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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30612410/senate-impeachment-protest-colleen-boland/I Don't Understand Why There Aren't Thousands of People Protesting the Senate Trial
The American public has now proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 21, 2020
WASHINGTONTo borrow a phrase from the late Laura Nyro, Colleen Boland has a lot of patience, and thats a lot of patience to lose. Every day for the past month or so, she has gathered with another group of people in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building as part of Swarm The Senate, an act of moral witness and a general lobbying force in favor of removing El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago from office. Boland also has joined with Jane Fonda in her weekly Friday climate protests up the street in front of the Capitol. Colleen Boland has been arrested three times in as many weeks, which is not something one might expect from a master sergeant in the United States Air Force who retired after 17 years in the service.
Frankly, I dont understand why there arent a few thousand of Colleen Boland in Washington this week. Frankly, I dont know what its going to take to get an anesthetized citizenry off its ass and realize what a threat the country is facing in having a criminal idiot as a chief executive, a guy who has put every part of the republic up for sale, and for cheap. (The latest? In the middle of a trade war with China, the president*s business operation was teaming up with a state-owned Chinese company to build a golf course.)
I, myself, have run out of patience with people who can abide this dangerous foolishnesswhether those people are elected Republican senators, timid Democratic politicians, wishy-washy journalists, or the great, massed, unmoving American public, which now has proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor. Last week, senators took an oathand signed for itthat many of them have no intention of keeping. Colleen Boland understands oaths. She had to take one in order to do her former job.
"Were still talking to senators. My call to them is that Trump is a national security threat. Hes a global security threat. When I was in the military, I was posted to 30 countries so I saw first-hand what violence can do, what scarcity of water can do, what scarcity of food can do. He is endangering all of that in huge ways.
And so the retired master sergeant rejoined the corporals guard in the lobby of the Hart Building, hoping to get a word with the senators who were hustling across the street to play their part in what was rapidly being rendered a charade for the entertainment of a republic sleepwalking toward a fathomless abyss.
coti
(4,612 posts)Kaleva
(36,354 posts)Best of luck.
Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)and this is what the republicans are doing. Right in front of our eyes.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)coti
(4,612 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)coti
(4,612 posts)42bambi
(1,753 posts)too busy working 3 jobs trying to pay the rent and put food on the family table.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Docreed2003
(16,878 posts)Yavin4
(35,446 posts)They don't even have the time to watch the news let alone protest.
bamagal62
(3,270 posts)Children. Work. Lack of funds to do so. etc.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,503 posts)I cant go protest no matter how much Id like to. I dont get paid personal or sick days. Just cant afford to do it.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)The super rich with their tRump tax breaks can protest.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)we had...along with the rest of the nation..our pro-impeachment protest on Dec. 18th. Trump has been impeached. What am I supposed to be protesting for? Republicans suck?
Wednesdays
(17,412 posts)Just a hunch.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)Other then write an article, what has he done to show that he doesn't abide "this dangerous foolishness".
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)5 days a week.
This is why I elect representatives, to represent me in DC. I also understand that GOP Senators are immune to the complaints of Blue-State Librulz.
PSPS
(13,618 posts)"I Don't Understand Why There Aren't Thousands of People Protesting the Senate Trial"
Gee, the last time I looked, I didn't see Mr. Pierce among the ranks of Swarm The Senate in the Hart lobby. Maybe, if he ponders that for a while, he'll "understand."
chowder66
(9,084 posts)Join us: We are rising up for Trump's removal.
Trump's crimes against the Constitution, our democracy, our humanity, and our future make him utterly unfit to serve as president.
Impeachment is just the first step. Trump must be removed from office. And we the people must lead the way in calling for this removal.
SWARM THE SENATE
Join us as we converge in D.C. to demand Donald Trumps removal from office. We will converge at the Hart Senate Building every day, Monday to Friday, at noon, beginning January 6 when Congress reconvenes. The building is open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Individuals and/or groups are encouraged to assemble at any time during those hours. Check the Remove Trump Facebook page and sign up for our email list to receive updates on the mobilization.
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on edit: I meant to post this in general not as a response to your comment. Sorry about that!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I dont know if its an American thing or a human one, but it seems we need it.
ananda
(28,877 posts)nt
Karma13612
(4,554 posts)I am retired on a typically limited income after years of high health insurance premiums that ate into potential retirement savings. I live in northern new york so the trip would be long, snow-challenged and costly.
What I am witnessing today in the Senate is just so infuriating. I am so numb by the whole thing. We soooooooo need to get McConnell out. He is poison and has waaay too much power.