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#fuckyouwashington

Submitted by Tjadendevries on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:49pm

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Tweeters rage against the D.C. machine

    Spurred by a blogger to vent about gridlock and political posturing in Washington over the debt ceiling crisis, the Twittersphere was burning this morning with citizens' grievances against their government, announced with an expletive-filled hashtag - vulgarity mixed with insight and a lot of common sense.

    Jeff Jarvis (of Buzzmachine.com) promoted the flood of Twitter messages with the hashtag #F---YouWashington. A sample is presented below, spelling and punctuation uncorrected.

      aNOLAamous: ... for over a million gallons of corexit dumped on coastal Louisiana.

      aNOLAmous: ... for letting corporations steal our natural resources and sell them back to the people for profit.

      amthewalrus: ... for forcing me to be a criminal by using #cannabis as the #medicine it is!

      amyalkon: ... for violating my 4th Amend rights & having a govt lackey sexually assault me as a condition of normal biz travel this am.

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