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(135,831 posts)NCDem47
(2,248 posts)Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Phoenix.
KS Toronado
(17,235 posts)Hell, every town in America gets at least one so MSM will start talking about it. Remind voters who
doesn't give a shit about them. We're in a fight, so let's fight.
soldierant
(6,866 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Here's how many Republicans voted for relief payments to your local diners (where we know all real Americans hang out away from those evil urban population centers): 0
Here's how many Republicans voted for relief of family farms to keep them from going under: 0
And so on, and so forth.
KS Toronado
(17,235 posts)Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)It absolutely needs to be put up nationwide.
Is the website listed REALLYAMERICAN.COM a safe place to donate to this ?
Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)KS Toronado
(17,235 posts)We can sure spread this on social media though if real ones never materialize.
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)Great message, though!
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)but the problem we'd have even if someone came up with funding is that most billboards are owned by some fine loyal republicon advertising corporations. They probably would refuse something like that.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Ligyron
(7,632 posts)Reaction and reasoning of a large part of the GOP base.
MiHale
(9,722 posts)Let em spread like mushrooms there.
They can't squirm their way out of that one.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)And those who aren't hurting will blame Biden for disrupting Trump's fine economy.
You can't reach these people, not with a billboard, not with a bullhorn, not with logic, not with emotion. They've been conditioned and brainwashed. Only veritable deprogramming will be effective.
BComplex
(8,051 posts)That's the new twist on Reaganomics.
AllaN01Bear
(18,205 posts)iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Blue Owl
(50,373 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Good! If they were normal, decent people, they'd realize how anti-human, anti-society and downright cruel their actions are, and assume the look of a deer in headlights. The look of a deer staring death in the face.
Evolve Dammit
(16,733 posts)malaise
(268,997 posts)This is great
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)on which a republican lives that voted NO on the American Rescue Act, get a truck and park right it out on there front door step on the public roads that taxpayer paid for, in front of there county election offices where these crypto fascists' live and have re-election offices.............
wnylib
(21,454 posts)where the GQP congressman hopes to run for governor of NY next year.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)wnylib
(21,454 posts)He has tried since then to remake his image into a moderate through his membership in the problem solvers coalition. It's a superficial, phony remake since he is a trumpist who was co-chair of the Trump campaign in NY. But he is a smooth liar, skilled at doublespeak, and he flashes a big smile. His policies and views are as vile as any magat, but he projects a "nice guy" image that impresses people who don't look at his voting record or listen to what he is really saying.
His family business is healthcare debt collections. There were some serious complaints about tactics he used and false accusations he made of people who owed nothing that sound almost like extortion. For some reason, the media don't cover that and have helped him promote his moderate nice guy remake. But the trail is there for anyone to look into. He went through his first term without divesting himself from his business, even when told to. Eventually he put it in his wife's name. When challenged on that, he turns it around and asks, "Don't you believe that women should be allowed to run a successful business?" That totally sidesteps the issue of conflicts of interest since he still benefits from the business through his wife and also votes on health care issues and costs.
Tom Reed would be a total disaster for NY state if he became governor.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)Response to turbinetree (Reply #45)
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wnylib
(21,454 posts)Affordable Care Act, someone suggested that it was because Obamacare would cut into his debt collection profits.
Reed could barely wait to go to the media with outrage over complaints about Cuomo, calling Cuomo "disgusting, shameful." He called for impeachment over the sexual harrassment complaints and arrest over the nursing home investigation. Yet, he voted both times against impeachment for Trump.
Reed is political toast now. A woman, Nicolette Davis, came forward to Huffington Post complaining that Reed groped her in 2017 when she was at a networking meeting in Minneapolis. She was a 25 year old lobbyist for Aflac at the time. The group was in a restaurant bar/lounge when Reed rubbed her back, pinched open the clasp on her bra, and stroked her thigh. She asked for help and another person escorted Reed out of the restaurant.
Reed initially issued a statement that "This account of my actions is not accurate." But witnesses with the lobbyist who made the complaint have corroborated her claim, including the person at Aflac who was her superviisor at the time because she had reported it to the company.
NY Senator Gillibrand said the complaint was being referred to the House ethics committee. Reed then issued a public apology, said he will not run for any elected office in 2022 when his House term is up. Reed says he has sought treatment for alcohol addiction since the incident in 2017. The state Republican chairman was mentioned in a Huffpost article about Reed's apology, so I suspect that he was told not to run again.
His district is purple, but leans to the right. A good Dem candidate could get elected in his place, but it would need to be a strong one with good public appeal.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)for the information he really is a scum bag.............
StevenJoseph
(2,657 posts)I wonder how it would look with the tiniest of Capitol G's right before the zero, and the tiniest of capitol P's right after the zero, both at the very bottom of the zero.
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)All over the country
Joinfortmill
(14,419 posts)speak easy
(9,249 posts)Cha
(297,220 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)I'll donate if someone starts a legit funding page.
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(13,109 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)Link to tweet
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