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Adam Kinzinger has some Strong Advice for deflated Dem Reps [1]

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Date: 2025-02-03

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Live up to your Oaths ...

Kinzinger to House Dems: ‘Get out there and do something’ about Musk

thehill.com — 2/3/2025

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“All these agencies where employees are being locked out of, how about you send members of Congress with those employees to walk them into work, or just send members [of] Congress to go into the building and investigate what these people are doing, dare them to stop you because they can’t,” [former Congressman Adam] Kinzinger said in a video posted on the social platform X. “Okay, that’s a free idea,” he added. “Why is it that the former Republicans are the ones that are coming up with all the ideas? Get out there and do something, you’re in the minority. Your message is your weapon. Use your message. Quit staying at home.”

[...] “Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing ,” Kinzinger also captioned his Monday X post.

Good advice, Rep Kinzinger.

I hope half the Dems, start taking their Oaths of Offices, even half as seriously as you have done.

Half as seriously as our civil servants have done, and are continuing to do …



'Fork off': Protesters gather outside OPM to condemn Elon Musk 'stealing' personal data

www.usatoday.com — 2/3/2025

"Musk can fork off," said Keya Chatterjee, a former federal employee who is now the executive director of Free D.C., a local social justice nonprofit, as she held up a fork – a reference to a memo sent by Musk to government workers entitled “fork in the road” that offered workers eight months of pay to incentivize their resignation.

[...] "They're stealing all of our data. They're stealing our servers, and it is not theirs to have," she said. "We will take it back."

[...] At the protest, demonstrators erupted in cheers, and later, chants of, “We don’t want your tech solutions, give us back our constitution,” and "Elon, Elon, have you heard? You're a nasty, fascist nerd." [...]

Where are the Dem Reps, when their constituents need them most?

First they came for my <b><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/2/2300956/-Acting-FBI-Director-DEFIES-Trump-in-SHOCK-move">co-workers</a></b> — and I said nothing ...

And if ‘hitting the streets’ is not really in their wheel-house, here are some steps they can take, that definitely are:

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