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Showing Original Post only (View all)I now live in Spokane, WA after 10 yrs in Portland. Today I saw [View all]
Not one but TWO overpasses along I-90 with people waving flags and Impeach Obama banners. Seriously....what the FUCK?!
I'm laughing at them as I drive giving them the thumbs down sign and I'm thinking, "Impeach him for what, you fucking racists?"
All of the people were, of course, white. This is the day after I stopped by Democratic Party headquarters in downtown Spokane to say hi and get voter registration cards.
I guess it's good I'm in a more conservative part of a very blue state so I can see this politically asanine group up close.
And.....I'm just miles from Idaho, one of the reddest states out there. I relish the opportunity to get involved here.
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I now live in Spokane, WA after 10 yrs in Portland. Today I saw [View all]
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
OP
There's some good folks up there, but they don't call it "The Ingrown Empire" for nothing.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2013
#1
Register lots of Democrats. It's precisely in Republican areas that we need to be out
JDPriestly
Aug 2013
#30
they can wave banners all they like . we are going to have 8 yrs with a black prez
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2013
#5
Glad to know some DU'ers are in the area. It has been a bit of an awakening for me
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#7
Ah the dry side. When Stephanie Miller was in town there was a huge busload from there.
nolabear
Aug 2013
#10
yes, that is one of those "positives". Not as much dreary rain. We will see how the winter goes....
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#14
Yeah. I had a good laugh at Portlandia as it hits on a lot of truths about PC culture
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#79
uh yea. I cannot stand Utah. I don't know how I would survive. I also told my wife we are never ever
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#15
Imagine my shock upon moving here from the San Francisco Bay area....
left on green only
Aug 2013
#54
?Do you mean the unaffiliated right wing anti government weirdos are mostly unemployed
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#22
still not getting you. mostly senior citizens bored and spreading the crazy?
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#24
wow. yeah. I can tell the difference when I go to downtown Spokane vs. Couer d'Alene
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#41
that's a good point. Hey, when you said Table Rock I immediately thought of Missouri
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#31
I live on the east side of the Spokane metro area, and can see Idaho from my house.
hoosierspud
Aug 2013
#38
Whaaaat, this did not happen in Florida, Texas or in what is considered the South in general?
Rebellious Republican
Aug 2013
#43
Thanks, I wish more people would wake up and see what is happening all across the nation.
Rebellious Republican
Aug 2013
#49
I'm looking forward to it. I did time in a town of 800 in Kansas with some real yokels
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#50
Why do you instantly label them as racist? DIdnt the banners just say "Impeach Obama"?
7962
Aug 2013
#56
because at this point in his presidency....only racists would be that motivated absent any ACTUAL
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#57
You should read the justification for Impeachment in the Constitution and the allowances
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#66
not just losing a ballgame. getting swept 2 games to none by combined score of 30-3
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#59
Yes..."pretty liberal" compared to much of the country--but not compared to PDX
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#80
The internet connects those losers. Most don't have lives that are worth shit. The see themselves
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#67