I 110% guarantee you the White House is not panicking. He and his little Nazi party of buffoons have zero fears of anyone or anything getting in their way.
They think they’re above the law. And one that is above the law has no fear because he has limitless power to do with as he pleases.
I think both are kind of true. They have more power than perhaps any administration in history given how stacked the Supreme Court is and how subservient the entire GOP is to Trump and the billionaire apparatus.
That said, I DO sense a panic of how so many months have gone by and midterms are right around the corner. With Trump’s approval-ratings plummeting to Jimmy Carter levels already and their lack of justifying consolidation of power while Democrats are energized — IF they don’t succeed by next midterms, GOP are going to lose pretty big.
Prop 50 Yes in California is a must as well.
Dude what. Last presidency he got scared during the anti-abortion law protests of May 2019 and installed new fencing around the Whitehouse that are roughly twice as high.
https://apnews.com/united-states-government-f0dae0200dd945dcb868d98b1e8ff378
Then he had additional fencing and concrete barriers installed around the already huge fences during the BLM/George Floyd protests, and when one of those fences was partially pushed down (still leaving a 14 foot fence protecting the Whitehouse), he ran off and hid in a bunker.
Then he spent the next weeks telling everyone he’s very brave and did not go to a bunker. While Whitehouse leakers confirmed he did.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/trump-is-literally-building-a-wall-around-the-white-house
He’s repeatedly shown he’s a scared little piss-baby, especially of protesters.
Thewhite house panicked so hard the President of the united states posted a video of homself with a crown on shitting on the protesters. Think about that for two seconds.
A dictator is always afraid of the people the rule over. Law is not something they fear. It is lawlessness. Protests is the way to show them a glimpse of that.
People need to accept this.
They’ve seen zero drop in the money they’re pocketing or stealing.
They’re seeing zero ramifications for their actions.
So they’ll keep doing what they’re doing.
The next national protest should proactively disappear all ICE agents.
Make ICE fear putting boots on the ground.
Make people fear joining ICE.
That’s a real start.
Trump posting a video dropping bombs from his asshole on the protests shows that he does, in fact, care a lot about the protest so he is doing as ridiculous of a thing as he can to counteract it…
Wait…what? I don’t even want to do a quick search to see if that’s true. I suppose if true, it can’t really be surprising.
Sadly, yes this is true. It’s official feces content from the POTUS.
Personally I found the crown on his head and the fighter jet labeled “King Trump” more objectionable. I’m pretty used to dealing with his shit by now.
The more the better
Keep fighting the good fight America.
The day was not only nonviolent but also historic. The estimated nearly 7 million who showed up across America marked the second-largest one-day protest in U.S. history, surpassed only by a very different type of event, the first Earth Day in 1970. That was roughly 40% largest than the first “No Kings” event in June, and in talking to protesters Saturday it seemed the turnout was only boosted by the right-wing rhetoric, that anti-Trump protesters must be some kind of domestic terrorists.
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The official White House reaction, as related to one reporter, was “Who cares?” But guess what? They clearly cared, a lot. You could see that in the week leading up to the demonstration, with the increasingly insane rhetoric and warnings about “antifa” — a tiny, unorganized sliver of young rock-throwing radicals who were nowhere in sight Saturday — that aimed to neutralize the reality that millions of everyday Americans are sick of seeing a masked secret police snatch people off the streets.
In a maneuver that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un must have surely applauded, Trump’s Pentagon fired some artillery shells over a closed I-5 in the heart of Southern California’s anti-Trump rally as the protests were taking place — ostensibly to mark the 250th anniversary of the armed forces, but alsoas a reminder of the regime’s military might as Trump weighs invoking the Insurrection Act.
All good, but saying that antifa is a group of rock-throwing radicals is dumb at best and plays into the fascist’s narrative.
yeah I hate this bullshit throwing around antifa like its a particular group. they tried to do the same thing with black lives matter. even funnier that anti-anti-facists want to talk about the people protesting them as being anti-american.
Yeah, what the hell was that? Don’t let the magat fuckheads redefine words anymore than they already have. There is not, nor should there ever be, a stain on being anti-fascist.
I wish these protests carried any amount of influence with this administration, but it doesn’t.
It’s all just a bunch of ideological masturbation up until the guillotines and gallows start earning some miles.
Can we just stop policing people’s acts of resistance? At this point I’m more upset at the people doing absolutely nothing other than maybe post stuff online.
I find it useful. My block list has grown massively. Its a good litmus test for myself on peoples whos opinions are not for me.
Do what you need to protect your energy, it is in short supply.
Did they write you a ticket or something? Pretty sure they are trying to participate in a conversation. If you don’t like it, don’t participate. There are plenty of other comments to reply to.
When you say that if I don’t like it I shouldn’t participate in the conversation it makes me think you’re against negative opinions. But that can’t be the case because you’re defending someone expressing a negative opinion about someone else’s protest. This makes me think there is a double standard at play here.
Touché
I love your screen name I’m watching better call Saul for the first time
Fuck yea brother/sister/whatever
Enjoy! It’s an amazing show
The important part is that the protests are carrying weight with other people who care. The protests have been getting bigger and bigger, and when someone who cares about the cause but doesn’t show up sees this it gives them more imperative to show up too next time. The larger the protests get, the more likely that it will lead to a general strike, which is what will make a very big difference. Once the billionaires and centimillionaires genuinely feel like their profits are being threatened, they’ll pull the administration’s strings.
Please, start the rolling out of the first guillotine and gallows. Fire the opening salvo. If you are going to shit on people doing something you consider to not be enough, step up and lead a stronger resistance rather than standing by and bitching that someone should do something.
Those people did more than you this weekend. I’m sorry that trying to inspire change amounts to masturbation for you.
When you instigate violent change with a purely positive outcome and no ground-swell behind you, we’ll make you a statue. Until then, these protests will continue.
I won’t assume anything on your part, but this weekend was my third No King’s this year.
I stand by my statement.
Do not split
Good for you, America!
According to the NYT, it was thousands that turned out ¯_(ツ)_/¯
They stopped estimating crowd sizes because it made Trump look bad
Where they just counting like some suburb of some city?
Seven thousand thousand.
