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They have no path to win midterms, and they will run first. Funny thing is that they literally have nowhere to run. 🤣

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really dislike Nancy Pelosi, but she actually did a lot to intervene when Dems took the House back during Trump's first administration.

Democrats to use House majority to launch Trump investigations

It doesn't get talked about enough, but Trump had plans to profit greatly from COVID and vaccine privatization. He likely would have been successful if he'd been able to roll out the vaccine without democratic oversight.

He had a lot of evil plans actually, and I'm pretty sure that most of his backlash against the vaccine and COVID mandates was mainly due to him being angry he wasn't allowed to profit from the pandemic in as many ways as he hoped.

Before the pandemic, top contractor received billions from government

Vaccine Maker Earned Record Profits but Delivered Disappointment in Return

Emergent BioSolutions was awarded a $628 million federal contract with no competitive bidding. Top executives received big bonuses while factories mostly sat idle and tens of millions of Covid-19 doses were thrown away.

Covid-19: Trump sought to buy vaccine developer exclusively for US, say German officials

Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall

And if a subpoena isn't scary why are Republicans in the House and Senate refusing to subpoena JP Morgan to force the CEO to release bank records of transactions between Jeffery Epstein and Peter Thiel?