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 | Sep. 12, 2026
Pundits say that Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe was an overreach,
And they agree that if lies were a crime, he’d be impeached.
Despite all the dividend promises he’s made,
The fact is, not one has ever been paid,
So even before the midterms, he already owes us $8,000* each.
*$5000 stimulus checks via “DOGE dividend”; $2000 stimulus checks via a “tariff dividend”; $1000-plus checks via “savings” from expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies
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“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”
— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.
“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”
— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.
“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”
— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.
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1,000
“Donald Trump made over a thousand stock sales and purchases worth between $79m and $270m in July,” The Guardian reports. “His two largest sales were of Amazon and Microsoft stock, selling between $5m and $25m each on 20 July. That same day, he also sold up to $5m worth of Oracle and Costco stock, $500,000 to $1m in Nvidia, and bought up to $5m worth of shares in Intuit and Salesforce, among dozens of other transactions.”
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10%
“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.
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71%
A new Fox News Poll finds 71% of voters think the Trump administration lacks a clear strategy for ending the Iran War, including 95% of Democrats, 83% of independents, and 43% of Republicans. Sixty percent say U.S. military action against Iran was the wrong decision, while just 37% say it was right.
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$9.5 billion
“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.
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470
Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.
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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.