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Chairman Adam Schiff’s Speech Destroying House Republicans Ignites Popular #YouMightThinkItsOK Rallying Cry
Many are cheering House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff‘s response to Republicans on his Committee calling for his resignation Thursday. Chastising his colleagues, Schiff delivered a powerful four-minute takedown of the GOP’s defense of what he called the President’s and his team’s “immoral,” “unethical,” “unpatriotic,” and “corrupt” behavior.
“My colleagues might think it’s okay that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what’s described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign,” Chairman Schiff began (video below, full transcript here.) “You might think that’s okay. My colleagues might think it’s okay that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the president’s son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help — no, instead that son said he would ‘love’ the help with the Russians.”
Adam Schiff is my Congressman, so I have a bit more of a stake in this nonsense. The people who are demanding that he resign are not terribly intelligent. We should want more for America than a president who equates personal disloyalty with actual treason. pic.twitter.com/hUl24pYC1i
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 28, 2019
Schiff repeated his “you might think” mantra about 20 times in four minutes, and it’s ignited an explosion of people on social media who agree that regardless of what Attorney General William Barr would like America to believe, Trump and his team have committed “immoral,” “unethical,” “unpatriotic,” and “corrupt” acts.
They’ve turned it into a very popular hashtag on Twitter.
#YouMightThinkItsOK has turned into a blistering attack on everything Trump, including all the bad acts his administration is perpetrating.
It is now a rallying cry.
Take a look:
Dear #GOP, #YouMightThinkItsOK to use your attacks on @RepAdamSchiff as a smokescreen to distract from the fact that an overwhelming number of Americans demand to see the #MuellerReport UNREDACTED and UNEDITED but it’s not working and this isn’t going to go away. https://t.co/3jKWz8TBkJ
— PurpleGimp (@PurpleGimp) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to take a 4-page document by a partisan official that summarizes over 300 pages of legal analysis as gospel truth.
Me, not so much. pic.twitter.com/KJiuifU6qY
— Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK for Trump appointee Seema Verma to use government money meant for Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA to pay off millions of dollars to her Republican buddies while she demands work requirements for poor people on Medicaid, but I don’t.https://t.co/5x0jp8MsPI
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to take billions of dollars from the military to build your unwanted border wall
This veteran don’t think so and I’m sure, I’m not alone… pic.twitter.com/SQXS5axwwJ
— Dr. Arnita Fowler (@ArnitaFowler) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK that children at the border die while waiting to get into our country to get away from horrendous conditions, but I don’t…
— Marie H1 (@marieh01) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to abandon assistance to the beautiful Island PR but #IDontThinkItsOkay
— Annette (@dolfin513) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to spike the football & declare full exoneration after the #BarrLetter (that literally proclaimed that you were NOT exonerated) but true Americans, to the tune of 84%, want to see the actual #MuellerReport themselves to make their own determination on facts.
— Shaolin Fantastic #YouMightThinkItsOk (@ShaolinPhan) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOk I don’t think it’s okay! We stand with @RepAdamSchiff. I’ve watched this numerous times and I am in awe of his composure and the plain facts he so eloquently described. #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport
— Chris HC (@chcjtbaseball) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK
to rip babies from their parents at the border, to rip healthcare away from millions of Americans, to rip the budget away from the Special Olympics, to rip off taxpayers to fund a useless wall, countless golf excursions and obscene “rallies”, but I do not. 🇺🇸— Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽 (@4lisaguerrero) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK @GOP to lie about this #TaxScam being good for the middle class but had my taxes done. No refund this uear. We owe $1000’s more than Amazon & Google. Now it’s ok to lie about healthcare again? Take from us to give to the rich & corporations. I call BS
— OhioFerfer (@FerferOhio) March 29, 2019
I KNOW!
We need more righteous anger / INDIGNATION!#YouMightThinkItsOK
I don’t! #Resist #Women#VetsAgainstTrump https://t.co/0PPjx644ym— B.J. Mrozek (@BJMrozek1) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to profit off the Presidency, but I don’t. And the constitution says it’s not okay. #Emoluments
— Jess (@jessiwhiteside) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK for a 9yr old girl to be detained at the border for 30 Hours despite being a U.S. citizen just because of the color of her skin I sure as hell don’t!https://t.co/Q8X9H7VhAJ#IStandWithSchiff #IStandWithAdamSchiff #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport #TheResistance
— #ObamaBestEver (@lordxmen2k) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to insult, degrade, attack, judge, dismiss, and make fun of minorities, women, people with disabilities, migrants, and democracy, but I sure as hell don’t.
— Susan Finn (@SFinn14) March 29, 2019
..to propose a budget including a 26% reduction to state grants for special education & millions of dollars in cuts to programs for students who are blind.https://t.co/nJPUPfXEK6
— Some Knucklehead (@TheBoltUpright) March 28, 2019
Good ole Mitch going nuclear again. #pieceofshit #YouMightThinkItsOK
It’s NOT!
McConnell sets stage for ‘nuclear option’ to change rules on judges https://t.co/nGyRJwPZ1h— Middle Sister Images (@StacyBogan1) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK but I don’t want violent abusers having access to firearms. https://t.co/fG1NrxEN5w
— Pat Fuller Ω #ForThePeople (@bannerite) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK That POTUS has rallies where he insults, ridicules, lies & spreads propaganda, in his attempt to further divide our nation. pic.twitter.com/5AmYe6UU8v
— Liza Perkins (@eliza_cap) March 29, 2019
GOP , you may think it’s okay to destroy our standing in the world, take away our healthcare, refuse to save our planet, allow our children to be shot in schools daily, take away funding for programs we need, caging children, etc, etc, etc, but I don’t! #YouMightThinkItsOK
— Angela MAHONEY (@Angieakm) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to move America into autocratic kleptocracy @DevinNunes @LindseyGrahamSC @senatemajldr @VP @realDonaldTrump
I. DO. NOT. #ReleaseTheFullReportNOW #impeach45 #ImpeachTrump @SpeakerPelosi @RepAnnaEshoo
🇺🇸@RepAdamSchiff 🇺🇸— Tom Hail 🇺🇸 (@fly44d) March 28, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to control a woman’s reproductive rights, but I don’t
— Pat Fuller Ω #ForThePeople (@bannerite) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to say journalist are the enemy of the people but I dont! 🇺🇸
— Austin 🇺🇸 (@debi_austin) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK that @realDonaldTrump cheated on his taxes by undervaluing his assets committed fraud by overvaluing his assets to get loans
— sam2120 (@shawn4145) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to ignore the melting of glaciers, but it’s NOT okay! pic.twitter.com/8XxDFn8Ju7
— Ima🌎WorldWatcher🌎2 (@ImaWorldWatcher) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK that Trump was trying to make a multimillion $ deal while changing the @gop platform to be Russia-friendly and lied about it.
I’m not okay with it.— Grammar_Mom (@Grammar_Mom) March 29, 2019
#YouMightThinkItsOK to attack our free press and call them fake news, but I call that fascism !
— Pat Fuller Ω #ForThePeople (@bannerite) March 29, 2019
It’s also worth pointing out that all of the evidence outlined in this monumental speech by @RepAdamSchiff is confined to what we know from the public record. I imagine there is more in the real report. #YouMightThinkItsOK #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport https://t.co/AKtct1lGPX
— Amy Shaw (@AYS1960) March 29, 2019
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