Truth bomb here. This is from The Belle Kurve who made a short video from her tweet thread. The video is on You Tube. At times her tweet which is what she intended to simply read in the video varies from her spoken words in the video. When that happens and I catch it, I put the spoken word in brackets. Maybe I should have done this the other way around, I don't know. I apologize for any lack of cohesion that this might have caused. It's a little bit of work. What she said starts below the video.
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"I've been on Twitter cussing people out but I wanted to bring my tweet thread over here because I feel that it's important and I 'mma just read it to you so you don't have to read it yourself:
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How insane is the hate for Black ppl, that non-Blacks would sacrifice their daughters & sisters in order to prevent power over the country in Black hands? Sacrificing *women* isn't that surprising, but risking fascism just to avoid a Black woman as president? My God. 1/22
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A lot of these white pundits cannot be trusted to have unbiased, community or country minded opinions when it comes to our legislature. Neither can men of other races who clamor to be white adjacent.
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Every ethnicity has #TrashPandas.
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The punditry during this presidential cycle is proof positive. WM have taken a 3 year age btw two old azz men- which has NEVER CONCERNED THEM LIKE THIS BEFORE (ie. Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell) & exacerbated the issue into something akin to a nuclear war threat (NEVERMIND THAT THE "YOU GER" ONE OF THE TWO OLD ASS MEN IS AN *ACTUAL NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT, THAT SHOULD NEVER BE WITHIN 1,000 FEET OF THE NATION'S CAPITOL AGAIN) .
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The whole entire reason that we have a VICE PRESIDENT is to have someone capable to step into the role of president if something, God Forbid, happens to the president, or if they decide they're done dealing with the duties of the executive branch & wanna leave the job.
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That's the thing y'all keep forgetting. IT'S A MF JOB. Not a knighthood, not a coronation, not a canonization; A MF JOB. Experience should count. A LOT. And @JoeBiden has worked in this field his entire life, through every trial life has tossed his way. But here's where Joe messed up:
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After all his years on the hill, & applying for the top job a few times himself, he helped a Black dude get it. They punished him by being uncooperative, but he was retiring anyway & leaving public service on a high in 2016 .
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*sigh*
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Allow me a tangent here to tell you how what I know about grief: it can break you like nothing else in this world and, concurrently, it can put a battery in your back. It can make you hyper-focus & get shit DONE on the days you aren't inconsolable or in a useless crippling fog.
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I have never lost my spouse, I've never lost a living child, let alone 2. I have lost people I have loved tho. And when those people leave, if they ever expressed potential they see in you, it replays in your mind over& over. It compels you to want to live up to their vision.
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I honestly believe that's why @JoeBiden came back to politics. His son Beau believed he could help keep this country on the straight and narrow . The country he fought for, quite possibly contracted brain cancer protecting & died for. Grief isn't exclusive to death. Biden's living son, Hunter, has had his personal addiction struggles & bad decisions paraded across the country by bad political actors & is facing jail time all bc Joe decided to take this job. NOONE would give a flying FUCK about Hunter's gallivanting [and all the shit he's doing if Joe Biden wasn't his daddy and Joe Biden wasn't president, so if you understand that, you understand that this is also] if Joe wasn't President.
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This is a grief he carries too, along with the caskets of his wife, daughter, and son. So irks my last nerve when people harp on his age, bc I have never had anything half as important to do as Joe Biden, but I know how grief has had me in a bedridden chokehold before.
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@Joe Biden was born the same year as my daddy, who was died in 2017. The fact that he gets up every day to run this dumpster fire; deal with idiot press; deal with insolent former coworkers on the hill [these people know him and he knows these people and he knows how stupid and incorrigible they are being right now in government. He knew it when he was with Obama and they kept stopping everything that they wanted to do. ] ; deal with the machination of SCOTUS; deal with foreign leaders; he has to deal with MF criticizing him because they think he has powers he doesn't; deal with the damn dog biting people, like -- YOU'RE CRAZY IF YOU THINK HE IS COMPLETELY SENILE. Slower? Sure. But incapable of running the country. B get BENT. Your ass couldn't even do it WITHOUT the grief [let alone with what this man going through. FUK YOU] . I can say that so confidently because baby I'm half Joe Biden's age and in my grief I would have sent drones to nuke various states by now, ON. G.P. (general principles) stares at FL, MS, TX, KY, TN. Or at the very least I'd be punching Senators & House members who played in my face daily. *Stares at Joe Manchin and Lindsay Graham*
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All that I have to say if you think @Joe Biden is incapable of doing the job, your opinion is misguided, not intelligent, not comprehensive, & quite frankly invalid. You are not taking the full extent of what this man deals with & has accomplished so far, into consideration.
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Therefore, it would behoove you to either reevaluate your opinion or curses people out.
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But back to the point; hatred of Black people & refusing them power. These white dudes have decided that @Joe Biden runs the country on an island. That he couldn't POSSIBLY have a competent staff & cabinet around, let alone a whole ass highly qualified & capable @VP, so now it's time to PANIC & REPLACE HIM WITH ANOTHER WHITE DUDE, STAT.
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Cause fuck the Black woman who is his literal, rightful successor. They would rather roll the dice on Gavin Newsom, who is hated by half his state, which would then make California, the most weighty state in the electoral college a swing state.
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Then they trotted out Pete Buttigieg even though Ohio a current swing state incorrectly blames him for the East Palestine train derailment. Then threw out Big Gretch from Michigan which wouldn't fly, but ESPECIALLY NOT OVER @KamalaHarris w/ the base of the party.
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Pundits are supposed to take all this into consideration when forming their political opinions when & offering them to the voting public, no? They're supposed to be so dialed in & well informed that they consider angles laypeople don't, right? So, how'd they miss @KamalaHarris?
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Here's how: they know that if Joe Biden gets reelected & retires, @KamalaHarris gets a chance at 10 years in the Oval. They know that if he stays & the Biden Harris administration has another successful 4 years, it's harder to hide their racism/sexism & justify not supporting her in 2028.
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So it all boils down to white pundits hating the thought of Black ppl having power in this country SO MUCH that they'd willingly sacrifice their own daughters' & sisters' health/safety to a fascist regime to stop it from happening again -- ESPECIALLY w/ a BLACK *WOMAN* . My God. "