#Cruz

A brief thread about Josh Hawley, Christianist Fascism, and what my upbringing taught me about the present political moment. I was raised in (overwhelmingly white) fundamentalists evangelical communities in the
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I will never, ever forgive Republicans for this. Never. You took my beautiful, if imperfect, country—the country that welcomed me, was my refuge, and gave me opportunity—and you burned it
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Texas hates the federal government so much it has its own outdated power grid. No other state in the country has been quite this stubborn, stupid and self-destructive about energy
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The point of impeachment is not to unify Americans. The point of impeachment is to punish a criminal who holds office. Constitutional conservatives, Democrats, libertarians, and progressives are at risk
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Often, our protags are just trying to survive overwhelming odds. Survival is an active choice, you know. Survival is a story. Choosing to be strong in the face of the
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Just because the GOP Senate will never choose to do the right thing doesn't make them undefeatable.They're entirely predictable. Plan our political moves based on what we KNOW they will
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A Big Lie is one so colossal that nobody believes it would be said without there being some truth behind it. The Big Lie today is that the election was
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The GOP has always leaned hard into this culture war stuff b/c they are incapable of governing (and their actual agenda is incredibly unpopular), but I don't think their desperate
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Tony lobbied for China-US Exchange Foundation2015https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000046505L&year=20152016https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000046505L&year=20162017https://www.opensecrets.org/lob
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I've written about this before, but I am haunted by the fact that Donald Trump occupied the same office as did George Washington, that this man with no scruples nor
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That Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz cynically cheerled this insurrection is true. It also pales in severity to a public effort by the President of the United States to terrorize
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Food for thought.The more I think about the events of the 6th, and how brazenly open everyone was regarding their involvement, the more this looks to have been very carefully
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People defending Ted Cruz with shit like "well what's he supposed to do, go out there with a wrench and fix the power himself??" make me want to fucking scream
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As I have pointed out in a previous posting, many of the rioters found to their dismay and bewilderment that there was no plan, at least that they could discern,
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Just because Ted Cruz is a galactic-scale asshole doesn't mean that Texas doesn't need help. I see people describing a massive statewide power outage as "inconvenient". When we lost power
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A dozen U.S. Senators have signed on to a demand for an emergency 10-day elections investigation commission that would dive into all the known allegations of election fraud and produce
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