Nurses blocking anti lockdown protests in Denver is kind of bad assery that we all should aspire to

[kpete]

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[Blue Owl]

1. Go Nurses!!!

[SheltieLover]

8. This!👆

[gratuitous]

2. And they're doing it without being strapped

Amazing.

[Amaryllis]

34. Strapped?

[Harker]

38. Equipped with a firearm. n/t

[Amaryllis]

41. THAnks. Don't know gun lingo.

[Harker]

49. Sure thing. I wish I didn't. n/t

[lagomorph777]

109. Never heard that one before.

But I am able to avoid most gun nuts in daily life (as far as I know).

[Harker]

112. The last discussion I had with a gun nut

ended with him pointing an obviously loaded .357 magnum directly at my face.

[lagomorph777]

114. I hope you had law enforcement continue the discussion.

That's enough for a pretty long jail term.

[Harker]

116. I did.

The Boulder PD pulled him over driving very drunk with the pistol under his seat.

I'm sure he spent a little time in the cooler, but I don't recall the details. Three people were protected by a restraining order, also.

It was all about an unrelated beef he had with a friend of mine. He had previously sounded me out regarding my feelings about guns, thus was sure he could menace me feloniously without my having one.

Not fun.

[Warpy]

90. I went through the worst of the AIDS pandemic as a nurse

Trust me, a nurse who has seen that much unnecessary death while a sanctimonious jackass runs the government while the pious mouth garbage like "god's punishment for sin," is far more dangerous than any stupid gun.

[Aristus]

125. Of course not.

Guns are for cowards.

These health care workers? Not cowards...

[PNW-Dem]

127. Guns are for cowards.Totally agree!

This should become a theme/meme. Probably worth its own discussion thread. It's time to change the perception of people who carry guns. They aren't tough and that's why they carry guns.

[Alex4Martinez]

3. K&R (nt)

[zonemaster]

4. Dumb-asses just lost the narrative

[certainot]

70. unfortunately 1500 radio stations will continue to dominate the narrative in most of the country

[rockfordfile]

72. Not now

[certainot]

79. not now? you mean we had to get to this point, by ignoring talk radio, to turn the corner?

you mean it doesn't matter that 1500 radio stations keep calling for the 'herd mentality' death cult solution and more protests?

how the hell is it okay to keep ignoring talk radio, except to limbaugh republicans and putin troills?

[orangecrush]

102. +1

[Salviati]

5. Blocking hospital entrances should be a crime

Hell, during a pandemic I would be in favor of making it a felony. You want to play? You're gonna lose your right to own all those guns...

[Celerity]

10. +100000000000000000000000

[SheltieLover]

11. Absolutely! Make examples of them!

Asshat who murdered Heather Heyer got LIFE + 419 years. How many more of those incidents do you see? (None, thankfully! Heather... )

Play hardball with these assholes!

[spudspud]

25. Penalty still wasn't enough.

But better than most.

[SheltieLover]

31. I concur!

I hate that they are blocking hosp entrances for ambulances.

What the ever loving hell is wrong with these states to allow this?????

[wnylib]

53. Sounds like a life endangerment felony to me.

Lock ' em up for a looong time.

As if nurses don't have enough to deal with.

[SheltieLover]

54. +1,000!

Sounds great to me! 👍

[Captain Zero]

71. Definitely seems it could be prosecuted as Reckless Endangerment

Is there Reckless Endangerment causing death ?
I suppose that's Involuntary Manslaughter.

[mopinko]

83. yeah, there has to be an applicable statute somewhere.

reckless endangerment, right? at least?

[calimary]

87. Welcome to DU, spudspud.

I concur as well.

[spudspud]

88. Thank you!

Long time lurker. Trump regime forced me to start speaking up.

[calimary]

126. Good! Thank YOU!

Very glad you're speaking up. We need your voice! Now, more than EVER!

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[Rebl2]

20. Soooooooo right!!!

[2naSalit]

23. I'd vote for that.

[diverdownjt]

27. Where are the fucking cops?

They were in the exam room with me and the doctor in 2016 when I had a
heart attack. I had to ask the doctor to make them leave because he made me
very uncomfortable. Why are they not outside arresting these assholes for
blocking emergency access?

[diverdownjt]

28. That was the day the cops lost all of my respect.

They watch Fux news like all the rest

[Patterson]

51. Cops were in your room? Why?

[crickets]

30. Agreed! nt

[lapfog_1]

32. In most states NOT pulling over to be out of the way of any emergency vehicle

is a crime... and the police should be arresting these assholes and impounding their cars.

Let them spend a night in jail / hot zone with no PPE and see how they like their FRRREEEDUM.

[wnylib]

94. Cops might be trying to avoid the

violence that the RW a-holes are agitating for. These RW extremists want all out fighting. They are confident of winning because they have well armed militias,. They dream of a white supremacist dictatorship.

[SheltieLover]

33. I'm sure it is a crime to obstruct emergency vehicles!

[Takket]

44. correct... nothing about the 1A says you can put lvies in danger to make your point.....

you can't block off power plants, or water processing stations......... you shouldn't be allowed to block off hospitals.

[grantcart]

57. Tow their truck/car for 6 months

[NBachers]

77. Sounds like you're familiar with the old "towed car runaround."

Plus, the vehicles would be accumulating storage charges, and whatever ancillary charges they want to put on; plus the standard looting that goes on whenever your car gets towed.

[iluvtennis]

62. +++ agree. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

63. And that begs the question, doesn't it......

Where are the cops in ANY of these demonstrations in ANY city.
THAT alone is very telling, isn't it.......
There is a list of things they could be charged with; unlawful assembly, harassment, verbal assault, etc etc etc

I wish I had known of this, I would have thrown on some scrubs and gone down to join them. And alerted a bunch of fellow health care workers that would have been glad to join in...........

I imagine they won't be quite as bold if they are surrounded in a sea of green scrubbed counter protestors.

And the husband stayed well hidden.....real brave man......

[coti]

76. No, it doesn't beg the question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

It raises the question.

[DENVERPOPS]

93. Coti

Thx

[DENVERPOPS]

129. Upon checking

Merriam-Webster dictionary might disagree with you.

It really doesn't matter either way Coti, the point was made......

[generalbetrayus]

92. One of the pictures is of the intersection of 12th and Grant Streets in Denver. There is no hospital

there. The protest was scheduled to block the Colorado state capital building, which sits several blocks away from 12th and Grant Streets. Good on the nurses, neverthelesss!

[lagomorph777]

110. And lose your right to ever use a hospital.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Fierce. I like it. . . .nt

[Docreed2003]

7. That's awesome!

[SheltieLover]

9. LOCK THEM UP FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM!

Sorry for yelling. 😊

[dustyscamp]

12. Real Heroes

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[Delmette2.0]

29. And still she persisted.

Women are weaker and more emotional? Bullshit!
Women are strong in so many ways and fierce when needed.

[hot2na]

46. Shades of Tinanmen Square

[Grokenstein]

59. Man, I hope the RN had hearing protection.

Ten seconds into the video I wanted to go after every horn and bellowing asshat with a meat cleaver.

[lindysalsagal]

74. Bad-ass is right. I just posted it on bookface.

Nice.

[NBachers]

78. I'm sorry; watching that video makes me want to lob a had grenade into that vehicle.

[kacekwl]

108. What a bunch of Goobers. If the media would ignore these dopes

They would as trump says, "disappear like magic" . The police should arrest and impound cars of anyone blocking roads to hospitals etc.

[meow2u3]

13. K&R for standing up to selfish bullies

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. While the nurses have them blocked, attorneys should copy the license numbers.

Sue the ignorant bastards for the health consequences.

[Upthevibe]

16. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Celerity]

17. ...

[FailureToCommunicate]

56. +1

[Pacifist Patriot]

98. Wow!

[Blueplanet]

115. Just stunning!

The image of the angelic nurse sitting on top of the world-Wow
Thanks Celerity.

[sheshe2]

18. Second picture.

Dumb ass hanging out of her car hands on the sign:

Home of the Free.

The nurse should have his own sign:

Land of the Brave.

They are the ones risking their lives to save others.

[rpannier]

64. The RN probably agrees

And he is asserting his Freedom to block the idiot's truck

[DemoTex]

19. Game, Set, Match

Now the little crises actors should fold up their playpens and go home to mommy.

[zentrum]

21. Love the Nurse's Union too.

They and their Union, who are on the front lines, want Medicare for all. Really on the patient side always.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. i hope the protesters doing the blocking of the hospitals are being doxxed .

[SMC22307]

42. Normally I would find that idea appalling, but these aren't normal times.

The license plate is clear as day... someone's gotta be on it.

[jrthin]

24. These nurses make me soooo proud! Go nurses!

[GReedDiamond]

26. Every day I wonder "have we reached the bottom yet?" with these fuckers...

...how much lower are the shit-for-brains trumphumpers going to go?

They are going to take as many of us down with them as they can.

These nurses in Denver are heroes in and out of the hospital.

And fuck the @DenverPolice for their dereliction of duty.

[maxrandb]

35. This is what the media needs to cover

I think this needs to go viral as fuck!

In one image, this changes the entire "please murder my children for a 5 point pop in the Stock Market Ayn Rand wetdream protests meme.

[Salviati]

37. As much as I appreciate hearing from the doctors and health professionals on the front lines...

... I think we also need to hear more from the survivors, people who have gone through this horrible ordeal of being on a ventilator for weeks and come out the other side, we need to hear from those left behind by those who believed fox 'news', didn't take this seriously enough, and are now dead.

We have already reached all we can through logic and sensible thinking, of those we haven't reached yet, maybe we can reach the ones who are not completely lost through the emotion of the visceral tales of human tragedy that this pandemic is writing.

Maybe I'm just not watching the news shows that cover things this way, I certainly hear about these people and these stories, but I haven't really heard much from them yet...

[SMC22307]

39. Exactly! If I were governor I'd be laying down the law...

on any Teabagger asshats blocking traffic and making that kind of noise around hospitals.

[madamesilverspurs]

36. More...

There's a hero, and it's not the one wearing the jersey.




.

[SMC22307]

40. Doxx the hell out of that backwards-baseball-cap asshole. (n/t)

[Mopar151]

121. "Mr Tough guy"

Ought to look at the arms on that medic.

[BigmanPigman]

43. Fuckin' A!!!

You rock!!!!!

[Takket]

45. we just had out own version of this.........

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[calimary]

118. Yep. Makes me wish I could go there myself and stand in the way, too.

I hope somebody was taking license plate numbers.

DAMMIT, you’re supposed to get out of the way when emergency vehicles are coming! How many deaths did these assholes cause?

[SoonerPride]

47. Reminds me of the lone protestor at Tiananmen Square

[lagomorph777]

113. +1

[Jamastiene]

48. Now, THOSE are heroes.

Fuck yeah.

[BigDemVoter]

50. As an RN, I have NEVER, NEVER, NEVER been so fucking PROUD of my fellow nurses.

I just wish I could be there with them to stand up to those fucking, Pussy-Grabber supporters.

[Srkdqltr]

52. Should tell them to get out of the car.

Come inside. We will put a town and mask on You and let You see the intubated patients. See first hand.

[sheshe2]

69. No gown.

They get what my niece gets, a Fugging yellow rain slicker worn backwards. Masks are pure gold and hard to come by. Don't waste one on their evil souls.

[backscatter712]

133. No, a trash bag, like doctors & nurses have been forced to wear when they ran out of PPE.

[keithbvadu2]

55. Some of the same type protesters blocking ambulances from getting to the hospital in earlier disrupt

Nurses blocking protesters.... Some of the same type protesters blocking ambulances from getting to the hospital in earlier disruptions against isolation..

[Mme. Defarge]

58. Badass is

as badass does!

[Demovictory9]

60. k&r

[locks]

61. The police

were probably in DC helping to arrest the President who encouraged all those people to break the laws he wrote just like he does.

[niyad]

65. I am so proud of our nurses, all our health care workers. All the s/heroes of this plague.

And I am so damned SICK of these fucking Astro-turf, selfish, ignorant, entitled jerks. Our nurses had to take time to deal with these lemmings? Time they SHOULD have been able to spend helping others, or, heaven forfend, take a breath? Our nurses were deprived by the raucous lemmings disturbing a hospital zone??? Where in the f'ing hell were the cops??

And, yes, Tienanmen Square immediately came to mind.

[Lars39]

68. Used to be the cops treated nurses well

because they knew they might need their help some day. I guess those days are long over.

[gademocrat7]

66. K&R!

Bravo Nurses!

[Renew Deal]

67. These people need to be reminded constantly that there are other points of view

Good for them

[lindysalsagal]

73. Damn! I wish I could go help!

They're not protesting near me. I'd put on the scrubs and pretend.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

75. Respect!

[gay texan]

80. Uh-oh

Look's like Karen gonna want to speak to a manager. She's got her sign and her patriotic top LMAO

[NBachers]

81. Courage vs Scourge

[hobby10113]

111. hmmmm

20 dollars says she's pro-life.

[ffr]

82. That's when you know the path.

Bad ass to the max!

[AllyCat]

84. Why on earth are these nuts blocking entrances to hospitals?

What message are they trying to send? Just get publicity? And what is the meaning of Land Free? Do these idiots want free land? Isn’t that socialism?

[Crunchy Frog]

85. These Denver nurses seem to be the only ones with the gonads

to stand up to these Body Baggers.

I really think that the state and local governments are too intimidated to take the necessary actions.

People who protest by blocking access to hospitals need to be arrested and charged, and have their vehicles towed and impounded. There's absolutely no excuse for allowing this bullshit.

[calimary]

86. WUNNNNNNNNderful!

They give me strength. Wish I could stand there with them!

[roamer65]

89. God bless these nurses.

[generalbetrayus]

91. I don't mean to spoil any of the righteous anger here,

but one of the pictures shows the intersection of 12th and Grant Streets in Denver. There is no hospital at that location. That location is a couple of blocks from the Colorado state capital building; the protest was scheduled to block off the state capital building, not any hospital. Good on the nurses, nevertheless.

[Sugarcoated]

96. Protesters were blocking them last week

I can't remember which state

[kpete]

103. A better explanation of what the nurses were doing

I found this, this a.m.

Remarkable scene at 12th and Grant, where two healthcare workers from a Denver-area hospital — they declined to say which or give their names — are standing in the crosswalk during red lights as a “reminder,” they say, of why shutdown measures are in place.

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[backscatter712]

134. Those right-wing brainstems are endangering people just as if they were drunk driving.

I think every one of the smoothbrains that shows up at those astroturf "protests" should be arrested, charged with reckless endangerment on top of violating the stay-home order, and given a penalty (in terms of fines and days in jail) roughly equivalent to the penalty for DUI in Colorado. Typically, after fines, jail time, lawyer fees, court fees, fees for everything from car ignition interlocks to ankle bracelets, etc., a DUI here will typically set you back well over $10,000. That seems like proportional punishment for endangering not only themselves, but countless others.

[backscatter712]

132. The hospital-blocking happened in Michigan.

In downtown Denver, Denver Health (one of the major hospitals) is only a few blocks away though. I'm not sure if the idiots in Denver were dumb enough to block Denver Health or one of the other hospitals.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

95. The woman in the Dodge Ram 1500 appears in another post at DU.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213317478

[Sugarcoated]

97. There's a video of the RW shrew screaming at the male nurse

posted on Twitter. Wish i could post it on my FB feed. When I try it just posts the picture of the Twitter person who
posted it.

[rownesheck]

99. This is turning into

the great purge of 2020. The normal people on the side of science and reason will survive this. Unfortunately, we will have several people die due to the stupidity of the magats. I'm thinking the idiots who deny science and have no critical thinking skills to understand they are being manipulated by dark forces on social media, will suffer mightily. It's like planet earth realized there are entirely too many dangerous and stupid humans and decided to snap her fingers.

[usaf-vet]

101. This is what I thought of when I saw these brave nurses defy the Trump cultist

[Dukkha]

104. I want these people hurt so bad

They are a serious health hazard. Turn the riot fire hoses on them!

[riversedge]

105. "The level of badassery from nurses never ceases to amaze me."...........

On top of risking their lives caring for patients, they have to put up with dangerous #MAGA cruel Trump fans!


Here are nurses in Colorado blocking the intersection so that these irresponsible asshats can't move forward and endanger more lives. The level of badassery from nurses never ceases to amaze me.

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[Buckeye_Democrat]

106. Would it be wrong for the nurses to hand out...

... free blankets from their Covid-19 patients to those people?

I seem to recall something like that from history classes.

I kid! I kid! I know that would be irresponsible and hurt everyone in the long term.

[amuse bouche]

107. I would love to know what happened after these pictures

Has no reporter done a story on it?

[generalbetrayus]

123. There was no story about or pictures of this counterprotest in the Denver Post this morning.

I didn't see the local television news last night. Probably all the reporters were at the capital building, where the protesters had gathered.

[amuse bouche]

128. Too bad. Videos of this was all over twitter, but nothing about what happened next

[colorado_ufo]

117. Woot! Woot!

Heroes!

Thank you!

[kimbutgar]

119. I think Ambulances should come with body bags of a couple of dead people and place the gurneys

In front of these idiot protesters.

Show them the results of their ignorance.

[bronxiteforever]

120. Kick and recommend.

[onetexan]

122. LOVE!!!

Great standup to the utter ignorance of these science-denying idiots.

[generalbetrayus]

124. Since she is a blond, I would have to say she is not the female nurse shown in the photo,

but she has a message worth sharing. You can see the Colorado state capital building in the background in the video.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/denver-nurse-has-a-message-for-protesters/73-10e04b93-eb2a-4d4a-8c01-f47481dd8168

[Kaiserguy]

130. Wish I could do photo shop

that sign needs a little help. Land of the Free Home of the Stupid would be more appropriate.

[backscatter712]

131. Fuck yeah! They did my state proud!

And that right-wing Karen in the second pic made a damned fool of herself...

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Fuck, these chuds are just dumber than a sack of hammers.

[ck4829]

135. K&R

[Cha]

136. My home town! So proud of the Denver Nurses!