As Trump Drones On, Democrats Resistance Takes Different Forms

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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OA1133 and T3BE61 - Lydia joins today to discuss Trump's 3/4/2025 address to Congress regarding his vision for the next 4 years. Leading up to the evening, there were reports that quite a few Democrats would opt to not attend. We highlight the different approaches folks in the party took to resist in the face of chaos and authoritarianism, and discuss what we might do if we were in that position.

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1:11.6	Change happens because people care.
1:26.6	You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
1:35.1	I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.
1:46.6	The fight for our country is always worth it.
1:54.2	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1,133. I'm Thomas Smith. And screw it. That over there is Lydia Smith. How you doing?
2:03.1	Pretty good. Do you ever say like 1133? Yeah, I do. You like flip back and forth. Only when it's 1133, though.
2:10.7	Well, yeah, you know what I mean. Okay. It's Wednesday. That means it's time for whatever we do on Wednesdays. Plus, Thomas
2:21.9	takes the bar exam. This episode, I decided to ask Lydia the question, what in the world is going on with the Trump speech thing? What is that? For those of us who are just tired of paying attention to all of that propaganda, what's
2:36.4	going on? And I wanted to know how are Democrats handling it? Because I've seen some rumblings
2:41.6	about perhaps Democrats skipping it, which I think it seems great to me, but I don't know
2:46.2	how many Democrats were in on that plan. It's sort of like that time we talked about one of the first
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