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You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.”
Al Green (D-Texas) was escorted from the chamber after he rose from his seat and yelled during Trump’s speech Rubio is deeply compromised as a human being,
one X user wrote about the “Hannity” segment There is nothing radical about moral clarity.”
She told CNN in an interview at the time When I think about politics, I think about whose values align with me most,
Part of being an effective member in the Trump administration is maintaining his confidence and loyalty,
Moral clarity in the context of politics is trying to describe or speak to how the policy-making process — and one’s role in the policy-making process — aligns with moral conviction,
A lot of people vehemently disagree with the values that Trump espouses,” even though there are “millions of Americans” who agreed with Trump enough to vote for him over former Vice President Kamala Harris
Some people really value wealth and power and money and control; some people value new experiences and treating people with respect and dignity — and [they] believe that every human has value,
If you think that Ukraine is responsible for the carnage of the war with Russia, if you believe... that federal employees should be laid off carte blanche without congressional approval, if you think that tariffs are a good thing... if you think those things are negative, then you might like Trump, ... you might think that he has moral clarity.”
With Speaker Mike Johnson leading the charge, they wear their bigotry like a badge of honor—absolutely despicable!”
Hakeem Jeffries didn’t even attempt to fight for one of his own from a censure. Why should we expect him to fight for us
wrote the progressive-aligned “Dear White Staffers” account, through which left-leaning congressional staff often vent their disgust They are not being talked to like they are children. We are helping them understand why their strategy is a bad idea,
One presumes that the paddles, which members held up discreetly at sporadic intervals through the address, were intended to be pointed but also somber. But the overall effect of the whole scene was, ‘On our way to Barbenheimer, we were kidnapped by Sotheby’s and forced to bid on our dignity.’
These are extraordinary times, and we need an extraordinary, lawful resistance,
Hesse added, though she was left wondering It might have been when several dozen Democrats walked into Donald Trump’s Tuesday congressional address wearing coordinated shades of bubblegum, but it was definitely by the time that several dozen Democrats started waving ping-pong-sized paddles in the House chamber that I started to really worry about the resistance."
These props — along with the shirts reading ‘RESIST’ worn by some members — were simultaneously too perfunctory and too earnest. Earnest doesn’t register with this White House, where Elon Musk showed up to a Cabinet meeting in a ‘Tech Support’ T-shirt and Dark Maga ball cap, as if he’d pwned USAID for the lulz,
In recent years, liberals have tried Minnesota nice, coconut trees, going high, going low, going ‘weird,’ being heartfelt, being snarky, marching, pleading, mocking, understanding, using facts, using pathos, and here we are again, like it’s 2016 and some hardworking activists are wondering if we can turn this thing around via pussyhats,
While the cameras were focused on the characters on the chamber floor, they missed the ones in the gallery."
During these moments I could see entire rows of Democrats staring down at their phones. I was close enough to see what they were looking at – most were texting or scrolling through social media feeds."
Haim elaborated on his first point, stating Payton is here tonight in the gallery, and Payton, from now on, schools will kick the men off the girls team or they will lose all federal funding,
