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OnDoutside

(19,953 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:20 PM Jan 2017

PLEASE call them what they are - Republicans

It's wrecking my head to hear Democratic spokespeople call them "this Administration", "Trump's administration" etc. Set the agenda, call them the "Republican Administration", "Trump's Republicans" or even just "the Republicans". If you're going to spend the next 4 years calling out all the scandalous actions, let's hammer home the fact that it is the Republican Party that did this.

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SamKnause

(13,091 posts)
1. I do.
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:22 PM
Jan 2017

I refer to them as evil and un-American.

They want to turn America into a police state theocracy controlled by Wall Street.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)
5. Once Trump resigns/is impeached and removed/has a coronary event, preferably before Nov. 2018....
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:30 PM
Jan 2017

....I plan to make that fact very well known.

They can run from him, but they can't hide.

OnDoutside

(19,953 posts)
6. It needs to happen from now, Tommy. All the batshit stuff needs to be branded Republican because
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:32 PM
Jan 2017

Trump is only signing all the stuff the Republicans are coming up with.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)
8. Oh, I'll start now, no doubt.
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:34 PM
Jan 2017

But once Trump's the bastard shame of the nation and is expelled from Eden, I won't give up that the Republicans are what gave us him in the first place. Because they'll do everything to try to make you forget.

OnDoutside

(19,953 posts)
15. That's true but the idea is to blacken the Republican
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 05:48 PM
Jan 2017

Name so badly, they'd happily call them what you called them.

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