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Funtatlaguy

(10,886 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:24 PM Jun 2018

Is there a national tipping point? Do you have one?

What would it take for the left and center to rise up and start disrupting the country?
Boycotts, blockades, sit-ins, daily marches on DC and state capitals.

Is it the firing of Mueller or Rosenstein?
Is it the permanent kidnapping or some reported deaths of children taken from parents?

What will make enough truly be enough?

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Is there a national tipping point? Do you have one? (Original Post) Funtatlaguy Jun 2018 OP
The United States Gov't stealing children and wanting to put them on black sites is it for me. nt Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #1
Black sites? Not familiar with them. Funtatlaguy Jun 2018 #2
Like where they kept the terrorists...places that nobody knows about, no one knows what goes Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #6
Here you go Blue_Adept Jun 2018 #33
Human trafficking bdamomma Jun 2018 #3
This would fit in with their sex trafficking/pedophilia preoccupation. Projection? nt Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #7
++++Hell Yes lunasun Jun 2018 #12
THANK YOU !!! Were are the babies and little girls !?!?! Fuck all the dumb shit !! uponit7771 Jun 2018 #13
Deaths of Children in these Interment Camps. Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #4
We're well past tipping point. We just need one effective way of protesting. unblock Jun 2018 #5
I don't see it yet. Funtatlaguy Jun 2018 #11
We need more pics and vids, that's more truthful than whatever rhetoric we can put out but uponit7771 Jun 2018 #14
or a lot of kids bdamomma Jun 2018 #18
We need a protest that will "go viral" unblock Jun 2018 #19
not even close AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #23
We have been asking that for two years. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #8
Well the torturing and drugging of children is getting close to me. Initech Jun 2018 #9
Way way past my own but media loss, big market crash run out of beer . The center is just lunasun Jun 2018 #10
when he referred to himself as The Donald... samnsara Jun 2018 #15
You were disgusted then....but not the kind of rage Funtatlaguy Jun 2018 #16
you know I keep on thinking about this non violence bdamomma Jun 2018 #20
They are sociopaths and psychopaths Funtatlaguy Jun 2018 #22
19,000 Dow Jones texasfiddler Jun 2018 #17
nope; GOP would love 19000 DJI! Total buyoff AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #24
only great depression; millions losing jobs AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #21
This, nothing short of an economic implosion will bring unity Amishman Jun 2018 #34
I'm passed it. KentuckyWoman Jun 2018 #25
Pictures of the immigrants' dogs stranded and starving. klook Jun 2018 #26
If they came for my family, house or job metroins Jun 2018 #27
I'm past my point. Volaris Jun 2018 #28
Beth McDonald enid602 Jun 2018 #29
I think we are a long way off. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #30
I've reached my point a long time ago. ck4829 Jun 2018 #31
I tipped awhile ago. I have no more chill for anyone who still supports Republicans... TCJ70 Jun 2018 #32
 

Trek4Truth

(515 posts)
6. Like where they kept the terrorists...places that nobody knows about, no one knows what goes
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:31 PM
Jun 2018

on in there and there is NO ACCESS. We already have no access now...can you imagine when they shudder all the people and children away.

RUMP himself belongs in there since he is a TERRORIST...inflicting fear and terror on others for political gain. That is the definition.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Deaths of Children in these Interment Camps.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:29 PM
Jun 2018

Children taken to Places out side the Country.

What we are hearing is this,major outbreak of Chicken Pox .


unblock

(52,317 posts)
5. We're well past tipping point. We just need one effective way of protesting.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:30 PM
Jun 2018

Anything could be the straw that broke the camel's back. Really a majority are well past that point.

We just need that one kid to say the emperor has no clothes.

It's not like we don't know, it's that we don't know how to get airtime with protests.

Funtatlaguy

(10,886 posts)
11. I don't see it yet.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:34 PM
Jun 2018

I still see a lot of the both sides do it garbage.
The we must play nice and go high still rules the day especially on corporate media (even left leaning media).
He’s not quite outrageous enough yet.
I think that 60% of the country is counting on Mueller to be our savior.

Most people will not disrupt their own comfortable lives ......YET.......

uponit7771

(90,363 posts)
14. We need more pics and vids, that's more truthful than whatever rhetoric we can put out but
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:39 PM
Jun 2018

... we should also hyper focus on where the babies and the little girls are.

This is not only a highly moral issue, its the right issue at the right time and winning politically

bdamomma

(63,922 posts)
18. or a lot of kids
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:57 PM
Jun 2018

to say he has no clothes, but then the media never can get a accurate number of demonstrators cause that department has been curtailed or not needed, or are they afraid to get the true numbers that attend these protests.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
8. We have been asking that for two years.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:32 PM
Jun 2018

If we don't start up'ing the game a bit...we are all going to go down. Whether we like it or not....into everyones life, a little rain shall fall. It's getting to be a subtle war footing, and that's what they have brought us to. if we don't respond in kind...we are going down. It's our chance to lock arms...and get about the tough business of it.

Initech

(100,101 posts)
9. Well the torturing and drugging of children is getting close to me.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:33 PM
Jun 2018

Add the firing of Mueller and Rosenstein, and deaths of the kids in these camps, and I would say we have war.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
10. Way way past my own but media loss, big market crash run out of beer . The center is just
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:34 PM
Jun 2018

that, so it rarely disrupts . sad to say & just my opinion
but those resisting can at least influence the center crowd to agree with them if not act with them
Not that easy to do either or for them to care

Funtatlaguy

(10,886 posts)
16. You were disgusted then....but not the kind of rage
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:47 PM
Jun 2018

I’m talking about....
I’m talking change your life rage.....which comes at a personal cost of loss of money, jobs, friends, family......I’m talking all out civil disobedience (non violent).....things most of us have never done or considered....not, just the occasional run of the mill march and generic speeches.

bdamomma

(63,922 posts)
20. you know I keep on thinking about this non violence
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:02 PM
Jun 2018

/violence thing the Charlottesville thing they were out for blood all those young/middle aged men who wanted to bang some heads, but then we got a woman mowed down by a car.

Think about it...………...sigh... these are hateful SOB's we have here. White nationalists, KKK sympathizers. tRump loves those thugs.

Funtatlaguy

(10,886 posts)
22. They are sociopaths and psychopaths
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:25 PM
Jun 2018

They are bigots and sexists and xenophobes that wrap themselves in flags and bibles.
They can not be reasoned with.

texasfiddler

(1,990 posts)
17. 19,000 Dow Jones
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:56 PM
Jun 2018

The only place to hit the morality of the GOP and the 401k accounts of white retired people .

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
24. nope; GOP would love 19000 DJI! Total buyoff
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:37 PM
Jun 2018

Trump is actively trying to induce either recession or second great depression. That’s how the wealth is transferred to the top.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
21. only great depression; millions losing jobs
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:23 PM
Jun 2018

apathy is unbeleivable. Most people around me are not at all interested in politics, avoid news but I live in a bubble. Still I think other regions are even less politically involved than SF. I gurantee you if I tune out and cut off all news for 6 months I won’t notice a thing. I know that because I did it a year ago - it was the happiest time. People are sick of politics and may even avoid polling places in november.

Amishman

(5,559 posts)
34. This, nothing short of an economic implosion will bring unity
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:19 PM
Jun 2018

Where would these protests and sit-ins occur? Where are the places that would be shut down? In cities. In very blue districts. All our outrage happens in places where we are preaching to the choir.

To make something big happen we would need to get Middle America to turn on their masters. That won't be easy to do as they are segregated from us geographically and socially. The Trump/Republican core gets their news from Fox and is 50+ miles from the nearest protest. Their social circles are just as insulated. It's easy for them to ignore what little daylight peeks through as the economy in rural areas is picking up after a long period of stagnation.

It would have to hit their daily lives to wake them up. The only thing I can imagine hitting that many all at once in a negative enough way is another great depression.

KentuckyWoman

(6,692 posts)
25. I'm passed it.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:14 PM
Jun 2018

I have more power now than I ever had in the 60's. Get enough old ladies to go have a seat with Congressman John Lewis we could shut down anything.







klook

(12,165 posts)
26. Pictures of the immigrants' dogs stranded and starving.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:19 PM
Jun 2018

Many Americans hate brown people, but they love dogs.

Not even being sarcastic, sorry to say.

metroins

(2,550 posts)
27. If they came for my family, house or job
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:13 AM
Jun 2018

I'll be honest, I won't fight for anything until it hits me directly. I'll try to profit off any situation or steer clear if I can.

My tipping point is when it's already too late to do something.

I'll keep voting and donating, but not personally fighting or being outspoken.

Volaris

(10,274 posts)
28. I'm past my point.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:06 AM
Jun 2018

One of the things I do for work is drug screens for DOT and Federal employees.
I told my office manager the other day if I thought I could get away with it and it not cost HER anything, I wouldn't so much as answer the phone for them until every single one of those kids were put back into the arms of their parents where they belong. Fuck this government.

And I'm very very close to NOT caring WHAT it might cost her. Just sayin.

enid602

(8,651 posts)
29. Beth McDonald
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 11:54 AM
Jun 2018

We might be seeing it. Beth McDonalf, radio personality in PHX, just said 20 min ago that Congress will gut SS, Medicare and Medicaid in July to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
30. I think we are a long way off.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 11:57 AM
Jun 2018

It would take an attempted postponing of an election or for it to become clear to the masses that their vote does not count.

TCJ70

(4,387 posts)
32. I tipped awhile ago. I have no more chill for anyone who still supports Republicans...
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:00 PM
Jun 2018

...and only a slight amount of chill for people who acknowledge their vote for Trump was a mistake.

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