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Elizabeth Bennett

@elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social

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Old-timey congressional staff, herder of regulations and writer.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · Nov 19

I wrote a thread in 2021 imagining life in Nazi America as a thought experiment. The goal was to get people to think about how it would affect *them* and not just think about it historically hoping maybe they’d rage against it. Oh well…

It’s the only thing I wanted to salvage from the old place.

As we endure this painfully slow slide into fascism, let's imagine Nazi
America.
(1) Our biggest celebrities will be creativity-deficient hacks like Baio and
Sorbo. Think their new sitcoms will be funny?
With all the good writers black-listed, Tomi Lahren will be pulling Emmys.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 49m

I wish she’d won b/c things wouldn’t be what they are now, but I never thought she had the cache deserving as the first woman president. Elizabeth Warren would’ve made us proud. AOC would. A real badass, agent of change. That wasn’t Harris. She would’ve just delayed all this.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 56m

If Blue MAGA still won’t identify all the parties kicking them in the face, that’s not on us.

We’ve sounded the alarm for years, and at this point it’s all plain as day. They just don’t want to see.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1h

Are you on vacation, Bill?

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1h

She isn’t responsible for Biden’s decisions, but the administration she was second in command of had FOUR YEARS to beat back the rising tsunami of fascism, and they chose to do f*ck all about it instead, so she needs to step off that high horse and have some humility b/c that’s her legacy, too.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

Harris slams protestor during book tour.

“You want to talk about legacy? Let’s talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump.”

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 2h

This is fascism. And it’s no longer America.

"Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 2h

They passed the buck.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 2h

“Argentina’s $20 billion bailout benefits American citizens how, exactly?” Welker of course didn’t ask.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 2h

Also, take care of yourself while you do.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 2h

Every American should watch it. Today.

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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social · 3h

The Number of Impeachments Must Equal the Number of Impeachable Offenses

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 3h

It is a criminal failure of @housedemocrats.bsky.social that we can’t post every day citing the increasing record number of impeachment articles filed against the fascist president and his criminal cabinet members and other officials—for the narrative and for history.

Robert D Werner @robertdwerner.bsky.social · 8h

All it takes is democrats with some courage to just nonstop submit articles of impeachment.

Trump is doing stuff near daily that's an impeachable offense.

Hes taking full advantage of "do nothing dems".

He literally called them out and is acting on it and they prove him right.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 4h

Only by people who aren’t plugged into reality.

One thing our new political normal has taught me is ease in dismissing those people outright.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 16h

People love museum gift shops. Maybe if you can get the originals of the beautiful artistic maps and display those, people will buy the prints?

It’s less niche as a museum, in a way, and you’re such a compelling story-teller. You could bring, IDK, book clubs and orgs in.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, I would’ve bought a few…

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t remember that part…

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 16h

It got so much better after that!

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 17h

I believe it ended when Pelosi reseated the MoCs who signed the Sedition Suit before January 6.

A government cannot function when 28% of the House is in open revolt against the constitutional order. The government collapsed then.

Biden and Dems had a chance to set it right but didn’t bother.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 17h

I always felt like, f*ck Dawn.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 17h

And actually I did.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t normally reply to Blue MAGA silliness at all so feel privileged you’ve gotten this much.

If you don’t see it at this point, you are part of the problem.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 17h

These things don’t happen in a vacuum. I was made to VBNMW for Biden whom I knew to be a horrible choice, partially b/c he was sold as the Senate Whisperer. Politics is crafting a narrative/whipping votes. None of that happened b/c they didn’t want it to. You can see that even now. Think about it.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 18h

See my other reply.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 18h

Sure, b/c Schumer was totally on board to fight then, just like he is now.

You can keep buying that excuse given all we’ve witnessed and how utterly unequal to this the Dems have proved to be, but you’re lying to yourself and it’s part of the problem.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 18h

What bullshit!

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 18h

I thought that guy had retired to his crypt.