Protesting the Inauguration of Donald Trump

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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.


Lol OK dude.

Sorry but your post is so fucking bad, especially the "puppet that got elected" bit that I don't have much more for you than that.

I hope you wake up someday.
 
I'll be driving several hours to visit my grandmother on Friday, so I'll probably listen to it on NPR. I think not watching/listening is a bad idea on the basis that we should use every tool we have (including Trump's own words) to challenge him, his policies, his needless "wag the dog" routine, his lies to the American people, and where the country goes over the next two years. Use Trump against himself, Republicans in office that support him, and try to show the opposite to those who previously supported him so we have a chance of righting the ship.

I don't think we can wait four years. We need to start tearing the man down and calling him on the shit he shovels from day one and that means knowing what kind of shit spewing from his mouth.
 
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"

He's the President of the United States. We are well past the point of normalization. No matter what happens he gets a portrait, he gets a fucking Library, he gets put down in the history books, etc. I agree he must be challenged at every corner but that's why we have elections and all that time in-between. At the moment, he's just being sworn in a month after winning the election. He's allowed to have his one day. I won't be watching or attending, but he can have his shitty day.

After that, EVERYTHING is fair game.
 
I kinda wonder if that's why they have these things in the winter, too cold out to cause a ruckus

I dunno, weather forecast said it was going to be 54 and sunny on Saturday. Hopefully the weather gods are with us one last time before it all turns cold again.

Wish I could come up with a snazzy sign slogan, have limited art materials here. :/
 
He's the President of the United States. We are well past the point of normalization. No matter what happens he gets a portrait, he gets a fucking Library, he gets put down in the history books, etc. I agree he must be challenged at every corner but that's why we have elections and all that time in-between. At the moment, he's just being sworn in a month after winning the election. He's allowed to have his one day. I won't be watching or attending, but he can have his shitty day.

After that, EVERYTHING is fair game.

Option 1) people sit back and let him have a shitty day where he celebrates himself

Option 2) people kick and scream from day 1 and try to ruin his shitty day

which option is preferable to you?
 
I agree he must be challenged at every corner

then there should be no issue here - no, i don't have to wait for him to officially take office: i've had 18+ months of rhetoric, damage to trade deals, outright bigotry & misogyny, threats to NATO and horrific cabinet choices showing exactly where his priorities lie

it's also fine for you to draw some arbitrary line in the sand and say "no, this is HIS day, but after that we should do these things!" but you can't expect everyone else to abide that strange logic.

also for posterity: my prior post illustrated my reasons for said protest. i'm not concerned with "normalizing" things so much as the rest of what i & stumps said.

Option 1) people sit back and let him have a shitty day where he celebrates himself

Option 2) people kick and scream from day 1 and try to ruin his shitty day

which option is preferable to you?

also this - i very much want him knowing his fuckery isn't tolerated, or welcomed. he can keep telling himself he won because of the people, and we can keep reminding him nah
 
Option 1) people sit back and let him have a shitty day where he celebrates himself

Option 2) people kick and scream from day 1 and try to ruin his shitty day


which option is preferable to you?

You can't ruin his shitty day, he's already won and he's a sociopath. He would likely take a perverse pleasure in the "cry babies" kicking and screaming as he steps inside their hallowed White House and proceeds to hang his portrait up while relaxing in his faux-gold chair right behind the Resolute Desk. He'll sit there idly content with the knowledge that no matter what, he won. And, nothing they can do can take that away from him at the moment.
 
You can't ruin his shitty day, he's already won and he's a sociopath. He would likely take a perverse pleasure in the "cry babies" kicking and screaming as he steps inside their hallowed White House and proceeds to hang his portrait up while relaxing in his faux-gold chair right behind the Resolute Desk. He'll sit there idly content with the knowledge that no matter what, he won. And, nothing they can do can take that away from him at the moment.
The person who gets a hissy-fit about every little slight directed at him? He will be the biggest crybaby when he sees that there are more protesters present than his followers.
 
I work for socially left man that also believes in climate change, and I manage about 12/35 people that he employs. I mean a great deal to his business and its functionality. He voted for Trump and is 100% behind him.


Do I dare release my feelings on Friday? How should I do it? He already knows I'm liberal.
 

Wow, I had no idea there were protests against Bush's first inauguration.

What's funny is back then, I wouldn't understand the outrage because Bush didn't do anything evil yet.

Whereas now, Donald Trump is already starting day one as a Russian operative who serves Putin's interests.

There better be lots of angry chanting when his motorcade starts moving through the streets.
 
Wow, I had no idea there were protests against Bush's first inauguration.

What's funny is back then, I wouldn't understand the outrage because Bush didn't do anything evil yet.

Whereas now, Donald Trump is already starting day one as a Russian operative who serves Putin's interests.

There better be lots of angry chanting when his motorcade starts moving through the streets.

maybe this is a forward thing to say but... I just really hope no one tries to kill him because not only would that be fucked up, and not a way to solve the problem, but it would give the GOP/altRight/etc even more power

dude should never even have been in the running for president as he's not only not qualified, but quite literally the opposite of everything a president should be. It absolutely baffles and terrifies me that he's made it to this position. The next few years and or future will not be a comfortable place for those that value knowledge, education, privacy, and fairness... let alone any kind of non-white minority.
 
I am all for puting a spanner in the works. There is too much complacency at the moment though, so it ain't going to make much of a difference. But if I was from the US, I would probably be out there.
 
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.

Middle man of GAF has spoken. Obama and Trump are the same.

Middle man can see both sides. Listen to his wisdom.
Hey, that's not fair.

I'm a centrist mostly (One of 5 people in the UK who still likes the Lib Dems) and that isn't how I feel at all. Trump is a racist demagogue and I would never apply The "both sides" nonsense to compare him to Obama. The right to protest is thankfully protected on both sides of the Atlantic.

The fact is however is that the howling of the right over Obama was just as protected, although racist asshats can go swivel.

If you want to protest against Trump, you have 4 years and hopefully no longer. Go out there and use your Democratic rights and let nobody tell you that you can't or shouldn't.
 
You can't ruin his shitty day, he's already won and he's a sociopath. He would likely take a perverse pleasure in the "cry babies" kicking and screaming as he steps inside their hallowed White House and proceeds to hang his portrait up while relaxing in his faux-gold chair right behind the Resolute Desk. He'll sit there idly content with the knowledge that no matter what, he won. And, nothing they can do can take that away from him at the moment.

This is the same man who keeps whining about the popular vote win for Clinton being illegitimate even though he knows it's not. It bothers him so much that he didn't win the popular vote, he still cries about it. Donald has the thinnest skin imaginable, it will constantly bother him that there will be protesters outside the white house everyday for the rest of his term that he will not even focus on his job. I guarantee you, he will pop outside the white house and get into a pissing match with them.
 
Wow, I had no idea there were protests against Bush's first inauguration.

I remember watching it live on Dish Network in 480i or whatever the SD standard for that was.
Well, almost live, i remember switching to the OTA broadcast and that being a second or two ahead of the satellite feed.

Seems like yesterday, not 16 years ago.
 
Yes he is.

You don't get to close your eyes, cover your ears and go "lalalalalala". He's your president, deal with that how you will.

I mean, if they are like me, they would actually have the right the renounce their U.S. citizenship and therefore that cheetos sprayed nazi isn't their president. I'm actually considering returning to my home country and renouncing my citizenship, but that's a big decision to make and I need time to think about it. It all depends if the Democrats can win 2018 or not.
 

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Proceeds from the sale of these shirts over the next four years will be donated to organizations working to combat whatever bullshit policies this scumbag attempts to perpetrate on our country and the world.

Hahaha nice! But on a serious note, that's a little vague. I assume they'll just keep all the proceeds in a piggy bank until something happens?
 
For those who want to protest, that's all good and fine, but please vote in 2018 for the midterms and 2020 afterwards. That'll make more difference.
 
I mean, if they are like me, they would actually have the right the renounce their U.S. citizenship and therefore that cheetos sprayed nazi isn't their president. I'm actually considering returning to my home country and renouncing my citizenship, but that's a big decision to make and I need time to think about it. It all depends if the Democrats can win 2018 or not.

99% of the people saying "not my president" aren't going anywhere. Obviously everyone knows you're free to leave the country.
 
Apparently there's going to be a protest in my city which is...
Leeds... in Yorkshire... in the UK


Why not, ay? Should be a laugh.

Trump means fart around here, so i hope there's pleanty of appropriately punny protest signage.
 
Apparently there's going to be a protest in my city which is...
Leeds... in Yorkshire... in the UK


Why not, ay? Should be a laugh.

Trump means fart around here, so i hope there's pleanty of appropriately punny protest signage.

Trump's influence extends worldwide. The UK will definitely be involved in his presidency, especially when he's called NATO obsolete.

Guess which man will completely benefit from a defenseless Europe?

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This. If Obama had to sit through years of his citizenship being called into question (Trump himself being one of the main instigators) and his family being called every racist name in the book, Trump can handle some people booing at his inauguration.

Anybody who wants to concern troll about "respect" can miss me.

the "respect" people have long forgotten about all that.
 
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.

It isn't pointless. For one, it signals to Europe that the US is divided. That Trump doesnt represent all of us.

They don't need your approval fortunately.


Apparently there's going to be a protest in my city which is...
Leeds... in Yorkshire... in the UK


Why not, ay? Should be a laugh.

Trump means fart around here, so i hope there's pleanty of appropriately punny protest signage.

Trump means a whole lot more to UK than you think.
 
I'm probably still going to watch the inauguration live. History is being made, for better or worse :/

Why even protest at this point? What are you protesting?
A fascist being inaugurated? It's a show of detest, nobody thinks they're gonna show up and scream "I OBJECT" and ride off into the sunset with Bernie as president while the shrek soundtrack plays
 
This.

He has been democratically elected, Americans have to respect that and try to win back in four years if they're not happy with him.


I wonder what the reaction would have been, had Ms. Clinton won the election and republicans decided to protest.

if secretary Clinton had won then I would be fine if repubs protested because that is their right as free Americans.

A fascist being inaugurated? It's a show of detest, nobody thinks they're gonna show up and scream "I OBJECT" and ride off into the sunset with Bernie as president while the shrek soundtrack plays

this is going to be the funniest thing I read all day and it's only 6am.
 
This.

He has been democratically elected, Americans have to respect that and try to win back in four years if they're not happy with him.


I wonder what the reaction would have been, had Ms. Clinton won the election and republicans decided to protest.

Republicans would have the right to protest just like the people who are protesting Trump's Inauguration. It's a right every US citizen has.
 
Trump is just as polarizing as Obama.
I keep telling myself it will be okay, we will make it through this but Trump terrifies me. The thing that's even scarier than him is that tea party bullshit finally has full control and they're going to implement austerity measures and give tax cuts to the rich.
As for watching the inauguration, it's not something I normally do. The only one I can remember is that we stopped school to watch Obama's in 08 which was cool. I was in high school and was just glad we got an hour or two break from school.
I got a flat tire yesterday. Thanks Obama. So I'll be at the tire store tomorrow during the timeframe of the inauguration. I imagine the TV will be tuned to this. I'm kinda interested in it being a trainwreck and that draws me to it tbh.
 
He's the President of the United States. We are well past the point of normalization. No matter what happens he gets a portrait, he gets a fucking Library, he gets put down in the history books, etc. I agree he must be challenged at every corner but that's why we have elections and all that time in-between. At the moment, he's just being sworn in a month after winning the election. He's allowed to have his one day. I won't be watching or attending, but he can have his shitty day.

After that, EVERYTHING is fair game.

But why? I don't get your point.
 
hes the president grt over it. no amount pouting (wearing black or protestig) can change that. how about instead of doing something useless you go volunteer or do something to help your commuity improve instead?
 
ya'll should be proud and celebrating the fact that we have freedom and we get to peacefully transfer power to whoever wins the election every four years, something most people in the world would kill to have (like our ancestors in the revolutionary war did). or you can just kick rocks and whine about it instead.
 
If people want to protest, whatever - seems a little partisan-hacky when he hasn't actually done anything yet, but whatever.

But deliberately not watching the speech reads to me as "I choose wilful ignorance of my opponent's strategy!" which is a ... bold... move.
 
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