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Showing Original Post only (View all)Folks, I think we are at that moment where we must either bet all we have [View all]
or just fold our cards, slink away and stop pretending that we stand for anything. We need to raise the kind of disruptive hell that will make the Vietnam protests look tame. I mean take to the streets---in DC if possible, but wherever you can---and SHUT IT DOWN!
Any talk about the possibility that Trump will name a moderate is pure BULLSHIT! His base will insist on another fascist POS and he will do as he is told by Adelson and the Koch's.
We stand to lose abortion rights, gay rights, what's left of labor rights any pretense that this is anything but a white, evangelical Christian nation.
It's put up or shut up time. I'm ready to get my 69 year old ass arrested. How about you?
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Folks, I think we are at that moment where we must either bet all we have [View all]
Atticus
Jun 2018
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I can't even describe how the last few days makes me feel, never mind the last 2 years
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2018
#1
Really???! Because I've been hearing that shit for years and they somehow
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jun 2018
#21
Yea after Bush R's were suppose to be done for a generation. Obama fixes USA and here we are again
Pepsidog
Jun 2018
#23
I'm seventy. At least our kids are grown and they can't take them away from us. n/t
rzemanfl
Jun 2018
#6
I do recall that. And, I also recall thinking, as a white man, that his anger was
Atticus
Jun 2018
#13
I'm sorry, but if you think abortion rights will be safe with a 6-3 majority of Federalist Society
Atticus
Jun 2018
#16