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Bruce Jordan's avatar

If I came on this forum and claimed at age 78 that I've led a stainless life, every reader would know immediately that I'm full of shit. But never in my life have I ever (gladly) forfeited my integrity, much less willingly hand it over to an habitual sexual abuser and convicted felon.

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Rosalind Heid's avatar

GOP = Guardians of Pedophiles!!!!

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Larry's avatar

Bingo!

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Brenda Doherty's avatar

Neither Little Mikey nor Thune has dazzled with their leadership ability. The House GOP is on ANOTHER vacation until 10/15. The obvious conclusion one must make is that Johnson is afraid of the discharge petition to release the Epstein Files! Johnson can’t control his caucus.

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Alessandra Sheehy's avatar

Johnson is also avoiding swearing in Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva from Arizona. She would be the deciding vote on releasing the Epstein files!

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Larry's avatar

Mikey has no intention of swearing in another Democrat again. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Leah Baum's avatar

Johnson is a weak little weeny.

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Jeff Urdank's avatar

Yes. Yes he is. ✊🇺🇸😎

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Larry's avatar

Orange pervert-felon tRump, Mikey, Thune and Roberts are all Billionaire toadies taking us down the road to Fascism or Civil War. All the Constitutional Bill of Rights and Amendments are on the cutting block, Except the 2nd Amendment; plan accordingly. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Jan Barber-Doyle's avatar

Puppets look like whoever is pulling the strings. I am sad that so many people are willing to give up their integrity for this fool of a president.

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Irena Mangone's avatar

Did they have integrity to start with. Is my question

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Leah Baum's avatar

In a word no.

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Irena Mangone's avatar

Sad isnt it. How self serving people are.

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Larry's avatar

NO! MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Larry's avatar

The maga toady puppets have been promised Power, Money and Fourteen year old Virgins to keep the orange pervert in office. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Tired Nana's avatar

I guess Trump has forgotten that he can tell Thune to force a simple majority vote. I'm surprised that the Republicans didn't immediately do this. The GOP and Trump have made it clear that they don't care if anyone has health insurance. All of them have healthcare for life, courtesy of the American taxpayers. The GOP is the "Let them eat cake" party and proud of it. Since they refuse to do their jobs for the people, why do we even have a Congress? I'm sick of supporting their job perks that most of us will never see in our lifetimes.

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley's avatar

They don't want to open the government. They want to shut it down, so that Trump can fire more federal workers and they can throw people off of health care.---Jason

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Leah Baum's avatar

Cruelty has always been their point. How do they look at themselves in the mirror?

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Larry's avatar

And NEVER re-open. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Susan McDonald's avatar

Why do we keep paying them? Let their rich donors pay for them since they don’t work for us anyway and they don’t even seem to care if we know it.

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Tired Nana's avatar

They certainly have cushy jobs compared to most Americans. They seem to be on vacation most of the time, have healthcare for life, insider trading tips, and luxurious vacations supplied by their corporate owners/sponsors & lobbyists. Then, they lecture us because we want to keep our National Parks & NPR. They aren't earning their salaries, that's for damn sure.

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Larry's avatar

Billionaires are TAKERS that want to become Trillionaires while everyone else suffers. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Larry's avatar

Sarah is correct (below), the plan is to keep our Government shut down until America revolts via the 2nd Amendment. Get and Keep your powder dry. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Jean Moreau's avatar

He’s kidding. Right? It’s either that or he needs to join Orangeman in a special program for those with mental disabilities. And BTW, those 53% who don’t understand what’s happening suffer from willful ignorance!

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

Yeah, until their premiums also double.

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Larry's avatar

Willful ignorance along with good 'ol racism. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Ray Valek's avatar

Typical idiot who advanced because he is tall and white. Thune is the worst. HE HAS NO INTEGRITY. None!

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Annette Dejesus's avatar

Vote them all out, for being complicit. Each and every one of them. They can fix their mess., they choose not to. Republicans are responsible for all this craziness. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💙

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LJ's avatar

It’s tempting to think that people are catching on, and there are some small signs that his voters are starting to turn a bit, but recent polls show that 30% of Americans blame Dems for the shutdown, and 23% aren’t sure. Which means 53% of this country still doesn’t understand what’s happening here.

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ZooKpr's avatar

Maybe because half of our population can't read or understand what they can read?

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LJ's avatar

That’s a big part of it for sure. Add to that decades of careful grooming by the republicans and Fox mouthpieces and you have a country full of brainwashed morons, unable to think for themselves or even know how to begin. It’s depressing. And infuriating.

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ZooKpr's avatar

Exactly!

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Leah Baum's avatar

Anyone with a working brain knows republicans own this shutdown. 53% are dumber than a door knob.

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CO's avatar

He’s a complete joke they control everything and he knows it! They are stripping our healthcare away while they have the best in the country! Why don’t they give up their healthcare? NO ONE is fooled again with a promise to have a conversation that never happens? That’s what he said last time fuck thune!

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

Time to stop paying for theirs!!

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CO's avatar

Exactly if we quit sending tax money they won’t get paid either! I would hope

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Ellen Davis's avatar

Thune had the nerve to say everybody doesn’t need healthcare.

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

Thune is a jackass!

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

They’re so dumb they don’t know how dumb they are!!

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

I saw that suggested a few months back and I thought it was a great idea. But wouldn’t he just sick the military on the rest of us at that point?

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CO's avatar
Oct 5Edited

They are doing that already we must stand together tall

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

True. Ok. Time to stop paying taxes. What can they do? Put us ALL in jail?! I’m 64 now and I don’t wanna go to jail, but if I have to, I will.

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CO's avatar

Me too I’m so with you

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

Just a question tho……. I have 2 low felonies from 1989. And a misdemeanor from 1994. Would that make 3 strikes? Just curious.

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Richard's avatar

The Democrats need to adjust their position on the CR to include a major reduction in the scope of ICE: reducing their massively increased budget, and restricting their unconstitutional, brutal and extremely unpopular raids. Chicago was so far beyond what is tolerable in a supposedly free society.

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Larry's avatar

We Democrats need to press for Packing the Supreme Court with Four (4) new seats and ending the Roberts road to fascism. MAKE PLANS FOR NOKINGS RALLY NOW! RESIST THE FASCIST BILLIONAIRES!

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Dr. Ernest Mackins's avatar

This guy is an idiot! He can open the government anytime he wants to because they control all three branches of the government.

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

Yes and republicans are the ones that shut it down in the first place

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John Widdowson's avatar

Thune is just another in a long line of useless republicans. He does not lead because he can't. He can't govern, because he can't. he's a Republican. They don't lead, they don't govern. They cause chaos, runup the deficit and debt and blame Democrats. Same old story. Repubs control the House, Senate and White House. They can sit down and hammer out a bi-partisan bill that satisfies the Dems needs and does something for the People. Except, repubs don't care about the People.

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

So true

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Andrea Brecker's avatar

I know there have always been incompetent people in decision making positions, but pairing incompetence with hubris and no ethical core, has brought us (and the US) to a previously unknown level of depravity.

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Sparky SEDBRN-10-08's avatar

Um, is Thune really that stupid?

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Ray Valek's avatar

Yes

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Ellen Davis's avatar

Yes

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Ann Peyton's avatar

‘Fraid so

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Hope's avatar

Truth is….1) he ain’t a leader..2) he will do whatever Trump tell him..3) it does not matter what the real consequences are in the world of sanity…my grammar is intentional with my pov..just saying. Again, it ain’t just Trump, it is his demented sycophants.

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RONALD BEEBE's avatar

it has been truly amazing how republicans have sunk lower and lower in to just saying believing things they no just aren't true, and even more so recently, are patently stupid to say out load... and only weem eager to continue with the trend.

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