Democrats plan an alternative to Trump's SOTU address, a "People's State of the Union" event

[Miles Archer]

“He’s made a mockery of the State of the Union speech and he doesn’t deserve an audience,” said Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT), the Times reported.

“He’s going to tell 40 different lies, call Democrats names; he’s going to paper over his corruption, and I don’t feel like what he’s doing dignifies having Democrats there to cloak the speech in a veneer of respectability.”

The alternative event – organized in part by the progressive organization MoveOn – is planned to take place simultaneously with Trump’s address and be held at the National Mall near the Capitol. Such an event would be unprecedented given the lack of historical precedent for a president’s State of the Union address being met with a sizable boycott.

“We cannot normalize this moment when Trump is marching our country toward fascism,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), speaking with the Times. “I refuse to be a prop in the chamber as Donald Trump shreds our Constitution and attacks our democracy.”

https://www.rawstory.com/state-of-the-union-2675280304/

[samsingh]

1. this is good - start fighting back

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Hope they've applied for TRADEMARK protection!

[leftstreet]

3. Ugh, they need to rethink this

It comes across like a MAGA alternative half time show

Just don't show up
Use the rebuttal time for a proper statement
End of

[JBTaurus83]

5. I respectfully disagree

The event could be used to address the real issues Americans face. That is bound to get a far better reaction online and with young people than networks who air some dementia ridden geriatric. The “responses” are always panned. They sound like canned emails you send out at the office.

[travelingthrulife]

6. It looks like it might be good. Not sure how all the speakers being planned for

will be used. Short statements?

[Srkdqltr]

4. These rebuttal events never go well. Either party does them each year and they fall very flat.

I don't know what else to do but that isn't it.

[travelingthrulife]

7. This seems like a very different approach. Many Congressional and other speakers.

Use it as a tool to keep your spirits up if nothing else.

[Srkdqltr]

9. I hope so.

[Nanjeanne]

8. Murphy and Van Holden have been real leaders during this unprecedented time.