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No Kings Rallies Tomorrow

Seen elsewhere:
Some bikers showed up at the Clark Park demonstration here in Detroit. There was a bit of a fight, but the cops broke it up.

No, I wasn't there. I'm a tad too old for that kinda line dance.
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Tigers! said:
Looks like the No Kings rallies were a success.
Trump is still president.
Congrats.
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This is the storyline of nearly all protests in my lifetime. Lots of people get together, act mad, yell clever, trendy three word chants all day long, then pat their own back and go to bed smug in the belief that they made some big contribution to society. Non-protesters who got stuck in traffic for hours pee their pants and go to bed with wet undies hating protesters and their pet cause. The rest of the country stays at home nursing their headache muttering to themselves, "Aw, geez, not this shit again!". And the object of the protesters ire yawns and laughs at all the hubbub, and nothing changes. It is good business for the street cleaners, posterboard & felt pen suppliers, so there's that.
 
Tigers! said:
Looks like the No Kings rallies were a success.
Trump is still president.
Congrats.
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It was a series of protests, not a violent insurrection.

If anything, it is more a message to SCOTUS (Roberts specifically). But protests do usually have a way of not mattering. Sometimes the catch. But what else is there for people to do... peacefully?

You sound somewhat disappointed blood wasn't involved.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
You sound somewhat disappointed blood wasn't involved.
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It does sound a bit like that. But we all know Tigers! Is a gentle, well intended person. His tone is not too different from my own. As a lifelong pacifist, I’d like nothing more than an opportunity to tear that horrid lump of stupidity* limb from limb.


* Trump, not Tigers!
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Tigers! said:
Looks like the No Kings rallies were a success.
Trump is still president.
Congrats.
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It was a series of protests, not a violent insurrection.

If anything, it is more a message to SCOTUS (Roberts specifically). But protests do usually have a way of not mattering. Sometimes the catch. But what else is there for people to do... peacefully?

You sound somewhat disappointed blood wasn't involved.
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Didn't some guy get killed in Utah?
 
thebeave said:
Didn't some guy get killed in Utah?
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Yeah - the usual story; good guy with gun sees bad guy with gun, takes a potshot at bad guy with gun, kills someone completely uninvolved …
It’s almost as if the common denominator in these things is “gun”.
In a curious turn of events, bad guy with gun he never fired, is charged with murder.
Only in The Royal Shithole of Trumpistan is this “normal”.
 
thebeave said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Tigers! said:
Looks like the No Kings rallies were a success.
Trump is still president.
Congrats.
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It was a series of protests, not a violent insurrection.

If anything, it is more a message to SCOTUS (Roberts specifically). But protests do usually have a way of not mattering. Sometimes the catch. But what else is there for people to do... peacefully?

You sound somewhat disappointed blood wasn't involved.
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Didn't some guy get killed in Utah?
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Yes, a bystander was mistakenly hit when a peacekeeper opened fire on a person allegedly dressed in all black took out an AR-15 style weapon and ran towards a crowd of people with the gun in an attacking position.
article said:
The authorities identified the designer, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, as a bystander who was killed during a confrontation between two armed volunteers who were assisting with crowd control at the protest and a man who was carrying an AR-15-style rifle and was dressed in all black.

The volunteers drew their guns after the armed man removed the rifle from his backpack and began running toward the crowd, holding his weapon in a “firing position,” the police said.

One of them fired three times, wounding the gunman and also striking Mr. Ah Loo, who was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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It is uncertain about the motive or intent of the armed person, so we can't tell if dozens of lives were saved.
 
Out of MILLIONS of people attending the rallies, nobody stormed the Capitol or any capital for that matter. We had thousands locally and I don't know that I saw a scrap of paper on the ground after. People were pretty diligent about cleaning up after themselves and the best part was the city told Brevard County Sheriff's Dept. that it wasn't needed and provided it's own police that stayed back and really felt like they were there to keep peace. But our city police (two adjoining cities) are a very different culture from Wayne Ivey's BCSO.
 
The Tea Party movement got its start in '07 to galvanize outrage against Obama. It had a real impact on the 'wave election' three years later, the 2010 midterms, that made Obama's job of President more difficult. It's too early to predict next year's election, but Trump's margins in Congress aren't impregnable. He's unable to dial back the crazy, since he's on the ego high of all time, and since he is legit unbalanced. I plan on supporting any demonstrations that are close to my location.
 
jonatha said:
Patooka said:
Tigers! said:
Looks like the No Kings rallies were a success.
Trump is still president.
Congrats.
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Expecting immediate change is a pretty yank attitude. Just sayin'. I suspect this isn't a one and done.
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Pretty sure Tigers! is a lot closer to you than to me...
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That's kinda my point to his atypical reaction. If the current sentiment is maintained, this could overshadow what the Tea Party accomplished in '10, and that was astroturfed to fuck.
 
Elixir said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
You sound somewhat disappointed blood wasn't involved.
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It does sound a bit like that. But we all know Tigers! Is a gentle, well intended person.
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You are too kind.
Elixir said:
His tone is not too different from my own.
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Elixir said:
As a lifelong pacifist, I’d like nothing more than an opportunity to tear that horrid lump of stupidity* limb from limb.


* Trump, not Tigers!
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Glad we clarified to whom you were referring. I was beginning to look for a bunker to hide in.
 
Tigers! said:
Glad we clarified to whom you were referring. I was beginning to look for a bunker to hide in.
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Glad you spared the effort; the last time I ever raised a hand in anger against anyone, was over six decades ago.
But I’d break the streak for Trump.
 
ideologyhunter said:
The Tea Party movement got its start in '07 to galvanize outrage against Obama. It had a real impact on the 'wave election' three years later, the 2010 midterms, that made Obama's job of President more difficult. It's too early to predict next year's election, but Trump's margins in Congress aren't impregnable. He's unable to dial back the crazy, since he's on the ego high of all time, and since he is legit unbalanced. I plan on supporting any demonstrations that are close to my location.
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The Tea Party got its start in '07 protesting Bush's excessive spending. It coalesced around supporting the Ron Paul primary race. In '09 it was invaded by more mainstream Republicans, the original members were eased out or booted out, and then became an anti-Obama organization.

I was there. I remember it well. The 2007-2008 Tea Party was a very different creature from the 2009-onward Tea Party.
 
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