Yesterday 17 members of Congress were arrested along with about 18 other individuals for
protesting abortion rights outside of the capital near the Supreme court and these 17
members of Congress that of course included every member of the scroll, uh, squad along
with people like Carolyn Maloney and, uh, Catherine Clark were arrested according to
police for blocking the street.
You know that thing that you cannot absolutely under any circumstances do you cannot block
a street.
It's okay.
If you're in a big, giant 18 Wheeler blocking everything in Washington, DC, but God forbid
you exercise your first amendment, right?
To go out there and actually protest when you are fighting for the rights of the American
people.
So the rest of course, a little bit silly.
The capital police insist that, Hey, we gave them the customary three warnings, and then
we started to arrest people.
And again, 17 democratic members of Congress were among those arrested.
Now here's the thing.
I, I seriously doubt under any circumstance that any of these people are actually gonna
be charged with anything, right?
Nobody's gonna go to court over this.
Certainly nobody's gonna really go to jail for any of this.
But what I love about this story is the fact that this shows that we had at least 17 members
of Congress that were willing to go out there in the streets with the people and fight stand
there side by side with the people affected by this idiotic Supreme court ruling by this
overly oppressive Supreme court ruling and go down with them.
Right?
Cause that, that that's the important thing.
Like we didn't just leave when it got tough.
When the cops said everybody dispersed, or we're gonna arrest you, we stayed with you
through this act of civil disobedience through this act of exercising, your first amendment
rights, we stood with you.
And we went down with you.
That's the kind of leadership that the democratic party has been sorely lacking at the top.
Clearly we have leaders in the party.
Clearly we have people that want to stand with the people literally and figuratively.
Those are the people that should be elevated to the leadership positions, right?
These, these geriatric old individuals that have been serving in Congress since I was
two years old.
And yes, there's plenty of them.
They need to step aside.
What they need to do is say, listen, after our elections, we're gonna vacate our leadership
positions.
We're not leaving Congress cuz you know, we're already on the ballot, but we're gonna vacate
the leadership positions and we're gonna pass it along.
We're gonna pass that torch finally.
And we're gonna pass it to these people that are clearly more in tune
With what the public needs and wants.
Then we are because that's, what's happened to most of these people.
They've become, you know, they've been in Congress so long spending most of their time
in Washington, DC, that they've completely forgotten what it's like to be an average
American, but these young leaders have not.
And that is why they should be elevated to these positions.
Civil disobedience here on this soil in this country is older than the country itself.
Civil disobedience is what helped push us to revolution.
Civil disobedience is what got women, the right to vote.
Civil disobedience is what got us the civil rights and civil disobedience, again, as old
as the United States of America itself and we need leaders.
We need law makers that understand you can't sit there in your comfortable seat of power
in Washington, DC, and just watch it unfold from there.
You have to get out there, you have to stand with the people.
And that is exactly what these 17 democratic lawmakers did yesterday.