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Oliver Willis Profile picture
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Jun 26, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
voting for @RepRaskin in the primary was a done deal of course, but this helps. #MDpolitics
i have a personal rule that i dont vote for people in unopposed primaries. even if i like them.
when i lived in massachusetts i once skipped voting for john kerry in the primary for this reason. i voted for him in the general though.
looks like he didn't even have a gop opponent in the general. i feel like i voted for him then though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…
ironically that is the election that made mitt romney governor of massachusetts. double irony? its still the only election mitt romney has ever won.

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Oct 8, 2018
Melania held on to her bull whip tightly as she swung across the crevasse, the deadly spikes just inches below her 5-figure pumps. She landed on the other side with a soft thump.

"Mrs. Trump, I presume," said the cloaked figure in a surprisingly British accent.

She nodded.
"Anything in particular... catch your eye?"
Melania looked at him with the same vacant expression she looked at everything else she had ever looked at in her life.
"Yes, the Jewel of Freedom, Breaker of Bonds."
"Is there something you wish to separate from, Mrs. Trump?"
At that exact moment Donald Trump thumped his small fist against the soft sheets of his bed in the White House residence. He had lost the remote control again. Despite the warnings to use both hands while holding the apparatus, Trump had steadfastly and stubbornly refused.
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Oct 7, 2018
FYI citing the guys who owned people and wouldn't let women vote (the founders) for why our government representation has to always stay the same way is kind of stupid. For the millionth time, the founders aren't gods or God.
"Wyoming residents get more of a say than DC residents because a guy who lived 250 years ago and was so lazy he had a team of blacks he owned who did everything around the house said so."
I'll never have the childlike reverence for the founders that is standard in conservative circles. They did amazing things but they also had gigantic flaws. Arguing that we can never change because of them is stupid af.
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Oct 6, 2018
Susan Collins pressed the button on her wall and the secret entrance slid open. She stepped forward and gingerly walked down the limestone pathway. The air grew more foul as she went deeper.

Finally she arrived in the Senate's bowels.

"Enter, child," Mitch McConnell said.
McConnell's shriveled husk hung from the corner of the room, wrapped in a nest of spider webs -- emitting the dank musk of time immemorial.

Collins dropped to one knee. "It is done, my Lord."

The Senate sanctum vibrated as McConnell croaked loudly, his laughter lost to the ages
McConnell extended a bony protrusion in her direction. It had once been a finger but now it was merely a rancid, green *thing*. Eons of the most horrible magicks had made it so.

"Do they suspect?"

"Not at all," Collins replied, the ends of her mouth curling into a smile.
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Oct 6, 2018
I don't dispute that Kavanaugh was inevitable. But I think the Democrats made major fumbles, most of all making so much of the nomination about bloodless papers nobody cares about versus imagery of women bleeding out in alleys.
Once again they went for the brain and not the heart. Just use the Kennedy playbook. This isn't hard.
Also for the last two years Senate Democrats have granted unanimous consent in the Senate, allowing the GOP to move at normal speed with it's agenda. They don't seriously try. washingtonpost.com/amphtml/postev…
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Oct 4, 2018
So far I’m not really seeing Democratic officials or voters truly grasping the depth of evil we face. Instead there is a Pollyanna approach that assumes this is just a temporary lapse for the gop and it’s all going back to “normal” very soon.
I’ve personally been watching the gop absolutely embrace total depravity since the early 90s and if you study any history that’s a program that’s been in place since the mid 60s.
The bad part is this gop depravity success in large part because Democrats and their voters refuse to wage total war. Instead, most dems cling to the notion that a reset is coming. While Democrats do this, Republicans repeatedly get away with the equivalent of invading Poland.
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Oct 2, 2018
as one of their most vehement critics, from the left at least, this kind of thing is precisely what the nyt should be spending their massive resources and expertise on. its the point of the paper. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
and dont give me the "trump supporters won't care" crap. theyre not the point. theyre not the point of any of this. its about us, the normal public, knowing who the hell is ruling us and wtf theyre doing in that capacity and how they got there. its about us, not the cult.
but give me a meaty investigative report any time over nonsense leaks from john kelly and kellyanne and sarah huckabee and their underlings, all trying to undermine each other for office space.
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