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TomShafShafer

@TomShafShafer@toot.community

IT professional, actor, photographer. Enjoying retirement.

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Four years ago...
Trump frequently disparaged the Obama Administration's response to H1N1 in comparison to his COVID-19 response, which exceeded the deaths of the 2009 viral outbreak in under 3 months.
(See: https://www.cdc.gov/orr/timeline/events/h1n1.html )

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Throughout 2020, aid was given to states in response to the pandemic conditioned on governors' apparent willingness to publicly praise Trump. (See: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushner-says-nyc-hospitals-only-received-n95-masks-after-trump-heard-about-shortages-from-friends )

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Four years ago...
Not halfway thru the April lockdown, Trump is already pressuring states to ignore their own health departments and reopen non-essential businesses without adequate testing and months before the availability of vaccines. Trump only cared about his re-election, not American deaths.

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Four years ago...
Reminder that the failed US response to the pandemic wasn't just due to Trump's incompetence. It was also the incompetence of the MAGA Republicans who followed his marching orders and believed that everything would be back to normal in May... of 2020.

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Four years ago...
Trump proved his inability to handle a global health crisis. He will be even less capable if allowed a second term.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/12/us-global-reputation-rock-bottom-donald-trump-coronavirus

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Four years ago...
When will Senator Ron Johnson be held accountable for sharing Russian disinformation? (See: https://rollcall.com/2018/07/09/after-moscow-trip-ron-johnson-says-election-meddling-overblown/ )

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More recently...
An Anti-Biden Conspirator Now Acknowledges That Ron Johnson Was “Doing the Bidding” of Russia
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/an-anti-biden-conspirator-ron-johnson-doing-bidding-russia/

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👀🤭

Via Angry Staffer:

Some curious media folks might want to reach out to the about their internal polling.

They’ll probably lie about it, but there’s some panicking going on.

TomShafShafer,
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@GottaLaff Seems like Trump's statement on abortion, which landed with a 'THUD' was in response to that.

crooksandliars, to random
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New Video From Far-Right Financier Supporting Trump Should Terrify Everyone

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/new-video-far-right-financier-supporting?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=87033

TomShafShafer,
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@crooksandliars Thomas Klingenstein's association with fascism-friendly think tank, Claremont Institute - also home to John Eastman - says it all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/far-right-republican-donor-woke-thomas-klingenstein

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Fixed.

Angry Staffer did his Q & A last night.

Q: ..posts abt Trump’s calls to MBS, Kushner calls to Bibi. How concerned r u Trump's conducting shadow govt interfer in MidEast that works directly against Biden policy & war efforts in region?

Angry:

I’m pretty concerned abt it..also par for course w Trump-He started doing it b4 he was elected the first time, & he’s doing it now. It completely shreds precedent but I do worry that he’s trying to enflame tensions to make things worse for Biden

TomShafShafer,
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@GottaLaff Wow, I had forgotten about Trump's pre-inauguration foreign policy meddling - not counting Michael Flynn, which is a whole thing by itself. And then, I remembered that Bob Dole had a hand in it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/us/politics/bob-dole-taiwan-lobby-trump.html

GottaLaff, to Ohio
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WTH.

“ may have trouble getting on ’s general election ballot, state's top election official warns

In a letter to Ohio’s Democratic Party chair, Secretary of State Frank LaRose warns that the Democratic National Convention will take place after a state deadline to declare a candidate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-may-trouble-getting-ohios-general-election-ballot-rcna146706

TomShafShafer,
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@GottaLaff LaRose is a Trump-humping asswipe.

GottaLaff, to random
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Things I won’t miss when we move to BC🇨🇦:

California red areas all the way home. Billboards for The Epoch Times. Trump banners. Fascist variations of the American flag. Anti-Newsom/Pelosi signs.

Instant anxiety inducers.

TomShafShafer,
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@GottaLaff Yep. A vivid reminder that despite a Dem majority, CA is still the largest GOP state by population.

TomShafShafer, to random
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As a rule, we don't name things after people as long as they're alive. Are House Republicans making us an offer we can't refuse?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-push-rename-dc-international-airport-trump

TomShafShafer, to random
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Trump added 'federalize' to his promise to indemnify local police, making them beholden to Trump in addition to granting immunity from prosecution for excessive force or wrongful death civil suits. Trump wants nothing less than his own Schutzstaffel.
https://youtu.be/VwfwCsSHYjY?si=9BYSBFqpuLjlrKec

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Lawfare's Tyler McBrien:

JUST IN: files a pre-motion letter for recusal of Justice Merchan.

TomShafShafer,
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@GottaLaff OMG! How is painting a rhetorical bullseye on the judge's daughter in any way 'protected campaign speech'? Trump's lawyers are as nuts as he is.

GottaLaff, to Canada
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I just took this from our back deck.

🇨🇦

TomShafShafer,
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@GottaLaff @JonChevreau Laffy, I can't read that without thinking...

video/mp4

TomShafShafer, to random
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Behold, the first Aptera production body-in-carbon (BinC).
https://youtu.be/v_BHaVUIDn0?si=JpTBtYLojTGaq2q_

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Four years ago...
Trump's reluctance to invoke the Defense Production Act for production and delivery of critical N95 masks allowed shortages and price gouging to happen.
(See: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-says-3m-distributors-price-gouge-n95-face-masks-2020-3 )

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Four years ago...
Trump's unwillingness to address the pandemic in the critical first six weeks allowed COVID-19 to take root in our high-traffic population centers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/trump-coronavirus-politics-us-health-disaster

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Offering this free through my subscription:

"McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to appear on MSNBC and not just NBC News"

https://wapo.st/3TyPTDi

I may write about the irony of all of this for my weekend blog post.

TomShafShafer,
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@Teri_Kanefield In other words, MSNBC President Rashida Jones was lying to Rachel Maddow when she assured Rachel that McDaniel would not appear on any MSNBC program.

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Four years ago...
Trump was already repeating Fox News' anti-social-distancing and herd immunity rhetoric before the end of the first 15-day quarantine period, and would start tweet-screeming at states to 'LIBERATE!' themselves in April. Trump killed hundreds of thousands with his ineptitude.

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Holy Snipes! We might have a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries before the end of the year after all.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-mike-gallagher-resign-early-house-majority-shrinks-rcna144672

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Yes. Under Biden, lower unemployment & stronger GDP growth than even Trump's best year. Biden got the US economy back on its feet and has brought inflation under control. Trump ignored covid until we were losing a 9/11's population a day in our major cities. He called it 'the new Democrat hoax'.

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Four years ago...

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