🧵 Many people have been misled today. There was not a vote on the FISA bill. There was a vote on a resolution that would have allowed FISA, as well as 6 amendments to it, including a warrant requirement amendment, and three other pieces of legislation to come to the floor.
@RepThomasMassie A valuable distinction. We need more heads-ups like this, because we peasants have a lot of trouble figuring out what's actually going on in D.C.. Feel free to give explanations like this, in simple terms, really really often.
@nighttimemedia Here’s what’s frustrating: Some of my colleagues and friends who know better are providing incomplete, oversimplified, and/or misleading information. They’ll misinform you to gain your favor, at the expense of others here who also made an honorable and logical vote.
@RepThomasMassie @nighttimemedia Here's a thought: 1) Arrest 99% of the swamp 2) Arrest the remaining 1% of the swamp
@RepThomasMassie @nighttimemedia Yeah. The very definition of demagogues.
It’s simply too darn murky Sir. I got upset at my congressman @RepNateMoran because this stuff is not properly explained, and he rarely puts out information on these CRITICAL matters to Americans. I don’t care about his constant campaigning and kissing babies but I’d like to understand his position on these serious issues before a vote. You’ll have one big mess there and I believe it’s because @SpeakerJohnson is NOT a principled person regardless of what I hear from others.
@RepThomasMassie @nighttimemedia So, let me get this straight, my representative, @RepEliCrane screwed his constituents, but ALL THE REST OF YOU are blameless and have some strategy, when you have UTTERLY failed Republicans at every turn? Is that the crux of it?
@RepThomasMassie @nighttimemedia Keep up the good work, sir. You are among a handful of our "representatives" in government that we can be fairly confident isn't lying to us for their own benefit. Or the benefit of whomever owns them.
Seems like your colleagues are failing character tests on the regular. Please keep doing what you are doing, you are one of the very few people in that industry I will openly admit to respecting. If I have to google each individual word you type just to understand what you are saying, I will. I love the simpler version, but more importantly I'd like to understand what is being done. Thank You.
@RepThomasMassie @nighttimemedia i always look for how you vote. if it is isnt obvious that you are correct then i dig deeper into the issue.
@RepThomasMassie @nighttimemedia This is why we need #TEXIT and #NationalDivorce. Our Founders never intended this process to be so blatantly confusing and opaque. It is abolishing and reforming time in Texas. We can do better!