THIS!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

Link to tweet

[LoisB]

1. I agree.

[Deuxcents]

2. Just wow. 🤩 A dedicated statesman holding up the pillars of democracy.

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This image and the one of Senator Diane Feinstein, literally hours before her death, making their way to vote is the most impressive thing to see how important participation is

[yellowdogintexas]

9. Then there is Congressman James Natcher of Kentucky

excerpts from his WIKI article.
William Huston Natcher (September 11, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a Democratic congressman, serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1953 until his death from heart failure in Bethesda, Maryland in 1994

He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1953 from the 2nd district. He cast 18,401 consecutive roll-call votes between 1953 and 1994, never missing a single roll call vote over his forty-one-year Congressional career until his last days in office, the all-time record for both the House of Representatives and Congress as a whole

Natcher holds the record for the longest perfect voting record in the history of Congress. He did not miss a single vote for nearly the entirety of his 40 years of service, casting 18,401 consecutive votes from his 1953 swearing to his last appearance on the House floor on March 3, 1994. On the day of his last vote, he arrived at the Capitol from Bethesda Naval Hospital by ambulance and was wheeled onto the House floor on a gurney. He missed the first vote of his career the next day, when doctors advised him not to return to the Capitol. He died a few weeks later, never having returned to the House floor again.

I wish we had him now: he was a Great Democrat, in the Roosevelt Mold. Read the entire WIKI for details. People like him are a good reason to not have term limits.

[mopinko]

10. dont forget teddy kennedy

getting up off his death bed to vote for the aca.

[DemocraticPatriot]

27. National Health Insurance was the cause of Teddy's life....

The only way he was gonna miss that vote was if he was dead.

[eppur_se_muova]

61. "Good reason not to have term limits" Thanks, I'll remember that one for the list. nt

[onecaliberal]

3. Thank you, sir.

Props.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Image extracted...

[petronius]

30. AI generated image, maybe?

Seems like there's too many stars on the flag, the short-haired white men in the seats appear to be clones, and the guy in the wheelchair should immediately return to the hospital to get his arms and legs repaired (he also may have misplaced a toe)...

[PTL_Mancuso]

47. I count 61 Stars on that flag!!!

After adding D.C. and Puerto Rico, that's still only 52! How long have I been asleep?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

48. Zero women on AI (A-Eye) House floor. Flawed sexist training. . . . nt

[Prairie_Seagull]

51. Bare foot, missing flip flop on what apears to be

a very uncomfortable angle of RT leg under wheel chair.

[ShazzieB]

56. I think you may be right.

I read that he was wearing socks, and those feet are bare. Those aren't scrubs he's wearing either.

[mahina]

40. Also, Representative Green is an African-American

Good catch

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. The man in the image is a bit pasty, I think.

[StarryNite]

5. Thank you Rep. Al Green!

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Rep Al Green is awesome! I have been very glad he represents Texas in the

US House of Representatives. He does not hold back!!!

[FalloutShelter]

7. Thank you Rep Green!

You are an inspiration.

[pwb]

8. Way to set the example there Al.

We get you.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. this

[ananda]

12. I always liked my Houston Democrats.

Including Al Green.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. I'm going out tomorrow morning to buy a thank you/convalescent cards

for Rep. Al Green. If it's all right with you all, I'd like to add collectively "and from your friends on Democratic Underground".

Is that OK with you?

[Deuxcents]

17. Good with me and thank you 🙏

The very disgusting MTG called him a Dem in hiding..The image of him in a wheelchair is not hiding to me. A very selfless and brave thing to do and we owe him at least our thanks

[OldSWODog]

23. please proceed

nh, you speak for me...cheers, osd

[question everything]

26. Certainly! What a brave, honest man

[Kali]

31. great idea

thank you!

[AllyCat]

46. I'm good with that

[yellowdogintexas]

63. yes, please! nt

[no_hypocrisy]

64. DONE! Thank you/Get Well Card mailed to his Houston Office

in case it wouldn't reach him in D.C. at The House.

[Comfortably_Numb]

14. What wonderful "Christian" behavior by pastor, err Speaker Johnson. He's a joke and the more he fails the better I

feel. What a bell end.

[pandr32]

15. Now that's commitment!

[Wounded Bear]

16. Surprising they didn't block him for not wearing a coat and tie...

[B.See]

43. shhh... don't give the bstrds any ideas.

[judesedit]

18. Agree

[MustLoveBeagles]

19. Respect

[BaronChocula]

20. I love Al Green but

I don't think that's him in the photo unless he cut his ponytail, and made a racial transition. He was also said to have shown up in tan socks. Sorry, I may watch too much Forensic Files.

[bsiebs]

21. You are correct (I believe)..

The hair is wrong... also, the entire house floor looks off.. not what I was seeing on cspan. The speaker doesnt look like johnson either (he was presiding when this vote occurred)...

On edit: But that does not take away from Rep. Green's heroic dedication to our democracy!

[BaronChocula]

38. Heard!

This pic is sus as the youngsters say. It looks like a still imposed on a generic still

[Retrograde]

42. There are no female Reps

in this picture, nor any Reps of Color, nor anyone who appears less than 50 years old. IOW, not the current House - unless he crashed the GOP caucus

[Liberal In Texas]

22. I can't find any actual pictures on the internets showing Green coming in or

during the vote. Probably they don't exist.

[BaronChocula]

37. Essssactly!

Those pics would have accompanied the news stories. The image here looks like a little AI malarkey.

[Ilsa]

58. And that's a hospital gown, not scrubs. nt

[WarGamer]

24. They allowed several of thier members to vote NO becuase they thought they had the votes.

This is one of the best "gotchas" ever pulled off.

[Iggo]

25. That was the "secret democrat" that Empty G was talking about?

Wow, she is scum.

[BaronChocula]

39. Empty G

Using that.

[Delmette2.0]

28. I agree

[Cha]

29. Super Barefooted HERO!!

[TxGuitar]

65. Except that is not Al Green. N/T

[Hope22]

32. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏼💐💗💗

[spanone]

33. K&R

[WheelWalker]

34. Strength and Honor!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

35. 👏👏👏

[Blue Owl]

36. Suck it, MTG

[B.See]

44. All the accounts above of those that give and have given, their FULL measure, shows...

the importance THEY hold to the power of the VOTE and to DEMOCRACY... especially when there are those working diligently, conspiring even, to put an END TO BOTH,

and while too many fail to answer the call.

This November, WE should be fully prepared to crawl from our deathbeds if need be,

to put a STOP to Donald Trump, MAGA, Stephen Miller, (f)ucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin - and all those seeking to supplant our DEMOCRACY with FASCISM.

[happy feet]

45. Bravo

[Captain Zero]

49. No one's foot gets that far under and behind a wheel chair

Is that even possible for someone who has not been in the hospital?

[sop]

52. The surgery was for a dislocated right foot.

[2naSalit]

50. Are those images only on xitter?

[ShazzieB]

57. Here you go.

[2naSalit]

60. Thank you!

[Goonch]

53. ;-{)

[sarchasm]

54. KnR

[onetexan]

55. Rep Al Green is a true patriot!!

[sellitman]

59. A true American hero

I salute him.

[SpankMe]

62. It's an AI image

Twitter poster Harvey probably included the image as an aid for his Tweet, not intending for people to believe it was real.

Using AI images on X is fine if used as artistic license to adorn your point. But honest posters should watermark photos in their own posts if it's AI. Since the right tries to pass AI images as real in order to generate rage, those of us on the left shouldn't be using unverified images at all, or should at least label it as AI art for transparency.