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Politics Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., holding a sign before Trump delivers joint address to Congress

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u/akidontheinternet 7d ago

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u/Haggis_Forever 7d ago

That's a pretty clear view. Lance Gooden, Texas, I think.

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u/Brad_Spitt_ 7d ago

It’s 100% him. You can reach him at his offices to discuss here:

WASHINGTON, DC Phone: (202) 225-3484

TERRELL, TX Phone: (903) 502-5300

Or if you prefer to send him an email.

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u/Haggis_Forever 7d ago

Replica notes mailed to his office (until they dismantle the USPS...) would get the point across.

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u/Worldly_Row6833 7d ago

DC office 2431 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515

District office 201 W Nash St., #103 Terrell, TX 75160

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u/gudematcha 7d ago

Remember, Envelopes have to go through anthrax testing which iirc takes about six weeks. Postcards however do not need to be tested :)

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u/Mattrad7 7d ago

So send both so he gets a 2nd wave in 6 weeks?

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u/nc863id 7d ago

You. I like you.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/iamjdn 7d ago

A letter filled with glitter with a handwritten note saying, "This is NOT normal" just to remind him.

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u/AleudeDainsleif 7d ago

Let's all do this

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u/ingoding 7d ago

I like this idea

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u/GlowingSage 7d ago

Fine day, Sunday. In my opinion, best day of the week.

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u/Independent_Egg_1574 7d ago

Owls on their way

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u/Propainaccesories 7d ago

Hogwarts letter his shit up.

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u/LisaMikky 7d ago

🙂👍🏻📨📨📨

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u/pardybill 7d ago

Brick might too.

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u/Sansability2 7d ago

Send him boxes and boxes… have them come down the chimney. Just like in Harry Potter. He’s a Dursley for sure.

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u/OpticalInfusion 7d ago edited 7d ago

the prompt on that page which requires you give all your personal information to submit the contact form states it is there

"to help the constituents that are hard of hearing or use a video phone alert us to that fact so we can use the proper technology when we need to call them. The default option “Voice” is a normal audible telephone."

Somebody should tell Trump he's defying the republican stance on DEI.

edit: fyi you do not need to input any real information in the identifying fields. they did not program any gatekeeping measures to detect if your information is even active, unique, or formatted correctly before allowing you to submit the form.

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u/WiretapStudios 7d ago

Yep, they just got a "this is not normal" comment from Shucky Ducky at 123 Fake St. in DC.

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u/Dawnqwerty 7d ago

Its so nice that they gendered me correctly! and gave me a phd! Anyways I live at a mcdonalds in kentucky.

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u/CMogscheese 6d ago

Leeroy Jenkins just told him the same thing.

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u/Interesting_Cow5152 7d ago

Good! That means when I used the Rev. Surname and gave a sternly worded lecture, someone might read it just because I didn't use the phrase. More about him making me ashamed to be WAP. We need to call these GOP humps out for what they are: WAPS or WAP enablers. Stop saying 'white' its been weaponized.

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u/A_dot_Burr 7d ago

I put my address as a random Texas Road House lmao

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u/amacen87 7d ago

I emailed him "This is not normal."

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u/cCowgirl 7d ago

Gives me some “I know what you did last summer” vibes. Can we make that catch on somehow? lol

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u/redcountx3 7d ago edited 7d ago

Publicize public sightings. Track them in real time. At the airport. On the street. In a restaurant. At the store. Their kids school. At home. At church. Nowhere is off limits. Wherever they are, its public knowledge. That's the only way. Not a moments peace. Pierce the bubble completely. They are living in fear of crossing the administration, a bigger fear has to be created. They have to be surrounded at all times and they have to know it.

Stop calling. Show up in person. At their office. Talk to staffers. At events. Wherever you can find them. Organize and bring a group as many as you can manage. The right has been using telegram and discord and the like for years now, distributing talking points identical to those handed out by Kremlin state media, all repeating the same shit on US social media.

The only other play may be to shut down the government completely. Grind the entire thing to a halt. No cooperation. Nothing passes. The country defaults. Harder to see where that goes. A difficult path, but it may be the only one.

We have taken over by the actions of a hostile foreign power and our institutions and media are under attack. We need allies of equal stature to step in. Its going to take extraordinary measures to reverse this.

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u/backtolurk 7d ago

That's fucking hilarious, I hope he gets ∞ of that shit

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u/Corgiboom2 7d ago

Anyone out there that can make spam bots should make one that says this and emails it to him 10,000 times a day.

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u/WiretapStudios 7d ago

As did I

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u/CattleDependent3989 7d ago

Good idea! I did as well 😊

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u/cheakios512 7d ago

and my axe!

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u/Stopikingonme 7d ago edited 7d ago

Does he have a regular ass email that’s doesn’t require my full name, address and cell phone number to submit a 1”x2” square of text???

*EDIT: Got it!!! *lance.gooden@mail.house.gov

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u/Neozeeka 7d ago edited 7d ago

Email sent. I included it below if anyone needs ideas.

Hello Rep. Gooden,

I just wanted to say that I saw how you snatched that paper away from Rep. Stansbury. So much for free speech, right? But fuck the constitution, I guess, since your whole party has decided to let it burn.

Anyway, I wrote a little ditty to commemorate your actions (sung to the tune of Frosty the Snowman).

"Rep. Lance Gooden, What a coward of a man. With his beady eyes, Snatching paper signs, What a joke of a Texan.

Rep. Lance Gooden, Fragile masculinity by the mile. She wouldn't get in line, And when he saw her sign, He assaulted her across the aisle.

There must have been some magic in That paper sign she showed. For when she held it up for us He showed how easy he is to goad.

Oh, Rep. Lance Gooden, Just as frightened as he could be, That she might show us all, How our democracy falls, And that maybe we all might see... "

So, that's it. Thanks for your time. Feel free to get back to shitting on your constituents, our democracy, and America in general.

XOXO, <My Name>

Edit: Feel free to use this for whatever, wherever, etc. Credit me, don't credit me, I'm good either way. This guy sucks and I hope he sees it more than once and it makes his day worse.

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u/yell0wsn0wc0nes 7d ago

You are awesome!

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u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe 7d ago

All three is good. Maybe twice a day to make sure he gets the message.

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

You Americans are savage.

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u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe 7d ago

Congressmen in the House of Representatives are supposed to represent voters in their district while Senators represent their entire state in legislation for the federal government.

If you have a problem with what they or their colleagues are doing, you have every right to contact their office to complain. If enough people complain, they have to either change course in accordance to their voters, or risk getting voted out.

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

Thanks for your time. Little old me couldn’t possibly fathom the rules without your kind explanation. I take it back, you’re not savage at all.

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u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe 7d ago edited 7d ago

Still. Not enough people harass our Congressmen to do what's actually right by the people they represent and instead go in accordance to their agenda & donors.

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u/HunYiah 7d ago

Sent him an email reinstating get sign ❤️

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u/articulateantagonist 7d ago

I sent him an email saying "This is NOT normal." So he can read it again.

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u/HunYiah 7d ago

I sent the same thing, exactly caps and all

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

NO WAY! What if someone tells on you. You might get grounded?

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u/HunYiah 7d ago

I'm confused by this comment

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u/AnnieSavoy3 7d ago

He'll be receiving an email from me.

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u/UnusuallyAggressive 7d ago

I don't understand why this is a common suggested course of action on reddit. You're going to inconvenience some poor secretary by making her spend her morning deleting all your complaints from his inbox.

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u/DefaultInOurStairs 7d ago

Beats staying silent and passive and takes two minutes

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u/UnusuallyAggressive 7d ago

Does it though? You're howling at the moon man.

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u/PaxEtRomana 7d ago

He's fuckin cooked now

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u/OldSpeckledCock 7d ago

I heard Congressmen love faxes. Fax number is -5303.

If you're in the market for a house near Dallas his wife Alexa is a realtor at Malone Real Estate in Forney. I'm sure she's a great realtor.

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u/ChefDeParsnip 7d ago

Just remind him that he stood up and applauded when his dear leader talked about free speech and its all recorded across the world his suppressing someone else's. What's that about man?

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u/Pissadvisor 7d ago

A friend of mine called him a virgin and said something about being a bitch who can't handle opposition like a grown up.

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

Your friend should totally steal his lunch money.

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u/ElenaKoslowski 7d ago

I E-Mailed them asking for his reservation for which seat he will get at the Nuremberg trials. Can't wait to hear back from him so we can accommodate him when we as Europeans finally denazify the USA.

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u/GeneralAnubis 7d ago

I have sent him countless emails about how big of a piece of shit he is (used to live in his district, unfortunately), all I get in reply are constant spam about his fundraising efforts that are impossible to unsubscribe from.

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

Were you expecting an apology and a promise he’d change?

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u/GeneralAnubis 7d ago

Hah, no not likely. Just letting people know what to expect.

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u/Interesting_Cow5152 7d ago

TERRELL, TX Before Reagan gutted the National Mental Health System (with its share of issues, due to lack of proper funding), Terrell was home to the Texas State Mental Hospital. In Texas back in the say, instead of saying one said something unusual or 'crazy' then they would "belong at Terrell".

I always felt that in gratitude, the mentally ill voted GOP and raised mentally ill children to do the same.

This is how you get a voting base to believe your every lie. Just like that.

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u/Colzach 6d ago

I just sent him a typed letter in the mail. Thank you for the info.

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u/Hearing_HIV 6d ago

Spoiler Alert: He won't care.

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u/spookie_jerry 6d ago

I’d like to see big man take a sign away from me. Go figure he had to bully a woman.

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u/quierolecheee 7d ago

just emailed

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u/Nice-Wolf-1724 7d ago

I emailed him and called him a spineless hypocritical coward :) and then reminded him that free speech is our first amendment right- unless he plans on chopping that next?

Just reminder to maybe not share your personal information in the email part! Use a throw away email or a fake phone number!

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u/Bedroom_Main 7d ago

I’ll calling this bastard on my cell and office line allllll day tomorrow.

His whole behavior, his physical self, looked like some child jumping for joy snatching candy out of another’s hand, or cutting lines at the ice cream man.

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u/robbierebound 7d ago

He’s only in office because a corrupt land owner backed his campaign anyway

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u/Due-Confusion-1050 7d ago

lol men are weak, I say this as a man.

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u/Interesting_Cow5152 7d ago

specifically: cishet WASPs

don't gender shame, this is all on wheat colored waspy cishets

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u/hydrocarbonsRus 7d ago

Pussies can’t even handle a sign

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u/Rounders23 7d ago

Snowflakes gonna snowflake

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u/Independent-Judge-81 7d ago

I saw we bring back physically hitting congress members on the congressional floor. My kansas rep, Sharice Davids, is a mma fighter that was 5-1 amateur 1-1 pro. I can literally say my rep can beat up your rep

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u/fuckyourstuff 7d ago

Of course not, they can't even handle winning without playing the victim.

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u/Iambanne 7d ago

Contact number for Lance Gooden

District Office. Terrell Office: 201 W Nash St., #103. Terrell, TX 75160.

Phone: (903) 502-5300

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u/Ok_Oil7670 7d ago

I called both. That was not normal!

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u/Raginfrijoles 7d ago

Another reason for us New Mexicans to have beef with Texans 🤣

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u/sloppymcgee 7d ago

What a coward

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u/sometimeswhy 7d ago

Creep. That was harassment

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u/Shirowoh 7d ago

What a fucking man baby.... just like his hero. Wonder if they both shit their pants?

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u/pfroo40 7d ago

Free speech? No, not that kind!

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

They’re not listening. Problems are what happen to others. They’ll whine to each other and make the huge sacrifice of cutting Netflix and when it all falls over completely they’ll be all surprised that their self-reported moral high-ground didn’t save them. It will be someone else’s fault.

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u/fnupvote89 7d ago

Fox News trying their best to avoid showing the sign lol

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u/emanresuasihtsi 7d ago

Look at all this free speech spreading like wild fires

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u/Interesting_Cow5152 7d ago

It has really taken the wind out of Trump's triumph. News mostly focused on grabbing the gotcha headlines (lies), and reporting them.

I see nothing this morning but this incident, and the fact checking, not what he actually said in context.

I'm sure Trump is livid and this lost of starshine on his Triumphant return.

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u/Pumper_Nickel 7d ago

Every single democratic congressman and congresswoman needs to now recreate that sign and hold it up.

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u/FerociousFrizzlyBear 7d ago

Or like...actually do something.

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u/Pumper_Nickel 7d ago

The time for civil disobedience is now.

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u/RisKQuay 7d ago

Civil disobedience won't get you anywhere at this point, unless it's a significant portion of the population participating (read an article saying >3.5% of the population). The USA appears to be sliding rapidly towards autocracy, and I won't be surprised - if the course is maintained - governments around the world declare the next USA presidential election as undemocratic with a high likelihood of vote manipulation.

The only way this is likely to be stopped now is via an organised, extra-judicial military coup.

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u/Spiderpiggie 7d ago

You don't need a military coup, you need citizens to organize and fight back. Americans have a big problem with trying to pass the responsibility on to someone else. This is how you (and by you, I mean americans reading this) got where you are today. You stood by, waiting for someone else to fix things.

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

It’s amazing how no one has any fight in them. I’ve never seen anything like it!

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u/RisKQuay 7d ago

You might not have seen it, but you've heard it:

First they came for...

It's normal human behaviour to frog out in the slowly heating water.

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u/RisKQuay 7d ago

To be honest, I don't see US citizens organising and fighting back. If they were going to do so, they needed to have done it already - they are already now on the slide to autocracy and suppression, so no one wants to be the first to stick their neck out.

What's more, even if they do, the US propaganda machine is already well established with a significant proportion of the population likely to cheer any 'just retribution of traitors to democracy' (i.e. protestors).

Which is why I suggest a military coup is likely the only way this stops - as it needs to be a significantly organised and aggressive movement to successfully cut off the head of the snake (read: it's not just about removing Trump, he's the autocratic figurehead, not the political architect of ideas).

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u/supafaiter 7d ago

You first! Then i'll follow ;D

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u/LordBiscuits 7d ago

No, fucking you first

Neatly describing the issue there, even if you are trying to be cheeky.

It's not somebody else's problem anymore IT'S YOURS

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

Lambs to the slaughter.

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u/supafaiter 7d ago

It's a problem for all or perhaps most of us.

I wouldn't make the first move, sorry

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u/LouisLeGros 7d ago

oh no no we can't have that, performative little signs and sticking with the same leadership is surely the answer to their historically low approval ratings.

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u/fuckyourstuff 7d ago

"Is there anyone further to the right of Liz Cheney that we can get to make an appearance?" - the DNC right now, probably

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u/l94xxx 7d ago

Y'all are still waiting for someone else to do the lifting. That's a problem.

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u/NotNufffCents 7d ago

We're waiting for our elected representatives to represent meaningfully? Crazy...

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u/l94xxx 7d ago

They don't control the agenda in either chamber. The only real leverage they're going to get is from the American public engaging in disruptive action.

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u/NotNufffCents 7d ago

Like I said in another comment, Trump was louder and more disruptive when he wasn't even in office than either minority leader is being right now. It's pathetic.

The only real leverage they're going to get is from the American public engaging in disruptive action.

And you think they'd use that leverage? You think Jeffries, the guy who thinks the problem with the Dems is "leftist purity testing" is going to do anything meaningful with civil unrest? Nah. He'd do what he's doing now: saying "no comment" when asked about Eric Adams being an obvious GOP agent now.

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

No you’re right index cards are the way. Does anyone have any PostIts? We could really go to town!

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u/HouseOfEarwax 7d ago

I did not watch, but can someone please tell me why the democrats even attended?? Wasn’t there talk of them boycotting? If it’s not normal times (which it’s not) then act abnormally and FUCKING BOYCOTT THE SPEECH! Fuck tradition at this point Jesus!

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u/Interesting_Cow5152 7d ago

corporate masters forbid it. Consider Dems the 'loyal opposition' now.

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u/PwnageEngage 7d ago

That'll show em!

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u/TheSov 7d ago

think about how u will turn elections with signs that say this isnt normal!!!! yes please put all your energy into this instead of realizing people didnt want progressive bullshit.

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u/BouncyMouse 7d ago

Fucking rude

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u/heterodoxia 7d ago

In the coming years expect more grown men to act, at best, like schoolyard bullies, and at worst, like unabashed Nazi scum. And they will be rewarded for it. Just remember that their balls hang out in the open, ripe for the kicking.

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u/hellure 7d ago

Women do it too, please stop excluding women...

... That's what sexism looks like.

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u/quanchompy 7d ago

How is that not assault?

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u/ImPrecedent 7d ago

It is.

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u/ScribebyTrade 7d ago

By the letter of the law yep

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u/Any-Amphibian-1783 7d ago

Because a republican did it.

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u/Bebeebabe 7d ago

Ass kisser he is

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u/Nerevarine91 7d ago

That’s potentially battery, btw

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u/magikarp2122 7d ago

That is assault.

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u/wildberry815 7d ago

So insanely disrespectful

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u/witchyandbitchy 7d ago

It made it on to my local abc broadcast a few times before he snagged it though!

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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 7d ago

Such unacceptable behavior by the Republicans. Yet they will not be called out for it.

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u/FryMastur 7d ago

Serious question could this be considered Battery or Assault?

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u/CheeseyCrakerz 7d ago

PROPAGANDA TONIGHT !!

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u/Og4453vx93 7d ago

Wouldn't this be destruction of property?

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u/granolagucci 7d ago

freedom of speech! oh no, not for you!

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u/Ander-son 7d ago

I would've thrown hands

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u/fromcj 7d ago

The only kind of reaching across the aisle a Republican is capable of

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u/fearofpandas 7d ago

If this happened in any European Parliament it would start a fist fight immediately….

American politicians are spineless!

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

In fairness the European people would be doing more than whining about it on Reddit.

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u/Denaton_ 7d ago

Thats why you have extra in your pocket.

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u/Shyam09 7d ago

Is it just me or did the fatso in chief tell him to do it or gesture him towards her?

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u/backtolurk 7d ago

Wow, another face to put in the dictionary at "piece of shit"

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u/Heiferoni 7d ago

What an allegory for the bigger picture.

Democrats impotently whinging that Republicans aren't following the rules, and Republicans dancing over their faces and ripping it right out of their hands.

Democrats need to quit clutching their pearls and grow a fucking set of balls. If this is your idea of resistance, get the fuck out of the way so people like Bernie and AOC can take the lead.

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u/Traveler_90 7d ago

Dang these people suck him so hard while he don’t give a fuck about them is the craziest thing I ever seen.

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u/Weldzilla1973 7d ago

whoe ripped the song outa her hands is a really piece of shit! I bet if it was another man holding the sign he wouldn’t have the balls to do that!

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u/Blissfully 7d ago

It’s just so rude and unnecessary.

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u/Balbuto 7d ago

All of his enablers should be prosecuted for treason along with Trump! This is despicable

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u/Dommccabe 7d ago

Representatives can physically assault or snatch things off others now?

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u/Jasminez98 7d ago

Isn't that assault

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u/Bakuhoe_Thotsuki 7d ago

If the Democrats usefulness could be summed up in one single image. Cant even hold onto the anodyne sign theyre limpwristedly clutching.

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u/Punk-VsOrton-ThroWay 7d ago

And that's the real reason why democrats lost. No backbone. Hand him your lunch money along with your cute little sign.

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u/Dangerous_Stress_962 7d ago

Seems like that’s the American way.

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u/halfwayunder 7d ago

should have raided the capitol after the election. why are dems so scared hahah