?
Even during elections, they limit themselves to their constituencies/ state.
Why should they not extend it beyond & even between elections?
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The statements of Congress leaders with few exceptions are bland, insipid, prosaic, not interesting and attracting enough to percolate to the people.
How many of their messages reached the people?
Can they not make it more attractive or find other ways to reach the masses?
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Some may say there are limitations of age, barriers of territory, egos, invitations, interference.
Most of them are artificial, self-imposed and can be sorted out.
These leaders do not devote themselves to the masses.
If Rahul does it, expected to do it why not others?
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1. For people mad at Dems. Can we try to understand how politics (not justice) works? Here are some things: the Dems simply wanted the phone call information to be added to the record. They threatened to call witnesses as a negotiation tactic - thus getting the Republicans to

2. do what the Dems originally wanted - enter the phone call on the record. If witnesses were called - the trial would have gone on for weeks - in the middle of a pandemic when relief HAS to be sent out now. And Merrick Garland has to be confirmed so the DOJ can get to work.

3. However, I WANT WITNESSES CALLED. I want them to have such explosive testimony that the whole world once again knows what it knows - that Trump is guilty. I want more Republican Senators to change their mind and vote to convict. The problem is? We would NEVER GET 17 to do so.

4. It fucking SUCKS. It SUCKS that the Democrats can't just call witnesses and make the Republican Senators appear to the world even more cowardly than they were - hearing that testimony and STILL voting to acquit. BUT that's the fantasy version where the media doesn't once again

5. start blaming Dems during this fantasy-witness-calling-trial for not getting Covid relief out, etc. The issue here is that NO MATTER WHAT - if Trump himself with Jesus back from the dead as his witness says, "I did it" the Republicans will acquit. The issue is that the GOP
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