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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:33 AM
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If One Million Freepers Marched On Washington
What would happen to Cheeto sales, hand sanitizer sales, and tissue sales in their hometowns?
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:40 AM
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1. They would have filled every Trailways bus in the continental US,
and many of them would not be able to find their way home again.

We would have large numbers of moronic whining homeless freepers trying to get back to wherever they came from, probably take months to get them all home again, still carrying their signs.

It would be pretty sad, really.

I doubt they could find a million people - they keep saying that, and maybe 700 tops show up....."Well, it was raining..."


markO8)
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tomreedtoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 09:12 AM
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24. You do know Continental Trailways no longer exists, right?
You seem to be pretty far out of the loop. Greyhound has a monopoly on busses in America now, and the poor man's only mode of travel is unaffordable to poor men.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 01:00 PM
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28. WOW, man - last time I took a bus for any real distance it was a
Trailways...from Berkeley CA to Harrisburg PA. December 1976.

You mean things changed since then?


mark

(Delete "Trailways" add "Greyhound" to my first post.)
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tomreedtoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 05:56 PM
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30. Their line was absorbed by Greyhound.
There are remnants around the country, supposedly, but the main part of the company was aggressively bought out by Greyhound. Details at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailways_Transportation_System
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:41 AM
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2. I can only picture
an army of ants. Maybe others would simply tread on them.
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piratefish08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:43 AM
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3. Those racist half-wits had trouble assembling a few thousand with teabags....
A million in DC??? HA!

Righties have never been good at assembling and protesting. They're all talk. Fucking lazy-ass keyboard warriors.

We have nothing to fear in the way of a "conservative uprising".

The morans have lost.
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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 07:55 AM
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9. White cotton would be in short supply?
Them there ain't flu masks,
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:48 AM
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4. On the other hand, Port-a-Potty leasings in D.C. would skyrocket!
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:51 AM
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5. If a million of them marched the press would call it ten million, ushering in a Republican era
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:58 AM
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6. A million idiots
in a competition of idiocy. They could make a movie like Borat about it.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 06:59 AM
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7. There aren't 1 million Freepers
There aren't 100,000 Freepers.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 07:57 AM
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10. True. But I suspect a greater % would more so side w/them over leftist/progressive ideals/values
That's why rightist ideology holds such sway as it's basic tenets are so intertwined and pervasive throughout the overarching aims and goals of the corporate culture that people are raised within and indoctrinated into mindlessly abiding.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 07:22 AM
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8. If One Million Freepers Marched On Washington
Washington's collective IQ would plummet.

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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:34 AM
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16. And it doesn't have much lower to go.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 07:58 AM
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11. It would raise the collective IQ of both DC and the rest of America?
Just responding to your title..

And besides, freepers use Crisco and socks, not hand sanitizer and tissues.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:00 AM
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12. There would be an equal number of basement apartments empty back at mom's house.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:22 AM
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13. As long as there are stoners,
The Cheetos people need never worry.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:36 AM
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19. I'll be carrying the Cheeto torch in their absence
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:23 AM
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14. Exactly. They would cost people jobs. They can't have that on their conscience can they?
:sarcasm:
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:27 AM
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15. There's Be A Stench In The Beltway Worse Than There Is Now
First...they only wish there were 100,000 or even 10,000 who would show up...and then it would be the mottliest crew you'd ever want to see. Just look at what a bust the "tea parties" were...not just in the low turn-out, but in how unfocused those demonctrations were. On our side I saw a similar thing during some of marches (that the corporate media ignored) in 2002-2004...an anti-war rally turning into a rally for Code Pink or Palestinian rights or Free The Whales. WIthout focus, the purpose of organized protest turns into chaos.

The Freepers dream there are a lot more of them than they are...and knowing how selfish almost every rushpublican is, many will stay in the basement letting others do the dirty work. The first violence attributed to the Freepers will be their ultimate demise.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:35 AM
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17. I predict that many of them would be drinking
And a large scale riot would break out with themselves.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:36 AM
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18. That would be a lot of shit in one place
The smellie kind too.
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scubadude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:42 AM
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20. If One Million Freepers Marched On Washington
They could screw in a light bulb!

Scuba
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Number_Six Donating Member (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:47 AM
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21. March?
Should read:

"What if 1,000,000 Freepers drove their pickups, SUV's and other gas-guzzlers to DC?"

Answer: A quick fix for DC's tourism, natch.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:50 AM
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22. There would be a pork rind and chewin' tobacco shortage in Washington
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 08:53 AM
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23. what, these guys? they couldn't march to the end of their street.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 09:13 AM
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25. join them at the "free republic national tea party convention" !
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Paladin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 09:26 AM
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26. ....Their Combined IQ Would Be 36........ (n/t)
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 09:39 AM
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27. It would actually be the 226.4 Freeper March. They suck at math.
However, if 1 million freepers actually did march on DC, there would be a rather large earthquake. The epicenters would be men's restroom stalls all over DC.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-19-09 01:48 PM
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29. GOP organizing this by any chance?
Edited on Sun Jul-19-09 01:49 PM by defendandprotect
And, btw, where is the Democratic Party organizing liberals/progressives, eta

into demonstrations for MEDICARE FOR ALL?

Where are our labor unions getting people out ?

Where feminist groups who should have big stake in this for families?

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