Bruce Bourgoine
@BruceBourgoine
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''True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.'' Martin Luther King Jr.
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This is the ticket I want serving my children’s and grandchildren’s future.
#VoteBlue
#resist
#mepolitics
#HarrisWaltz2024
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#BREAKING
- Senator Susan Collins to resign to become President Biden’s Ambassador to Canada effective May 15. Democratic Governor Janet Mills gains an opportunity to solidify her party’s majority in the US Senate with a rare Senatorial appointment.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
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I grew up in Laconia, NH and it warms my heart to see Donald Trump vigorously heckled multiple times at his closing rally there before the primary.
#resist
#nhpolitics
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue2024
#WriteInBiden
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When right wingers say "guns don't kill people; people do" - tell them they're right
#UniteBlue
#p2
http://t.co/o4XS6NPccd
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Please listen to every single word.
The thuggery the coward Trump is unleashing is unAmerican, unpatriotic, and underestimated in its danger to our United States.
#resist
#VoteBlue2020
#mepolitics
#coronavirus
#GunSense
#MAGA
#GOP
#KAG
#OpenAmerica
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JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg endorses
@joebiden
and his positive consequential Presidency and specifically rejects his cousin’s, RFK Jr.’s, “vanity project.”
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue2024
#BidenHarris2024
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@wcbuecker
@Twinsfan811
If he’s paying $9.79 for a dozen eggs, I have all kinds of things to sell him.
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The “left” does not care if he voted for Trump or wrote letters to his Representatives opposing impeachment - it cares about people not being murdered by Trump mobs.
Next stupid argument please.
#resist
#voteblue
#TrumpInsurrection
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Since when is a president allowed to use military bands and a national park for a not even thinly disguised campaign rally packing people in like sardines during a pandemic to make up for a recent poorly attended ticketed campaign event?
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
#MtRushmore
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Three points...
1 - Federal school funding is an unserious pittance.
2 - You don’t have the authority, see you in court.
3 - Last time you “funded education” was paying someone to take your SAT for you.
#resist
#mepolitics
#schoolsreopening
#VoteBlue
#VoteBiden
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As a former newspaper Circulation Director, I know effective newsstand display when I see it.
#p2
#resist
#UniteBlue
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As
@HC_Richardson
says today: “Someone who is prohibited from leaving a jurisdiction is not a citizen but a subject.”
That’s a driving impulse in the current Christo-Fascist
#GOP
, controlling Americans as subjects.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
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[offensive language warning]
“This is what happens to people who tell the truth in Trump’s America.”
Let’s make sure this is never, ever his America.
#resist
#mepolitics
#Insurrection
#January6th
#VoteBlue
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Sorry Abe that you had to see a 2nd Confederate President try to tear this nation apart.
#resist
#VoteBlue
#MtRushmore
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@sweetkeet
You realize the date; however, as one of her constituents I can tell you she’s not a moderate - it’s an act and she only cast a “moderate” vote with Mitch’s permission and when not a deciding vote.
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I could not be more proud of my former State Senator who I worked to elect and now Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, for standing up for our Constitution and the rule of law applying to all.
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows: "In reviewing the facts presented, the evidence, the law, the history, we determined under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that Mr. Trump engaged in insurrection, and therefore was disqualified."
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Thank you
@JoeBiden
. This is exactly the type of leadership the United States needs at this critical moment.
#resist
#VoteBlue
#mepolitics
#PresidentBiden
#CountAllTheVotes
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@joncoopertweets
Well, I think any of us facing some $500 fine for a small scale violation should just tell the judge "gimme 10 days and I'll give ya $175 smackers" and see how that shakes out.
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I believe Betsy DeVos will be able to do for public schools what Trump University did for colleges
#p2
#TheResistance
#UniteBlue
#mepolitics
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I'll take a candidate with treatable pneumonia over one with incurable xenophobia any day.
#mepolitics
#p2
#UniteBlue
#ImWithHer
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People who get $9,000,000 gifts when they head off to DC have no idea about your struggle to set aside $90 for the coming week’s groceries.
#resist
#VoteBlueGeorgia
#VoteBlue
#GASen
Support & elect the caring
@ReverendWarnock
.
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As a Mainer, I find the crassness of this self-absorbed rabid gun violence enabler sending her feckless, attention seeking “prayers” and not being thoughtful enough to spell “
#Lewiston
” correctly incredibly offensive.
Go away.
#resist
#VoteBlue
#GunControlNow
#mepolitics
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@johnpgatta
@cmclymer
Believe me, we fought hard and dragged her down by 18 points to 51%. We regret she won and will do everything in our power to oppose her, expose her, protest her, make her accountable, and end her career of harm.
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Do your job
@SenatorCollins
.
#resist
#VoteBlue2020
#MESen
#ConvictAndRemoveTrump
#TrumpImpeachmentTrial
#ModerateMyth
#mepolitics
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Oh, I get it now, toss the Kurds under the Turkish bus because...wait for it...”they didn’t help us with Normandy” during WWII.
#resist
#UniteBlue
#mepolitics
#impeach
#KurdsBetrayed
#DotardForeignPolicy
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Carrier 'deal': It's almost as if Mexico said, 'That factory is going built here & the United States is going to pay for it.'
#p2
#UniteBlue
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The
#GOP
takes over the reigns of power in the United States House of Representatives after winning the
#Midterms
in 2022.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
#GOPinDisarray
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Hey, it looks like Lara Trump and John Pence already got and cashed their
#StimulusChecks
America!
#resist
#VoteBlue
#mepolitics
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My daughter, Lindsay, married Ben at sea on his sailboat yesterday attended by our two immediate families after quarantines and attended by a small flotilla of dingies and kayaks socially distanced in gentle Maine waves. Long may they run!
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Gym Jordan threatens to release Joe Biden's tax returns if Trump's made public.
Already available here:
(Also the White House released his 2021 returns.)
Does the
#GOP
do any research or thinking before they start whining?
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
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Dear
@SenatorCollins
, is the proper etiquette for cleaning up after a meal of jury tampering paper or cloth napkins?
#ModerateMyth
#resist
#VoteBlue
#mepolitics
#MESen
#ImpeachTrump
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"...it’s not the media’s job to make Trump sound coherent."
We need to print the above statement in 200 point type and nail it to the newsroom doors of every major print and network TV outlet in the United States.
#resist
#VoteBlue
#HarrisWalz2024
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Wow! We’re finally getting to see Trump’s government healthcare plan. Everyone gets 8 doctors to lie for you, experimental therapies, free helicopter & limo rides. And you only need to pay $750 in taxes per year!
#resist
#mepolitics
#TrumpCovid
#coronavirus
#VoteBidenHarris2020
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@JoJoFromJerz
Same. For a couple years after being elected POTUS, I had a neighbor who had casket mounted on a wagon on his front lawn with Barack Obama’s name on it!
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"I can't
#WearAMask
"
"I'm so tired of lockdowns."
"Why should I
#GetVaccinated
?"
#resist
#VoteBlue2022
#mepolitics
#COVID19
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No calculation for unlikely Electoral votes in a MAGA infested state, no swipes at a
#climate
denying Governor who bashes him at every opportunity - just humane concern for the people of
#Florida
in a sharing country with exemplary Presidential leadership.
#VoteBlue
#Biden2024
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Reminder, everything
@SenatorCollins
said would not happen with
#Kavanaugh
and the
#GOPTaxScam
have come back to bite her and harm Mainers.
It’s Susan Collins who needs to learn a lesson.
#DefeatCollins
#resist
#MESen
#VoteBlue
#ComplicitGOP
#mepolitics
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I voted in Maine's primary for
@JoeBiden
today. He's one of the most accomplished modern Presidents despite entrenched GOP obstruction and a media obsessed with horserace reportage ignoring the stakes in this race. There's more to do!
#VoteBlue2024
#mepolitics
#BidenHarris2024
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Protests against Ohio’s stay-at-home order straight out of a Stephen King novel
(pic: Joshua Bickel)
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There is no "center" for Trump high crimes.
Voting "present" is avoiding a responsible tough decision and not a sign of leadership needed in a President.
#resist
#VoteBlue
#TulsiCoward
#nhpolitics
#ImpeachTrump
Gabbard votes "present" on impeaching Trump: "I am standing in the center"
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Probably one of the biggest takeaways we ought to learn from the whole criminal Trump mess is that we should have set a precedent in the 1970s and jailed Nixon.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
#TrumpForPrison
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Can we all just agree that if you are so scandal ridden that you have to arrange "catch and kill" agreements with tabloids that we don't need your security risk scandalous tendencies and bribery inclinations anywhere near our Oval Office.
#mepolitics
#TrumpTrial
#VoteBlue2024
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Today I was pulled over for speeding and the cop asked, “What’s the emergency?”
So I said, "I could get where I’m going over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this but I'd rather do it much faster."
#resist
#mepolitics
#NotesFromNationalEmergency
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I live in Maine and ‘I will not regret voting against
@SenatorCollins
in the least.’
#resist
#UniteBlue
#MESen
#mepolitics
#BlueWave2020
#ModerateMyth
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Long before Trump,
@SenatorCollins
sponsored legislation that manufactured a financial “crisis” in the US Postal Service that’s been used ever since in calls for cuts and privatization.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
#VoteBidenHarris2020
#FlipTheSenate
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.
@RepGolden
reverses his position and will support and fight for an assault weapons ban! He humbly apologized for past failures.
He is my member of Congress. I could not be more gratified and prouder. Thank you Jared from the people of
#Lewiston
,
#ME02
, &
#Maine
.
#mepolitics
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Did you ever want to shake someone and scream, “you’re just finding this out?”
#resist
#UniteBlue
#RacistInChief
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Where to begin?
-
@GovJanetMills
is not a Federal postal official or mail carrier
- The Postmaster General degrading service is a Trump appointee
- Parts of the USPS's demise can be traced to Susan Collins
-
@SpragueforMaine
surely knows "this woman" is a RW activist
#mepolitics
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Lot of truth to power from
@vijayprashad
.
#Climate
justice isn’t just nice sounding, self-congratulatory future goals but dealing with the present.
#resist
#mepolitics
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@ReproRights
We have a refugee crisis building in the United States.
Women forced to flee right-wing fiefdoms to protect themselves.
#resist
#VoteBlueToProtectWomensRights
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What a sad sick sleazy way to end one’s tenure as Speaker of the House of Representatives- bully firing the House Chaplin because he simply and honestly prayed that your
#GOPTaxScam
would not harm the poor.
#p2
#resist
#BlueWave2018
#DemForce
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In my book, should a tampered jury and compromised foreman deliver a “not guilty” verdict, it will not exonerate Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form. It only marks a cult being loyal to creeping fascism.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
#ImpeachTrump
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This photo taken on June 29 by Sam Geesaman, an employee at the Omni Mount Washington Resort in NH, shows a young black bear in a peaceful moment on the hotel veranda apparently enjoying the sunrise around 5 a.m.
#MEoutside
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I am struck by two things. Sec. of State Shenna Bellows is incredibly brave and dedicated in performing her duties under violent threats and how disturbing it is to know that hate is now an expected ‘normal’ outcome for doing so.
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue2024
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They eat their own.
“Oklahoma County Republicans on Saturday censured US Sen. James Lankford over his work on a failed border security deal.”
Working with colleagues to solve problems is the highest crime in Trump’s
#GOP
cult.
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue2024
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I’ve had it with ageist arguments & succession slams.
We will have 2 former VPs on our ticket in 2024 who were always ready from day one to step into history’s light if called upon.
@POTUS
and
@VP
both are far more qualified than Trump or any
#GOP
clone.
#VoteBlue
#BidenHarris
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Trump claims “a lot of key witnesses were not called” as his attorney who could have called anyone he wanted plays frown clown.
This is the legal eagle who wants you to elect him to appoint more conflicted
#SCOTUS
justices.
#VoteBlue2024
#TrumpTrial
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@realDonaldTrump
@AbeShinzo
What bothers me the most about this mush is that every
@POTUS
has a solemn obligation to keep domestic politics out of diplomacy so that the next President, regardless of party, can carry on with the interests of the whole of the USA, not any partisanship of the moment.
#resist
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“Yessir, I fondly remember when my daddy took me out to shoot my very first loaf of bread...”
The
#GunDense
way of life. Ridiculous!
#p2
#GunSense
#UniteBlue
#resist
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I always do three things at
#DaylightSavingTime
:
1) Spring clocks forward an hour,
2) Check batteries in smoke alarms,
3) Update passwords to stronger ones.
#resist
#mepolitics
#Russia
#Ukraine
️
#VoteBlue2022
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If you’re in Dana Point, California be sure to patronize and shop at Gleason’s because, unlike some people, they actually care about you and the public.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
#coronavirus
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After 24 years of being ineffective at influencing colleagues and playing to the press by pretending to be on the fence,
@SenatorCollins
, who will vote to acquit Trump, now wants 30 years to continue the charade.
Not a leader; not independent, not courageous.
#resist
#mepolitics
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I’ll get the usual “you can’t compare Trump to Hitler” push back but that’s not my message. What I’m comparing is the cultish, adoring, self-hypnotized crowds that enable travel along the road to strongman autocratic government.
#resist
#uniteblue
#mepolitics
#TrumpRally
#MAGA
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@soledadobrien
Your friend does not deserve a “green book” moment and if there are dangerous guests who are primed to menace minorities, the hotel should call the police.
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.
@SenatorCollins
has a history of a little work on edges of issues to get hopes up from advocacy orgs but these never create systemic results.
She then uses them to tout her "moderation."
AARP isn't standing for it.
#resist
#VoteBlue
#mepolitics
#MESen
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I disagree with those who say poor
@SenatorCollins
“got played” or she “caved” or she tried to “moderate” and improve the
#GOPTaxScam
bill w/her amendments. Bottom line is a 4-term Senator knows what she’s doing and voted her true core right wing beliefs.
#p2
#resist
#mepolitics
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BIG DEAL…
So Paul Ryan just announced he will not vote for Trump but will essentially help him get elected by not voting for a viable candidate.
WHAT A COP OUT.
#resist
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue2024
#CallowCoward
#https
://twitter.com/JasonCalvi/status/1787995461422289031/video/1
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Lesson from India and Poland:
“When they are reelected, populists nearly always become more radical and more dangerous.”
#resist
#voteblue
#mepolitics
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Happy Presidents' Day to the Presidents (100% of those now living) who did not vote for Trump.
#p2
#UniteBlue
#TheResistance
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@realDonaldTrump
Too bad we can’t get an independent poll of the poor people in
#NorthKorea
regarding their confidence in this “economic rocket” affecting their daily lives as you play photo-op, twitter-twaddle politics for people in your base in the US with their lives.
#resist
#UniteBlue
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Reminiscing about the previous admin's scandals:
@BarackObama
wore a tan suits &
@MichelleObama
said kids should eat vegetables.
#p2
#Resist
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We should hound to the ends of the earth any
#GOP
Senator who brazenly puts out a nice sounding press statement praising Martin Luther King, Jr on Monday but doesn’t back it up by removing the
#filibuster
and passing a badly needed
#VotingRights
bill.
#MLKDay
#mepolitics
#resist
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Truth to power hero of the day is the Badlands National Park social media manager.
#p2
#Climate
#TheResistance
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Rochester MN police chief joined protest march against police brutality
http://t.co/luRyftvo9c
#UniteBlue
#p2
http://t.co/00ROm1MLQu
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Dear
@SenatorCollins
;
Since we all have a lot going on this summer, could you please post the numerous open “town hall” event dates and places you plan across the state we love and you serve at our pleasure?
Respectfully;
Your Constituents
#resist
#mepolitics
cc:
@annieclark25
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Maybe if the Kurds had donated $100 million to the handbag princess instead of fighting ISIS...
#resist
#UniteBlue
#mepolitics
#KurdsBetrayedByTrump
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Note to
@realDonaldTrump
: This is what happens when a woman leads her country successfully through a
#pandemic
and puts safety and saving lives above scapegoating and political posturing.
#resist
#VoteBidenHarris2020
#mepolitics
#DumpTrump
#coronavirus
#COVID19
#NewZealand
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Perhaps a better way
@SenatorCollins
to honor Dr. King would have been not to introduce Jeff Sessions for AG, not to support judicial nominees who aim to curb voting rights, not to vote for the
#GOPTaxScam
, and to stop abetting Trump's racism.
#UniteBlue
#resist
#p2
#mepolitics
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to securing the civil rights of every American, fighting the evils of racism & segregation w/ dignity & courage. As we honor Dr. King and reflect on his legacy, we are reminded of our responsibility to carry his vision forward.
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“We should pardon Charles Manson so we can get on with having family dinners.”
#mepolitics
#resist
#VoteBlue2024
DeSantis, Haley pledge to pardon Trump if he’s convicted to put it all behind us and move on as a country.
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Pretty serious breach of Secret Service protocol at the
#debate
to let a convicted felon get this close to
@POTUS
.
#resist
#mepolitics
#BidenHarris
#VoteBlue2024
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Begs to be legally investigated. If felon Trump back-channeled a deal to hold a US citizen prisoner contingent on an election outcome favorable to him, then it is a treason case of collusion with a foreign power.
#mepolitics
#VoteBlue
#Gershkovich
@WSJ
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General Flynn actually took the Fifth when Congresswoman Cheney asked him ‘if he believed in the peaceful transfer of power’ in the United States.
He needs to be striped of rank, deemed dishonorably discharged, and taken off any pension.
#resist
#mepolitics
#January6thHearings
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Meanwhile I haven’t hugged my 85 year old Mom since March to protect her.
#resist
#voteblue
#mepolitics
#coronavirus
#VoteBidenHarris2020
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