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26. Delighted but not surprised to see the crowds in big cities

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:49 PM

Jan 2018

but even more excited that my dear wife grabbed her pussy hat, fired up her Dodge Ram 2500, slid out our 3/4 mile driveway, continued sliding down our 5 miles of gravel road and met up with a group in our little town and car pooled 20 miles to the county seat for their march. Now she may have done this just to leave me feeding all the livestock this morning but probably not.

What makes this interesting is that our county is solid RED. Larger than the state of Connecticut, more cattle than humans, located in north central WA and did I mention......solid RED. If there are a couple hundred people marching it would like having hundreds of thousands marching in a major metropolitan area.

Things are changing and I'm grateful that folks everywhere are waking up and realizing that living in a democratically elected, representative form of government is not a spectator sport. I hope she takes some pictures, if so, I'll post them later.

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