What is happening on the floor of the United States of House of Representatives is tragic.

Tragic because it was preventable. Tragic because most of the Republicans in the House are themselves brainwashed into believing that this is all *just politics.*

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I take no joy in supporting impeachment against the President.

In fact, it pains my soul to know that the Commander in Chief launched an attack on his own people, on the People's House, on democracy.

It is tragic.

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Our checks and balances have failed.

Our institutions of justice have failed.

The only power that has not failed is the power of the American people. We voted and we won.

And that's why Trump attacked it.

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This is an attack on us as a people. It is an attack on those the autocrat cannot control. He has radicalized those who feel disenfranchised and he sent them into the Capitol as his pawns while he watched the attack with glee from afar.

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He was capable of doing this because he has not one or two or even three lieutenants in Congress--but over 150 of them.

Their loyalty to Trump--their thirst for power--their devotion to a political party--and, yes, their fear of exiting the cult--has ruined our country.

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These Lieutenants of Autocracy offered a salute to the terrorist forces through Josh Hawley

They legitimized the lie that the election was stolen by signing onto amicus briefs.

They validated the myth every single time they went on tv + made unproven claims of voter fraud.

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And then they worked to complete the job of the terrorists by voting to overturn the election.

They are not merely working with the terrorists, they are the orchestrators and megaphones of the Sedition.

Today they protect their leader, shielding him from accountability.

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This is why they must be expelled from the US House of Representatives. You can't have people legislating for a government they don't believe is legitimate.

Not one of the seditionists who voted to overturn the election has stepped forward to tell the truth--that they lied.

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You *must* remove seditionists from the government. Failure to do so emboldens the terrorists who attacked the Capitol last week.

They continue to see themselves in positions of high government leadership. It further legitimizes them. It emboldens them.

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You cannot fear the backlash. You cannot bend to the mob. You cannot negotiate with terrorists.

And if you do not have the stomach to do the hard things, you too need to step aside.

What's happened is tragic, but more tragic is allowing it to continue.

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More from Lindsey Simmons

Dear Senator Hawley's Staff--

I'm sure you're loyal to your boss, but this man incited violence and you helped him. There is no "following orders" defense that will save you. You are part of this now.

And it is so much more serious than him simply "raising concerns."

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Prior to November 3rd, Joshua had nothing to say about Pennsylvania's vote by mail legislation.

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In fact, Joshua didn't have squat to say about election integrity either.

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By November 4th, when it was apparent that Trump would likely lose the election, Joshua--as a sitting US Senator--started tweeting out that Michigan was hiding secrets from the public.

Sowing doubt. Fanning the flames.

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So Joshua started this fake call for election integrity--a call he'd never made before.

At first he threw the whole kitchen sink out there--BigTech, ballot harvesting, poll watchers, counting, etc.

Sowing doubt. Fanning the flames.

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Handy guide for Dominic Raab and other Brexiteers, and for anyone keen to replace our EU trade with trade with the rest of the world on WTO terms...


You can't magic away the vast distances involved. Clue: we fly in only 1/192th of our trade compared to the amount that arrives via sea


But even if you invented a teleporter tomorrow, WTO terms are so bad, so stacked against us, that a no-deal Brexit will be a total economic disaster


And while the Brexiteers fantasise, real jobs are being lost, investments are drying up, companies are moving assets to the EU27 or redomiciling. All already happened and happening right now, not in some mythical


Of course, there are many, many myths that Brexiteers perpetuate that are total fiction. You've seen a couple of them already. The thread below busts a whole lot

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