That is one SERIOUS Town Hall going on in Metairie!

[nolabear]

CNN showing a very rowdy, angry Town Hall meeting with the GOP rep. Metairie is a suburb of New Orleans (they'd kill me for saying that, LOL) and those people don't PLAY.

That godawful bullshit being put out by the Despot about it being professional agitators (60s flashback!) is ridiculous. I know these folks. They're pissed and they want an accounting, and they know crap when it's shoved down their throats.

I'll give him credit; he's there and is taking it.

Do NOT let them get away with saying this isn't a genuine citizen uprising. Simply by not ignoring it the GOP gets to distance itself from the Despot and if they do they imply agreement with him. I think they're realizing that this will be their downfall.

[C_U_L8R]

1. It's only a matter of time

before Trump and the Republicans are run out of town on a rail.
Bullshit is a pretty weak strategy.

[nolabear]

2. Amen. People are not the innocents we used to be.

The reason the Despot is so hot to dismiss media is to control this stuff. They don't realize that we ARE media these days.

[not fooled]

10. AND to get rid of Net Neutrality

You just know dump is itching to shut down citizen access to a broad variety of news sources.

[Amaryllis]

27. I think it's even more about trying to impede us organizing. IT all happens online.

[mikelewis]

15. "we ARE media" is right...

[bora13]

24. American people

are the enemy of the American people. damn! what a world, what a world, what a worrrllllddaaaahhhh....

[KittyWampus]

3. thanks going to tune in. I really really really like hearing people from different Town Halls speak

[nolabear]

4. I've got a FB friend videoing the outside. LOTS of angry people.

Not a paid one in the lot.

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. I was there. Outside.

They only let 200 in. Those of us outside were all locals. I have seen some of the same people at trump protests outside New Orleans City Hall. No paid protesters needed! Louisiana Democrats are pissed!

[volstork]

20. I've been watching the Tom Cotton

one here on DU. The Arkansans are holding his feet to the fire!

[Skittles]

6. Dems /libs/ progressives seemed to have learned the lesson

being polite and courteous, taking the high road - it does not work when the opposition is UTTER FUCKING SLIME

[Old Vet]

8. You are correct Mr Skittles............

[JudyM]

28. Hopefully our congressional Dems will follow where we the peeps are leading.

[mopinko]

7. projection. it's always projection w them.

they know damn well that they fomented the whole tea party bs. they know the kochs and ginny thomas' group were putting money and resources into the whole damn thing.

now they are mad cuz we drinkin their milkshake.

[trof]

9. I have Cajun in-laws in Metarie.

They threw the best damn funeral I've ever been to.

[nolabear]

12. I do not doubt that. The living got to live!

[trof]

16. Three ladies in their church finerie...

Shucking oysters on a 4'X8' sheet of plywood across two saw horses in the back yard of the home of the deceased.

A keg of Abita beer.

A HUGE pot of gumbo on the stove.

Miz t's Uncle Nolan's funeral.

[nolabear]

21. Yep. You can't die without shellfish being involved!

Abita! Fancy! 😄

[BigDemVoter]

11. You are right, and it IS a very HIDEOUS suburb of New Orleans.

Everybody who lives there likes to say they are from "New Orleans." They aren't, and it isn't the same at ALL.

What is Metairie like? It is one HUGE strip mall. It just screams "Republican."

Sorry to offend any nice people who live there, but I never understood the appeal at all. I think most people who live there do so because "it's WHITE!"

[nolabear]

13. Well I'll just tell my relatives how you feel.

And where are your people?

[BigDemVoter]

14. LOL

They live in what USED to be a very rough area of New Orleans. . . They live in the "Irish Channel" between Phillip and First on the river side of Magazine Street. It used to be scary enough that taxi drivers wouldn't even take me to my house; they would make me get out on Magazine Street and WALK! It has totally changed after Katrina, as that was one of the only places in they city that didn't flood.

I think my distaste for Metairie has more to do with some obnoxious Republicans I knew when I was still living there, but it has been many, many years now. . . . Of course I can hold a grudge for a very, very, very long time when it comes to Repubs!

[nolabear]

19. I feel ya.

Heck, I even lived in NO East for a while.

But the Drago's in Metairie is worth the trouble.

[trof]

17. Aunt Alida will kick your ass.

She will.

[ginnyinWI]

18. serious question:

Is it the Trumpie voters who are now howling about not losing their healthcare, or is it Dems who were always against the GOP?

Cause if it is the former, why did they vote for him, then?

[Auntie Bush]

22. Stop saying they are good guys for attending their own Town hall meeting.

They're still scum as Maxine would say...and she's right!

[heaven05]

23. they are afraid

of losing something for themselves, they could give a damn less about anyone else, I think.

[nolabear]

26. Sure. They're doing their jobs. That's good. Also

lets us have evidence re what they're saying, what they're pivoting, etc. Better for us than them just ditching so there's no trail of evidence.

[Beartracks]

25. I *love*the claim: "big crowds PROVE they're paid!"

I mean... can you insult voters any faster than that? "We KNOW they're paid agitators from somewhere else because the crowd was so big!"

In other words: "We KNOW the voters in Whatchacallit County are usually un-involved and lazy and don't complain!"



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