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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.
…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Let me file that under fuck it.
No one could have predicted…
Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!
Republicans do not pay their debts.
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.
“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”
Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
hells littlest angel
My Rep, Anthony Delgado, replied to my email stating he intends to vote to impeach.
WaterGirl
Tim, if we called yesterday, should we be calling again today? Or doesn’t that help, because if we already called, our names are already on a list as pro or con?
WaterGirl
Not a word yet in response to my 3 phone calls.
H.E.Wolf
Done, earlier in the week. (Democratic representation, thank goodness.) Got voicemail for all 3, which isn’t surprising, given the likely volume of calls.
In addition to urging impeachment for the president, and expulsion for the members of Congress who fomented insurrection, I made sure to say that I was thankful that my Rep/Senators and their staff were all safe.
counterfactual
I have only been emailing (Portman, Sherrod Brown, and Rep Wenstrup) through resistbot with short messages titled “Impeach and expel.” No replies yet from anyone.
Justin Wilson
I called and left a message for my congresswoman, Mary Miller, and demanded that she resign for being a racist, anti-semite who invokes Adolf Hitler to incite traitors to commit violent insurrection against our government. I haven’t heard back from her yet, but I’m sure she or a representative of her office will reach out to me any moment….
MisterForkbeard
As a note, still glad to see you here Tim.
Even if it’s just “Hey guys go write your reps”, though I’d appreciate some gratuitous swipes at the Blogfather. Because that’s just how we roll.
CindyH
called my rep David Price and thanked him (he’s a good blue rep)
called my senators Tillis and Burr (barf) and insisted that they do everything in their power to remove the rogue president and that this is not political, but to save our democracy
had to leave messages for all 3
WereBear
Called Elise Stefanik’s 2 local offices, yesterday and today. No voice mail, phone just rings.
So I faxed a blunt “You lied, for shame.” Only fancier.
Thanks for the sample letters! Helped.
sixthdoctor
In MD: voicemails for my senators, Cardin and Van Hollen.
For my rep (Mfume, 7th district), I mentioned that I hoped he would consider expulsion for McCarthy and the relevant House members (his statement only mentioned pro-impeachment) and the person who took the call said the congressman felt similarly and “there are discussions” so that seemed promising.
p.a.
My reps are Cicilline, Whitehouse, and Reed, so I’ll save myself the dimes. Well maybe some ‘attaboy’ messages.
gwangung
My rep is sick. Fuck you, Republican assholes.
My Senators got my support and my words about throwing out Cruz and Hawley.
rikyrah
Will call
raven
More measured friends have been calling that motherfucking asshole Jody (this is our 1776 moment) Hice and I’m hearing his aid is really nice! You don’t want me calling anyone.
Uncle Cosmo
@sixthdoctor: I also live in MD-07. After checking their websites I didn’t see the need to contact either Senator (Cardin and Van Hollen) or our Rep (Mfume) – they’re all solid.
marcopolo
My Congresswoman, Cori Bush will be voting to impeach (and if given the opportunity to toss every fucking R Rep that voted to discard EVs out of Congress).
As for my two Senators: Blunt will not vote to impeach because he thinks that now Trump has touched the hot stove, he’s learned his lesson (I think he eats his lunch at the same table as Senator Collins). Hawley, unfortunately refuses to resign and will also refuse to impeach Trump.
geg6
OT:
FTFNYT is reporting that McTurtle is telling his people that he believes Trump should be impeached. Holy shit, if true.
geg6
@WereBear:
Harvard’s Kennedy School just dumped her. That it is her own alma mater must sting.
Noskilz
Surprisingly, I was actually able to reach Haggerty’s office – the voicemail box had been full for days, so I wasn’t expecting a person, but the staffer said while the senator had not issued any statement regarding his stance on impeachment, I was one of the many, many people who had called in favor of impeachment and that list would be passed along to the senator.
Blackburn, got voicemail as usual, left a message as usual.
I haven’t called Rose today, but I have been calling him every day previously. I always get voicemail, but his office is pretty good about calling back eventually. In fact I got a call earlier this morning from his office in reference to one of my earlier calls saying that my comments had been passed along to the Congressman (that’s basically always the message) but because I was asleep when the phone rang, I forgot to ask for more details on what his position might be.
Calouste
@geg6: I’ll believe that when Moscow Mitch calls Schumer to join him in calling the Senate back into session because of an emergency.
Actions, not words.
wvng
My Congressperson is worst-of-the-worst Mooney(WV). He is heralded as a hero in my adopted state. Haven’t bothered to call him, but I will call Capito and encourage her to convict.
geg6
@Calouste:
Totally agree. A finger in the wind or whipping votes?
StringOnAStick
I called Senator Wyden’s and Merkley’s office and left a message of support for impeachment and my sorrow that they and their staff went through this insurrection. We just moved here and I found out (1) who my Rep is and (2) that the RW fucker voted to not accept the electors from AZ or PA. He got a fax telling him that sedition is a crime against the country and continuing to spread and support tRump’s lies about the election makes him culpable in what happened last Wednesday. I don’t trust myself to speak in person to anyone in that asshole’s office; Oregon redistricting can’t come soon enough.
karen marie
My rep Andy Biggs (ugh) is having his calls screened. No one answers, you’re told to leave your name and number. Yeah, no. I left a message saying he should resign and that I wasn’t leaving my name or number because I am in fact afraid of Andy Biggs given he’s a big fat seditionist who is backing the attempted coup.
I sent two messages through Biggs’ online form but declined permission for him to send a response.
PS: I left messages for my two senators – Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema – the other day to let them know I appreciate having them as senators and that I’m glad they’re safe. It was nice to not be calling that bitch McSally.
Cheryl Rofer
I am boringly represented by strong Democrats who would probably remove Trump with their bare hands if they weren’t law-abiding servants of the people and the Constitution.
But here’s some news.
mrmoshpotato
@geg6:
Yes, holy shit, if true. Sadly for Moscow Mitch, even removal by the Senate won’t save the shitpile that is the Russthuglican party.
ETA – forgot the Senate wasn’t in session. Time to reconvene it before you lose your majority, you turtle-faced, fascist motherfucker.
mrmoshpotato
Checked Twitter accounts for my Dem Rep and Dem Senators. No need to call. They’ll all impeach the motherfucker again.
Ohio Mom
counterfactual:
We must be neighbors, I am also in Wenstrup’s district, in Blue Ash. Lucky us.
I called him on Friday. Left short voice mails in DC and the local office: Impeach!
For Portman, I actually got a live intern in the Cincinnat office. That doesn’t happen too often. I don’t know if Portman can’t keep an intern or only hires ones without a work ethic.
geg6
@mrmoshpotato:
Both outcomes would grant my most fervent wishes.
dmsilev
@geg6:
“Well, I can’t push through any more judge nominations, so time to cut my losses.”
MomSense
I’ve gotten nothing but full voicemail when I call Collins.
WaterGirl
@Uncle Cosmo: The point is that the rabid right will be calling them non-stop to complain, and it helps if 1) they hear from us that they are doing good, and 2) it helps to have call numbers in the not complaining column.
HumboldtBlue
I posted this below.
NYT impeachment blog
Jonathan Martin
WaterGirl
@geg6: They must think Trump is toxic beyond repair. It’s save your skin time.
dmsilev
Here’s a Representative who needs a call…
…from the FBI:
Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks defends inflammatory remarks at pro-Trump rally as a ‘pep talk’ to the president’s supporters
natem
@dmsilev: whatever McConnell’s cynical motivations are, a major GOP pol facing real consequences for their seditionist shit is some Must See Muthafuckin’ T
EDIT: Also, if this is a ploy by Mitch for Dems to fall on their face, 1) Who cares regardless, and 2) Trump has ~7 days on the clock to be Trump
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: I can’t think of any losses left for Mitch to cut.
dmsilev
@MomSense: I trust her brow has reached its fully-furrowed state?
zhena gogolia
Chris Murphy (D Sen, CT):
On the need to remove Donald Trump from office, Murphy said: “I am absolutely supportive of an effort to invoke the 25th amendment, and I would be supportive of efforts to remove the President via impeachment. I think that this President is unhinged; he is unstable; he is angry. And we can’t assume that he isn’t going to try to find new ways to rally his supporters in another insurrection against the government, whether it be in Washington or in our state capitals. I think this is an incredibly perilous moment for democracy.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal:
That’s why I support any constitutional effort to remove Donald Trump from office. If an attempted coup d’etat isn’t grounds for removal under the 25th Amendment, I’m not sure what is. So if Mike Pence and the Cabinet fail to invoke it, the Senate must join the House’s effort to impeach and remove Trump.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro came out early for impeachment.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Then call to thank them and bump up on the number for calls in support.
zhena gogolia
@WereBear:
God I hate her with the fire of a thousand suns. Glad to see the Harvard Institute of Politics removed her from their board.
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: Ah yes – those go-attack-Congress “pep talks.”
Lyrebird
@p.a.: Well, given that they probably get raving loons sending awful messages, adding a few attaboys might be good!
Then again, since my senior senator is about to become Majority Leader again, I have not added to his voicemail pile.
What a bizarro time!
wvng
So, I called Mooney’s office and called him terrible names and said he supported sedition based on the big lie there was voter fraud, when in fact it was him promoting a lie. Didn’t make me feel any better.
dmsilev
@mrmoshpotato: Well, he’d very much like to be back as Majority Leader in two years, so salvaging what he can of the GOP wreckage by cutting loose the sinking and burning hulk of the RMS Trumptanic is probably entering into his calculus.
The impeachment vote tomorrow will be telling; how many GOP Reps will vote to impeach? Cheryl noted one up-thread; I imagine Kinzinger from Illinois will be another. Meijer from Michigan. I’m sure there are will be others, but will it be a substantial fraction of the party?
HumboldtBlue
@natem:
Money. Big businesses are cutting off funding to the seditious GOPers but that doesn’t mean it won’t stain the rest of them. Mitch is scrambling to appease his biggest donors.
And don’t forget as someone here pointed out I believe, that a lot of the young staffers on the Hill are the kids of the wealthy, the CEOs and the well-connected, and they watched their kids’ lives threatened by a right-wing mob. I imagine Mitch has been scalded by more than one influencer.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: You’re right. Will do.
JPL
@dmsilev: More likely that he won’t be leader when it happens.
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato:
When I called DeLauro’s office, her aide was delighted to hear support. It doesn’t matter that she had come out for impeachment. She needs calls from her constituents supporting her.
hueyplong
@HumboldtBlue: Had not thought about that angle. Seems logical to speculate in that manner.
jonas
Call my representatives? My district happens to be the only one in the current Congress lacking a representative! Yes, good ol’ NY-22 is still being litigated! We probably won’t know for another week or two whether we’ll get Anthony Brindisi back, or the horrible, ultra-Trumpy Claudia Tenney.
Ohio Mom
Remember when efgoldman would assure us Trump would be impeached and not finish his term?
And then Trump was impeached but not removed and I shrugged my shoulders because not everything people predict and wish for comes true. But maybe that shoulder shrug was premature.
karen marie
@Calouste: Maybe a day or two before the coup attempt, I had read (or maybe heard on NPR?) that McConnell thinks he and Schumer should share leadership because of the 50-50 split, citing a precedent for this in the recent past (but, sadly, I can’t remember the year) (and when I say “recent past,” I’m talking some time within the last 40 years).
I’ve been surprised that no one picked up on this on the twitters but events are moving at a rapid pace, so …
CaseyL
I called my Rep and Senators Friday or yesterday (I can’t remember what happened when anymore) to say how glad I am that they’re safe, and to thank them for being out front on impeachment. I also thanked Senator Murray for stating that Haley and Cruz should be expelled.
Today my Rep, Pramila Jayapal, announced that she has tested positive for Covid 19, thanks to the murderous GOPsters who refused to wear masks when everyone was sheltering in place. I am hella upset, and hope Rep. Jayapal is already getting as much early treatment as exists to give, and recovers fully.
I’ve reached the point of hatred of GOPsters that any one of them who does say or do the right thing, I wonder what their real motives are.
Haroldo
NE Massachusetts: Markey, Warren big fans of impeachment. To my surprise, Set Moulton is strongly, strongly in favor of impeachment. (I think the pushback he got when he pushed for someone other than Pelosi for House Speaker in 2018 made an impression on him.)
WereBear
@geg6: Woooo. Thanks!
hueyplong
@karen marie: Nice try, Mitch.
I think he’s talking about a brief period in 2001.
WaterGirl
@hueyplong: These are not your father’s republicans. No power sharing with the party that is willing to burn everything down to stay in power. No way.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Trump.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I’ve been giving DeFazio & Wyden a steady update on my opinions as things are unfolding. I am out for blood right now. I want every single member of the Sedition Caucus to be named, shamed and removed from office. I want Hair Furor impeached and not the 25th and I want him prosecuted, along with every single seditious bastard that invaded the Capitol. I want the Oathkeepers and Three Percenters actions prior to the insurrection to be closely examined because I believe there was a mission going on within the chaos. They were aiming to take hostages and possibly hold trials, of that I have no doubt.
This was a real attempt to overthrow our government. Of course Republicans are doing everything they can to avoid the consequences for their seditious actions. They know they have screwed the pooch and after all of the years of shit they have made the Democrats eat, it’s their turn to open up and swallow the shovels of shit that are going to come their way.
This was no BENGHAZI!, this shit was for real and I want real investigations and real consequences.
Gary K
@jonas: Louisiana 5th’s seat is also vacant, since Letlow died of covid.
briber
@karen marie:
That previous 50-50 leadership split was a compromise offered to the Democrats on the condition that they didn’t contest the 2000 election that gave us George W Bush.
So not at all applicable here since these lying Republicans have done nothing but contest the 2020 election.
Their hostility should not be met with bipartisan compromise.
Gary K
I’ve decided that Rob Portman needs an e-mail and phone call every day from me. Yesterday he sent a wishy-washy reply that could have been written weeks ago: it acknowledges that Biden won, while pushing the nonsense that “President Trump had every right to insist that all legally cast ballots are counted.” (Yeah, that was what he doing.) It fails to mention the attack on the Capitol. Typical pusillanimous Portman pap.
Kathleen
@Justin Wilson: Thank you. I left voicemail at Steve Chabot’s (OH1) office telling him he was a traitor, Nazi sympathizer and seditious, and that I wasn’t going to waste my time asking him to support impeachment. I’m glad someone else took a similar tack! ETA I left voicemail whichis unusual because Chabot always has people answering his phone.
Ruckus
I got a response from a message I sent Senator Harris, responding to an email I got from her. She apologized for not being able to properly respond, she is getting ready to assume the Vice Presidency.
I almost had to laugh when I read it. I do believe I’m going to save this one.
SpongeBobtheBuilder
Long time lurker (probably 10 years or more), first time commenter!
I called my rep on Friday, but Jan Schakowsky is a firm impeachment vote, as are Durbin and Duckworth (and weren’t they both great on Wednesday/Thursday last week?) Schakowsky’s office did say they are getting a lot of calls, and that it is worth calling even sure bets, just so they can honestly say their constituents are demanding impeachment.
Miss Bianca
I have spent all day preparing an article for my local paper about Boebert. Many thanks to all the jackals who helped me with links to articles and tweets!
I am now preparing my letters to her office and to Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper – again, thanks to all, particularly Martin, for inspiration.
Breathe, breathe. It’s going to be a long couple days. I also have a feeling I’m the one in my “secret” FB group who is being targeted for FB jail by seditionists upset because some of us have been using mean words about their gun bunny. I dunno…you think maybe “Traitor Twat” was over the edge for describing LB?
WaterGirl
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D Gardner
@counterfactual: I call Portman’s DC and Columbus offices rather often, and as usual, had to leave voicemails this week. I think my comments were, ahem, unequivocal.
Msb
I’m unfortunately from TX-02. I called only Crenshaw and Cornyn. I told Cruz’s voicemail what I thought of him last week.
I advocated not only impeachment of trump but expulsion of the Sedition Caucus, naming names. I also asked Crenshaw’s staffer if he & colleagues were all safe and hoped they would continue to be so. He was pretty touched.