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Its really a way to honor a family that ... has shown that the country is bigger than any one individual, said Peter Kauffmann of VoteVets.
I can only hope Trump looks out to see a virtual SEA of these shirts...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/veterans-john-mccain-donald-trump-july-4_n_5d1a43ace4b07f6ca581c21e
WASHINGTON ― Irked by President Donald Trumps plan to hold his own July Fourth event on the National Mall, veterans plan to give out thousands of USS John S. McCain T-shirts to make the president face a crowd of people honoring the McCain familys legacy and the idea of putting ones country before oneself.
VoteVets, a left-leaning nonprofit group founded in 2006 by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, is organizing the effort in response to Trumps unprecedented Salute to America celebration. While Americans will still be able to catch the annual fireworks display on the National Mall, Trump is hosting his own event at the Lincoln Memorial, where he will give remarks and has set up a ticketed area for VIPs, friends, family and members of the military. Trumps event will include military flyovers and possibly tanks.
Today, we learned the news that Donald Trump is turning the national 4th of July celebration into a 2020 campaign event, complete with a ticketed VIP section for friends and supporters, reads a Sunday email from VoteVets. Thats not what America is about.
VoteVets has already raised enough money to make more than 5,000 T-shirts, which veterans will hand out to people on the National Mall and, before that, deliver to members of Congress. All of the shirts, which feature an image of the Navy destroyer named after three generations of John S. McCains including the late Arizona senator and Trump critic are being made by Rags of Honor, a company that employs homeless veterans.
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Gothmog
(144,939 posts)MineralMan
(146,262 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,757 posts)I have my problems with John McCain's politics, but just the thought of thousands of those t-shirts greeting Il Douche makes my heart happy because it would just put him into an apoplectic fury.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I don't wear stuff like that in public, but I plan to save the shirt (if I can get one) until later next year, then wear it in public as much as possible when the MAGATS break out their dunce caps.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)are also going to be part of the protests that day.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/01/washington-dc-4th-july-tanks-protests-baby-trump-balloon/1617386001/
PROTESTS in DC...
tRump Baby Balloon:
The liberal activist organization Code Pink is planning to fly a Baby Trump blimp," referencing the 20-foot blimp that flew in London during Trumps visits there in 2018 and 2019. According to the event description, it is still fundraising to make sure Trump gets a great view.
Flag Burning:
The man at the center of the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case that protected the burning of the U.S. flag as constitutionally protected free speech is planning to protest the president as well. I am going to D.C. on the Fourth of July and Im going to burn the flag in protest (of his) whole fascist agenda," Johnson told USA TODAY.
hlthe2b
(102,138 posts)"can't say Merry Christmas until Trump came to office"...
No, I'm not saying he shouldn't do it, nonetheless, but everyone had better be prepared for his fake fury for days on end...
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)being banned/burned next by the unAmerican, librul elitists.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)How do I get me one ?!