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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:04 PM Jan 2017

Seems Paul Ryan is having some problems with the public.

A tweet on Twitter:

Paul Ryan had his phones cut off because of the volume of calls. Let's have a #PaulRyanFaxParty
Fax things to Paul Ryan
Fax: (202) 225-3393


The result: A few thousand have read the tweet. Many are faxing, and Ryan's machine seems to be overwhelmed with faxes. Getting through, but takes awhile.

Don't you love democracy? Resist.
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Seems Paul Ryan is having some problems with the public. (Original Post) kstewart33 Jan 2017 OP
Isn't the Cell Phone Fantastic? Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #1
Ha! :-) nt Sunny05 Jan 2017 #5
Understand his Janesville Office Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #8
Am cracking up ... Sunny05 Jan 2017 #11
Still think he looks like Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #12
Bwaaaa!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Sunny05 Jan 2017 #18
I can only see the "zombie-eyed granny starver". Cracklin Charlie Jan 2017 #27
Known of Ryan many years before Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #36
He'd be a good replacement for Dump Plucketeer Jan 2017 #38
That's it! NastyRiffraff Jan 2017 #66
Boat anchor tRump. Perfect! SammyWinstonJack Jan 2017 #30
Surely no-one would fax black sheets of paper would they? pkdu Jan 2017 #2
Good thing I don't own a fax machine.... lindysalsagal Jan 2017 #3
I like the way you think. nt Sunny05 Jan 2017 #6
I do own one. Crap. Control-Z Jan 2017 #42
Oh, allow me to assist with that: Free email to fax services! 5 of them! politicat Jan 2017 #47
I like the toner of your post. (Not a typo). n/t rzemanfl Jan 2017 #7
I hope not too many people copy that. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2017 #28
I prefer papers that simply say #RESIST!!!!! nt adigal Jan 2017 #22
OK , how about black sheets of paper with #RESIST!!! in large white letters? nt pkdu Jan 2017 #24
There ya go!! lastlib Jan 2017 #34
Exactly! Control-Z Jan 2017 #44
Nice! I like that! Nt adigal Jan 2017 #67
Undoubtedly electronic-to-digital fax, no hard copy. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2017 #25
Does anyone think that the fax machine is a physical one? mwooldri Jan 2017 #45
LOL The_Voice_of_Reason Jan 2017 #48
Just put a piece of black construction paper into my fax machine. MontanaMama Jan 2017 #54
Can we just storm the gates already, and put Hillary into office? NightWatcher Jan 2017 #4
at least she has a brain bdamomma Jan 2017 #59
he is a fucking coward. JI7 Jan 2017 #9
yeah, we decided we might as well call rethuglican reps. mopinko Jan 2017 #10
Let him have it! I find it amusing that GOP legislatures across the country are sponsoring bills... Tarheel_Dem Jan 2017 #13
+a brazillion! n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2017 #19
Boy, some creative cartooning is called for. nolabear Jan 2017 #14
This is where those postcards come in handy. Squinch Jan 2017 #15
you can mail it too....take a postcard and put some choice words on them, no swear words tho.. pbmus Jan 2017 #16
And postcards are good because they don't get held up getting searched nt adigal Jan 2017 #23
Dude--I can mass-produce those!! lastlib Jan 2017 #35
Yes! coco22 Jan 2017 #50
you know postcards work bdamomma Jan 2017 #58
Alternative Ryan contact!!! homegirl Jan 2017 #17
Thanks!!! n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2017 #20
And for those postcards leftieNanner Jan 2017 #26
Print your own postcards csziggy Jan 2017 #46
That's my task for tomorrow! SammyWinstonJack Jan 2017 #31
No mail on Sunday! FailureToCommunicate Jan 2017 #40
You have to be thorns on their sides bdamomma Jan 2017 #60
Yes I do. And I love the unabashed enthusiasm. ffr Jan 2017 #21
Here's a women's march radical noodle Jan 2017 #29
The most ridiculous thing is to watch Ryan try to defend Trump. His eyes betray him. Chipper Chat Jan 2017 #32
I think he knows full well what a fucking fascist liberalhistorian Jan 2017 #39
I don't disagree, but... malthaussen Jan 2017 #55
Why why why not fooled Jan 2017 #33
Severely gerrymandered state and look who the governor is...nt 2naSalit Jan 2017 #37
I keep trying to hammer this point home. LisaM Jan 2017 #52
Yup. 2naSalit Jan 2017 #68
as is Texas flying_wahini Jan 2017 #64
This isn't democracy Flatpicker Jan 2017 #41
Resist! Cha Jan 2017 #43
oh cha I like that one bdamomma Jan 2017 #61
What about MCConnell coco22 Jan 2017 #49
Keep the pressure up folks. and Thanks. riversedge Jan 2017 #51
KICK! nt lillypaddle Jan 2017 #53
oh yea, keep on doing it bdamomma Jan 2017 #56
are the White House phones up yet?? Angry Dragon Jan 2017 #57
Resist ,resist . resist , resist , resist , resist , resist . geretogo Jan 2017 #62
Tried the fax # on his "Speaker" site El Mimbreno Jan 2017 #63
LOL keepthemhonestO Jan 2017 #65

Sunny05

(865 posts)
11. Am cracking up ...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:16 PM
Jan 2017

Love the way you think, the way you write, ... ie, the way you double-meaning put it.

Sunny05

(865 posts)
18. Bwaaaa!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:31 PM
Jan 2017


Woooooh! Whoa. Gotta shake that off. I think I peed in my pants. Wait ... wait ...

Bwwaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!


Wooooh!!!

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
36. Known of Ryan many years before
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 10:20 PM
Jan 2017

he became a Congress Person. The Guy is a hard case,if you don't agree with his Politics,you are the face of his position. He is a John Bircher/Ayn Ryan beliefs follower,and as such,has been groomed by the Koch's as a up and rising star. Ryan's goal in still the White House.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
45. Does anyone think that the fax machine is a physical one?
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 12:59 AM
Jan 2017

I mean.... efax (and things like it) means no-one needs a physical fax machine anymore. Black pages? Just a heavily redacted document.

48. LOL
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 12:31 PM
Jan 2017

Oh trust me, some of us so would fax black...or better, fax white letters on black so there is still a message there.

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
54. Just put a piece of black construction paper into my fax machine.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:16 PM
Jan 2017

Great idea pkdu!! I'll keep you posted!!!

mopinko

(70,132 posts)
10. yeah, we decided we might as well call rethuglican reps.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:16 PM
Jan 2017

we used to say, oh, it wont help to call mine.
fuck that shit.
it's on.

resist

Tarheel_Dem

(31,235 posts)
13. Let him have it! I find it amusing that GOP legislatures across the country are sponsoring bills...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:25 PM
Jan 2017

to quash demonstrations. It takes a special kind of gall, especially after the Tea Party. Does anyone remember the armed gun humpers, marching up and down in front of the WH, while Pres Obama & his family were inside? If anyone had a reason to legislate against protests, it was John Lewis, after being spat on by wild-eyed, crazy white folk who didn't want poor folk to get access to healthcare.

Their new poutrage doesn't impress me in the least. I hope Ryan's phone never stops ringing.

pbmus

(12,422 posts)
16. you can mail it too....take a postcard and put some choice words on them, no swear words tho..
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:30 PM
Jan 2017

ACTION ITEM

Since Paul Ryan has blocked his office phones and fax numbers, and is turning away people who show up to deliver petitions, time to change tactics. Please mail post cards to his home address saying NO to defunding Planned Parenthood, NO to repealing the ACA, and NO to privatizing Medicare!

PAUL RYAN
700 ST. LAWRENCE AVE.
JANESVILLE, WI 53545

If you are a member of other anti-Trump groups, please cut and paste this on their group page as well.

lastlib

(23,250 posts)
35. Dude--I can mass-produce those!!
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 10:20 PM
Jan 2017

The only limit is the postage I want to pay........

(HMMMmmmm......--I bet I could photoshop a pretty good "Business Reply Postage" form.........maybe not LEgally tho......

bdamomma

(63,877 posts)
58. you know postcards work
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:40 PM
Jan 2017

I noticed when I sent Dianne Feinstein an e mail about not voting in Sessions, it came back saying just because I wasn't in her district they only acknowledge They are very particular with those e mails and who they can go to.

Better off calling if that works.

homegirl

(1,429 posts)
17. Alternative Ryan contact!!!
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:30 PM
Jan 2017

And now we take action: PLEASE SHARE!!!!

From Michael Moore:

Since Paul Ryan has blocked his office phones and fax numbers, and is turning away people who show up to deliver petitions, time to change tactics.

Please mail post cards to his home address saying NO to defunding Planned Parenthood, NO to repealing the ACA, and NO to privatizing Medicare!


Home address:
Paul Ryan
5320 N. Lake Drive
Whitefish Bay WI 53217-5372
For good measure
Headquarters:
PAUL RYAN
700 ST. LAWRENCE AVE.
JANESVILLE, WI 53545
Please COPY AND PASTE this info. Let's see what 67 million cards in the driveway looks like.







csziggy

(34,136 posts)
46. Print your own postcards
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 01:31 AM
Jan 2017

It's easy - most word processing program has a template for printing cards. If you can't find one in Word, download and install the free Avery Wizard. Or download the template for Word: http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-%26-Software/Templates/Cards/Postcards/Postcard-_--Wide-4-per-sheet_Microsoft-Word.htm

You can buy the blank postcards from any office supply store. They come four to the page and you can print a stack with the mailing address on one side and print your message on the other side.

Any meme that fits the message would be fine - or get free clipart and add your own message. To save on ink, line drawings would be better than photos.

If each page of cards is different that will catch their eye better than thousands of identical cards. Plus, the blanks are cheaper than pre-printed cards.

You could also print on plain card stock, but then you'd have to cut them apart. The pre-perforated cards are easy to break apart and are already sized.

bdamomma

(63,877 posts)
60. You have to be thorns on their sides
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:42 PM
Jan 2017

boy they like to forget about the American people don't they?

Chipper Chat

(9,681 posts)
32. The most ridiculous thing is to watch Ryan try to defend Trump. His eyes betray him.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 09:47 PM
Jan 2017

If he is an intelligent man (which I believe he is) he should be saying "oh just fuck it I cant stand it any more Trump you are an fucking nut job just get out of my life and while you're at it GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WHITE HOUSE."
.
probably won't happen

liberalhistorian

(20,818 posts)
39. I think he knows full well what a fucking fascist
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 10:34 PM
Jan 2017

moron Drumpf is and how dangerous he is, but he and his cohorts are using Drumpf to finally push through the shit he's been trying to enact for years, like destruction/privatization of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, draconian immigration policies, etc., etc. Once they've accomplished that, then they'll get rid of Drumpf. But he fits their purposes just fine right now, the country be damned. All they care about is their soulless Randian ideology, and maintaining and abusing power, period.

malthaussen

(17,204 posts)
55. I don't disagree, but...
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:32 PM
Jan 2017

... Mr Pence would serve equally well as a rubber-stamp. Thus, there must be something that makes Mr Trump appealing. Possibly, he is meant to serve as a fall guy in the near future.

-- Mal

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
33. Why why why
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 09:58 PM
Jan 2017

do his voters in WI keep re-electing him??? Don't they understand his goals? Don't they value their SS & Medicare?

My guess is they fall for his smarmy demeanor and don't really understand his agenda. Because they are naive dupes who keep voting for this guy, the rest of the country is endangered.



I hope that now his real self is being exposed, he loses next time. Of course, WI voters did return lil Snotty, twice, so who knows?

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
52. I keep trying to hammer this point home.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 02:14 PM
Jan 2017

Every time someone says Bush wasn't so bad, I remind them about the SCOTUS that just tore up the Voting Rights Act. Bush created this monster with his horrible Supreme Court picks.

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
68. Yup.
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 03:35 AM
Jan 2017

I am so troubled to see Wisconsin go in the direction it has under the current admin. I used to live there once upon a time, and I marched in the street in protests there and we were able to make ourselves heard, and for a while we did vote good people into office and it was a pretty cool place for a time. I moved away and I don't know how it all go so messed up. But that was decades ago, too.

And W screwed me out of the second half of my life which I had just completed a ten year investment in making a complete career shift. I don't want to get started, it makes me go places that are best left in the past, except to remember where I saw this picture before and know what's wrong with it this time around.

Flatpicker

(894 posts)
41. This isn't democracy
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 10:59 PM
Jan 2017

If the guy can shut down his phone lines because he doesn't like the feedback.

Flood all his systems with messages, fax, phone, email, FB.

But, unless you are in his voting area, it's not going to matter.

If you are in his voting area, start collecting recall signatures. Flush these turds out of the system, once and for all.

coco22

(1,258 posts)
49. What about MCConnell
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 02:04 PM
Jan 2017

Scott Walker, Ron Johnson..lets make contact with them everyday. By any means necesssary!

El Mimbreno

(777 posts)
63. Tried the fax # on his "Speaker" site
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 06:53 PM
Jan 2017

"Fax failed due to poor line quality at receiving end" Unplugged maybe?

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