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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Who Will Have The Guts To Shout Out YOU LIE At The SOTU On Tuesday Night?
Bernie Sanders? Liz Warren? Kamala Harris? Cory Booker? Julian Castro? Oprah Winfrey? Who will have the courage to call the king of liars what he is on coast to coast TV?
unblock
(52,196 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,202 posts)And I know I wouldn't be able to help myself, either - if I could stand to tune in.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Dem voters may do the same thing in November.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)It is classless. Hopefully our Democrats will continue to prove to be more dignified than republicans.
TomSlick
(11,097 posts)Just because the other guy is a jerk does not give you permission to be a jerk. Dems should go and sit on their hands.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)lastlib
(23,213 posts)eom
VOX
(22,976 posts)She says she stands up to Trump. We know how she stood up to fellow Democrat Al Franken.
Lets see if she packs the gear to call out a congenital liar AND self-admitted serial molester.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)but will she walk the walk?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Seriously. Do you know her background? Not all perfect but she sure as hell gets out there and goes for it. Walk the walk? You are talking about a very accomplished woman who has been walking the walk for some time.
Dislike her for her role in Frankens exit if you must, but stick to that.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)He has lashed out attacks on her.
Why did you only target her with this? Any others on board when it comes to Franken?
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)I needed to give it one final flog to work it out of my system. Ready to move on now.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)want to win the midterms.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Because the Republican Party isn't going to do anything about Trump (except cravenly back him up). The only available Rx for this galloping disease is more Democrats in congress, period.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It wont be because of guts, it will be due to his lack of both impulse control and intellect.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Just like no one walked out of his speech today.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)MFM008
(19,805 posts)A respectable hooker around politicians?
JUST KIDDING.
She'll fit right in.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)but she's supposed to be on Kimmel on Tuesday.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Antelope freeway, one quarter mile....
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)LompocDem
(143 posts)...I listened to this in quad back in the '70s. The Nixon AI seemed more rational and coherent than what we are dealing with now.
onecent
(6,096 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)loudly when the F**king Moron starts to speak.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)Stormy Daniels says Dolt 45 is afraid of sharks.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)someone will shout out LANDSHARK!
Best_man23
(4,897 posts)One word....IMPEACH.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)LOCK
HIM
UP!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)and the classless Trump administration. This only works if you want to make sure republicans don't look like they have less dignity and decency than we do.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Trump would absolutely feast on a moment like that
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)How much do you think the GOP would love getting rid of the requirement for a SOTU? Reducing government itself and doing away with transparency is their dream.
I want the story to be about Trump's bad ideas and poor performance, and especially Joe Kennedy's response. Overshadowing those things with a petty shout might satisfy a few people, but it would thwart a good opportunity to show that Democrats are superior at governing, and have better ideas.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)open your window and shout into the dark "You LIE!"
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)If Democrats can't stand and shout to the rest of America that the BLOATUS is a liar who will? The Russian factory trolls won't do it.
librechik
(30,674 posts)just hoping.
Liberal In Texas
(13,546 posts)Says it all.
Paladin
(28,252 posts)I'm not surprised to see the usual "Democrats must act as responsible adults" line turning up, here. As if responsible behavior is getting us anywhere, these days.
raging moderate
(4,297 posts)After the speech?
AllaN01Bear
(18,159 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)And even at that, Democrats are still demonized, since the right- wing narrative has them running the Deep State. Democrats are the snowflakes, the pushovers, the silent, enabling parents who clean up the house after their adolescent kids have trashed the place.
Not that long ago, I would have agreed keep it clean, fight fair, be classy, take the high road. But when youre facing Atilla the Hun, the high road isnt even an effective escape route.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Democrats that didn't learn that in 2016 are doomed for a repeat in 2018.
onenote
(42,694 posts)I could add many more names to the list. You couldn't be more wrong.
Turbineguy
(37,319 posts)"You tell the truth!"
Because there will not be any reason to do so.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)and laughs from our side.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,582 posts)She'll yell (in her adorable accent), "You lie!" Then she'll throw her Christian Louboutin shoe at him and stomp out.
RainCaster
(10,866 posts)Just like a large portion of America.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)Do it in the privacy in your own home. Then Let Joe Kennedy III have his moment. My sis who lives in Georgia says her friends (some are righties really like him).
Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)Then, on the other side, it could be a solid color, so when they flip them over and all hold them up together, it would spell out "YOU LIE!" in real big letters. You know, like they do at football games to spell out "GO TEAM!" or "RAH! RAH!" or "I CAN'T SEE THE GAME WITH THIS DAMNED POSTER IN MY FACE!".
They could try starting a wave, but the other half of the crowd probably wouldn't join in.
On a positive note, maybe he'll use the occasion to announce his resignation. Or at least maybe a new Rump-branded product.
There are many opportunities to make him look like an ass, but in the end, he'll manage to do that all by himself.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)If one wants to protest, then do not show up. But to disrupt the SOTU would be juvenile.
Protests never helped to end any wars. Nor did it help to win anyone equal rights, or freedom from tyranny.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I dig the way you deftly moved the goalposts...
Mister Ed
(5,928 posts)It's not a Pro Wrestling cage match in Vegas, and it shouldn't be treated as such.
Give 'em hell everywhere else, but don't disrupt the State of the Union address. To do so is not an assault on the loathsome Mr. Trump, but upon the foundations of our democracy.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)and watch Czar Trump, the republican tumors and their Russian factory trolls destroy everything America holds dear. The founding fathers are weeping in their graves at what Americans have become.