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November 15, 2023

Chip Roy admits his party can't govern

https://x.com/acyn/status/1724850080098799653?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘Roy: One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did. Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done’

Bingo.

So, why should any Republican be elected?
November 15, 2023

Now they're mad at Ayatollah Mike

https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1724661578312622343?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘Conservatives are perplexed why Speaker Mike Johnson is surrendering to Schumer and Jeffries.

This is unacceptable.’

- Charlie Kirk

https://x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1724615713246130270?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

From Bannon (when’s he going to prison?): Worse than unacceptable…Abject surrender without any coherent plan-Action Action Action

Don’t get me wrong the theocrat gives me the creeps and am not at all comfortable with him being in the position he’s in, and while I’ll be happy the day he has to give up the gavel, if the cult actually turns on him over this, removes him and forces another Speaker vote, that confirms they want to harm America and hamper the government and the people’s business.

We are watching a political party completely set itself on fire, while the rest of us are just hoping there’s no collateral damage.
November 15, 2023

If we're not united as a party, we have to come together soon

It's clear the other party is mudslinging and is acting like they're on the Springer Show with all the infighting. Let them fight against each other. Even Gaetz condemned the way Markwayne Mullin acted and MAGA is in a hissy fit over the agreed CR that Ayatollah Johnson was a part of.

You have some Democrats voting to censure Congresswoman Tlaib, or maybe some who lean left not liking President Biden's stance on the Israel/Hamas war.

100% of the people on our side might not agree on every single thing on every single policy, and we don't have to, but we do have to come together when it matters most. And it matters most with what the alternative is offering for 2024. If they become united as a party, and we're divided, forget about us being in trouble as a party, the whole nation is in trouble.

If you are a constituent of at least one Democratic official in Congress, I encourage you to reach out and ask for party unison, because the other party can't govern their way out of a paper bag, and our side is the only one that can.

We can save America by staying together as a party, as a side, along with Independents and the few sane people of the other party who are repulsed by the Nazification of the MAGA movement.

November 14, 2023

Markwayne Mullin wants to fight witness

https://x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1724472568843784342?s=20

He actually stood up and challenged this witness to a fight. Combine that with the McCarthy/Burchett incident today.

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

This is where we're at with this country at this point in time. The Fascist Party has turned the halls of Congress into the Jerry Springer Show.

The former mayor of Cincinnati may have died earlier this year, but his spirit lives on in the form of Republican elected officials.

Thank goodness for Bernie being an adult.

Only one party is serious about governing, and we know it isn't their side.
November 14, 2023

Amidst all chaos, shine some light on this clown

Certainly, chaos is rearing its head in Washington and abroad. As Republicans continue to lose elections with their self-destruction, one genius has an idea why.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/virginia-republican-dismisses-idea-that-abortions-a-loser-at-the-polls-after-disastrous-election-results-for-gop/amp/

———Snip

‘Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) offered a novel take on Monday as to why the Democrats were able to recapture both houses of the state’s General Assembly last week – the party’s abortion platform wasn’t restrictive enough.

“We just came off of an election in Virginia. And the narrative now is, oh, abortion is a loser. We got to surrender on abortion. We got to give in on abortion,” Good began at the hard right think tank.

“We’ve got to be like the Democrats on abortion. Then maybe we can win elections. I would argue what’s the point of winning elections if you’re not going to fight for life?”

———Snip

Another quote.

———Snip

‘For those who are reading into that, this was all about one particular issue, that people didn’t vote on inflation and grocery prices and gas prices and crime and the border and education, everything else that we’re winning on. We lost only because everybody who voted in Virginia was voting on whether or not they could have abortions up to the moment.‘

———Snip

When have Democrats ever proposed an abortion law up until birth? If you’re winning on inflation, why have you done nothing to tackle inflation? If you’re winning on education, why did voters reject Moms For Liberty candidates?

Choice has won every time since Dobbs, both in red and blue states. Ohio, which has turned red, rejected a proposed six-week ban, but you think Virginians, which have voted blue in recent presidential elections, said no to forced birth because forced birth didn’t go far enough and instead voted for a blue legislature over 15 weeks (and I don’t trust Republicans, they might’ve wanted six weeks or a total ban.)

Clown.

November 11, 2023

Just what the hell?

https://x.com/acyn/status/1723426353675178375?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘Trump: President Xi is like Central Casting. There’s nobody in Hollywood who can play the role of President Xi. The look, the strength, the voice’

How about somebody who is tough on China and their president for life?

I never thought somebody who’d occupy the White House would talk and think like this.

And millions of people want *this* back?

It felt never ending, those four years, and I had a hard time sleeping peacefully at night. When he left, I felt like being able to breathe above water for the first time in four years.

This is what he wants to aspire to.

Keep him out of the White House. Forever.
November 9, 2023

No! You don't say!

https://x.com/dncwarroom/status/1722628425784156628?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘It turns out that James Comer, who has been leading an investigation into President Biden for loaning his brother $200K… also loaned his own brother $200K’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-like-joe-biden-also-paid-his-brother-dollar200k

Again, I’m convinced he’s the biggest clown in Congress, and that’s saying a lot. There’s nobody in Congress I take less seriously.
November 8, 2023

I'm sick of all their gaslighting and behavior

You’d think they’d start to get the message by now that the rest of this country is fed up with their crap.

But they’ll insist candidates weren’t MAGA enough and triple down.

They’ll also say it was rigged, but it’s hard to rig an election for the other side, say with Issue 1 and Issue 2, when you have a Republican Governor and Republican Secretary of State.

They’ll cry how Democrats want abortion up until birth, no restrictions, but the side of total abortion bans with no exceptions.

They’ll say abortion is a state issue while supporting candidates advocating for national abortion bans.

They have nothing they want to give - ban, ban, ban, take away, take away, take away. Ban abortion, ban marriage equality, abolish Medicare, abolish Social Security, cut safety nets, take away kids learning to love and respect people who are different in school.

And the freedom party who wants The Bible taught in schools, and the party of the Constitution who wants to install theocracy. The party of the Second Amendment who has an originalist reading of the first half of the amendment, but a textualist one of the second half.

The States Rights party who never advocates states rights for good and objects when states rights are used for good.

The party that loves the Constitution so much that they want a convention, they want to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments and violate the 26th Amendment, while the Second should be read and enforced to the tee, even though countless Americans are dead thanks to it.

They have no problem discrediting polls if our side is leading, but they’ll turn around and treat polls like gospel if they’re winning, and they’re always so arrogant and overconfident they’ll win.

And they keep losing elections because they demonize what few sane people are in their party in favor of complete lunatics who have a platform that everybody else rejects.

October 29, 2023

Doofus wouldn't defend allies against Russia

https://x.com/bidenhq/status/1718734283815211350?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘Trump says he threatened to not support America’s NATO allies against Russia: That’s right, I will not protect you if Russia attacks’

Four more years of this would be more disastrous than the first four years. And people are cheering it on?

For all the geniuses who want to do away with NATO, with the UN, there’s been no World War since the UN’s creation after World War II. NATO is an important alliance and something we started during the years of the Cold War, with the Warsaw Pact being the equivalent to that.

I guess you’d rather have a third World War? I bet you’d do what you can to avoid the frontlines.

This is why is supporting Ukraine is important. I never once believed Ukraine was Putin’s end game. If Republicans let him have Ukraine, who does he go after next and when does he target the West?

We’ve been helping Ukraine without boots on the ground.

What if Putin for some reason decides to go after France, you know, the country that helped us win independence from Britain? This country’s had its successes and innovation, but not even America has done it all alone.

How would any country trust us again if this happened? Or if maybe a Democrat will win in 2028 and they’ll blamed for cleaning his mess up again.

Also, it’s not like there’s a love loss between the U.S. and Russia. I’m sure Putin would love to wipe us off the map. Not only might he be emboldened to try if he’s given appeasement (Hitler anyone?), but which allies would help us? Who would be around to help us?

October 29, 2023

Calling all Virginia DU'ers

https://x.com/dncwarroom/status/1718646107222220800?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ


Youngkin wants an abortion ban if Republicans win next week. You know what to do.

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