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3catwoman3

(27,253 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 10:15 PM Feb 2025

Piss off Trump, get primaried and lose your seat. Piss off your constituents...

...and lose your seat. Does it not occur to these chicken-shit legislators that if they make enough of their voters mad enough they may very likely lose their seats anyway?

Talk about suckers and losers.

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Deuxcents

(23,275 posts)
1. One would think but my opinion is, they're more scared of TSF than losing their constituents' votes
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 10:38 PM
Feb 2025

cloudbase

(6,021 posts)
2. Part of the problem is that they consider the seat to be theirs, when in reality
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 11:19 PM
Feb 2025

the seat belongs to the residents of the congressional district.

Intractable

(1,182 posts)
5. We keep hearing that they are afraid of physical threats to them and their families from the Trump machine and followers
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 01:26 AM
Mar 2025

The constituents are far less scary.

Response to Intractable (Reply #5)

rubbersole

(10,177 posts)
7. A lobbyist job awaits the faithful.
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 02:35 AM
Mar 2025

I keep waiting for Americans to say 'enough'. Money is running this shitshow.

 

Mountainguy

(2,145 posts)
8. Well.....
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 02:37 AM
Mar 2025

Their constituents probably won't try to have them killed by a mob of far right radicals.

Danmel

(5,508 posts)
9. Their districts are so gerrymandered. It doesn't matter
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 07:07 AM
Mar 2025

There aren't many competitive districts, which is why
statehouses matter.

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