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NanceGreggs

(27,820 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 07:41 PM Dec 2017

Dont Stop!!!

Many of you called and/or emailed your GOP reps in the lead-up to the TaxScam bill. As we now know, they ignored the will of the majority of their constituents anyway.

But it doesn’t have to end here. Continue to call and write to express your anger.

What the GOP is counting on is that citizens will simply accept what’s been done to them and move on, without any real consequence to the Republican party. They are counting on complacency, meek acceptance, and the idea that our anger will subside and eventually fizzle-out, and will ultimately be completely forgotten.

So remind them as often as possible that our collective anger is NOT going away. Let them come to work every single day having to face irate phone calls/messages, and an inbox full of emails telling them what you think of their treachery. In other words, make their every workday as miserable as possible. Tie-up their phone lines, jam their fax machines, and inundate their email and snail-mail bins with well-deserved vitriol.

Don’t let it be said next November that the sheep have accepted the TaxScam, and have lost the will to fight. Let every elected Republican know, in no uncertain terms, that you have not forgotten, and will never forget those who sold out their country and their constituents in order to enrich themselves and their wealthy donors.

It is absolutely critical that we ensure that this topic has not been swept under the rug as we head into the midterms. Let them know, right up to election day, that the people they shafted are still pissed-off, and they and their party are now in the voters’ crosshairs.

What we don’t want to hear from the GOP over the next year is that the nasty phone calls and emails have ceased, a sign that the citizenry have timidly accepted being butt-fucked.

This latest example of the GOP’s treachery is a weapon in our arsenal – it has to be sharpened every day, and brandished in the faces of our enemies at every opportunity.

So keep those cards and letters comin’, folks. Let the traitors know that the fight is not over – because if they think they got away with this shit-laden legislation unscathed, god only knows what they will be emboldened to try next.

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Dont Stop!!! (Original Post) NanceGreggs Dec 2017 OP
Texting RESIST to 50409 has made it so easy to contact Congress. secondwind Dec 2017 #1
YES! THIS! NastyRiffraff Dec 2017 #2
Here are a number of ways to do that -- RandomAccess Dec 2017 #3
Thank you for the info! smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #4
I had to make 2 changes, so if you copied it -- go back RandomAccess Dec 2017 #12
No problem, thanks for the update! smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #13
Resist bot # is 50409 maranadem Dec 2017 #6
Thanks - I'll fix it RandomAccess Dec 2017 #7
Is that phone number correct? BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #8
Yikes - you're right. I'll change it. RandomAccess Dec 2017 #9
I have done it myself with posts and realized it BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #10
Logged in just to rec this. maranadem Dec 2017 #5
K&R. dchill Dec 2017 #11
Plowshares into swords volstork Dec 2017 #14
K&R 2naSalit Dec 2017 #15
I e-mailed one of my Senators & told him what's what...how the bill affects me.... Honeycombe8 Dec 2017 #16
Great post Gothmog Dec 2017 #17

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
2. YES! THIS!
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 07:51 PM
Dec 2017

I'm in a Blue state, but I'd add to your excellent, EXCELLENT suggestions, Nance. Call, write, nag, hound their offices, call again, even those who aren't from your state. I'm going to torture Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch, Bob Corker to name a few. Plus Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican representative who voted for this terrible bill.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
3. Here are a number of ways to do that --
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 08:23 PM
Dec 2017

something for everyone or every occasion:

Call 24/7: 202-224-3121
Free Faxes (can incl up to 3 pages attached) to Senators: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Free Faxes (ditto) to Congress: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php
TEXT your faxes: Text RESIST to 50409
Write your MoC - DEMOCRACY.IO https://democracy.io/#/

My favorite is the free faxes, which I tend to do in the evening (when fax machines are more likely not busy), but if you're on your smartphone a log, RESIST bot is great.

BigmanPigman

(51,646 posts)
10. I have done it myself with posts and realized it
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 08:58 PM
Dec 2017

later. After calling the Congress over 450 times in the past year that number is memorized (unfortunately).

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
16. I e-mailed one of my Senators & told him what's what...how the bill affects me....
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 09:45 PM
Dec 2017

I put it to him.

The tax "cut" bill is going to increase my income taxes, it looks like, because Louisiana is a high tax state (not income tax...SALES TAX...my parish area has hte highest sales tax in the nation! Which I don't get to deduct, now.).

I told him that I recently moved back here after retiring. Now I'm finding that La. is not retiree friendly, and on top of that, he votes to do THIS to the retirees? Why would the state fail to try to attract retirees? Here we are - Law abiding homeowners, with retirement accounts ready to spend locally...and he does THIS? WHY would I stay? Told him I'm packing up my retirement accounts and moving to a lower tax state. (And I mean it. I already didn't like it here. Now this. Hope I can sell my house.)

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