At about the 1:25 mark, a man in a black shirt and white baseball cap spits on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., who is also a Methodist minister.
Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Oct. 19, 2026
The United States and Ukraine no longer seem to be in synch,
After Trump lifted Russia sanctions with a grin and a wink.
Trump coordinated it with Putin,
Who ramped up the drone shooting,
After Trump and Elon Musk throttled Ukraine’s Starlink.
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“Take, for example, the French Revolution. Remember when Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’? Now, is that a problem of accountability and tyranny, a corrupt government? Or is it a problem of affordability and standard of living? It’s both! Authoritarianism and tyranny are extremely expensive for the people. And it’s the exact same thing when you go down the line with Donald Trump. So, are we going to go after the corruption? Yeah, you’re damn right. And are we going to go after affordability and making people’s lives easier? Yeah, you’re damn right. We’re going to do both of them.”
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.
“Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”
— Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.
“If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now. This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. He saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream for ever.”
— Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.
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3,824
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$1.4 billion
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-35 points
G. Elliot Morris: “Low-knowledge 2024 voters say they backed Trump by 8 points, according to our poll. Today they give him a net job approval of ?27, a 35-point shift. Compare that to Trump’s approval rating among voters who got both questions right: These voters backed Harris by 1 point and now give Trump a net ?24 approval, a 23-point shift. … Low-information voters have moved against Trump at a higher rate than high-information voters, by 12 points.”
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31%
President Donald ?Trump’s approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday. Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump’s ?performance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in ?either of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed.
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63% to 38%
KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”
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Did you see that coward try and hide when the Rep. came back out to look for who spat on him? What a fucking coward!
“It never happened. Prove it,” sez the teabaggers.
Even if each one of them watched this video, the response be the same.
the man was clearly yelling at everyone through his cupped hands… wake up drones and worry more about what obama is doing to the country…..
When did you wake up, Rick — yesterday? Your Dear Leaders Bush, Cheney, DeLay, Abramoff and the rest of Republican insane goon posse did their best to destroy this great country and all we heard back then from you tea baggers was … crickets.
Obama has no choice but to clean up YOUR mess. So if you can’t participate constructively — grab a broom — you should all sit your racist asses down and STFU.
Three actions in the video lead me to believe that the protester did spit at the Representative:
1. Cleaver flinches
2. Cleaver wipes his face
3. Cleaver returns to the scene
Otherwise, I suspect that he would have brushed off a lesser incident.
But Cleaver’s a Methodist minister, and you know how they are — such liars!
This video has been shown on many media outlets and if this is your “proof”, keep trying. If there was any spit at all coming from this man, it may have been normal spittle produced when someone shouts using words that perhaps being with P or S or SH or CH. And notice the delay from when the man was shouting to when this Cleaver looks at his hand then “wipes” his face. This is your evidence? Come on! Oh and as for the “he’s a Methodist minister, they don’t lie” comments, really? REALLY? He’s a politician and they DO lie. Should I go down the list of famous Dem / lefty ministers? Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakan, Jeremiah Wright…must I go on? And when you look at the context of this “march”, you know that they had to have accusations of this type of behavior or else it would not complete their image of the re-enactment of the Selma civil rights march that they were going for here. Our Democratic leaders really do think we are that stupid. Apparently they were right about many here.
Your sheets are showing. Proof that you are reflexively racist: You smear Rep. Cleaver without any evidence that he is a liar and lump him in with a group of religious leaders all of whom are black and none of whom are notorious for lying. You could have included white Republican preachers who are proven miscreants like Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
But the biggest liars of recent times aren’t on your list. They’re your heroes: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and especially Sarah Palin, who rivals Bush as worst of the lot.
And btw get a clue: Farrakahn is a Muslim conservative.
Typical racist name calling and bullying coming from a tea bagger.