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30,000,000 patriots arrive in Washington DC disguised as empty folding chairs! #OperationAmericanSpring pic.twitter.com/SWQkolOr70
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Segami
(14,923 posts)onecaliberal
(32,865 posts)mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)When these phoneys who are just racists pretending to be Patriots because they hate losing oppose the Patriot Act which is about as anti-patriot as you can get then I will listen to them. Where were they when we essentially had a coup d'état in this country over a very suspicious 911???
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)Spread that far and wide!
chervilant
(8,267 posts)braved wind chill of 17 below to protest the invasion of Iraq. These poor souls let a little rain deter them?
Sad...
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Sunrise, perhaps.
A stop sign.
Yipping chihuahuas.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Tue May 12, 2015, 09:36 PM - Edit history (1)
Click the pic or here for more!
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chervilant
(8,267 posts)And, shortly thereafter, we started seeing those insulting "free speech" zones placed strategically far away from Dubya and/or his cronies. I suspect Rove had something to do with those -- and the propagandized nomenclature.
Cha
(297,323 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. nt
chervilant
(8,267 posts)of their sycophants would rejoice?
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)and it was fucking cold, and it was crazy crowded. I came in on a bus from Detroit full of activists. Early 2003 iirc? Before the bombs even started.. I think the low estimates were half a million people, the high estimates at a million. All day long in the freezing weather.
Although the media treated it like it was 25 people...
eta: seems like you may have been talking about an NYC protest, I was remembering one in DC where the air temps were in the teens and the wind was nuts.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)where the M$M panned the sparse outer edges of the ginormous crowd of protestors, and alleged there were only "tens of thousands" of us, and weren't we a pathetic little bunch?
A very young CNN reporter "interviewed" me (I'm sure because I looked upwardly mobile in my thrift-store cashmere wool coat, pashmina scarf, and felted wool hat), and was visibly dismayed when I commented on the placement of their cameras, the size of the crowd, and Gloria Steinem's adjuration that all activists write five letters a week. She then asked me if I was warm enough in the bitterly cold wind, shifting the convo to the weather. Guess which tiny part of that filmed "interview" aired...
Baitball Blogger
(46,743 posts)They were Raptured! What terrible timing.
Could happen to anyone.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)rap-turd.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)KaryninMiami
(3,073 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)to talk to the chairs?
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)chairs?
That was a funny night.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)...photo, is it? This is not really a shot of DC, chairs waiting--is it?
I'm very photo-naive, so seriously---tell me.
renate
(13,776 posts)And I was hoping to find the answer on this thread, as well. I have to guess that it isn't for this event, though, because seriously (and hilariously), they'd have had to have more people to set up the chairs than they had attendees.
shawn703
(2,702 posts)But it had nothing to do with any American Spring protest. Simply preparations for a commencement ceremony (George Washington University?) on the Mall this weekend.
mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)the comments here are hilarious, love the one about Clint Eastwood.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)shawn703
(2,702 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)one way to tell is the "imgflip.com" in the lower corner... it's just a joke
...if you ever want to find the source of a photo, one way is to right click on it, click properties ...copy the URL address and then put into google "search by image" doesn't always work but sometimes it does
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Takket
(21,578 posts)please keep going! lol
Takket
(21,578 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)kmlisle
(276 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)we're taking all the good material
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)Had to let you know I lol'd when I saw it. Thanx!
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)of being out-attended by the porta-potties.
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)rocktivity
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)KinMd
(966 posts)Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)on this massive assault on Washington?
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)because.. BENGHAZI!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it's Hillary's fault
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)I must know their trick.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)to erase 30,000,000 people from the chairs, and then be silent about it. Not a peep managed to leak out.
smallcat88
(426 posts)When I saw this story on the news I wondered where they got the 10-30 million prediction of how many were expected to show up. Where did they get that figure? Unless they had that many replies online they could have only pulled it out of their ass. But then I realized that's where they carry their brains . . .
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)glad I wasn't drinking something when I saw it
I don't want to replace my keyboard from liquid damage
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Im having difficulty taking all these tea tards seriously with all the deserved mocking they are getting.
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)It took time and effort to put out those chairs, and that doesn't come free.
Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)How have you been? Good to hear from you...
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