not one damn dime day, silent protest Options

[banddorko]

here's the deal: on january 20th (president bush's inauguration), there is going to be a nationwide silent protest against the war in iraq. to participate all you have to do is not spend any money at all on that day- that's it.

for more information, go here.

one of my friends told me about this and i thought it was very cool. if you support this please tell everyone you know and try to get them to participate. put a link in your profile. start a chain email. make a topic on another forum. tell your friends. i obviously am going to be participating (and wearing my homemade "impeach bush" t-shirt ). i hope some of you will participate too.


if you don't think this is a good idea or don't agree with it, please don't post it here. i really don't want this to be a debate, i just wanted to inform you guys of it. thanks.

[Chii]

I think it's pointless to do it. Really it kinda is. What happened in the election happened. No one can go back in time to change it. It was a close election between Kerry and Bush. But deal with it. The majority voted for Bush, NOT Kerry. So Bush won and got re-elected. Get over it and accept it. A protest wouldn't throw him out of his term in office. A protest wouldn't make more people hate him. Get over it. Bush won by majority of those who voted.

actually...it not always majority votes that win it for someone, it only depends on who voted more for who in each state and that candidate would get the electoral votes which are tha votes that really count

for example, candidate 1 (c1) can get one more vote then candidate 2 (c2) in a certain state, then he'd get all the electoral votes there, but in the states where c2 won, he could've gotten hundreds or thousands of more votes but they won't count, he'll only get the electoral vote which could be three from wyoming but c1 could get like thirty-two electoral votes from texas even if he beat c2 slightly in the texas polls, the person who wins the popular vote (majority of the votes) usually wins the electoral votes, but it's not always true, it happened to one president but i forget his name