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onetexan

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12. WOW, the last 2 short paragraphs are quite strong and very powerful

Reply to mia (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:14 PM

Aug 2017

"Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions. We took a patriotic oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values. Your values are not American values. We MUST be better than this. We ARE better than this. If this is not clear to you, then we call on you to resign your office, too."

especially that last sentence.

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