Activists change Billboard facing highway in a great way.

[Maraya1969]

Link to tweet

(Don't know what to do for people who don't have Twitter since this is a video. I'll respond to this with an explanation)

[spanone]

1. K&R...

[Maraya1969]

2. It's a billboard for Junk removal saying, "We make Junk Disappear" They

changed it to, "We make kids disappear" and signed it I.C.E.

[RVN VET71]

13. I've used that service and have been very pleased with it

Not to wander too off-topic, but 1-800-got-junk helped me get empty out my garage. Kudos to the activists, of course. I hope they continue doing their great work to underscore the Nazi-level evils of the current Leader. But I had to give the junk-removal company a shout-out.

Maybe they could bring a couple trucks to the White House? During a cabinet meeting?

[Cha]

3. That's what they did.. per trump's policy.

Gone.

[Brother Buzz]

4. INDECLINE, a group that describes itself as an activist art collective, has claimed responsibility

INDECLINE, a group that describes itself as an "activist art collective," claimed responsibility for the vandalization.


INDECLINE has made national headlines before.

In March, the group claimed responsibility for vandalizing a billboard near Las Vegas. The billboard originally read "Shoot a .50 caliber only $29" at Battlefield Vegas and was changed to read "Shoot a school kid only $29."

In 2016, the group placed naked Donald Trump statues in several cities in the U.S. They were quickly taken down, but one sold at auction for $22,000.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/23/ice-makes-kids-disappear-billboard-vandalized-california/727889002/

[heaven05]

6. "the emperor has no clothes"

of course Hans Christian Anderson meant it differently, yet this photo epitomizes our current potus, completely. He did promise to provide 'new clothes' metaphorically to his base of deplorable ameriKKKans. All he's brought them is SHAME AND HATE.

[Brother Buzz]

7. At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness.

So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. Genius 3 : 7

[heaven05]

8. yep

that's their fate, I hope...

[calimary]

12. Well, you could say he does have clothes. Nice white ones.

With hoods.

[lastlib]

15. .....and brown stains on the back.

[calimary]

27. Add a wide yellow stripe down the middle.

Yellow. For the coward he is.

[heaven05]

28. yeah,'bout right nt.

[smirkymonkey]

21. I'm sure that is what he looks like without clothes, if not worse.

And he has the nerve to criticize women for their bodies. He's such a disgusting pig.

[Brother Buzz]

23. Truth be told, I believe they went easy on his posterior

That, or they ran out of clay.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Ewwww! Yes, it's much too small, but probably just as flabby and unattractive.

I wish someone would prank him and have all these statues installed at all his golf clubs. I'm sure the Scottish club wouldn't object.

[Brother Buzz]

26. I understand Meghan Markle was instrumental in acquiring one for the Queen's gardens

[heaven05]

5. excellent

I'm counting on people like this to cause disruption to the thought processes of the forces of "deplorables".

[MichMan]

9. Vandalism of other people's stuff is always a great way to get your point across....

They should have bought their own billboard instead of vandalizing someone else's who had nothing to do with anything

[nolabels]

22. Just like the republicans vandalized our country

Btw, who wakes each morning to idolize their nearest highway billboard?

[Maraya1969]

29. Think of all the free advertising Got Junk has received? Heck they were talking about it upthread

It was the first time it ever occurred to me that they might be able to help me with my junk problem. I may call them when I'm ready to do battle.

[Scruffy1]

10. I appreciate your point.

Billboards cost are based on traffic counts and an run thousands per month. However, it is also a good example of money being real free speech. I remember one of our local right wing billionaires posting the whole metro area with anti public transit billboards. So how do we get the message across against the megabucks media when we simply have no money. I agree it would be preferrable to buy one, but we can't win in the money game. They can always buy more billboards,TV,Radio ad infinitum.

[MichMan]

16. Look at all the suckers here who donated to Stein for her fake "recount"

Surely, there would be many here that would donate $$ for a legitimate cause.

[Squinch]

11. Ok, but Got Junk paid for that space. Better these guys should join with Mad Dog Pac.

[lambchopp59]

18. And "Got Junk" will have a head-turning form of free advertising.

The regular commuters know what the sign is, and would normally dismiss it as daily sight.
Now a good chuckle despite the message, will not only keep the seed of enlightenment on the situation watered, but will see that sign in the future as a beacon of a good message.
"Got Junk" might lose a few radical RW customers who can't get past their hatreds.
And likely gain a ton of attention (and business) onto their similar, and the replacement sign.
If they see a spike in business...
They ought to pay the vandals to change signs with shock value messages regularly.

[tblue37]

19. And all the news reports will mention the original "Got Junk" message, which is

even more free advertising. People (like me!) who have never heard of them but who actually might want to use such a service now know it exists.

[lambchopp59]

20. Come to think of it, I could use to jettison some flotsam and jetsom... and after all:

The Orange Dumpster won on the "no such thing as bad publicity" rule.

[Honeycombe8]

14. Not cool to hijack someone's billboard.

Someone paid for that, who had nothing to do with the children immigration issue.

[3Hotdogs]

17. Particularly if it was paid for by a local francise instead of corporate.

O.T.O.H., I am not pleased with "800-Got Junk" signs stuck in the ground around our local municipality.

[ProudLib72]

25. Note to maddog: THIS is they kind of billboard you need