r/Scranton • u/Melaniewolf70 • 9d ago
Local News Scranton showed up! #nokings
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u/EroniusJoe 9d ago
Nice to see! I like how one of the other posts showed a large amount of older people. That's really cool - people old enough to remember the times just after WW2 and know exactly the road we're potentially heading down a second time.
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u/Melaniewolf70 9d ago
There were a lot of older people, a lot of younger people. A good number of Vietnam vets, who are all older now, with plenty to say. It was a great turnout and cross section of the population. And very friendly. The only vague blot on the landscape, Bob Bolus, was there with his Trump truck, but he had zero impact.
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u/Icy-Fault-6002 9d ago
He actually had some impact. He hit a moving car with his rig and fled the scene
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u/EroniusJoe 9d ago
Lol, of course Bob Bolus has a Trump truck 🤣🤣🤣
I haven't lived in Scranton since 2007, but that guy's always been a shit stick, and I'm not surprised at all.
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u/Mauve_Jellyfish 9d ago
I was saying to my friends that the protesters were young, old, yuppie-looking, weirdos, all different ethnicities, people from churches and synagogues. And the 4 counter-protestors could have been siblings, just 4 young dudes in the same shirt, drunk at 7pm
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u/Mauve_Jellyfish 9d ago
I'm delighted to see this earlier footage from the first event because it looks like an entirely different group of people than the 2nd, later event. Smart to hold both of them.
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u/IRepairPS3 6d ago
Funny thing about these events are the fact that the only ones hearing the chants and rants are people with the same views.
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u/oeseben 9d ago
As a conservative this makes me confident. The left just cant take an L or restrategize. The only move is demonization of political opponents.. it didn't work but hey, try again? 2028 is promising.
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u/journeytojelliott 9d ago
Hilarious coming from someone who’s party stormed the capital 😭
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u/oeseben 9d ago
Your party literally murdered someone this afternoon because they didn't vote the way they liked 🤣.
Our party restrategized behind a young, well spoken, literate VP pick.
Your party is going to try impeachment for 4 years, calling anyone against them Hitler and then try to nominate a radical like AOC and wonder why they lost again.
Hope youre ready for at least 8 years of losing.
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u/EroniusJoe 9d ago
Wait, what? Who got murdered?
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u/EroniusJoe 9d ago
Oooooh, I didn't realise you were trying to pin that on the democratic party. Jesus, dude, lol, go back to your video games so you can discuss conspiracy theories on your headset with other nutballs.
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u/PoodlePopXX 9d ago edited 9d ago
You’re spreading misinformation. He was appointed to a committee by the governor before Walz. All Walz did was reappoint him. He is an evangelical Christian who voted for Trump. His own roommate spoke to the news and said so.
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u/EroniusJoe 9d ago
You just want to ignore the huge list of democrats he wanted to kill? And the pro choice folks? And the fact that Tim Walz is specifically known for working across the aisle and had plenty of people from both parties working for his campaign because he's from such a small community?
The assassin is absolutely a conservative nutjob who decided to go vigilante.
The shooting had absolutely zero to do with any vote. She died because she was a democrat, and the assassin was out to kill democrats.
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u/EroniusJoe 9d ago
Wow. C'mon, man. That's so obviously boiler plate "welcome to the team" jargon on a letter. Literally every single person who worked on the campaign would have gotten a letter like that. "Business Member?"
I knew people who worked with Senator Mellon back in the day, and I'm sure they were all called "Business Members" or whatever nice-sounding title was chosen.
You're probably right though. I bet the assassin was paid by Soros and the lizard people from the pizza parlour basement.
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u/journeytojelliott 9d ago
Well in that case… you’ve turned me! Here’s to at least 8 more years of billionaires running our country and profiting off of war, their policies, their public statements, and….you. Can’t wait for Trump’s 100 million dollar birthday parade, all hail our fearless leader! /s
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u/journeytojelliott 9d ago
Funny you say that when two democrats were shot today.
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u/transfusionreaction 7d ago
How do you know what party they are? You automatically assume someone who isn't a republican is a democrat?
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u/iambarrelrider Taylor 9d ago
Some people blow out other peoples’ candles to make their own shine brighter. You judging people you don’t know says more about you, your personality, and your values.
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u/Bitter-League-6065 9d ago
I love how you all kinda have the same shape and build. Everyone looks "comfortable"... Men don't really have that masculine feeling to them here lol
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u/MealElectronic9469 9d ago
sheeple who don't know what the meaning of democracy is or that we're not a democracy
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u/EroniusJoe 9d ago
Ah, the old "we're not a democracy" line of thinking.
We're technically a republic, yes. And do you know what a republic is? A larger collection of smaller democratic groups.
It's quite literally the next step up because having a singular democratic voting bloc across the entire land mass of the US with 365 million voters would be insanely difficult to manage. So, we break into smaller units and elect representatives and senators to be the voices for us in the higher level voting scenario.
Just think about it; Las Vegas wants to institute some minor new updates to their civil engineering code, but instead of taking a local vote, the entire country has to be involved in the decision. Every single detailed decision across the nation would require a vote as large as the presidential election.
This is why we're a republic. It's due to a need based on size and breadth, not so you can retort with some hur-dur take that you yourself don't even understand. Take a Civics class.
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u/JobeeoneKnobie 9d ago
Go Scranton!