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IN THE GRANDEST METAPHOR OF THE WEEK, AN ACTUAL GOP GHOST TRAIN LEFT 30TH STREET STATION THIS MORNING
In what was perhaps the grandest metaphor of a weeks worth of visiting Republican Party retreat members being literally cornered by protestors wherever they found themselves in downtown Philadelphia grander still than even the fact that the city deemed to protect the Loews Hotel where they were staying by using trash trucks to block off the streets a ghost train of sorts was there to carry them off, back to Washington, D.C., this morning. When protestors arrived at 30th Street Station late this morning, to greet the visiting GOP one last time for the week with messages of dissent and resistance to an increasingly aberrant, toxic presidency, they soon realized:None from the party had the courage to enter the station, and take the train that had been chartered on the GOPs behalf.
They totally had a private chartered train waiting for them at the station that pulled away empty because none of the GOP were willing to walk into the station, one protestor on the scene told us. The Amtrak agent had called for the boarding of the charter train number, over and over announcing its departure, she said, and then conferred with the protest organizers, who then announced it to the crowd. Whereupon the crowd cheered. It was a fitting and triumphant end to a week that saw so many in Philadelphia responding to the absurd madness and craven greed of the Trump presidency in a way that the citys founders would have been both proud of, and there for.
http://www.philebrity.com/blog/2017/1/27/in-the-grandest-metaphor-of-the-week-an-actual-gop-ghost-train-left-30th-street-station-this-morning
gordianot
(15,238 posts)Lock your windows and doors bring in the pets.
deminks
(11,014 posts)They won't face the people at their town halls either. Look for town halls to go away.
Keep calling them on the phone. Send emails if they block or don't answer their phone. Keep marching.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)He's still scared shitless that he'll be exposed as a fraud if he releases his tax returns.
He's a coward. His Fanboys can't face it. They're in denial. Their big hero is a hollowed-out coward.
The most devastating critique of Trumpy is that he's a coward. If that attribution grows legs, Trumpy will lose it and he may lose everything. He fights with all of his life to be the big, brave strongman. But he's really a sniveling coward-- a weak fraud.
oasis
(49,387 posts)hate radio propaganda being cranked out daily.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)The Philadelphia protest crowds are presuming that anything "right wing" is propaganda. This is a meme that can stick and be very constructive. Right wing radio, Fox News, and The Trumpy Administration are now being seen as ONE PROPAGANDA FORCE.
That is partly what will galvanize the resistance. NOTHING from the world of right wing can be credible. They're all lying. And the rest of us had better realize that or they'll take over ALL the media.
dembotoz
(16,805 posts)Hmmm I had gop ers in the title and it autocorrect to vipers...I am OK with that...
Suspect next time they will have private security... The new SS? To protect them from the rabble
Girard442
(6,073 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)irisblue
(32,975 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)seems that the bullies don't like it when the victims of their bullying push back.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)They are cowards.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...they want to fuck over...COWARDS!