Since Republicans are on the losing side of EVERY ISSUE that matters to Americans—from increasing the wage, abortion rights, voting rights, & COVID relief—they manufacture fake scandals like “cancel culture” and give embarrassing floor speeches like THIS:
Republicans LOVE TO CANCEL THINGS. They have worked for decades to cancel everything from women’s reproductive rights, people of color’s voting rights and right not to be murdered by the police to more recently LGBT rights to marry & access to healthcare for millions of Americans
So no, the @GOP doesn’t want to “end cancel culture,” they merely want to misrepresent it to distract you from their unwavering desire to cancel everything that actually matters to and impacts our lives in any meaningful way.
And no, Dr. Seuss was not cancelled. His books were omitted from 1 SCHOOL in VA FOR 1 DAY because people called out the endless negative racial stereotypes the books contain. The publisher then CHOSE to stop production of 6 books. How the Grinch Stole Christmas wasn’t one of them
Dr. Seuss was not cancelled. Mr. Potatohead was not cancelled. What we ARE going to cancel is the @GOP as a political party—because it not only stands in solidarity with traitors and white supremacists, but against democracy & the most fundamental rights of the American people.
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This man has never “sat down with real Americans in diners discussing the 10th Amendment.” I’d bet good money that most people in diners across America and certainly in this crowd couldn’t even tell you what the 10th Amendment states without googling it.
The 10th Amendment isn’t widely discussed or known because it’s had little relevance to political discourse. It simply states “The powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution—nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The simple language of it emphasizes that the national gov’t remains one of limited and enumerated powers. When initially added to the Constitution in 1791, the 10th Amendment stood as a reminder of the continuing importance of states and of the foundational role of the people.
.@RepBoebert will be the first member of the #GQP Congress to be arrested. Multiple witnesses will testify that she gave these “tours” of the Capitol to Trump’s terrorists on Jan 5th when tours were not being given at the Capitol. It wasn’t a tour. It was a reconnaissance mission
Yes, members of Congress can be arrested even though they are provided additional protections. In Boebert’s case, she is not exempt from arrest as stated in Article 1 section 6 because it does not apply to cases of treason, bribery, or breach of the peace. Check, check, and check
On top of that, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military...[who have] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
In the next 12 hours, we will surpass 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. That means more American lives have been claimed by this virus than any individual event except for the pandemic of 1918 and the Civil War; both of which will likely be usurped by COVID by early summer
This is not meant to undercut any of the amazing work that the Biden administration is doing to set us on a path to recovery. It is just an undeniable fact that we must face because we had worse than no leadership when this hit us; we had someone actively sabotaging our response.
We are struggling with so many overlapping crises right now that mental health professionals are finding it difficult to differentiate clinical anxiety and depression from simply the normative response that we should be experiencing from the incalculable losses we have suffered.
No, @tedcruz didn’t tweet “I’ll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.” But he did:
—Help incite an insurrection that killed 8 people
—Help acquit the guy responsible
—Left his constituents & dog to freeze to death w/ no heat or power
—Blamed it on his daughters
Trust me, we don’t need to invent fake quotes/tweets to illustrate the abomination that is @tedcruz. Here’s just a few of his actual quotes on everything from Climate change to ISIS to Obama & the ACA. He’s a human trash can (apologies to trash cans, as they are actually useful).
What’s so remarkably atrocious about @tedcruz is that he is an immigrant who defends a guilty ex-President whose entire tenure was devoted to demonizing them. He is a climate refugee who fled to Cancun and abandoned his constituents and pet.
Currently, more than 4 million people have been without power in Texas for nearly 48 hours in the coldest temperatures Texas has faced in 30 years. It’s @GOP Governor @GregAbbott_TX and senators @tedcruz and @JohnCornyn couldn’t care less.
While many people are still without power or essential items, multiple nonprofit organizations are providing supplies, while warming centers have been set up throughout the state.
Here are some helpful resources: @lakewoodchurch has a list of warming centers.