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I just want to know the truth.

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@KurtSchlichter There really does come a point.

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@timburchett I have no idea how you do it, Tim.
You're more like my granddaughter who says, 'smell the flowers, blow out the candles.'
I'm more of a stomp-all-the-damn-flowers-and-bring-on-the-blow-torch person.
Working on that.

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@LeaderJohnThune @Jim_Jordan Hold the line? For God's sake, just stop embarrassing yourself. You're a joke, man.

Unfortunately, we're the butt of that joke.

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@LeaderJohnThune Stop acting like you care .

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@Ming_the_Husker @SenatorRicketts @SenatorFischer When we realize that we, the voters, don't matter, it's like a spit in the face.

Politicians don't care about their constituents. They just spit.

Never put your faith in anyone but our Lord. He's the only one who's for us.

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@FloppingAces I love the way you write.

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@amiKozak @CornelWest Always good for a laugh, Ami 😂

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

Good morning, my friends.

I've been thinking about how much our definition of happiness changes as we get older.

When we were kids, happiness was getting the toy we wanted for Christmas, hearing our favorite song on the radio, or finding out there was no school the next morning.

As teenagers, we thought happiness meant freedom. Having our own money, our own car, and nobody telling us what to do.

Then adulthood came along, and we spent years chasing the things we thought would finally make us happy.

But somewhere along the way, our priorities started changing.

These days, a peaceful home, good health, a little laughter, and knowing the people we love are doing okay can feel like winning the lottery.

Maybe that's one of the greatest gifts of growing older.

We stop looking for happiness in everything we don't have and start recognizing it in the things we've had all along.

Whatever you're facing today, I hope there's something in your life that reminds you just how much you already have to be thankful for.

Have a beautiful morning, my friends.

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@OneSquirrelArmy He knows he has no chance. This would be a run for the money.

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@RhuleAid @NebraskaDems

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@USRepMikeFlood @Jim_Jordan @HouseGOP Jim Jordan is all hat, no cattle.
As usual, when people like Thune and Jordan win, Americans who believe in our Republic continue to lose.

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Congressional Republicans spent two fucking years proving they were too incompetent to exercise power, then immediately blamed Donald Trump when voters took that power away.

What a magnificent collection of spineless, self-important, excuse-making assholes.

They controlled the White House, the House, and the Senate. They had the mandate, the legislative machinery, and the opportunity to deliver the agenda they spent years promising voters. Instead, they turned passing the One Big Beautiful Bill into a prolonged family feud, left the SAVE America Act languishing, and treated their congressional majority like a taxpayer-funded country club for professional procrastinators.

And now these same political eunuchs have the breathtaking fucking audacity to lecture Trump about winning elections.

Are you SHITTING me?

These jackasses couldn't organize a two-car funeral without forming six committees, demanding a recess, and blaming Trump when the hearse ran out of gas.

But suddenly they're all brilliant political strategists.

Suddenly they know exactly what went wrong. Suddenly every coward who couldn't muster the balls to pass legislation has developed a doctoral fucking thesis explaining why Trump cost them Congress.

How convenient.

The Republican establishment has perfected a remarkable political business model: Campaign on Trump's agenda, ride his voters into office, obstruct or dilute the promises that got them elected, accomplish a fraction of what they advertised, and then blame the bastard whose popularity helped put them there.

And when the voters finally get sick of this pathetic shitshow, these useless parasites demand another chance to prove how indispensable they are.

Indispensable to WHAT? Another committee hearing? Another fundraising dinner? Another heroic six-week vacation while their campaign promises rot in a congressional filing cabinet?

Trump still occupies the Oval Office. The executive branch still answers to him. His final two years are far from finished.

The GOP, meanwhile, has finally achieved something extraordinary.

It lost its majority, exposed its own staggering incompetence, and forfeited the last fucking excuse it had for being utterly useless.
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@SenJohnBarrasso You just spit in the face of the people who sent you to Washington. Save your breath...your words mean nothing.

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They have no regard for the people who sent them.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

If you are confused how John Thune just became Senate minority leader…

Imagine your party gets hammered in the midterms, losing at least seven Senate seats to the Democrats and the majority along with it, and instead of stopping to ask what went wrong, Senate Republicans walk into a closed-door room just one week later, shut out the very voters who sent them there, and come back out with the EXACT SAME leader, because when Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, Mike Lee and others begged for a little more time so members could lay out a real vision for the party, the delay was voted down 31-15 in a private tally we only know about from anonymous sources, and then, with no challenger and no recorded vote, Thune kept his job by acclamation, and the rest of the leadership team stayed almost entirely unchanged, as if nothing happened, as if millions of Republican voters didn't just watch their majority crumble, as if "accountability" is something Washington demands of everyone except itself, so now the SAME people who led us into the minority get to lead us through it, Republican voters still don't know how their own senators voted on the delay, and we're all just supposed to nod along and trust the process and feckless, worthless people that put us here in the first place, which is exactly why so many of us are FURIOUS tonight.

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@mattvanswol What they've done is unforgivable.

We know he and his lackeys don't give 2 shits, obviously...but you forgot to tag him.
@LeaderJohnThune

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@OneSquirrelArmy @SenatorRicketts @SenatorFischer Call and ask their staff how they voted. A non-answer will tell all you need to know.

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@SaltyGoat17 Sure seems like it.

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@doogadoo11 Hopefully, when feckless Thune is re-elected in a SECRET vote, those 7 will let us know who voted for more losing.

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Question:

It appears that the Senate Republicans will hold a secret vote for their leader. If so, accountability means absolutely nothing to these politicians.

Is it possible that someone in the room would divulge who voted for the despicable @LeaderJohnThune ?

Or am I just dreamin'?

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I went to my first Tea Party in the spring of 2009. My friends laughed at me. Didn't care.

I attended rallies, street sign protests and mass show- ups at offices of my 'representatives'. I went to town hall after town hall with questions ready to ask.

I continually wrote and called my congressman and senators to the point where I'm sure my email and number were flagged because they stopped responding.

I urged friends to come with me to rallies...and they did. I met the most amazing people and we all felt so empowered.

We caused the biggest flip in the House since 1938. 63 seats.

In 2010, the Obama administration began targeting Tea Party groups. And his IRS shut them down.

It was sincerely and completely, a grassroots movement. Just thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, tired of growing government and being tax to death

To participate in anything similar, you will now be targeted. How do we know?...because they've told us...and they've done it before.

How many do you think would join a movement and be willing to lose financially and socially? I'm afraid at this point, not many.

But if a movement the likes of the Tea Party starts, count me in. I have a child and grandchild to protect.