HELL YEAH! Congressman Jim McGovern just TORE Speaker Mike Johnson a new one on the House floor for saying it wasn't "hi

[riversedge]

Speaker Johnson is such a little man--just like his boss Trumpy




HELL YEAH! Congressman Jim McGovern just TORE Speaker Mike Johnson a new one on the House floor for saying it wasn’t “his place” to question Trump’s January 6 pardon.

“Not your place?? WHO THE HELL’S PLACE IS IT?” He said.

Then he dropped 🔥: “How about you stand with the officers who protected you, rather than stand with a reality show wannabe dictator.”

Thank you Jim McGovern for calling these HYPOCRITES out! 💙

Link to tweet

Not a single Republican came to the floor to debate or defend Donald Trump’s January 6th pardons—because they’re indefensible.

Link to tweet

[Phoenix61]

1. Awesome! Get those names in h congressional record.nt

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[blueseas]

3. Kick

[Renew Deal]

4. Naming and shaming is what they should be doing

And he did a good job

[UTUSN]

5. K&R!!!!

[angrychair]

6. Kick

We will see these people again.

[Cha]

7. TY & Jim McGovern D MA!

[benfranklin1776]

8. More of this please! Bring it with righteous fire!

Every Democratic elected official in Congress and elsewhere needs to follow Jasmine Crockett, AOC and his fine example! 👏🏼👏🏼

[Alice B.]

9. I'm feeling reinvigorated.

Thank you, Rep. McGovern!

[William769]

10. Now that's what I'm talking about.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. Powerful..Thank you Rep. McGovern.

[Hope22]

12. Thank you sir!!!

Just what the doctor ordered! 👍

[Martin68]

13. Keep speaking truth to stupid.

[Aussie105]

14. Careful!

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At this point, a true dictator would have you escorted out of the building by a couple of burly blokes, never to reappear.
And have your very existence erased from the collective memory.

Mike Pence was smart enough not to get into that car.

Some of the people Trump admired used to do so in the past, ie disappear opposition types, and some current dictators probably doing it presently.
Putin favors defenestration and Novichok, and political 'training' camps while Kim did in a close relative a while back.

Can't happen in America, you say?

Shame Trump doesn't know about the eventual fate of dictators. History and learning from it aren't his strong points.

[orangecrush]

15. Well said.

[DENVERPOPS]

44. And yet,

Mike Pence is still trying to lick the guy's ass that tried to get people to take him out.

I think the Seditionists were extremely fortunate to not catch up to Pence and his Secret Service Detail......The SS shoots to kill at the slightest threat to the person they are guarding, and asks questions later.......

I also think that if the officers had "taken out" the seditionists the second they forcibly broke through the doors and windows, the other seditionists would have turned tail and run.....................

If the officers weren't adequately armed, If I was one of them, I would have taken a dry chem extinguisher and discharged it in short spurts directly into the seditionist's faces at point blank range..........the effect would have been devastating..........

The lawlessness of the seditionists, backed by their Supreme Pussy, needed to be confronted at all costs............

[whathehell]

16. Wow..

Go On With Your Bad Self, Brother!

I'm loving this guy!

[JCMach1]

17. Can we please stop posting Xitter links?

[Dem2theMax]

21. Agreed! Same content is on Bluesky.

Call To [e-mail]

Why use Eloon's site when you can use a Democratic site?

[AZJonnie]

30. Once DU implements previews for BlueSky there will be a much better case to be made not to use them

But for now, we can't watch the videos from Blue Sky without leaving DU to view them there, but we can with Xitter (and youtube). That makes the Xitter links a lot more convenient. Also, if you don't actually click on the link and GO to Xitter and instead just watch the video inline here, that really doesn't fund The Muskmonster at all. Just saying.

[defacto7]

18. Kick his ass!

& K & R

[kacekwl]

19. More please I hope

this is playing prominently on social media. All media.

[electric_blue68]

20. TY, Rep Jim McGovern! THIS is one way you do it!

[brakester]

22. I want to

see other congress critters follow his example!

[IzzaNuDay]

23. Once again, when they go low....

kick ‘em in the ass so hard they can taste toe jam!

[DFW]

24. McGovern's delivery was perfect and spot on

And I'll bet the Republicans still have no idea why he was so upset. If it had been Democrats committing all those crimes, the Republicans would have been shouting for lethal injection.

[AverageOldGuy]

25. A copy of McGovern's list?

I've been trying to find McGovern's list -- names of the J6ers and their criminal records.

I live in a rural Virginia county that has voted 70% for Trump all three times he ran for President. I want to write letters to editors in our local and regional papers pointing out the same facts that McGovern hammered away on, but, I need the names and crimes of the J6ers in question.

Anyone seen his list?

Maybe I need to call or email his office.

[StarryNite]

32. I would love to have that list and the offenses with the names too.

If you get it please make a post with the information.

[littlemissmartypants]

38. It's probably in the...

C-Span transcript.

https://www.c-span.org/congress/

[Bluethroughu]

26. Now, get in front of the camera too.

Blitz, one on the House floor, one on the Senate floor, and one infront of the cameras call a press conference.

[sop]

27. This could become the Democrats' "price of eggs" issue in 2026 if they keep banging away at it.

[Simeon Salus]

28. Can we post this sort of material without Elon Musk's involvement?

We're long past taking sides here.

On Democratic Underground, we shouldn't be linking Twitter any longer, IMHO. It's clearly not a reliable place for information, making ANY links from that site suspect.

[littlemissmartypants]

39. Apparently not...

With economy of effort because it's also all on C-Span.

https://www.c-span.org/congress/

[Simeon Salus]

40. Thank You!

I'm always fine with C-span links!

[littlemissmartypants]

41. My pleasure, Simeon Salus. ❤️

[Evolve Dammit]

29. A small man. Very small but a huuge suckup. Maybe he can shine Drumpf's shoes while he's groveling? nt

[Kid Berwyn]

31. Yankees are most patriotic.

We believe in the Constitution.

[momta]

33. I've always liked McGovern

I was sad that it was McGovern who AOC had to run against for ranking member. I like them both a lot.

[mwmisses4289]

34. Yay! Finally, another Dem

bringing a knife to a knife fight! More of this, Dems!

[Magoo48]

35. The congressional cream is rising to the top.

[Dem4life1234]

36. Ball less sacks of shits

They should be standing by the police officers who were assaulted trying to protect their cowardly asses!

[Daleuhlmann]

37. "Telling It Like It Is!"

Way to go, Representative McGovern! Police officers and police unions who continue to endorse Trump are traitors to their Washington, D. C. brothers and sisters. These pardons and commutations send the message that breaking the law in this president's name is not a crime!

[Bluetus]

42. Kudos to McGovern

Good for Rep McGovern. Anybody who is not comfortable with plain talk like this needs to get out of the way. If they have committee ranking status, they should resign their committees and leave it for those with some backbone.

New rule, if you don't have at least half the backbone, courage, and fighting spirit of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, you should leave Congress today and let us elect somebody who WILL do the job. If we had strong advocates in Congress all along, we would not be in this position today.

[spanone]

43. K&R