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Jasmine Crockett, Democrat Representative from Texas, on Cankles obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize:

“This self-obsessed president keeps whining about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but under his administration a father was just killed by ICE. Children are still locked away in detention centers. And this war he promised he’d end? It’s still going [so] spare us the pity party. We deserve better.”

Peace isn’t killing schoolgirls in Iran or Americans on the streets of this country. Peace isn’t starting wars in Iran and threatening to start more wars.

But that illiterate fuck in the White House is too delusional to see that.

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Hunter Biden, on the death of Miss Lindsey:

“When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of [Cankles]. I thought of the time before [Cankles] when he was a brother to Senator McCain. A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father, “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God every created.” This is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after [but] because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love. I will choose to remember the time before [Cankles] because I believe in an America after [him].”

Once again, Hunter is spot on … this time about the fall of Lindsey Graham after hitching his wagon to a traitor.

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Thomas Massie, GOP Representative from Kentucky, on Cankles and the GOP screaming about election fraud:

“It’s ironic that we Republicans control the House, Senate, Supreme, Supreme Court and White House –and we’re lying about election fraud? We won all the damn elections. What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We Republicans are not cracking down on the fraud.”

Seriously, how do you control every branch of governemt if the other party cheated at the election.

Make it make sense.

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Raphael Warnock, Democrat Senator from Georgia, on Cankles perpetual fight to relitigate the outcome of the 2020 election:

“[He] lost in Georgia in 2020. That’s not my opinion, it’s a fact. The votes were counted, recounted, audited, and litigated. He lost, he lost, he lost. He’s trying to sow doubt on the integrity of our elections in Georgia a so he can create the pretext to interfere in 2026. This president is a liar, a cheater, and a fraud and he has shown us over and over again that staying in power matters more to him than anything else.”

We’ve all heard the phone call or Cankles demanding Georgia find 11,780 votes so he could win the state. And we all remember Miss Lindsey going after Georgia and being smacked down by every single court, including Scotus.

Do not believe the GOP lies.

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Michael Fanone, former DC police officer attacked on the Capitol on January 6, on Lindsey Graham’s death:

“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame [Cankles] for January 6^th. When I showed him my body cam footage of that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss, you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a Hell I hope you’re in it.”

Harsh words? I don’t think so, not when you remember that the day after January 6 Lindsey Graham spoke in Congress saying he was “done” with Cankles after the insurrection, and then just a few months later he completely switched his opinion.

Res in Piss, indeed.

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Raphael Warnock, Democrat Senator from Georgia, on SCOTUS’ dismantling of the Voting Rights Act:

“The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is the crown jewel of the Civil Rights movement. Without it, I quite literally would not be standing here today in front of you as a voice in the United States Senate for the people of Georgia. This [Cankles] Supreme Court just threw out the protections that were earned by the Civil Rights movement, those who bled, who fought and who died, so that people might have a voice.”

Okay, for those of you who don’t think we need a Voting Rights Act any longer in America I have one simple question to ask you:

Would you want to be Black in America today? Or treated like a Black American? Given all we know about the way people of color are still treated in the United States, would you want to be Black?

And that’s why we need the Voting Rights Act, why we need to elect Democrats, why we need term limits on the court, why we need equality for all Americans.

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Gavin Newsom, California Democrat Governor, on the newest ridiculous indictment on James Comey:

“The day after he talked about a beach photo and an indictment of his enemies  he talked about his Kremlin ballroom. He’s not doing anything to try to unite this country. The biggest reflection of this moment is the sewer we’re living in because of [Cankles]. This guy is cosplaying as the Pope, as Jesus, putting his face on Mt. Rushmore. None of this is normal.”

Cankles truly believes that the more monuments he leaves behind the more history will portray him as a great leader.

But when all his gold-plated toilets and wall décor and ballrooms and arches and signs and shoes and Bibles are thrown onto the trash heap, that’s how we’ll think of him: trash heap.

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Hillary Clinton, former First Lady, former Secretary of State, former Senator from New York, on the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act:

“In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court’s majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act’s remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled they will redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out. The Court’s decision overlooks reality for a self-serving right-wing fantasy and it will live in infamy.”

Still think it’d be no different being Black in America today when two states—and more will likely follow—heard that SCOTUS ruling and began the plan to make it more difficult for Black voters—and all voters of color—to be heard.

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Pope Leo, on Cankles’ baseless claims that the Pope supports Iran’s nuclear weapons program:

“I have already spoken from the first moment ‘Peace be with you.’ The mission of the Church is to preach the Gospel, to preach peace. If anyone wants to criticize me for proclaiming the Gospel, let them do so truthfully. The Church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons for years, so there is no doubt about that.”

Sad that Cankles wants to pick a fight with the Pope considering the Leo is educated man and Cankles can barely pick a giraffe out of a lineup.

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James Carville, Democratic strategist, political consultant and author, on that SCOTUS ruling:

“The only nine people in the entire fucking government that operates under no ethics rule. These sons of bitches were so political, so happy to help the Republican party any way they could. What they’re trying to do at every juncture they can is screw Black people as hard as they can.”

Now John  Roberts is trying to spin it that SCOTUS was not taking a political stance in gutting The Voting Rights Act.

Voting. Rights. Act. It doesn’t get simpler than that no matter how Roberts and his band of racists and self-loathing Black men try to spin it.

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JD Vance, on Swifty’s endorsement of Kamala Harris:

“We admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans, whether they like her music or are fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans."

Has JD not met his running mate? You know, that billionaire celebrity who is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans?

Seriously, you cannot make this shiz up!

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, world famous liar, on Kamala Harris:

“It is absurd that she does not take questions from the press, from the American people, and so I think this is actually a much more important night for her because it’s so rare that we hear from her, that we hear her take questions, or that we know anything that she actually stands for. I think that’s why you’re hearing so much about the preparation for Vice President Harris because this isn’t something she does very often, and I think she has a lot to get ready for. I don’t think that she’s up to the challenge, in large part not just because I don’t know that she’s a great debater, but she’s so wrong on the issues that Americans care about, and she has a terrible track record to talk about.”

Wait, Huckleberry, you say that nobody knows what Harris stands for AND she is also wrong about everything she stands for?

What a moron.

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Democrat Senator, on that school shooting in Georgia:

“I spent Friday night with the wonderful people of Winder, Georgia. And I thought about it as I was sitting there and thought about my own days as a high school student a long time ago. But it was Friday night. We should’ve been at a high school football game with high school students cheering on their classmates. Instead, they were mourning their classmates and two teachers. Look, we can do better than this. We—we have to begin with the fact that this is a tragic form of American exceptionalism. This doesn’t happen all over the world. Nowhere else—where you have a country that’s not at war—do you have this kind of routine random violence as just a part of the tragic everyday lives of people. Listen, 14-year-olds don’t need AR-15s, and we need to get these military-style weapons off the streets. 87% of Americans—Democrats and Republicans, according to a Fox News report last year—believe that we ought to have universal background checks and still we can’t even get that done in Congress. The reality is that in America, it’s not safe to be in our schools. It’s not safe to be in our shopping malls. It’s not safe to be in the spa. It’s not safe to be in a medical clinic. We’re all sitting ducks. And this does not happen everywhere in the world. The problem is that we have politicians in our country who are beholden to the gun lobby. And either based on ambition or fear, they go to work every day doing their bidding while the gun lobby lines its pockets with the blood of our children. The least we can do is move forward on the bipartisan spaces where ordinary people agree. Clearly, there’s a disconnect between what the people, the American people want and what they’re able to get out of their government.”

If We The People demand sensible gun control, the Congress should give it to us, and if they don’t: REMOVE THEM FROM OFFICE!

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Richard Grenell, homocon former cabinet member for The Felon, on how mean Kamala was to poor DonOLD:

“Millions of people are watching tonight for the first time. What the ABC moderators just did is completely prove to these millions of people that the media are out to get [The Felon]. We couldn’t have scripted this better. Both moderators were so over the top attacking [The Felon] and not attacking Harris. My phone was lighting up from my friends and family, people who don’t normally watch politics, who could vote either way, saying things like, wow, the media is so biased, look at them going after [The Felon]. I hope the media, who always say we don’t want personal attacks from [The Felon], recognize that all Kamala Harris did tonight was attack  [The Felon] in ruthless ways, mean-spirited ways. She was very nasty about that and I hope that she gets called out for that. She wasn’t talking about policies because she missed the opportunity to explain all of these videos that we’ve been seeing of her as a radical Californian. We know her policies, and she didn’t explain any of those. She just kept attacking [The Felon].”

Oh Dick—may I call you Dick since you’re acting like a Dick—wants to paly The Billionaire As Victim card. And the line about people calling him who don’t watch politics are now voting for The Felon cuz Kamala took him down is a typical ReTHUGlican lie.

Sit down, Dick.

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Roy Cooper, North Carolina Democrat Governor, on the presidential race in his state:

“It’s close here in North Carolina. It always is. This was Biden-Harris’s closest loss in 2020, only 1.3 percent. So the fact that Kamala Harris, as Vice President of the United States, has been to North Carolina 17 times shows that she cares about our state. She knows that we are in play. And she knows that if she wins North Carolina, she is the next President of the United States because [The Felon] has no other pathway. When we continue to get this information out to the American public, and to people here in North Carolina, that Kamala Harris has an economic plan that’s going to help lower the cost for everyday people, that’s going to help families thrive, that is going to protect women’s reproductive freedom. I think at the end of the day, that’s going to be what works here.”

Listen up NC.

Go toward the future or live in the past when women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ folks were less than.

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The Felon, in his literal 53RD post about the debate, inventing some loony tune “poll” in order to justify weaseling out of more debates, which he was calling for until the day after he bombed the debate:

“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate. She and Crooked Joe have destroyed our Country, with millions of criminals and mentally deranged people pouring into the USA, totally unchecked and unvetted, and with Inflation bankrupting our Middle Class. Everyone knows this, and all of the other problems caused by Kamala and Joe – It was discussed in great detail during the First Debate with Joe, and the Second Debate with Comrade Harris. She was a no-show at the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC & CBS. KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”

Every time I see his name now, all I hear is the shrieking: “They’re eating dogs!”

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Linda Ronstadt, singer, activist, LGBTQ+ icon, on The Felon holding a rally in Tucson’s Linda Ronstadt Music Hall:

“[The Felon] is holding a rally on Thursday in a rented hall in my hometown. I would prefer to ignore that sad fact. But since the building has my name on it, I need to say something. It saddens me to see the former President bring his hate show to Tucson, a town with deep Mexican-American roots and a joyful, tolerant spirit. “I don’t just deplore his toxic politics, his hatred of women, immigrants and people of color, his criminality, dishonesty and ignorance—although there’s that. For me it comes down to this: In Nogales and across the southern border, [The Felon]Administration systematically ripped apart migrant families seeking asylum. Family separation made orphans of thousands of little children and babies, and brutalized their desperate mothers and fathers. It remains a humanitarian catastrophe that Physicians for Human Rights said met the criteria for torture. There is no forgiving or forgetting the heartbreak he caused. [As for JD Vance] I raised two adopted children in Tucson as a single mom. They are both grown and living in their own houses. I live with a cat. Am I half a childless cat lady because I’m unmarried and didn’t give birth to my kids? Call me what you want, but this cat lady will be voting proudly in November for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”

Ronstadt was the second rock legend with Arizona roots to speak out on politics; Phoenix-born Stevie Nicks encouraged fans to register and vote for “the candidate that speaks to you and your beliefs” in a social media post she signed “Love, Stevie Nicks, Childless Dog Lady.”

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Mitt Romney, GOP Senator, after telling George Santos at the SOTU, that he didn’t belong there:

“He should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the president and people coming into the room. Given the fact that he's under ethics investigation, he should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the president and the people coming into the room. He shouldn't be in Congress and they’re going to go through the process and hopefully get him out. But he shouldn’t be there, and f he had any shame at all, he wouldn’t be there.”

Sadly, Mittsy, your party wants him there because he’s a vote they so desperately need. It’s a good thing the GOP has no conscience or spine because if they had then he’d never have been seated.

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George Santos, responding to Romney:

“I think it’s reprehensible that the Senator would say such a thing to me in the demeaning way he said. It wasn’t very Mormon of him.”

It was very Catholic of Santos to lie about being Jewish, or his mother’s passing, or his relationships, or his grandparent’s history, so he’s the last person to have an opinion on anyone else.

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Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker, for now, admitting Republicans “took the bait” by allowing President Biden to their childish heckling at the SOTU into political gold:

“The one thing we need to be is, we need to be smart. Don’t take the bait, stay with the American public about what we want to do.”

And yet they don’t know what they want to do. The border? They have no plan. Fentanyl? Nothing done. Inflation? Nope. But they have tons to say about a  laptop and gas stoves and drag queens and education and investigating the investigators investigating the GOP.

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Steve Bannon, QAnon wingnut and whiny slob, on Sarah Huckleberry Sanders responding to the SOTU:

“If you’re going to give a counter speech, you’ve got to talk about important issues. Don’t get me wrong, the wokeism is very important. But it’s not quite the heart of the matter right now, right? It’s not the heart of the matter. She is not—the reason is she’s just not—she’s not intellectually capable of going to the heart of the matter, let’s be blunt.”

She’s not smart but she’s who the GOP chose which simply means the GOP is not smart.

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Democrat Senator, saying his new children’s book, “Put Your Shoes on and Get Ready!”, could be banned in Florida:

“Black history is the American story. That’s why I wrote this book. We have to reject the idea that our children will be so traumatized by the truth of our complicated American story that they can’t bear it. [This book] shows young readers that they, too, can find the power to be themselves and make a difference when they have the shoes that fit their feet.”

Children of color? Check. It’s definitely not going to be allowed in any Florida school, especially since a Democrat wrote it.

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Megyn Kelly, podcaster, ripping CNN’s Don Lemon for screaming at his CNN This Morning co-anchor Kaitlan Collins:

“If somebody ever screamed at me to the point where I was visibly upset and ran out of the studio, I would have that person fired. I will go out on a limb right now and tell you, that’s not the first time. There will be another woman who he’s co-anchored with—I guarantee you—who’s going to come out and say, ‘Me too.’ Because if you behave like that toward a colleague with whom you share the air and you share the show, this will not be the first time.”

Boy, this Megyn Kelly really stands up for women … unless you’re Dr. Jill Biden. That Megyn Kelly was pissy as hell because the First Lady was introduced as Dr. Biden and Kelly says she’s not a doctor.

Typical rightwingnut hypocrite.

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Bobservations

Carlos has lots of little sayings that he learned as child that translate rather easily into English. When he says that something or someone is a “Storm in a glass of water,” he means “Tempest in a tea pot.”

But the other morning, watching the news, there was a rather attractive journalist, and Carlos muttered something under his breath in Spanish and when I asked what it was he said:

“He thinks he’s hotter than the shit coming out of a cow’s ass.”

I didn’t get the Spanish version, but in English it was spot on.

This is Tuxedo's new 'Get Out and Vote' ad campaign. It's a little graphic for some, but it gets the point across quite nicely. CAST A  GODDAMNED VOTE!!

MacKenzie Scott, the ex-Missus Jeff Bezos, is at it again … she donated $84.5 million to the Girl Scouts—the largest-ever single donation in the organization’s history—to go toward creating “more equitable membership opportunities” in underserved areas; expanding programs on career readiness, mental health and exploring STEM fields; bolstering research, staff and volunteer training; and upgrading Girl Scout facilities to be more accessible and resilient to climate change.

She has donated more than $3.8 billion to 465 non-profit organizations since her divorce from money-grubbing scum Bezos and still has $17 billion more to give to fulfill her pledge to give roughly half of her income to charity.

Good on her.

After Herschel Walker and many in the GOP and the rightwingnut news organizations claim Walker had a decisive victory over Senator Raphael Warnock , Herschel skipped their second debate forcing Warnock to debate an empty lectern … which is really just a repeat of the first debate.

I totally called this … Pete Buttigieg—whose only political experience before his 2020 presidential bid was serving as mayor of South Bend, Indiana—has become the most requested surrogate on the campaign trail for Democratic candidates in the midterms, even over Kamala Harris.

Both Buttigieg and Harris are expected to run to succeed Biden—whether in 2024 0r 2028—but for Democrats looking ahead, the party’s preference for Buttigieg on the trail may be an early indicator of the future direction of the party overall.

In the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the jury has sentenced hm  to life without parole.

Some people, like Florida’s Fascist Governor Ron DeathSantis, were outraged that Cruz wasn’t sentenced to death; I was not. I am not now, nor have I ever been a proponent of the death penalty. It is not a deterrent to crime, and the convict can spend years in appeals, wasting millions in taxpayer money, trying to overturn the verdict. I could explain why I feel this way, but I’m going to let Dennis Shepard, father of Matthew, explain why he preferred life without parole for Matthew’s murderer, Aaron McKinney:

“You won’t be a symbol. No years of publicity, no chance of commutation, no nothing—just a miserable future and a miserable end. It works for me….Mr. McKinney, I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.”

Let Cruz go to sleep every night and wake up every day for the rest of his miserable life knowing exactly why he’s there and never getting out.

Texas’ Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar has certified that the 50 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Ron DeSantis were victims of a crime taking a key step in qualifying them for a special visa they would not have otherwise been eligible for:

“Based upon the claims of migrants being transported from Bexar County under false pretenses, we are investigating this case as possible Unlawful Restraint.”

Publicity stunt backfired, eh Ron?

I look at this promotional signage and wonder how much they paid the ad agency to produce it, and how many people signed off on it at each and every stage and yet never noticed.

New Jersey lawmakers unveiled sweeping gun legislation to restrict when and where guns can be carried outside of the home. The bill would require people who carry guns in public purchase liability insurance—the first statewide mandate of its kind in the nation should the bill become law—and ban guns from being carried in 25 broad categories, including but not limited to government buildings, health care facilities, airports, casinos and private properties where the owners have not given express permission to have guns.

Maybe add schools and churches and Walmart’s and concerts and movie theaters and synagogues to the list?

For some reason Carlos thinks my new holiday hosting outfit is inappropriate … something about sequins? Too many? Not enough?

Philippe Bélanger is a model, a Cirque Du Soleil performer, a dancer, designer, owner of a clothing brand, and a content creator. But the question is: Would You Hit It?

I Didn't Say It ... The Chauvin Verdict

President Joe Biden:

“Today, a jury in Minnesota found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd last May. It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism … that is a stain our nation’s soul; the knee on the neck of justice for Black Americans; the profound fear and trauma, the pain, the exhaustion that Black and brown Americans experience every single day. The murder of George Floyd launched a summer of protest we hadn’t seen since the Civil Rights era in the ‘60s — protests that unified people of every race and generation in peace and with purpose to say, ‘Enough.  Enough.  Enough of the senseless killings.’ Today’s verdict is a step forward [but] let’s also be clear that such a verdict is also much too rare.  … But it is not enough.  We can’t stop here. In order to deliver real change and reform, we can, and we must do more to reduce the likelihood that tragedies like this will ever happen and occur again; to ensure that Black and brown people or anyone—so they don’t fear the interactions with law enforcement, that they don’t have to wake up knowing that they can lose their very life in the course of just living their life.  They don’t have to worry about whether their sons or daughters will come home after a grocery store run or just walking down the street or driving their car or playing in the park or just sleeping at home.  … The guilty verdict does not bring back George.  But through the family’s pain, they are finding purpose so George’s legacy will not be just about his death, but about what we must do in his memory. … This is the time for this country to come together, to unite as Americans.  There can never be any safe harbor for hate in America. … [We] can’t leave this moment or look away, thinking our work is done.  We have to look at it … as we did for those 9 minutes and 29 seconds.  We have to listen.  ‘I can’t breathe.  I can’t breathe.’  Those were George Floyd’s last words.  We can’t let those words die with him.  We have to keep hearing those words. We must not turn away.  We can’t turn away.  We have a chance to begin to change the trajectory in this country.  It’s my hope and prayer that we live up to the legacy. May God bless you.  And may God bless the — George Floyd and his family.”

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s Democrat Senator:

"The reason why we've all been waiting with bated breath for this verdict is we've seen the opposite outcome so many times, and we have yet to put forward the kind of legislation that will create a different outcome, so we must do our job in this chamber."

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Chuck Schumer, New York’s Democrat senator and Senate Majority Leader:

"This guilty verdict serves as an official proclamation of what so many of us have known for nearly a year: George Floyd was murdered by an officer who was sworn to protect and serve."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York’s Democrat Representative:

"This isn't justice. I … don't want this to be framed as the system working. Because it's not working. And that's what creates a lot of complexity in this moment. It's really important that this verdict is not used as a replacement for policy change."

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Nancy Pelosi, California’s Democrat Representative and House Speaker:

"We all saw it on TV. We saw it happen. And thank God the jury validated what we saw. So again, thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. Your name will always be synonymous with justice, and now we have to make sure justice prevails in the sentencing."

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Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s Independent Senator:

"The jury's verdict delivers accountability for Derek Chauvin, but not justice for George Floyd. Real justice for him and too many others can only happen when we build a nation that fundamentally respects the human dignity of every person."

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Van Jones, CNN commentator:

"More cops can speak up. More police chiefs can speak up. And more people can do the right thing in these situations. In January and February of 2020 if you had asked the average white person, is police brutality a big deal, is anti-racism a big deal, some would have said yes, some would have said no [but] because of that young woman [Darnella Frazier] and because of the video, 20 million white Americans marched … millions. There were Black Lives Matter marches in Idaho, where there’s no Black people. That gives you a sense of how humanity’s heart was touched. That shouldn’t just happen in the streets when we’re marching. There’s so many opportunities for us to do better. Listen, the empathy gap that we’re seeing throughout our politics can start to close a little bit. It's important to understand … the police chief fired the guy and testified against him. There were people throughout the profession of law enforcement who came forward and did the right thing for once, and they all still have their jobs. More cops can speak up. More police chiefs can speak up. And more people can do the right thing in these situations."

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Kamala Harris, Vice President:

“This verdict is but a piece of it. And it will not heal the pain that existed for generations, that has existed for generations among people who have experienced and first-hand witnessed what now a broader public is seeing because of smartphones and the ubiquity of our ability to videotape in real time what is happening in front of our faces. And that is the reality of it. That’s why Congress needs to act. And that’s why they should pass the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act.”

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Maxine Waters, California’s Democrat Representative:

"You know, someone said it better than me: I'm not celebrating, I'm relieved." 

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