We are in the middle of the biggest Constitutional crisis our nation has ever seen & every day we're inching further from the democracy our founders created.
Now is not — and cannot be — the time to stand idly by. I'm urging my colleagues to wake up & protect this institution.
These baseless threats are meant to intimidate us into censoring ourselves first. They know they have nothing and can’t come after us all.
Be brave. Keep speaking up. We must use our freedom of speech now more than ever to defend from their threats against it.
Call their bluff.
Rarely has so much ignorance and ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know you and @realDonaldTrump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, and destroying the security of America and her allies, but you would do well, @JDVance, to spend some time actually studying history. Start here with Ronald Reagan: “Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
@ChrisMurphyCT Yea i do. Learn from republicans. Just say no! There should not have a been a single vote on a single cabinet member. Period. You can do something. Say no. Stall. Block. Just like them
We are witnessing a very sad moment in American history.
The President of the United States is aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy.
Here are my thoughts: