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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo Sessions, No KKK, no racist USA! DACA Activists Topple Statute of Jeff Sessions.
?1504783552The people, united, will never be defeated, they chanted in Spanish and English in the rain. Undocumented, unafraid.
Then they marched, about 200 strong, a few blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Justice Department. They carried with them the replica of Sessions, dressed as a Confederate soldier, with frowning eyebrows and bulging eyes.
When they reached the federal building that houses the attorney generals office, they sent the cardboard statue tumbling. It careened into a flowerpot before landing on the wet sidewalk. The head broke off from the impact.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/the-latest-statue-toppled-by-activists-a-cardboard-effigy-of-jeff-sessions/2017/09/06/6b98e72a-9309-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.1b08dd7dfe45
Trump trolls swarmed the comment section on YouTube but Twitterers had a good laugh
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/7/1696692/--No-Sessions-No-KKK-no-racist-USA-DACA-Activists-Topple-Statute-of-Jeff-Sessions-Twitter-Laffs
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No Sessions, No KKK, no racist USA! DACA Activists Topple Statute of Jeff Sessions. (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2017
OP
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)2. Great job
JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)3. Now That's Funny
K&R
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)4. That is fantastic..
Sessions deserves every bit of it.. he is a little racist troll doing the bidding of another just like him..
annabanana
(52,791 posts)5. Brilliant!. . .. . . n/t
Orrex
(63,209 posts)6. I"m surprised that a Nazi counter-protest didn't materialize out of thin shit.
k/r
literally - for the first time in days
progressoid
(49,988 posts)9. I bet some Trumpsters will think that statue is real.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)10. Another Confederate Down!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)11. A real statue of Jeff Sessions would be about a foot tall.