The election should be certified because that's the genuine (depressing, horrendous, inexcusable) result, but:
I am in my 40s and in my lifetime there has never been a single example of Republicans following Democrats' good example. They have always just come up with new ways to grab/abuse power.
I am in my 40s and in my lifetime there has never been a single example of Republicans following Democrats' good example. They have always just come up with new ways to grab/abuse power.
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Eric Michael Garcia
I spent January 6 with Democrats who hoped to set an example by voting to certify the election. Elissa Slotkin told me, "It's the same thing we teach second graders when they play tee ball: You respect the winner and you shake hands."
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Cheating every time.
It’s all repayment for Nixon, including Fox News, etc.
that is partly why we are here
You can show strength without being a bully, but the GOP has trained the Democratic Party so well over the years, that they won’t do that. It would be shrill and uncivil.
Lots of awful GOP before - Jesse Helms, etc - but the "never rise above the floor of pre-kindergarten behavior" era began with Gingrich.
They were still party-over-country, but they reined in the nuts and religious fanatics.
Their mantra: whatever you do, this is how you should proceed: ABC.
Anything but Clinton.
No consideration whether any of his work and solution were good, nothing. Anything but.
The Dems aren't setting an example they are Charlie Brown and the GOP is Lucy with the football.
Making the same mistakes over & over again isn't the definition of insanity it's the definition of stubbornness.
The Electoral Count Act prevents any buffoonery during the certification, so what now?
Trump fucking cheated and is a traitor. Stop spreading the Big Lie part 2
DOJ fell asleep
M$M sane washes
Rethuglicans are fascists
MAGAts are elated
The rest of us are in shock
"We shake hands with the winner and we move on."
*the winner immediately puts a million people in desert camps in Texas and releases all the neo-Nazis from prison*
Congress could still bring a motion to disqualify, but that would require MAGA Republicans to have the integrity to honor the Fourteenth Amendment voluntarily, without being forced into it by a court ruling & idk if that's possible.
i had C-SPAN on in the background, didn't hear a peep, thought maybe i missed it.
Would it have gone anywhere? Almost surely not.
But it needed to be said, because it’s a fact, and enshrined in our constitution.
But we’ve spent 4 years ignoring it so…
I don't care about playing fair. I care about the wellbeing and material conditions of actual human beings! Fuck fair play!
In cases like this, the good course would be to cheat, obstruct, and be unfair. Deny Trump the power to do evil.
Democrats present themselves as the contrast to GOP's willful devolution. That's their message. And it begs for the response it gets.
49% reward that behavior.
Facts don’t matter to them.
John Roberts is required to refuse to give the oath. He will give it anyway.
https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonwade/s/uWOMRQxhvC
I'm not sure about Jeffries, either.
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