Update—Democrats: Forget the signs. Call out the truth. Get loud. Take a stand. They kicked your colleague Rep. Al Green out for making his voice heard. Meet the moment. They would & have done this to you. Why are you rolling over & playing dead?
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I have it on with the sound off. I just couldn’t stomach his voice. Fixing my email tech problems instead. Being productive. But I gather dems are doing 💩
Here's my update: Democrats, if you think your behavior is appropriate for this fight, you need to resign & let a pro-democracy person full of Fire & Passion take your place. Anything short of getting loud and calling out the Truth is an abdication of your Oath. Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
There’s 215 dems in the house and 47 in the senate. If each one gets kicked out every 5 minutes, this will take him 21 hours and 15 minutes to finish his speech. This should’ve been the plan.
He did provide a REAL opportunity. The signs were signs of life but…. these aren’t normal times. Can’t rely on NORMAL behavior. Channel all the suffering and stress people are FEELING. Or not. This is where they beat us. We’re not zealots. It’s a wiring thing.
Beginning to think it is worse than we realize. They look like hostages who have their family being threatened already. I wouldn't have expected that to happen for at least another 6 weeks.
In this case, the opportunity presented itself in real time. If Dems let Al Green be the only opposition while the rest of them sit with their silly signs, it will be a missed golden opportunity. It will make us look even weaker!
YES! The signs look pathetic now. After Al Green they must yell out and be forcibly removed. One-by-one. Otherwise, Al Green is the ONLY Dem opposition. Really Bad!
I’ve been tagging Elizabeth Warren in my posts. If she starts, many will follow. Can you call someone?
When Rep Green was kicked out I really thought others would follow. I foolishly thought the Democrats, for once, would show some courage and get into "good trouble."
It’s time for new leadership in the Democratic Party. The fact that the Democrats resistance is congressman Al Green, shaking his cane at Trump. Tells us what we already know, with the exception of a few members,
this party is woefully unprepared. And they’re running out of time to figure this out.
The Dems had a very short window of time to get the FAFO people.They should have all left and held a SOTU collectively on the capitol steps.Tell people you see their pain and we know we don’t agree on a lot but you can help us work to stop what is happening.Dems failed again tonight.Miss the chance.
Totally agree I would have been dragged out yelling at trump “your a lying sack of shit” just shows you donor money controls all politicians, not the good of the people 🤬😡🤬❤️🤍💙✊☮️
Very disappointed that Dems have rolled over — no pulse. They needed to make GOOD TROUBLE - instead, crickets & flimsy auction signs. At least Rep Al Green met the moment.
FFS Have none of them a working knowledge of Sun Tzu?
When there's no way to win in an environment, lure the enemy onto terrain where you do have the advantage
They need their own chaos campaign, eau de skunk would have cleared the chambers PDQ, then do what CEO's do to stop a hostile takeover.
Not watching but not surprised Dems haven’t risen to the moment. They don’t seem to get it. I keep having the sense of being on the Titanic and trying to convince everyone that it’s going to sink and they just keep doing what they do
Olivia, if ONE reporter would finally stand up and shout, "Mr President, that's not true!" and quickly slam him with some hard facts that Europe has paid more toward Ukraine than the US with numbers, the right wing machine couldn't ignore it any longer.
Exactly, Sitting there and glowering makes them look like sullen children. It's unbelievable that this is what they came up with as a response. I'm embarrassed for them.
Exactly, Sitting there and glowering makes them look like sullen children. It's unbelievable that this is what they came up with as a response. I'm embarrassed for them
I am so disgusted by the Dems’ weenie wimpy cowardice and inability to fight! That they didn’t ALL stand up and leave with Rep Green is sickening. They are allowing us to be bullied into fascism! Where are our LEADERS who will FIGHT???
Every single Democrat should have done EXACTLY what Al Green did! Not all at once but one and then the next and then the next. THAT is how they would have made a statement. That is how they should have resisted! Very few ever have the -alls! #RepAlGreen #StandUp
The guy talking was just bragging about making free speech a thing again!! I’d feign confusion or I would have walked out with Green. He needed an audience to agitate, we should have taken the winds out of his sails.
Magas snatched the “this is not normal” sign and played bullies all night and the best Dems could do was walk out quickly when he was done. Give me a break.
Michael Steele @michaelsteele.bsky.social got it right tonight when he said the correct move when Al Green was removed would have been for every Democrat in that chamber to stand up and walk out with him.
While the Republicans are hiding from their constituents in the bunker every single Democratic go to republican districts and listen and let them know they are valued
Because they have spent the last 20 years eschewing being combative in favor of compromise. They do not know how to fight. Their individual careers are built on being "normal" and sparing people's feelings because that is what their voters wanted. It's come to bite them and us in the ass now.
They are also complicit in taking payoffs and backhanders from vested interest groups that form part of the military-industrial-corporate complex. The US has been a democracy in name only. The reality is it is a plutocracy. And now a kakistocracy. But the real power will always be behind the scenes
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Walk out
stay silent
scream and yell
love the signs
don't go
all go show solidarity
wear Ukraine colors
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Pay taxes as late as possible. NO WITHHOLDING. Don’t fund fascists.
In this case, the opportunity presented itself in real time. If Dems let Al Green be the only opposition while the rest of them sit with their silly signs, it will be a missed golden opportunity. It will make us look even weaker!
GOOD TROUBLE!
I’ve been tagging Elizabeth Warren in my posts. If she starts, many will follow. Can you call someone?
this party is woefully unprepared. And they’re running out of time to figure this out.
I need to know one good reason why I shouldn’t unfollow every goddamn Democratic representative and Senator on BlueSky.
What a wasted opportunity.
Bunch of fucking spineless jellyfish.
When there's no way to win in an environment, lure the enemy onto terrain where you do have the advantage
They need their own chaos campaign, eau de skunk would have cleared the chambers PDQ, then do what CEO's do to stop a hostile takeover.
And The Dems wonder why they lost, and no one respects them.
Been telling folks that Green went out Old School Black Man Style. CLASSIC!!!
Fight! Resist!!
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It would rattle him beyond anything else, and bring more attention to the shit show this has become.
I love them, but they’re such wimps sometimes.
Such cowards.