Eric Swalwell with as perfect and concise a description of today's GOP as you'll ever see.

[Bleacher Creature]

Link to tweet

[sheshe2]

1. When you shine the light...

When you shine the light the frightened cockroaches scatter in fear.

This IS the GOP.

[Bobstandard]

2. It's scary!

I’m seeing the crisis in voting rights. It’s really dire. One element we should be paying attention to is the overt violence being directed at poll workers. Too many are being intimidated into quitting. Leaving, I suppose, the work to their extremest cronies. The thuggery is coming into the open. It’s scary.

[Hekate]

6. Poll workers have extremist cronies? Surely that was not what you meant. Poll workers tend to be...

…retired people who believe in honest elections, and work hard at it. It’s a volunteer position with a stipend, and they’re not in it for the big bucks.

Three of my retired lady friends used to work the polls. One was very explicit about why she was quitting though: it was Trump’s thugs. They started walking right in and hanging around, doing things like standing behind my friend and looking at the precinct register that voters signed. She’s not a timorous person and never has been, but these men were threatening and they spooked her.

[FoxNewsSucks]

23. I don't think that meant workers have cronies.

I think the point was that poll workers, such as the friend you describe, would be intimidated and quit. Leaving the work (poll watching) to the extremist cronies who go along with the thugs like the ones who do the intimidating.

It's their goal.

[Bobstandard]

35. I'm talking about who replaces the normal folks

If poll workers like your friends are intimidated away from those jobs, who is likely to take their place? Friends of the thugs seems likely

A couple of bad acting poll workers could slow down voting and make it such a hassle that some people will give up and not vote. It’s a great way to screw up the vote. Another, more extreme tactic in the war on voting.

[smirkymonkey]

18. +1000

It is at a crisis point, you are exactly right. Are there only a handful of us who believe that our democracy could be over in a little more than a year from now if we don't do something drastic to curb this behavior?

The rule of law has become a joke in this country and there is little to no accountabilty for right wing criminals. We can't keep waiting for some deus ex machina to save us here. I don't care if we have to become as bad as they are but we have to stop them. Too much is at stake here.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

30. I agree 100%

The situation is dire and we need to go out of the box and stop these assholes cretins and bullies.

[GoodRaisin]

33. The Rule of Law has been abandoned by the GOP. They are a criminal, murdering Party. For the

life of me I can't understand how Donald Trump is still walking free after inciting a riot in our Capitol, attacking our police, leaving people dead and murdered. And he is allowed to walk away as if nothing happened.

[uponit7771]

26. THANK YOU !!! This is more dangerous than Al Qaeda, they could never end democracy as we know it

[CousinIT]

3. Congressional Republicans' complicity in the violent Jan 6th insurrection is why they don't want...

...ANYTHING to do with any Jan 6th Commission (bipartisan or not) -- because they don't want the facts about that coming out before the 2022 mid-terms.

[KPN]

20. And because of that, they are no commuted to the only

option they have left to survive politically and possibly financially: a coup; the destruction of a free, fair and equitable democracy. They went too far. They know it and they know they have no other option left to secure their survival but by brute force power grab.

[monkeyman1]

4. GQP- REQUIREMENTS -LOW I.Q. !

[keithbvadu2]

7. Many have high IQ... but low ethics, honor, integrity, and morals.

Many have high IQ...

but low ethics, honor, integrity, and morals.

[Bob_in_VA]

15. I beg to differ with you

they have NO morals, ethics, honor or integrity.

[smirkymonkey]

19. And I'm not so sure about the high IQ either.

[FoxNewsSucks]

22. Unfortunately, the Cheneys

and some others in the party, conservatives and teabaggers, are far from stupid.

The MAGAt masses are ignorant fools, but their puppet masters are not.

[smirkymonkey]

25. That's true. The establishment isn't but the masses are.

But I wouldn't call the puppet masters intellectuals. They are still very short sighted and motivated mainly by greed and a will to power. They completely lack wisdom.

[ShazzieB]

31. No, they're not intellectuals.

They're crafty and cunning, wily and calculating, but they lack insight, and, as you say, wisdom. Put that together with the fact that they also have no empathy or compassion for others, and the results are not pretty.

[Seinan Sensei]

37. And no Shame

[Duppers]

10. Yes! 👍

[malaise]

5. K & R

for truth

[world wide wally]

8. On the bright side, we still outnumber them

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. We do, but it only matters if we vote...or, if we are able to vote.

[FoxNewsSucks]

21. and for the vote to count

with results not subjected to being overruled by republiqons.

[Blue Owl]

9. K&R

[WaterSong1951]

11. What's this about?

Why is MSM reporting on problems with Kamala’s staff- what am I missing?

[KS Toronado]

28. Making mountains out of molehills for viewer ratings.

Welcome to DU!

[ShazzieB]

32. Kamala's staff?

Who said anything about Kamala's staff? What am I missing?

[True Blue American]

38. MSNBC

Has been showing rumors. They have turned into a gossip column with just a few with integrity.

The rest go on and on about Trump. Even showed his propaganda border visit.

[czarjak]

12. Jodey Arrington was there with bells on.

[deminks]

13. This little light of mine

This little light of mine
I'm going to let it shine
Oh, this little light of mine
I'm going to let it shine

This little light of mine
I'm going to let it shine
Let it shine, all the time, let it shine

'This Little Light Of Mine' Shines On, A Timeless Tool Of Resistance

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/630051651/american-anthem-this-little-light-of-mine-resistance

[lastlib]

16. One addition, Mr. Swalwell:

They also roll with the killer cops. Never the George Floyds, the Eric Garners, the Michael Browns, ad infinitum.

the basturds make my blood boil.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Swalwell elevates his game day by day

We need as many Democrats like him as we can find.

[Deuxcents]

29. I agree

[FoxNewsSucks]

24. He's right.

And that light has been shown.

It's time for stepped-up action.

[Dawson Leery]

27. The GOP is worse than ISIS.

[dchill]

34. K & R.

[spooky3]

36. All Dems need to get on this message and repeat it in media interviews. nt

[Cha]

39. Yes, Dead ON.. Rt TY

[spanone]

40. K&R