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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 03:51 PM Jul 2021

We are such damn hypocrites.

Now, Cubans flood the streets all over their island nation to demand more freedom and a better government as that government's troops and police gather. And, we applaud them.

When millions of Polish people clogged the streets and filled the squares to support the anti-government Solidarity movement in the face of threats from communists determined to hold their power---we applauded them.

When tens or hundreds of thousands of Chinese packed into Tiananmen Square to face tanks and machine guns in protest of the totalitarian government, we cheered them wildly and wept as they were overcome by their brutal leaders.

But, when McConnell shamelessly stole the Gorsuch SCOTUS seat--whenTrump solicited, accepted and was placed in power with the assistance of Putin and his thugs---when Barr hid the Mueller report's 10 obstruction of justice allegations against Trump---when Republicans refused to convict Trump when he was impeached twice and Democrats presented "slam dunk" evidence at each Senate trial and when thousands of violent Insurrectionists stormed our Capitol at Trump's urging to steal back the election that that madman LOST, WE SAT AT HOME AND POSTED about how terribly unfair and unAmerican it all was.

That'll show 'em!

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We are such damn hypocrites. (Original Post) Atticus Jul 2021 OP
I got nothing... stillcool Jul 2021 #1

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
1. I got nothing...
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 04:09 PM
Jul 2021

my last hurrah was a Robert Mueller protest, when the report wasn't released. I've never travelled to D.C., and the protests I have been involved in through the years did not make the nightly news. A few thousand people does not carry the same weight as a hand-full of tea-partyer's occupying a Representatives office.

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