DAAAAYUM, You gotta see this.

[Beachnutt]

WOW

[JuJuChen]

1. Repubs in the room only see another angry black woman making sense and they want none of that

[Justice matters.]

4. You cares what they see??

She's speaking truth to power they shouldn't have!

[pnwmom]

25. The post is obviously a criticism of REPUBLICANS, not of McClinton.

[NJCher]

18. so effing what

who cares what they think? Why should we care? It's not as if there was ever a chance of changing their mind.

[pnwmom]

26. Why dump on someone who's criticizing Republicans

for not being able to tolerate a woman speaking sense?

[Justice matters.]

28. Well, the "way" it was posted "could" also infer a "fear" of making Demorats look "rude"

but if it's a critic of republiQans it will "never" change their minds, so it's useless.

[Tommymac]

30. Speaking Truth to Power is NEVER useless.

Anywhere.
Anyplace.
Anytime.

Apathy kills democracy.

[pnwmom]

31. Lots of people here criticize Republicans, so I guess you think that's all useless, too.

And I didn't see anything about the way the post was posted that implied "fear."

[Bluethroughu]

33. We as women are in abusive relationship with the Republican party.

We speak clearly but friendly, they ignore.

We speak witty and direct, they attack.

So she yelled the facts, and they tried to silence...

The problem is we won't go quickly into the night.

I'm thankful for anyone ready to challenge the white right patriarch.

[electric_blue68]

36. Not at all. It's great to see a Rep (or Senator) give a passionate speech....

she's saying what so many of us feel! 👍👍👍

[Probatim]

48. I didn't think they were dumping on that comment.

Pointing out facts - conservatives see a shrieking black woman, not someone speaking truth and speaking truth to power. They'll shoot the messenger because they are listening to the message.

[Thtwudbeme]

21. I personally don't give a fuck what Republicans "see"

Fuck them.

[live love laugh]

43. ✔️💯

[UpInArms]

50. You mean the scared little white men?

Screw them with a pitchfork

[Hotler]

2. A lesson on how to stop playing nice.

Need this type of energy in Washington. Especially towards Mitch.

[Beachnutt]

3. ☝️1000%

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[Warpy]

14. Damn right, and she struck exactly the right tone

We are FURIOUS at Christofascist male overreach. They have no business thundering their "thou shalt nots" at us. It is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS, especially since the only thing they know about reproduction is where to stick it in.

ENOUGH.

[certainot]

20. call Penn State - it broadcasts sports on 11 ex limbaugh stations that will be used to yell over her

- and not the athletic dept. it's an angle dems can use that will scare the crap out of republicans everywhere

on fakenewsradio.org it's one of 87+ supporting 260 + xLimbaugh stations ......
PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1

the university brand managers, diversity related depts, related student activist groups etc all should know. the dept that manages and protects university reputation/brand need to see these associations with radio stations that have been working to kill Roe and deny global warming and COVID as toxic.

whenever a democrat does something like that and stands out republican think tanks and politicians make sure the local RW radio blowhards attack her. it might be for that or it might be something else in her life they can use and often it might be lying and always exaggeration and out of context bullshit. if that vid gets more famous the national blowhards on those stations, like bongino, hannity, levin, will get involved in attacking her, trying to shut her up.

if PA dems want to get her back, one way is to push penn state or even Pitt or Temple to look for apolitical alternatives and get their brands and mascots and logos off those stations. all it would take is a public discussion that would get wild cause the republicans would scream bloody murder bullshit about free speech. advertisers will head for the hills. it could snowball. the ad agencies would have to force some of those stations to change programming. the attention, even without real change before the elections, would destroy republican chances.

[Ligyron]

55. Right yet again.

[certainot]

65. florida is another good example- desantis and his anti LGBTQ and other fascist crap - U of Fla on 10

xLimbaugh stations. and then there's global warming, racism, and the parkland shooting/NRA that those stations are always on the wrong side of

FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2

they must have student organizations at the university that could make a stink about the stupidity of supporting them

[Ligyron]

67. Gainesville, the home of U of Florida, is a progressive, liberal, hippie town too.

Lovely place as well. I should know, I've lived there several times between college and work so I should probably look into making them aware.

[certainot]

68. i was looking. there's a UF Presidential LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee but i can't find a phone number

so was going to do some emails - and they rarely work - and ended up too busy - tomorrow hopefully

probably a few other student groups should be alerted - environment, abortion, racism, social justice, etc

[Hotler]

63. Thanks.

[Bluethroughu]

35. ++1

[electric_blue68]

38. +2

W00000000000t!!!!!

[ecstatic]

58. +1000. nt

[Ohio Joe]

5. Awesome

[Higherarky]

7. Oh My Goddess!!

I LOVE her!!!

[calimary]

12. Goddess indeed. There she ROARS!

DAYUM!!!!!

How do we clone her?

MORE! PLEASE!!!!!

[electric_blue68]

39. +100

[MyMission]

8. She's on fire

And righteous!

What an inspiration. Thank you.

I've shared the video with a few friends already.

[peacebuzzard]

9. yes! sister, I'm with you!

go get those idiots!

[Wild blueberry]

10. She's great!

Thank you for posting this--inspiring!

[Hortensis]

11. :) She doesn't sound very silenced to me.

Grievance, victimization messages don't work for me. I like empowered women saying, hell no!, so I like this legislator's noisy voice. But her ridiculous insistence that women, who have the vote!, are silenced victims of others is embarrassing, and offensive.

If millions of proabortion females hadn't SELF-silenced entirely on their own for years and whole decades, this could never have happened.

On the plus side, it's outraging more into UN-silencing themselves and joining those of us who would never sit still for silencing, much less embrace it as our reality.

We'll get to see, though, how many realize that their vote is the one way they can speak out that the supposed silencers HAVE to listen to.

[betsuni]

15. +1

[NJCher]

19. isn't she referring to

But her ridiculous insistence that women, who have the vote!, are silenced victims of others is embarrassing, and offensive.


The attempt to overthrow the election?

[Hortensis]

24. May be, may be referring to all the grievances that some embrace.

Victimization messages are what I'm objecting to. They appeal to a type. Like those women who actually choose to characterize themselves as helpless "Handmaid" style sex slaves instead of very pissed-off and empowered voters. (Good god, could some leaderless wannbe feminists have wandered off and fallen down this rabbit hole? Someone needs to tell them a "fourth wave" is not playing out on its backs in the dark.)

Seriously, the most positive interpretation I'm imagining is that grievance/victimization politics are HUGE these days among RW voters, and maybe this PA rep is trying to twang a chord she knows resonates with both the type on the left and hopefully even larger numbers on the right.

[ecstatic]

59. I think she's referring to her fellow democratic

legislators who are being silenced while refugs try to take away women's rights in the dead of the night. Each of those silenced legislators represent hundreds of thousands of citizens in their districts. So when refugs silence them, they're silencing the voters as well, which, by the way, they already tried to silence them (us) in 2020 as well. Republicans are racist, anti-democratic fascists. Plain and simple.

You might want to check out the backstory: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16901240

[Hortensis]

64. Well, legislative majorities are supposed to write and pass the laws,

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when our representative government works as it's intended. Our founders' intention was not to institutionalize "silencing" everyone else but to arrive at answers that worked for the most people.

So we don't like what the legislative MAJORITIES created by majorities of those who voted in PA are doing with their power, but most of the minority who voted them in do! They're thrilled.

It's not like we didn't know today's Republicans always misuse their power. We've watched them become increasingly extreme and anti-democratic for over 30 years, accelerating big time after 2008 and doubling down on that, becoming openly fascistic, with 2016.

They're so bad that increasingly radicalized Republican minorities are ONLY able to keep electing them because they get help from millions who at least lean left. So, NO to excuses for dangerously irresponsible LW voter behaviors, including refusal of personal responsibility. People who voted Democratic were not silenced: they spoke but were outnumbered by RW crazies and LW abettors. We're all reaping their whirlwind.

Oh, and speaking of not being fools, eyes on the various anti-Democratic LW organizations using agitprop to turn fear and anger at what the Republicans are doing against Democrats. There's an existential election coming up fast, and they have to keep people from voting to save, much less enlarge, our Democratic majorities.

[irisblue]

13. Joanna McClinton Pennsylvania State Representative, House Democratic Leader

Not even 40! She is going far and hard

[BumRushDaShow]

16. And born and raised, still lives in, and represents part of Philly

[wackadoo wabbit]

45. Thank you for this

I had no idea who was is.

You're right; I have great expectations for her.

[RobertDevereaux]

17. May her brilliance and passion inspire legions more to speak out!

[Thtwudbeme]

22. LOVE the DUers responding to this basically saying that she is

"rude."

[newdayneeded]

66. Just read every post

On this thread, not one said anything negative about her?

[gixxerlee]

23. AMEN!!!

[niyad]

27. I am WOMAN Tiger, hear me ROAR

[Bluethroughu]

29. Truth to power!

Calling it out!

Thank you.

[BigBearJohn]

32. We NEED a thousand more Democrats just like her. I'm tired of being "polite"

Fuck the god-damed rePUKElicans

[electric_blue68]

34. Preach, sistah! ... (and TY Beachnutt!)

Righteous Take Down, Rep McClinton!!!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. Background: Republican propose amending state constitution to say abortion not a right

and to require ID at the polls.

“We’re talking about half the population not being able to make decisions when not even half of this body has a uterus,” she said in a furious address Friday to her colleagues. She warned that failing to protect the reproductive rights and health of women will result in “women dying.”
...
“Here we are being silenced once again,” McClinton declared. “Understand when you’re silencing [opposition lawmakers] you’re silencing millions of voters from every corner of the commonwealth. When you silence us and don’t allow us to amend bills that won’t let people vote, that won’t allow women to make their own decisions, you’re silencing all of us.”

The Pennsylvania Senate on Friday approved a proposal — which was later also supported in a House vote — to add language to the state Constitution stating explicitly that the document does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions.

A last-minute addition would also require voters to show identification at polling places, not just when they register to vote, which is currently required.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/penn-rep-tees-off-colleagues-040403399.html

What I'm not sure is exactly what "don’t allow us to amend bills" means - sounds like the Republicans used some dubious procedure to force this through. Anyone know?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. Thanks for this! Finally get to see and hear her without added commentary front and back.

[DET]

42. Inspiring!

We need more like this.

[Riverman100]

44. WOW!

we all need this passion to speak truth to power

[sellitman]

46. More Cowbell

That my friends is EXACTLY what we need.

Fire and Brimstone.

Bless her.

[YoshidaYui]

47. fuck yeah!

[Scrivener7]

49. Clone her!

[JanMichael]

51. Wow! That was amazing. Bright future.

[Samrob]

53. Black women might save us again.

Now is the time for all good women to come to the aid of their Democratic party. I believe black women will be instrumental in saving our democracy. They can be fearless!

[Sky Jewels]

54. She speaks for me!

And tens and tens of millions of others.

[Cha]

56. I did! 💕🤷‍♂️

Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[ecstatic]

57. Love it! Thanks for sharing! Nt

[Demovictory9]

60. Excellent..

[PittBlue]

61. This is what every elected Democrat needs to be doing!

[Evergreen Emerald]

62. Every Democrat should be doing this

loudly and often.