Buried in the shitshow of this terrible week is some good news regarding voter registration in NJ, per attached link. Competitive primaries matter. And very proud of Sherrill’s social media presence. Tying Ciattarelli to the Big Ugly Farce and closing with the statement that Ciattarelli “knows jack about New Jersey.”
Happy 4th everyone. It’s OUR country and we will continue to fight for it. 🇺🇸🎆🎇
That is excellent news. And the DNC presentation last night, while a bit scattershot, got the point across. We just need to keep registering people by the hundreds here in NJ and elect Mikie!
I missed the DNC kickoff last night but I think Ariella Elm shared it in an email to me. I subscribe to her substack but maybe you can find it on her substack.
Is Ciattarelli the same guy Liz Cheney interrogated as part of the J-6 hearings, also with Bill Barr? He's part of the overprivileged, smug club. We need to defeat him for sure.
Today I feel like I can't even breathe. The cruelty, the bill that will help fund more cruelty is beginning to feel crushing. My sis teaches English in school to immigrants in CO and may now lose her job. The wrestling woman is cutting the programs. My neighbors are many undocumented immigrants in rural WA State. With billions more, what will happen to them? To us? We have one hospital. What happens when that's gone? We're in our 70s, living only on SSI. What will we do? My heart hurts. My mind races, and yet I have to carry on.
Sharon I totally understand. I too feel so sad and hopeless right now, but wrote a letter to Pete Sessions and called M. Luttrell to vote NO on this heinous bill. Will start writing my postcards for VA to be mailed in the fall, doing something, anything good, is better than wallowing in depression. We persevere and march on! Hard as it is some days.
Yes Dianne! I am taking hundreds of VA campaign postcards (fall mailing targeting non voting but registered women) on vacation and also ALWAYS have voter registration forms with me. I gave one to the tech at the CVs pharmacy today after he told me he didn’t want the bill to pass…well…we don’t/didn’t have the votes …YET! I wanted to register ten new dem voters by 7/4 but wasn’t bold enough (or organized, perhaps) to carry the forms until I got this pissed off. Anyone can print them out from the Secretary of State’s web site (here in true blue MA). I will follow up with the folks to whom I gave the forms
and will offer to wait until they complete it and promise to mail it in ASAP. Celebrating Independence Day with self care and rest,
kindness to those who have to work. Replenish for the next days’ work/demonstration/and a day of Good Trouble on July 17th. It’s the great late
When there were five Republican holdouts, with 5 NO votes on the Rules vote last night, I became guardedly optimistic. Obviously that was premature. I was genuinely shocked when four of those five folded, one after the other, changing their No to Yes. Would love to have full insight into why.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now holding a great speech, highlighting how millions of Americans will suffer and bleed (in many cases literally!), just so billionaires and corporations can have more tax cuts.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for over 25 hours. I would love to se Hakeem Jeffries use his "Magic Minute" and try to match that! Forcing these spineless MAGA assholes in the House of Representatives to work through the 4th of July!
I so wanted to believe. But hey. They got signed merch! What could be more persuasive than a demented bully narcissist's handwriting in a gold pen. Hope he spelled his own name right.
Hakeem did it! Didn’t out talk Cory B but he sure broke Kevin McCarthy’s record. And he brought attention to this horrible bill and made them wait til now, almost 2 pm, to hold their shitty vote on their horrible bill. I loved how he talked so inspiringly about John Lewis.
Dr. Allan Lichtman has said time and again that "Republicans have no morals; Democrats have no spine." Well, he's both right and wrong. He's right in that the Republicans have no morals, but he is completely wrong when he claims that Democrats have no spine. On the contrary, the Democrats have PLENTY of spine and have shown it time and again. It's the Republicans who have neither morals NOR spines.
We have enormous ammunition now (despite how "clever" the spineless, heartless, mob-run Republicans have been regarding roll-out timing). I hate this, I hate this, I hate this, and so deeply wish that the Rs could not be bought with a signed coffee mug and a wink. But they were. And so at every single turn we work to break through the fog. This was always going to be a huge uphill climb. Stupidly, ruinously, and yet. We are still here. We are still fighting.
It was always going to be an uphill climb. You are so right.
A lot of people are about to learn what they voted for. I was baffled why so many people would vote to swim through raw sewage, until I talked to a friend who clearly just doesn’t understand. He said I should stop trying so hard to control the outcome because control is an illusion, and he was confident things will turn out for the best so why pay attention?
The little he does know is all wrong. When I mentioned what happened to Senator Padilla, he said, “You mean the guy who barged in and caused a disturbance, and no one knew who he was?” I said the video clearly showed him introducing himself and an escorted Senator in a federal building asking a question at a press conference was not a disturbance. My friend said he saw the video but then described the edited propaganda version. He refused to even consider that he was lied to.
had this conversation with a friend this morning — she is with us, but most of her clients are republicans. they swear up and down that the only people ICE is kidnapping are terrible criminals. "Their crime is having a green card," my friend tells them. They say, "Oh no. That cannot be." One little thing that made me feel better: One of my most brilliant students from Penn is going to go to law school to fight for truth and the First Amendment. Okay, so. We have C.V. with us. And she's a genius.
Jenny, I'm sorry, but people like your friend don't have the willingness to listen to or understand what we're trying to tell him and others who think like him. They are way beyond reasoning.
The thing is, he hated T**** 1.0. Complained all the time about him. He switched from a Republican to a Democrat. (No idea what he is now.)
Then he started buying into the “Biden is too old and also Hunter Biden,” and then when Harris was the candidate he bought into “Harris never answers any questions and isn’t qualified.” He started talking about how the “real” news is on YouTube - that’s where the “truth” is. He never says what he is listening to, but I have my guesses.
He always demands to know where I got my information about whatever issue, but when I say “I read the court filing/proposed legislation/press release” he dismisses it. This is a genuine change. He used to listen. He doesn’t enjoy watching people suffer, or want liberal tears, and he sure isn’t wealthy. He is just being lied to, and no amount of truth can break through.
This is a guy I have known for decades; we watched each other’s kids grow up. If I can’t get through to him, how can we get through to strangers?
The one article pointed out that they even screwed up the timing, giving Ds the opportunity in prime viewing time to totally trash their a$$es. The accountability begins now, friends. Hell no - We The People will not let our democracy die.
Going to see some local NJ bands tomorrow here at the Jersey Shore to honor the day, and I plan on waving the flag, as is my right.
Wave it high Lisa! You’re a true patriot. I have no doubt that had you been around 250 years ago you would have been supporting the Continental Army however you could.
Good morning everyone from Tuolumne County, CA — near Yosemite — where it is 6:30 AM and I’ve been thinking about what Simon said yesterday about the whole emerging political culture of “Strong vs. Weak.”
In particular us, we the community of proud, plucky, patriots: individually and collectively.
We know that our tantrumming two-year old toddler Tyrant is throwing his blocks at the crystal and fine china. We know the exquisite destructiveness of an angry toddler who encapsulates a pent up tornado. We may also know the terror of imagining that Mom and Dad are going to come home and not only fire us from our babysitting gig, but also make us repay them for the broken stuff.
Metaphor aside, beyond all our self-assurance that we stand on the side of righteousness, goodness, morality, and the American way, we need to wake up to our strength and power. We need to realize how strong we are. We need to cease considering ourselves as the underdogs. We need to believe with firm conviction that we can contain that toddler.
Let each of us own our political and personal power to recognize that we can stop him, then go on to forge new beauty out of the shards of the smashed crockery.
Metaphor aside, beyond all our self-assurance that we stand on the side of righteousness, goodness, morality, and the American way, we need to wake up to our strength and power. We need to realize how strong we are. We need to cease considering ourselves as the underdogs. We need to believe with firm conviction that we can contain that toddler.
As a resident of a red state, I kept seeing Republicans just lying about what’s in this bill. I think the Democrats have done a lot to get the truth out there, and that’s one continuing piece of work, even after it passes.
I guess lots of FB and X posts about "this ..." is what you voted for? DIdn't realize it or cant admit it, call your Senator and gripe to them. Keep it full ON in all of the MAGA faces, your choice, your demons. But we all suffer.
I've seen variations of these MAGA comments on Facebook for the past couple of days:
1. trump said they aren't cutting Medicaid, stop fearmongering.
2. they're only cutting Medicaid for illegals and lazy people.
3. something something "current policy baseline" (it presents SNAP and Medicaid cuts as not really being cuts due to a technicality)
Also a large number of people making these comments seem to think that people receive Medicaid benefits directly, illustrating a profound lack of information about how these programs work.
While the ignorance is distressing, it comes directly from the disinformation stream and spreads by word of mouth. The best counter is to find Real People who look like the dis-informed and who tell their stories of closed hospitals, rotting produce, and dead children.
1. Dems will now have very concrete stuff to run against. Nothing theoretical. They took your healthcare and raised prices. Every single one of these assholes will have to defend that.
2. Eliminating EV tax credits while obviously bad will really hurt Tesla. Musk is on the warpath now and is threatening to fracture the party (one can dream).
3. Dems (both grassroots and elected) put up a big fight. That wasn't a given months ago.
I left a message for Republican Tony Gonzales saying how disappointed I am that he is voting for the Big Ugly Bill.
Our local Democratic party and 50501 are having a rally at Chip Roy's local office at noon CT. He may have caved by then or be a holdout, I don't know where he stands.
It's a sad day but we have lots of events this weekend to celebrate the Declaration of Independence and gather for a protest rally 7/5.
Barbara, this is important. All of you who live in the states with these 29 districts should try to work with your state and local Dems parties to be part of the accountability efforts in these districts over the next 16 months that will at some point turn into the actual campaign. We need huge, well-attended protests against these 29 reps this week and regularly for the next 16 months. Enormous opportunity for self-organized creativity in all these places now.
My husband and I protested at PA-08 Rep Bresnahan Scranton office just this past Tuesday with the local indivisible group. They announced that beginning July 14 we will rally there every week until he’s gone. 😎
See, did it again, lost another one! I’m just too angry to type on my phone I guess. I wax trying to report the call I just made to my representative Daniel Webster (Florida 11th.) he’s got his head so far up Trump’s butt he’s doing a free colonoscopy. I told the office kid how disgusted I was about Webster’s votes for this reprehensible bill, how much it was going to hurt healthcare and even my employer, a big hospital system in the I-4 corridor. He thanked me for my opinion and promised to report it, and I said I hoped he’d do it verbatim. I got angrier and angrier as I talked. We will not go quietly into the night, as the president said in the movie Independence Day.
Because it was a last minute rally, we had about 30 loud and proud attendees at Chip Roy’s office. Young people told their stories of health, educational challenges and of their standing witness at ICE raids!
And to read that Chip Roy cast the deciding vote. A real gut punch for me.
I listened to about 3 hours of Jeffries' speech. He listed amendments that Democrats had offered & that the Republicans voted against. It was a very clever & interesting way of explaining what is in the bill and what isn't. I think he was very brave to speak so forthrightly. Jeffries is truly a good leader. Compare him to the Congressional Republicans who know that the bill will hurt their constituents, but don't care & voted for it.
called my rep Newhouse. He's a lost cause, but I try. I always sound like I'm having some emotional breakdown when I talk to the aide because I feel so emotional about all this.
Last night at midnight when 5 Republicans had voted against the reconciliation bill, and only 3 were needed to defeat it, I dared to hope that MAYBE those turds had finally found some spine. But NO, Lucy picked up the football again.
CRAP (Congressional Republicans are Always Pussies)
Thank you Annie. My Dad was an “Anglo-analytic” philosopher, professionally concerned with precise language, and my Mom was an English major who wrote mysteries.
Buried in the shitshow of this terrible week is some good news regarding voter registration in NJ, per attached link. Competitive primaries matter. And very proud of Sherrill’s social media presence. Tying Ciattarelli to the Big Ugly Farce and closing with the statement that Ciattarelli “knows jack about New Jersey.”
Happy 4th everyone. It’s OUR country and we will continue to fight for it. 🇺🇸🎆🎇
https://newjerseyglobe.com/voters/dems-gain-82k-registrants-gop-gains-41k-as-voters-flock-to-primaries/
That is excellent news. And the DNC presentation last night, while a bit scattershot, got the point across. We just need to keep registering people by the hundreds here in NJ and elect Mikie!
I missed the DNC kickoff last night but I think Ariella Elm shared it in an email to me. I subscribe to her substack but maybe you can find it on her substack.
If you go to the link you can watch the recording. All it is is “sign up for training” with no actual training.
It was just a brief call to action to get training, which I did sign up for.
Highly recommend subscribing to Ariella Elm. She does a great job of showing what dems across the country are doing every day. That they are fighting.
Is Ciattarelli the same guy Liz Cheney interrogated as part of the J-6 hearings, also with Bill Barr? He's part of the overprivileged, smug club. We need to defeat him for sure.
No, he's a very special kind of perennial NJ empty suit candidate. Has run for Senate, governor, Senate again, etc. etc.
Today I feel like I can't even breathe. The cruelty, the bill that will help fund more cruelty is beginning to feel crushing. My sis teaches English in school to immigrants in CO and may now lose her job. The wrestling woman is cutting the programs. My neighbors are many undocumented immigrants in rural WA State. With billions more, what will happen to them? To us? We have one hospital. What happens when that's gone? We're in our 70s, living only on SSI. What will we do? My heart hurts. My mind races, and yet I have to carry on.
Hang in there Sharon. This is horrifying and some days it's too much. I totally understand your feelings and am with you.
breathe. walk. take the day off. recharge.
Sharon I totally understand. I too feel so sad and hopeless right now, but wrote a letter to Pete Sessions and called M. Luttrell to vote NO on this heinous bill. Will start writing my postcards for VA to be mailed in the fall, doing something, anything good, is better than wallowing in depression. We persevere and march on! Hard as it is some days.
Yes Dianne! I am taking hundreds of VA campaign postcards (fall mailing targeting non voting but registered women) on vacation and also ALWAYS have voter registration forms with me. I gave one to the tech at the CVs pharmacy today after he told me he didn’t want the bill to pass…well…we don’t/didn’t have the votes …YET! I wanted to register ten new dem voters by 7/4 but wasn’t bold enough (or organized, perhaps) to carry the forms until I got this pissed off. Anyone can print them out from the Secretary of State’s web site (here in true blue MA). I will follow up with the folks to whom I gave the forms
and will offer to wait until they complete it and promise to mail it in ASAP. Celebrating Independence Day with self care and rest,
kindness to those who have to work. Replenish for the next days’ work/demonstration/and a day of Good Trouble on July 17th. It’s the great late
Rep. John Lewis’ birthday.
If you are on Cape Cod,
let’s make some good
trouble together!
You've got this.
Sharon, focus on self-care for a bit.
When there were five Republican holdouts, with 5 NO votes on the Rules vote last night, I became guardedly optimistic. Obviously that was premature. I was genuinely shocked when four of those five folded, one after the other, changing their No to Yes. Would love to have full insight into why.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now holding a great speech, highlighting how millions of Americans will suffer and bleed (in many cases literally!), just so billionaires and corporations can have more tax cuts.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for over 25 hours. I would love to se Hakeem Jeffries use his "Magic Minute" and try to match that! Forcing these spineless MAGA assholes in the House of Representatives to work through the 4th of July!
I so wanted to believe. But hey. They got signed merch! What could be more persuasive than a demented bully narcissist's handwriting in a gold pen. Hope he spelled his own name right.
Hakeem did it! Didn’t out talk Cory B but he sure broke Kevin McCarthy’s record. And he brought attention to this horrible bill and made them wait til now, almost 2 pm, to hold their shitty vote on their horrible bill. I loved how he talked so inspiringly about John Lewis.
Dr. Allan Lichtman has said time and again that "Republicans have no morals; Democrats have no spine." Well, he's both right and wrong. He's right in that the Republicans have no morals, but he is completely wrong when he claims that Democrats have no spine. On the contrary, the Democrats have PLENTY of spine and have shown it time and again. It's the Republicans who have neither morals NOR spines.
pluck·y
/ˈpləkē/
adjective
having or showing determined courage in the face of difficulties.
I keep wanting to quote StarLord from Infinity War: “dude, don’t call us ‘plucky.’ We don’t know what it means.”
love this
We have enormous ammunition now (despite how "clever" the spineless, heartless, mob-run Republicans have been regarding roll-out timing). I hate this, I hate this, I hate this, and so deeply wish that the Rs could not be bought with a signed coffee mug and a wink. But they were. And so at every single turn we work to break through the fog. This was always going to be a huge uphill climb. Stupidly, ruinously, and yet. We are still here. We are still fighting.
It was always going to be an uphill climb. You are so right.
A lot of people are about to learn what they voted for. I was baffled why so many people would vote to swim through raw sewage, until I talked to a friend who clearly just doesn’t understand. He said I should stop trying so hard to control the outcome because control is an illusion, and he was confident things will turn out for the best so why pay attention?
The little he does know is all wrong. When I mentioned what happened to Senator Padilla, he said, “You mean the guy who barged in and caused a disturbance, and no one knew who he was?” I said the video clearly showed him introducing himself and an escorted Senator in a federal building asking a question at a press conference was not a disturbance. My friend said he saw the video but then described the edited propaganda version. He refused to even consider that he was lied to.
had this conversation with a friend this morning — she is with us, but most of her clients are republicans. they swear up and down that the only people ICE is kidnapping are terrible criminals. "Their crime is having a green card," my friend tells them. They say, "Oh no. That cannot be." One little thing that made me feel better: One of my most brilliant students from Penn is going to go to law school to fight for truth and the First Amendment. Okay, so. We have C.V. with us. And she's a genius.
Yes, that is the same conversation! Exactly.
Jenny, I'm sorry, but people like your friend don't have the willingness to listen to or understand what we're trying to tell him and others who think like him. They are way beyond reasoning.
The thing is, he hated T**** 1.0. Complained all the time about him. He switched from a Republican to a Democrat. (No idea what he is now.)
Then he started buying into the “Biden is too old and also Hunter Biden,” and then when Harris was the candidate he bought into “Harris never answers any questions and isn’t qualified.” He started talking about how the “real” news is on YouTube - that’s where the “truth” is. He never says what he is listening to, but I have my guesses.
He always demands to know where I got my information about whatever issue, but when I say “I read the court filing/proposed legislation/press release” he dismisses it. This is a genuine change. He used to listen. He doesn’t enjoy watching people suffer, or want liberal tears, and he sure isn’t wealthy. He is just being lied to, and no amount of truth can break through.
This is a guy I have known for decades; we watched each other’s kids grow up. If I can’t get through to him, how can we get through to strangers?
The one article pointed out that they even screwed up the timing, giving Ds the opportunity in prime viewing time to totally trash their a$$es. The accountability begins now, friends. Hell no - We The People will not let our democracy die.
Going to see some local NJ bands tomorrow here at the Jersey Shore to honor the day, and I plan on waving the flag, as is my right.
Keep going!
Wave it high Lisa! You’re a true patriot. I have no doubt that had you been around 250 years ago you would have been supporting the Continental Army however you could.
Aw shucks, thx. Comes from being disenfranchised in DC for much of my life, I guess.
Good morning everyone from Tuolumne County, CA — near Yosemite — where it is 6:30 AM and I’ve been thinking about what Simon said yesterday about the whole emerging political culture of “Strong vs. Weak.”
In particular us, we the community of proud, plucky, patriots: individually and collectively.
We know that our tantrumming two-year old toddler Tyrant is throwing his blocks at the crystal and fine china. We know the exquisite destructiveness of an angry toddler who encapsulates a pent up tornado. We may also know the terror of imagining that Mom and Dad are going to come home and not only fire us from our babysitting gig, but also make us repay them for the broken stuff.
Metaphor aside, beyond all our self-assurance that we stand on the side of righteousness, goodness, morality, and the American way, we need to wake up to our strength and power. We need to realize how strong we are. We need to cease considering ourselves as the underdogs. We need to believe with firm conviction that we can contain that toddler.
Let each of us own our political and personal power to recognize that we can stop him, then go on to forge new beauty out of the shards of the smashed crockery.
WELL SAID. Thank you! Stand in your power!
A-fucking-men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Metaphor aside, beyond all our self-assurance that we stand on the side of righteousness, goodness, morality, and the American way, we need to wake up to our strength and power. We need to realize how strong we are. We need to cease considering ourselves as the underdogs. We need to believe with firm conviction that we can contain that toddler.
Proud to be in this fight with you, Simon. Now onward to baseball and municipal fireworks.
Yes, we are strong and he is weak. 👍🏼
Thank you Emily for rousing us to embrace this amazing truth! And Simon’s “a-fucking-men!!” Is spot on💪🏽
Simon rouses us, inspires us, and suggests the language. 🤓
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
As a resident of a red state, I kept seeing Republicans just lying about what’s in this bill. I think the Democrats have done a lot to get the truth out there, and that’s one continuing piece of work, even after it passes.
If anything it's now more important to win the messaging war and make sure people understand what was done to them.
I guess lots of FB and X posts about "this ..." is what you voted for? DIdn't realize it or cant admit it, call your Senator and gripe to them. Keep it full ON in all of the MAGA faces, your choice, your demons. But we all suffer.
I've seen variations of these MAGA comments on Facebook for the past couple of days:
1. trump said they aren't cutting Medicaid, stop fearmongering.
2. they're only cutting Medicaid for illegals and lazy people.
3. something something "current policy baseline" (it presents SNAP and Medicaid cuts as not really being cuts due to a technicality)
Also a large number of people making these comments seem to think that people receive Medicaid benefits directly, illustrating a profound lack of information about how these programs work.
While the ignorance is distressing, it comes directly from the disinformation stream and spreads by word of mouth. The best counter is to find Real People who look like the dis-informed and who tell their stories of closed hospitals, rotting produce, and dead children.
We are "laboratories of Democracy" so diversity of ideas is paramount!
I love that too!
Actually witnessed Senator Cornyn use this line in person years ago when he came to my company….
Some very thin silver linings...
1. Dems will now have very concrete stuff to run against. Nothing theoretical. They took your healthcare and raised prices. Every single one of these assholes will have to defend that.
2. Eliminating EV tax credits while obviously bad will really hurt Tesla. Musk is on the warpath now and is threatening to fracture the party (one can dream).
3. Dems (both grassroots and elected) put up a big fight. That wasn't a given months ago.
Not everyone heard us but I feel like we were pretty loud. So they can’t say they weren’t warned.
Hello everyone,
Here is my take on what I call "Trump and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Bill": https://davidsalzillo.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-terrible-horrible-no.
Please feel free to give me whatever constructive feedback you have.
Let's keep up the fight!
I left a message for Republican Tony Gonzales saying how disappointed I am that he is voting for the Big Ugly Bill.
Our local Democratic party and 50501 are having a rally at Chip Roy's local office at noon CT. He may have caved by then or be a holdout, I don't know where he stands.
It's a sad day but we have lots of events this weekend to celebrate the Declaration of Independence and gather for a protest rally 7/5.
Barbara, this is important. All of you who live in the states with these 29 districts should try to work with your state and local Dems parties to be part of the accountability efforts in these districts over the next 16 months that will at some point turn into the actual campaign. We need huge, well-attended protests against these 29 reps this week and regularly for the next 16 months. Enormous opportunity for self-organized creativity in all these places now.
My husband and I protested at PA-08 Rep Bresnahan Scranton office just this past Tuesday with the local indivisible group. They announced that beginning July 14 we will rally there every week until he’s gone. 😎
I just lost an impassioned reply here telling you
See, did it again, lost another one! I’m just too angry to type on my phone I guess. I wax trying to report the call I just made to my representative Daniel Webster (Florida 11th.) he’s got his head so far up Trump’s butt he’s doing a free colonoscopy. I told the office kid how disgusted I was about Webster’s votes for this reprehensible bill, how much it was going to hurt healthcare and even my employer, a big hospital system in the I-4 corridor. He thanked me for my opinion and promised to report it, and I said I hoped he’d do it verbatim. I got angrier and angrier as I talked. We will not go quietly into the night, as the president said in the movie Independence Day.
Good point. Kean is a slimeball, I'm on it!
Because it was a last minute rally, we had about 30 loud and proud attendees at Chip Roy’s office. Young people told their stories of health, educational challenges and of their standing witness at ICE raids!
And to read that Chip Roy cast the deciding vote. A real gut punch for me.
Grateful to Leader Jeffries for taking this stand!
I love this!👏
I listened to about 3 hours of Jeffries' speech. He listed amendments that Democrats had offered & that the Republicans voted against. It was a very clever & interesting way of explaining what is in the bill and what isn't. I think he was very brave to speak so forthrightly. Jeffries is truly a good leader. Compare him to the Congressional Republicans who know that the bill will hurt their constituents, but don't care & voted for it.
called my rep Newhouse. He's a lost cause, but I try. I always sound like I'm having some emotional breakdown when I talk to the aide because I feel so emotional about all this.
I see that as a big positive. Make them marinate in the pain they are causing
Still making calls although my congresspeople are very blue. Thanks for your leadership.
I’m feeling like Charlie Brown.
Last night at midnight when 5 Republicans had voted against the reconciliation bill, and only 3 were needed to defeat it, I dared to hope that MAYBE those turds had finally found some spine. But NO, Lucy picked up the football again.
CRAP (Congressional Republicans are Always Pussies)
I was with you until the last word, which for me is misogynistic. Appreciate the spirit though
Congressional Republicans are TACOs
I was struggling for a p-word meaning back down.
Yeah not easy. Panicked or puny? Parasitic, pompous, prejudiced, pretentious, polluted pitiful, petty and perverse also apply
I like John’s list but I just call them perverts.
you have a way with words, emily
Thank you Annie. My Dad was an “Anglo-analytic” philosopher, professionally concerned with precise language, and my Mom was an English major who wrote mysteries.