The Party of Geriatric Teenagers plans the usual sort of juvenile theatrics.
For some Democrats, and that number probably included Pelosi, the struggle against Trump had become an emotional thing as well. She had pursued and pursued Trump, and yet there he was, still in office. The next day, after he was acquitted, she would have an outburst, wagging her finger at the president and saying that despite the acquittal, "You're impeached forever. You're never getting rid of that scar."
Fast forward five years. Pelosi is now 84 years old and walking with a cane after a recent hip injury. Her party is in the minority, and incredibly, Trump is president again. After all her work, after everything -- Trump is president again. Tonight, he will give an address to a joint session of Congress. What to do?
First, a number of Democrats have threatened to boycott the speech. That's probably not a big scare for the White House -- it will just mean proportionately more wildly cheering Republicans. Democrats realize that, and most will likely show up.
So, what should the Democrats in the audience do? A new Axios report says some are planning to disrupt the speech, walking out at strategic moments: "Criticism of transgender kids was brought up as a line in the sand that could trigger members to storm out," Axios noted. Others have talked about bringing noisemakers or props, such as empty egg cartons.
It's hard to believe Democrats will actually do that. Are they really that dumb? Who knows?
As for Pelosi, the former speaker is urging fellow Democrats not to follow her example. She wants them to behave during the speech so that they can't be criticized for disrupting the president. "Any demonstration of disagreement, whether it's visual or whatever -- just let him stew in his own juice," Pelosi told the Washington Post. "Don't be any grist for the mill to say this was inappropriate."
It's hard not to laugh at the woman who, while sitting in the most visible spot in the House chamber before millions of viewers, tore up the president's speech and waved the torn paper in the air, now advises her fellow Democrats to show restraint. The bottom line is we don't know what Democrats will do. They might not know themselves.
Some more moderate plans include wearing coordinated outfits to make political statements, with the Democratic Women's Caucus encouraging members to wear pink, while members of the Congressional Black Caucus have discussed wearing black.
So they're planning on wearing coordinated color-coded uniforms, like they're cogs in some dystopian future hell, like they're the ugliest, least sexy people in the dome society of Logan's Run.
Keep that in mind -- anonymizing themselves by wearing Cult Clothing to dissolve their individuality in the acid of group identity.
The Democrats earlier posted Hive-Mind Cult-Like messaging of them all repeating the same basic script.
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@Huff4Congress
America does not have 45 Democrat senators. It has one single leftist hive-mind with 45 votes, a tangled rat-king of corrupt midwit cowards, a programmed conglomerate of NPC automatons without capability of independent thought.
Mike Lee and Elon Musk want to know who is puppet-mastering the puppets.
Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, exposed word-for-word messaging from Democrat leaders in opposition to President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night.
"Who is writing the words that the puppets speak? That's the real question," Musk posted to X, responding to coordinated messaging from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.
Lee, after years of former President Joe Biden being called a puppet for behind-the-scenes puppet masters, noted there could be someone other than them running the party messaging.
"It's almost like someone's telling Democrats what to say," Lee wrote.
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Musk noted the leading Democrats speaking in concert make them mere "actors."
"They are all actors reading a script," Musk wrote in another X post.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk also weighed in.
"It's all fake and staged," Kirk wrote on X. "This act doesn't work anymore. Sad!"
Musk added that "lazy" Democrats should have their own thoughts, not those of someone else.
I think this incident is very telling as regards the basic psychology of the left and the right.
The left loves to sublimate their own individual identities into an amoeba-like mass. They are the party that still can't stop talking about Fucking Woodstock. They love protests, they love "mass movements," they love unleashing their ids and destroying things as part of a mass of rioters which acts without reason or conscience.
The right prizes individuality and is suspicious of "mass" movements.
The Democrats are the party of French revolutionaries storming the Bastille and murdering political prisoners suspected of "treason" against the Republic. They're the party of the Communist Revolution and of Mao and of Pol Pot's attempt to bring utopia to earth by the mass murder of doctors, teachers, and all professional class workers.
And while they reject the idea vehemently, they're also the party of adoring Hitler and feeling greater than themselves through state-coordinated, party-enforced mass psychosis.
They're the party of the viral rage and instant Holy Crusades.
They don't believe in God, but they do have quasi-religious feelings that make them feel part of the greater universe. Those feelings, which these miserable people yearn to feel again and again, are felt most strongly when they dissolve themselves into a massive human protoplasm of thoughtless passion and inchoate rage.
Most people seek transcendence, a feeling of being part of something greater. Democrats reject the idea of a God, so the "something greater" they worship is the mob. The conscienceless rage of the mob is their unifying unholy spirit.
They're the party of ecstatic violence. They are poor creators, but excellent destroyers and razers and arsonists.
It makes perfect sense that the Democrats keep resorting to the same playbook of enforced groupthink and coordinated mass peer-pressure. They think these tactics work on the public because they know these tactics work so well on themselves.