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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 02:18 PM Sep 2017

McConnell 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).

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McConnell had protesters in wheelchairs arrested on live tv Monday. (Original Post) Ken Burch Sep 2017 OP
Horrible LyndaG Sep 2017 #1
Looks really really bad Sugarcoated Sep 2017 #2
I hope Daryl "Chill" Mitchell of NCIS:NOLA has a twitter feed Ken Burch Sep 2017 #7
Wait. What? DK504 Sep 2017 #16
He's the computer guy in the wheelchair on the show...he's in a chair in real life. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #18
I'll bet there is nary a mention of it on Fox. n/t n2doc Sep 2017 #21
This is the reason ACA must be protected Skidmore Sep 2017 #3
This the facist government hard at work. The_Casual_Observer Sep 2017 #4
NOT the first time. elleng Sep 2017 #5
Again?!! elehhhhna Sep 2017 #6
I had the same reaction - 3 months ago, McConnell .... Jarqui Sep 2017 #8
What have the Kochs offered them? BadgerMom Sep 2017 #9
I do believe the offer was Volaris Sep 2017 #20
I share your warm regard for the senator from Kentucky. /s BadgerMom Sep 2017 #30
2 heads because they forced their 3rd brother to sell them his share of the family business... Volaris Sep 2017 #31
Like-minded with Trump BadgerMom Sep 2017 #33
Oh he didn't just disinherit him, he canceled the kids health insurance he was paying for, Volaris Sep 2017 #34
McConnell is such a Ilsa Sep 2017 #10
You should hear my mouth these days. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #12
My German grandmother used to call murielm99 Sep 2017 #25
Married to a thoro Swede. They got a word for sprinkleeninow Sep 2017 #35
Calling him a horse's ass is an insult to horse's asses. Initech Sep 2017 #14
I agree. Horses' derrieres are like fragrant perfume sprinkleeninow Sep 2017 #32
What footage I saw it seemed as if the police were trying to OldHippieChick Sep 2017 #11
I have no issue with the cops themselves in this case. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #23
Thank you, Ken saidsimplesimon Sep 2017 #13
For the love of all that's Holy Rural_Progressive Sep 2017 #22
Again?? ananda Sep 2017 #15
He is a cold heart-ed son of a bitch. A real sadist DK504 Sep 2017 #17
As for everything else In life, the Golden Rule applies: Volaris Sep 2017 #26
Well, that's gonna be a PR nightmare for them. Are they idiots? OTOH,.... Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #19
It's nonviolent civil disobedience. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #24
No, I don't think so. The Civil Rights Act involved protests. Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #27
It involved sit-ins, and it involved disobeying orders from police and being arrested and beaten. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #28
The deplorables will love this n/t hibbing Sep 2017 #29
 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
7. I hope Daryl "Chill" Mitchell of NCIS:NOLA has a twitter feed
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 02:41 PM
Sep 2017

Thinking he'd have something to say about this.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
20. I do believe the offer was
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:49 PM
Sep 2017

'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)
30. I share your warm regard for the senator from Kentucky. /s
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:21 PM
Sep 2017

I actually thought this bargain could've been Faustian. I view the Kochs as a two-headed Satan.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
31. 2 heads because they forced their 3rd brother to sell them his share of the family business...
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:33 PM
Sep 2017

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)
33. Like-minded with Trump
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:33 PM
Sep 2017

I believe I read Trump disinherited his brother's son because his brother drank. Lovely people.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
34. Oh he didn't just disinherit him, he canceled the kids health insurance he was paying for,
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:47 PM
Sep 2017

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.

BigmanPigman

(51,603 posts)
12. You should hear my mouth these days.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:03 PM
Sep 2017

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)
25. My German grandmother used to call
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:53 PM
Sep 2017

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)
35. Married to a thoro Swede. They got a word for
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:49 PM
Sep 2017

hovno. Which is Slovak for frites. 🚾 😝

💓?💪🗽

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
11. What footage I saw it seemed as if the police were trying to
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 03:50 PM
Sep 2017

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)
23. I have no issue with the cops themselves in this case.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:51 PM
Sep 2017

They are handling the situation as well as they can.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
13. Thank you, Ken
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:05 PM
Sep 2017

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)
22. For the love of all that's Holy
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:50 PM
Sep 2017

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.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
26. As for everything else In life, the Golden Rule applies:
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:54 PM
Sep 2017

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)
19. Well, that's gonna be a PR nightmare for them. Are they idiots? OTOH,....
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:41 PM
Sep 2017

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)
24. It's nonviolent civil disobedience.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:52 PM
Sep 2017

And without it, the Civll Rights and Voting Rights Acts would never have been passed.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
27. No, I don't think so. The Civil Rights Act involved protests.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:56 PM
Sep 2017

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)
28. It involved sit-ins, and it involved disobeying orders from police and being arrested and beaten.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:01 PM
Sep 2017

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.

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