2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAnti-Clinton protest organizers to hold giant "fart in" in Philadelphia during convention
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/worlds_largest_fart-in_planned_for_hillary_clintons_acceptance_speech_in_phPhiladelphia: Cheri Honkala, the leader of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign, announced that her group was organizing the worlds largest fart-in to be held on July 28 at the Wells Fargo Center during Hillary Clintons anticipated acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination.
We will be holding a massive bean supper for Bernie Sanders delegates on American Street in my Kensington neighborhood on the afternoon of July 28, she said. We are setting up a Clintonville there, modeled on the Hoovervilles of the 1930s where the poor and unemployed built shanty towns. The Sanders delegates, their bellies full of beans, will be able to return to the Wells Fargo Center and greet the rhetorical flatulence of Hillary Clinton with the real thing."
Honkala said she would issue an invitation to Sanders to join the bean supper, which she is calling Beans for Hillary. She has asked donors to send cans of beans to 1301-W Porter Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 19148.
Any remaining beans will be served to the homeless, although we will, of course, be urging Sanders delegates to eat as much as possible, Honkala said.
Chris Hedges, an author and activist who is an ordained Presbyterian minister, will open the Beans for Hillary meal with a nondenominational prayer.
I am happy to bless a meal that will be put to such effective political use, Hedges said.
I have no idea why the entrenched establishment voters don't take this crowd seriously.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Good one
bigtree
(85,986 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...except maybe this:
...but this was only one guy.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)sheshe2
(83,728 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)sheshe2
(83,728 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)DrDan
(20,411 posts)ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)Talk about the most counterproductive protest ever.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I would hate to think he'd turn his nose up at them ...
First time a crowd tear gases itself.
Freddie
(9,258 posts)Just in case
Armstead
(47,803 posts)I do admire their creativity.
Only catch is that individuals cannot always control the time and place of gaseous emission after consuming.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Who needs whoopie cushions when you have such control?
Armstead
(47,803 posts)maybe that's one reason for my discomfort with it....He used to fart in my face or otherwise use his "talents" to annoy me.
Freddie
(9,258 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,951 posts)...Sanders delegates avoid this comedy - leave stuff like this to the Trump crowd.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)Its the same arguments I have heard against Clinton since she started. They have nothing but hot air.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Clinton will grab some for you out of her purse.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)A fart track on the chorus would be so moving!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)I asked my 12-year-old son if this protest was a good idea. He said no because no one would actually be able to smell the farts in the convention center, so what was the point. Boom. There it is. 12-year-old boys are all eminent experts on farts, so he should know.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)He might still know, thought I'd probably just check with one of our 10-year-old grandsons first. Well, all I can do in this case is hope what goes round comes round, and not spiritually or metaphorically either.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)WhiteTara
(29,699 posts)their side. I want to make sure all their needs are met from that fabulous demonstration.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Be censored?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)What are these people? Twelve years old? Stupid juvenile action....
BeyondGeography
(39,367 posts)edgineered
(2,101 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)in a sad, pathetic way.
You REALLY can't make this shit up.
Ace Rothstein
(3,157 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)but I can't fart at will. Guess I'll just stay home.
Does anybody have any idea of what they expect to accomplish with this fart in? And can you imagine them telling their children someday that their contribution to the revolution was to fart in the general direction of the DNC???
NBachers
(17,098 posts)Sounds like a real blast.
SirBrockington
(259 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)LuvLoogie
(6,975 posts)demosincebirth
(12,536 posts)TwilightZone
(25,456 posts)Croney
(4,657 posts)There will be music and chatter, so no one will be able to hear farts. The only people who will smell them are those in their own group, so they will just be stinking up their own space. I think this has to be a joke.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Shtupid!
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)glennward
(989 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,173 posts)My advice: (1) Eat LOTS of beans; (2) Be careful of that high 'F' at the end!!!
mcar
(42,298 posts)Otherwise I have to question this "idea."
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)Poor confused dear. Guess she's never heard of this guy.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)could say I'm surprised by this, but I'm not. Not after all the temper tantrums throughout the primaries.
riversedge
(70,182 posts)HarmonyRockets
(397 posts)fart-in? Who else here is doing this?
Cha
(297,117 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)So glad they found something to do with their time since there are no more rallies to attend or Democratic officials to assault and threaten!
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)I can't imagine this to be real.
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)Alfresco
(1,698 posts)Are Trumpsters invited to this special occasion?
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)and the rest of us wondering how badly did their parents fail them
Haveadream
(1,630 posts)Because nothing says "here are the programs we want to enact for the poor" like standing around trying to fart. And these are the people who want to direct policy? What a relief many don't identify as Democrats!
Welp, Bernie and his supporters have been spewing hot air for months now, constantly belly aching, stinking up the place with conspiracy theories and inexplicably butt hurt. This explains a lot.
Bernie and his "movement" will go down in history as a fart joke. And they are doing to themselves.
Good job Berniacs!
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)So glad to have survived to see this day.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)#soilthepants