@ScottPresler The people of Texas are the frog.
They wrote a new fable and tossed the scorpion in the river
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@schwagerTV @realDonaldTrump @TexasGOP @JohnCornyn Maybe the voters were the frog and they wrote their own story.
Frog tosses the layabout scorpion overboard before it gets the chance to sting them.
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Sen. Cornyn sharing his thoughts on the primary via the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
Unclear whether the scorpion is meant to be @realDonaldTrump or @TexasGOP voters — but the frog is absolutely supposed to be @JohnCornyn.
Senator John Cornyn@JohnCornyn
An old, but apt fable: A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia
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@LACaldwellDC It's not about them. How many more of them need to be booted before the fact that NONE of it is about them sinks in.
You hide behind the arcane time wasters that the Senate calls rules to simultaneously do nothing and still look clean to the plebs back home, get lost.
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John Cornyn comes out and says what senators have been telling me privately....
They’re perplexed, angry, and, in some cases, resigned to the conclusion that Trump cares more about himself than the midterms. puck.news/gop-mini-rebel…
Senator John Cornyn@JohnCornyn
An old, but apt fable: A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia
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@brithume If the Senate continues to utterly ignore the will of the people, we will replace more of them.
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Quote: "Do the math. In a Senate where Republicans hold 53 seats, Mr. Trump has alienated more senators than he can afford to lose. And as Mr. Trump’s influence over the national GOP grows, his control of the Senate weakens." wsj.com/opinion/free-e…
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@reidhoffman The man was prevented from mounting a defense.
Your pet loon had no facts on her side.
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1/ Trump was found liable for sexually assaulting E Jean Carroll, defaming her, and now he’s going after her again.
Trump cannot be allowed to use the full weight and power of the US Government to come after women who speak up, or anyone who supports them in doing so.
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@MattH_4America No you won't.
He can't help himself.
Massie has only just begun ruining his own reputation.
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@kate_p45 Thune is the front man for a nest of vipers. Simple as that.
He takes the heat.
The rest get to lie their asses off to their constituents.
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Can we just be honest for once?
If EVERY Republican Senator grew a spine and publicly told John Thune:
“We’re not leaving DC, we will NOT gavel in, and we refuse to block President Trump’s recess appointments,” Thune would fold faster than a cheap lawn chair and the entire America First agenda, including the SAVE Act, would actually get passed.
But nah, they won’t.
That’s the most infuriating part. We all know exactly why.
They’d rather protect their precious “collegiality,” keep their lobbyist checks, and play nice with Democrats than unite behind President Trump and pass the laws that "We The People" voted for.
Spineless. Predictable. Pathetic.
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@JayTC53 "AMERICA 1ST" retreat in Costa Rica ought to have given someone pause before sending it.
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@LibertyLockPod Because you don't piss on Senators you can't get rid of.
Show me the primary opponent who can unseat Graham. If one existed, Graham would turn hard right for the election and beat them.
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Republicans who Trump endorsed:
Lindsey Graham
Tom Cotton
Ted Cruz
"RINO's" he wanted eliminated:
Massie, Boebert, MTG
This is George Orwell level revisionism. Trump may have been a threat to the establishment many years ago but today he is their greatest weapon.
Eric Trump@EricTrump
This is the exact reason they tried to throw him in jail/kill him multiple times… @realDonaldTrump will go down as the greatest RINO hunter in the history of politics.
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The funny thing if it was Paxton who held heretical views on Christianity and Talerico who was the corrupt adulterer, Christian Republicans would be defending the heretical views and condemning the corruption and adultery. You know it's true. It's all about a will to power. We will tolerate anything as long as think we're getting a seat at the big boy's table.
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@SensibleFascist You wanna get rid of Graham, you gotta build an organization and campaign that can beat him.
He's too powerful to piss off without knowing you'll win. That's political reality.
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This is why I just laugh whenever the retard rightists mention people like Lindsay Graham. “bUt WhY wOnT tRuMp PrImArY gRaHaM???” It’s comically simple:
I despise Graham but unlike clowns like Massie, he’s smart. Neocons like Lindsay know how to play the game: NEVER publically attack Trump. Vote with him on all the headline news bills. Only be subversive behind the scenes by sneaking insane laws into omnibus bills during closed door committees.
The retard rightists like Massie on the other hand don’t understand this. They’re ideological absolutists, so the realities and realpolitik of running the most powerful nation to ever exist in all of human history don’t mean shit to them.
Trump didn’t round up 100 million brown people and drop them out of helicopters into the Pacific Ocean and nuke Tel Aviv on the day he was inaugurated? ZION DON IS A JEWISH TRAITOR AND IS THE ANTICHRIST AND WE MUST VOTE FOR THE “legalize brown people raping white children” PARTY TO STOP HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
captive dreamer@captive_dreamer
Its simple. This is Trump's GOP. You simply cannot go against him and win. What's the list of people that have tried? Cornyn. Massie. Liz Cheney. Mitt Romney. Justin Amash. All gone.
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@greggnunziata I doubt there's much question of that.
I'm pretty sure most of the Senate can't or won't do the job of a Senator.
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Lots of commentary about whether Ken Paxton is capable of winning a general election, curiously little about whether he's capable of performing the job of senator.
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@DerrickEvans4WV Of course he is, but Trump isn't going to waste his endorsement on a challenger who doesn't stand a chance.
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Lindsey Graham is a POS RINO.
Nothing Trump says will ever change my opinion on that.
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@JackPosobiec Generals vs Globetrotters
Establishment Republicans lose like it's their job because it is their job.
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People say Republicans don't know how to fight but that's not true at all
Just look how hard they fought against Ken Paxton
Now ask why they don't fight the Democrats that hard
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@TPCarney You mean the Cornyn who's part of the leadership that is quite deliberately preventing the President from making recess appointments.
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I disagreed with Cornyn a ton, but he helped confirm conservative judges, cut individual income taxes, expand the Child Tax Credit, and generally voted the pro-life line.
JJS@jamesseegs
@TPCarney I’m so glad that your way of thinking is being rejected by 2 to 1 in Texas. Maybe Republican policies will actually be put in place.
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@neoavatara An election isn't a who's the most Christian contest.
It a strategic choice.
Who will allow me and my family to live a Christian life unencumbered by government?
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Most of these people care more about politics than their faith.
I mean, that is kind of the problem, isn't it?
Erick Erickson@EWErickson
At some point, actual Christians, not just the ones who call themselves that, are gonna have to opt out of politics for the parties to improve the quality of their candidates. Continuing to insist Christians vote for evil, so long as it’s lesser than the other, is getting old.
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@michaeljknowles The voters removed him.
They were sick and tired of his sick and tired antics.
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Why did the Israel lobby remove Cornyn? That is the key to understanding all these primary upsets, right?
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