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Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 09:30 PM Dec 2016

Trump Resistance Movement: Subversive Act #1:



In order to make my opinion known every damn time I go through a grocery store line, I vow to turn the magazine covers with Trump's face (Melania, Ivanika, Uday and Qusay too) on them backwards and upside down, my free speech response to the corporate media. Thanks to Rev. Dr. MLKing Jr and Gandhi for teaching me how to peacefully resist!

Yes, it is very small act of disobedience, and may inconvenience the store personnel, but it will send the magazine distributors a major message if everyone did it every time we see his ugly mug. The National Enquirer and Time will be unable to sell magazines that are NOT visible. So they will get the message.

It is not illegal to take this sort of action, and if anyone asks why you can honestly state that the photo destroys your appetite and makes you want to leave the store without buying food. I did this tonight, and the man behind me gave me the thumb's up!

If he had said he was a Trump supporter, I would simply have told him he should be ashamed of himself and turned my back toward him. This shall continue until my morale improves which is not likely unless Trump and his freeloading relatives are removed from office.

Please join me!! Feel free to K&R this thread and share this idea with all of your despondent friends, relatives and co-workers who want to join my monkey wrench efforts. Believe me it felt good. Positive outreach to others and great for lowering blood pressure. If enough of us do it often enough, Trump will Tweet about how unfair we are, and how he will sue us all!

Bring it on Tweet Finger.

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Trump Resistance Movement: Subversive Act #1: (Original Post) Generic Other Dec 2016 OP
I like it oldtime dfl_er Dec 2016 #1
It is for our sanity Generic Other Dec 2016 #2
Been doing that already. Jane Austin Dec 2016 #3
So now we are a freaking subversive cell Generic Other Dec 2016 #6
Yes, let's bankrupt the National Enquirer! oldtime dfl_er Dec 2016 #16
We Need To Resist Every Way Possible colsohlibgal Dec 2016 #4
They need to know that we are not broken Generic Other Dec 2016 #7
the book and magazine distributor at my supermarket already hates me. he knows I cover up niyad Dec 2016 #5
Tweetfinger! mac56 Dec 2016 #8
You get to be in charge of morale in the resistance Mac! Generic Other Dec 2016 #9
Here you go mac56 Dec 2016 #10
Genius!! Generic Other Dec 2016 #13
Well, I've been doing that, too, but only because I can't stand to see that Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2016 #11
The resistance grows!!! Generic Other Dec 2016 #14
Yes! triron Dec 2016 #12
Indeedy! Generic Other Dec 2016 #15
Great idea! kentuck Dec 2016 #17
I recall when we used to plant flags with Bush's face on them Generic Other Dec 2016 #20
We need some kind of plan besides protest. We need one of those meetings like republicans had during coolbreeze77 Dec 2016 #18
I wish the A-list celebrities would do a charity telethon to compete Generic Other Dec 2016 #19

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
2. It is for our sanity
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 10:00 PM
Dec 2016

And because we know it would drive him nuts.

Of course we can do the other things as well. This is for the soul. I will be calling Congresscritters, making anti-Trump art, screaming like a banshee, protesting, etc.

After the Bush years, I know the drill.

Jane Austin

(9,199 posts)
3. Been doing that already.
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 10:41 PM
Dec 2016

Next step, how do we get grocery stores to stop selling the Enquirer. It's nothing but Trump propaganda, and during the campaign there was lie after lie about Hillary on the cover.

Public spirited grocery stores should not sell this rag.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
6. So now we are a freaking subversive cell
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 11:55 PM
Dec 2016

Thank you Jane Austen. We will bankrupt the magazine one issue at a time. We will shame the Trump worshipping trash with their own actions. And in the end, we will do what always happens to the too high and mighty in America. We will help them on their way over as they hurtle into the shrieking abyss of negative public opinion.

I predict the very name of Trump will be reviled and seen as nasty as herpes before he's chased from the world stage.

And you and I will do our small part to help the movement grow. Along with Michael Moore, Garrison Keillor, Rosie O, Miss Universe, the Dixie Chicks, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and all the other hardworking run-of-the mill Americans who find Trump's odious presence disgusting proof of America's utter decline.

WE SHALL OVERCOME.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
4. We Need To Resist Every Way Possible
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 11:03 PM
Dec 2016

This fraud will never be my president. This is not business as usual.

One question keeps running in my brain....what is wrong with all those non far right folks who could not vote for Hillary but were OK voting for that loose cannon reality show character.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
7. They need to know that we are not broken
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 12:01 AM
Dec 2016

As Mark Twain always said:

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

If you send a damned fool to the White House, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
- Life on the Mississippi


niyad

(113,268 posts)
5. the book and magazine distributor at my supermarket already hates me. he knows I cover up
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 11:06 PM
Dec 2016

all the reichwing garbage. he has asked, politely, that I at least wait until he leaves.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
11. Well, I've been doing that, too, but only because I can't stand to see that
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 01:40 AM
Dec 2016

crass, lying, cheating, racist, misogynistic, homophobic bully's smug mug!

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
14. The resistance grows!!!
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 02:45 AM
Dec 2016

We need a super secret handshake to signify our disdain of Trump:

"In North America, making a circling motion of the index finger at the ear or side of the head signifies that the person "has a screw loose," i.e. is speaking nonsense or is crazy."

coolbreeze77

(35 posts)
18. We need some kind of plan besides protest. We need one of those meetings like republicans had during
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:04 AM
Dec 2016

inauguration day in 2009 to sabotage Obama only this time for trump and it'll be easier to sabotage trump's agenda because he's incompetent anyway and has no idea how government works.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
19. I wish the A-list celebrities would do a charity telethon to compete
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:13 AM
Dec 2016

We could all watch this instead! Ignore Trump's Triumphant Coronation entirely.



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