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Fuck You Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain and the rest of you RW assholes (Original Post) stopbush Dec 2017 OP
Agreed. They sold out our country to the American Oligarchs. democratisphere Dec 2017 #1
Interesting expansion of that observation... better Dec 2017 #6
Which is? Skidmore Dec 2017 #17
By all means that should be the option of first resort. better Dec 2017 #22
Blue state republicans MFM008 Dec 2017 #2
They have sold their souls to SATAN along with Mental Donnie Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #3
Donny IS Satan. BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #12
Yes as hes the prince of lies.... benfranklin1776 Dec 2017 #16
Te point is.... Where do we go from here? world wide wally Dec 2017 #4
I knew they would sell America down the river eventually workinclasszero Dec 2017 #5
K&rR nt ProudProgressiveNow Dec 2017 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author LovingA2andMI Dec 2017 #8
And f*ck ANYONE BlueMTexpat Dec 2017 #9
Allow me to join in ... mr_lebowski Dec 2017 #10
Agree UCmeNdc Dec 2017 #11
This is why I'll take a moderate/conservative Dem over a moderate Republican BluegrassDem Dec 2017 #13
They sold their souls for 30 pieces of silver. Those RestoreAmerica2020 Dec 2017 #14
And a big Fuck You to all of the Never Hillary asswhipes on DU! salster Dec 2017 #15
KLEPTOCRACY is the perfect word popsdenver Dec 2017 #18
Jeff Flake oberliner Dec 2017 #19
text them, email them, call them ask them to JUSTIFY their vote! samnsara Dec 2017 #20
Organize and vote these Bums out of office! UCmeNdc Dec 2017 #21
We should send all of them Christmas cards Martin Eden Dec 2017 #23

better

(884 posts)
6. Interesting expansion of that observation...
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 04:20 AM
Dec 2017

A society which limits respect and power to certain groups (oligarchs) is a despotism.
The Declaration of Independence very clearly dictates the proper and obligatory response.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
17. Which is?
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 06:58 AM
Dec 2017

We go vote them out. The RW fantasy of a glorious bloody uprising is not the answer. Refighting the Civil War isn't either.

better

(884 posts)
22. By all means that should be the option of first resort.
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 11:26 AM
Dec 2017

But the sole correct or acceptable response is still to throw off such government and provide new guards for our future security. If doing so by voting works, then great. I sincerely hope it does.
But fixing it by voting not working does not change our duty in the face of this undeniable reality.

We should not forget that, within the lifetime of my child who is not yet old enough to drive, we have voted them out.

When we did manage to fix some things, they lied to the American people about what we fixed to win control of state legislatures, redistricted to ensure that the minority of voters got the majority of representation, went on a voter suppression rampage, relentlessly dug in their heels to prevent us from fixing anything else they could by means of 632 filibusters, shut down the government, held the full faith and credit of the country hostage, stole a seat on our highest court, rigged an election in collusion with a foreign power, elected a president who lost the popular vote for the second time in two decades, and then set about breaking once more everything we did manage to fix, and then some.

And again, that was all within the part of life Americans just now coming of age to drive are old enough to remember.

I'm no right-winger, and an uprising is certainly no fantasy of mine.
But it is becoming ever clearer that one is demanded of us, no matter how much we may long to avoid it.

benfranklin1776

(6,446 posts)
16. Yes as hes the prince of lies....
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 06:49 AM
Dec 2017

.....and now we see clearly these craven bootlicking tools: Collins, Murkowski, and McCain are his lesser minions willingly sacrificing the lives of the elderly the sick and the poor, and, indeed, our country and democracy itself, just so they could steal money from all of us and funnel it to rapacious corporations and billionaires. The essence of evil incarnate on hideous display.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. I knew they would sell America down the river eventually
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 04:20 AM
Dec 2017

They are republicans after all, that's what they do!

Those 3 and that asswipe Jeff Flake just had to get their palms greased with the blood money stolen from sick kids and elders first!

Response to stopbush (Original post)

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
9. And f*ck ANYONE
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 04:36 AM
Dec 2017

who - for ANY reason other than medical, other emergency or otherwise being denied the privilege of voting - did NOT vote For Hillary Clinton in the GE in 2016!

That's the bottom line.

No matter WHAT Rs in Congress would have done, Hillary would NEVER have signed such a bill.

Yes, there IS a BIG difference between Ds and Rs. Anyone who STILL does NOT "get" that should not be on DU.

And f*ck them!

 

BluegrassDem

(1,693 posts)
13. This is why I'll take a moderate/conservative Dem over a moderate Republican
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 05:03 AM
Dec 2017

Moderate Republicans always roll over at the last minute and can't be trusted. Meanwhile, our red state Dems didn't take the bait.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
14. They sold their souls for 30 pieces of silver. Those
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 05:39 AM
Dec 2017

.. that were contemplating retirement will slither into the night taking with them what they stole from the American people to enrich themselves, taking with them their government funded healthcare that they denied others, taking with them their generous government pension.... I sincerly hope that the universe will repay them in kind. As for those that remain in office they will be held accountable by the voters in 2018, 2020.

popsdenver

(14 posts)
18. KLEPTOCRACY is the perfect word
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 06:59 AM
Dec 2017

Definition of KLEPTOCRACY

"government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed"

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