Scott Shaeffer

Why Trump’s supporters will believe any lie he tells: slate.com/news-and-polit…

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🚨NEW, thread: Pentagon confirms to me the Department of Defense is preparing to house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, immediately including Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Bliss in Texas.

If Biden announced he is transporting 20,000 Afghan citizens to the United States and grant them asylum, most of you pretending to care would suddenly change your tune and claim Biden is importing Muslims to vote illegally in the next election.

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What I am feeling and thinking about the situation in Afghanistan, I can never fit on Twitter. But one thing that is definitely sticking out is that I haven’t gotten one constituent call about it and my district has a large Veteran population.

This is a little noticed reality that needs enormous amplification. In California’s recall, if Gavin Newsom gets under 50%, California would likely have a lunatic Trumpist as governor. If Diane Feinstein dies or resigns, there would be a lunatic Trumpist appointed to replace her

New: Republican Party has removed a page from their website bragging about Trump’s deal with the Taliban that committed Biden to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Afghanistan — and led to the fall of Kabul today.

You don’t have to tweet your take on Afghanistan if you’re not actually well-versed in the Afghanistan story. It’s ok. The internet will survive without your post

My heart has broken. Like most vets, I left part of me in AFG. Later we’ll debate the failures of last 20 yrs, but today our mission is clear: hold the airport as long as possible and get ALL U.S. citizens and as many Afghan partners out as we can. We will debate the rest later

BREAKING: A Taliban Leader who Trump got released from prison in 2018 appears set to become the new President of Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

Blaming Joe Biden for Afghanistan is like trying to blame Gerald Ford for Vietnam. Both became president 8 months before US troops were withdrawn, and inherited untenable situations where a US-backed regime was unable to survive, despite over a decade of blood and treasure.

Can we now all agree that you can’t impose democracy by force?

If brown or black skinned people engaged in such acts of violence, the LAPD would call a tactical alert. White privilege—must be nice.

Anti-maskers in South Dakota take offense to “no mask, no service” signs—but their ancestors had no problem with this one.

So, what's the difference between a 57% vaccination rate and a 73% vaccination rate, you ask? Well done, anti-vaxxers!

More of this, please.

This will be a great introduction to plant-based eating! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Kudos to this Chattanooga mom telling a Tennessee school board that her daughter is now opting out of ALL school dress code restrictions. 😍😍😍

Race is a biological fiction and the definition of who fits in what category expands or contracts based on needs of those in power and social dynamics, not objective scientific criteria. In other words, the implications of the census news are not necessarily what you assume.

Some people worry that following the evidence & the law where it leads & indicting Sore Loser Trump might look too “political.” But how does it “look” to let Trump get away with obvious crimes for which absolutely anyone else would face federal prosecution? Get real, people!!!!!!