Senator Brian Schatz
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And we have to welcome people who disagree with us about a number of issues to just say, let's fight about that stuff later.
This is not what the No Kings rally is about.
The No Kings event is about exactly that, that we do not elect a monarch.
that we have a system of government that we are not just like adherent to or that we ought to comply with, but we are in love with it, right?
That's what makes this place great.
And we have to, even though we're frustrated with the leadership of the United States of America, we have to reclaim that flag and fly it very proudly.
That is not what I expected you to ask me.
Just be peaceful, be fearless, understand what they want is a precipitating event to invoke martial law or the Insurrection Act or some bogus conspiracy about some nonprofit that's like pre-printing signs or whatever it is.
But I think at its foundation, Tommy, what Mike Johnson wants to do is talk about anything other than the fact that prices are about to go up for healthcare by 114%, that vegetables are up 39%, that coffee's up 20%, and that the price of electricity is up more than double the rate of inflation.
And so they would love for the conversation to be about anything other than what people are facing, mostly on November 1nd,
when they get that letter from their carrier saying, your prices have doubled.
So I think we have a little bit of a luxury of time here.
I think it was appropriate for people who are Democrats who consider themselves pro-Israel to essentially say, hey, this isn't what I signed up for.
And I was one of those who started to vote on those joint resolutions of disapproval and other actions to restrict those arms because they were not defensive weapons.
The security partnership between the United States and Israel is one thing.
But to the extent that Netanyahu was using it to brutalize and kill
Palestinians en masse, count me out.
Now, I think the question going forward is how does the Israeli military behave?
How does the Israeli government behave?