SoSaari 🟧🇺🇸🇺🇦🌏🕊 #Mudita

“Orange is the happiest color."~Frank "You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky"~Amelia. Wife, mom, grandma, pilot, gardener.

[SoSaari 🟧🇺🇸🇺🇦🌏🕊 #Mudita @MickyMac01]

Beautiful Fall night out in my friends Waco! Doesn’t get any better than this! Love the beauty of ND!

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Vances comment is a tragic indictment of his administration. Amazing to me that’s not obvious to him.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@HouseGOP Simultaneously, nearly every Republican voted to increase spending by hundreds of billions with no plan to pay for it, which is why Americans are suffering rampant inflation today.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

Of the many, many terrible things about this administration, this is right up at the top. And I will specifically ask my fellow Christians… is this what you voted for? If it is, you need to revisit the scriptures you claim to revere.
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[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It'd be nice to have a Speaker who'd say: "And let them, we have nothing to hide, and they'll look like fools for doing it."

But what he's saying here is: They're gonna uncover a lot of stuff, and you don't want that.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

This👇👇👇👇👇👇

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

That’s not at all true @SpeakerJohnson. That’s a lie. You’re lying. Why would a self-proclaimed good, faithful Christian like you lie like this?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He’s wrong. And he’s deflecting. The most serious threat to the U.S. right now is authoritarianism/fascism. And Trump is the cause of this threat. Bcuz Trump is an authoritarian/fascist. He is the very thing our Founders feared.👇

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: Mike Johnson paints this as though it’s some partisan witch hunt. But if you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes.

And he’s talking about running a protection racket. And we are already seeing that this Trump administration has run what some have called one of the largest pedophile protection programs in American history.

And so when Mike Johnson tells a group of wealthy donors, I'm the only thing standing between you, and a consequence that should rattle at the conscience of every American.

What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, “You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.”

And that is a model of extortion in American politics. And you know what? That’s their pitch.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

He would take credit for creation. In his twisted mind, he is a god.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

Incredible. Trump headed for quasi dictatorship. In plain sight.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

Agree here, @davidaxelrod. JD Vance is trying to minimize one of the biggest stories in politics, journalism, and American history. Another example of gaslighting in plain sight. We should all be calling out these types of misinformation.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Really heartbreaking. 💔

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

TRUMP: “I just want to find 11,780 votes”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump will leave office with a Boeing 747, courtesy of Qatar, upgraded courtesy of you.

A foreign government gave the President a $400 million jet. American taxpayers spent millions more making it one of the most sophisticated aircraft on the planet.

But when Trump leaves office, the plane doesn’t stay with the government. It goes with him.

The Constitution is clear: a president cannot accept a gift from a foreign government without the consent of Congress. We never consented to this.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Supreme Court tosses a $1.25M Roundup cancer verdict? Every American should ask why giant corporations keep getting the benefit of the doubt while ordinary people carry the risk. Outrageous.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Every president before Trump understood that you cannot accept a $400 million gift from a foreign government and still claim to be working for the American people.  

No president in American history has ever accepted anything like this from a foreign government. There's a reason for that. It's called the Constitution. 

Congress never voted on it. You never got a say. And you’re still paying up to $1 billion to retrofit it, so Trump can fly around in it, and then hand it off to his own personal foundation when he leaves office. 

Yes, you heard that right. The American people don’t get to keep it. His foundation does. 

This cannot be allowed to stand. I am doing everything in my power to stop it. 
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[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Trump just admitted why he canceled the bipartisan housing bill. He has more in common with the hedge funds buying up single-family homes than he does with the families who can't afford them. He doesn’t care what working Americans are going through and he never will.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is correct. I attended the Supreme Court arguments. Trump DOJ argued alongside Bayer/Monsanto that because the EPA had already blessed glyphosate, no state government could require labels disclosing cancer risk. The EPA & DOJ in this instance was only there to protect Bayer.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

JD Vance works for the most corrupt president in American history. So of course he wants you to believe Watergate was nothing.

Vance joked that if Watergate happened today it would be a “12 hour news story.” Let’s remember what Nixon actually did.

Operatives tied to his reelection campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant listening devices. Then Nixon personally orchestrated the cover up. The “smoking gun” tape caught him ordering the CIA to shut down the FBI’s investigation.

That is obstruction of justice, in his own voice, on tape.

The House Judiciary Committee identified 36 separate instances of obstruction. It approved three articles of impeachment, with Republicans joining Democrats.

Nixon weaponized the IRS and FBI against his political enemies, authorized burglaries of private citizens, and fired the special prosecutor investigating him in what is called the Saturday Night Massacre. When the Supreme Court ordered him to release the tapes, the vote was unanimous. Even his most loyal defenders walked away once they heard his own words.

Vance is telling us a president can break the law, lie about it, and turn federal agencies into weapons, and we should all just go along with it.

There is a reason he wants the bar that low. When you serve an administration this corrupt, the only way to look clean is to convince the public that crimes no longer count.

He’s wrong. They did then, and they do now.

History will not be kind to JD Vance.