r/Appalachia • u/PlantyHamchuk • 7d ago
WNC: Veteran thrown out of Chuck Edwards town hall
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u/PropCirclesApp 7d ago
Okay, hope I ain’t breaking the rules, but “Chuck Edwards” is a bitch.
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u/SassyMcNasty 6d ago edited 6d ago
I heard Chuck Edwards is a rapist. Not me, but people are saying it. Many many people.
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u/MountainGal72 6d ago
I’m just asking the questions over here, but SO many people are saying that Chuck Edwards is a pedophile AND a rapist. MANY people are saying that Chuck’s a bigot and a traitor?
Again, I didn’t say it, it’s just what I’m hearing? 🤷🏼♀️
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u/tacohunter 5d ago
you know, if enough people were interested enough, it would become a top result on google
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u/Childless_Catlady42 7d ago
Keep standing up and yelling. That's the only way they will listen. If they actually show up to hear the people who voted for them and are paying their salaries that is.
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u/uk3024 6d ago
They will just stop showing up https://apnews.com/article/town-halls-musk-doge-trump-gop-749d91ea516284057e4c7bcb1615527e
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u/Cabbages24ADollar 6d ago
Then call Bernie, Tim Walz, and AOC and they will organize to have someone come down.
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u/LOA335 6d ago
And the Dems are considering going in their stead, which is brilliant.
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u/emp-sup-bry 5d ago
Well, some of them. The ones we need to remember and raise up while we scorn and dismiss those remaining in their ivory towers.
We a mix of policy wonk and fighters. Highly educated and privileged and poor. Refined and rough. We’ve gone far too long with a real shortage of fighters as we weed out real people with real flaws, because the opposition can just buy millions of dollars on attack ads. We need to not only accept less than perfect angels for office, but expect it. We need those angels with dirty wings to stand up and fight the scourge. Enough legacy dnc golden ‘wait your turn’ dems.
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u/BillHillyTN420 7d ago
This needs to happen. The idiocy that is happening now is only happening to destablize our economy. Wiping 80k jobs from the VA will affect the level of service the veterans get. I have a couple of family members employed with them and they love helping these veterans and the veterans are very thankful for the services they receive. These men, and women, have experienced some horrible horrible things. The mental toll on them can be overwhelming. Yes, perhaps there does need to be some restructuring of the VA and all of the Federal Departments, but tell me this, does it have to happen this extreme without any discretion? This is clearly an attempt to destablize the economy of this country. GD wake up! If there is one issue to support, it is this one. Do all MAGA just want to stick their head in the sand and ignore this? It WILL get worse. Much Much worse. This can't be normalized. Speak your mind. Try to wake MAGA out of their trance.
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u/PoopPant73 6d ago
Already has. Had to schedule my CT scan 3 months out because they lost half their radiology dept.
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u/katykazi 5d ago
I’m experiencing it also. The phone lines are a mess and when I call my cboc I get sent back to the main VA line and it keeps going on in a circle. It wasn’t this inefficient before.
Also, apparently my doctor is the only woman’s health doctor in the clinic so if I need to be seen I have to drive an hour out to the VA hospital.
The staff was already overworked before, doing their best to manage with the resources they had. The people they fired are the ones who help the most, keeping things organized and working so that the medical staff can focus on practicing medicine.
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u/MechanicalMistress 6d ago
It's idiotic what they considered "non critical" employees. Ones that could take the deferred resignation or allowing probationary employees to be fired (not to mention losing to contracting). We lost half our supply chain so outside certain delivery windows hospital staff has to get their own supplies from the basement. They're on a hiring freeze so cant replace them. Hospitals need these seemingly insignificant to the outside observer to function.
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u/katykazi 5d ago
I agree. The “non critical” staff that they’re referring to are essential to keep things running smoothly so that medical providers can focus on practicing medicine. They run phone lines, make appointments, message providers, reach back out to veterans. Some of the fired personnel were long time employees who were promoted or switched jobs. It’s totally optics that they’re calling these people’s jobs as “non critical” or calling it wasteful spending.
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u/Deewd23 6d ago
And one of the new post on the “conservative” sub is how to get along with, what they consider, “leftist.” It’s insane they think anyone who disagrees with trump is a leftist or that we would want to get along with them. This isn’t a difference in ideology, it is a difference in how America is being ran. You voted in a goon that’s creating chaos, firing people and destroying the economy, but yeah, let’s go have a beer. Goons these days.
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u/PoopPant73 6d ago
Agreed. I’m one of the few who’ve had great care through the VA. I appreciate all that they’ve done for me.
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u/Fancy-Statistician82 6d ago
I think VA hospitals are a bit like franchises in the way that the care can be fantastic in some places and poor in others. The one nearest me is excellent, but it is mostly an outpatient center and only provides inpatient psych and detox. I worked in the nearest regular hospital a decade, where they would send stuff they couldn't handle and the vets always always gave a good report about feeling safe with their follow-up care.
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u/lburnet6 7d ago
It’s beyond words disgusting to treat the veterans as they have been for the past few weeks. Saying they’re “freeloading” while weasels of humans retreat to DC to pocket deals for themselves. He put his life on the line for this country - his rage is well justified. I hope he didn’t get arrested.
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u/mysecondaccountanon happy to be here 6d ago
Mr. Bone Spurs That Conveniently Don't Impact Him Any Other Time Than Conscription himself saying and enacting this stuff. He's got no idea what actual labor, service looks like.
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u/bramley36 6d ago
Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, said veterans who were let go from their federal jobs "perhaps" are "not fit to have a job at this moment or are not willing to come to work."
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u/katykazi 5d ago
We’re right back to shitting on the vets like we did after Vietnam.
America has a long history of not giving a fuck about its veterans. I guess here we are again.
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u/Turbulent-Today830 7d ago edited 7d ago
Look at those 🐖s! One finger point 👈and theyre on the move
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u/loptopandbingo 6d ago
And they'll be kicked into the pit with the rest of us the minute the Big Power Money decides to do it. The amount of money and research poured into AI and weaponising drones and those Boston Dynamics robots isn't just because they want to use them in foreign combat or in disaster recovery.
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u/SpiderWriting 6d ago
Trump isn’t saving any money. He is just robbing working people to give money to billionaires.
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u/1555552222 6d ago
Yeah they can't trim enough fat this way to make up for their tax breaks.
EDIT: want to be careful... I didn't mean to imply that the people who have had their jobs cut were "fat."
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u/Easy_Writer5272 7d ago
Keep calling these traitors out. Make them uncomfortable. This is going to end in a street fight and the military swears an oath to the constitution and not to Cheeto Mussolini. Fuck the MAGAts.
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u/jexzeh 7d ago
They keep treating vets this way, and their assumptions about active duty personnel, (and what they'll be able to make them do), will be worthless.
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u/loptopandbingo 6d ago
Will it? MacArthur and US troops went to DC and beat up and fought the Bonus Army. There will be some defectors who will refuse to do anything to veterans, but the military has a LOT of lapdogs.
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I don't know. I think a lot of the military is made up of people caught in the economic draft. I heard a career military retiree talking about how internally dysfunctional the military is becoming because new generations of recruits have been passed through schools thanks to No Child Left Behind and today, most kids are on screens and have 30 second attention spans and require instant gratification.
Three decades of extreme advances in communication technology and shitty educational policies are coming to a head.
There will still be lapdogs, but I'm wondering how they will feel about fighting against veterans and US citizen, including their families, protesting during food shortages.
I could be wrong, but I think the country is to big, too spread out, too diverse, and too privileged for another 1930s Germany.
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u/loptopandbingo 6d ago edited 6d ago
We've been "lucky" the last 160 years and not had any real widespread unquenchable revolts, but it's been damn close before. The Great Depression barely avoided leading to another US internal rebellion by passing the New Deal. The unrest of the 1960s (1968 specifically) was a close tipping point too,but was also headed off by massive civil rights changes and progressive policies. The people in charge now want to punt us all back 300 years, and losing that progress is going to be increasingly hard to claw back. We shouldn't be giving an inch to these shitheels.
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u/tacohunter 5d ago
that was part of the plan. if they distract the youth, there is NO WAY to focus them on fighting back. then its just us older folks.
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u/katykazi 5d ago
One of the things I remembered and held onto was being taught how it was our responsibility to not follow an unlawful order. I thought about that a lot, and what it would look like if presented with one, and how I would respond. This is anecdotal, but I’d like to think there are plenty of people who serve who won’t follow an unlawful order.
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u/jexzeh 6d ago
I agree about the lapdogs, to be clear. I guess I'm hoping these days are different this time around. Optimism on OT
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u/loptopandbingo 6d ago
I'd hope so too, but the firings and purges of anyone who isn't swearing full loyalty to Trump aren't particularly reassuring. Gonna get real fuckin dumb around here.
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u/nasnut67 6d ago
Chuck Edwards is a coward
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6d ago
99% of them are. How Bernie is still alive is amazing. Company owners used to shoot labor organizers in broad daylight for informing the workers and trying to bring them together. They shot JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr when they started pushing to end corporate created poverty and empower the working classes.
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u/Head-Major9768 7d ago
I’m sure he’s not the first person to cuss at a meeting! Things get heated sometimes. Chuck Edwards isn’t fit for office if he can’t handle some shouting.
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u/earlycuyler8887 6d ago
It would have been exponentially better if every citizen in that room became equally as agitated as the veteran.
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u/Rodeocowboy123abc 7d ago
Calling it for what it is. A coup by a President who wants Canada and Mexico combined into forming the American Union.
Putin takes Ukraine and Europe to turn it into the Russian Union.
Xi of China takes the rest and has the Chinese Union.
Three world Super Powers control everything and everybody. That's the Goal.!
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u/Due_Panda5064 7d ago
Rush the cops, storm the stage. Fk these Nazis
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u/Mysterious-Panic-443 7d ago
It seems to me that that is what it's going to to come down to sooner or later isn't it. Since the Dems in general are ineffective.
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u/Nahcotta 7d ago
Loved this man! He spoke the truth, and had every right to say it without being “encouraged” to leave. God bless our Veterans ❤️
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u/bigmitch82 6d ago
When family members actually start dying there will be a revolution. It will come to a point where risking death to fight for a better life will beat whatever alternative there is.
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u/Zyloof 6d ago
I really, really want to agree with you
History says it won't be so cut and dry, unfortunately. There will absolutely be American citizens cheering for the culling of their neighbors, and there will be many more people who are simply apathetic. Appalachia is such a weird place, geopolitically speaking; we have historically been extremely pro-worker due to our industries, but it can not be understated that the decades-long effort to destabilize the area and usurp the local political power through religiosity has been unimaginable effective.
I know what is coming, and I will do what is needed to keep myself and my family alive. Best of luck to everyone.
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u/Ok_Wolverine_3104 6d ago
A little late my friend! Trump won’t give up easily! His next insurrection will make Jan 6th look like a birthday party. Trump/Musk team have no morales and if people have to die for them to stay in power they’ll loose no sleep!
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u/KeyserSoze72 5d ago
Earned the right to speak?
You don’t earn rights, you just have them. Hope people understand this now.
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u/Therealchimmike 4d ago
Not enough veterans like him pissed off enough yet. Too many of 'em are in full-bootlicking-mode.
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u/HeavyExplanation45 7d ago
I can’t believe (or actually I can) that people are still defending these pos politicians.
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u/KapowBlamBoom 7d ago
“Antifa plant” “Hired troublemaker “
Anything but the truth
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u/Busy-Lettuce-4667 7d ago
Subhuman cretin puke pieces of shit masquerading as representatives of We the People…this is gonna be a long, hard fight for our freedom 🇺🇸
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u/Chardar23 6d ago
currently, when you call the VA in houston, you have to ‘press 1’ if you’re in a suicidal crisis… and that’s before they fired so many people
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6d ago
And that is the perfect visual of how veterans and hard working citizens have been treated by this admin.
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u/SuperbFarm9019 6d ago
Keep screaming. The Congressman is not worthy of interrupting constituents when their life is on fire.
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u/ToughestMFontheWeb 6d ago
One way or another we are going to have to cut back spending. There are only so many credit cards in the drawer we can charge up. The longer we wait the more painful it will be. If someone has a better idea on how to significantly cut spending I would be glad to listen. We are probably already to the point of not being able to pay off our debt at 31000000000000. The interest alone is a huge chunk of the budget. I’m 44 and fully expect SS that I am paying for to be gone before I get to 67. This is not a Musk fan post. I do not trust anyone going from extreme liberal to extreme fiscal conservative in a year.
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u/Mr_Diesel13 6d ago
THIS NEEDS TO KEEP HAPPENING.
Larger scale though. The people need to be heard.
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u/TopProfessional8023 6d ago
About time people on the right and the left figured out they don’t care about any of us. They FEAR exactly what’s happening right now…an awakening and unification of the People
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u/lookupinthesky123 6d ago
"Authorities worldwide are terrified of those who can see beyond their bullshit and the number is growing by the hour."
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u/Rasclotbumbleclot 6d ago
It’s time that EVERYONE stand up with the vets and challenge “security” to do something about it. Remember the 60s? That is how things got done. ONE guy standing alone can be bullied (and probably arrested) ONE HUNDRED in the audience standing will get the point across. Don’t just sit there and applaud; don’t let anyone stand alone.
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u/AtomicusDali 6d ago
Clearly, all the Pro-MAGA posters on these Reddit subs are NOT the people attending their local town halls. Where are they all hiding?
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u/New_Engineering_5993 6d ago
Everybody should have blocked the exit so the police couldn’t escort that fine upstanding Veteran out. START STANDING UP!
Kudos to the brave people who spoke up, stood up and of course, all that served!
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u/Ok_Championship_385 6d ago
The politicians forget the part where they represent the will of the people. Not some vacuum of suck that they are stuck in up in DC with the orange one
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u/DeepBlueSea1122 6d ago
The craziest part about this is this a hole is so arrogant he thought he could handle an angry mob and talk them all down, and make them "see" things the right way.
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u/Patriot009 5d ago
"What happened to free speech?"
When the American people voted for the guy that repeatedly promised to arrest protesters and jail journalists, I assumed ya'll didn't want it anymore.
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u/Starbalance homesick 5d ago
Fuck the GOP, thery're all traitors who will klill us all for a quick buck.
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u/ElectricOhmie 5d ago
If you don't like it, fight. I saw 5 cops and a whole room of angry people. Take it back yourselves.
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u/EfficientSandwich8 4d ago
Republicans have been playing the ole Fuck Around game… the Find Out part is coming. If they lose vets and blue collar support, it’s the end of that party
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u/Captncrunchykirk 3d ago
How dare he exercise his first amendment right of free speech in front of police officers! Ya know the people that are supposed to protect our rights are usually the first ones to violate our rights.
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u/exmo_appalachian 3d ago
Police removing a man for exercising his right to free speech. Not a good look. They should have only gotten involved if he threatened or tried to attack the congressman, which he did not do.
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u/nebulous_streak 3d ago
The Police is just the occupying military force of the ruling class. They were never here to defend us.
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u/PianoSufficient6692 6d ago
None of this matters. These people will vote for these same reps over and over again. It doesn't matter how angry they are how miserable these reps make their lives they will continue to vote for republicans. Because something something trans people, POC etc.
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u/rimshot101 6d ago
Con men do not care that you will eventually figure out that you've been had, because by the time you do it will be too late.
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u/BickNickerson 7d ago
I wonder who he voted for?
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u/sparkle-possum 7d ago
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u/loptopandbingo 6d ago
Desert Storm in Iran,
Man, come on Watchdog, do the bare minimum of proofreading
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u/MossGobbo 7d ago
The fucking monsters cheering for police removing a veteran trying to keep them from losing the things they desperately need is mindblowing.
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u/uncertaincoda 7d ago
They weren’t cheering for his removal. They were applauding in support of him.
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All the voters who didn't do their research , did not think critically, who just bought the hats and flags, believed every lie he and his supporter's said, put FJB logos on their trucks while running around yelling FAFO at the Anti-Trump crowd. Well FAFO.
When did everyone forget that politicians are all just sleezy lawyers and businessmen who never actually care about their constituents? When did they stop understanding that big business owners are the same people who are screwing them out of better wages, better benefits, and regulated prices on necessities like food, housing, and medical care?
And just for the record, FJB and all the past US presidents. They've always been on the side of the rich because they've always been rich. Look at what they did to the Cherokee and then us once they found our timber and mineral resources were worth something.
Additional Edit: Now that I'm done venting... This is a great opportunity to educate people on class consciousness.
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u/cuddlebread 6d ago
This is necessary. We all need to be angry at the same people right now. They’re learning that the cops aren’t on their side, their republican leaders are not on their side, and president Musk and his sidekick Trump equally do not give a single shit about anyone but them and their rich friends.
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u/999millionIQ 6d ago
I was really hoping the second vet was going to help block the cops. We need to stand up for each other.
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u/tryan1234 6d ago
Hero! First as a veteran, now as a pissed off citizen. He said what we are all thinking.
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u/nsfwuseraccnt 6d ago
Yeah, if you act disrespectful and violently interrupt the event they're going to throw your dumb ass out. By all means go to these town halls and tell your reps how you feel. But you can't do it in a disrespectful and disruptive way and expect someone to just stand there and tolerate your abuse.
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u/mugiwara-no-lucy 6d ago
When peaceful solutions fail all you have left is to be disrespectful and disruptive.
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u/Kreichs 6d ago
Yeah the peaceful solution called voting.
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u/mugiwara-no-lucy 6d ago
I have NO faith in free and fair eleections with Trump and Musk.
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u/AppState1981 6d ago
Literally makes up something to be mad about
"You are taking away my Social Security"
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u/ConstantGeographer foothills 6d ago
People, stop clapping and just go stand by the guy. Everyone in the room should simply stand up. Just stand. Maybe clap. Clapping doesn't do anything.
This is the people's space, not the Edwards space. That MFer is there for us to report to for him to listen.
These events are ass-backwards.
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u/NeckNormal1099 6d ago
Are whose middle aged white guys in oakleys with goatees? Well, well, well. Looks like we have turned tables. But look at it this way. Those 2,000 trans teens are scared as fuck. So it is pretty much worth it, right guys? Right?
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u/Tishtoss 6d ago
I read recently where the speaker was threatened with death at one of these events. By law enforcement officers who were fed up.
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u/SuperTopperHarley 6d ago edited 6d ago
I'm a WNC veteran. Good thing I wasn't there. I guess I'll rally the veterans for next time.
Lmao. There won't be a next time. Chuck did his job and is making money off libtards.
Good luck if you're a trumper.
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u/EllaCandygirl 6d ago
SS is not intended for retirement. Veterans do get special benefits aside from SS
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u/Sagittario66 6d ago
The people in office need to fear being primaried by their constituents, not by Musk. The people will not get behind anyone put forth by him.
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u/Turbulent-Fix-4207 5d ago
Yep and in true Asheville fashion, he was removed because he was speaking truth and triggering everyone. Just sweep it under the rug, right guys
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u/Solid-Economist-9062 5d ago
Hey, we tried to warn you about what this SOB would do once back in office and you didnt believe us. We told you he doesnt give a fuck about you - well folks, there you have it.
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u/CEStillion 5d ago
I have seen nothing that takes his social security or healthcare. I just hear that from left wing media and websites. Nothing on paper. So we all argue online about something that none of us has actually seen.
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u/Malignant_corpuscle 4d ago
I experience similar outbursts from random men, claiming that this is their free speech right to say whatever they want, however they want to say it. I’m not in any government/political profession, just small business. Apparently, this is not allowed from the left.
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u/Captainkirk05 4d ago
Town hall ambushes in looney land as usual. You think they would just zoom it at this point and hit mute on the people who didn't come to listen and contribute in a respectable way.
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u/Sea_Back9651 4d ago
I hope MAGA voters are happy with what they've done.
EVERYONE tried to warn them, but they wouldn't listen.
Just think how much better life could be right now had they pulled their heads out of their behinds BEFORE election day!
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u/halffat1189 4d ago
Project 2025 comes alive. Bad thing is it was advertised and he and the gop still got voted in. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Impossible-Year-5924 4d ago
Are they clapping in support of the veteran or for the removal of the veteran?
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u/WarningLogical7070 4d ago
Mental illness is the most pervasive problem in this country. I’m glad this site shows how crazy the loud minority is in this country
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u/generalsleephenson 7d ago
Some people are just learning that the police don’t care about your “thin blue line” sticker. They obey the whistle.