We can’t have Jeffries as speaker

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    If you have a Democratic rep, petition them directly. They are the ones who ultimately make that choice.

    Make sure you tell them that it’s not about getting even, it’s about upholding the law. The Supreme Court has basically said that the only check on a lawbreaking President is impeachment. I would argue that Congress has a responsibility to impeach if the President is blatantly breaking the law. The buck cannot be passed to anyone else.

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        I feel you. Missouri as flaming red and irritated as ever. But I think we at least managed to pull off a single seat flip in the house.

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            Not just that, but also Amendment 6. An amendment for simplifying the language of ballot measures. Which our Republican legislature worded at above grad student level of reading. Not being a grad student, but being an avid reader. I was able to understand it, but I had to help a lot of family members understand it as well.

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          That also doesn’t mean that you can’t bring it up. Republicans are definitely going to be a little more receptive now.

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        Yeah, it was close but I’m still pretty miffed about it. Gage and Lancaster were pretty far blue but it wasn’t enough to offset the 30+ rural counties

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          I really thought Kearney, North Platte might go blue lots of jobs were lost in that part of the state with meat packing. Plus trucking is huge anywhere west of York. Diesel has to be killing them but they just keep voting for the pain. We tried

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            Rush Limbaugh had to come from somewhere. It’s generational, and yet “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

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      I don’t have time right now because I’m at work, but if anyone wants to create a petition on Resistbot, we can sign & boost it, and it will automatically send the petition to our representatives

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        They’re traditionally okay with that. Not being in power isn’t the same thing as not having power. They will happily continue to get by with less as long as the gravy train continues. Not voting has never been a threat to them. More people need to understand this.

        The only thing those useless bums would see as a threat. Is being challenged in a primary for their office or seriously challenged in general. That and revolution,. But anything short of either of those and they will just happily sit in their seat taking money.