Look what these whippersnappers have accomplished in 9 days....BRAVO

[jodymarie aimee]

Students have:

- forced CNN town hall
- got new commitments from Rubio
- pressured POTUS to call for bump stock ban
- led advertisers to leave NRA
- dragged D'Souza, Ingraham, O'Reilly online
- saw Florida aide fired for lies
- raised *millions* for march

It's been 9 days.

[rzemanfl]

1. K&R n/t.

[Aristus]

2. The Children's Crusade.

[bobbieinok]

14. PLEASE do not use this for kids. Historical ChCrusade was a horrible disaster

IIRC none returned home, many were captured and sold as slaves.

[Aristus]

18. Oh, I know.

I was hoping we could rehabilitate the term with something more positive.

[irisblue]

20. 800 years is too soon man.

[Stonepounder]

33. How about 'New Days of Rage'?

These kids are PISSED!! They are a few years younger than the college students who shut down their own colleges in protest to Kent State and the Vitenam War and forced a President to decide to not run for reelection.

Call it what you want,

Something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware.

[irisblue]

36. 👍🙋 Better

[PatrickforO]

22. I'm with you on this one. But we DO need to have these kids' backs, because

they will be ridiculed, smeared and threatened for speaking truth to power. They've got courage, but we need to join them.

[lostnfound]

38. What is this generation called, anyway? Not millennial?

[meadowlander]

3. They give me hope for the future.

[gibraltar72]

10. Hell they inspire me.

[efhmc]

4. Can someone please supply a link for donations

to the march? Please and thank you.

[Louis1895]

7. Here is one of them

https://www.gofundme.com/8psm8-march-for-our-lives

[efhmc]

11. Thanks. Made a donation.

[SergeStorms]

28. I just donated....

to one of the best causes EVER!

Thanks for posting the link.

[BigmanPigman]

23. These are links for the two events.

One is the Nationwide School Walkout # ENOUGH March 14th and the other is for March For Our Lives which is nationwide rallies like the Women's March on March 24th. The links have a "donate" choice at the top of the page. Spread the word. RESIST!

https://www.womensmarch.com/empower/
https://www.actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/enough-national-school-walkout

https://www.marchforourlives.com/
https://www.marchforourlives.com/donate/

Artwork/Emma
http://www.pocho.com/i-stand-with-emma-guncontrolnow-wecallbs-standwiththekids/

[BeyondGeography]

5. Got their Gov. to propose hiking the gun purchasing age as well

[Phoenix61]

6. Florida aid fired for lies?

Please, do tell. I missed that. And yes, they are amazing.

[Tanuki]

17. Claimed the kids were paid "crisis actors" and not really students

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/356960002

"An aide to a Florida state representative falsely suggested Tuesday that outspoken survivors of the Parkland school shooting were actually crisis actors. 
Benjamin Kelly, district secretary for Rep. Shawn Harrison, put his thoughts into writing, emailing a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times that several students who appeared on television criticizing lawmakers on gun-control laws actually travel to different incidents when they happen. 

"Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen," he told reporter Alex Leary. 

Harrison said he was "appalled" and fired Kelly after being made aware of the comments.
"I was just made aware that my aide made an insensitive and inappropriate allegation about Parkland students today," he said on Twitter. "I do not share his opinion and he did so without my knowledge."....(more)

[Fritz Walter]

21. I would suggest Kelly's next career move

Mucking out septic tanks. By hand.
Cleaning toilets at the Greyhound bus stations. Again, without protective gear.

But those would be taking jobs from honest, hard-working people.

I wouldn’t mind seeing him pushing a cart down alleys and streets, scavaging recyclables — but then again, there are too many other citizens who derive their livelihood in this manner. And no doubt, his would be a stolen shopping cart.

Karma, do your thing!
And the sooner, the better.

[Louis1895]

8. They put heat on the NRA

Lots of corporate sponsors pulled out.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. As horrible as the massacre at that school was, miracles might come from it.

[lame54]

12. I wouldn't count Rubio's chickens yet

[Chakaconcarne]

13. I hope they know this....

[StarryNite]

15. I hope they do too!

And I hope they know how appreciated they are for what they are doing and for what they are achieving!

[flygal]

16. They got me to donate to and sign up for Moms Demand Action!

My daughters will walk out of class on March 14 and we will march in Raleigh on the 24th. We've been inspired by these kids to help end this.

[lostnfound]

39. Working my way down list of 30 actions

http://www.30guncontrolactionsyoucantakenow.com/take-action

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. Here's the original tweet.

Link to tweet

[backtoblue]

24. Big big kick and rec!

These kids are so resilient and brave. The future looks a whole lot better thanks to these intelligent, articulate, and persistent children. They are persisting and resisting!!!!

[blake2012]

25. and they are just getting warmed up. I'm in California and these kids are starting to kick it

just imagine across the nation all of these well spoken teen leaders. The GOP and ugly right wing hacks won't be able to handle all of those people rising up.

And I am proud as a late 40's dude to support them any way I can and even march with them but let it be THEIR uprising.

[George II]

26. I hope they don't lose steam, doubt very much they will.

[Honeycombe8]

27. Way to go, kids! We're proud of you!!! nt

[onetexan]

29. out of the mouths of babes

Amid so much horror and grief arose courage and good from these brave young people. Hopefully the ball they've started rolling will keep keep rolling to effect the change we need.

[denvine]

30. Bravo!!!

[MadDAsHell]

31. And we couldnt get the most qualified candidate in history elected over the most UNQUALIFIED.

Us older folks need to gtfo of the way and let these kids take over.

The future is bright!

[backtoblue]

32. Kick nt

[brooklynite]

34. "When I was your age, I had to walk 10 MILES in a snowstorm to get a CNN Town Hall"

...uphill in both directions!

[oasis]

35. Bravo plus!

[NoMoreRepugs]

37. After that horrific shooting they are no longer "kids"....

that was taken away from them...they want it back and if they can get other high school students across the country to just pound the internet and Rethug politicians across the country on social media with millions of emails and tweets they can stop the NRA.

[Beartracks]

40. "dragged D'Souza, Ingraham, O'Reilly online" -- ??

Haven't been following everything. What does this refer to?

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[samplegirl]

42. I dont think they would like being called

Children or kids. I think they deserve to be called young adults! America’s new future! Anything but kids or children.

[Exotica]

43. I know you mean well, but I detest the term whippersnapper, it is almost always a slur

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/whippersnapper

noun
1.
an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.


https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/whippersnapper

whippersnapper
A whippersnapper is someone who is younger than you are but also irritatingly overconfident and impertinent, like your little smart aleck cousin.

The word whippersnapper describes a specific kind of bratty, know-it-all kid, and it's only used by an older person who is talking about a younger person. It's a fairly old-fashioned word, having been around since the late-1600s, when it apparently arose out of "whip-snapper," which implied a general sense of lots of noise and very little importance. Around the same time, the word "whipperginnie" was a derogatory term for a woman.

[Loubee]

44. Dare we suggest to Democratic leaders

that trying to avoid offending anyone and splitting the difference against extremists....is not the most effective means to bring about change?

[jovi]

45. I am so proud!!

In a few years I hope to see these students running for office. They are such an inspiration to the cruel political world we are in now. I see these kids doing great things. I live down the street from the road from the school and it has been amazing to watch these kids accomplish so much. Keep up the work and stay strong against all these SOB's taking shit about you!

[napi21]

46. I've been very proud & impressed by the students in Fla. & across the Country!

I sure was nowhere near as articulate when I was a Senior in HS!

I believe they have an advantage that we older folks don't have. Most of them will be voters either in 2018 or 2020 and how the legislature handles their demands today MIGHT determine their future in Congress. I believe THAT is one reason they're getting attention now. They're new voters and if the Pubs don't do something to fix the gun laws, all these new voters will be Democrats for life.

[tblue37]

47. Kids these days (are amazing). nt