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Ehay2k<a href="https://toad.social/@wdlindsy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@wdlindsy</a> Many people on the list don't even have active security clearances.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> said as much himself. But this is what idiotic autocrats do: remember when Putin banned Joe Biden's father from entry into Russia?Even their bluster is misinformed.

StanceOfMindAgreed:Europe needs to back Ukraine with everything, then freeze Trump out. Make him absolutely unimportant. ~Adam Kinzinger, Former Republican Congressman<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geopolitics</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a>

Chuck DarwinPamela Hemphill, a grandmother in her seventies who was jailed for taking part in the attempted insurrection at the US Capitol four years ago, has said 🔥 she will “refuse” a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump once he takes office.A retired substance abuse counsellor from Boise, Idaho, who was being treated for breast cancer at the time of the riot, Hemphill was spotted pushing past police lines three times when the attack was underway and was later seen inside its rotunda telling fellow members of the mob: “Come on in, come on, have fun… This is your house!”Hemphill – who filmed her actions, posted the footage on Facebook and became known as the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Granny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Granny</a>”, only to later break with Trump’s movement – has said she wants no part of the 47th president’s clemency outreach.⭐️“I’m not going to be bullied by MAGA anymore, as those who went as far as calling my Probation Officer trying to get me in trouble backfired on them, thinking I would stop speaking out, just give me more confidence to continue!” she wrote on X on Sunday.“I will refuse a pardon from felon Trump!”Hemphill was responding to a post by former Republican congressman <a href="https://c.im/tags/Adam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adam</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a>, who served on the bipartisan House committee that investigated the riot and has likewise said he would reject a presidential pardon from Biden to shield him from retaliatory measures by Trump’s FBI or Justice Department. <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/jan-6-rioter-pamela-hemphill-170612476.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/jan-6-rioter-pamela-hemphill-170612476.html</a>

Chuck DarwinWithin a couple of minutes, I knew 👉“The Last Republican” (in theaters) would be different. That’s in part because <a href="https://c.im/tags/Adam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adam</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> himself is a different kind of subject. He gave a long interview to Pink in what appears to be his mostly emptied office just before he left the House of Representatives. He’d been one of a handful of Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching Donald Trump in 2021 (after speaking against his first impeachment in 2019), then served alongside Democrats and fellow Republican Liz Cheney on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.Needless to say, he was not popular in his party, especially as other Republicans who had opposed Trump began to change their views. The documentary spends most of its time letting Kinzinger explain why he feels as he feels and did what he did, and why he’d do (most of) it again. In late 2021, he announced he would not run for re-election (a new congressional map had eliminated his district), and a few months later his party voted to censure him. At one point in the movie, the House minority leader at the time, Kevin McCarthy, refers to Kinzinger and Cheney as “Pelosi Republicans.”Kinzinger reserves his most passionate anger in “The Last Republican” for McCarthy, whom he sees as weak and traitorous for changing his behavior toward Trump. But Kinzinger is as frustrated with his party as he is steadfast in his conservative Christian convictions, pro-military views and socially traditional beliefs. Now, without occupying an elected position, he feels comfortable letting loose.That turns out to be why the movie works. Pink is on the political left; when Kinzinger half-jokingly dubs him “basically a Communist” near the film’s start, Pink corrects him. “Progressive,” he says, and they carry on. They talk about why Kinzinger chose to allow Pink to follow him and his staff through their final months in Congress, which boils down to a hilarious fact: Pink directed the 2010 comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine,” which Kinzinger declares a “cinematic masterpiece.” There’s clearly some shared sensibility between the two men even if, as they both freely admit, they have no respect for each other’s beliefs.More than Kinzinger’s story, this is why “The Last Republican” is worth watching. At times it seems like exhortations to “reach across the aisle” and “heal political divisions” have become platitudes, clichés without any firm ideas about how that might be accomplished. But the combative camaraderie that Pink and Kinzinger demonstrate respects both of them as humans — without softening their stances one bit. I hope to see more films like this one in the years to come.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/movies/the-last-republican-adam-kinzinger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/movies/the-last-republican-adam-kinzinger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

LaffyVia <a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@emptywheel</a>: I've written about the logic behind <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harris</a>' campaigning with Liz <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cheney</a>. But one thing it'll do IN ADDITION to electoral help is create a nub of Republicans who can fight back against fuckery in real timeAdam <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a>:I will do a longer video on this, but the real pressure point after the election will be in state houses. MAGA will pressure republican state houses where Kamala wins to simply not certify. Then what?Likely Supreme Court, possible violence. Be aware

Martin Nutty<a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@philip_cardella</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/@jamesmarshall" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jamesmarshall</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/@marcas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@marcas</a> Yup <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> also falls into that category. My <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> are more center left and don’t align with these folks but I admire their steadfast refusal to compromise with <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>. Would that there were more that had character. What is left of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> is a bunch of sycophants who deserved to be dropped into the ‘Profiles In Cowardice’ category <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

Chuck DarwinPresident Kamala Harris should make every effort to keep Joe Biden’s Cabinet superstars — Energy Secretary Jennifer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Granholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Granholm</a>, Commerce Secretary Gina <a href="https://c.im/tags/Raimondo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Raimondo</a> and Transportation Secretary Pete <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buttigieg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Buttigieg</a> — as she assembles her own team. ⚠️At the Justice Department, however, she will need someone far more aggressive and politically astute than the current attorney general — perhaps former acting attorney general Sally Q. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yates</a> or North Carolina Gov. Roy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cooper</a>, a former state attorney general who, by then, will be out of office. Harris also should make every effort to find one or more Republicans who can reinforce the bipartisan coalition she is assembling. Adam <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> for Veterans Affairs would make sense, with Liz <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cheney</a> perhaps at the FBI or in a top ambassadorship <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/29/changes-harris-improve-biden-white-house/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/29/changes-harris-improve-biden-white-house/</a>

William Lindsey :toad:“God bless Adam Kinzinger for telling the truth about his (and my) party, now corrupted to its core. MAGA snowflakes get triggered by him, suggesting he’s a RINO Judas. But the actual reason they hate him is that he reminds them of something they abandoned years ago: their integrity.”~ Matt Labash <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#integrity</a> /4<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/opinion/scorecard-night-4-democratic-convention.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/opinion/scorecard-night-4-democratic-convention.html</a>

Doreen32128 ready to rumble!<a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GottaLaff</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> was so honest!

KChernecky For Democracy<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> is on fire <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TraitorsSupportTraitorTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TraitorsSupportTraitorTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HarrisForPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarrisForPresident</a>

Doreen32128 ready to rumble!Wow! <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> is on fire! He’s pulling no punches!

Laffy👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Ex-Republican Rep. Adam <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DNC</a>: "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is a weak man pretending to be strong. A small man pretending to be big. A faithless man pretending to be righteous. A perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim. He puts on quite a show. But there's no real strength there."

Dave SpectorWow. Adam <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> is hitting it out of the fucking park.Edit: this is the single most impactful speech any Republican has made with regard to the danger of Trump and putting country over party. I’m literally in tears watching this. Amazing. Fucking amazing.

Chuck DarwinBilly Graham's granddaughter joins 'Evangelicals for Harris,' quotes Isaiah to blast Trump supportersThe granddaughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris during an ⭐️"Evangelicals for Harris" ⭐️ Zoom call Wednesday and suggested that ♦️Christians who support former President Donald Trump are causing people to turn away from Christianity.♦️<a href="https://c.im/tags/Jerushah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jerushah</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Duford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Duford</a>, whose mother Virginia "Gigi" Graham Tchividjian is Graham's oldest daughter, spoke in a recorded video because she was unable to attend the virtual event, which also included speakers such as former Rep. Adam <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a>, R-IllThe event reportedly reached 40,000 people as the Harris campaign attempts to court Evangelical voters despite her liberal views on issues such as abortion and sexuality.'Voting Kamala, for me, is so much greater'<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/billy-grahams-granddaughter-joins-evangelicals-for-harris-call.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.christianpost.com/news/billy-grahams-granddaughter-joins-evangelicals-for-harris-call.html</a>

Chuck DarwinIn its Sunday announcement, the Harris campaign included dozens of prominent current or former <a href="https://c.im/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republican</a> figures, some of which now identify with a different party, who have already endorsed the vice president.Former Representative Adam <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> of Illinois was among the list, which he shared on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday morning."There is nothing 'conservative' about Donald Trump. Conservatives believe in the Constitution, not a 'man's' ego. Endorsing American democracy and the future today, and leaving the past in the dust. I'm endorsing <a href="https://c.im/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a>," he wrote. <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-republicans-endorse-1934338" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-republicans-endorse-1934338</a>

JdeB<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StephenColbert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StephenColbert</a>Rep. Kinzinger: "The only thing we have now to determine whether or not the gardrails of democracy hold... is who we vote for. Are we going to vote for decent people or not ? [APPLAUSE]"Jan 6 Was Trump's Last Desperate Move" - Rep. Kinzinger On Trump's Attempt To Stay In Power In 2020" [4:42 min] by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWInXnEOJE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWInXnEOJE</a> Quote by TLSWSC: "Jul 16, 2024 Rep. Adam Kinzinger argues that the insurrection on Jan 6, 2021 was the culmination of months of work by Donald Trump to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election."<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/VoteBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteBlue</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UpAndDownTheBallot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UpAndDownTheBallot</a>

LaffyAKA putting your money where your mouth is. 👍🏼“Former Rep. Adam <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> (R-Ill.) said he would vote for President <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> instead of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> “in a heartbeat.”” <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4404785-kinzinger-says-hed-vote-for-biden-instead-of-trump-in-a-heartbeat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4404785-kinzinger-says-hed-vote-for-biden-instead-of-trump-in-a-heartbeat/</a>

Laffy🤢So I hop over to the hellsite so you don't have to & discover a couple of videos getting a lot of play. I won't link over, but let's just say they're quite, um, descriptive. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> are having a field day. Wow.The quotes via Acyn:1-Kinzinger describes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s odor situation as “not good” and says he smells like arm pits, ketchup, makeup, and ass 2-Cohen suggests that Trump is evacuating his bowels during his rally speeches [incl vid of said speech]

Patrick EddingtonJust arrived. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/January6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#January6</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insurrectionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurrectionist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democracy</a>

LaffyVia Scott MacFarlane:DAY EIGHT in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#House</a> of Reps for Rep George <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Santos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Santos</a> (R-NY):On-line petition promoted by former Rep Adam <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kinzinger</a> (R-IL) seeking Santos’s resignation has yielded tens of thousands of on-line signatures

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