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The Cowards Sat in Silence: A Night of Honor and Shame
TwitterX ^ | 3/5/2025 | TwitterX User Mike Johnson

Posted on 03/05/2025 3:12:46 AM PST by Lazamataz

The night was electric, pulsing with the raw energy of a nation clawing its way back from the abyss. Donald Trump stood at the podium, a lion surveying his den, commanding the chamber with the weight of history pressing against his shoulders. The air was thick with expectation, with defiance, with the unshakable spirit of America refusing to be broken. And then, the moment came—the kind of moment that strips away the political filth and reveals the soul of a country.

A boy named DJ, clad in the crisp uniform of a police officer, stood proud and unwavering, though the cruel grip of fate had marked him for battle against something far more ruthless than any criminal—brain cancer. His father, a cop, watched with pride as his son, too young to understand the horrors of bureaucracy, stood before the most powerful men and women in the nation, believing in something greater than himself.

Trump, never one to miss the chance to honor the real beating heart of America, did what no other president in modern history would have dared. He made DJ an honorary Secret Service agent—not as a political stunt, not as a hollow gesture, but as a symbol of everything that still makes this country great. Here was a boy who, despite all odds, still dreamed of serving and protecting. A boy who saw the badge not as a mark of oppression, but of justice. A boy whose bravery outshone the cowards who sat in the shadows.

The chamber erupted. The walls of Congress shook with applause, the very rafters of democracy trembling under the force of true, unfiltered emotion. People stood, tears in their eyes, clapping until their hands stung. But not everyone.

No, across the aisle sat the Democrats, cold as corpses, eyes hollow, mouths twisted into grimaces of disdain. Not a single clap. Not a single nod of respect. Not an ounce of humanity. These are the same people who weep for criminals, who kneel for thugs, who scream about “justice” while letting chaos swallow the streets. But when a little boy with brain cancer stands before them, embodying everything they should pretend to care about—innocence, courage, sacrifice—they sit there like rotting statues, rigid in their hatred for everything that doesn’t fit their twisted ideology.

It was more than politics. It was a glimpse into the soul of the enemy. They couldn’t stand because standing would mean acknowledging something greater than themselves. It would mean admitting that Trump was right. That honor still means something. That America is still alive, still breathing, still roaring despite their every attempt to smother it beneath their boot.

That moment was bigger than all of them. Bigger than the swamp, bigger than the lies, bigger than the poison dripping from every Democrat's forked tongue. DJ stood there, stronger than the entire party combined, smiling as the President of the United States honored him. And they sat there, sneering, because they knew—deep in the blackened pits of their soulless chests—they would never know what it’s like to be that brave, that good, that true.

They will be remembered for that silence. The people saw. The people will never forget.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: essay; presidenttrump; trump; twitter; x
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1 posted on 03/05/2025 3:12:46 AM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Good story thanks for posting it.


2 posted on 03/05/2025 3:16:49 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: exPBRrat

It is well-written. I followed the guy on TwitterX.


3 posted on 03/05/2025 3:17:45 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

The Democrats are like Nazis who see the people as Jews, they hate everything about us and it’s always party first above everything else.


4 posted on 03/05/2025 3:23:11 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Lazamataz

Best speech ever. Exposed the Trump haters too.


5 posted on 03/05/2025 3:25:38 AM PST by FreedBird (p)
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To: Fred Nerks

Ping to the incident that has changed America and put the Dems into the dust bin of history.


6 posted on 03/05/2025 3:26:22 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Lazamataz

So true. I thought it was Speaker Mike Johnson until I was finished reading it.


7 posted on 03/05/2025 3:26:43 AM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: Lazamataz

What an event, the Speaker captures it in one of the most moving posts I have read that so clearly exemplifies the Democrat Party.


8 posted on 03/05/2025 3:28:35 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Lazamataz

Trump called them on it...they should be ashamed...They lost but it is still their President and deserves the respect of the office.


9 posted on 03/05/2025 3:32:35 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Lazamataz

Amazing!!! Thanks for posting this.


10 posted on 03/05/2025 3:33:48 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Lazamataz

The Democrat Party has become a vernal pool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernal_pool

The pool of supporters for the Democrat ideology is shrinking. The Democrat party is the party of the most extreme among us. Those that believe that whatever they believe is the most important thing in the world and and everything else is bad. It is a party of hate. It is the party of failure.

The Democrats could not stand because to do so would turn their only remaining support against them.

The Democrats are the Whig party of the 1800s who went against the will of the people and were abandoned by its supporters who went on and joined the newly formed Republican party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)


11 posted on 03/05/2025 3:36:19 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: Lazamataz

I think Trump should have called them out on the signs they held up and said “There must be a pickle ball tournament after my speech, look at all the pickleball paddles.”


12 posted on 03/05/2025 3:36:45 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks dude.


13 posted on 03/05/2025 3:37:03 AM PST by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: Lazamataz

Great post!

I pray people DID see the dumblecrats as the party of hatred and inhumanity. What possible justification could they give for their behavior towards this little boy?
Evil stupid and dumb...every damn one of them.


14 posted on 03/05/2025 3:38:04 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Lazamataz

Before the speech, when Trump came down the aisle, I saw Schumer and the other dems with their backs to the president but watching him with side glances. It reminded me of feral dogs I had seen in my life. Useless things, with no redeeming qualities. Waiting for their chance to attack when a back was turned, but ever ready to scurry away, if the odds looked bad.
At the end of the event, they skittered away like roaches from a bright light, truly aware of their own repulsiveness.


15 posted on 03/05/2025 3:39:49 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: Lazamataz

I’ve been watching these speeches since the Reagan days (including prior President Trump) and have never seen more off-the-cuff true joy in my lifetime. The rats truly embarrassed America and themselves, especially internationally when Trump talked of women being smashed (literally) in their spaces by these mentally ill trannies as these losers sunk even deeper in the seats.

Have no idea how long this is going to last but it’s the first I can recall where the GOP clearly separated from the GOPe.


16 posted on 03/05/2025 3:46:34 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Lazamataz

Man, not 3 minutes before I opened Free Republic this morning, as I was writing in my diary about this very thing—the Democrats’ behavior last night—this little boy was exactly who I was thinking of. As Trump introduced American after American, including the mother of Laken Riley, the Dems wouldn’t even turn and look at them. They just sat there oozing hatred, hunched over their phones like sullen teens. You’d think at least Elizabeth Warren is old enough and intelligent enough to realize the hideous optics of their behavior, but apparently not.


17 posted on 03/05/2025 3:47:52 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: ArtDodger

I think that gives them too much credit- they have ZERO self-awareness -they’re not aware of their repulsiveness, and if they are ? They’re proud of it, they’re just aware that DJT bashed them and now they’re more angry. They are subhuman. Many demonic even.


18 posted on 03/05/2025 3:48:09 AM PST by dkGba
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To: Lazamataz

To me, this one moment proved once and for all that the democrats are soul-less, heart-less, God-less bastards. The fact they sneered at this moment and could not stand an honor a little boy ‘of color nonetheless’ just shows they are truly evil people. That there are no redeeming aspects to their shallow existence.


19 posted on 03/05/2025 3:48:21 AM PST by yukong
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To: Lazamataz

I just want to say right here that the President and his formidable team scripted this precise outcome. The democrats have become so predictable and kneejerk reactionary that you can design a circuit around the their function. And they operated within design parameters. This chief of staff that The Donald has, Susie Wiles is the Grandma from hell for the democrats. She is the adult in the room and she knows how the children are going to react and she understands how to manipulate the circumstances around them to achieve the desired result. Every topic that the President raised was specifically designed to highlight the democrats venality and corruption for the American people. And the President (mostly) stuck to the script. I mean, how are you going to stay silent and not applaud the celebration of a cancer surviving child being granted his wishes by the most powerful man in the world. And the kid is black too! That was terrible imagery for democrats, truly cringeworthy. This is another example of the strategy that this President has used over and over again. I’ve called it the anti-alinski strategy. Apparently alinsky goes into meltdown if there’s too many targets. And it has left the democrats behind in a sniveling pool of bitter misery. They are broken.

The Gulf of democrats misery
This is President Trump at his finest.
I’m enjoying the show. :)


20 posted on 03/05/2025 3:51:42 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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