David Hogg ☮️

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

When expressing his desire for a military parade Trump said “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade,” “This doesn’t look good for me.” explained with distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured veterans. https://t.co/XFP2sXjiQw — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

RT @itscaitlinhd: 1/ I've spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their pa… — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

For a longtime I had so much anxiety after the shooting and the death threats I got in the aftermath that I could barely eat. It resulted in me eating less and less and taking fewer breaks. Only from cooking really good food could I start eating properly, find community and heal. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

@chefjoseandres and my own cooking has proven this to me. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

All change starts with food. Food is the one thing almost all of us can agree on. It makes us take a break and have a conversation- from those conversations friendship is made. Friends build community- community builds compassion and persistence which bring change. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Wish there was an edit button I didn’t mean to title this to sound like I know the answer to life the universe and everything and there are a lot of problems specifically with racism and patriarchy and forms of intolerance that also represent threats too. These are just 3 probs — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Expert* — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

So I wrote this because I’ve been thinking a lot about these issues the past couple years but never wrote it down. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

I’m no expect but I am a concerned voter. Which is why I say this. Unfortunately it feels increasingly clear the politicians who are supposed to be the experts on this aren’t and don’t listen to those like scientists who are. I was just bored at the airport and had coffee. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Sorry for typos there’s no edit button and I’m getting on a plane. Let me know what problems you think I missed. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

This isn’t to say democracy can’t over come these problems- I think it can and it has to. I only say this to highlight these are problems we have to solve. I don’t know the solutions to them but in my view those solutions must be found to ensure the survival of future Americans — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Unlike Covid there is no vaccine for climate change once we start feeling the impacts we can just implement and survive. There is only one solution- prevention. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Another example could be investing ahead of time in mRNA vaccines pre Covid. That’s a good example of good longterm planning. The difference with something like climate change is the needed capital (both chronological and monetary) is FAR greater. Because- — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Now- it’s important to note we do invest in prevention just like we recently did with spending billions to reduce the impact of climate but it is never at the level needed until basically it’s too late and all of a sudden voters are getting sick or climate change impacts them. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

We have an entire economic and political system that left to its own devices will always choose shorterm returns even when the cost is longterm disaster. As is the case with climate change or Covid. With corporations owning our political system this problem will only worsen. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

3.2 Our government/leaders failure to communicate such risks in an effective matter that ensures voters understand why it’s important to plan for these risks and dangers now even if they don’t impact us that much today. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

3.1 Risk assessment- our leaders fail to plan and invest at the scale needed to avoid longterm risks and especially longterm known dangers (climate change) and even when they do these systems aren’t put to the test enough to insure competence. Think CDCs monkey pox failures — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

2.2 Case and point- investing in more cops in schools and bullet proof backpacks instead of stopping guns from getting into the wrong hands. Doing nothing letting these shootings continue is far more profitable for gun cos and the school security industry. Nothing sells like fear — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

2.1 The problem here speaks to the weakness of having a system that incentivizes 2 or 4 year “treatments” to systemic problems that require decades of sustained investment to actually address. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

1.2 Same problem exists with climate change. Even when we act on it- We need to be throwing trillions into preventing climate change to actually successfully mitigate it’s impacts not just billions. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

1.1 We throw billions more into policing and incarceration rather than investing in education, healthcare, job training, combating poverty and more. We are in effect “addressing” a systemic problem with a short term “solution” that is only effective at winning elections. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

1. Our inability to plan for things beyond an election cycle (Other than war). 2. Which incentivize us to choose short term “treatments” to issues caused by systemic failures or more often than not- systemic injustice. 3. Our failure to practice societal risk assessment. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Thread: There are three major weaknesses of our Republic. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

https://t.co/eRA5zzZOYV — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

John Oliver just masterfully broke down our failure to respond to Monkey Pox and the necessity of systemic change within our public health system. This was a disease we had both the tests and vaccine for before it took off. It was a stress test- we failed. Video link below. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

RT @jonfavs: Democrats passed a law that will lower the cost of energy, health care, and prescription drugs. Republicans voted against it… — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Sad doing literally the bare minimum is impressive — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Not going to lie- I did not see that coming. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Here’s the tweet just so you remember. https://t.co/hB5CaHcO57 — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

Senator Rubio just deleted his tweet complaining about having to show up for the job he literally ran for. — PolitiTweet.org