they had firehoses put on them. fighting for change. they were beaten when fighting for change. some of them went to jail fighting for change. some were murdered and put in the ground, martyrs, dead, gone, nothing to come back, fighting for change. we will quit over a really mean tweet. [laughter] did you read that terrible tweet? i just can't stand it. so we have a quandary. if we just support the president, just vote for the democrats, we don't get what we want, but if we don't, our opponents get power and decimate us. there is a quandary. can we put our thinking caps on now. look at what they do when they get power, just in case you haven't paid attention. didn't get the memo. i think that the unions have perhaps gone a bit too far. i think what we should do is perform -- no, they decimate us. they destroy the unions. since they got power, they got even worse. we are the only ones with the back and have power and go -- go through to get power. and then once we get it, we now have power. we will now be bipartisan. [laughter] can we compromise on something, please? >> is that w