Sunday, May 18, 2014

First step in new American revolution didn't quite go as planned

American Spring Was A Big Flop, But The Twitter Response Was Brilliant!
Operation-American-Spring
Mass protest? Errrr, not so much.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Click here for another one of my favorite pieces of coverage of this event.

So in case you haven’t already heard, the last day of the Obama administration was supposed to be Friday. 

Well, according to the latest group of bat-shit-crazy ‘patriots’ anyway. Apparently a group of 10-30 Million militia members were set to take over Washington D.C. ready to stage a coup. They called the effort “Operation American Spring.”

Now, interestingly enough, the leader of the movement, retired Army Colonel Harry Riley, actually told his followers that they should not show up in D.C. with their weapons and ammo.

The Daily Kos ran this photo of their mass protest at the White House
He literally gave them all “Rules of Engagement” and listed at number one, No Guns, No Ammo. 

Instead, he told them all to show up with their bibles and constitutions. (Yes, Seriously.) Because when you really want to overthrow the United States government, you can really never underestimate the power of a menacing stink-eye combined with a bible thrust into the air. Duh.

Anyway, shockingly those 30 million patriots didn’t quite make it to the capitol Friday. I would say there were more like 30 of them. To tell  you the truth, after looking at all of the pictures from the event, I’m trying to decide if I’m looking at a minuscule turnout in DC for the #OperationAmericanSpring….or just a few old guys who work at Cracker Barrel out for their smoke break.

Here they are on the march
But even though American Spring was a total bust, something awesome still managed to come out of it. By Friday night, the Liberals had taken to Twitter and made the hashtag “American Spring Excuses” trend, with some hilarious mocking of the flopped coup attempt. 

I guess we overestimated the power of a few menacing stink eyes combined with bibles thrust in the air…damn! #AmericanSpringexcuses

Mindy Fischer is a lefty-liberal, freelance political writer. Follow her on Facebook and on Twitter.