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Jan 21, 2020 19:47:54   #
rumitoid
 
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura Nyro, Colleen Boland has a lot of patience, and that’s a lot of patience to lose. Every day for the past month or so, she has gathered with another group of people in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building as part of Swarm The Senate, an act of moral witness and a general lobbying force in favor of removing El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago from office.

Boland also has joined with Jane Fonda in her weekly Friday climate protests up the street in front of the Capitol. Colleen Boland has been arrested three times in as many weeks, which is not something one might expect from a master sergeant in the United States Air Force who retired after 17 years in the service.

“When you have exhausted all other avenues to find the voice of reason within our government, it’s a time-honored tradition and effective tool,” she said. “Not everyone can do it, and I know I come to it from a place of privilege of being able to do it. But for those who are called to it, it’s not only empowering for me at a time of great frustration and personal fear, it allows me to feel like I’m doing something.”

Frankly, I don’t understand why there aren’t a few thousand of Colleen Boland in Washington this week. Frankly, I don’t know what it’s going to take to get an anesthetized citizenry off its ass and realize what a threat the country is facing in having a criminal i***t as a chief executive, a guy who has put every part of the republic up for sale, and for cheap. (The latest? In the middle of a trade war with China, the president*’s business operation was teaming up with a state-owned Chinese company to build a golf course.)

I, myself, have run out of patience with people who can abide this dangerous foolishness—whether those people are elected Republican senators, timid Democratic politicians, wishy-washy journalists, or the great, massed, unmoving American public, which now has proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor.

Last week, senators took an oath—and signed for it—that many of them have no intention of keeping. Colleen Boland understands oaths. She had to take one in order to do her former job.

“I can speak to what my oath means now,” she says. "I understand those words much more seriously now that we have to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. Many of my friends never dreamed a day when we would have to come home and employ that domestic piece. One could never imagine the time when we would. I never gave it a second thought. I mean, I got the foreign piece. But domestic enemies?

"We’re still talking to senators. My call to them is that Trump is a national security threat. He’s a global security threat. When I was in the military, I was posted to 30 countries so I saw first-hand what violence can do, what scarcity of water can do, what scarcity of food can do. He is endangering all of that in huge ways.”

And so the retired master sergeant rejoined the corporal’s guard in the lobby of the Hart Building, hoping to get a word with the senators who were hustling across the street to play their part in what was rapidly being rendered a charade for the entertainment of a republic sleepwalking toward a fathomless abyss.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dont-understand-why-arent-thousands-183000490.html

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Jan 21, 2020 19:57:23   #
Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall
 
rumitoid wrote:
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura Nyro, Colleen Boland has a lot of patience, and that’s a lot of patience to lose. Every day for the past month or so, she has gathered with another group of people in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building as part of Swarm The Senate, an act of moral witness and a general lobbying force in favor of removing El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago from office.

Boland also has joined with Jane Fonda in her weekly Friday climate protests up the street in front of the Capitol. Colleen Boland has been arrested three times in as many weeks, which is not something one might expect from a master sergeant in the United States Air Force who retired after 17 years in the service.

“When you have exhausted all other avenues to find the voice of reason within our government, it’s a time-honored tradition and effective tool,” she said. “Not everyone can do it, and I know I come to it from a place of privilege of being able to do it. But for those who are called to it, it’s not only empowering for me at a time of great frustration and personal fear, it allows me to feel like I’m doing something.”

Frankly, I don’t understand why there aren’t a few thousand of Colleen Boland in Washington this week. Frankly, I don’t know what it’s going to take to get an anesthetized citizenry off its ass and realize what a threat the country is facing in having a criminal i***t as a chief executive, a guy who has put every part of the republic up for sale, and for cheap. (The latest? In the middle of a trade war with China, the president*’s business operation was teaming up with a state-owned Chinese company to build a golf course.)

I, myself, have run out of patience with people who can abide this dangerous foolishness—whether those people are elected Republican senators, timid Democratic politicians, wishy-washy journalists, or the great, massed, unmoving American public, which now has proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor.

Last week, senators took an oath—and signed for it—that many of them have no intention of keeping. Colleen Boland understands oaths. She had to take one in order to do her former job.

“I can speak to what my oath means now,” she says. "I understand those words much more seriously now that we have to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. Many of my friends never dreamed a day when we would have to come home and employ that domestic piece. One could never imagine the time when we would. I never gave it a second thought. I mean, I got the foreign piece. But domestic enemies?

"We’re still talking to senators. My call to them is that Trump is a national security threat. He’s a global security threat. When I was in the military, I was posted to 30 countries so I saw first-hand what violence can do, what scarcity of water can do, what scarcity of food can do. He is endangering all of that in huge ways.”

And so the retired master sergeant rejoined the corporal’s guard in the lobby of the Hart Building, hoping to get a word with the senators who were hustling across the street to play their part in what was rapidly being rendered a charade for the entertainment of a republic sleepwalking toward a fathomless abyss.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dont-understand-why-arent-thousands-183000490.html
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura ... (show quote)


Perhaps people are beginning to awaken?

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Jan 21, 2020 20:25:42   #
PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama
 
rumitoid wrote:
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura Nyro, Colleen Boland has a lot of patience, and that’s a lot of patience to lose. Every day for the past month or so, she has gathered with another group of people in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building as part of Swarm The Senate, an act of moral witness and a general lobbying force in favor of removing El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago from office.

Boland also has joined with Jane Fonda in her weekly Friday climate protests up the street in front of the Capitol. Colleen Boland has been arrested three times in as many weeks, which is not something one might expect from a master sergeant in the United States Air Force who retired after 17 years in the service.

“When you have exhausted all other avenues to find the voice of reason within our government, it’s a time-honored tradition and effective tool,” she said. “Not everyone can do it, and I know I come to it from a place of privilege of being able to do it. But for those who are called to it, it’s not only empowering for me at a time of great frustration and personal fear, it allows me to feel like I’m doing something.”

Frankly, I don’t understand why there aren’t a few thousand of Colleen Boland in Washington this week. Frankly, I don’t know what it’s going to take to get an anesthetized citizenry off its ass and realize what a threat the country is facing in having a criminal i***t as a chief executive, a guy who has put every part of the republic up for sale, and for cheap. (The latest? In the middle of a trade war with China, the president*’s business operation was teaming up with a state-owned Chinese company to build a golf course.)

I, myself, have run out of patience with people who can abide this dangerous foolishness—whether those people are elected Republican senators, timid Democratic politicians, wishy-washy journalists, or the great, massed, unmoving American public, which now has proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor.

Last week, senators took an oath—and signed for it—that many of them have no intention of keeping. Colleen Boland understands oaths. She had to take one in order to do her former job.

“I can speak to what my oath means now,” she says. "I understand those words much more seriously now that we have to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. Many of my friends never dreamed a day when we would have to come home and employ that domestic piece. One could never imagine the time when we would. I never gave it a second thought. I mean, I got the foreign piece. But domestic enemies?

"We’re still talking to senators. My call to them is that Trump is a national security threat. He’s a global security threat. When I was in the military, I was posted to 30 countries so I saw first-hand what violence can do, what scarcity of water can do, what scarcity of food can do. He is endangering all of that in huge ways.”

And so the retired master sergeant rejoined the corporal’s guard in the lobby of the Hart Building, hoping to get a word with the senators who were hustling across the street to play their part in what was rapidly being rendered a charade for the entertainment of a republic sleepwalking toward a fathomless abyss.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dont-understand-why-arent-thousands-183000490.html
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura ... (show quote)


So Boland and Hanoi Jane are your heroes?

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Jan 21, 2020 21:33:09   #
Trooper745 Loc: Carolina
 
rumitoid wrote:
I Don't Understand Why There Aren't Thousands of People Protesting the Senate Trial


That lack of understanding is caused by your ignorance of the fact that most conservatives, right-leaning and/or Republican people are busy.

Unlike the l*****t, progressives and/or democrats, the people of the right are too busy working and earning enough money to support their own families, and then pay confiscatory taxes to feed and shelter the l*****t deadbeats.

The deadbeat left can show up for multiple stupid protests and/or r**ts because they won't hold a job, the right, as it always has, continues to work hard every day and support our Republic.

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Jan 21, 2020 21:48:45   #
rumitoid
 
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Perhaps people are beginning to awaken?


They can't, h**e and bias will not let them.

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Jan 21, 2020 21:49:21   #
rumitoid
 
PLT Sarge wrote:
So Boland and Hanoi Jane are your heroes?


Why do you always miss my point?

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Jan 21, 2020 21:50:23   #
rumitoid
 
Trooper745 wrote:
That lack of understanding is caused by your ignorance of the fact that most conservatives, right-leaning and/or Republican people are busy.

Unlike the l*****t, progressives and/or democrats, the people of the right are too busy working and earning enough money to support their own families, and then pay confiscatory taxes to feed and shelter the l*****t deadbeats.

The deadbeat left can show up for multiple stupid protests and/or r**ts because they won't hold a job, the right, as it always has, continues to work hard every day and support our Republic.
That lack of understanding is caused by your ignor... (show quote)


Okay.

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Jan 21, 2020 22:35:28   #
PeterS
 
rumitoid wrote:
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura Nyro, Colleen Boland has a lot of patience, and that’s a lot of patience to lose. Every day for the past month or so, she has gathered with another group of people in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building as part of Swarm The Senate, an act of moral witness and a general lobbying force in favor of removing El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago from office.

Boland also has joined with Jane Fonda in her weekly Friday climate protests up the street in front of the Capitol. Colleen Boland has been arrested three times in as many weeks, which is not something one might expect from a master sergeant in the United States Air Force who retired after 17 years in the service.

“When you have exhausted all other avenues to find the voice of reason within our government, it’s a time-honored tradition and effective tool,” she said. “Not everyone can do it, and I know I come to it from a place of privilege of being able to do it. But for those who are called to it, it’s not only empowering for me at a time of great frustration and personal fear, it allows me to feel like I’m doing something.”

Frankly, I don’t understand why there aren’t a few thousand of Colleen Boland in Washington this week. Frankly, I don’t know what it’s going to take to get an anesthetized citizenry off its ass and realize what a threat the country is facing in having a criminal i***t as a chief executive, a guy who has put every part of the republic up for sale, and for cheap. (The latest? In the middle of a trade war with China, the president*’s business operation was teaming up with a state-owned Chinese company to build a golf course.)

I, myself, have run out of patience with people who can abide this dangerous foolishness—whether those people are elected Republican senators, timid Democratic politicians, wishy-washy journalists, or the great, massed, unmoving American public, which now has proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor.

Last week, senators took an oath—and signed for it—that many of them have no intention of keeping. Colleen Boland understands oaths. She had to take one in order to do her former job.

“I can speak to what my oath means now,” she says. "I understand those words much more seriously now that we have to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. Many of my friends never dreamed a day when we would have to come home and employ that domestic piece. One could never imagine the time when we would. I never gave it a second thought. I mean, I got the foreign piece. But domestic enemies?

"We’re still talking to senators. My call to them is that Trump is a national security threat. He’s a global security threat. When I was in the military, I was posted to 30 countries so I saw first-hand what violence can do, what scarcity of water can do, what scarcity of food can do. He is endangering all of that in huge ways.”

And so the retired master sergeant rejoined the corporal’s guard in the lobby of the Hart Building, hoping to get a word with the senators who were hustling across the street to play their part in what was rapidly being rendered a charade for the entertainment of a republic sleepwalking toward a fathomless abyss.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dont-understand-why-arent-thousands-183000490.html
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura ... (show quote)

Nothing happened that wasn't expected. Are we supposed to walk around saying...see, told you so? McConnell said from the beginning that he was going to bury this. He's doing it. But he's also revealing who he is and unfortunately for him...people are actually paying attention to what is going on. This will not bode well for him or his fellow republicans. They will be able to keep Trump from being impeached and may even be able to get him reelected but they've exposed who they are and they are and their days in office are numbered. One by one they will be gone and the majority they once held will be gone forever. Corruption bears a heavy price and nothing is more corrupt than today's republican party...

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Jan 21, 2020 23:11:37   #
rumitoid
 
PeterS wrote:
Nothing happened that wasn't expected. Are we supposed to walk around saying...see, told you so? McConnell said from the beginning that he was going to bury this. He's doing it. But he's also revealing who he is and unfortunately for him...people are actually paying attention to what is going on. This will not bode well for him or his fellow republicans. They will be able to keep Trump from being impeached and may even be able to get him reelected but they've exposed who they are and they are and their days in office are numbered. One by one they will be gone and the majority they once held will be gone forever. Corruption bears a heavy price and nothing is more corrupt than today's republican party...
Nothing happened that wasn't expected. Are we supp... (show quote)


The GOP is utterly shameful. What this impeachment hearing has done is be a primer of their pettiness and corruption. So blatant disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, plus their solemn oath to be impartial openly violated from the start, makes them the biggest threat to our Republic.

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Jan 22, 2020 00:06:39   #
PeterS
 
rumitoid wrote:
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura Nyro, Colleen Boland has a lot of patience, and that’s a lot of patience to lose. Every day for the past month or so, she has gathered with another group of people in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building as part of Swarm The Senate, an act of moral witness and a general lobbying force in favor of removing El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago from office.

Boland also has joined with Jane Fonda in her weekly Friday climate protests up the street in front of the Capitol. Colleen Boland has been arrested three times in as many weeks, which is not something one might expect from a master sergeant in the United States Air Force who retired after 17 years in the service.

“When you have exhausted all other avenues to find the voice of reason within our government, it’s a time-honored tradition and effective tool,” she said. “Not everyone can do it, and I know I come to it from a place of privilege of being able to do it. But for those who are called to it, it’s not only empowering for me at a time of great frustration and personal fear, it allows me to feel like I’m doing something.”

Frankly, I don’t understand why there aren’t a few thousand of Colleen Boland in Washington this week. Frankly, I don’t know what it’s going to take to get an anesthetized citizenry off its ass and realize what a threat the country is facing in having a criminal i***t as a chief executive, a guy who has put every part of the republic up for sale, and for cheap. (The latest? In the middle of a trade war with China, the president*’s business operation was teaming up with a state-owned Chinese company to build a golf course.)

I, myself, have run out of patience with people who can abide this dangerous foolishness—whether those people are elected Republican senators, timid Democratic politicians, wishy-washy journalists, or the great, massed, unmoving American public, which now has proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor.

Last week, senators took an oath—and signed for it—that many of them have no intention of keeping. Colleen Boland understands oaths. She had to take one in order to do her former job.

“I can speak to what my oath means now,” she says. "I understand those words much more seriously now that we have to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. Many of my friends never dreamed a day when we would have to come home and employ that domestic piece. One could never imagine the time when we would. I never gave it a second thought. I mean, I got the foreign piece. But domestic enemies?

"We’re still talking to senators. My call to them is that Trump is a national security threat. He’s a global security threat. When I was in the military, I was posted to 30 countries so I saw first-hand what violence can do, what scarcity of water can do, what scarcity of food can do. He is endangering all of that in huge ways.”

And so the retired master sergeant rejoined the corporal’s guard in the lobby of the Hart Building, hoping to get a word with the senators who were hustling across the street to play their part in what was rapidly being rendered a charade for the entertainment of a republic sleepwalking toward a fathomless abyss.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dont-understand-why-arent-thousands-183000490.html
WASHINGTON—To borrow a phrase from the late Laura ... (show quote)

The evolution of the Republican party has been going on since the last days of Reagan. I understand the frustration but too many people in this country have bought into the fallacies. There is the 'E-vile Hillary Clinton,' who is responsible for hundreds of deaths...and that was before she got up this morning. The type of propaganda that can convince millions that that, an obvious fallacy, is true is nothing to be sneezed at and is what is the source of our problems today.

People are simply too stupid for their own good and there is nothing anyone can do about it. We have an impeachment going on where the president has created more egregious crimes than did Richard Nixon but he is going to get off because the Republican party simply lacks the balls to do what's right and send him packing. If Trump had recorded all of his deeds and then handed the tapes over to Moscow Mitch, listening to them wouldn't even cause him or the rest of the Republicans to blink. There would be nothing--no reaction save to point their crooked fingers once more at the Democrats and blame them for everything that is wrong.

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Jan 22, 2020 00:08:27   #
PeterS
 
rumitoid wrote:
The GOP is utterly shameful. What this impeachment hearing has done is be a primer of their pettiness and corruption. So blatant disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, plus their solemn oath to be impartial openly violated from the start, makes them the biggest threat to our Republic.

71% of the nation wants witnesses called. Trump may be saved from impeachment but Republicans are on the losing end of this so-called trial.

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Jan 22, 2020 00:08:36   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
rumitoid wrote:
The GOP is utterly shameful. What this impeachment hearing has done is be a primer of their pettiness and corruption. So blatant disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, plus their solemn oath to be impartial openly violated from the start, makes them the biggest threat to our Republic.


Rule of law, and the Constitution........yet you stand for wetbacks.....for DACA........

Shut up........

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Jan 22, 2020 00:14:12   #
rumitoid
 
PeterS wrote:
The evolution of the Republican party has been going on since the last days of Reagan. I understand the frustration but too many people in this country have bought into the fallacies. There is the 'E-vile Hillary Clinton,' who is responsible for hundreds of deaths...and that was before she got up this morning. The type of propaganda that can convince millions that that, an obvious fallacy, is true is nothing to be sneezed at and is what is the source of our problems today.

People are simply too stupid for their own good and there is nothing anyone can do about it. We have an impeachment going on where the president has created more egregious crimes than did Richard Nixon but he is going to get off because the Republican party simply lacks the balls to do what's right and send him packing. If Trump had recorded all of his deeds and then handed the tapes over to Moscow Mitch, listening to them wouldn't even cause him or the rest of the Republicans to blink. There would be nothing--no reaction save to point their crooked fingers once more at the Democrats and blame them for everything that is wrong.
The evolution of the Republican party has been goi... (show quote)


Totally shameful.

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Jan 22, 2020 00:19:27   #
rumitoid
 
archie bunker wrote:
Rule of law, and the Constitution........yet you stand for wetbacks.....for DACA........

Shut up........


Seriously? Why would you not stand for "wetbacks"? Or DACA? those are things called liberty and e******y, that it seems the GOP has forgotten in their obsessive push for America First, like Hitler and Stalin in their countries. Seriously!

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Jan 22, 2020 00:27:00   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
rumitoid wrote:
Seriously? Why would you not stand for "wetbacks"? Or DACA? those are things called liberty and e******y, that it seems the GOP has forgotten in their obsessive push for America First, like Hitler and Stalin in their countries. Seriously!


Seriously. There are LAWS about entering this country illegally. YOUR hero, obama stated publicly 20 some times that he didn't have Constitutional authority to implement DACA.
And you're good with all that, yet scream 'rule of law'every chance you get.

Just......shut up.

You only care about 'rule of law' when it benefits your ideals.

Once again.....sssshhhhhh!!!!

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