Sunday, December 22, 2019

Some Tweets from Rebecca Traister


  •  Pinned Tweet
     Sep 15
    A good morning for reading suggestions to help process fury. Because I wrote it, I’ll start with my book, Good and Mad, about the history & political power of women’s anger, now in paperback (& on sale in hardcover). BUT WAIT THERE’S LOTS MORE:
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  •   Retweeted
     22 hours ago
    “Questions of gender are also about how broader perceptions of authority & authenticity are transmitted, & by whom, & what all of this tells us about who we are meant to trust & who we instinctively don’t.” - ⁦⁩
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 20
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    If you think of these rallies as revivals, you get closer to understanding and neutralizing them. It’s just Billy Graham with a different accent and much lower price of admission.
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  •  Dec 20
    Pulitzer:
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 20
    Ahem. ⬇️ Voter suppression isn’t a bug; it’s a feature for the GOP. Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Florida...you name the competitive state, and I can tell you their plan. They’re just finally saying the quiet part out loud.
    BREAKING: A Trump advisor told the WI GOP that “Traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places”—& "It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much…
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 20
    “.. on Wednesday, the most diverse Congress in history declared that even the most powerful white man in the world should be bound by them. When Republicans act as if that’s a sacrilege, they show us what they worship.” By ⁦⁩
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    I am interested in the fact that Mayor Pete is mute when Bernie and Biden attack but goes into TED talk mode against the ladies.
    436 replies2,496 retweets14,841 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    if you think sanders’ quip about forms is silly think about the ways red states work to increase administrative burdens on people who want to utilize public services
    87 replies1,147 retweets6,928 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    It’s a problem that both the women want to ask for forgiveness for being passionate and direct. Absolutely not.
    29 replies279 retweets1,092 likes
     
     
  •  Dec 19
    Yes! This too! HE DEFINITELY KNEW WHERE HE WAS: Biden 2020
    Replying to @rtraister @JonathanCohn
    Also mentioned he was “aware of his surroundings”
    5 replies24 retweets287 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    women: please forgive me for the time i was not nice men: i give you the gift of my book
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  •  Dec 19
    Both women asked for forgiveness for being angry. Huh.
    76 replies326 retweets2,758 likes
     
     
  •  Dec 19
    Chris Cuomo just said he’d never seen Biden better than tonight and then explained “he was alert the whole time”
    186 replies223 retweets2,642 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    I miss and his immigration plan. Everyone should just have said: "I'll listen to on immigration."
    6 replies95 retweets469 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    Biden's answer on immigration is revisionist history. Let me just give one example: he notes that he have "cherry picked" from each country, which is a casual allusion to white supremacy.
    3 replies13 retweets63 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    Biden answers the reparations question by talking about immigrants coming here to work hard? What? What.
    124 replies447 retweets3,114 likes
     
     
  •  Dec 19
    I really like your wine cave want to shake your money tree
    38 replies229 retweets2,261 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    protecting my wine cave
    18 replies138 retweets1,095 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 15
    I think my least favorite debate quality is "I'm the only one up here who's above all this." Just stop it. You're running for president. You're at the debate. Stop.
    1 reply28 retweets157 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    Folks on stage may have more money now, but none of them were handed a $200K/ year job after college. That's just Pete.
    27 replies211 retweets1,074 likes
     
     
  •  Dec 19
    “I know you’re an energetic guy” was ether I think?
    2 replies4 retweets67 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    If this is what Buttigieg thinks, why fight for campaign finance reform? If there’s no potential for corruption whats the point
    8 replies81 retweets260 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    pete buttigieg right now: “i’ll take anybody’s money if they’re givin’ it away”
    51 replies156 retweets1,625 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    if Pete wants to lecture someone who actually grew up working class that's his business, but I doubt it will go as well as he thinks
    6 replies58 retweets390 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    Is...he arguing that he likes money? Is that his argument to being accused of being bought and sold?
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    Pete is also the only person on the stage who grew up rich, i'm pretty sure.
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  •  Dec 19
    ....frenemy?
    6 replies3 retweets98 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Dec 19
    attention politicians: lincoln’s “house divided” speech wasn’t a plea for bipartisanship, it was an argument that for resolving irrepressible conflict over fundamental issues of democracy.
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