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Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence and the GOP’s Plan to End American Democracy 1/x
Utilize the information warfare technique called the “Firehose of falsehoods,” to confuse and disorient the American people, or as Bannon put it “Flood the zone with shit.” 5/x https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/963076380505370624?s=21
Trump & Co continued their relationship with Zuckerberg/ Facebook to further capitalize on the massive psychographic data Cambridge Analytica collected on >87M Americans (in 2014) used for targeted disinformation before the 2016 Presidential Election 6/x https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/book-excerpt-mindf-ck-by-christopher-wylie.html
In April 2019, Facebook redesigned their platform to focus on groups, creating an endless number of polarizing echo chambers where users felt safe to say and share hateful things they wouldn’t otherwise say publicly. 7/x https://www.pcmag.com/news/facebook-redesign-shifts-focus-to-groups
Many groups led by the Alt-Right (neo-Nazis and white supremacists) were fed targeted disinformation and propaganda to radicalize them. Trump had called them very fine people.

Now the tinderbox had been assembled all we needed was a match. 8/x https://time.com/5855307/facebook-removes-white-supremacist-accounts/
Fox News called #COVID19 a hoax. 11/x https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1240640020714848257?s=21
Simultaneously, under the Trump Administration, FEMA confiscated PPE needed by frontline healthcare workers and a top GOP fundraiser started a medical supply company in 14 days. How’d he get the supplies? “I have relationships with a lot of people.” 13/x https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/republican-fundraiser-company-coronavirus-152184
The head of the company, Blue Flame Medical said, “I don’t want to overstate, but we probably represent the largest global supply chain for Covid-19 supplies right now,” he said. “We are getting ready to fill 100 million-unit mask orders.” 14/x https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/republican-fundraiser-company-coronavirus-152184
The other match.
(2) The brutal murder of George Floyd

The public extrajudicial killing of George Floyd, in such a disgustingly casual manner, by a white police office rightfully set off a renewed civil rights movement. 21/x
The End of American Democracy.

Donald J. Trump, his administration, his family, the House and Senate GOP, the RNC and the NRCC have all been complicit by their acts of omission and/or commission. 29/x https://twitter.com/thedemcoalition/status/1267900019325243403?s=21
So, now we have a real fire. Emboldened by Trump, violent far right extremists are agitating for a second civil war and Trump calls members of the #BlackLivesMatters movement the “enemy of the state.” This diverts attention from the raging #coronavirus pandemic. 32/x
It is only July and we are already seeing hospitals overwhelmed by the #coronavirus. I volunteered at Elmhurst Hospital in late April and have seen what #COVID19 does to the human body. It is vicious. My heart goes out to all those who have lost someone to #COVID19. 33/x
Flu season begins in October, and when the weather begins to cool off people will head indoors, will be in close proximity touching the same doorknobs and sneezing in confined spaces. This will create a two fold viral blow to the population. 34/x https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coronavirus-and-the-flu-a-looming-double-threat/
This will come just in time for the November 3rd Presidential Election. Based on everything I know about Donald J. Trump and his “win at all cost/burn it all down” administration - is that by that point the country will be in utter disarray. COVID19 + massive civil unrest. 35/x
No state will have the capacity to manage this level of carnage. Hospitals will be inundated, people will be dying in their homes and no state will have the capacity to hold an election; and I think that’s the plan. 36/x
It’s harsh, I know. But if it doesn’t make sense intuitively then take a look at this graph. During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, most deaths - including 675,000 Americans - occurred during the second wave over the Winter months into 1919. 37/x
The pandemic will rage on. Trump will consolidate power and no coalition will have the capacity to take him and his henchman down.

Sounds pretty bad right? But not out of the realm of possibility, no? So what do we do? 38/x
I don’t pretend to have the solution to this problem. It is far beyond me as a mere observer. What I will say is that if we want to preserve our Democracy we need to do the following: 39/x
1) Educate ourselves then educate others.

Remember when that Republican voter said she was unaware that there was anything negative about Trump in the Mueller Report? 40/x

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-surprised-learn-about-key-mueller-report-revelations
1) Speak up and oppose any and all who support Trumps failed, corrupt and murderous presidency. This is no longer a matter of opinion. 41/x
2) Demand the Democratic Party fight with the same vigor and intensity as the Republicans, only more. Call your representative and ask them what they’re doing to hold Trump accountable and why they’re not doing more. Volunteer. Organize. Right now, we’re losing. 42/x
3) WEAR A MASK. Social distance. Stay at home if possible. Wash your hands. Use hand sanitizer. Don’t taouch your face. Listen to doctors and scientists. 43/x
4) Be kind to each other and remember that the goal of information warfare is to divide and conquer.

"United we stand, divided we fall"

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