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a billboard that should be seen all across the country (Original Post) orleans Mar 2021 OP
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️K&R ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ spanone Mar 2021 #1
I'd chip in to have this put up in the suburbs of: NCDem47 Mar 2021 #2
Don't stop there, how about ALL Qpublican red states? KS Toronado Mar 2021 #6
+1 2naSalit Mar 2021 #21
+8 (sideways) soldierant Mar 2021 #28
With a little tailoring, it could work just about anywhere gratuitous Mar 2021 #17
Excellent idea, you're thinking outside the box. KS Toronado Mar 2021 #29
Where was this put up ? Beachnutt Mar 2021 #3
Pretty sure that's a photoshop, but yeah, it should be real...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #5
Yep, it's the ted Q cruz traitor billboard KS Toronado Mar 2021 #8
Even my untrained eye can tell that's digital. lindysalsagal Mar 2021 #42
Yeah, the lettering is just a tad off plumb... Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #43
It's too perfect, no distortions, no weathering effects, and the light is wrong. lindysalsagal Mar 2021 #44
YES, like Meidas Touch, they are a liberal democratic organization that made a lot of ads. I have mucifer Mar 2021 #37
Should be at major intersections in all districts nationwide...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #4
That's great, FoxNewsSucks Mar 2021 #7
K & R mountain grammy Mar 2021 #9
"I ain't real smart but they musta had a good reason not to". Ligyron Mar 2021 #10
Rural areas in most states tend toward "red"... MiHale Mar 2021 #11
I wish! Percy Mar 2021 #12
Republicans who are hurting financially because of COVID blame Biden Mr. Ected Mar 2021 #13
Government ISN'T THE PROBLEM!! REPUBLICANS in government are the problem. BComplex Mar 2021 #14
bumper sticker time and or being towed by an airplane. AllaN01Bear Mar 2021 #15
Yes, this needs to be dsipalyed far and wide. Bravo! nt iluvtennis Mar 2021 #16
For those who say there's "no difference" between the two parties Blue Owl Mar 2021 #18
Doesn't leave those bastards a lot of wiggle room, does it? BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #19
Needs to be fewer words and larger. Nobody can read that driving 70 mph. Evolve Dammit Mar 2021 #20
K & R malaise Mar 2021 #22
They should have this billboard going up at the state lines of every republican state turbinetree Mar 2021 #23
Especially needed in my NY congressional district wnylib Mar 2021 #31
Who is that? turbinetree Mar 2021 #32
Tom Reed. First elected as a Tea Party candidate in 2010. wnylib Mar 2021 #41
When I got to health care debt collections.......... turbinetree Mar 2021 #45
This message was self-deleted by its author wnylib Mar 2021 #46
When he voted for repeal of the wnylib Mar 2021 #47
Thank you................ turbinetree Mar 2021 #48
That's good. StevenJoseph Mar 2021 #24
Need that billboard on Interstates Captain Zero Mar 2021 #25
Thank you. I passed this along. Joinfortmill Mar 2021 #26
'Vote no, and take the dough' speak easy Mar 2021 #27
EXCELLENT! FOLLOW THISUP!!! The Cha Mar 2021 #30
K & R Tommymac Mar 2021 #33
How can we buy those? live love laugh Mar 2021 #34
They are starting with rubio in Florida. Here is the link: mucifer Mar 2021 #38
Thank you live love laugh Mar 2021 #39
K&R betsuni Mar 2021 #35
Yabut, there's still the GodAbortionGaysGunz thing. A real GOTV no matter what. SammyWinstonJack Mar 2021 #36
K&R Roisin Ni Fiachra Mar 2021 #40

NCDem47

(2,248 posts)
2. I'd chip in to have this put up in the suburbs of:
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 11:56 AM
Mar 2021

Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Phoenix.

KS Toronado

(17,235 posts)
6. Don't stop there, how about ALL Qpublican red states?
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:10 PM
Mar 2021

Hell, every town in America gets at least one so MSM will start talking about it. Remind voters who
doesn't give a shit about them. We're in a fight, so let's fight.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
17. With a little tailoring, it could work just about anywhere
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 01:06 PM
Mar 2021

Here's how many Republicans voted for relief payments to your local diners (where we know all real Americans hang out away from those evil urban population centers): 0

Here's how many Republicans voted for relief of family farms to keep them from going under: 0

And so on, and so forth.

Beachnutt

(7,324 posts)
3. Where was this put up ?
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:02 PM
Mar 2021

It absolutely needs to be put up nationwide.
Is the website listed REALLYAMERICAN.COM a safe place to donate to this ?

KS Toronado

(17,235 posts)
8. Yep, it's the ted Q cruz traitor billboard
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:17 PM
Mar 2021

We can sure spread this on social media though if real ones never materialize.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
7. That's great,
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:14 PM
Mar 2021

but the problem we'd have even if someone came up with funding is that most billboards are owned by some fine loyal republicon advertising corporations. They probably would refuse something like that.

Ligyron

(7,632 posts)
10. "I ain't real smart but they musta had a good reason not to".
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:24 PM
Mar 2021

Reaction and reasoning of a large part of the GOP base.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
13. Republicans who are hurting financially because of COVID blame Biden
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:33 PM
Mar 2021

And those who aren't hurting will blame Biden for disrupting Trump's fine economy.

You can't reach these people, not with a billboard, not with a bullhorn, not with logic, not with emotion. They've been conditioned and brainwashed. Only veritable deprogramming will be effective.

BComplex

(8,051 posts)
14. Government ISN'T THE PROBLEM!! REPUBLICANS in government are the problem.
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:46 PM
Mar 2021

That's the new twist on Reaganomics.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
19. Doesn't leave those bastards a lot of wiggle room, does it?
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 01:27 PM
Mar 2021

Good! If they were normal, decent people, they'd realize how anti-human, anti-society and downright cruel their actions are, and assume the look of a deer in headlights. The look of a deer staring death in the face.

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
23. They should have this billboard going up at the state lines of every republican state
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 02:36 PM
Mar 2021

on which a republican lives that voted NO on the American Rescue Act, get a truck and park right it out on there front door step on the public roads that taxpayer paid for, in front of there county election offices where these crypto fascists' live and have re-election offices.............

wnylib

(21,454 posts)
31. Especially needed in my NY congressional district
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 08:19 PM
Mar 2021

where the GQP congressman hopes to run for governor of NY next year.

wnylib

(21,454 posts)
41. Tom Reed. First elected as a Tea Party candidate in 2010.
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 11:35 AM
Mar 2021

He has tried since then to remake his image into a moderate through his membership in the problem solvers coalition. It's a superficial, phony remake since he is a trumpist who was co-chair of the Trump campaign in NY. But he is a smooth liar, skilled at doublespeak, and he flashes a big smile. His policies and views are as vile as any magat, but he projects a "nice guy" image that impresses people who don't look at his voting record or listen to what he is really saying.

His family business is healthcare debt collections. There were some serious complaints about tactics he used and false accusations he made of people who owed nothing that sound almost like extortion. For some reason, the media don't cover that and have helped him promote his moderate nice guy remake. But the trail is there for anyone to look into. He went through his first term without divesting himself from his business, even when told to. Eventually he put it in his wife's name. When challenged on that, he turns it around and asks, "Don't you believe that women should be allowed to run a successful business?" That totally sidesteps the issue of conflicts of interest since he still benefits from the business through his wife and also votes on health care issues and costs.

Tom Reed would be a total disaster for NY state if he became governor.

Response to turbinetree (Reply #45)

wnylib

(21,454 posts)
47. When he voted for repeal of the
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 02:25 AM
Mar 2021

Affordable Care Act, someone suggested that it was because Obamacare would cut into his debt collection profits.

Reed could barely wait to go to the media with outrage over complaints about Cuomo, calling Cuomo "disgusting, shameful." He called for impeachment over the sexual harrassment complaints and arrest over the nursing home investigation. Yet, he voted both times against impeachment for Trump.

Reed is political toast now. A woman, Nicolette Davis, came forward to Huffington Post complaining that Reed groped her in 2017 when she was at a networking meeting in Minneapolis. She was a 25 year old lobbyist for Aflac at the time. The group was in a restaurant bar/lounge when Reed rubbed her back, pinched open the clasp on her bra, and stroked her thigh. She asked for help and another person escorted Reed out of the restaurant.

Reed initially issued a statement that "This account of my actions is not accurate." But witnesses with the lobbyist who made the complaint have corroborated her claim, including the person at Aflac who was her superviisor at the time because she had reported it to the company.

NY Senator Gillibrand said the complaint was being referred to the House ethics committee. Reed then issued a public apology, said he will not run for any elected office in 2022 when his House term is up. Reed says he has sought treatment for alcohol addiction since the incident in 2017. The state Republican chairman was mentioned in a Huffpost article about Reed's apology, so I suspect that he was told not to run again.

His district is purple, but leans to the right. A good Dem candidate could get elected in his place, but it would need to be a strong one with good public appeal.

StevenJoseph

(2,657 posts)
24. That's good.
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 03:21 PM
Mar 2021

I wonder how it would look with the tiniest of Capitol G's right before the zero, and the tiniest of capitol P's right after the zero, both at the very bottom of the zero.

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