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The current Republican Party has to be one of the most cowardly, power hungry groups ever to exist. Doesn’t anyone besides Liz Cheney have the guts to take on Trump and MAGA?

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Adam Kinzinger does as well. I may hit agree with their political views, but I respect both if them fir standing up to trump and the rest of the MAGA cult. They were both more honorable than all that cult put together.

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You’re right. I totally forgot about him. I was thinking of those 10-12 Republicans in districts Biden won. You would think a couple would stand up if for no other reason than to try and save their jobs.

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18. Just the thought of them makes me smile.

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Cheney took on TFG, but she purposely fought against investigating any congress people in the 1/6 Committee. And the DOJ was almost completely diddling things away until the Committee shamed them. But the Committee had nothing on the Jordans and Hawleys, etc., so the DOJ continued with their gross neglect of their jobs.

I won't argue that the Committee already had their hands full enough with TFG, though. But if things got started on Jan.7 instead of waiting on the DOJ for 1 year and 5 months (!!!), a more widespread investigation would have unearthed many truths by talking with more people sooner, such as Cassidy H, which is what seems to have blown things open.

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Lately it is being said that the politicians fear for the safety of themselves and family members. The justice system is struggling to control it.

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I applaud Liz Cheney for her efforts to save democracy though there was a time when people were asking if a presidential bid was in the best interest of the country. I said then and will say again that she is and always will be her father’s daughter. She contributed to the current republican party. She used the “radical left democrat party” and “the Marxist left” bs. She promoted the “pro-life” movement that was never about life. It was about Shiite White Nationalist Christians.

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Which is why we have to understand that putting Jordon in as speaker we are that much closer to the Putin Russian Chaos Theory conditions in the World. The moves in Israel are a product of Putin, Iran, and the Saudis'? When will China invade? When this Congress installs a Russian Spy. There are traitors and treasonous members in Congress that must be expelled. Third seat away from President. No one is safe. John Kelly, General Milly, and all our national military leaders will tell you how the invasion will occur (we know Trump already showed it to the world - thi is Jack Smith's Task, but if we do not get these spy's out of Congress they will not be in a position to save the US. This a war on America as much as it is a war on Israel and Ukraine. Its been happening in Africa, and Syria and now the world has woken up. We need to expel Jim Jordan and have him arrested as a spy.

I think you need to elect Liz Cheny as Speaker of the House. We are at War!

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This speaks volumes about the Republican Party. The best they can put forward are an angry little insurrectionist who allowed athletes in his charge to be sexually abused and David Duke without the baggage? We are about to see an already dysfunctional MAGA House turned into an absolute shitshow. And there can be no doubt of two things - we will have a prolonged government shutdown starting in November, and the corporate press will both sides the issue to death. After all, per ABC, NBC, CBS, Politico, The Hill, the NYT and the WaPo the Democrats should have saved McCarthy. This mess is, therefore, all Hillary Clinton's fault.

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Kingzinger recently observed that Jordan is a true believer, that Democrats were evil and have to be stopped even if it meant breaking laws and fouling the Constitution. If that is true then he really is stupid and it is not all an act. I hope the DOJ catches up with him and Ohio cleans up their gerrymandered mess. He's a dangerous bully. I hate to think what his constituents are like.

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Unfortunately Republicans are only interested in laws they can control others with & now fain moral righteousness &/or complete unawareness of the laws they break themselves, like all narcissists. https://samray.substack.com/p/trumpism-is-narcissism

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Liz Chainey is the reason the “freedom caucus” (chaos creeps) exists! She made the Jan. 6th committee only go after The Orange Cheeto! I believe rePUGliCONs are so afraid of The Orange Cheeto they will do nothing to save hard working Americans!

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I really recommend the great book "How democracies Die" to understand that when democracy is at peril the way it's been saved is by people of different political backgrounds uniting to save it from the autocrats and fascists. The GOPers who are helping us in this time are invaluable. We can fight with them later on policy. For now we need them.

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Dean, I so agree with you on this. Someone in another Substack newsletter got into a debate with me when I said something favorable about Adam Kinzinger. (He wrote an article on his Substack site about how to get to a consensus speaker candidate.) I am a lifelong liberal Democrat, so I don’t agree with Kinzinger’s policy ideas, but I appreciate what he’s doing now to preserve what’s left of our democracy. But this woman would have none of it and kept saying I need to stop lionizing Kinzinger. People like this don’t seem to understand that Republicans who have broken with their party to speak out against Trump and his enablers are as important as Democrats pushing back against this. That’s the only way we can defeat them.

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I bought the ebook and have listened to it several times. It scares the heck out of me knowing what’s coming next.

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Actually, Cheney has nothing to do with their existence. When DeSantis was in Congress, he was one of the founding members along with Gym Jordan. Cheney was just the latest "RINO."

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I’m talking about the Jan. 6th committee. Not the tea party creeps!

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Whatever your meaning, "Liz Chainey is the reason the 'freedom caucus' exists!" is very inaccurate, misleading and confusing.

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Actually, it's just, plain incorrect. Unless the statement was meant to suggest the Freak Caucus would have faded without Jan. 6 Hearings sustenance.

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We have all misspoke or meant to say one thing & missed how it came out as something else. I'm pretty sure that's all that happened here. Don't want to discourage Marg bringing her fire. Just needs an edit to bring the msg she intended in this case.

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This is true. I'm feeling particularly ... critical, or something - after spending some time reading delusional rantings.

Time to take the dog out.

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Except the freedom clown posse was formed in early 2015 and coalesced (or something like that) around opposition to John Boehner. Then came into glory with 45's election.

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Aren’t Jordan’s attempts to upend the current cases against trump in areas where the judicial committee has no jurisdiction?

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The whole country is Gym Jordan's to foul as he pleases

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I'm all ears, if I knew I'd be doing it. The mainstream media has to start reporting on all the connected dots. If this s not The story I fear for our future. Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and the many other, "who could have known" surprises. You have to know your own weaknesses because your enemy clearly already does and has been planning for an opportunity for the penatration point when our Democracy is at its weakness. They know and they have stoked it, Trump is the megaphone they needed. Question is, who has the greatest future to fund. And is the Populist Revolution going to turn all its efforts and megaphone to Saving our Republic, and knowing clearly who the real enemy is? This is not a drill ladies and gentlemen.

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You've finally done it! You've finally figured out how to fit a square peg into a round hole!

Because this falls SQUARELY in the BULLSEYE of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment!

He shall never again appear on a ballot!!

Nor shall he qualified to be Speaker!

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Why has Jim Jordan not been indicted for the Jan 6 insurrection?

And why has he never been arrested or sued by survivors for his cover-up of the sex abuse of student wrestlers in OH?

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Thanks Dean! Hope you & readers will plug in to Mary Trump’s Stop Trump Summit on October 11th in NYC. Free Virtual event tickets on Eventbrite.

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Gee -- why didn't I think of that?

OK, anyway, you may find this of interest. If your are in the U.S., the media coverage is rather one-sided. Here is a link to a source that is somewhat more international and comprehensive: https://www.aljazeera.com/

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DOJ is not doing it's job...

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This would seem to apply to many, especially if what Liz indicates as complicity in the conspiracy, not eligible to hold office for breaking Oath of Office.

https://uscode.house.gov/quicksearch/get.plx?title=5&section=7311

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Thanks LIZ!

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