Thread by @JeffRoushPoetry

Today’s GOP process: the right wing media outrage mavens throw out an accusation or attack. The politicians amplify it and say it’s what Americans care about. They then tweet nonsense and offer no solutions to the problem. (Thread)
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It’s like a game of buzzword bingo. The winner gets to run over to the Fox studio and regurgitate the lines that Fox fed them in the first place. Instead of working to help Americans, they are dancing like marionettes on right wing strings.

Right-wing media companies do it because it makes them money to foment outrage and then collect ad revenue. The politicians do it because appearing on these outlets gets them more donations.

What we don’t see, from anyone holding office as a Republican, is leadership. We don’t see anyone serving the public or looking past furious headlines to understand and deliver real information.

Every one of these money-grubbing sycophants is a cog in the financial machinery of the far right. And not a damned one of them is working in any way to make your life better or safer or more secure.

I would love to see politicians of different parties presenting different ideas for how to lift America up. But we have one party working to destroy it from within. Some do so unwittingly, and some do so gleefully. But none believes in an America that works for everyone.

So absent any unifying ideas or principles, they seek to lie, manipulate, and take what they can get. McCarthy wanted the gavel because it meant power for him—not because he has any interest or aptitude for leading anyone.

Comer, Jordan, Gaetz, Greene, Boebert? They want power to lord over others. They want a better position to bully everyone else, to abuse the system and everyone it should be serving. That’s all this is for them.

In this moment, we need to lift and look to the real leaders in our nation. And unfortunately, Republicans don’t have a single one. They’re playing the game they know to grab what they can, and they will step on anyone and anything for the chance to grab more.