How to Protest Hillary's Coronation on Social Media
We cannot all be in Philadelphia, either inside the convention hall as brave Bernie delegates making their voices heard on our behalf, or outside protesting in the streets. But we can do something else, especially those of us on social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook.
Here is what I am asking all of you with social media accounts to do.
ON TWITTER
This is Hillary Clinton's official twitter handle (i.e., her username): @HillaryClinton
If you have a Twitter account, copy and paste her twitter username, @HillaryClinton, into the box for a new tweet, and send her your message today and tonight as often as you can.
I am not going to tell you what to say to her. If you like, embed videos of the street protests, or of the Bernie delegates who walked out or spoke out against the DNC and her. Or add videos of Nina Turner, Bernie, or anything else that relates to why you do not support her unethical, corrupt and possibly illegal selection as the Democratic Party's nominee.
Here is one I just did:
https://twitter.com/StevenDBT/status/758703354654654464
@HillaryClinton You and your corrupt cronies are the reason millions of us have or will #Demexit
— Steven Searls (@StevenDBT) July 28, 2016
Next retweet your own tweet and tag followers or people you know or even mainstream media. Again, here is my retweet of the above:
My tweet 2 #Hillary @nytimes @joshfoxfilm @TheWayWithAnoa @LeeCamp @ninaturner @DrJillStein @__Reenie__ @terilg https://t.co/PIiE6qIlrx
— Steven Searls (@StevenDBT) July 28, 2016
Pretty simple really. Wash, rinse repeat. Here's another one I just did:
@HillaryClinton your lies, incompetence, & corruption make you unfit to be President. This is why Millions of Democrats won't vote for you.
— Steven Searls (@StevenDBT) July 28, 2016
If you want to embed videos in your tweet to @HillaryClinton, but don't know how to do that, go to this link.
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172128#
To learn how to post an image or gif in a tweet go to this link:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20156423#
ON FACEBOOK
Now, if you are on Facebook but not twitter, it isn't quite as straight forward. Hillary has no Facebook page on which you can post a comment expressing your views of her.
However, there are ways to share and spread the message that you do not and will not support her, etc.
For example, you can find a tweet, like the two of mine above, and copy the link to one of them. Then post that link as your status on your Facebook page. Tag any of your friends if you wish asking them to share it on their Facebook pages. Here is the post of my first tweet at my FB home page:
https://www.facebook.com/steven.d.searls/posts/10154230745741276
If you don't know how to copy a tweet link, watch this video:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhDp5Md5mI]
So, that's not too hard. And trust me it feels good to add your voice to the millions of others who do not want Hillary. She's obviously not going to read them, but that's not the point.
All protests are symbolic statements of opposition to injustice, and I for one can think of no injustice to our democracy this year more worthy of protest than the one Hillary, her big money donors and the corrupt DNC apparatus, led by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, committed when they colluded to steal the nomination from Bernie Sanders.
Feel free to share my protest tweets to @HillaryClinton if you do not have a twitter account. It is also pretty easy to join twitter if you do not have an account. Go to the following link to find out how to sign up for your twitter account and get up and running.
http://www.newsjit.com/create-new-twitter-account-twitter-registration-w...
Now go and protest on social media the unjust, unfair and corrupt coronation of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party's nominee!
Comments
Not a Tip Jar
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
I kinda wish we had tip jars.
I guess they're not really necessary, because you can still rec the diary, but I weirdly miss them. I don't know why.
Damn you, TOP! /shakes fist
I miss Colorado.
You too? I'm somehow always posting a comment when I
post my diaries/articles/whatever. I thought it was just me.
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It’s a raJ piT, then? n/t
And let's not forget Bill!
His Twitter handle is @billclinton. I would send just as many there.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Please also let people know about this
https://www.facebook.com/edenmcfadden9/videos/10153603623782077/
I can't embed on this site.
Just wait til you see what $hrillary's sycophants are doing to Bernie Sanders delegates.
Disgusting.
And she wants our vote -= may she rot someplace, if the floods tonight don't get her first.
Of course, she'll say she had nothing to do with it
Guess Kim Jong-Hill won't tolerate any rabble rousers tonight,
I was just watching that video, Caerus -- amazing! How is what the Dems are doing any different than Chris Christie telling his underlings to block traffic as revenge?
I hate to sound like those nutsack birthers who are always whining about wanting their country back -- but I do!! I want the USA where voters get to choose a candidate and candidates do at least a little something for the voters. Maybe that's a myth and it never existed, really -- but I don't think things were this bad when I was a kid. At least the lying/stealing/grifting wasn't so in your face.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare
That's horrible!
What complete jerks those DNC folks are. Do they actually expect anyone to vote for them with behavior like this?
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
did tweet it out when i saw that
disgusting but typical
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
If I tweeted,
I would convey to her something along this line:
I'll send it for you.
Word for word
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Thanks, Steven! :) nt
You can also add a banner to your handle...
If you have an alternate candidate that you support. That will send a VERY clear message.
https://twitter.com/Detroit15 for example.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Speaking of banners, you can change
your Facebook cover photo to anti-Hillary or the like.
Excuse me, I have to go find some pictures. lol.
Thanks for the tips, Steven! Great advice on how to protest digitally!
I miss Colorado.
Hi Steven
I just followed you on Twitter, and I retweeted both your tweets. Thanks for the tutorial about the tweet with all your peeps handles in it. I've been included in them and couldn't figure out why. Off to tell bill and hill they can't keep what they stole.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Thanks for this dkmich
Honored.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Ditto.
I just followed you, 'dew teacher'.
I don't retweet or post anything political on social media. But I will gladly follow your fine work.
A couple good tweets
Epic video, you gotta watch it
(Note: Honest HIllary is a parody account, well with a name like that it should be obvious, LOL)
Political cartoon says it all
And from me:
When I was a kid, Republicans used to red scare people, now it's the Democrats. I am getting too damn old for this crap!
Thanks Steven
I'm not on fb, or twitter, just an ole luddite, but love your creative energy, enthusiasm. Thank you.
Hope your daughter is feeling well now too.
May I also suggest the Jill Stein youtube club?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0boemkXlbGI&feature=youtu.be&list=PLTwoZ...
Click on the red Subscribe button, then share the clips provided on the right. I usually choose the shorter clips, because of my opinion of the attention span of the average social media user. I share these to fb and tw.
Jill Stein action on youtube has increased exponentially over the last couple of days. It looks like we're going to reach a million hits [over the last 48 hours] by the end of today.
[Hot damn! I think I'll reach the 21st century before I die!]
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Great idea!
I will check them out.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Youtube keeps a count of "hits"
but I don't know how to access it.
Anyway, it looks like we're going to possibly hit a million views over the last two days.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
FYI
You can spot me behind Jill as she gives this speech at the People's Convention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4GmPqB3iI
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Won't this drive up HRC
Won't this drive up HRC traffic numbers? How about posting positive posts on Jill's pages to boost her traffic, and a Jill money bomb?
I usually tweet all my tweets to Jill Stein
now that I've met her and decided I'm voting for her.
I don't think negative posts about HRC today is a bad idea. Do as you wish, though.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
What is going on? Her account ONLY has tweets from herself
Like the web site of praises for HRC
only tweets to herself
are yours posted?
They don't show up to you
Because you can't see her timeline, just what has been posted by someone working for her. Posts to her username would only be visible to the account holder unless they respond or retweet them. That is how twitter works.
This is done as a protest so that hopefully thousands of tweets calling her out for all the shit she's done in in her life are showing up on her timeline and also getting shared by others on twitter. When someone retweets me I get a notification of that and often I retweet them back or other people retweet them and by that means people can continue to push their own messages sent out.
I don't care that we can't see her timeline. I care that someone has to see it though, but more importantly that we have a focus for getting our messages to her out.
Trust me, I haven't used twitter much until recently, and it is its own little weird animal, but it can spread memes very quickly.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Good info
Thanks! I'll tweet my best.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Thanks for the great information, Steven!
I've been puzzling over how to add images, etc., to tweets but haven't had time to really figure it out. And now I don't have to! I will put all this to good use.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare
Luddite here also
Might I suggest tweets or FB messages or good fashioned letters to your local Democratic officials as well? The Democratic party chairman, I think that who it was, came to my door--I am registered WFP--for a signature for WFP endorsement for a state legislator and I gave him an earful. No profanity, no personal attack, but I let him know I would not, no how, never vote for his presidential candidate.
I am getting my thoughts in order for a letter to the editor detailing my opinion of Mme.C.
Rulers rule through their subordinates, who sometimes can be a weak link.
Mary Bennett