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Anti-Clinton protest organizers to hold giant "fart in" in Philadelphia during convention [View all]
Philadelphia: 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.
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...as in "gas".
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)Pull my finger.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)If that is the case, I hope they will provide a full recap.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)This idea puts the organizer in a category that might be titled "I am an unserious idiot." That would be a 1 on the scale.
But Comedy Gold?
Gotta rate this one a ten on that score--the late night talk show hosts and all the cable comedy shows will have a field day with this stupidity.
Mz Pip
(27,439 posts)Anything that makes liberals look stupid takes the attention off of them.
This sounds like an episode of South Park.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)TwilightZone
(25,464 posts)busted by Harper's?
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Or some other small rodent
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)Because that's the impact.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)but it's certainly a creative, and an accurate, response to "the rhetorical flatulence of Hillary Clinton."
Clintonville is certainly an appropriate response to Clinton neo-liberalism.
I can't say I disagree with this:
Efficacy? Who knows. It sure as hell provides a great way to express opinions about the whole thing.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)they'll accidentally shit on themselves once they see the evilcrookedcorporatist3rdwayer officially get the nomination and realize the futility of their efforts.
skylucy
(3,739 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)This is hilarious.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)What a blast!
Scientific
(314 posts)However, people may think it's the Republicans since they blow so much stinking bullshit at the American people.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)"We fart in your general direction"!
Very tame by old standards. We threw a few thousand dead lab rats at Nixswine.
I'll donate a big pot of pintos.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)It could present a sticky and potentially unsafe situation, with leakage and all.
quickesst
(6,280 posts)Great idea!!
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Spazito
(50,290 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)It makes progressives and Democrats seem petty, juvenile & out-of-touch, when it's really just very few Sanders fans who are.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... but only because I want them to be humiliated. (Is that mean of me? Am I a bad person for being so fed up with such nonsense that I actually WANT them to fail and be humbled enough that they re-think their strategies?)