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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:51 PM Jan 2020

RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of protesters silently swarm the Senate to protest Mitch McConnell's impeachment



RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of protesters silently swarm the Senate to protest Mitch McConnell's impeachment cover-up.

#SwarmTheCapitol #SwarmTheSenate #WeWantWitnesses

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Remove Trump #SwarmTheSenate
@Remove_TrumpNow
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BREAKING: A massive crowd has filled the Hart Senate Atrium to demand witnesses, documents, and justice in the Senate removal trial of Donald Trump

Police have banned us from having the silent formations we have had for three weeks, so we have adapted: we are silently swarming


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RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of protesters silently swarm the Senate to protest Mitch McConnell's impeachment (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2020 OP
Wow. Good for them. underpants Jan 2020 #1
Wish I could be there with them. riversedge Jan 2020 #2
As soon as I saw this, I knew it was the SWARM folks. dewsgirl Jan 2020 #3
So the message about the cover up Wellstone ruled Jan 2020 #6
Unfortunately truncated headline. greyl Jan 2020 #4
👍 Unfortunately, your suggestion Duppers Jan 2020 #22
Oh well. greyl Jan 2020 #32
We GOT HIM! NCLefty Jan 2020 #41
When will Vlad get the message? dchill Jan 2020 #5
Hopefully that frail disabled lady in her marybourg Jan 2020 #7
I remember that awful event. riversedge Jan 2020 #21
You patriots are beautiful!! I wish I was there. 58Sunliner Jan 2020 #8
I join you although I am not there onethatcares Jan 2020 #9
Thank you MoonlitKnight Jan 2020 #10
Welcome to DU, MoonlitKnight. calimary Jan 2020 #25
Bravo iluvtennis Jan 2020 #11
wow bdamomma Jan 2020 #12
YES! YES! YES! Cousin Dupree Jan 2020 #13
It's beautiful thing to behold the Swarmers swarming steventh Jan 2020 #14
1h "TRUMP IS GUILTY": March to Senate Hart Building Lots of marchers outside.......... riversedge Jan 2020 #15
What a beautiful sight to see! Dem2theMax Jan 2020 #30
Crowd chants "Protect the Constitution!" as police grab 600 sq ft banner featuring Article II, Secti riversedge Jan 2020 #16
They'll dismiss it as "Soros paid actors" Dukkha Jan 2020 #17
Good pan view here.............. riversedge Jan 2020 #18
What are they being arrested for? Assembly is legal and I didn't see any fighting. nt napi21 Jan 2020 #36
Now THIS is what patriotism looks like! Mr. Ected Jan 2020 #19
Crowd of thousands streams toward U.S. Capitol as #SwarmTheCapitol action continues riversedge Jan 2020 #20
You can also text "remove Trump" to 50409 to send them each a letter demanding a fair impeachment tr riversedge Jan 2020 #23
I have used Resistbot for a few years now. dewsgirl Jan 2020 #26
There has to be Linda Ed Jan 2020 #24
Mainstream media always undercounts. Best witnesses are eyewitnesss with cameras, especially... Hekate Jan 2020 #39
This is when DU is at its best JustAnotherGen Jan 2020 #27
Same here Hekate Jan 2020 #38
Way to go! I doubt this is the last we'll see of these patriots. Thank you, one and all. Karadeniz Jan 2020 #28
As long as Mitch remains Putin's bitch he will keep on cstanleytech Jan 2020 #29
These GOP clowns live in the Fox News bubble bucolic_frolic Jan 2020 #31
people anywhere can send direct message to republicans by protesting their most sacred certainot Jan 2020 #33
Yes! Catherine Vincent Jan 2020 #34
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2020 #35
May the swarm grow! Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2020 #37
Wish I could be there! I'm so proud of them! Hekate Jan 2020 #40

marybourg

(12,633 posts)
7. Hopefully that frail disabled lady in her
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 02:08 PM
Jan 2020

folding three legged stool was who was moved to a sturdy concrete bench by the big bad meanie guard wasn’t there today.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212877553

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
9. I join you although I am not there
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 02:14 PM
Jan 2020

from St Petersburg Florida, I support you wholeheartedly,

THANK YOU PATRIOTS

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
15. 1h "TRUMP IS GUILTY": March to Senate Hart Building Lots of marchers outside..........
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:00 PM
Jan 2020


Peter Morley
@morethanmySLE
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"TRUMP IS GUILTY": March to Senate Hart Building

#WeWantWitnesses #SwarmTheCapitol



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Dem2theMax

(9,651 posts)
30. What a beautiful sight to see!
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 04:36 PM
Jan 2020

Thank you for posting the videos.

And to all who are marching and protesting, I am there with you in spirit. I wish I could be there in person.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
16. Crowd chants "Protect the Constitution!" as police grab 600 sq ft banner featuring Article II, Secti
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:02 PM
Jan 2020

I am hoping the Senators take a peek of these protestors during their break





Remove Trump #SwarmTheSenate
@Remove_TrumpNow
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BREAKING: Mass nonviolent civil disobedience underway on steps of US Capitol

Crowd chants "Protect the Constitution!" as police grab 600 sq ft banner featuring Article II, Section 4, the impeachment and removal clause

#NoCoverUp #WeWantWitnesses #SwarmTheCapitol #RemoveTrump



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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
18. Good pan view here..............
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:10 PM
Jan 2020

Colleen Boland
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@ColleenBoland
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BREAKING
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#SwarmTheCapitol
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After Reverend Barber and @UniteThePoor
led us to the Capitol steps, many Americans stayed behind to call for #NoCoverUp and #WitnessesAndDicuments. Arrests starting.
#RemoveTrump


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Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
19. Now THIS is what patriotism looks like!
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:13 PM
Jan 2020

Not the false SUPPORT OUR TROOPS crap that the right always spews when they take us into unnecessary wars.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
20. Crowd of thousands streams toward U.S. Capitol as #SwarmTheCapitol action continues
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:13 PM
Jan 2020

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Remove Trump #SwarmTheSenate
@Remove_TrumpNow
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BREAKING: "We want witnesses! No more coverup!" Crowd of thousands streams toward U.S. Capitol as #SwarmTheCapitol action continues



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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
23. You can also text "remove Trump" to 50409 to send them each a letter demanding a fair impeachment tr
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:39 PM
Jan 2020

FYI..........................

Jon Cooper
🇺🇸
@joncoopertweets
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Call your senators NOW at (202) 224-3121 and tell them #WeWantWitnesses
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You can also text "remove Trump" to 50409 to send them each a letter demanding a fair impeachment trial.


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Linda Ed

(493 posts)
24. There has to be
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:40 PM
Jan 2020

more people than this....Those streets in DC should be swarming with people protesting...After reading how people were taking buses etc to march and this is all?

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
39. Mainstream media always undercounts. Best witnesses are eyewitnesss with cameras, especially...
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:42 AM
Jan 2020

...standing at intersections, or on steps facing the crowd.

We've experienced this at DU from the very beginning of the site, when our DU members would report back and post their own photos. We forced WaPo to keep updating their crowd count from "hundreds" to "thousands" and finally "tens of thousands" back in late 2002 or thereabouts, because we wrote (I know I sure did) and called.

We need to be doing that again.

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)
29. As long as Mitch remains Putin's bitch he will keep on
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 04:30 PM
Jan 2020

doing what he has been ordered to do which in this case is to protect the Russians asset in the White House.

bucolic_frolic

(43,177 posts)
31. These GOP clowns live in the Fox News bubble
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 04:36 PM
Jan 2020

totally isolated from reality. They don't even hear the truth from their own pollsters. So yeah, they are in shock now.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
33. people anywhere can send direct message to republicans by protesting their most sacred
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 04:46 PM
Jan 2020

advantage - talk radio

any combination of protests at radio stations or the 87 universities that support 260 limbaugh stations, or boycotts of radio stations and hosts that gets the attention of the advertising industry and force them to start asking radio clients if they really want support trump and global warming denial will kill the talk radio monopoly

with the end of the talk radio monopoly looming a lot of senators will see the pro trump pressure disappear, both in terms of their trumper primary opponents not having that advantage, the punishment/rage when limbaugh names them, and them not having talk radio to excuse them for not convicting trump

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