kyburg | My tweets (Reply)

Sat, 11:53: RT @Stonekettle: Republicans and Libertarians love them some unregulated free market. Until they don't, of course. https://t.co/eDUruAi9pQ
Sat, 11:53: RT @MichelleObama: What truly makes our country great is its diversity. I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we ar…
Sat, 11:54: RT @Stonekettle: Oh shit. THIS isn't going to go over well. https://t.co/hyBLScqWqH
Sat, 11:54: RT @tedlieu: Dear @GOPLeader: I'm an immigrant who served on active duty. We disagree about universal health care, raising the minimum wage…
Sat, 11:54: RT @tedlieu: Hey @POTUS: I'm an immigrant who served on active duty. My parents were born in China. Your grandfather was born in Germany. I…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: Cherry-picked versions of GOP history argue that the party has been unchanging in its support for black rights and ordin…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: The GOP organized in the 1850s. White northern man had long worried that rich southern slaveholders were taking over the…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: They would create new slave states, overpowering free states. Soon rich men would own Congress. Poor white men would bec…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: In 1856, the pro-slavery SCOTUS decided Dred Scott v Sandford, which said that Congress could not stop slavery from movi…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: As if to demonstrate, in 1856, a southern congressman beat MA Sen. Charles Sumner (a former D) almost to death on the Se…

Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: In 1858, abusive ra_ist (c or p: both work) SC Sen James Henry Hammond explained that slavery was the future because mos…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: In response, IL lawyer Abraham Lincoln, who had joined the GOP by then, outlined the new party's ideology. Society moved…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: When voters elected Lincoln president in 1860, southern elites immediately set up their own government, based on slavery…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: Over the next four years, the new GOP put its theory into practice. The government worked for ordinary white men rather…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: And, of course, GOP leaders recognized that, in order to defeat the rebels, they must recognize the freedom of the ensla…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: After the war, when Andrew Johnson tried to resurrect the pre-war world, minus the slavery that had supported the rich s…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: If only we could stop right there, all the threads you read about the glorious GOP would be true. (I hate the space limi…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: Former Confederates hated black voting, but organizing as the Ku Klux Klan had backfired. So they started to say they we…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: In 1871, in South Carolina, which had a majority-black legislature, Democrats organized a "Taxpayer's Convention" to com…
Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: Fears of poor voters worked in the North, too, esp. in NYC, where the GOP hated immigrant voters who tended to support D…

Sat, 11:57: RT @HC_Richardson: In 1872, a GOP faction wanting to replace U.S. Grant sided with the Ds to argue that protecting black rights was communi…
Sat, 11:58: RT @HC_Richardson: Grant won, and the GOP began to interpret their pro-ordinary man ideology as pro-prosperity, which increasingly meant pa…
Sat, 11:58: RT @HC_Richardson: When voters elected D Grover Cleveland in 1884 to curb the power of business, GOP freaked out. In 1882, Grant's former r…
Sat, 11:58: RT @HC_Richardson: In 1888, GOP invented modern campaign financing (!), warned workers to vote GOP, then when GOP candidate Benjamin Harris…
Sat, 11:58: RT @HC_Richardson: To guarantee they would never again lose control of the government, GOP under Harrison added six new states: ND, SD, MT,…
Sat, 11:58: RT @HC_Richardson: When Cleveland won again in 1892 and got control of Congress GOP warned that communists had taken over. They deliberatel…
Sat, 11:58: RT @HC_Richardson: They raised tariffs again, then took over islands that had sugar: Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, and so on, without perm…
Sat, 11:58: RT @HC_Richardson: So now the GOP sucked, right? And we could stop here... but not so fast. We must go on. (Later, though. I have to run ou…