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mopinko

(70,088 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:34 PM Jan 2017

turn off the teevee. turn off the news. turn on cspan. watch the speakers.

just stream it on your teevee, like it was really the news on the teevee.
cut the cable recently and miss the background box. till today.

after watching the live stream of the chicago march (and they did march. when they were told they couldnt, they calmly walked through the barricades and spilled out into the streets.)
i went to cspan and hit the stream. i couldnt get the live, so i hit the taped part, and it has been running ever since.
seems live to me.
i cant not do any audience participation bits.
right now sayin her name.

so many couldnt get to any of the marches, just physically. left on the train platform.
then so many infirm.
then so many just, ya know.

but how many are watching the cspan feed now?
my dogs are sure i have lost my mind.
sayin her name.

trayvon martin's mom.
fem the future
hell you talkin bout?

now it has looped back to where i started, and i have no desire to shut it off.
angela davis.

turn it on. let it loop in around and wrap you up.
srsly.

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turn off the teevee. turn off the news. turn on cspan. watch the speakers. (Original Post) mopinko Jan 2017 OP
100% agree. When PBO spoke, I turn to C-Span because I don't need to have him filtered. Hestia Jan 2017 #1
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