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[LM @bblsttx]

"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." -- Ulysses S. Grant

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

On the right, Moses Clown, Crazy Horse’s nephew in 1917. Killed in combat in World War I just 10 days before the armistice. Thousands of Natives fought in that war.

Fighting and dying for a nation that did not grant them citizenship (of their own country) until 1924.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

They're trying to smuggle the worst sort of fascist bigotry into our public schools by wrapping it in a sweet, homemaker visage called Moms for Liberty.

Don't fall for that horseshit, America. It's the same old Nazi hate machine that almost destroyed Europe 83 years ago.

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

McCarthy says Dems did everything they could to shut the government down yesterday but Republicans were the ones to keep the government open😂😂😂🧐🧐🧐last time I checked only one Dem voted against the CR and like 90 Republicans voted against it…just another example of how Republicans will lie, cheat, or steal to shape their narrative

https://t.co/RKPxG7Mbgs

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Rand Paul was against federal aid until Kentucky found it necessary.

DeSantis opposed federal assistance until Florida required it.

Steve Scalise criticized mask usage until he faced cancer.

Huckabee Sanders condemned welfare until Arkansas found itself in need of it.

Politicians will weaponize anything if it fits their agenda and boost their political capital. They don't care about you, they don't care much about me. I'm glad a stopgap bill was passed just 3 hours before the shutdown.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

CEO pay of the largest carmakers in the world.

Honda: $2.3M
Nissan $4.5M
Toyota: $6.7M

BMW: $5.6M
Mercedes: $7.5M
Porsche: $7.9M

Ford: $21M
Stellantis: $25M
GM: $29M

Folks, don't believe it for a second that US automakers can't afford to pay workers better wages.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

This is the real life outcome of Trumpism and the proliferation of calls for political and social violence from Republican leadership and the extremist wing of the party. Time to really take stock and start to come to terms with this reality. They are intent that blood is spilled on our nation’s soil and that blood is of fellow Americans. Take Trump and his followers at their word. They want to kill Americans. Fascism is stalking the land. https://t.co/mjKRVjSstF

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

The only reason Gaetz, MTG, Jim Jordan, and their lunatics have any power is because the other 200 or so Republicans in the House are cowards. That’s it. If they had any moral compasses or courage they could crush them. All of this is about a party terrified of their own base.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

What did extreme MAGA Republicans do this year?

1. Held two hearings complaining about Twitter.

2. Spent all year obsessing over Biden and found no evidence to impeach Biden.

3. Took turns reading the Constitution out loud on the Floor.

4. Passed the gas stove bill of rights.

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

Appears big thing Rs fought for to the end was cutting funding for Ukraine. That's it. A very dramatic gesture to help Putin.

It's long past time to acknowledge there is a pro-Russian, anti-Western, anti-US fifth column in American politics. Time now.

https://t.co/k7WBuNIfrT

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Lead?

More Democrats voted to keep government open than Republicans did.

We had to drag your party kicking and screaming across the finish line to fund schools and pay servicemembers.

And that was after you wasted the whole week on a joke impeachment hearing as shutdown loomed

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Cutting off Ukraine aid makes America unreliable, weakens the cause of democracy, threatens the international legal order, encourages tyrants around the world, and hastens Chinese aggression.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Gen. Mark Milley: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator...We take an oath to the Constitution...and we're willing to die to protect it."

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

🚨🚨🚨Wow, outgoing CJS Chair Milley hits Trump at retirement ceremony: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator ...we take an oath to the Constitution ... and we're willing to die to protect it".

[Marcus Flowers @Marcus4Georgia]

Why are we facing a devastating government shutdown?

“Because MAGA extremists don’t want to make life better for all Americans. They want to inflict pain…it covers up their lack of an agenda, it excites their base and throws gas on their bonfires of distraction and chaos.”

[Trae Crowder @traecrowder]

The GOP is dumb. There I said it.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Today’s Oversight hearing shows the depths the GOP is willing to go to prop up Donald Trump at the expense of American democracy.

This impeachment inquiry is a conspiracy-fueled smokescreen to distract from their devastating shutdown.

We won't be fooled.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

It’s not rhetoric, but action that proves how different the two parties are. Can we PLEASE stop treating them as if they’re two sides of the same coin? It’s not only lazy, but dead wrong.

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

One of the more memorable lines from Biden’s democracy speech:

“We should all remember, democracies don't have to die at the end of a rifle. They can die when people are silent, when they fail to stand up or condemn threats to democracy …

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Rep. Crockett: "I will ask for unanimous consent to enter into the record...a fact sheet with Trump's shady business dealings with the Chinese government..."

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Obama was paying the tab after W's dine & dash after cutting taxes for the super-rich while having 2 wars off the books.

That's the part they leave out.