The Republican party is broken, not Congress.

[greyl]

Link to tweet

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Best thing Maher has ever said.

[JHB]

26. And he's years too late in finally saying it.

He might also stop giving a platform to the people who work to keep Republicans broken.

[betsuni]

2. This cannot be repeated enough.

[Cha]

7. Maher was spectacular tonight!

One for the ages!

[betsuni]

8. Good thing to post the next time the inevitable BOTH SIDES nonsense appears.

[Cha]

9. Yes! Bookmarking! I don't see how anybody

who's paying attention could say that.. or else they have a toxic agenda.

So Schultz says it.. but as Maher said .. "Howard Schultz doesn't know shit from shinola" "..wants to be the barista in chief.. " lol

[UniteFightBack]

24. I agree and until they are fixed they obviously cannot be trusted. Hence we cannot just hand

over Virgina to the GOP.

[Hortensis]

3. +1000. WaPo: "Let's just say it: The Republicans are the Problem"

This was on a 2012 opinion piece by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, leading off with a Republican congressman claiming there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party." They pointed out that they'd never seen congress so dysfunctional.

They hadn't seen nothing yet, of course, and titled their 2016 book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism"

Let's just say it: The Republican Party is now trying to destroy our democracy.

And we're the good guys who aren't going to let them.

[katmondoo]

18. They have been working towards ruin for 40 years

[Hortensis]

19. Yes. Most who didn't realize it and only now are seeing

what their party has become are, shockingly, proven willing to support genuinely evil and increasingly authoritarian actions by powerful, oppressive governments --as long as they're run by their leaders.

As for the leaders, the political survival, personal fortunes, and even freedom of too many now depends on their taking over government. Democracy itself is a grave danger to them.

Scary.

[JHB]

27. Another important point: they, Ornstein in particular, were talk-show regulars...

...right up until that article was published. Then they vanished. Blackballed. The producers who schedule guests for shows all simultaneously "accidentally" deleted them from their contacts lists.

"Liberal media" my ass.

[Hortensis]

28. I must not have been watching then, but I've seen it happen to others.

Thanks for pointing this out. Daytime shows especially are heavily loaded for Democrats.

[pansypoo53219]

4. disloyal opposition. we maybe socialists, but they are commie oligarchs.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Absolute truth.

Enough of this "both sides" bullshit. One side is the problem. And it's them.

[rampartc]

6. should be required viewing

[duforsure]

10. Putin has corrupted the Republican party and trump

Because they were already so corrupted, and easy to threaten to expose, and throw money at to compromise them even more, and from holding that against them. Putin has taken advantage of us for allowing them to get to that point without holding them accountable, and become such an easy target for them to use and manipulate, like they've easily done to trump. They reeled trump in by giving him more ,and more money they knew he wouldn't be able to pay back, then tightened their noose on him.

[Lithos]

11. Not true

Big business such as the Koch's corrupted and made whores of the GOP. Putin and his mob are just the latest in a long string of Johns who are putting their money down for services rendered.

[2naSalit]

12. Good point.

[duforsure]

17. I agree, and you're exactly right,

But putin is taking advantage of all the corruption now, and using it against us. He's infiltrating our government and doing like he did in russia. There only the businesses he wants prospers, and he skims from them or outright takes them over to personally profit from. Its moving from businesses to one person here now, if its not stopped. The Koch's are already running away from trump . trump is also doing like putin did trying set up HIS system of justice where he becomes the judge, the jury , and the executioner, again like Putin has done in russia. Lets hope this trend is stopped.

[Duppers]

21. +100

[lpbk2713]

13. Eisenhower and Dirksen would never recognize today's GOP.

In fact, they would be ashamed.

[Poiuyt]

23. For that matter, Reagan wouldn't recognize today's Republican party either

[Kurt V.]

14. the rep party isn't broken, that's a feature.

to appease the donor class and privatize as much of the govt as possible.

[mountain grammy]

15. He's said this before

In a million different ways and he’s always been right on about it.

[Jarqui]

29. +1

[ck4829]

16. K&R

[treestar]

20. That was good to hear

McConnell doesn't care about the nation - just power and misusing it for the Rs ends.

[Duppers]

22. THAT was the BEST rant he's had in a long while.

And to you and yours, my friend. Hi to Pi for me.

[ooky]

25. Thank you Bill.

It won't change M$M's drumbeat of this endless propaganda, but its nice to hear some honesty being spoken all the same.