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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell had protesters in wheelchairs arrested on live tv Monday.
That's how sickeningly obsessed they are with taking healthcare away from tens of millions of people.
(edited thread title to reflect that the event described is no longer in progress).
LyndaG
(683 posts)Hope this visual is shown on every network during the evening news. McConnell is heartless.
Sugarcoated
(7,724 posts)I hope people on Twitter are sharing this with Jimmy Kimmel....
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Thinking he'd have something to say about this.
DK504
(3,847 posts)Don't understand.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)now. For the vulnerable. Now.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)elleng
(130,929 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Jarqui
(10,126 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Their soullessness is chilling.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)'You'll do the work we TELL you to do, Bitches, or you can all go back to your Districts and get JOBS (and good luck with THAT).'
These Americans are being arrested because they're exposing the Bribe. Yertle can't have that now, can he??
I'm pretty sure if it came to Brass Tacks that I would take 2 full terms of a Trump Presidency, if I could watch that hateful reptile McConnell cry at his sentencing like the little bitch manchild he is...
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)I actually thought this bargain could've been Faustian. I view the Kochs as a two-headed Satan.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)By threatening to tell the old man that they suspected he was gay.
He sold.
Let the hateful greed of what that really is, sink in for a moment.
Yep...it makes me want to vomit, too. Doing that to elected officials has to be small potatoes after what they did to their own Brother.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)I believe I read Trump disinherited his brother's son because his brother drank. Lovely people.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)WHILE THE KID HAD CANCER.
I'm pretty sure that's what I read. If that's true...jeezus yeah he's one hateful fuck.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Motherfucker.
I don't use that term lightly.
BigmanPigman
(51,603 posts)I have had to swearing in Italian since my English profanity was becoming overused. My Italian grandmother was a heavy duty Dem until she died a few years ago (104). Your should have heard HER mouth (especially during Reagan and Bush years).
murielm99
(30,741 posts)the first Bush "buttass." I think that was the best she could do in English. I can't imagine what she called him in German.
Quite a few of my cousins grew up bilingual. But my dad married a Swede, so we did not learn German.
sprinkleeninow
(20,249 posts)hovno. Which is Slovak for frites. 🚾 😝
💓?💪🗽
Initech
(100,079 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,249 posts)compared to noxious smelly republucres.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)be respectful and the disabled people were being friendly and trying to explain to law enforcement how their wheelchairs worked, etc. Still, it is not a good visual for Sen. Graham and his bill.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)They are handling the situation as well as they can.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)The turtle wanted more press attention. Even bad press is good press aspirations may not work for him. Ditch Mitch
Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)would someone please take responsibility and make sure he doesn't run out of lettuce. He always gets cranky when his lettuce runs out. I'd of thought people would have figured that out by now.
ananda
(28,864 posts)What a cold-blooded reeptile.
DK504
(3,847 posts)Volaris
(10,271 posts)I think Mitch KNOWS he's Charles and Davids little Senate -Policy playtoy...and I think he probably likes it that way, and All Else is PROJECTION...All the Power he thinks he has...He knows he's someone else's bitch.
Fuck him he can die in prison next to Donald, as far as I'm concerned.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)if it disrupts a govt proceeding or prevents the working of govt, it's not protesting. That goes beyond protesting.
But it seems to me that a bunch of smart men could come up with a better solution.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And without it, the Civll Rights and Voting Rights Acts would never have been passed.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It didn't involve, for the most part, interfering with governance. "Civil disobedience" means you don't do something. These protests ARE doing something: preventing the government from operating.
The protests during the Vietnam War were peaceful and non-interfering for the most part. There were sit-ins, which blocked sidewalks, but I remember videos of people still being able to walk thru the sit-in protesters.
These sorts of protests...where they knowingly interfere with others' rights...are typically done so that they WILL get arrested and on tv. The Repubs shouldn't have fallen for it. Very bad visual. But they did, so we have pictures, and it'll probably be on the news. So that's good for the bill...for the non-passage of the bill.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And these protests are peaceful. They are disruptive, but so were the actions of the Catonsville 9, who broke into a draft board office and destroyed record-probably saving the lives of some young men in the process.
I think people were able to walk through the people protesting in the Capitol.