rally to restore sanity

ed243421

i'm all for it

good luck today people

but was this country ever sane?

it should be called

rally to produce sanity

cuz this daily overdose of corruption, greed, and political propaganda

will finish us off

unsung

This country used to be sane but that changed many moons ago.

norm

cat stevens and ozzy with dueling train songs


everybody get on the love train!!!

Claireack

What's sanity??

gimmesometruth27

norm wrote:

cat stevens and ozzy with dueling train songs


everybody get on the love train!!!

that was awesome.

Pepe Silvia

norm wrote:

cat stevens and ozzy with dueling train songs


everybody get on the love train!!!

sadly the reality is led zeppelin's cover of the train kept a rollin will probably prevail

Commy

jon's closing speech was great....




a world where the guy that cuts everyone off to get onto the new jersey turnpike isn't given a job as a pundit, but where the everyday concessions by hundreds of people in said street are celebrated.

Commy

here are the signs...


http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100- ... ore-sanity


i like...


"suck my balls glenn beck"



and the muslim holding up the sign that says,

"am i acting suspicious?"



and

"#1 threat to america...gay mexican muslim bears."

chime

Commy wrote:

and the muslim holding up the sign that says,

"am i acting suspicious?"

Not that it makes a difference but isn't that guy Sikh

Commy wrote:

here are the signs...


http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100- ... ore-sanity

Thanks for posting... was fun to look through

Smellyman

chime wrote:

Commy wrote:

and the muslim holding up the sign that says,

"am i acting suspicious?"

Not that it makes a difference but isn't that guy Sikh

Commy wrote:

here are the signs...


http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100- ... ore-sanity

Thanks for posting... was fun to look through

Ya Sikh. kind of the point though, many baggers don't know the difference and harass them. Sikh's have been attacked for being muslim.....

Smellyman

Commy wrote:

here are the signs...


http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100- ... ore-sanity


i like...


"suck my balls glenn beck"



and the muslim holding up the sign that says,

"am i acting suspicious?"



and

"#1 threat to america...gay mexican muslim bears."

colbert just did a hilarious segment called 'fear for all' where he interviewed a Muslim, Mexican, gay guy, artificial intelligence guy and a bear guy. It killed me.

Watch:
Part 1
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/363665/october-28-2010/fear-for-all-pt--1
Part 2
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/363666/october-28-2010/fear-for-all-pt--2

arq

Awesome!!!

JaneNY

I went - it was pretty amazing. And packed. We were near the middle, around the corner of 7th and a cross street, couldn't see a thing, couldn't hear much, stayed in the thick of things till about 1:45, and it was great to be there and be counted. So many hilarious signs; we ended up sitting on a curb next to an old guy who had these bags of protest buttons from generations ago, and we sat looking at all of them and him telling us where he'd gotten them. One of the best costumes was a very accurate walking pot leaf, and there were plenty of Christine O'Donnell signs, zombies carrying signs and walking in character.

It was seriously packed - I've been in NIN pits that were less tight than where we were. People climbing seemingly unclimb-able trees to get a better view.

When we looked behind us it was full - when we looked down the cross street of the approach, the whole street was full of people coming toward the rally. It was the biggest thing I'd ever been at. Didn't hear much of what Jon Stewart said so I'll have to go find it on youtube, but it was great being in the middle of this and represent basically - everyone was in such a jovial mood, and the idea of reasonable-ness and sanity DID abound.

Backstop-440

I drove down there from Cleveland on Friday night and stayed in Silver Spring. Got to the Metro station about 9:45 and the platform was busy but not too insane, but when we changed trains at Ft Totten it was a MADHOUSE. Getting off the Blue line at the Archives was just a sea of people, many already with their rally signs out. One said "I want a PONY" and another said "Signs are an unsuitable medium for political discourse". There was a guy with an alien baby bursting out of his chest and the alien held a sign that said ANCHOR BABY, he even had a Weyland-Yutani logo on the shirt.

We walked down 7th and it was already quite crowded at 10:00. The grassy area of the Mall was solid people, we tried to get as close as we could but we ended up at the second set of Jumbo-TV's back, maybe 300 yards away. Standing there like sardines reading all the signs and stuff. Everyone was almost overly polite... I mean we're all standing here belly-to-back, you don;t need to apologize every time your bag hits my leg or whatever.

One nice thing was that everyone put down their signs once the actual show started so we could all see. I'd say the majority of the signs were jokey "This is my sign" or joking about how signs are dumb. There was certainly more anti-TEA signs than ones resembling a conservative view. The one I laughed at the most said NOT PENNY'S BOAT in scrawly letters.

There were people everywhere, stacked up on the steps of the museums across the street even, all the way back to almost the Washington Monument. I know of some people that didn't get there until noon and couldn't even remotely hear anything so they found a bar with a TV and the bars were all packed solid. We hung around for two hours after the show ended to look at some monuments and stuff, and even then the Metro was packed solid like sardines. There was an older Indian man at one of the stations that said that was the closest thing he'd seen to a Mumbai train station in his 25 years in America. I got a chuckle out of that because it wasn't nearly that bad - no one was hanging on the outside of the train or carrying livestock

All in all it was great to see that many people in one place having a good time and not rioting or screaming or pandering for the cameras. There were a lot of people that were there just to be there and really weren't sure of the reaons for the whole thing, but Jon summed it all up at the end:

The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything we eventually get sicker. And perhaps eczema. Yet, with that being said, I feel good. Strangely, calmly good, because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a funhouse mirror, and not the good kind that makes you slim and taller -- but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass like a pumpkin and one eyeball.

Jeanwah

Commy wrote:

here are the signs...


http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100- ... ore-sanity

Thanks for posting these! I really wanted to be there.

CJMST3K

I loved the "fuck that, my waffles are ready" sign.