Dear Congressional Dems: Don't Boycott the State of the Union

 [Update: Kudos to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for going loud.]                                Feb. 24, 2026

                               [The original version of this blog can be found on Substack here.]

Dear Congressional Dems: Don’t Boycott the State of the Union 

I’ve heard too many of you Congressional Dems proclaim that you’re boycotting the State of the Union. 

Fellow Illinoisans - Tammy Duckworth, Delia Ramirez, Mike Quigley, Sean Casten, Jan Schakowsky and Eric Sorensen - can’t we be more creative and defiant than that? 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says, "The two options that are in front of us in our House is to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend, and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion." Then he pointed to opportunities for participation in alternate programming around the Capitol. 

That’s a piss poor notion of alternatives or strategies, leaving me with a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach about the 2026 campaigns ahead. 

Silent defiance is all we got? 

Instead, why don’t lawmakers go and shout out, “lie” at painfully regular intervals, in other words, when appropriate, and vary the words, so the speech is punctuated with “lie,” “bull,” “made up,” “nonsense,” “scam,” “pedophile,”and so forth? 

When he touts tariffs, you shout “taxes.” If he mentions Epstein, you shout "pedophile." When he boasts of ending wars, or peace prizes, you shout “warmonger.” When he rallies the masses against crime and corruption in Minnesota, you shout “Renee Goode” and “Alex Pretti.” 

Put a twist on Michelle Obama’s motto: When he goes lie, you go loud. [Hear Michelle elaborate on Colbert.]

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The Speech or Debate Clause is there for a reason and it’s not called the Escape Clause for a reason. It reads, that you “shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.” 

Don’t interrupt. Punctuate, and let him keep talking, which he will. 

He’ll introduce the US men’s hockey team and make them his, as he’s already doing with the Summer Olympics in 2028, which allows him home field advantage in Los Angeles through an executive order establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics, offering “a powerful opportunity to showcase American strength, pride, and patriotism.” [See this previous post - Trump’s 2026 toolkit is oozing money: How to counter it?] 

The State of the Union is Trump’s golden ticket to seize the mic and mantle and not let go for another nine months. 

That is unless they somehow get pried away by more Epstein information that veers well beyond pedophile by association. 

The question hounding me as we get buried in a rambling statement of the American Union is whether Trump was involved in helping arrange the murder of Epstein while Epstein was in prison? 

Let the 2026 campaign begin. 

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