Also at Roseville. The creativity of the signs & costumes was great! There must have been several thousand people there. I only saw one Trumpmobile drive by, police were present at a discrete distance.
The elderly woman (about my age, sigh) standing next to us was broadcasting a playlist of all the old antiwar songs from the 60s. Sixty years later and the same people are doing it again. Thank God for us Boomers!
I thought the same thing of some of the protesters today.
Yeah, it seems to be at closest a paraphrase of something she said. (Descriptions vary.) Which is why in my post I said:
Maybe they actually mean it, and don’t want Trump and crew to tread on them either?
Oh yes. The more of us who show up, the safer we all are. If not enough show up, everyone’s in danger, whether visibly protesting or not.
My report: about 200 people showed up in a village of 5000 in a quite red area. Which is over 3.5%; although, to be fair, we weren’t all from Penn Yan. A number of us were from the surrounding rural area, and we even picked up a couple of people from Illinois who had just been driving through, saw us, and stopped to join in. No police that I saw, and none needed.
A mostly older crowd; though the youngest attendee was in a baby sling. Lots of signs, most of them homemade. One person in a frog mask, and several in tshirts also functioning as signs. Lots of American flags (and one Ukrainian flag pin.) I left “no kings, George Washington knew that” on one side of my chalkboard, but the side I mostly aimed at the street said “We Are America. And so are you.”
We got a lot of approving honks and waves; an occasional thumbs down, one bus of high schoolers from my nearby village chanting “we love Trump”, and one pack of motorcycles who managed to get so much negative noise out of their bikes that my ears were sore for a couple of minutes. But the detractors were considerably outnumbered by the people making noise in favor; though both were outnumbered by the ones staring straight ahead trying to pretend that nothing was happening.
I’m tempted to bring a sign next time with a quote from an old Bob Dylan song, “How many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn’t see”; but that’s an awful lot of words to put on a sign aimed at even slow-moving traffic.
The event in Franconia, VA (DC suburb) had 800 people. That’s twice the number for our first No Kings Day, and more than the 500 that signed up. Perfect weather, and great crowd. Wonderful energy! Witty signs, good chants, music, and a few inflatable costumes. Zero problems from what I’ve heard.
Oh… On the way home we saw a huge Trump sign (easily 8 feet by four feet) on someone’s property. There was also a large pick-up truck and two life-size Sasquatch statues. The domicile itself was a trailer.
There was one in Cleveland and one near me in Mentor. Im not sure how many showed up but Im glad they did.
Was working; couldn’t go.
Anyone still wondering if these demonstrations are a waste of time?
As I said, we went to a rally where there are a lot of Trump voters (farmers). I think it is good to let them know that it’s OK to disapprove of Trump. I think it might help to show them what Trump is doing to farmers… them. My wife, who has patients in the area, noted that a lot of properties [NB, not necessarily her patients] no longer have Trump signs in front of them.
I am keeping a close eye on the needle.
We went. It was fine. Last counts I saw were in the neighborhood of 250k, which sounds like reasonable guess if the June demo was 75k. There were so many people in Butler Field that it took us an hour just to leave because there was no room for anyone to move. Next time, remind me to bring a chair and pregame with ibuprofen.
The local, quite conservative newspaper put the event here in Colorado Springs at 12-15k, and I think it’s close. I’ll include several images over a couple of posts, and per the request of our OP, I made sure to snag images of fun signs (apologies for 'dopers who can’t use imgur right now).
And for good measure, a few pics to show the lovely weather and crowd size:
This is the way people, show that the bastards lie when they say few people opposes them, congratulations!
Here’s wishing for more protests with even more people.
Too sub-tile for me. Elaborate, please.
Ouch!
(tweenage boy holding sign) “Trump hit on my girlfriend”
The naked bicyclers are giving Trump’s Little Johnson weird tingles in sensitive places…
I want to see if it moves.
I am.
My niece says she thinks that only violent revolution will move anything.
I think she’s wrong–but I also think that properly permitted protests don’t disrupt the systems of injustice, and that until we are willing to step up to disruption, not much will happen.
I’m wondering if something like this would be effective:
We need to be looking to British-occupied India for ideas. Nonviolent civil disobedience seems to me to be the next reasonable step; but it needs to be coordinated and needs to have clear objectives, and these objectives need to be in line with American norms.
I’m waiting for some total goofball to accuse all the attendees of being KGB agents, the way some people did with the 1980s antinuclear movement.
My sign didn’t break the bank, but if George Soros wanted to reimburse me for it, I’d be OK. BTW, I didn’t go today, although I did in June.
If a commentator mentions George Soros, I know that they are to be taken as seriously as the people who say that critical race theory is being taught to grade-schoolers, who also undergo gender reassignment surgery at school without their parents’ knowledge or permission.
