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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 01:44 AM Dec 2018

TO: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)

Last edited Tue Dec 11, 2018, 02:49 AM - Edit history (1)

Madam:

I understand that you are calling on incoming House GOP campaigns chief Tom Emmer and the rest of the leadership team to determine what went wrong for Republicans in the 2018 midterms.

I think I can help you out here, because the answer seems pretty bleedin’ obvious. But then you Republicans aren’t as quick on the uptake as the rest of the population.

The most glaring problem you have is your “pResident” – you know, the guy who’s under investigation for all sorts of nefarious deeds. He kept insisting that the midterms were “all about him” (isn’t everything?), and voters responded accordingly.

This might surprise you, but the majority of the citizenry don’t think a lying, thieving crook should be running the country, nor do they believe that his GOP enablers should be in office. Given how spineless elected Republicans in congress are, and how derelict they have been in carrying out their Constitutional duty to act as a check on presidential power, it should be apparent why so many of them were kicked in the ass and told to go home.

Your party has proven itself more than willing to ignore the middle-class it invariably pretends to champion – and many voters have finally woken up to that indisputable fact. In the past two years, your party has blown up the deficit in order to give massive tax-cuts to the wealthy, and is now threatening to gut Medicaid and social security. Just how many working people do you think are on-board with that bullshit? Try thinking it through.

Your “pResident’s” tariffs are causing prices to go up, and businesses are failing as a result. How many farmers who are losing their farms do you think lined-up to vote for the party that caused their predicament? How many business owners do you think rushed to the polls to ensure that their Trump-enabling congress critters could continue to put them out of business? Seriously, ma’am – this isn’t rocket science. It’s Common Sense 101 – and your party is failing the course.

There are a lot of Americans who are way too intelligent to buy into the GOP shtick about being “on their side”, when the only side that’s benefiting is the side who needs write-offs for their private jets.

There are a lot of Americans who see kidnapping migrant children from their parents and putting them in cages is NOT only unacceptable – it is an outrage that goes against everything we stand for as a nation.

There are a lot of women voters who refuse to support a party that consistently treats them as second-class citizens, whose dominion over their own bodies is something to be decided by old white men. And the fact that your “pResident” is a self-proclaimed pussy-grabber hasn’t exactly endeared you to females across the country. Good lord, is this really news to you? Exactly whose ass have you had your head buried in for the past two years, a position which has rendered you ignorant beyond belief?

There are a lot of young voters who don’t understand why they are at risk of being gunned-down in their classrooms because Republicans are in bed with the NRA, or why climate change – which will affect their generation more so than any other – is being ignored by a party allegedly looking out for their best interests.

There are a lot of citizens who have watched your party look the other way while your racist-in-chief sows division and encourages violence, while he throws around terms like “shithole countries” and lauds Nazis and white supremacists as “very fine people”.

Seriously, ma’am, I don’t understand why YOU don’t understand what is causing your party to haemorrhage members and lose elections. It seems pretty obvious to everyone with a functioning brain – but perhaps therein lies your problem.

The vast majority of American voters despise the party that kow-tows to a “pResident” who in turn kow-tows to our enemies. It should have been apparent to you from day one that voters wouldn’t come out in droves to support Putin’s bitch, the idiot who tweets incoherent nonsense 24/7, the self-serving narcissist who is being investigated for – among other things – putting his own financial welfare above the well-being of his country, and the world at large.

But if you insist on having a heart-to-heart discussion with your party colleagues as to why you are quickly becoming politically toxic, by all means do so. And while you’re at it, you might look at who in your party has been sleeping with the enemy, who in your party has Russian-sourced money to be explained away, who in your party has benefited from turning a blind eye to your “pResident’s” oh-so-obvious corruption.

The fact that you actually need to have the bleedin’ obvious spelled out for you is just another reason why your party is crumbling before your eyes. You just don’t get it – and obviously never will.

“We saddled the middle-class with debt in order to give tax breaks to the rich, we continue to enable an idiot who is destroying our former standing as a world leader, and we’re still defending the ludicrous lies of a “pResident” whose only priority is saving himself from winding up in prison for his crimes.”

Face it, honey – that’s not a winning strategy. And the idea that you need that to have that pointed out to you and your colleagues demonstrates just how incredibly clueless you really are.

--- NanceGreggs (US citizen, registered Democrat, consistent voter, and person who knows the difference between Shit and Shinola)


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TO: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) (Original Post) NanceGreggs Dec 2018 OP
That was perfect. CentralMass Dec 2018 #1
Brilliant, Nance.. Thank You! Cha Dec 2018 #2
I wish I could rec this x1000. Well said. n/t susanna Dec 2018 #3
would love for all voters to read that Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #4
Everyone of those congressmen who voted for this 'welfare' for the rich tax break should be fired. YOHABLO Dec 2018 #5
I live in her district LoveMyCali Dec 2018 #6
Perfect. Scarsdale Dec 2018 #7
Bravo! KelleyKramer Dec 2018 #8
Now what is ole Tom going to do with all of the time you saved him? grantcart Dec 2018 #9
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.nt procon Dec 2018 #10
Also, your billionaire donors are a problem, Elise sharedvalues Dec 2018 #11
k&r all day long BSdetect Dec 2018 #12
Great post Gothmog Dec 2018 #13
Ditto Nance. Excellent post as usual. NT SWBTATTReg Dec 2018 #14
This current GOP could be a The Wizard Dec 2018 #15

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,039 posts)
4. would love for all voters to read that
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 02:27 AM
Dec 2018

We need to kick some "bothsides" (alleged) journalists to the curb with their GOPer buddies, too.

LoveMyCali

(2,015 posts)
6. I live in her district
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 03:51 AM
Dec 2018

and I can tell you that she doesn't know because she's an honest to goodness idiot! She also lacks the spine necessary to lift her head up and look around to see what's going on. She refuses to show up for town halls and does what ever she can to avoid her constituents. I seriously can't stand this woman.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
11. Also, your billionaire donors are a problem, Elise
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 08:57 AM
Dec 2018

They’re selling out the country for money and power.
Stop taking money from rightwing billionaires .

The Wizard

(12,482 posts)
15. This current GOP could be a
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 11:31 PM
Dec 2018

a movie called " A Farce Writing Itself." This is what minority ruled government looks like. They're still in denial about the midterms. We have people in Congress with thought disorders. We have a chief executive who gets exposed daily as a mental defective. It's as if they ate the brown acid Wavy Gravy warned about at Woodstock.

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