Republican senators, it’s not too late to help save your country
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Republican senators, you know he is a danger to the republic.
It is not too late to say so. It is not too late to help save your country, and maybe your self-respect.
You know it is wrong for a president to be spreading vile fictions about the death of a young woman 19 years ago. You know it is corrosive when he lies, and lies, and lies. And you know it is contemptible when a president, with his nation on edge as civil unrest spreads, can do nothing but threaten, divide and incite.
How do I know you know? Because nothing in your careers, before the age of Donald Trump, hints at a willingness to tolerate such odious behavior.
Yes, I'm talking to you, Lamar Alexander. And you, John Barrasso. And Roy Blunt. Richard Burr. Susan Collins. Mike Crapo. Joni Ernst. Cory Gardner. Chuck Grassley. Mike Lee. Lisa Murkowski. Rob Portman. Jim Risch. Pat Roberts. Marco Rubio. Ben Sasse. Tim Scott. Dan Sullivan. John Thune. Roger Wicker.
And others in your caucus, too. Even you, Lindsey Graham. Even for you, it's not too late.
Five years ago, could any of you have imagined excusing a leader who praised white supremacists, called his former opponent a criminal and a "skank," mocked the weight and appearance of your fellow leaders?
Could you have imagined tolerating a president who sought to bend law enforcement, diplomacy and intelligence collection to his personal needs and whims?
You know, you all know, that he has imperiled the country and cost thousands of lives with his contempt for science and expertise.
Many of you have championed funding for the National Institutes of Health. Could you have imagined, five years ago, biting your tongue when a president told a country in peril that a virus would "magically" disappear? Would you have endorsed dangerous nostrums or mocked sound public health advice?
You know that he has eroded what turns out to be the surprisingly fragile system of checks and balances laid out in the Constitution that you have sworn to support and defend. Five years ago, you would not have tolerated a president spending money that Congress - your Article I branch - had explicitly decided not to spend, or shrugging off any attempt at congressional oversight, or firing inspectors general at will.
You know that he has dangerously eroded the United States' security and standing in the world with his impulsiveness, his contempt for allies, his trashing of core American values and his naive embrace of America's foes.
How do I know you know? Because many of you have spent your careers defending those values, building the institutions that undergird them, cultivating relationships across oceans. You shuddered when he trusted Russia's leader over our own intelligence community, when he hailed the boss of the Chinese Communist Party as "a good man" and "a very, very good friend," when he "fell in love" with the criminal strongman of Communist North Korea. Before the age of Trump, you could not have imagined staying silent in the face of such abominations.
So why do you stay silent now? Why does your colleague Mitt Romney seem so lonely in maintaining his moral compass?
It's not hard to guess. You see your former colleagues Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, cast into political irrelevance for raising the most timid of objections. You think, better to stay viable. Keep your head down, don't provoke the bully, and you can help restore sanity when he is gone.
But if he is reelected, restoring sanity may not be an option. The republic will be forever altered, as you know.
And you know this, too: Joe Biden would be a better choice for the country, at this moment. Of course, you disagree with many of his policies. You dislike some of the people he would bring into government. But he would respect the Constitution, the rule of law, simple human decency and the norms that have kept this experiment alive.
So why not hang together, announce you are voting for Biden, and help save your country? Explain that the president has left you no other honorable choice. You can still campaign for a Republican majority in the Senate to act as a check on a Democratic administration and its judicial picks. At best, you might help save your party and rescue your country.
At worst, you would meet the fate of Corker and Flake. That may seem unbearable to you. But if Trump is reelected, history will remember them far more kindly than those who, silently or actively, were complicit in the degradation of our democracy
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Actually, the GOP senators should be working to replace Trump on the ballot.
They won't as they are mostly Trump ass kissers and don't want to upset the boss. The first step would be to get the Turtle out as he is totally toxic to the GOP.
I think you have that mixed up John.
Biden can barely piece one sentence together without screwing up somehow. Pretty soon he's going to need a drool bucket.
It's not going to be pretty. You need to beef up your spin and deflection departments big time
I'd take a gaffe or a stutter from Joe over trump's seven-layer word salad any day.
But of course you would.
Biden's psycho-babble rap is more in your wheelhouse than Trump's comments so you readily accept his while rejecting Trumps.
And the wheel goes around and around .....
LOL. I really enjoy reading brilliantly worded comments like that.
So you are okay with Trump stating that windmills cause cancer?
Surely everyone will think the sharpie looks like a part of the official map.....
Hyper-deflection jets engaged ....... whoooosh!
Could you have imagined tolerating a president who sought to bend law enforcement, diplomacy and intelligence collection to his personal needs and whims?
And yet we tolerated Obama for eight long and horrible years.
You do realize that yesterday we had a Tiananmen Square incident right in front of the White House. Peaceful protesters were tear gassed in a show of dictatorship just so King Cheeto could do a political photo shoot.
Try to live in the present Greg..... and please try extra hard to accept facts and truths rather than conspiracy theories.....
That must be a joke over the weekend over sixty secret service were injured by the thugs they are not peaceful.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-31-20/h_cb459ab077b164295d8d61d80987e3fb
Please repost Dean..... That link does not exist according to the internet response received. Thx
"More than 60 Secret Service officers and agents were injured near the White House this weekend
From CNN’s Jason Hoffman
More than 60 US Secret Service Uniformed Division officers and special agents were injured starting Friday night through Sunday morning near the White House as protests rocked Washington, DC, following the death of George Floyd last week, according to a statement from the Secret Service.
CNN teams were on hand for much of the protests and witnessed protesters throwing objects at officers and pulling temporary fencing away from them.
Eleven Secret Service employees were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The Secret Service said no one crossed the White House fence and no one being protected was ever in danger.
Officers made one arrest near the White House on Saturday night."
I think Fly meant you need to repost a link that works. We only have your word that this is all true
Which one of those peaceful protesters set the church on fire?
This might help your case:
MORE than 50 Secret Service agents have been injured during ugly clashes outside the White House on a sixth night of violence sparked by the death of George Floyd.
The attacks came after President Trump was reportedly moved to a secure bunker usually used during terror attacks as heated protests escalated across Washington D.C.
Got it.... thanks..
Why..... do you have a name?
Wow! I missed the massacre. How many hundreds were killed?
He said "incident" not "massacre"
Go read about Tienanmen Square. There days of protests leading up to the massacre
Well, yeah, because he either didn't know the massacre happened or realized how silly the comparison is and tried to downplay it using sanitized language. I'm sure the CCP, when it even acknowledges the massacre occurred, calls it an "incident".
He said "incident" not "massacre"
What a ridiculous stretch . Imagine referring to the Tienanmen Square incident in the context of a government crackdown and claiming the reference excludes the massacre. Did you think this through?
So what was the incident in Tienanmen square if not the massacre? What specific event in the days before the massacre is he referring to?
It is a strange comparison to make.
In Tiananmen square the students were protesting for more freedom and Democracy. Many looting and rioting here like antifa are going for less of both.
Ironic isn't it?
BULLSHIT SPARTY!!!
Go peddle your Antifa conspiracy somewhere else. Trump put police and other security details in harms way yesterday for a photo-op in front of a church he doesn't worship at holding a bible he couldn't give a crap about.
Those protesters yesterday were exercising their constitutional right of assembly and protesting, without attacking police or being lawless. Trump was in clear violation of their constitutional rights.
How many constitution rights were violated by King Trump's order...?
These protesters had every right to be where they were, doing what they were doing. Dear leader would just as soon toss gasoline on them for a red meat photo op to make the deplorables happy.
Right back at Navy, you'll be eating your hat soon enough.
I can wait.
And leave the left to peddle their white supremacist behind everything bullshit? None seen on the ground; but look at those twitter posts- that aren't being acted on. Meanwhile white young males and females dressed all in black are carrying out shit- in the same mo that Antifa has, but now they are suddenly white supremacists? That is some real tin foil hat shit going on!
As for Trump, he has the right to take a photo op just like Obama. At least Trump didn't fly Airforce One being trailed by 2 F-16 around the Statue of Liberty. Remember that bullshit? Obama wasn't even on the plane- wasting tax payer money for a dry run photo op. Terrified a lot of New Yorkers; but it was Obama so he got a free pass. As for Trump and his religion or lack thereof- sounds like he would make the perfect Democrat- oh wait, he was one until he ran for president as a Republican.
Trump put no one in harms way. The protesters didn't have to attack anyone; but they sure as hell did.
Those rights don't include attacking federal workers, police, rioting, looting, and arson.
Trump and white supremacists, what is next Russia, Russia, Russia./S
Perhaps you are confused but Trump isn't a King. He's a President.
Please consult a Junior High civics book if still confused
So those citizens protesting were tossing Molotov cocktails and rocks at the mounted police yesterday at 18:00? That's what got them the tear gas and flash-bangs in response? What video were you watching?
Trump is acting like a tyrant... Doing exactly what China is doing in Hong Kong. I suggest you consult an on line dictionary if the word "tyrant" is trippig you pu!
Lol .... not even close but i'm sure your TDS is much too far gone to bother having this discussion.
Enjoy your delusions!
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Only you can help yourself to understand the dumpster fire that occupies the WH. We've all tried to help you.
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Replacing Trump requires an alternative. Simply claiming that a replacement isn't as bad as Trump doesn't necessarily mean whoever replaces Trump will be better.
A different kind of bad isn't really a viable alternative.
Trump has made a big deal about prioritizing America first and foremost. Why is that a bad thing? Why is globalization better than prioritizing America? Why is multilateral globalization a good thing?
Trump has been chastised for using rhetoric and language that outrages liberal sensibilities. Will a liberal alternative to Trump conform to conservative sensibilities? Does the demand to replace Trump only depend upon whose sensibilities have been outraged most?
Yes, Trump can be replaced. But if the replacement is just a different kind of bad then what has really been accomplished?
It didn't seem to me that what was asked for here was to replace conservatism with liberalsm, or necessarily with Biden, it was to replace a disaster with a Republican with conservative principles - still suggesting Republican Senate oversight in the event that a Democrat be elected.
The Democrats have shown by word and deed that they are a clear and present danger to the health and safety of this country and to our democracy and the rule of law. .
Look at how so many of their so called "leader's" failed to take early action on the CV and now they have allowed and encouraged anarchy to rule on our streets
Hell....I'll take anybody with just a smidgen of principles, a sprinkling of morals, and heaping tablespoon full of ethics
and make him a republican...I really don't care
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That rules out all politicians belonging to either of the Establishment parties. They sold their soles to get where they are. They are not about to stop now.
How do they walk around with no feet?
most of them seem to have all the answers, ... misspelled ...
LOL. Spell-check is really useless.
Don;t tell me who I can support! You. Are. Not. The. Boss. Of. Me.
Joe Biden has more ethics in his pinky toe than the entire trmp family have