Protesters greet Obama on S.F.’s Billionaires’ Row

Protesters greet Obama on S.F.’s Billionaires’ Row. “Turns out this whole protest was nothing more play-acting for the cameras, a group of faux protesters colluding with Obama to create a Potemkin ‘movement’ which he can then cite as justification for making an unpopular decision he already wanted to make anyway. ‘I had no choice — there’s a mass movement against this pipeline! I must bow to the will of the people.'” Political street circus in San Phonyfrisco.

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