VelvetRevolution.us (an organization co-founded by The BRAD BLOG) has got a huge billboard truck that will begin driving around D.C. beginning next Tuesday.
This will be on one side…
This will be on the other side…
Feel free to leave your thoughts here in comments about any future signs you’d like to see VR make noise with around Capitol Hill.
While VR has the truck, the cost of getting the billboards made is not cheap. Thanks to the good folks at AfterDowningStreet.org/CensureBush.org for supporting the effort and helping VR raise the funds for the costs of the signage.
Your help is needed as well. Please contribute to the effort here. The Velvet Revolution thanks you…
UPDATE: JPentz of ReallyNews.com has made a printable WORD version of the first graphic available if you wish to make your own noise, in your own hometown!
OUTSTANDING ! ! !
Oh would I love to be there and see the looks on people’s faces!
This is excellent – A cross country tour would be great too!
I think you’ve covered it all, except for "STOLE TWO ELECTIONS."
I love it! Please come drive around Florida too! So proud to see positive actions of any kind! Truths talkings points.
I just love it! That’s what we need, first D.C. then fleets of trucks everywhere–in red states, in blue states. Democracy hits the road. Power to the people.
Make sure to drive by the offices of "The Washington Post", T.V. stations, the right-wing Think Takes, by Karl Rove’s house, and the homes of any pundits and talking heads–and then, come drive by The New York Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox–See if they notice it–the truth– right in their faces.
Love it…but a word of caution here: make absolutely certain that all licences, insurance, paperwork – everything – are in perfect order! The truck will be stopped and searched, I’ve absolutely NO doubt. And crew should watch their backs when parked, have loads of ID, and prepare for "vandalism" (no pun intended) anyway.
Good luck!
only drive around and around in a "free speech zone" and you’ll be safe.
George Looks o’Reilly Good in Horizontal Stripes. It Brings out his Better Features !
Driving Through Some RED States WILL Require Armor. . .
Slogan suggestion:
"I’M THE PRESIDENT, SO I AM ABOVE THE LAW…YOU ARE NOT!"
Everybody with a car and a printer should make an A4 document in landscape ,with "GOOGLE" typed in (165size underlined) accross the top half of the page.Then border the whole page and print (b/w’s OK).
Now if you get a large felt pen and hand write the most current unreported news story ,like "downing street memo" , "jeff gannon" , "election fraud" , "5 dancing Israeli’s" , "911 omissions" ,etc. Now tape it nicely inside the back window of your car ,bingo instant news alert.Change the message as new stories break "on the Net".
Like Brad says "Be the Media".
what do ya think?
9/11 + Iraq = Bush’s Islamic Republic in Iraq and Palestine
Love it! Wonder what will happen when it hits the road…keep us informed 🙂
The sign I made for rear window of my minivan is just:
STILL BELIEVING BUSH?
Other car sez:
NOT FOOLED BY BUSH
A message to real conservatives(not fake ones like Ricky!) from a real conservative:
"From a Real Conservative
I am tired of all of the bull going around in this country concerning politics. I am a real
conservative. I’m someone that wants my privacy protected at all times. I want government out
of my life as much as possible. I don’t want to give half my income for some scheming
bureaucrat (Democrat or Republican) to line his pockets while pretending to be fixing things for
me. I want the strongest military possible because I believe in the "speak softly but carry a big
stick policy".
But I don’t want that same military messing with my civil rights. The founding
fathers didn’t want intrusive federal government. I personally believe that if they saw what we
did with our freedom, they’d have left us a British Colony. I am tired of having billions of dollars
flowing out of our country to prop up some asshole that is screwing his people just as badly as
the current den of thieves that pretend to run this country while making their friends rich at my
expense.
I hear all kinds of people crying about the 600 billion spent on Defense. Nobody’s
crying about how the other 2.2 trillion dollars is spent every year. I know why the "The Roman
Empire didn’t see it coming". The only difference between us and the Romans is that we haven’t
elected a horse to the Senate yet, several dozen jackasses, but no horse. And that’s for both
parties. I believe it was Ben Franklin that stated "people willing to give up freedom for secure,
deserve neither".
I have strict set of rules I live by:
• Don’t go out of your way to piss me off, I only take so much crap.
• Keep your paws off what’s mine, which includes my money.
• Stop trying to fix everything in the world at my expense.
• Keep your nose out of the abortion issue. There’s 6 billion people on the planet already!
Keep messing around and I believe you’ll find out what happened around 1776. I find it amazing
how we pretend to be a free nation, yet every year Congress pass another 10,000 new laws all for
our benefit of course. What ever happened to the KISS principle? How to plan to enforce at this
crap? This is exactly what is happening to all of what was a great nation. Bureaucrats have taken
everything over and are now screwing it all in the ground World.Com, ENRON, GM, Ford, etc.
are shining examples of this in action. And it is happening all throughout our government too.
An excellent example of this is the Intelligence Community. The 911 commission stated that
there was too much bureaucracy. So what did we do? We add a whole new department with a
whole bunch more bureaucrats, not more analysts. This is like being on the Titanic after it hit the
iceberg and somebody deciding after spending several years rearranging the deck chairs that the
only solution is to add another deck to the ship and install an uber-captain. Ya that’ll keep the
ship from sinking.
And we all know now what happens if you play ball their way, you get promoted to your next
level of incompetence. Way to go Hayden!"
The letter
Take his advice everybody!!! Credit goes to Wayne Madsen, for the reporting. 😎
Doug E.
That is BRILLIANT! Oh God PLEASE come to Florida & drive by Jeb’s house!
I’ll make a donation to VR, but I have to ask: was anybody watching CSPAN just now, the 2006 budget outlook?
Jesus God. Talk about beyond horrifying.
Paraphrasing here: it took 42 past presidents 200+ years to run up a debt of….well, whatever the hell the figure was, this president has DOUBLED it in FIVE years.
I dunno…put that on the truck? Jesus.
I love the truck. LOVE IT! But couldja maybe build a rocket ship & just take us far, far away?? Please?
Joan:
Wake up and join with us to take the voting machines out of here far far away by armed insurrection and other real "legal means" etc…. the entire thing will be torn apart.
Doug E.
Bold and brilliant. Excellent.
For future ads: don’t forget Katrina. Something like (in addition to the other text):
"Post 9-11, chose Mike Brown for our emergency response"
I MADE A PRINTABLE FLYER for VR and ADS –
MS WORD FORMAT
Download It HERE
Hugs,
J.
OUTSTANDING idea and signs! We need to get more travelling around the country.
I love the truck, let us know how it goes. I have a bumper sticker on my back window that has a picture of Bush and written beside it….American Errorist. I’ve gotten a lot of comments from that. Someone left me a note on my windshield on Christmas Day saying they loved it. Next truck let’s mention voting, just want them to know we know.
I think driving that truck anywhere in Washington D.C. will be just fine, 90%of Washington D.C. voted against Bush. It’s just a little reminder that Bush doesn’t fit in with Washington D.C., he needs to get back to his little ranch in Texas. One bumper sticker says, "Some village in Texas is missing it’s idiot." (With a picture of his face)
Good times, good times. Another idea would be to put the shoe on the other foot, so to speak with a rewording/abbreviation of your indictment of "Saddam" (though I suspect you may have meant someone else, with a name that may have been a little closer to something rhyming with "engorged tush"…so I’m assuming you like your women with a little "junk in da trunk"…? ;-D) posting the other day…perhaps a list of charges and a big caption at the end reading something to the effect of: if it’s grounds for removal of Saddam, then it’s grounds for removal of Bush/Cheney(/the whole bloody lot of em, should my opinion be known). If the bastards gonna try and rewrite law, then by all means: apply his justifications universally as law. "Great new law, Georgie! Good job! Now uh, as a peripheral to your new law–a bit of a ‘perk’, if you will– additionally, you get to have the right to remain silent (or have anything you say or do used against you by prosecution in a court of law–you get to choose!), ooh!, and the right to have an attorney present during questioning…*[click)-*-(click]*…"
Evreybody should go to their local print shop and get some big ( 2′ x 3′) vinyl stickers to put on their cars. Cost would be around $40 – but the benefits? Priceless.
Re What else to put on truck…
Yes. Voting. Absolutely.
Supposedly the bedrock of our system and they’ve crumbled it like feta cheese.
How about this too?
It took 42 presidents 224 years to run up $1 trillion of debt.
Bush has DOUBLED that in 5 years.
I just can’t get over that. It has my brain tied in knots.
That expression "the straw that broke the camel’s back"….it just doesn’t seem to apply to bushco.
That camel has so much evil bullshit on its back it should be flattened like a damn pancake to the ground by now.
Maybe its back broke a long time ago, around the time of Abu Graib.
So much evil bullshit. The pile is so high they don’t even remember there’s a camel under there anymore.
For the driver of the truck.
Here are some things to read while you drive around to give you more conviction (of the proper kind).
The source of the president’s illusion on spying and torture (link here), and some more info that led up to his "election" (link here).
And hopefully a map of Bush’s future by one who has already travelled that path (link here).
I want to see a truck ad that says:
"Someone – PLEASE give Bush a blow job so we can impeach him!"
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While I appreciate the sentiment I really have to wonder pathetic the Left is when we go up against the mainstream media with a truck and hand-painted signs. Is this really the best way to spend money and time? If it is then the Right has won and we’re all dead.
I love it- but the side with King George in pinstripes will totally turn off the mindless ones who need their perceptions expanded. It adds an unreal absurdity of image that contradicts the reality of an impeachment of that office. It will not be an Abu Ghraib scene- these guys wear the finest suits. I am afraid it will turn off too many people. Their little minds will find it plain insulting. No fault of your own if they can’t see beyond the imagery and into into its representations before them.
I personally love both sides.
I find the side with just a close up of GW very clear and effective.
I just know media professionally and this will possibly turn off people who can’t handle it. Only on that one side with pinstriped GW.
I am for the cause-just wish so many people in America could see past the BS of our current government.
Mark – I suggest you buy a bus ticket marked "Furthur"
Mateo, pal, let’s define some terms, please: Pinstripes? Like what Johnny Damon sold his cheap (3 million bucks a year extra) soul for? Viva le truck!
Signed, Tooloose le Truck
Did anyone see the picture of the kid carrying the postcard that said, " What I learned from President Bush: It’s okay to lie, It’s okay to cheat. It’s okay to steal…" etc. Now THAT would be extremely effective.
I hope they provide body armor for the driver of this truck. There are a lot of neocon whackos who may go over the edge when they see this.
This is totally off topic but did anyone see the John Stewart show last night. I can’t remember laughing as much as I did last night. They showed a clip of Bush staring at a piece of equipment that was broken and dangling while he was trying to do a speech and kept stopping midway through and staring at it blankly and then it cuts to John " If it was something shiny we might have lost him for days." There was more but I’m at a loss right now. Damn funny though!
OK, since some folks have been talking about their bumper stickers…you all should check out mine. I made a quick webpage, but I’ve been driving this high profile vehicle and adding stickers since he stole the election in 2001. I’m running out of space, and I have 10 more on the way. I haven’t taken full count recently, but I’m pretty sure I’ve topped 200.
https://home.comcast.net/~cjcall/
Doug #14
Excellent. There is a lot of common ground between liberals and true conservatives. A lot.
Every Republican should read comment #14. That is what true conservative Republicans believe.
For Czaragorn: Isn’t it funny how people like Johnny Damon want to get into pinstripes?
Honestly, if you’re making $10 million a year, what does another $3 million do for you? Counting New York State taxes, Johnny will be in a combined tax bracket of over 50%. So the real difference is less than a million-and-a-half. What can he do with $13 million that he can’t do with $11.5 million?
In exchange for the extra dough, he has to put up with a media market that’s even tougher than Boston’s. He has to put up with fans who will boo him mercilessly in every slump, and an owner who will criticize him publicly.
Hard to fathom, really. Especially since he’s a sensitive guy who really isn’t suited to New York. George W. Bush, on the other hand, belongs in pinstripes; alongside Steinbrenner, a convicted felon who was twice suspended by the league.
DA’G Soul Rebel [#36]:
I love your car… how come I haven’t seen it on the road??
I saw one similar to yours (but less stickers) near the Ross Store in Bellevue Overlake.
But I’d sure love to see yours all over our illustrious [and nefarious] freeways!
Billboard slogan I’d like to see:
"What are you trying to hide, Mr. Bush?"
To me this sums up the spectacle we’re now witnessing where everything’s about obfuscation. And dealing with that one single item will free the rats from their hiding places.
(Must credit the Rude Pundit for this slogan, you da man!)
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MrBlueSky
I don’t hang out on the East side. I’m up in SnoCo. I’m pretty close to the Naval Base, but I get more thumbs up than I do middle fingers.
Soul Rebel:
Fair enough… next time I trek up I-5 to South Everett, I’ll keep my eye out for your SUV!
Let’s get some video of that rolling truck and send it to Keith Olbermann.
Soul Rebel, just checked out the link. That is an amazing truck. You should do a tour with the VR truck and make it a parade of anti-bush.
Gotta love it!
Next thing you know they’ll say the truck is over the weight limit for D.C. streets or pass some law effective immediately that you can only have something written on a truck of a certain size. Too distracting to drivers or some such excuse.
Have fun while you can. A picture is worth a thousand words.
OT Alert
It looks like the "Annoy someone and go to jail" law was Just the start!
remember, I can make billboards for free.
Cardboard, paint, duct tape and an overhead projector… that’s all it takes.
Would I love to be there!
Colbert to host WH Correspondents dinner.
I see innocent until proven guilty doesnt apply to Conservatives.
Keep up the good work, we get stronger everytime you kooks open up your mouths.
Yes, and at a 36% approval rating, I’m not sure how much "stronger" you guys can stand!
Bush is so strong he’s calling press conferences to try and reverse his 58% negative poll ratings.
His Iraq policy is so strong that the military is now stretched to the breaking point.
His domestic policy is so strong that he’ll be impeached for violating the civil liberties of American citizens.
His moral authority is so strong that a majority of Americans now believes he’s untrustworthy, his vice president’s chief of staff is under indictment, his party’s House leader has been downsized and faces two indictments, and he refuses to release documents pertaining to his administration’s response to a hurricane disaster.
If that’s strong…what does weak look like, Mr. Medium Right?
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#36 SR….just looked at your car….wow, I live here too, why haven’t I seen it….outstanding! I am surprised you haven’t been arrested with all those guys snooping around the waterfront, hiding in the hills and all, monitering the navy base..lol. M4
#45 Bluebear…another interest article indeed. I just can’t even believe this. Guess we need to all concentrate on getting alot of sunspot activity to knock out all the satellites beaming this info around the planet. I know ‘they’ are always putting up new ones, (for spying) atmosphere is full of them. Of course, we would loose our power too, but then what the heck, it would cripple this evil crowd. I will concentrate real hard. M4
I’m SICK and TIRED of (bush & co.) This FUCKING MORON (bush if you forgot already) Talking Down to . . .
Honest People * Intelligent People * Hardworking People *
. . . . . . The Time To Stand up to this NOW . . . . . .
P.S. Mind games, I know how to play mind games. I take a look in ‘w’s bedroom now and then….dah da.
#45 Doesn’t the picture in the article of Dick Cheney look like the Dark Lord of the Sith. Looks like he should have lightning coming out his fingertips.
Sorry, I mean Donald Rumsfeld! Oops! 🙂
Its more like, hes already guilty, dump the system…
And read what a true conservative says for once..
Doug
Regarding my OT at #45
It looks like there may be some hope:
Feds’ wiretapping rules challenged in court
Jeff McT # 56 & 57
I know – there’s so many of these crooks I get confused too!
I think that 5 sided hat realy makes it for him!
Soul Rebel #36
Love your car! – One problen though – saw one similar a couple of weeks ago here in Sacramento. I almsot wrecked trying to read it all! LOL
Phish Forever. (I hate that someone used that spelling for internet scams!)
Check out the Mike Gordon/ Leo Kottke album if you haven’t heard it – sweet!
The truck will definitely be stoned by neo-cons. There has to be a news van following it at all times to show the world who the real anarchists are.
M4 "atmosphere is full of them" ,they’re only in the atmosphere twice ,once going up once coming down (if they come down at all).
New Satellite
Great stuff, Brad!
If I were there, I’d volunteer to take a shift driving!
Keep up the great work!
MediumWong(purposely misspelled): Who’s "we"? Got a rat in your pocket? They’re shitting all over you, too, you dummy. You don’t even know it, but you’re not part of them, but they’re using you. Nice job, dummy.
This is way OT, but will someone PULEEEEZ….put up a picture of Ann Coulter, and somehow blank out her hair so she’s bald? I know some of you can do this. Whoever’s the guy who posts those things like that once in a while. I think I might actually pay you for it! Please do it! I’m begging you! Whoever does this, will become an internet hero.
What happened to posts 16 to 66? Strange.
well, now their back..my computer is certainly acting strange…games? This happen to anyone else…or just me.
#63 Darn, I wish I knew more about astronomy, but you know I mean up there…somewhere. M4
She’s a mann baby!
Aaaaaargh! Don’t do that shit, man, I was eating.
Soul Rebel,
Awesome car! How do you not get tickets?!
Soul Rebel
Cool wheels … are you driving the truck in DC? Seems like someone who knows their rights and how to be cool with the man is needed.
Might there be a way to stay cool with The Man while pulling a little trailer with coffee and donuts?
Dredd – I wish, that would rock and I’d me more than willing…I’m on the wrong coast though! If I had the price of a ticket..
RLM #38 – I have to catch up with the thread, but I’m not cutting my hair or shaving my beard. Coco Crisp is but one more step in the right direction!!!
As a point of note to anyone that cares.. MOST places have regulations that say if the back window is blocked, you have to have 2 side mirrors (one on each side). A rear view mirror is also not required (in most places) if you have both side mirrors.. The reasoning, I’m sure, is your back window WILL be blocked if you’re pulling a large load (like a semi does, or huge campers, or u-hauls, etc etc). As long as you can see around your vehicle with the 2 side mirrors you should be ok..
I got pulled over once, about 2 weeks before the ’04 "selection". Donut-eating mofo (there are good cops and bad cops…this guy was a donut-eating mofo) pulled me over and said I would have to remove my stickers on the rear window because my vision was impeded. I started to argue with him about all the cars on the road (you know, pickups with those big US flag window coverings, etc) that hav en orear vision and he said "Do you want a ticket or do you just want the warning I was going to give you??" He was a real prick, and pretty irritated that I would have the nerve to question him. So I shut up like the good little citizen I am while he ran my plates (nothing of course) and then I went home and checked the code. Nothing in the motor vehicle code about rear view impairment. So I printed out the code, went into the police station the next day and made a complaint for harassment, intimidation and suppressioon of my first amendment rights. The desk sergeant knew I was right, so he asked what I want done (do I want to file charges?) I said no I didn’t, but I wanted a written formal apology from the officer and that the police station should hold a "sensitivity training" on this issue, because not only was the officer wrong about the code, it sure as hell was a partisan attempt at intimidation. And I got it. I haven’t been hassled by anyone else. I figure that cops pretty much have me pegged as someone who knows their rights and the law and probably shouldn’t be fucked with – they go after easier prey, you know, prey that doesn’t fight back. 🙂
Anyway, i now have my homepage linked to my name if anyone wants to check out my Road Warrior.
Great Sign!! Right to the point and no exageration either. IF you take it on tour across the U.S., please bring it to Fort Lauderdale.
Sincerely,
John
Yo, I have a vehicle, I’d love to tow one of those around in this Red State if you have an extra one around! I drive a bunch in my work and thank’s to George I work for myself.
N.W., AZ
I could not have said it better, being a Floridian, I would love to see it happen after our stolen election went down and stole our Democracy from us as it continues today. Go for it ……
I wish there was a way for it to come through my little town in Tennessee, but I’m so far off the beaten path, we have to import sunshine from the next county!
Then again, we ARE on the way to Jack Daniels Distillery, y’all could break for a tour….
(And no worries about over-indulging, the distillery is in a dry county)
Pointless, but if it makes you feel better…. it just makes you look stupid. Way to go, losers! See how much support you get! I want to be on your side! Yeah, Bush eats boogers!
Go ahead, impeach Bush. Cheney is President and runs twice more. if you get him also (there’s no grouds for either, but I will indiulge your wet dream for a second) you get Hastert to run twice more as an incumbant. You have to get how many, 30? 50? before we get stuck with a liberal loon. Oh well, you don’t care what the people want. Blame Diebold. What percentage of the popular vote did clinton get? 45%?
Go ahead, make my day.
Beautiful, uplifting stuff. Great work, guys!
LMAO you think this will accomplish anything? If you zombies spent half the time on world hunger that you do on hating Bush, every man, woman and child would be fat. :hehe:
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