Doofus is going to the Super Bowl and at which time he will give his SOTU speech .
I hate this - it’s the perfect example of Democrats not bringing a knife to a gunfight, but instead bringing a lace doily with a vaguely ostentatious frill along its edge.
Maybe in some cocktail party or White House Correspondents Dinner this would be considered some sly bit of political theater, but in a world where a Parkland survivor asked Marco Rubio to his face if he would stop taking money from the gun lobby, having the C-SPAN camera occasionally point to another survivor as he sits silently taking in Trump’s BS and expecting any Republican to give a shit is the limpest attempt at posturing imaginable.
I doubt he expects that. Trump will have victims there of violence caused by non-citizens. Kasky was victimized by a citizen who had a gun that civilians in general and kids in particular do not need and should not have. And I presume the voters are meant to get the message that Swalwell cares about that and wants to do something about it.
Wonder if anyone has Stormy Daniels on their guest list?
I wouldn’t mind if each congressperson invited someone who Trump or the administration has shafted. The mom who lost their health insurance. The contractors not paid. The women…Oh the women.
I think you are reading this backwards. This IS the knife at the gunfight.
It isn’t meant for the TRumpublicans. It’s meant for everyone else. This person sits in the gallery, they chyron notes who they are, and there will be a camera always on, and when DOTUS says something vile, watch the cut to this “kids” reaction. That will be a stab to Trump’s fragile ego. (Not to mention, he’s a coward.)
Especially if the rest of the time, the chyron is fact-checking in realtime.
And don’t forget, these guests are not bound by the professional courtesy the Congresscritters have been habituated to observe.
But that’s what I’m talking about. How are the voters going to get that message, and what are the Democrats going to do to help people hear it? Trump’s going to get his message across - he’ll be blaring for minutes about how Nancy Pelosi has blood on her hands and those people would have been alive if his magic wall had been built, and Fox will blare that message 24/7. Meanwhile, they’ll cut to this Parkland victim on camera three times and he’ll be written up in a couple of Politico articles. It’s the most meaningless self-serving gesture - Swallwell would send a more potent message from literally not attending the SOTU at all (or turning his back once Trump starts lying).
But his appearance is not going to be relevant to what Trump’s going to bring up at the SOTU. Much better would be some of the people who had to forgo getting paid for a month thanks to his BS, or families who had their kids taken away, or at the very very least, someone to yell out, “BULLSHIT!” when he releases one of his absolutely ridiculously unbelievable lies.
Has anyone invited the Khans?
Good job, Eric Swalwell!