Its not really about feelings, so much as that insulting people doesn't tend to be very productive.
Protesting the Inauguration of Donald Trump
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Its not really about feelings, so much as that insulting people doesn't tend to be very productive.
Why not? You can get DirecTV on boats.
Must have been how he turned into a skeleton then. He was waiting for Trump's replacement to Obamacare. Even pirates need insurance matey
I don't know about that, Trump did it daily and became president. Maybe there's something to it!
Ha! True. Although I doubt the people he insulted are fonder of him or his positions as a result!
Ya know what, I'm half hoping for him to list all the countries in the world that have wronged him in some way, but in song like Animaniacs. Donald Trump, world roaster.
GuessMyUserName
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It was pretty much the foundation of his initial "Tells it like it is" appearance.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
But, why, in any case? Voting is also a right extended only to a portion of the residents of a country (I can't vote in the US and I live here). Protest is a mechanism for sending a direct message, and it is extended to everyone in the country. Voting is a mechanism for choosing between the candidates on offer, protesting is a mechanism for sending a message to any target. Voting gives power to your choice, protesting tells them what to do with the power they've been given.
The objective of a protest is not to create a world where Trump is not inaugurated, but to set Trump and other politicians on notice that they govern only by the most tenuous of margins, that their words and actions have alienated the rest of the population, and that to the extent that one of the president's biggest tools is political capital, he starts with relatively little. None of this depends on whether Russia tampered or didn't and whether the tampering was crucial for his election or not.
sugarhigh4242
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Protesting Trump, but also organizing. The Democrats don't have what it takes to fight Trump. Right now, the same morons who shipwrecked the Clinton campaign are raising millions to run the same play over and over again. We need strong grass roots organizations that can continue pressing an offensive agenda. Half the Democrats in congress are ready to slash medicare and social security as it is.
a Master Ninja
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Was at Disney World today, saw this:
The Artisan
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Was at Disney World today, saw this:
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LOL what is this...
.... super middle man of GAF strikes. Listen to this oh so wise point.
Normally, I'd be all for giving a new president I didn't like a pass, but I've settled on the idea that if Trump doesn't respect the position, then neither do I, and he is not my president.
This is true. Spearheading the birther movement against Obama alone shows he has no respect for the office. Now I'm supposed to respect him? Nah.
It must be so nice to be the middle man. Don't have to pick a side, don't have to put yourself behind anything emotionally and can act smug as if you're morally superior to everyone else.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Was at Disney World today, saw this:
This shit is gonna be disgusting.
And eye opening for some people. Trump "Make America Great Again" speech isn't going to go over so well when framed next to Lincoln and Obama.
IrishNinja
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awful lot of defeatism on page 1
see some of ya'll in DC on saturday
see some of ya'll in DC on saturday
Trump hasn't said anything of value since he joined Twitter in 2009, he's not going to say anything of value during his inauguration.
Well to be fair, if you're filthy rich he might.
You're going to be in DC?? This makes me so happy.
Knuckle Sandwich
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I'll be at a protest. Not sure what to write on my sign tho. Fuck Trump I guess.
Excuse me while I vomit.
Was at Disney World today, saw this:
Excuse me while I vomit.
We went last week to see it one last time before I have to see an animatronic Donald Trump make some phoned in speech about American ideals or whatever they intend to have him do. Shit will be embarassing. Curious if they'll be able to get Morgan Freeman back to introduce him.Was at Disney World today, saw this:
Legato.Reborn-
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Be careful out there ProtestGAF!
CountAntonius
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I'm watching because it's surreal and history.
EatinOlives
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I don't know why people keep saying this thinking it's a clever observation. It really isn't.
IrishNinja
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i am indeed - couldn't think of a better thing to do for my birthday! haha
we're staying at a hotel in baltimore friday night, taking tansit up early saturday but i need to research the route & get our signs together soon too
i imagine i won't nearly be the only gaffer there!
*edit just saw you're going too, awesome!
as ever, thank you for eloquently saying what i could not, stumps
really thought this would be one of the last place i'd see the "crybabies" type posts, honestly
Back-In-Black
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Eh, I don't get actually protesting his inauguration. I won't be giving that asshat two seconds of my time. He got elected democratically, I don't see the point to protesting the democratic process. I will be exercising my right to vote his sorry ass and all the rest of the Republicans out when the time comes. But, as far as I'm concerned he can have his inauguration day.
Why? He is a fucking puppet.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Good luck.
Yeah. Because Obama was also a racist, xenophobic, homophobic, bigoted, mysoginist, white supremacist, neo-nazi sympathiser, kkk tied, sexual predator, liar, motherfucker.
Totally the same situation.
Rentahamster
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People can protest whatever they want. It's fine. Free speech is free speech.
Middle man of GAF has spoken. Obama and Trump are the same.
Middle man can see both sides. Listen to his wisdom.
Psychoward
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He doesn't have anything of value to say and he's just going to make me angry with his stupidity, ignorance and hateful rhetoric. Why would you watch it?
Protest of George W. Bush's first inauguration (January 2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-jOujNLGBw
More videos of those protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNf0sv1Hmlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ud3DkRb1yU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-jOujNLGBw
(2001 Inauguration) "The protesting is now very intense as we're coming up here... Police are in riot gear..."
(The only time Bush got out of the car
More videos of those protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNf0sv1Hmlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ud3DkRb1yU
Was at Disney World today, saw this:
good thing disneyland will neer get this garbage..
He's been saving that pivot for inauguration, any second now he'll stop being a thin-skinned blowhard.
I mean what are people expecting, him to recite some crap about "Unity" and "American Values" and "President For All Americans" and for everyone just to swallow that and everything will be alright? Even fucking Kellyanne Conway says we shouldn't listen to his words but to his heart, wherever the fuck that's buried.
Also to people going hurr durr it happened to Obummer too, please tell me the last time someone this incredibly unqualified and childish was elected to be the most powerful man in the world.
IrishNinja
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that's fine
i think expressing solidarity with minority groups about to be greatly affected by this mess & registering my disdain on the day of his celebration are worthy efforts of my time
to again quote stumps:
Psychoward
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Back-In-Black
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I never said they couldn't people can do whatever the fuck the want, I was questioning why. I was just recently at my local Democratic party meeting and there was a group gung-ho about protesting, making it this whole event, me and my friend just stared at each other with raised eyebrows. To us the protesting of the inauguration seems a pointless endeavor. He's been elected, you can't change that via a protest, you change that by voting. You can't even say you're protesting anything specific since you're just protesting Trump in general, which again is what elections are for.
Now, I'm sure there will be plenty of legitimate things to protest about Trump once he takes office and starts enacting polices. But, to me a general Trump protest doesn't do anything besides perhaps making the people protesting feel better. If that's what they need fine, but I'm not going to be convinced it's some powerful statement.
A puppet that got elected.
Psychoward
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Yeah and what a damn shame that is.
Even if you think he shouldn't have been stopped from being inaugurated, protesting his inauguration isn't just saying "hey this guy is illegitimate remove him!" it's also saying "hey this guy is a complete fucking psychopath, don't normalize him or his administration and don't treat him with kids' gloves. Make him uncomfortable and challenge his views and policies at every chance you're given"
How About No
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Just gonna be a lazy asshole and read the GAF thread on it, might not even open the stream, lest I cringe in embarrassment and die
Good luck and stay safe anyone who's going out there, I support you endorsebly
I kinda wonder if that's why they have these things in the winter, too cold out to cause a ruckus
Good luck and stay safe anyone who's going out there, I support you endorsebly
I kinda wonder if that's why they have these things in the winter, too cold out to cause a ruckus
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