Either Al Green or Anthony Weiner. I watched an old speech of him defending a bill to fund medical care for the first responders of 9/11, and he spoke with such fire and passion. He put House Republicans on blast for sitting on their hands and hiding behind procedure before voting “no”. While we don’t need people with his character flaws (he sent unsolicited dick pics to someone who may or may not have been a minor, I’ve read conflicting reports), we definitely need people with that kind of fire.
But it won’t. Hakeem Jefferies will have his members wear, “How will this lower the cost of eggs?” t-shirts as they’re obediently led in front of firing squads.
A better look would have been Al Greene beating someone with that cane.
Look, I’m the last one to tone police anyone, but maybe don’t go all Preston Brooks.
Counterpoint: John Brown did nothing wrong.
If I were in that room, I would have proudly walked out along with Rep. Al Green. I feel like history is going to remember the people sitting on the sidelines in silence or waving their tiny signs around when only one man had the courage to stand up and shout down the president in defiance, and history will not be kind to them.
What Green did is basically the bare minimum I expect out of an opposition party. I mean, come on people, Serbia just pulled this shit and you’re telling me 10 Democrats crossed party lines to censure a guy who called the lying fascist authoritarian a liar to his face? Show me that you have enough backbone to fight these assholes. I’m tired of waiting for Dem leadership to get their shit together and start seriously disrupting government just as ferociously as Republicans would if the roles were reversed.
What did this accomplish?
Seems like we’re developing a list of dems who are actually worth their salt. Primary the rest.
I’m hopeful to see them push back, still worried, but hopeful.
What impeachment process? They don’t have the votes? You can’t convict the president without a 2/3 majority in the senate.
yeah instead they got a former cia agent to represent the party who not only praised W but also dug the grave of Reagan just to gargle the remains of his balls on camera. they have no shame; they just want to be the republican party. “the moment something bad happened I knew I had to go around the world to kill as many brown babies as possible” go fuck yourself, cunt. who even elects this people.
Luckily the United States will be irrelevant soon. They’ve already lost all their trade leverage as well as their military allies (in exchange for one that’s been locked in a quagmire for three years in an operation that was only supposed to take three days) and their economy is in the process of collapsing. Neither Democrats nor Republicans will matter soon to anyone outside of the tiny fraction of the world’s population that lives in the territory that they control.
one can only hope
Give that man a longer cane!
If I were Green I’d have swung it upside the head of the Sergeant-at-arms. Wouldn’t be the first time a cane was swung in the Capitol.
I agree, but I would much rather have an article stating such from any source that is not Jacobin tbh
No they should hold town halls and protest that’s all they can do. Start with a grassroots campaign and go from there.
It’s such a weird thing for them to do. What do they get out of it? It’s not like their constituents are going to say, “I’m not sure about my representative but 2 years ago they censured Al Green so I’ll reelect them.”
I imagine it’s a lot more for their donors than their constituents.
Most of them are in Republican-ish districts so yes, their constituents actually may say something like that.
Remember, Lemmy is a ridiculous echo chamber. Bernie Sanders supporters are a small minority of the Democratic party. The overwhelming majority are centrists.
Only 10 out of like 214 so, honestly, you could write it off as statistical probability. Maybe they were mad that because of the interruption they had to sit there and tolerate Trump’s sounds and smells that much longer.
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You’re saying they should all get escorted out of congress? Won’t that stop us from voting against the Republican Majority? It’s already such that if every Dem shows up the Republicans can miss 1 vote and pass things.
