The Unfathomable Sadness of the "Patriot March" Nothingburger

[WilliamPitt]

The dude at the 0:30 mark is what makes this art.

P.S.







...this is how you do that. Circa 2003.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "WHERE ARE YOU AT?!?"

I shouldn't laugh, but...

Oh, yeah. I should. It's funny.

Where are they at? Well, it was going to rain, and Hoverounds don't perform well when wet.

[gratuitous]

8. Someone should inform him

That true patriots don't end their sentences with a preposition. Allow me to fix it for you: WHERE ARE YOU AT, ASSHOLES?

No charge.

[Fred Gilmore]

10. More Correct:

"Wherefore are't thou, other assholes?"

[enough]

2. Interestingly, those big marches didn't bring the result we wanted, either. (nt)

I agree, there is sadness looking at that video, and at the photos below it.

[WilliamPitt]

3. We showed up.

[Hekate]

20. Yes we did.

[WillyT]

27. Yas We Did !!! - K & R !!! - Showed Up Here Too !!!

[enough]

29. Yes Will, that was my point. We showed up, in huge numbers, over and over,

and it still did not have the result we were looking for.

[onehandle]

4. And yet these are the people who control the House of Representatives.

And possibly soon, the Senate.

I remember laughing at the Free Republic porta-potttie fail.

Harder to laugh these days.

[2naSalit]

9. Naw...

They don't control the House... it's controlled by the financiers of this crowd who put on the show so the real culprits can hide in their ivory towers and point out the window claiming it was someone else.

Pathetic is what I call it.

[erronis]

25. +1 - you nailed it.

[rhett o rick]

5. I wonder what H. Clinton-Sachs's reaction would be to seeing the bottom two pictures. nm

[Fantastic Anarchist]

6. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE WEATHERIZED!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. So, let me get this straight. The rest of the nuts couldn't get there because

climate change?

[Brother Buzz]

13. That, or the 'Dialing for Dollars' marathon conflicted with their schedule

[AAO]

11. so sad and pathetic, yet embarrassingly hilarious!

[1000words]

12. ((( sad trombone )))

[KurtNYC]

14. Is he saying "Where you at?"

Jennifer Hudson has already made that into a music video. Would be fun to do the dub step version mixing in red shirt guy as if he and Jennifer were singing about their heartbreak:

Urban dictionary offers the defintions below and also points out that the phrase was used in a T Mobile commercial to try and connect with the young and hip.

Where you at!?
1. a term used to ask a person where they are.

2. a term used to ask a person how they are.

3. a term used to ask a person how far along they are, i.e. on a homework assignment.

4. simply a greeting.

1. julie, where you at!?

2. hey beth - where you at?

3. where you at on the english paper?

4. where you at, mo?

[malaise]

15. Breathtakingly hilarious

[pinboy3niner]

16. Next time they'll avoid putting on camera the guy who "fortified" himself for the revolution

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. I still get teary eyed whenever I see the crowds from 2003.

[senseandsensibility]

28. Me, too.

That was overwhelming reaction to this post. The "dude" was funny, but the photos from 2003 are heartbreaking.

[NightWatcher]

18. So all Obama needs to keep them away is a garden hose?

They scatter quicker in a drizzle than two cats humping in the driveway

[pinboy3niner]

21. Everybody knows it's unpossible to do an event in the rain...

[Helen Borg]

19. Who's the meth head girl at the end?

I've got my sound off...

[dhill926]

22. awesome...

"trapped in the campgrounds…." pure performance art...

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

23. what they get about 30

people?

[ctsnowman]

24. Somehow

I don't think most of the crowd is going to agree with a free Chelsea Manning person but I could be wrong.

[Jack Rabbit]

26. Where is everybody at?

Well, guy, you still can't grow a grass roots movement on astroturf.

As for the young lady at the end talking about people be stuck in camps surrounded by water, I'll bet she still doesn't believe in anthropogenic climate change.

[IDemo]

30. The FEMA camps have been surrounded by moats? Good job!

[treestar]

31. Agent Mike is to be commended nt