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SeattleVet

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Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:51 PM Jan 2018

My Representative, Pramila Jayapal, will not be attending the SOTU lie-fest.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/rep-pramila-jayapal-to-boycott-state-of-the-union-address-due-to-racism-from-white-house/



While I applaud her for taking a stand, I think that it would have a much greater impact if everybody attended, and then those that wanted to make a statement about the abysmal state of the union today just got all up and walked out, en masse, at the first lie that comes out of his piehole. There is no need to be totally crass and classless about it and do something like shout, 'You lie!' like Republican Representative Joe Wilson did to President Obama. Just get up and silently walk out, all together.

Seeing a bunch of people getting up and walking out on him would surely drive him off-script and into even more self-damaging territory.

(If they do it the first time he lies during the speech they shouldn't be there for very long, and can then go on the networks to explain their actions.)
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My Representative, Pramila Jayapal, will not be attending the SOTU lie-fest. (Original Post) SeattleVet Jan 2018 OP
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