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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed May 28, 2014, 12:29 PM May 2014

Operation American Spring Officially Ends — It Was Pathetic

By Michael Tuck on May 27, 2014

Operation American Spring “officially” ended today with a whimper instead of a scream, as the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally rumbled through Washington, DC to commemorate Memorial Day, ignoring OAS entirely.

The annual “Ride for Freedom” was made up of some 6,000 motorcycle enthusiasts of all ideological and social stripes. The Operation American Spring organizers had desperate hopes that the bikers would join them and bring their movement back from the dead. However, nothing that took place in the rally had any connection to OAS, the Facebook-driven push to “impeach Obama and his criminal administration” by a few dozen far-right malcontents that was supposed to culminate in an occupation of the Capitol District by “tens of millions of Americans.”

The idea was that they would remain in place, howling and shrieking and waving signs and unread copies of the Constitution, until Obama and his gang came crawling out of the White House with their hands crossed before them, waiting to be zip-tied and hauled away. That isn’t what happened.

In reality, a few hundred “patriots” (at most) milled aimlessly around the Mall for a few hours before going home to engage in a maelstrom of finger-pointing that included the “traitor” Glenn Beck, the conservative media and “alternative news groups and commentators”, and, of course, the Obama administration, which allegedly blocked their social media access and perhaps even held rain dances to deter the tens of millions of patriots from coming out in the morning showers.

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Operation American Spring Officially Ends — It Was Pathetic (Original Post) DonViejo May 2014 OP
"perhaps even held rain dances to deter the tens of millions of patriots" Tarheel_Dem May 2014 #1
WHAAAAAT? 951-Riverside May 2014 #2
AHHHH Magical Thinking.....What a wondrous thing....Believing it will make you look a fool....NT abakan May 2014 #3
Does this mean Obama can go back to his office now ? eppur_se_muova May 2014 #4

eppur_se_muova

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4. Does this mean Obama can go back to his office now ?
Wed May 28, 2014, 03:23 PM
May 2014

I hear he's been out of the country -- obviously just trying to duck these guys ...

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