Durbin calls Cruz a liar, and refuses to yield to Cruz for a question. Cruz said the stimulus

[JohnSJ]

checks go to “aliens”. Durbin said that is false because the checks only go to those with social security numbers. He also corrected Cruz use of the term alien with undocumented people

Manchin and Sinema are all voting the right way on these amendments

[bullimiami]

1. aliens? says the entitled cuban-canadian asshole.

[jaxexpat]

82. It may, at first, smoke like real tobacco but the maple leaf wrapper leaves a nasty aftertaste.

That's when you realize the whole cigar is rolled from sweepings off the sorting room floor and NOT sealed with honest sweat

[bullimiami]

83. Ha!

[JohnSJ]

2. Exactly

[blueinredohio]

3. If the stimulus is based on last years taxes

how can "aliens" get any money when republicans say they don't pay taxes?

[JohnSJ]

4. Exactly

[KS Toronado]

36. Because Ted Qruz knows poor people are experts at laundering money they don't have.

[Marthe48]

57. cruz and r's are push you pull yous

Like Dr. Dolittle's Push me Pull you, but instead of 2 heads, push you pull yous have 2 rearends

[BumRushDaShow]

5. And don't forget

the pièce de resistance - Durbin then turned his back on him while finishing his remarks!

(yes I have been watching this morning's vote-o-rama)

[JohnSJ]

6. I didn't catch the turning of the back. Excellent

[BumRushDaShow]

7. OT for the thread but

I was just watching Murkowski presenting an amendment that they all (both sides) agreed to (reallocating money to give more to homeless students) and as she was describing it, there was a gigantic Pence-size fly crawling around her hair and then it flew to her shawl.

[JohnSJ]

10. LOL. That fly deserves the Medal of Freedom

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Flies

always land on stink.............

[BumRushDaShow]

37. ....

[BumRushDaShow]

39. Had to go generate a screenshot

That sucker was big too... I think it was bigger than Pence's little buddy.

[DENVERPOPS]

46. Maybe it is because

of all the pig lard the RepubliCONs use on their hair to hold it in place..........

[Generic Other]

58. Are you sure it's not a cockroach?

Maybe she was visiting the Trump official in jail. He was complaining of cockroaches.

[BumRushDaShow]

62. It was huge and flying around

so it could have been a flying one or maybe a dancing one!

[AllyCat]

84. Is this from Joe's Apartment?

[BumRushDaShow]

85. ...

[AllyCat]

86. Funky Towel!

Yeah!

[not fooled]

65. Hahahahahahahahaha

and isn't it on the same spot as punce's?

Must be some feature of QOPee brainwaves there that attracts flies.

[BumRushDaShow]

66. If you look at the video clip of her presenting the amendment, it was doing the same as Pencefly

but after crawling around her head, it eventually lifted off again and landed on the front of her shawl and I kept yelling at my screen - "Just wave it away! Just wave it away!!"

[George II]

19. I've been watching most of the morning (since 7:30) and watched up to 11:30 last night...

Glad to see the Democrats holding strong.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. They were solid!

And Schumer is giving final remarks before starting the final vote.

[George II]

27. 50-49!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Yup and Manchin voted for it

[George II]

29. All 50 of our Senators voted AYE, 49 republicans voted NO (Sullivan had to go home for an emergency)

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Huzzah

[wryter2000]

43. I'm a teeny bit disappointed

I wanted Kamala to cast the deciding vote. Still, this is wonderful news!

So glad President Biden didn't mess around for months trying to get a Republican to sign on.

[BumRushDaShow]

56. Maybe we have to get used to the advice

that we always give about the GOP and apply that to Biden - "Don't go by what he says, go by what he does...".

[orleans]

30. the back turning was a nice touch. i just wish durbin had called it a LIE & not an UNTRUTH nt

[BumRushDaShow]

32. I would have done the same damn thing

Crudz doesn't deserve an ounce of respect.

And regarding calling him a liar - he could have done it to his face but you know what? Everyone around the world has seen the embarrassment of what has happened to TX in its time of need. Doing any more would only distract from the smack-down of the babbling giggling disgrace that is Carnival Cruz and instead focus on dissecting Durbin's remark.

[oldsoftie]

60. I'm not sure, but there may be a Senate rule about using the word "lie"

The Senate has some 'courtesy" rules out there.

[BumRushDaShow]

71. I think the closest thing deals with

"personal attacks" (in essence their terminology for that type of discourse) and usually the Presiding Officer or President Pro-Tem (probably at the urging of the Parliamentarian) will make some remark at the end of such an exchange giving them a "reminder to refrain from doing that".

[orleans]

78. offhand -- i can't remember if it was some shithead in the house or senate

that yelled out to obama "you lie!"

do you remember?

[BunnyMcGee]

79. Joe Wilson ?

[orleans]

81. yes! thank you. nt

[oldsoftie]

87. Of course! He was a House rep. And i think he was reprimanded too

[Alice Kramden]

54. I loved that he turned his back!

Very well done, Sen. Durbin!

[BumRushDaShow]

55. He treated him like the whiney snivelling child that he is

and just ignored him by proceeding to talk to the adults in the room.

[Alice Kramden]

61. and refused to yield for his question -

very appropriately, very much in control

[mucifer]

8. Here's the video:

Link to tweet

?s=20

I always gotta find the video when I see these posts

I love my senators!!! Illinois Rocks !!!

[malaise]

11. Good

Rec

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Thank you thank you!

I was hoping someone had that clip of Durbin just turning his back on Carnival Cruz!!!

[colorado_ufo]

34. Thank you for the video!

Durbin is a hero!

[hamsterjill]

52. How can I post that on Facebook?

For all of my Texas QAnon followers?

I tried simply copying and it would not work for me. Thanks I’m advance.

[BumRushDaShow]

59. cnet had a link to an online downloader site

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/yes-you-absolutely-can-download-twitter-videos-to-your-phone-and-computer-heres-how/

where you can use this site - https://twittervideodownloader.com/ and paste the URL for the tweet with the video in a text field, and it will generate different sizes of the clip that includes a "download" button for each size and whichever size you choose, it will play in the browser and you can right click on that and save it and upload it however you would on facebook (I'm not on facebook so don't know how that operates).

I tried the 640x360 (see if this will display and play and if it does, you can right click on the video and save it as a mp4 file) - https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1368222169289744387/pu/vid/640x360/2OL_Bvbj5nUVHp_R.mp4

[hamsterjill]

67. Thank you!

I’ll try this!

[BumRushDaShow]

68. You are welcome

Looks like it will come in handy because there are so many on-target video clips on twitter and I wished I had a copy.

[Alice Kramden]

53. Good for you, Dick Durbin!

Thanks for posting the video, Mucifer

[ShazzieB]

72. Thanks so much for this!

I was really hoping someone would post it!

And it was even better than I expected. Go, Sen. Durbin!

[Deuxcents]

9. Call em out..every time

We’re real tired of these tactics. Lies, misinformation n jerkoffs like Cruz n company

[left-of-center2012]

13. Was there a response from Cruz?

Suspect he had some snide remark.

[JohnSJ]

15. Durban refused to yield to him so he was shut out

[DENVERPOPS]

26. Of course, you know

that Durban's comments will be edited out by FAUX News......

[BumRushDaShow]

16. You could hear him babbling off camera while the camera showed Durbin

fhinishing his remarks facing his own Democratic colleagues, with his back to Cruz and the rest of the GOP side, essentially ignoring the lying liar!

A clip was posted above - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215194316#post8

[left-of-center2012]

23. Thank you. I watched the clip earlier.

Thought I heard laughter and some comments but I couldn't make out what was being said.

Thus my question.

[BumRushDaShow]

49. It was mostly unintelligible babbling ending in "nervous laughter"

since Durbin did a mic drop on his ass!

[Oldem]

25. I caught the reference to Frankn's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. A book

for our time. I do miss him.

[BumRushDaShow]

50. I miss him too

[Tommymac]

73. You can hear Cruz laughing like a hyena in the background.

When Sen Durbin refused to yield the floor.

Cruz is simply a vile stinky piece of crap.

[yaesu]

14. everytime a fascist whines about something being in the bill that isn't we should include it

in the bill, say, hey thanks for pointing that out, sounds like a good idea. after a few times they will keep their fascist yaps shut.

[turbinetree]

17. I would not have been so nice to the racists' fascist federalist society POS............

I would have told him to go and pound sand...this is twice now that Durbin has corrected and not yielded to these fascist supporting insurrectionist.................

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. I'd be fine with people without documents getting checks too.

[JohnSJ]

20. I am not, and neither are the majority of Democrats

[WhiskeyGrinder]

38. Don't I know it.

[JohnSJ]

40. I understand

[left-of-center2012]

24. No

[colorado_ufo]

33. If the country was running a surplus instead of a deficit, then maybe.

Can't do that right now. Getting them a path to citizenship is the right track.

[rickyhall]

35. Only space aliens, Cruzer.

[dchill]

41. Durbin is a nice guy, but you know what's not hard?

Looking like a nice guy when you're standing next to Ted Cruz.

[JohnSJ]

42. lol

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. Give us a check or we'll probe you anally Cruz

[DENVERPOPS]

48. LOL

YMBL......you need to warn us before doing something like this, I almost sprayed my computer with coffee......

The middle one looks a lot like Bang-Bang what's her name without hair........

[MontanaMama]

77. That made me lol.

Just woke up the parrot sleeping on my shoulder.

[Duppers]

45. About time our legislators stand up

To the lying fascists like this! They've treated Dems like crap.

BRAVO for Durbin.

[Dawson Leery]

47. And when has Cruz ever been truthful???

[Maraya1969]

51. Isn't calling undocumented people "aliens" considered hate speech. Cruz knows

the correct terminology but he chose to use and incendiary word. I wish he could get censored for it.

[brewens]

63. The people getting the stimulus money are all people the former guy gave it to

as far as I know.

[BumRushDaShow]

64. However this go-around

a large chunk of people left out of the last 2 checks - the disabled (e.g., those on SSI) and dependent adults (as well as college students from what I recall) will now be eligible.

[cstanleytech]

69. Slight correction OP. His proper title and name is Senator Ted "Cancun" Cruz.

After all it’s only proper that we show Cancun how much we respect him by addressing him with his proper title and name.

[JohnSJ]

70. +++

[Cha]

74. TY!

[BobTheSubgenius]

75. More f'ing Idiotic Bulls_ from that moron.

I can't wait until he's not getting his nonsense amplified any more.

[live love laugh]

76. That's MY Senator

[Blue Owl]

80. Can'tCruz