• Mueller rapid response protests activated, scheduled for Thursday at 5pm
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What are you doing to protect the rule of law in your country? Oh that's right, nothing, because as long as the gubmint doesn't come and take your pwecious widdle guns you don't give half a shit about anything.
Make it a sign "You made me come out in this fuckign cold"
Excellent work guys, hope you got yourselves heard and also a nice hot drink when you got home considering how cold you guys said it was.
Protecting the Mueller investigation is quite an abstract constitutional issue, and it's inspiring to see so many people come out at such short notice to protest something that doesn't even directly affect them - it's not a new tax law or healthcare or anything like that. Tell someone from 2015 that there would be nationwide protests against an oversight recusal issue at the Justice Department and they'd laugh
These people have long resented the current administration, Sessions' resignation is just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Man, the one in Austin was a total bust. The whole thing lasted one hour and was basically just a rally where a few people including a city councilman and congressman spoke, which was neat and all, but fucking nobody stuck around after that. Wish the organizers had the balls to say "okay folks, we're gonna occupy this area for the night and do some chanting, some speeches, and making our voices known until we're too tired to keep going!" Also, some InfoWars slimeballs were going around the crowd livestreaming and interviewing people. Blech.
Doesn't seem to have been much of it in the news, which is a shame.
It was in our local news over here. Was a very nice evening for a peaceful protest. Glad I went. It seems pretty constructive if it makes people notice and talk about it too.
We need to keep going. Yell even louder. I did not spend years of my life watching my friends get blown to fucking pieces in Afghanistan in the name of "freedom" to have almost an entire Congress sitting around while an orange cunt effectively shits on everyone who has ever given their blood or lives for this so-called democracy. I will not tolerate this any longer.
I found the local news coverage of my city's protest. My sign made it into like one second of footage but they cropped me out of it. Which is probably for the best because I've got the hair and beard of a viking berserker, not the optics you'd want for a peaceful pro-law protest.
In hindsight, would it have been better to set the rallies for the next Saturday instead of the very next day? And have them during the day? And maybe instead of ad hoc rallies everywhere, have centrally organised flagship rallies in places like NY and DC and then locally organised support rallies everywhere else?
The lamestream media doesn't care about real issues. They'd rather talk about him saying retarded shit than anything of actual substance.
It's almost like having a major protest literally getting spontaneously triggered halfway into a work week, without giving people even a day to plan/schedule around it, was a kind of goofy decision. Or shotgunning smaller protest rallies across major metropolitan areas kinda splits the people/media that would go to the main ones in the first place. Increasing the scale (IE: More protests) while the visibility (IE: More Protesters) of it goes down.
I'm just trying to think about the Women's March model, it doesn't perfectly translate though because they had months to prepare for that but there are lessons from it
I think the scattered, short-notice nature of it actually made it stronger. Get a million people to march in Washington, everyone in Red country can dismiss it as snowflake libs in their safe space. After all, they didn't see anyone in Real America marching. Stage a protest in every major city, and now it's hard to ignore that it's a universal protest. Likewise, doing it at less than 36 hours notice meant it was genuine. This wasn't people with nothing better to do on a weekend, this was people getting off work and going straight to the protest. I think this is why there were minimal counter-protests - they take longer to organize. There probably was some inefficiency. My relatively small (~1M people counting all the suburbs) city had two protests maybe ten minutes apart, although I don't know if the other one even happened. But we don't have to be perfectly efficient - we've got numbers on our side because easily 90% of Americans believe in the basic kind of democratic principles we're fighting for.
There needs to be daily protests, at the White House Gates. All day, all night. Scream at the top of your voice, let it be heard that we won't tolerate a dictator in a democracy. Fight! Your freedom, liberty, and justice are at stake!
Basically Acosta, the (newest) shooting spree and Paradise fire where dominating news coverage when it happened. Thursday was just a bad day overall
Looking at the photos from the local paper, I'm surprised at the turnout of one of the protests in my area. I expected it to be mostly younger people, but it seems there was a pretty good mix of ages. https://i.gyazo.com/8aec5acc45c2287a96c4ef5d007616d1.jpg https://i.gyazo.com/8263f540d139e444f62f745d093fa20d.jpg
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