Most sitting Democrats are ineffective. It’s that simple.
I hate to say it but it’s true. They need to be voted out and replaced with people who want to fight
JFC Jack, I sure wish a bunch of you bigger accounts would pull your head out of your butts. They can be pulled off committees & lose seniority making it easier to get things to the floor w/ less fighting in committees. Johnson will punish Dem’s & let the MAGA do as they please at his whim FFS.
Factually- spkr johnson is gonna ban Green from voting THE MOST IMPORTANT BUDGET this week! We hv 4-5 repubs gonna vote w Dems. Need EVERY DEM VOTE to BLOCK IT. Now bc of Green it will pass! Medicaid GONE!
Maybe it’s just me but I would’ve much preferred someone like Congressman Al Green or Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett to deliver the Democratic rebuttal. In the time of fascism reigning supreme we need our best most ferocious fighters of democracy.
There's a reason why nearly everyone speaking out is a minority. White males aren't too concerned, so long as they have some demographics under them in this new dystopia, which has been true for the entirety of this country's history. The rest of us aren't going to go quietly.
I think Joe Wilson (R) was the first person to interrupt the President's speech to Congress (2009). I'm not supportive of heckling becoming an accepted method of response.
Discipline, planning, negotiating where possible, and doing the work appeals to me more than performative gestures.
Democrats proved once again last night (by not walking out in solidarity w/Green) that they themselves do not believe that Trump and (R)s are a threat to this country. They claim these are not normal times (they're not!) but they act as if they are.
This whole "high road" shit is what's causing us to be losers. Where's the outrage??? I'm seething. They're doing everything to lose support. I honestly fear Dem apathy moving forward.
I tell you about them.
They cower in reverence to the ‘king’. They’ve all bitten the bullet & swallowed the bitter medicine! They are as complicit as the MAGAts!
Other than Al Green, the Dems acted like whipped curs last night. They seemed weak and pathetic in the face of a firehose of lies and insults from a tyrant & guffawing MAGA leaders on the dais. It was disgusting to watch their lack of a strategy and inability to rise to the moment.
I agree , and I believe that throwing them out is the exact “good tv” that Trump wanted… he taunted them through most of the speech, including calling Warren “Pocahontas “… they didn’t take the bait.
I must've turned it off before the "Pocahontas" comment--that POS. He was definitely taunting them. I'm glad they didn't take the bait. I don't know what people think throwing dems out would have accomplished other than satiate the psychopaths on the other side of the aisle.
You can kick out 1 person. You can't kick out half the people. Had the other Dems stood with their colleague instead of sitting on their hands, it would have been a statement.
If we don't stand together, we will surely be torn apart one by one. Only by standing can we take our country back.
2017-21 Trump was in the midst of a regime change, restructuring the entire geopolitical landscape w Putin, giving him the remainder of Ukraine. He’s continuing w that & far more. If he achieves this, we’ll see a systemic collapse. We’re losing our Republic. He must be stopped.
I applaud him. After what MTG did numerous times to President Biden, and no one did anything to her, which burned me up! Then they had the nerve to escorted Al Green out.
Yep, I'm new to bluesky and I'm trying to draw attention to a very informative article. I'm gonna post the screenshot. Probably need to search to find article. Hopefully I'll figure this site out.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov need to resign their leadership positions. Signs were NOT enough by far. They don't realize we're playing a different game now. Rules have changed. We need true fighters like @algreen.house.gov leading our party & party name/mission must change.
I went and got a massage during the spectacle. Might as well let my massage therapist make some money while she can before the recession dries up her business
I'm watching a Chicago fire show marathon. I remember when some of the networks didn't even show one of Biden's conferences or address. I went for paczki earlier today to support a local small business. Hope they can survive as well as all of us 😔
Those little signs were worse than embarrassing! Who will people vote for if there is an election? The GOP is out of the question, but most of the Dems are so damn weak that they are ill-equipped to lead. I want to have the choice of voting for someone who is fit to lead, not just the second worse.
I only tuned in right at the beginning because I wanted to see what the dems were going to do. I was waiting for a big walk out or something like that, not only did they not walk out, they sat on their asses with ping pong paddles in their hands! I'm fed up...
Hate to say it but I've had that feeling since the inauguration. With a few notable and active exceptions (Raskin, Crockett, etc) where the hell have kamala harris and the other high ranking democrats been?
They all knew. This is much bigger than Trump, Musk, Vance, and Johnson. Both sides are involved, as well as all of those billionaires that sat together at the inauguration. The system is rotten to the core.
The address to congress? I'm in the UK so haven't had the chance (or stomach) to watch it, but only one democrat Senator - Al Green - had the balls to stand up, and was kicked out for that. All the other democrats just sat & watched that happen?
Harris isn't there. She's no longer part of the administration after losing to the felon wannabe dictator.
Yes no one else supported Rep Green when he was thrown out unfortunately. Many kept shouting throughout but they didn't stand up or walk out. I didn't watch it either but saw from the video
But the rest had paddles, that’s our fine alternative! Democrats just as bad as the Republicans with the notable exception they don’t want to capriciously want to destroy the country
I put the blame oh “his judges”.
You know, the ones who took just long enough declaring him an immune king to ensure that what was left on the bone of the cases after the immunity rules stripped them-would never see a courtroom before the election.
The delay and the fuckery was deliberate.
Remember when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., heckled President Joe Biden's address in 2022? ~ and they weren’t escorted out of the Chamber!
Al did a great thing but remember when the SOB called Obama a liar no one escorted him out but the Dems backs are against the wall Mitch McConnell set up the kill for democracy the American people fail to do their jobs in nov. now we blaming the people who sounded the alarm WTF
And being mock by Adam - sorry as I know you are one but I have a serious case of not trusting ex Republicans and this is why. To me this was a slip of the veil and a nod to the racist GOP base.
Sorry, I disagree. Rep Greene might not have realised he was doing it, but Adam's right about the visual of shaking his cane. His public affairs officer/staffer needs to work with him on that.
He's also right about the 'age' of the Dem Reps who are too often before cameras. Schumer: Seriously?
Even more interesting is that you raised bigotry as the reason. Because I really couldn't give a sh*t what colour you align with, as waving a cane is a bad visual no matter how much melanin is in one's skin.
Subliminally, a beard is also a bad idea for a politician. Think old-fashioned 'Westerns".
It's a subliminal thing. Dates all the way back to old Westerns, where the good guys were clean shaven and the bad guys had beards. Plus, a beard masks the face; bandit?
Those movies are also why, simply put, hackers are referred to as 'black hats' and cybersec'ers are referred to as 'white hats'.
I kinda' agree with him (Don't tell anyone). I think they should be dignified in Congress, and work like a dog to be heard behind the scenes. Each one of them should have run out of there after that and made videos or got on podcasts or websites to publicize. These people need PR professionals.
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I hate to say it but it’s true. They need to be voted out and replaced with people who want to fight
They really made me sit up and take notice.
I tried to watch it on the barf site and the videos of him won't play for me. Come over to Bluesky and those same videos work.
Bravo! 🎉
He's my new hero
Discipline, planning, negotiating where possible, and doing the work appeals to me more than performative gestures.
Showed how far Trump isn’t ready to go yet lol same with Putin sending Zelensky.
They cower in reverence to the ‘king’. They’ve all bitten the bullet & swallowed the bitter medicine! They are as complicit as the MAGAts!
We will follow his lead but some of us won’t be nice
Nothing can stop you now.
#FUCKTRUMP
#FUCKMAGA
If we don't stand together, we will surely be torn apart one by one. Only by standing can we take our country back.
The Late Show
FFS resist.
Shaking my damned head.
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Not good trouble dems: >200
WHEN YOU FIGHT A BULLY, YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO GET BLOODIED....YES, BLOODIED AND SCARRED! NO GAIN WITHOUT PAIN
Why didn't they ALL STAND and block Senator Green from being escorted out, and make a stand there and then?
Cowardly, useless, and out of touch.
This is why they lost. 😡
Vote them all out!
Where was she yesterday during this!? 😡
Where was harris during that? 😡
Yes no one else supported Rep Green when he was thrown out unfortunately. Many kept shouting throughout but they didn't stand up or walk out. I didn't watch it either but saw from the video
You know, the ones who took just long enough declaring him an immune king to ensure that what was left on the bone of the cases after the immunity rules stripped them-would never see a courtroom before the election.
The delay and the fuckery was deliberate.
But had * faith* in the ‘ system ‘.
I feel so played
💔🤍💙
He's also right about the 'age' of the Dem Reps who are too often before cameras. Schumer: Seriously?
Man shaking his cane at a racist are white -
Subliminally, a beard is also a bad idea for a politician. Think old-fashioned 'Westerns".
Those movies are also why, simply put, hackers are referred to as 'black hats' and cybersec'ers are referred to as 'white hats'.
He may be older, but carried that stick well.