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Ilsa

(61,695 posts) Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:42 AM Aug 2017

I don't know why I bothered. Oh yeah, because I love my country.

I called my congressman's office. Made a prepared, impassioned plea about doing something about what trump said yesterday.

The response was, "we put up a statement on the Congressman's website." Me: That's it? Can you not censure him? Do something to undo the promotion of nazis and white supremacists?" And then they hung up. Fuckers.

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I don't know why I bothered. Oh yeah, because I love my country. (Original Post) Ilsa Aug 2017 OP

They are there to make another run at erasing what's left of the New Deal. The_Casual_Observer Aug 2017 #1

"That's it?" gratuitous Aug 2017 #2

Call back and bombard them until they listen. OliverQ Aug 2017 #3

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)

1. They are there to make another run at erasing what's left of the New Deal.

Reply to Ilsa (Original post)

Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:45 AM

Aug 2017

They could care less about this, it's too goddamn inconvenient.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. "That's it?"

Reply to Ilsa (Original post)

Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:56 AM

Aug 2017

Good response. I probably would have said, "Well, never let it be said that (Congressman's name) didn't do the least he could do, because that statement is, indeed, the very least he could have done."

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)

3. Call back and bombard them until they listen.

Reply to Ilsa (Original post)

Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:57 AM

Aug 2017

Tell them, they work for you and they have the Constitutional duty to listen to you.

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