This afternoon on a main street in small-town west central Missouri:
All they are saying
10 Friday Jan 2020
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No War With Iran – Kansas City – January 9, 2020
09 Thursday Jan 2020
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This evening close to 200 individuals picketed in Kansas City at Mill Creek Park, adjacent to the Plaza, against Donald Trump’s (r) escalation toward war with Iran. The protest rally was organized online (via social media) and sponsored by Indivisible KC.
It was a diverse and vocal crowd.
“We are better than this”
“Peace Now”
“A true peace can only be an unarmed peace”
“No war”
“Dump Trump”
“No more war for profit”
“No war with Iran”
Donald Trump is a bad person.
I did Nazi that coming.
“No War”
“Stop the Donald”
“No more wars…”
“Stop the U.S. War Machine”
“War is not pro-life”
“I respect our military enough not to pawn them”
“Stop the Madness”
“Impeach Trump”
“Stop Trump”
“No War”
“Stop U.S. Wars”
Veterans for Peace
Previously:
No War with Iran Rally – Kansas City – January 4, 2020 (January 4, 2020)
Banana Republic
05 Sunday Jan 2020
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#resist, Convict his sorry ass already, dictator, Donald Trump, Fascist, Iran, social media, Twitter, War
This afternoon:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless!
2:25 PM · Jan 5, 2020
WTF?
One of the few relevant responses:
House Foreign Affairs Committee @HouseForeign
This Media Post will serve as a reminder that war powers reside in the Congress under the United States Constitution. And that you should read the War Powers Act. And that you’re not a dictator.
[….]
4:41 PM · Jan 5, 2020
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
We are so screwed…
Previously:
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (December 31, 2019)
Why we can’t have nice things (December 31, 2019)
Oh, shit (January 2, 2020)
WTF? (January 3, 2020)
Sen. Roy Blunt (r): What, me worry? (January 3, 2020)
Mike Pence (r): “…and he assaulted Obi-Wan Kenobi with a light saber…” (January 3, 2020)
Jason Kander – the same story (January 3, 2020)
No War with Iran Rally – Kansas City – January 4, 2020 (January 4, 2020)
Impeach and Remove Rally – Kansas City – December 17, 2019
17 Tuesday Dec 2019
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#resist, bribery, corruption, Donald Trump, emoluments, extortion, impeachment, Kansas City, missouri, obstruction, protest, quid pro quo, rally
At 5:00 p.m. this evening close to two hundred individuals gathered in below freezing temperatures to stand in day old snow at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City – in support of impeaching and removing Donald Trump (r). This was one of over 600 hundred such rallies organized across the country on the eve of the House debate and vote on articles of impeachment for Trump.
“Trump is not above the law.”
Media coverage included at least two Kansas City metro area television stations.
Interview with the metro area ABC affiliate.
“Trust America, not Russia”
“Impeach!”
The Four Horsemen of Impeachment:
“Extortion, Bribery, Obstruction, Emoluments”
“Impeach Trump”
“Putin on the Grift”
“Trump is not above the law”
Interview with the metro area Fox affiliate.
For the most part the reaction from passing traffic into the Plaza shopping area was supportive – consisting mostly of sustained car horns. The occasional Trump dead ender shouted at the protesters. The response from the picket line was a group chant of “lock him up.”
Lights for Liberty immigration rally – Washington Square Park, Kansas City, Missouri – July 12, 2019
13 Saturday Jul 2019
This is America, July 2019.
Americans do not support Trump’s ICE raids
By Marshall Fitz, opinion contributor — 07/13/19 10:00 AM EDT…Beginning Sunday morning, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), by order of President Trump, will begin a series of cruel, unnecessary raids aimed at rounding up, detaining and deporting thousands of people. Many of those immigrants detained will have had the removal orders against them filed in absentia — meaning they will have never been informed of the orders’ existence.
Among those specifically targeted will be families who had enrolled in the now-terminated Family Case Management Program — an effective, cost-efficient program that saw almost 100 percent compliance rates with immigration hearings and check-ins. Also targeted will be young immigrants who had previously been protected from deportation as unaccompanied minors, but who aged out of such protections when they turned 18.
By devoting resources to inflicting fear and hardship on immigrant communities at a time when children are being denied soap, toothpaste, blankets and other necessities in dangerously overcrowded Border Patrol facilities on the southern border, the administration is making the inhumanity of its policies plain for all to see…
Last night over 500 individuals showed up at Washington Square Park in Kansas City, Missouri for a rally on immigration which was organized as one of the Lights for Liberty demonstrations which were held across the country “to stand in solidarity with immigrant communities across the country and protest human detention camps”. The event, starting at 7:00 p.m., included information tables, postcards to Congress stations, speakers, and a vigil.
Teach your children well:
“Not today Satan”
“Will trade racists for refugees”
Call them what they are:
“Concentration Camps are a disgrace to God and our country”
“Families belong together, vote Trump out”
Teach your children well:
“Diversity makes America great”
“Side with Love”
“Summer Camps, not Concentration Camps”
“Give a damn”
“Reunite the families”
“Legal immigration should not be deadly”
“Close the camps”
Teach your children well:
“People don’t belong in cages”
“End family separation”
At Pershing and Grand:
“Keep families together”
Nazi punching music
27 Thursday Jun 2019
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For an upcoming 4th of July Concert:
A reflection of our times.
The 2020 presidential election, summarized
26 Wednesday Jun 2019
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#resist, asylum, Donald Trump, immigration, social media, Twitter
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
From Donald Trump (r) this evening:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
BORING!
8:35 PM – 26 Jun 2019
One of many responses:
Jennifer Hayden @Scout_Finch
A dead father and daughter are “boring.”Fuck you.
[….]
8:38 PM – 26 Jun 2019
That’s it.
Out on the highway
26 Wednesday Jun 2019
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Late this morning in west central Missouri:
It’s not nearly enough anymore.
We can remember what they do
25 Tuesday Jun 2019
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A year ago:
I really do care. Do U?
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Late yesterday, via Twitter:
Elie Mystal @ElieNYC
Had a conversation with my mom after she saw @chrislhayes basically pleading with that goddamn Republican to end the suffering of children at the hands of this administration.
People with voice and opportunity are saying the things. These @realDonaldTrump people just don’t care.
10:05 PM – 24 Jun 2019
Elie Mystal @ElieNYC
I don’t think people who aren’t *in it* everyday appreciate just how evil the Republican Party has become under @realDonaldTrump. There’s a stubborn and gleeful aspect to their cruelty now. They’re so far into it, they have to like it now.
10:07 PM – 24 Jun 2019
Elie Mystal @ElieNYC
I have no clue how to stop them. But I know pretending that these people have any shred of decency left is not the way. These people… you just don’t “come back” from terrorizing children. Once you realize you’re the kind of person who can defend that, you are gone.
10:10 PM – 24 Jun 2019
Elie Mystal @ElieNYC
All I can promise is that, when the wheel turns, I won’t forget what they’ve done. Many will. Many will try to go back to “normal” with these people. I will not. Not forgetting, and not letting them forget what they’ve done, will be the very least I can do.
10:12 PM – 24 Jun 2019
We can remember what they do. We should remember what they have done. We should remind them every chance we get until the end of time. And the monuments put in place to extol their great works should include the legend “cruelly supported and enabled separating families seeking asylum and placing their children in cages.”
Oh, and the Emma Lazarus sonnet, The New Colossus, should be permanently erased from the Statue of Liberty.
Sen. Josh Hawley (r): you can’t keep it straight
24 Monday Jun 2019
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#resist, Donald Trump, Iran, Josh Hawley, missouri, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
From Missouri’s junior right wingnut sycophant in the U.S. Senate:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
.@realDonaldTrump slapped new sanctions on Iran today. Showing toughness and strategic judgment, which is more than you can say for his DC critics. Keep up the pressure but on our terms. POTUS also right that other countries need to step up & help protect the Strait
12:02 PM – 24 Jun 2019
Somebody wins the Internets today. One of the responses:
American Carnage @Cynfulfan
Replying to @HawleyMO @realDonaldTrump
Is it Strait or Straight? You can’t both be right.
1:38 PM – 24 Jun 2019
Alrighty then.
