He said speaking up during the address was the best way “get across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility.”
More of this.
Did Margie get ejected when she was behaving like a braying walrus? I didn’t see anything suggesting that she was kicked out at the time.
That bitch so damn ugly dawg
Only democrat there with a spine. Hope the rest get replaced
Why didn’t every Democrat step forward and PHYSICALLY bar him from being removed. They just sat there and let him be ejected. STAND THE FUCK UP
Because they’re weaker than wet tissue paper.
True, unless it comes to fighting progressives in their own party. Then they suddenly remember how to fight.
I thought the same thing. Then I thought about how powerful of a visual it would have been for each one of them, in turn, to cause a disruption and be escorted out. Let the cameras pan over a half filled chamber after 2 hours of meticulous protesting. That image would be in history books 100 years from now, assuming we all survive the next 4.
Trump is an old fart. He’s not going to stand up there for 6 hours speaking. If, one-by-one, every Democrat made a scene and got walked out they would’ve been there until midnight and Trump having gotten through almost none of his speech.
they all dont want to be there, they just want to ride on the grift the gop started, and benfitting from the same donors.
But that would have put their corporate donations in jeopardy!
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
- Benito Mussolini
thats exactly that, with Klabauchers just staring at her phone.
Even when they do something they’ll get criticized.
Every. Single. Time.
Nothing will ever be enough.
Are you blind? Or just intentionally dense. We are here, in this thread LITERALLY praising Al Green, a democrat, for DOING SOMETHING
I mean, the OP comment I’m responding to is questioning why every other Dem didn’t do the same so…are you just intentionally dense or…?
Hence the part about “it won’t ever be enough.”
Try reading before typing next time.
Edit- down vote all you want. You know I’m right.
Not saying I disagree with your premise.
However, there are some strange brew rules that come into play depending on the #of reps in attendance in the house. You dwindle the dem #s enough and you end up allowing the reps the ability to run amok with the kinds of legislation they’re salivating to pass.
I’m sure this was at top of mind for some of the folks in attendance.
Congressional rules are meaningless. They are not the constitution. If the Democrats are going to just sit idle because of “congressional rules” then they might as well start using the constitution as toilet paper
You dwindle the dem #s enough and you end up allowing the reps the ability to run amok with the kinds of legislation they’re salivating to pass.
That’s why there’s also quorum rules. There has to be a minimum of X% of the congresspeople present for anything to count and I’m 99.9% certain that all of the Dems leaving would bring the number present under that even if every single Republican was present.
Democrats are spineless cowards and/or complicit.
people who criticize dems from their sofa are the secret spinless trump supporters
How’s that party whip taste? Sounds like you’d do well in an authoritarian one-party state as long as the party pretends to be in partial agreement with you.
I hear Shanghai is lovely this time of year…
how do the meds taste? meatloaf on wednesdays. that’ll be nice
What on earth are you blathering about?
The only Dem who wasn’t a coward. Either walk out with him or talk shit back to Trump instead just sitting there in pink outfits.
You behave inappropriately, you get thrown out.
Oh, how I wish that were true. I wish Republicans had the moral fortitude to throw him out. But sadly, they cheered for Trump—the literal king of inappropriate behavior—as he waved his hand to dismiss the only Democrat who had the guts to stand up to every lie he was spewing.
WHERE WERE THE REST OF THE DEMOCRATS? FUCKING SITTING. They didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to be kindly escorted out like this old dude with a fucking cane; they walked Al out and their collective spine went with him. Johnson told them to shut up and they fucking did; they either sat there quietly with their stupid little signs, went to sleep, or walked out on their own. Fuck you, make me should be the order of the day! I’ve never been more ashamed of the democrats than this absolute display of submission with the slightest bit of bullying. Resistance my ass, resistance doesn’t quietly walk itself out of the building!
When it was happening I was hoping deeply that another Democrat would pick after he was removed to filibuster the SOTU. I suppose it’s naive of me but for a moment I thought the democrats had organized an actual visible protest.
