In House Speaker race, Democrats show their totalitarian stripes
As Republicans futz around to elect a House Speaker, what's with all these tweets from Democrats?
Check out what the deep state activists among them with say-so are saying, such as left-wing Hillary Clinton lawyer Marc Elias:
NEW: "In 2020, all nine supported efforts to disenfranchise millions of Americans and inhibit the peaceful transfer of power."
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 23, 2023
Please read and share. https://t.co/bWZVIKnyc1
Get this: 7 out of 9 Republican House Speaker candidates voted to overturn the 2020 election results. Our democracy can't afford to have election deniers controlling the People's House. https://t.co/GAGFC5l34h
— End Citizens United (@StopBigMoney) October 23, 2023
Here's a paranoid one:
The election of Rep. Jim Jordan as speaker is almost a guarantee that the votes of the majority of the US electorate will be dismissed. There’s every likelihood Jordan will try to steal the election for Trump. The @HouseGOP voting for Speaker Jordan are trying to steal your vote.
— Alexander S. Vindman вќЋ (@AVindman) October 17, 2023
Old, fat, and paranoid is no way to go through life, Al.
Worse still, elected Democrats, presumably on the sidelines, but obviously looking for advantage have obviously adopted the same talking points:
So, Republicans just elected Tom Emmer to be the next Speaker. Don’t forget Tom Emmer also urged the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election result, voted against the January 6th Committee, & was hand-picked by Kevin McCarthy. Don’t be fooled: Tom Emmer is just as dangerous.
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) October 24, 2023
Democrats are open to a bipartisan way forward. But Members who tried to overturn a free and fair election have no business leading the People’s House. pic.twitter.com/ShNAJnAhvE
— Sara Jacobs (@SaraJacobsCA) October 23, 2023
Today, Republicans may make Jim Jordan the Speaker.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 17, 2023
Jordan would preside over the counting of electoral votes in the next election.
After he was deeply involved in trying to overturn the last one.
Just when you think they can’t be more irresponsible, they prove you wrong.
Jack Bergman (MI) election denier
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) October 22, 2023
Byron Donalds (FL) election denier
Tom Emmer (MN)
Kevin Hern (OK) election denier
Mike Johnson (LA) election denier
Dan Meuser (PA) election denier
Gary Palmer (AL) election denier
Austin Scott (GA)
Pete Sessions (TX) election denier https://t.co/ld5CBuajDp
7 out of 9 of the candidates for Speaker voted against certification of the 2020 election.
— Alex Padilla (@AlexPadilla4CA) October 23, 2023
Hear me out: election deniers HAVE NO PLACE IN LEADERSHIP.
Share if you agree.
It's amazing how alike they sound, isn't it? Almost like Elias sent them their marching orders.
What's creepy here is that even as they wax pious about "democracy," something they've never cared about before, given their propensity to burn the flag, what they're doing is calling for cancelling elected officials, saying that the House can't vote for them, because, democracy. The House can vote for anyone it likes for House Speaker. To bellow on about January 6 as a disqualifier is profoundly undemocratic. Apparently, no one is allowed to question election results when Democrats win.
It's not like Democrats don't do this sort of thing...
This is you, isn't it?
— Sawyer (@flippersrevenge) October 23, 2023
when will you resign then? hahaha. hypocrisy & gaslighting are now standard Padilla features.https://t.co/w9mRuqvua3
— Steve (@schristle2) October 24, 2023
That would take out a lot of Congress on both sides. pic.twitter.com/jAB8DmTD2d
— Dawn J (@dawnCJ100) October 24, 2023
But unlike Democrats, Republicans never said any of those Democrats weren't "allowed" to run for House leadership positions. Cripes, they've got Rep. Ilhan Omar, an anti-Semite straight from the pages of a V.S. Naipaul book about third-world confusion and resentment, in leadership positions -- and based on the information out there, it looks like she married her brother, too. But Republicans can't run for any such leadership position if they've ever questioned a skeevy election.
Padilla, who ironically, isn't elected at all, prattling on about the sacredness of elections and democracy is particularly loathesome, and not surprisingly, his hypocrisy drew a lot of good retorts from the locals. Here's a sample:
Election integrity is the issue, not election denial.
— Malachai Zamere (@ZamereMalachai) October 23, 2023
Fix the system so we can all agree.
What do you care how the House picks it’s next leader? Don’t you have any work to do?
— Maggie Melo🇨🇦🇺🇸🇵🇹 рџџ©в¬њпёЏрџџЄ (@MaggieMelo93292) October 23, 2023
Bottom line here is that Democrats are telling Republicans who they can run for leadership positions, and voters who they are allowed to elect. If that isn't their inner totalitarian screaming to get out, as David Horowitz might put it, what is?
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