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murielm99

(32,970 posts)
25. We were not this divided before trump
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 01:49 AM
Feb 2017

came on the scene. He has fomented this division.

I, too, attended an event like this, this evening. We held a town hall that our republican congressman declined to attend. We had the meeting without him. At the front of the hall, we placed an empty suit with his picture where his head should have been. We addressed our questions to the empty suit. The meeting was recorded, and the media was invited. I will write about it some more tomorrow when I am less tired. My central committee needs a written report on it also.

It was in Adam Kinzinger's district, the 16th Congressional District in Illinois. He could not be bothered to show up for a town hall. However, on Thursday, he is going to be the keynote speaker for a Republican group in the northern part of our district. We will be there.

In this same community, not that many years ago, angry tea partiers disrupted town hall meetings. The police had to be called. We did not behave that way tonight. Questions can be asked and anger can be expressed without behaving like flaming assholes.

Unlike the tea partiers, this group was strictly grassroots. No one paid for buses or porta potties. The meeting place was donated.

We can plan. So what, trump? Just because you are disorganized and your administration is chaotic, you think other people do not know how to plan? Grow up.

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imagine that! Liberals! And activisits! And planners - in America? surely not! NRaleighLiberal Feb 2017 #1
"Planning" What a novel concept TomCADem Feb 2017 #32
You ain't seen nothing yet maxrandb Feb 2017 #2
Lmao... Docreed2003 Feb 2017 #28
The "planned out" is you, Drumpf. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2017 #3
At least that's less nefarious than "paid protestors"... JudyM Feb 2017 #4
"So-called angry?" Like they're feigning it? n/t rzemanfl Feb 2017 #7
He apparently is so lacking in empathy that he can't fathom authentic disagreement with his actions. JudyM Feb 2017 #14
I honestly Charles Bukowski Feb 2017 #20
WINTER IS COMING, ASSHOLES! bravenak Feb 2017 #5
I've written to my Republican Senator FIVE TIMES Lifelong Protester Feb 2017 #6
Contacting your "representative" is an exercise in futility. MindPilot Feb 2017 #34
LOL, Only Fux Noise Could Find A Guy Named Peter Douchey... Grassy Knoll Feb 2017 #8
We are a divided nation; this sounds like civil war. Equinox Moon Feb 2017 #9
We were not this divided before trump murielm99 Feb 2017 #25
I love what you did! Equinox Moon Feb 2017 #35
It is important to remind them that when the tea party protested, CrispyQ Feb 2017 #36
SCPOTUS is going to have a rude awakening in 2018 bucolic_frolic Feb 2017 #10
"planned out by liberal activists" - youbetcha, asshole. CousinIT Feb 2017 #11
And it's time to go after him. Chicago1980 Feb 2017 #12
There are more of us than there are of them Sucha NastyWoman Feb 2017 #13
We're sick and tired of their bullshit! Initech Feb 2017 #15
"liberal activists" are AMERICANS who are upset. George II Feb 2017 #16
So-called President gets all his so-called info from Faux News? SADDEST man on the planet. Fred Sanders Feb 2017 #17
So it's acceptable if: Glamrock Feb 2017 #18
This ones my fav Docreed2003 Feb 2017 #29
that is good irisblue Feb 2017 #30
Oh donny--you are such an ignorant blob. riversedge Feb 2017 #19
FO ya Lying Blowhard. Cha Feb 2017 #21
Get used to it Silver Spoons. jalan48 Feb 2017 #22
Oh great orange one... Plucketeer Feb 2017 #23
Trump has the vocabulary of a third grader... LastLiberal in PalmSprings Feb 2017 #24
Mark my words,,,,,,, Cryptoad Feb 2017 #26
He has no idea what serving the public means trixie2 Feb 2017 #27
GOP rep pushes back on Trump's tweet about town hall protests TomCADem Feb 2017 #33
He has no will or intention to do that in any case FiveGoodMen Feb 2017 #37
We're fake Americans. NickB79 Feb 2017 #31
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