@SenFettermanPA@SenMcCormickPA You want to force people to get a passport to vote and then let this administration make it harder to get a passport? You really don’t want people to vote, do you?
The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years.
https://t.co/uVvcTWWX9O
@SenFettermanPA@SenMcCormickPA Requiring people to pay $165 for a passport in order to vote sounds a lot like a poll tax that was eliminated by the 24th Amendment in 1964.. And we know why a poll tax was used after the civil war….or did we forget that part of history class?
@SenMcCormickPA As a Pennsylvanian, I’m disappointed to see you support the #SAVEAct. This isn't about "common sense"—it's about voter suppression. Millions of eligible citizens don't have passports or birth certificates handy. Please reconsider and protect our right to vote.
@SenFettermanPA As a Pennsylvanian, I’m disappointed to see you support the #SAVEAct. This isn't about "common sense"—it's about voter suppression. Millions of eligible citizens don't have passports or birth certificates handy. Please reconsider and protect our right to vote.
@SenMcCormickPA , the SAVE Act is an unnecessary, anti-voter bill that will disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. Please stand with your constituents and VOTE NO on the #SAVEAct. 🛑
@SenFettermanPA, the SAVE Act is an unnecessary, anti-voter bill that will disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. Please stand with your constituents and VOTE NO on the #SAVEAct.
70 million married women may lack documentation matching their birth certificate under the SAVE Act. @SenMcCormickPA, why are you supporting a bill that makes it harder for PA women to vote? This is voter suppression, not security. #SAVEAct#PA
@SenFettermanPA you have been to Johnstown, where we have an aging population, many with hardships that will keep them from being able to present the necessary documents the SAVE Act requires. This will NOT help return Cambria County to #VoteBlue
As an early supporter AND DONOR, I am disappointed in the recent shift, @SenFettermanPA. The SAVE Act creates unnecessary hurdles for seniors, low-income citizens, and students. Don't let PA become a state that restricts voter access. Vote NO. 🗳️
@SenFettermanPA, the SAVE Act is an unnecessary, anti-voter bill that will disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. Please stand with your constituents and VOTE NO on the #SAVEAct. 🛑
70 million married women may lack documentation matching their birth certificate under the SAVE Act. @SenFettermanPA, why are you supporting a bill that makes it harder for PA women to vote? This is voter suppression, not security. #SAVEAct#PA
@SenFettermanPA As a Pennsylvanian, I’m disappointed to see you support the SAVE Act. This isn't about "common sense"—it's about voter suppression. Millions of eligible citizens don't have passports or birth certificates handy. Please reconsider and protect our right to vote.
Let me say this as clearly as possible, because people keep getting it wrong.
Republican lawmakers didn’t stick with Trump because they were hypnotized...terrified...or somehow helpless.
They stuck with him because he’s one of them.
Trump didn’t corrupt a moral party. He exposed a corrupt one.
If Trump were merely embarrassing...reckless...or rude... they would have dumped him years ago. Politicians abandon liabilities fast. What they don’t abandon...are mutual liabilities.
Trump normalized behavior that many of them were already guilty of: ethical shortcuts...financial murkiness... abuse of power...contempt for oversight... lying as policy.
He didn’t invent the rot...he gave it cover.
And here’s the part people don’t like to hear:
For a lot of Republicans in Congress, Trump isn’t the risk.
Accountability is.
Trump absorbs attention like a sponge. While everyone is watching his circus...others operate quietly in the shadows. He’s not a distraction...he’s a shield. A very useful one.
Once they crossed certain lines together...election lies, January 6th...obstruction...weaponization of government ...there was no clean exit.
Loyalty became self-preservation. Defection meant subpoenas...investigations...and career death.
That’s why the so-called “good Republicans” vanished.
They weren’t persuaded. They were purged. Retired. Primaried. Marginalized. What you’re seeing now isn’t universal agreement...it’s selection pressure.
Only those comfortable with ethical decay remain.
This is how systems rot. Not with villains twirling mustaches...but with people who decide, one compromise at a time, that survival matters more than principle.
Trump didn’t take over the GOP.
The GOP recognized itself in Trump.
And that’s why expecting them to “come to their senses” is a fantasy.
You can’t ask people to enforce standards that would incriminate them.
The alliance holds...because it has to.
That’s not psychology.
That’s incentive structure.
And until people stop confusing fear...with complicity... they’ll keep being shocked by behavior that was always predictable.
@SenFettermanPA And the money to buy it….. use it instead to provide universal heath care, feed school kids, help housing become more affordable, etc. You know, the stuff we elected you to do.