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Can we please not force veterans, disabled from their heroism and sacrifice, to stand outside the Capitol building, days on end, waiting on this Congress to do the thing they already did on June 16 ? It passed 84 to 14. Nothing changed in it.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
They're allowed to stay open past five, so my suggestion to this Senate would be when you come back, if all the members aren't here, keep the lights on. Keep the doors open. And don't leave here tonight, until you do the right thing by these folks.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
All cowards. All of them, now they say,' Well, this will get done. Maybe after we get back from our summer recess, maybe during the lame duck' — because they're on Senate time. Do you understand you live around here ? Senate time is ridiculous. These mother *** ers live to 200. They're tortoises. They live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. Well, they're not on Senate time. They're on human time. Cancer time.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What just makes the gut punch that much more devastating is that these people all came down here so that they could finally tell the men and -- their constituents are dying. And they're gon na get it done after recess ? You don't -- tell their cancer to take a recess, tell their cancer to stay home and go visit their families.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Senator Toomey is not going to hear that because Senator Toomey won't sit down with this man because he is a f *** ing coward. You hear me ? none of them will hear it. And none of them will care.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Senator Toomey didn't lose Senator Toomey job. Senator Toomey's walking away, god knows what kind of pot of gold he's stepping into to lobby this government to shit on more people. I'm used to all of it, but I'm not used to the cruelty.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
So ain't this a bitch ? america's heroes, who fought our wars, outside sweating their asses off, with oxygen battling all kinds of ailments, while these motherf *** ers sit in the air conditioning walled off from any of it ? They don't have to hear it. They don't have to see it. They don't have to understand that these are human beings. Did you get it yet ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You're tenacity personified and the way you've carried the banner for your family and your loved ones and in their pain, that's the thing, you know. Advocating for causes is a very it's a lovely thing to do but to do that in your grief when you know that it's not going to help your loved one, But that's not what matters to you. It’s that no one goes through what you went through. And that's just the epitome of grace.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The bottom line is our country exposed our own veterans to poison for years, and we knew about it, and we did not act with urgency and appropriateness, and therefore, we've lost men and women who served this country. They've died out of our inaction.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think I get concerned with who gets to decide what … In the Iraq War, I was on the side of what you would think on the mainstream is misinformation. I was promoting what they would call misinformation, but it turned out to be right years later and the establishment media was wrong. And not only were they wrong, in some respects, you could make the case that they enabled a war that killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people and never paid a price for it and never had accountability. And just having an ombudsman print a retraction to me isn't accountability.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
TheNew York Times,right, was a giant purveyor of misinformation, and disinformation. I don't know if the Times was purposeful, but misinformation, and that’s as vaunted a media organization as you can find, but there was no accountability for them.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Does anyone know when that started, playing the national anthem before games? It’s such a weird ritual, i’ve always thought about when Kaepernick took the knee and the whole thing was like, ‘You gotta stand for the anthem!’… But, like, why is that?
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
That’s a different element but I know he’s one of my favorite people on the planet and he’s just a good, decent… – you know, if there is any miscommunication, I’m sure that – I love that dude, like as a person, he’s warm and wise and all those things.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
He's not just a comedian, that's the way that he channels that knowledge and that process. What he is, is he's the black Anthony Bourdain.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He's from this area, he's from this community. He was hurting, he was beside himself and had this idea to reclaim the Oregon District for the people who live here and to take that terrible memory and recreate a new one and that's what's been occurring.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Unless you worked for him or at the airport you probably just heard rumors, willie.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The snorkeling spot is where his music studio is and wed go down there. It was pretty secluded, but thats changed.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
In terms of getting the 9/11 bills passed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been the white whale of this since 2010.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Not all Republicans oppose this, but everyone who has opposed it is a Republican, and it's unacceptable.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think this community is at the end of their rope, i think there's a feeling of disbelief, that they can't understand why they have to continually saddle up and ride down to Washington and make these appeals for something that should be simple but is somehow, through politics, made agonizingly difficult.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Your indifference costs these men and women their most valuable commodity - time.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure what's going to happen five years from now, more of these men and women are going to get sick and they are going to die and I am awfully tired of hearing that it's a 9/11 New York issue, al-Qaeda didn't shout death to Tribeca.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Where are they? It would be one thing if their callous indifference and rank hypocrisy was benign, but it's not, their indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity, time, one thing they're running out of.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak and no one, shameful, it's an embarrassment to the country and a stain on this institution. You should be ashamed of yourselves for those who aren't here but you won't be because accountability doesn't appear to be something that occurs in this chamber.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
As I sit here today, I can't help but think, what an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process that getting health care and benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is not a person here, there is not an empty chair on that stage, that didn't tweet out,' Never forget the heroes of 9/11,' well, here they are ! And where are they ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders, and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Jon Stewart indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity -- time !
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We've all been through this too many times to not be skeptical, when it happens then we'll believe it, but trust me its not going to be a celebration, it's just going to be a sigh.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is nonsense. This is theater. You know it and I know it, if the American people in their busy lives had any sense that these shenanigans were going on, they would be outraged.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's all about the fight. He's able to tune out everything else and get people just focused on the fight and he's going to win that fight.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
But I think the journalists have taken it personally, they're personally wounded and offended by this man. He baits them and they dive in, and what he's done well, I thought, is appeal to their own narcissism, to their own ego.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
That is probably — he says that instead of ‘ please, ’ I ’m guessing.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I've been doing this too long, honestly, it's breaking me. I'm broken.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Donald Trump is the candidate version of the hot dog-crust pizza, you don’t want it, you never ordered it. You can’t believe someone came up with it. But now it’s all you want to eat.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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