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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 02:13 AM Jan 2017

Protest Leaders Could Face Harassment, Arrest & Jail Sponsored By Trump & GOP.

I think Trump is like a wild rat in a cage. Taking leadership in the protest movement will make you a target from Trump & GOP. It is also a potential danger from the white supremacist militias. And I do not think I have seen a worse time in this country now that I turned 73. I am simply stunned at what is going on.

I keep telling people that the GOP is much more brutal than we have ever seen. If you look at what they are doing this early on we are facing some real surprises.

I remember how the Occupy movement was treated in Denver and elsewhere. The Denver police were ticketing and threatening average citizens for even bringing them food or honking their horns in support.

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Protest Leaders Could Face Harassment, Arrest & Jail Sponsored By Trump & GOP. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 OP
I'm nearing 60 and never seen anything like this either, and the deck feels very stacked against us. manicraven Jan 2017 #1

manicraven

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1. I'm nearing 60 and never seen anything like this either, and the deck feels very stacked against us.
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 04:05 AM
Jan 2017

Had a bit of a meltdown tonight as I'm just overwhelmed right now by the shocking changes happening, or potential changes. I'm worried about the dangerous path we're on (fascism) and frustrated that the GOP would rather put the interest of their corporate masters ahead of the people whom they're supposed to represent. They are not patriots, and they don't care if seniors end up dying under bridges, if the poor go hungry, if people die from treatable medical conditions, if women lose all rights over their own bodies, if the minimum wage is immorally low, if the election was hijacked by Putin and/or a corrupt FBI director, if the head of their party is a boastful, spiteful, delusional lunatic who endangers the entire planet and prefers to believe in stupid conspiracy theories over science and facts. We've been thrust into a nightmare that we might never wake up from.

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