Dem Rep. Richard Neal Fears The Power Of A 'Tweet From Someone Who Has No Official Portfolio'

Posted • December 19, 2024: Remember when Elon Musk was making moves to purchase Twitter, and everyone said he'd run it into the ground? That didn't happen. He opened up the platform to free speech, and ordinary Americans made themselves heard. This displeases Democratic Rep. Richard Neal, who can't imagine what the next two years are going to be like if an individual who has no official portfolio can change policy with a mean tweet, seems worried. Democrat Congressman Richard Neal loses it, fears what the next 2 years will look like with X's influence over Washington. X is making these clowns panic. Love it 🔥 "Can you imagine what the next two years are gonna be like?" - "If every time the Congress works its will and then there's a tweet from an individual who has no official portfolio, who threatens members on the Republican side with a primary and they succumb?" -- An individual who has no official portfolio … does he mean like a constituent?

And what about people threatening members of Congress with primaries if they don't represent what the people voted for and want change? Can you imagine? BREAKING: Politician upset that constituents want to hold politicians accountable for their votes. You work for us. Period. They still don’t get that they work for the American people. Finally finding out the power of the people and he doesn't like it. Heaven forbid that elected officials feel like their constituents are watching and involved in their government. If the elected officials worked their constituents’ will instead of their own will we’d probably have much less friction. […] Congressmen seem to be going through what mainstream journalists went through when citizen journalists started eating away at their influence. (…)

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