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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:02 AM Jan 2017

"Real Americans" don't demonstrate against the President?

I’ve mentioned a few times in the past how I keep a radio next to my bed and, when I wake up in the morning, I turn on the one local station which has (CBS) national news at the top of the hour, followed by a few minutes of local news and the local weather.

The ‘bad thing’ is that their programming is right wing (Limbaugh, etc). Even their local hosts are right wing. Unfortunately this morning I didn’t get the radio turned off before hearing the local host say “Real Americans don’t demonstrate against the President” and inviting listeners to a gathering today of a new organization called “Hope and Freedom” which is forming to protest ‘lefty’ street demonstrations.
He said “Hope and Freedom” will not hold street demonstrations (because that’s a ‘lefty’ thing), but “Hope and Freedom” will hold street gatherings.

He said ‘real Americans’ go vote and, once a President is elected, ‘real Americans’ unite as a country and support the President.

WTF? We’re supposed to just forget the existence the Tea Party and the damage they've done?
It’s worse than “Alice in Wonderland”.
It’s “Trump in the White House”.

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"Real Americans" don't demonstrate against the President? (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jan 2017 OP
It's a game I've stopped playing. Igel Jan 2017 #1
"Real Germans don't oppose Hitler" dalton99a Jan 2017 #2
Nice visual....stolen.... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #3
To "Real Americans" it depends on what hats they wear crazycatlady Jan 2017 #4
Exactly....total hypocrisy LeftInTX Jan 2017 #14
Nah, real Americans don't settle for shite. Cha Jan 2017 #5
They have no legitimacy, because they LIE MountCleaners Jan 2017 #6
Unless the president's a Demon Rat, of course. Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #7
Was that a Nixon quote? Jim Beard Jan 2017 #8
Oh really? workinclasszero Jan 2017 #9
The teabaggers will be pissed to learn that they re not "Real Americans". 11 Bravo Jan 2017 #10
We need to see if this is a national plan. What city are you in and what station. was on? hedda_foil Jan 2017 #11
"What city are you in and what station. was on?" left-of-center2012 Jan 2017 #13
Thanks. I guess we need to pay attention to see if the meme spreads. hedda_foil Jan 2017 #16
Real presidents don't declare war on just about all their countrymen UTUSN Jan 2017 #12
Here you go... MountCleaners Jan 2017 #15
Real Americans DO demonstrate against Russian agents/spies like Trump NoGoodNamesLeft Jan 2017 #17

Igel

(35,350 posts)
1. It's a game I've stopped playing.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:09 AM
Jan 2017

Real Americans can and do protest. The protesters are as much "we the people" as those who decry their protesting and even as much as those they're protesting against.

At the same time, I don't do the "attribution error" thang and assume that the protesters protesting a president I like are somehow less than human or have only horrible motives. Not every protester against Obama was against his skin color, for example.

Not going to be a fun 4 years.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
4. To "Real Americans" it depends on what hats they wear
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:15 AM
Jan 2017

"Real Americans" protest the POTUS by wearing tricorner hats draped in teabags. Fake Americans wear pink knitted hats with cat ears.

LeftInTX

(25,523 posts)
14. Exactly....total hypocrisy
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 03:53 PM
Jan 2017

Some guy around here stopped his truck and yelled, "Donald Trump won! Get over it!"

I'm sure this guy is a teabagger

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
9. Oh really?
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:51 AM
Jan 2017

Trump is the original birther POS!

Did he or any republican unite with President Obama???

WTF do they think we are? Suddenly the last eight years didn't happen???

They can all GO TO HELL along with their fascist fuhrer!!!

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