“Ok, Republicans. If you want to talk about an election being rigged, let’s talk about it. You gerrymandered all of the red states, you suppressed the vote, you closed polling places, you removed drop boxes, you vilified mail-in voting, you disrupted the USPS, and you know what? You still lost.” – Mindy Fischer
When the economy in a democratic but capitalist country fails, there are two alternatives. You can modify the economic system. Or, you can modify the political system. When you modify the economic system (capitalism) but retain the political system (democracy), you have the arrangement the U.S. has lived under since capitalism failed in the 1930s, in the Great Depression.
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He put America first after 126 members of the House Republican Conference signed an anti-American brief calling for the Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election.
“This party has to stand up for democracy first, for our Constitution first and not political considerations, not to protect a candidate, not simply for raw political power,” Mitchell told CNN’s “The Lead.”
The Supreme Court, which includes six Republican-nominated justices, seems to agree with Mitchell. It threw the suit out without comment.
More than 50 cases challenging the election have also been dismissed as baseless in many cases, by Republican judges in state and federal courts.
First, we confiscate your guns and then we put you on trial for opposing us. OK? (Bill Pascrell for Congress/Facebook)
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “BREAKING: I’m demanding that the 126 Republicans who have endorsed a malignant lawsuit to overturn the will of the people and undermine our democracy not be seated in Congress,” New Jersey Democrat Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. tweeted Friday. He was announcing his letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in which he made clear his definitions of “insurrections,” “treasonous” and “traitors” extend to anyone he politically opposes.
The excuse given for his latest public tantrum was the lawsuit filed by the State of Texas (and joined by 17 states) challenging the legality of voting procedure changes by Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case citing “lack of standing,” with Justices Alito and Thomas stating they would have “grant[ed] the motion to file the bill of co
Letter: Buck, Lanborn should not be seated in Congress
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Section 3 of Amendment 14 to the US Constitution prescribes a response to acts of sedition by members of our US Congress. In their support of the recent Texas lawsuit calling for disenfranchisement of millions of registered voters, 126 GOP members of the US House of Representatives acted against a fundamental provision of our Constitution, the right to vote.
Congressman Bill Pascrell (NJ) summarises: “Stated simply, men and women who would act to tear the United States government apart cannot serve as Members of the Congress. These lawsuits seeking to obliterate public confidence in our democratic s
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