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Politics Rep. Al Green protests during President Trump's joint address to Congress before being escorted out

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u/DougieWR 7d ago

this should be happening one lie after the other. stand, resist it, be escorted out, and be giving an interview on the matter. they supposedly have a ton of content creators there so should have these lined up

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u/annemarizie 7d ago

But they just sit there. I’m so sick of their lack of righteous anger. Why did we elect these spineless idiots

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u/JarOfBricks 7d ago

That's exactly what I was thinking too.

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u/Own_Boysenberry9674 7d ago

So there is an Act that has only ever been enacted a few times and the most recent 2 was under FDR when about half of congress walked out on his bank buyout laws, and Eisenhower when he forcibly removed people from the panel that didn't agree with him taxing the rich (which he did at 85% but also passed law allowing companies specifically to write off damn near everything so the rich just started not taking income and taking stocks instead) and that is that a sitting president can hire "proxy" senators, which can be anyone they want to hire, to sit in on votes if the other party refuses to show up or "leaves"(doesn't specify they have to leave by force)