{"id":4538,"date":"2020-02-19T07:04:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2020-02-19T07:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:05:03","slug":"topless-protesters-disrupt-sanders-campaign-rally-prompting-other-candidates-to-demand-the-same-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/topless-protesters-disrupt-sanders-campaign-rally-prompting-other-candidates-to-demand-the-same-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Topless Protesters Disrupt Sanders Campaign Rally, Prompting Other Candidates to Demand the Same Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CARSON CITY &#8211; After <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"topless protesters took the stage at a Bernie Sanders rally (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2020\/02\/19\/bernie-sanders-supporters-online-behavior-nevada-cnn-town-hall-vpx.cnn\/video\/playlists\/this-week-in-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">topless protesters took the stage at a Bernie Sanders rally<\/a> this week, other presidential candidates are crying foul, saying they want topless protesters at their own rallies. Mike Bloomberg hinted that price was no object, and that his supporters might have some &#8220;fun surprises&#8221; coming up at future rallies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhoa,\u201d said a young male Buttegieg supporter who is now switching his support to Bernie after watching the video of the topless women pouring water and paint over themselves to protest <a href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/only-vegan-on-guest-list-cancels-just-before-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a recent Winooski article (opens in a new tab)\">a recent Winooski article<\/a> they claimed was insensitive to vegans. \u201cOther candidates talk about free stuff, but Bernie actually delivers.  If this is democratic socialism, count me in!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some \u201cBernie Bros\u201d interviewed at the rally quietly admitted that those were the first real boobs they\u2019ve ever seen, but they hope to see more in the future. Several local women mentioned that this would be unlikely unless they stopped harassing people online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump was reportedly fuming at the attention Bernie\u2019s rally received and has demanded that his staff arrange for topless protesters at all of his rallies and at next year\u2019s State Of The Union address at the Capitol. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that was an option!&#8221; Trump shouted. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to issue an executive order.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources close to the Sanders campaign are reporting that Bernie is concerned that much of the attention surrounding the incident is somewhat misogynistic, and that he feels women should not be objectified in this manner. Although other sources say he is considering asking \u201cTopless Tulsi\u201d Gabbard to be his running mate in the hopes it will boost his numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>CARSON CITY &#8211; After topless protesters took the stage at a Bernie Sanders rally this week, other presidential candidates are crying foul, saying they want <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/topless-protesters-disrupt-sanders-campaign-rally-prompting-other-candidates-to-demand-the-same-treatment\/\" title=\"Topless Protesters Disrupt Sanders Campaign Rally, Prompting Other Candidates to Demand the Same Treatment\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[189],"coauthors":[91],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-press","category-national","tag-carson-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TWFI-2020_02_19.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-1bc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}