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OBJECTIVE
All of us will yell: I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take It
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If we reach exactly 25,000 people, then we will each scream out the window.

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THE PITCH

Times are bad! The country is at war; we are heading into recession; income inequality is the highest it has been in 100 years; our government is more secretive than ever before; and none of this is likely to change any time soon!

It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”

Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.
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Aaron With started this discussion on Mar 7, 2008

Howie Beal represent!

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    Hell, I might do it this afternoon, regardless of whether we get 24,999 others to do it.

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    !!!!!

  • Picture_2_icon

    What if I can’t open the window?

  • S2411920_31583519_6490_icon

    Hahaha, this is brilliant!

  • Default_user_icon

    “Network” was ahead of its time.
    I’m already mad as hell about . I’ll be glad to yell.
    But we do need to do more than yell.
    VOTE!

  • Img_0049_icon

    cheers.

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Red Daly started this discussion on Mar 7, 2008

Times are bad! The country is at war; we are heading into recession; income inequality is the highest it has been in 100 years; our government is more secretive than ever before; and none of this is likely to change any time soon!

It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”

Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.

You’ve gotta say, “I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!”

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!!"

So when we reach 25,000 people—the tipping point, as it were—every one of them will go to the window and yell, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

Until then, survive!

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