@SenWhitehouse Senator do you understand what it means when judges claim to be 'originalists'? They mean they want the Constitution to be exactly as it was originally written w/o all later amendments. They only want rich, powerful, land owning, white men to vote. They want to take America 1/
@SenWhitehouse Back to Colonial times. They claim to love the Constitution so much, yet want to intertwine religious laws instead of civil laws in our daily lives, ie, Christian Sharia Law. I don't understand why Democrats aren't screaming from the rooftops about this. Everyone but trump 2/
@SenWhitehouse Is a member of Council for National Policy, a hate group posing as Christians per @splcenter. They hate LGBTQ, Muslims, liberals, POC, & want women to be seen not heard. They're Dominionists. Sarah Palin was their entry into mainstream GOP politics. They want christofascist 3/
@SenWhitehouse@splcenter Theocracy by 2020. I'm an #exvangelical. In every evangelical church, they tell people that liberals/Democrats are evil, immoral, & want to take away their religious freedoms. I heard it myself & quit going. This is happening ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. Telling parishioners to vote 4/
@SenWhitehouse@splcenter For Republicans. Before the election, they told people if they loved God they'd vote for trump. They are nothing but power hungry Pharisees. They adopted the abortion issue to co-opt female voters. The Moral Majority formed over desegregation & threats to their loss of tax 5/
@SenWhitehouse@splcenter Exempt status. The male evangelical leaders DGAF about abortion. Once abortion became legal, there was statistical data for GOP bean counters that most abortions are performed on white women & that white people would be a minority in America by around 2040. They DGAF about 6/
@SenWhitehouse@splcenter Babies once they're born. They just want to control women & ensure white people don't die off. Republicans have enacted lots of laws to institutionalize white, male supremacy. They believe the rest of us are too stupid to run the country. Evangelicals are a cult. You get the 7/
@SenWhitehouse@splcenter Same message in church; Christian broadcasting; right wing radio; & #FoxNews. They're brainwashing people. I bet if all churches, religious groups, & non-profits were taxed this crap would stop. They take in trillions of tax free dollars, preach hate, & do nothing 4 folks. 8/
@SenWhitehouse@splcenter Please look at this overview a Twitter friend of mine put together. It's a brief overview on how we got here. I hope you'll share it @SenWhitehouse with your sane congressional colleagues. We're in danger. Please fight #ForThePeople. /Fin
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@SenJeffMerkley Senator thank you for all you do. This process was never meant to be fair or right. This whole thing was a coup. It was plotted & planned over decades by Republicans. A bunch of mediocre, entitled, rich, trust fund, misogynist, racist, white men wanted revenge for being 1/
@SenJeffMerkley Forced to give women & minorities rights against their wills. I was told this by one of them on 11/9/16. They voted 4 trump to make us 'relearn our place' & bow down to white men again. The problem is they underestimated women. They incorrectly assumed that they could silence 2/
@SenJeffMerkley All of us like they silenced us in our youth when they assaulted us. We're not the same women anymore. The pain they caused us has made us warriors. We will never allow them to hurt our children or grandchildren like they did us. A reckoning is coming. They know it. They 3/
@JohnWDean@JohnWDean, you have influence and I'm just a mom fighting for the future of my children & grandchildren. I hope you'll listen to me. I've read & studied a lot about how we got here. TBH I believe this was intended to happen under Nixon. The same men gave us both: Manafort, 1/
@JohnWDean Stone, Ailes, Bossie. They used the same routine to get elected: Southern Strategy; Law & Order; Fear of change/minorities; white men scared of sharing the table with women & minorities. They were both criminals, paranoid, egotistical. IMHO Nixon was treasonous too. He went 2/
@JohnWDean Behind Johnson's back to the Vietnamese. The crime is pretty much the same too. The difference btwn then & now is that the GOP had morals & played by the rules. Watergate taught the GOP that Democrats are moral, decent, & put the country b4 self. The democrats made a huge 3/
@ChrisCoons@NancyZawadzki Senator did you read any of the comments on this tweet? The overwhelming majority are from women. What men in Congress don't seem to understand is that my rights, as a woman, are completely under assault. Since 11/9/16, I've envisioned every worst case scenario. Do you realize 1/
@ChrisCoons@NancyZawadzki That when they talk about a SCOTUS being an originalist, they mean they only want the Constitution to be as it was originally written. No civil rights, no women's rights, and only rich, white, property owners can vote. We need Democrats to bring a gun to this gun fight. My 2/
@ChrisCoons@NancyZawadzki Rights and the rights of our daughters & sons aren't up for negotiations. You need to realize that the GOP has been playing a decades long, long-term plan. They knew about our changing demographics bc of Roe v Wade. They know most abortions are on white women. They don't care 2/
@neeratanden Neera please look at the attached graphic. None of this happening is a coincidence. Trump was part of a long-term plan of the GOP to seize power. People like me have been trying to get anyone to listen to us. People don't understand the dangers we truly face. 1/
@neeratanden This is the group behind this coup. Almost everyone in this regime is a member. Their goal is christofascist theocracy by 2020. Why do you think there's been a push to rewrite the Constitution? 2/
@neeratanden Please look at these documents from #CNP for Betsy DeVos for the department of education. They are Dominionists not Christians. There's a huge difference. 3/
@carolecadwalla@Bloomberg@Nigel_Farage OMFG Carole. I could kiss you. I'm American & I used to be a broker/banker. I've been screaming on Twitter & Facebook since the US election that these bastards manipulated the markets, but no one would listen. I remember here that the polls claimed @HillaryClinton was going to 1/
@carolecadwalla@Bloomberg@Nigel_Farage@HillaryClinton Win. I read an article from, I think ABC news in 12/16, that a pollster contacted the trump campaign on election night to tell him there was no way he'd win before all the polls closed based upon exit polling. The timing would've given them time to manipulate their digital 2/
@carolecadwalla@Bloomberg@Nigel_Farage@HillaryClinton Campaign in areas that hadn't finished voting yet. I wish I could get this reporter to look into market activity by Mercers hedge fund. In addition, I believe these thieves have been using trumps Twitter feed to manipulate markets & specific stocks, ie, Boeing, Amazon, et al. 3/
Based upon interactions with his 'fans', they don't care wtf he does as long as he hurts people & upsets 'libruls'. On 11/9/16 I had a chat with a Tea Party male. He told me that trump was elected bc 'Obama gave women & POC too many rights & we needed to relearn our place'. 1/
Trump promised to punish people they didn't like. This is a revenge presidency. Most of his base are narcisstic sociopaths like him & the sycophants surrounding him within the Republican party. The crueler he is, the happier they are. But they didn't think this through. They 2/
Assumed that they wouldn't suffer if they were loyal to him. The problem is he's only loyal to himself. He's a marketer. He sells BS. People are coming out of their kool-aid induced comas. My concern is what the sociopaths will do when he completely screws them too. 3/