"Wow - do you have any idea how many people have organized here??"

"It looks like the protest is really taking off!"

Dumbass on MSNBC to the reporter on the street in Washington, surrounded by Astroturfers holding signs like "NO MORE GORE.COM" (WTF???) and "NO OBAMACARE".

He breathlessly reported that there seems to be tens of thousands and they are an alliance of people that are unhappy with both parties.

Yeah, right.

It's more like an alliance of white people angry a black man was elected as President.

UPDATE:

"It's looking like hundreds of thousands of people out there!!"

What kind of alternate universe do we live in? Where was all the excitement and enthusiasm over the anti-war march in 2003??

These idiots make my day! It's like watching the 3 stooges.

assholes.

I dont think this is funny at all! when will OUR side organize a rally in support of health care?? and if someone did, would you go??

There will three times as many people at the PSU/Syracuse game in State College today.

But to answer your question - yes I'd go.

there was a football stadium that could hold a couple hundred thousand people.. there must be 40 or 50 thousand people there NOW and it`s only 11AM! by early afternoon there could be well over a hundred thousand there.... it`s been decades since DC has seen a crowd of protesters this big.....

but it`s still a BIG crowd, and it`s early yet! I dont understand why so many are intent on downplaying this. there is a significant number of people there today and congress and the administration WILL take notice.. we need to stop laughing at these people and start countering this shit! it`s already gone way too far...

pro-choice march that drew hundreds of thousands. There have been several big ones since then.

I'd guess the September 2005 anti-war march had close to that (it was right after Katrina). I was at both, plus the inauguration. Liberals can draw crowds, we just can't get the media to cover us.

I do not agree.

I'm just saying. ;)

It has been decades since DC has seen a crowd this big? Hmmm...it's interesting enough that the media is bothering with this little show of wingnuttery, but I've learned long ago that two wingnuts holding misspelled signs always gets national coverage. For example, the first national gay rights march ever held in Washington, DC in 1979 had over 50,000 participants - and no national media coverage.

By 1993, some 500,000 demonstrators were in Washington for a national gay rights demonstration. That was followed up by an even larger estimated crowd a few years later.

This crowd doesn't even come close to filling in the space those later demonstrations used on the Mall.

No way in hell there are a couple hundred thousand people in DC today. Why are you insistent in legitimizing this as a real protest, larger than it really is?

and they were predicting MILLIONS.

Now it'll probably be just a little rally.

I don't think this is funny, either. It may not be millions of people, but there are a lot of people, on the TV, protesting Obama. And not everyone reads. A lot of people only get their news from the TeeVee.

It's easy to mock these cretins. They are misinformed. But they are loud.

outrageous to me.


Taxed
Enough
Already


they're protesting health care reform and other "wasteful" government spending


Where the FUCK were these assholes when BushCo spent literally billions on a senseless war in Iraq???

Money to kill people and destroy another country....OK

Money for Americans who can't afford health care....NOT OK


There are times when I really and truly despise my fellow man.

they'll complain about my property taxes. They've doubled in the last three years even though the value of my property has declined. At one point I received two separate notices of tax increases in a six week period. And I'm lucky. Some folks here have seen their property taxes increase four times over during that same period. Seems property owners are being expected to bear the costs of a new convention center, a new sports stadium and major road repairs. Meanwhile, rental units are overbuilt and rental rates here are virtually identical to what they were a decade ago. Owning a home here is a liability. Better to rent and show up at the polls to vote and keep increasing those property taxes. I don't mind paying property tax to help fund education and libraries. But the cost of road repairs ought to be shared among all residents. As should the building of a new convention center. And I'm not convinced that taxpayers ought to bear any responsibility for funding a sports stadium for a frickin minor league team - especially a team that already has a perfectly functional stadium that is less than 25 years old. Yep, I've been bitching about this for awhile. The latest tax notice hangs on the door into the garage to serve as a reminder that I need to get the fuck out of here.

If several thousand march against health care coverage and a black President, they're out in force to cover that. It's interesting seeing what is important to corporate America, isn't it?

Sure would be nice if our "Democrat-controlled mainstream media" actually held some Democratic values.

And he told us he doesn't make policy based on 'focus groups'

Also promoting a film called Not Evil Just Wrong. Of course I had to go to the website to see what it was all about.

IDIOTS.

Do they ever really think about that? Are they so ignorant and easily led that they don't correlate their own misfortune with the rise in corporate wealth? And yet, these angry paranoid white men, blame people of other colors, people who think differently than they do, they blame females who are not subservient to them, they blame everyone but themselves.. and the republican and corporations that have shat on them all their lives.

And here they are, driving their again pick up trucks to DC to protest on BEHALF of billion dollar corporations. The corporations who are getting welfare that makes social welfare pale by comparison. Like the Nazis and other masters of propaganda knew, it's so easy to manipulate the uneducated, the superstitious, and the frightened, into doing your bidding. They are using these unstable, impotent, and frightened, people to do their bidding. The RNC is using them, the Insurance, gun, oil, and tobacco, industries use them. The christian right uses them. They are such hopeless lemmings who think they are being "patriots" and doing something bold, but in fact they are humiliating themselves. Ignorance is the most dangerous weapon we have in America right now.

The phenomenon really fascinates me; the Pukes and corporations have worked these people up into an hysterical frenzy based solely on emotional response. Their brains switch off and their emotions take over; they could be told anything and they'd get angry about it.

That's what scares me so much. It's like a modern day Salem Witch Trials.

Fuck them for spreading the BS. May they rot in hell along with their corporate overlords.

but their message is sickening.

Don't they get sufficient jollies by howling about an AA prez? If Gore had been able to serve in the office to which he was elected, this nation would not be knee-deep in shit from coast to coast.

So I guess the thinking goes somewhat thusly: pick on the guy who was elected to clean up the mess, and by the way, just for fun, pick on the guy who's trying to get something accomplished as a private citizen. Way to go, ignorant wingnuts.

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