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WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Borowitz Report)Organizers of a massive Inauguration protest announced on Saturday that they intend to surround the White House on January 20th in order to prevent President Barack Obama from leaving.
According to Harland Dorrinson, the organizer of the protest, after the plans for the demonstration were announced, between eighty and ninety million Americans expressed an initial interest in participating.
People really seem to like this idea, he said.
He acknowledged that people were still planning to petition the Electoral College, but added, This idea has a much better shot at success.
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redwitch
(14,948 posts)Johnathan146
(141 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Not sure what they mean by surround the White House. Four blocks away? Nobody will be close to the White House that day.
And what are they trying to accomplish. Do they think that if Obama cant leave he is just going to keep being president?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)so it's satire
mopinko
(70,238 posts)not sure if this is the hardest time ever for sarcasm, or the easiest.
sheshe2
(83,928 posts)Thanks, yo.
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)They won't be leaving by car or foot.
But a nice thought.
lutherj
(2,496 posts)A quarter of the population? This is the first I have heard of it.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)This is a stupid idea.