Things the @GOP has fully embraced under Donald Trump:
—Treason
—Corruption
—Organized Crime
—White supremacy
—Domestic Terrorism
—Armed Insurrections
—Gallows to hang Mike Pence
—Weaponizing the DOJ
—Over 500K American deaths
But getting rid of the filibuster is “too radical”?
They also endorsed (and continue to promote):
—No accountability for their elected officials
—Migrant children separated from their families and put in cages
—Banning of entire religions
—Baseless lies and racist anti-semitic conspiracy theories
—The destruction of the planet
—Denial of science & basic precautions against COVID
—Tax cuts for the rich
—Voter suppression, gerrymandering, & foreign attacks on our elections
—Fake crises rooted in xenophobia
—Unlimited access to firearms
—Cops killing POC w/ impunity
—Discrimination against LBGT Americans
—Gutting our national security
—Fighting against a livable wage
—Gender inequality, sexual assault & rape
—No pathway to citizenship for DREAMers
—No COVID relief for Americans
—Restricting access to reproductive care
—Banning women from the military
—Ruining our global alliances
—Feigning outrage over “cancel culture” to deflect from solving real problems
—Propaganda that distracts from their own corruption and crimes
—Fake scandals about @JoeBiden
—Propaganda to discourage people & limit their access to the vaccine
—Trump’s lie about a “stolen election”
—Discredited “news sources” like @FoxNews, @OANN, and others who deliberately spread Russian-based disinformation
—Blaming @JoeBiden for Trump’s endless failures and attempting to credit Trump with Biden’s successes
—Labeling every democratic policy “radical” or “socialist”
When you cut through all the nonsense & look at what the @GOP stands for, it’s nothing but racism; inequality & power for the few at the expense of the many. They’re a dying party that can only cling to power by lying, cheating & deceiving people through fear. STOP FALLING FOR IT
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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.
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.