The Resistance: Actvism, protests and more! - Page 76 - Politics and Economics

Everything anti-Trump is an ally right now.

And Democrats protesting and occupying instead of going to fund raising events on Martha's Vineyard is good for the donkeys and everyone else.

02-11-2017 , 02:22 PM

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Chaffetz said the crowd that filled the auditorium at Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights and spilled over into a protest outside included people brought in from other states to disrupt the meeting.

"Absolutely. I know there were," he said, suggesting it was "more of a paid attempt to bully and intimidate" than a reflection of the feelings of his 3rd District constituents.

Asked who would foot the bill to fill the audience with outside agitators, Chaffetz said, "do some reporting" and described how one participant made it a point to say he was not being paid by a national Democratic organization.
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Chaffetz said he will continue to make himself available to voters but may now avoid providing a venue "for these radicals to further intimidate."

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...imidation.html

02-11-2017 , 02:47 PM

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First of all, he obviously has no evidence to back up his allegations. This goes along with other lies told by Trump and other Republicans about paid protestors, etc. and so it certainly seems like he's making it up.

But secondly, I'd like to make a point on in-district versus out-of-district representation. For most phone calls, for example, you should only call Congresspeople you directly elect--in-district only. This means one Representative, and two Senators that represent your actual location.

HOWEVER, when it comes to issues like the House Oversight Committee investigating Trump, that is a national issue. It is fair game for everyone to call in to Chaffetz's office, call the Committee directly, and even attend Town Halls because this is a matter that Chaffetz was given responsibility over when he was given that Committee Chair. We should all be holding him responsible every day.

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02-11-2017 , 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by einbert

First of all, he obviously has no evidence to back up his allegations... so it certainly seems like he's making it up...

Naw, there's all sorts of paid protestors. Political parties, unions, NGOs, churches, astroturfing fronts, you name it... all typically have paid staff, and often involve themselves in protests. Heck, OWS blew through ~750k in donations, a lot of that went to media production or other work, so they had paid protesters too. Noted class traitor and member of the Jewish faith, G.Soros, contributes to NGOs which are involved in protests.

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... But secondly, I'd like to make a point on in-district versus out-of-district representation. For most phone calls, for example, you should only call Congresspeople you directly elect--in-district only. This means one Representative, and two Senators that represent your actual location...

This is just silly. Call anyone you want from your cell. If the goal is to jam the lines, just jam the lines. Although... it would be ~1000000x more useful to jam ICE's lines than pols, or Mar-del-Lago's for that matter. *smh*

02-11-2017 , 04:00 PM

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Chaffetz is full of it. They may not all have been his constituents but you don't need out of state people to fill up a high school auditorium when SLC is 20 minutes away. His evidence people were paid is that a guy said he wasn't paid.

02-11-2017 , 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by uDevil

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...imidation.html

What a ****ing cock. Vote his ass out.

02-11-2017 , 04:10 PM

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https://www.facebook.com/events/4100...86741137610659

Went to the Planned Parenthood pro-choice rally today, which was scheduled in response to the anti-abortion protest outside Margaret Sanger Square in NYC. The pro-choice crowd was 300 by the time I left, the anti-abortion was maybe …… 30. Eclectic mix of people to say the least - I'm sure a good chunk of them were old enough to have been marching for Roe since before it became law. Saw a guy with a red "Donald Trump: Making America ****ed Up Again" hat.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackSmith...221121/video/1

02-11-2017 , 05:03 PM

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Sanger is a racist who wanted to stop black people from having children!

http://creation.com/margaret-sanger-...ian-eugenicist

02-11-2017 , 06:59 PM

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uDevil

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Wikipedia says that is conspiracy theory bs. I'm not clicking that link.

02-11-2017 , 07:04 PM

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Sanger worked with eminent African American leaders and professionals who saw a need for birth control in their communities. In 1929, James H. Hubert, a black social worker and leader of New York's Urban League, asked Sanger to open a clinic in Harlem.[74] Sanger secured funding from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic, staffed with black doctors, in 1930. The clinic was directed by a 15-member advisory board consisting of black doctors, nurses, clergy, journalists, and social workers. The clinic was publicized in the African-American press and in black churches, and it received the approval of W. E. B. Du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP and editor of its magazine, The Crisis.[75][76][77][78] Sanger did not tolerate bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects.[79] Sanger's work with minorities earned praise from Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 1966 acceptance speech for the Margaret Sanger award.[80]

I think someone's mom is an ahole.

02-11-2017 , 09:24 PM

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02-11-2017 , 09:51 PM

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In Georgia the two GOP senators (Isakson, Perdue) had their town hall 130 miles outside of Atlanta, but it still got overrun.

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/830076744770142210

Heh. Nice. I had looked those up on the links provided here as I would have wanted to go. 10am on a Friday in the middle of nowhere. Nothing else in the calendar for now. What a joke.

02-11-2017 , 10:35 PM

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What a ****ing cuck. Vote his ass out

yes

02-11-2017 , 10:49 PM

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Good advice from the author of Badlands

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Today’s media environment is very different from the 1930s, everything happens so fast.

This is part of what contemporary authoritarians do: They overwhelm you with bad*news and try to make you depressed and say with resignation: “Well, what can i do?”. I think it is better to limit yourself. Read the news for half an hour a day, but don’t spend the whole day obsessing about it. Americans have to pick one thing to be confident about, and then act on it. If you care about and know about refugees, the press, global warming – choose one and talk with people around you about it. Nobody can do everything but everyone can do a little bit. *And people doing their little bit will meet others doing the same, and the depression lifts.

http://international.sueddeutsche.de...efend-american

02-11-2017 , 11:08 PM

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02-11-2017 , 11:19 PM

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^ nice! hadn't seen the 'impeach now'

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02-12-2017 , 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by microbet

I think someone's mom is an ahole.

hahahaha Wikipedia! We didn't let kids use Wikipedia in my classrooms!

(Seriously I tried this and she wasn't interested in hearing from a Wikipedia page with 142 citations and instead was taking creation.com as rock solid source. Fml my mom is a ****ing Trumpkin)

02-12-2017 , 11:21 AM

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From Protests to 'Pussy Hats,' Trump Resistance Brews Online

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Not long after President Donald Trump temporarily barred most people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S., social activist Dex Torricke-Barton took to Facebook. "I'm thinking of organizing a rally," he posted. Within a few hours, more than 1,000 people expressed interest. The resulting protest a week later, in front of San Francisco's City Hall, drew thousands more.

Torricke-Barton is far from alone. From organizing protests on the fly to raising money for refugee and immigrant rights groups, people have been using social media to fuel the resistance against Trump in ways their organizing predecessors from the 1960s could have hardly imagined.

02-12-2017 , 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by uDevil

I agree its a tactic to dismiss and then not really consider what the protesters are saying at him in the meeting.

But, the left called out the Tea Party as Koch brothers funded astro turf protests when they first started in 2009. The left missed what was really happening.

02-12-2017 , 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by zikzak

From Protests to 'Pussy Hats,' Trump Resistance Brews Online

Dems have been getting their ass's kicked for 6 years now(besides Obama). They were comfortable, As long as we had the presidency, those Republicans cant do too much damage. We dont have to be motivated for off year elections, we will win the Presidency. Now, the shock and horror is sinking in if the Dems dont have the Presidency.

Trump has motivated millions already to get off their ass and start to participate in our democracy at the city council, mayor level too. If this is sustained, nothing but great things can happen.

02-12-2017 , 12:49 PM

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... But, the left called out the Tea Party as Koch brothers funded astro turf protests when they first started in 2009...

There's a big difference here. The Tea Party shiz was pretty much all astroturf. The 'left', as you call it, isn't astroturf at all.

The TP was ~100% organized by pros who worked for private think tanks (Koch bros and friends), or by for profit scamsters. The greater BLM movement, to take an example, is only partly infested with NGOs, and is still largely organized organically. Those NGOs are ~100% membership organizations with democratically elected boards, who hire pro organizers.