Yeah this is great optics, shocking that every Dem isn't jockeying and fighting to earn their own version of this picture with increasingly bold disruptive actions - ThreadSky

iwriteok.bsky.social • 54 days ago

Yeah this is great optics, shocking that every Dem isn't jockeying and fighting to earn their own version of this picture with increasingly bold disruptive actions

Reposted from Mike Nellis

Hang this in the Louvre

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newwillinium.bsky.social•53 days ago

A cane does make a statement. Someone was nearly beaten to death in that very chamber with a cane many years ago.

Shameful that the other Democrats didn't support him and just sat as he was forcibly escorted from the room

lumidingo.bsky.social•54 days ago

I'd be much more impressed with the paddles if Donald was forced to dodge them being pelted at his head

everydog.bsky.social•54 days ago

Shoes. Pelt him with shoes like G Dub.

meave.bsky.social•54 days ago

righteous is the man who throws shoes at a war criminal’s head

stinkyminkymma.bsky.social•54 days ago

As soon as mister Green got arrested I would have just started urinating in random corners of the room

yakbarber.bsky.social•53 days ago

Best I can do is silently hold up a little sign.

brookertjustice.bsky.social•54 days ago

I would show up in a Civil War Union General's uniform and blast the trap remix of Union Dixie

stevedayallday.bsky.social•53 days ago

As a Bay Stater I'm a little conflicted about any elected official brandishing a cane in the Capitol building.

big-village.bsky.social•53 days ago

If this would’ve been 1800 he would’ve went up there with that cane and beat the shit out of him

divaweava.bsky.social•53 days ago

And we woulda sent him commemorative canes engraved w/ the immortal words of James Brown, “don’t start none, won’t be none”

vmcat.bsky.social•54 days ago

alt it pls

applei812.bsky.social•53 days ago

I don’t understand! Why do they want to keep losing? They’re talking about MOVING FURTHER RIGHT instead of growing a goddamn spine.

poli-sci-guy.bsky.social•54 days ago

Rep. Al Green pointing his cane at FOTUS is classic image of a Democratic politician letting the American people know FOTUS is lying to them. His lies must be called out every time he speaks no matter the venue. That image needs to be plastered all over Washington DC and on buses

red-liberation.bsky.social•54 days ago

That would be setting a precedent for abuses of power by rich white people being something that is punished.

And we can't have that, can we.

caravellin.bsky.social•54 days ago

But Robert then they'd Become the Story. When has any politician ever gotten any of their policy preferences enacted from Becoming The Story I ask you

https://bsky.app/profile/eladn.bsky.social/post/3ljl7nxzqyc2k

sunnysidestudios.bsky.social•54 days ago

I want to see fist fights and smoke bombs like they do in Serbia 😅

turnitup5000db.bsky.social•54 days ago

Someone needs to send them an article about the right wings massive resistance campaign against school integration. Maybe they can draw some lessons about how to fight.

loreljoy.bsky.social•53 days ago

I, a naive idiot, had this tiny spark of hope seeing that, thinking they might actually stand up and get removed one by one.

panactheos.bsky.social•54 days ago

We're just, like, one expertly photoshopped grenade launcher from a truly great photo though...

biohazardous.bsky.social•53 days ago

They probably don't want to anger their corporate donors, and stop getting invited to fancy parties where they hobnob with the nazis dismantling our society.

everydog.bsky.social•54 days ago

kinda looks like Penn Gillette in this

hollygaye.bsky.social•54 days ago

Extraordinary photo here!

nietszeggende.bsky.social•54 days ago

Why aren't they throwing rotten fruit? Or maybe a shoe perhaps.

2naonwheat.bsky.social•53 days ago

No, actually it's not shocking

sabinstargem.bsky.social•54 days ago

Al Green has it right: More Serbian smoke grenades, less Geronocratic docility.

leftyconspirator.bsky.social•54 days ago

"Alexander N. Green banishes Beelzebub".
- Paper chromolitograph, c.2025.

beepboopclaptrap.bsky.social•54 days ago

Is it shocking though?

rikki-lea.bsky.social•54 days ago

I remember a time when politicians were brave, and driven by morals + ethics. When the Dems stopped objecting after Al Green was ejected, it just served to prove that those traits are gone.

Politicians have to be willing to put themselves in uncomfortable situations to stand up for what is right.

rikki-lea.bsky.social•54 days ago

We need more politicians like Al Green. And if you're not willing to be gutsy, then move out of the way and let others do the job.

suzai.bsky.social•54 days ago

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov when we say DO SOMETHING, this is the type of thing we’re talking about. You don’t need a majority in Congress for this.

missed-sla.bsky.social•53 days ago

But decorum must be maintained even as we speedrun into fascism. Hold signs and not clap, that'll sure show the guy who can't read. Just whatever you do, don't make a fuss. Wouldn't want to ACTUALLY accomplish anything. Imagine if the American people started expecting that? Sounds like a lot of work

airdeez121.bsky.social•53 days ago

Fuck it, J.B. Pritzker/Al Green 2028

redguynopants.bsky.social•53 days ago

Decorum is and always has been a tool of oppression

apfulton.bsky.social•53 days ago

Old man shakes cane at Trump in this era of gerontocracy still feels a little too on the nose but good for Al Green getting the fuck out of that room.

whpshw.bsky.social•53 days ago

The Dems apparently still think the voters want a party that preserves the status quo & defends norms rather than a party that reforms the status quo & updates the norms in a pro-social way.

airdeez121.bsky.social•53 days ago

They have somehow come to the conclusion that the only voters that matter are rural and suburban white people who think Kamala Harris was too radical and want them to actively throw everyone but white men under the bus

reallukem.bsky.social•54 days ago

they’ve not assimilated the new rules of a competitive authoritarian system. symbols of resistance are THE way to rally the demoralized and apathetic!

natalieruiz.bsky.social•54 days ago

If a tiny slice of American politics makes me want to watch the five star Spielberg banger Lincoln, it's doing it right

leemorgan.bsky.social•53 days ago

When not a single senator was willing to be immortalized getting arrested by a doge mall cop, I knew no one was going to save us, not even for aggrandizement

applei812.bsky.social•53 days ago

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

name-is-the-byline.bsky.social•54 days ago

If only it was more than just optics, and signaled real changes in the Democratic party.

Oh well. It's been nice living in a pseudo-democracy for 40 years.

birbrights.bsky.social•53 days ago

@durbin.senate.gov

kittybatsasha.bsky.social•54 days ago

Call me when one of them....

heidiehaaland.bsky.social•54 days ago

How do we Normies have better instincts than these pantywaists? Long live, Al Green!

purplejane252.bsky.social•54 days ago

I wish Rep. Green had been close enough to go all Preston Brooks on those three

colborne.bsky.social•54 days ago

https://www.politico.eu/article/serbian-parliament-chaos-opposition-hurl-smoke-bombs-flares-protests/

kukulzamortis.bsky.social•54 days ago

Based

omniz815.bsky.social•53 days ago

took me way too long to realize it was a cane and not a gold-plated hammer whose significance was baffling to me

miab.bsky.social•54 days ago

They'll probably disown him instead.

toad.city•54 days ago

Seems like yelling at an idiot that has lies-diarrhea-mouth for impeccable optics would have been a staggering easy choice but I guess that's why I'm poor and my vote doesn't matter lol

randomredhuman.bsky.social•54 days ago

kwebb08.bsky.social•53 days ago

“This is what democracy looks like!”

marilith.bsky.social•53 days ago

It's only shocking if you presuppose that they have any interest in winning elections, governing, or resisting fascism in any way.

dirgemcgirk.bsky.social•53 days ago

A majority of Democrats know they make more money if they lose.

tumescentnumpty.bsky.social•54 days ago

Imagine if his colleagues then shielded him from being removed before eventually walking out together in a giant scene instead of, well, you know.

buttes.bsky.social•54 days ago

if they actually wanted to send a message with the most ~decorum~ they would have all got up and walked out with him. instead they hold up dumb signs

sjaber.bsky.social•54 days ago

I don't understand how the other democrats could stay put at that point.

Have they no shame?

9mmballpoint.bsky.social•54 days ago

Time to avenge Charles Sumner by hitting a racist with a cane in Congress. Better late than never

heidiehaaland.bsky.social•54 days ago

This was my very first thought

leonryan.bsky.social•54 days ago

same, but i only know about it from listening to The Dollop

heidiehaaland.bsky.social•54 days ago

I can’t recall when I learned about it- I did read up on it because I wondered what had become of his assailant but it sounded like he was not charged but left Congress and disappeared west? There were two others who prevented others from coming to sumner’s aid. Just vile people.

chuckgrape.bsky.social•54 days ago

There's a high school in Kansas City, Kansas named after him.

hurtski.bsky.social•54 days ago

This has the Pelosi standing in the cabinet room vibes

maniccage.bsky.social•53 days ago

Doesn't seem like it takes all that much - effort or creativity

linseyis.bsky.social•54 days ago

Just donated my $100 to Al Green. I vote with my money. Who's going to do the next $100? https://secure.actblue.com/

gwynnravenfire.bsky.social•54 days ago

Donated as well.

kymgrosso.bsky.social•54 days ago

Dems need new leadership who know how to fight. The Decorum Dems should step aside and let others like Jasmine Crockett lead. The old way of being the better person or pearl clutching isn't working. A dictatorship is unfolding & the people want action to stop it.

freediverx.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh, the corporate Dems know how to fight alright. It’s just that they choose to only fight against progressives and their working class base and never the oligarchs and fascists who line their pockets with money.

bakademic.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yeah, I'm surprised nobody in democratic party isn't at all tempted by the prospect they can reasonably take of over the party.

assfarter.bsky.social•54 days ago

Much like calling fascists weird, this may resonate with the base and independents but it could offend the people who will 100% for certain vote republican every single time, who are the only people the democrats actually care about pandering to.

dreamingzen.bsky.social•54 days ago

They all think they're doing this with their tweets.

jack-a-dandy.bsky.social•54 days ago

Better they don't. It is more powerful and makes the audience empathize with the singular figure. The lone man standing up.

That's an image a voter resonates with. Not jockeying for position and rank.

joinhomefront.org•54 days ago

It’s because they were told not to by House Democratic leadership. Leadership needs to go. Or Dems not in leadership need to learn they don’t need to be “in leadership” to lead, as amply demonstrated by Al Green here tonight.

joinhomefront.org•54 days ago

See here:
https://bsky.app/profile/ezralevin.bsky.social/post/3ljm3j3fmak25

joinhomefront.org•54 days ago

This is another wake up call that we can’t expect other people to do the work for us. We have to do it ourselves.

Yet we don’t have a single organizing platform that’s not owned by private equity or VC.

Until now—I’ve been working on this. Please join me and help fix it.

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•54 days ago

What have you been working on?

joinhomefront.org•54 days ago

https://joinhomefront.org

- Decentralized organizing resilient to bad actors
- Secure, privacy-protecting local organizing w/ secure messaging
- Groups that scale dynamically
- Leadership at every level chosen democratically
- Resources for how to fight back
- Guidance for what to do next and how to do it

stepupping.bsky.social•54 days ago

You have #spoutable.com & this app. US misogynistic ideology bought u to this felon - save yourselves & then show the Dems that they r no going to be treated like Ukraine if they help you.

stepupping.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yes, let them know that at the ballot box. Suck it up.

joinhomefront.org•54 days ago

Democrats have control over leadership. They could force a vote. There are more ways to engage in democracy than every election cycle.

stepupping.bsky.social•53 days ago

US citizens voted and got what they wanted. But they forgot the poem...& then they came for me.

publicaardvark.bsky.social•54 days ago

I do have to wonder why the rest of the Dems are seemingly cowed by a leadership who have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be spineless worms

spnstrmichelle.bsky.social•54 days ago

Charles Sumner was so close to getting his revenge, 169 years later. Too bad nobody got brained.

padenjs.bsky.social•54 days ago

Honestly think if the dems threw tomatoes or disrupted in anyway that showed a little balls they would sway public opinions hard.

hudsonrivercrew.bsky.social•54 days ago

People like Warner are too busy bending over backwards to suck their own dicks saying that they just respect the dang presidency so dang much

insomniacgm.bsky.social•54 days ago

Dems have proven time and time again, that they are COWARDS!

tenorune.bsky.social•54 days ago

I'm sure you want to know how the Times saw it:

"The spectacle of a septuagenarian heckling the president while waving his cane was not ideal for Democrats"

tenorune.bsky.social•53 days ago

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social I imagine there is a "Raising Cane" Maureen Dowd headline there

anunstablegenius.bsky.social•54 days ago

"Whether it's Donald Trump attacking America's allies for no reason or Al Green getting tossed out of the State of The Union for decrying American fascism, both sides are disrupting norms."

reubenemoji.bsky.social•53 days ago

They’re accidentally right, in that what would have been “ideal” = dozens of members doing it, or everyone walking out after 3 minutes, or no one showing up at all.

fenrisgravewalker.bsky.social•53 days ago

i could not agree more. and instead they are jockeying for ghoul coins rather than even pretending to be an opposition party. smfh

iceveins412.bsky.social•54 days ago

The bar for dems is so fucking low. Doing literally anything about anything that is happening would guarantee reelection. Doesn’t even have to actually accomplish anything, they just need to be seen doing something at all

rugbyfan.bsky.social•53 days ago

He also garnered MSM attention and headlines.

Yes, the MSM has a definitive RW bias, however, if Dems get out there and make noise in a meaningful way; it will get covered.

As opposed to waving ping pong paddles around like pensioners at retirement community meeting.

romncoke.bsky.social•54 days ago

The Democratic party is a lame duck at this point. Too concerned with their own slice of the power cake to stand up and fight

America needs a loud, unapologetic leader who is going to do what is necessary to fight back

Otherwise the United States is done for

elroy1313.bsky.social•54 days ago

Illinois Governor.....,,,

nionvox.bsky.social•54 days ago

Should've yeeted that cane like a damn javelin

intelstation.bsky.social•54 days ago

Your typical Democrat self-sabotages by following rules that don't exist anymore. Things like decorum, mutual respect, procedure, and fundamental laws are no longer valid excuses for preventing meaningful changes. If they don't immediately adapt, the Democratic Party will become obsolete.

schmucko.bsky.social•54 days ago

By “adapt” do you mean be the same as MAGA trash & be a disgrace?

tesseliza.bsky.social•54 days ago

Imagine wearing a pink suit and wielding a sharpie to protest Hitler. Deeply unserious! Disgraceful!

honkydgoofy.bsky.social•53 days ago

Only scoundrels use rifles, real gentlemen form lines and march with bayonets fixed as god intended.

*gets mowed down by a Maxim machine gun*

jasonfritz.bsky.social•54 days ago

If you want things to change, you're going to have to *shudder* be uncomfortable.

yanbosc.bsky.social•54 days ago

I can wait to maybe have "we were very polite and followed all the rules" written on all our fucking gravestones.

charleswilliam313.bsky.social•53 days ago

Dude's riding with Bibi and only *pretending* to be anti-maga. Scope his profile.

doomhamm.bsky.social•54 days ago

Perhaps disgraceful times call for disgraceful measures.

I personally would love to see more of this, which means supporting it in the face of dem leadership. Maybe primary against those safe seat leaders as well.

onlymildly.bsky.social•54 days ago

It is not disgraceful to defend democracy with vigor.

schmucko.bsky.social•53 days ago

👌

murwiz.bsky.social•54 days ago

Honestly this moment was my only moment of hope during the speech. I really hoped they had a dozen or more people lined up for this.

Sadly they went from here to auction paddles.

sketchyquasar.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yeah, it would have been cool if someone started a "FUCK TRUMP" chant - I mean, what do they have to lose other than being escorted out?

Rep. Dave Min held up a tiny-ass version of the Constitution - the fuck does that do? If Trump were even interested, how would his old ass read the tiny print?

markheil.bsky.social•54 days ago

Most of the Dems in Congress are sniveling cowards.

caseinsensit1ve.bsky.social•53 days ago

I will also accept visibly falling asleep in the middle of the speech. Throw in some loud snoring, too, for kicks.

sergiol652.bsky.social•54 days ago

But the media immediately condemned him...

courtneyminick.bsky.social•53 days ago

When I first saw the pic I thought it was a hammer and I was like LFGGGGGGG

stepupping.bsky.social•54 days ago

The Anerican ppl spoke & it serves them right that the Dems r letting them stew. They went to the ballot box, knowing what they were getting.

serrata.org•54 days ago

bIPaRtIsAnShIp

nietszeggende.bsky.social•54 days ago

reverendjesus.com•53 days ago

Fucking sad

chrismacandcheese.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'm sorry, but until it looks like a brawl in the Serbian parliament, it's not disruptive enough.

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/03/04/smoke-bombs-thrown-mps-brawl-in-serbian-parliament-amid-protest-crisis/

mattbarrs.bsky.social•54 days ago

Three weeks ago I was asking why no Democrats are making enough good trouble to get arrested for.

boriskicks.bsky.social•54 days ago

Bizarre they can't figure this out! Imagine the same picture but with like twenty people yelling. Too many of them are too comfortable.

wes0311.bsky.social•54 days ago

I had a moment of delusion thinking that this was the start of the coordinated resistance and Dems one-by-one would get themselves thrown out.

A few minutes later I realized, no, it really was only the little signs.

So Lame.

mysterjoshua.bsky.social•54 days ago

Woulda looked better if it was a framing hammer like I thought it was.

mccabeagent.bsky.social•54 days ago

They’d need spines

lgbtqanimalkingdom.bsky.social•54 days ago

Sitting in silence isn't resistance to Trump 2.0. Rep Al Green understood the assignment and chose Medicaid as his hill to die on. Good on him

lbowman.bsky.social•53 days ago

It’s gorgeous

jcoletax.bsky.social•53 days ago

When Trump said “there is nothing I can do to make Democrats happy” someone should have yelled “die” or “resign”. The speaker would have had to threaten them with expulsion at which point the Dems should have insisted on having them all removed.

zetsubo.bsky.social•54 days ago

i would be more impressed if he'd brought a sword cane but this will do just fine

uhhuhdiane.bsky.social•54 days ago

Modern day Norman Rockwell.

gmmarkj.bsky.social•54 days ago

And the rest sat quietly in compliance.

lexiconjurer.bsky.social•54 days ago

Bring back Senate cane fights

usurpedlettuce.bsky.social•54 days ago

Democrats embracing their history and caning the absolute fuck out of Republicans.

jables.bsky.social•54 days ago

RETVRN!

comradeasveitz.bsky.social•54 days ago

The Black Caucus is mobilizing and even said that the Democratic Party has failed and time for a new part Working Families Party and I must say the leader of the WFP made a strong statement.

tylerh3.bsky.social•54 days ago

Dem leadership explicitly told them not to make a scene. They need to go.

divaweava.bsky.social•53 days ago

While wearing a fancy cape - just think of the swoosh of the dramatic exit

michellegrosser.bsky.social•54 days ago

It’s great optics because everyone likes a David.

https://bsky.app/profile/australiainstitute.org.au/post/3ljmayqn2t22m

michellegrosser.bsky.social•54 days ago

Animals get it

https://bsky.app/profile/ryankatzrosene.bsky.social/post/3ljlr7xgiyc2r

robodirect.bsky.social•54 days ago

Would've been better optics if one of them had rushed the podium wearing a coat made of dynamite

gwynnravenfire.bsky.social•54 days ago

One day if we survive this this picture will be as iconic as the one of Bernie getting arrested.

lamplighttopenwick.bsky.social•54 days ago

They had to donate vertebrae to make sure one had enough of a spine

leeolson86.bsky.social•54 days ago

Nope we can not protest too loudly or aggressively or we'll never win over those republican voters we so desperately want and need so badly. I know it hasn't worked yet, but its gonna this time I'm sure of it.

juicerservo.bsky.social•54 days ago

babsblue.bsky.social•54 days ago

We definitely need more of this.

jtdc.bsky.social•53 days ago

Like, they all could've done this, one after another. Utterly ruin that speech.

berf.bsky.social•54 days ago

Some wore pink shirts! What more do you want?!?

irishwhisky24.bsky.social•53 days ago

I wouldn't say "shocking" that they're not. I'd say its more disappointing that they aren't.

jogobonit0.bsky.social•54 days ago

Truth to power

uneasywriter.bsky.social•54 days ago

“No! He should have held up a little sign!”

taberu.bsky.social•54 days ago

Something I think that's notable here is thr fact that he was the only one doing this and multiple democrats were just holding signs

Which tells me the greatest group of the national democrats that is organizing to do something, is doing silly useless stuff like this.

nfrankmano.bsky.social•53 days ago

We begged them to fight, to make a statement. What they have given us is a flock of sheep. Why didn't they unite behind repalgreen and walk out? They let Boebert and MTG heckle Biden and did nothing for one of our own. Disgusted beyond belief doesn't even begin to describe their non actions

hikingwithhobos.bsky.social•54 days ago

I hope that it will inspire US citizens to jockey and fight to be increasingly bold and disruptive as well.

onlymildly.bsky.social•54 days ago

The fact that only Al had the guts to do this is one of the reasons I feel we are doomed. The majority of the current Democratic Party representatives are not meeting this moment with the seriousness and urgency required. Still insisting on decorum as the house burns down around them.

thelifeofesther.bsky.social•54 days ago

Just one…

megamorgan.bsky.social•54 days ago

AGITATE

AGITATE

AGITATE

https://theconversation.com/what-frederick-douglass-learned-from-an-irish-antislavery-activist-agitate-agitate-agitate-231574

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