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"Boston Tea Party" has sich a nice ring to it. It sounds good. Even though it wasn't a party and it wasn't about tea.
So, how about "The great Malheur French Vanilla Coffee Creamer Siege of 2016"?
"Your gramps was there, kids. They had arrested our leaders but they hadn't broken our spirits. The FBI had us surrounded and laid siege to our fortress, ready to crush freedom under their boots once and for all. The cold hand of death was upon us, but we were willing to face it like true freedom-loving patriots. We were determined to hold out, but a man gotta eat and drink. When we ran out of French Vanilla Coffee Creamer... "
Any other ideas?
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)lame54
(35,281 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Or A Snacky Thing Happened on the Way to the Penitentiary.
padfun
(1,786 posts)The real story will be something about useless trash destroying public property and receiving tons of dildo, and bags of dicks. or maybe they will skip that part, but these yahoo's didn't really seem very bright and would be an embarrassment if someone came out in favor of this group.
I really don't think very many Americans were rooting FOR this group. Maybe .001% of the population. Even FOX didn't look favorably on it. And that is saying a lot.
CommonSenseDemocrat
(377 posts)gladium et scutum
(806 posts)never make the History texts used in any school in this country.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)ananda
(28,856 posts)..
linuxman
(2,337 posts)In the grand scheme of things it boiled down to armed loitering.
RandiFan1290
(6,229 posts)David was telling us about the "gay milk" agenda and its destruction of the pineal gland yesterday morning as he sucked down a cigarette.
They also marveled at the "sunset rising"
That was comedy GOLD!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)moondust
(19,972 posts)Make a movie for rednecks similar to "American Sniper." Finicum can be the "martyr." Wouldn't surprise me if somebody is already writing a screenplay.
flamingdem
(39,312 posts)I win the thread.
moondust
(19,972 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Even the news junkies are hearing about nothing but Trump and friends.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)(that's how they will treat it)
dembotoz
(16,798 posts)So depending on Nov election it will be glorified either some or as the awakening of the new 1000 yr amurika
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)flying rabbit
(4,631 posts)PufPuf23
(8,764 posts)No laws will be written nor policies changed,
Some of the "camp" items of satire may survive.
JI7
(89,244 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Meh.
History won't care.
Des Moines De Mon
(35 posts)But there won't be a Dustin Hoffman movie. Or miniseries. Or sitcom (now that I'd watch!)
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)Legit history books? I dunno about that.
maxrandb
(15,316 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)past due bill that old man Bundy while FOX News is occupied with Donald Trump.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)let alone a real history book
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)it will make it into a history of the militia movement... yes, there is such an animal
Or a second edition (greatly revised) of "Fire Across the Plain." That is a 1990s study into the militia movement.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)clan would rise up as a real revolution, when people on the other side could fire actual weapons that can draw blood, without the painless do overs of World of Warcraft...
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Kudos to the nameless genius behind that one.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)What a giant snoozefest with a couple of embarrassing interludes.