#anti Trump protest

[remembertheplunge]

Make America Gay Again

2/18/2017

Saturday. 11:07pm

“Making America Gay Again”

 “The Perfect Arrangement”

I saw the play tonight. Devistating (It was about the outing of gays in the government during the McCarthy era in the early 1950’s.)

I sat alone, mid first row.

I was “part” of the play.

Some uncanny similarities between the play’ story line and my life:

“When I’m 60, I don’t want to be hiding.” (The line was said twice in the play).

“I stopped talking to my mother 6 years ago."

Jimmy (my partner’s name was Jim. His cousin Ruth Ann called him Jimmy)

The cover up and the admission

George Orwell “ In some climates to tell the truth is revolutionary.”

I also went to a protest rally march today against Trump and his "Make America Great Again” agenda. An organizer told us “If he sends in the National Guard, form a human shield. 4000 people marched one mile to the Federal Building. Per there San Diego Tribune later “the march was peaceful. They shook cops hands.” Empowering.

6 year since my last drink.  

As the plane leaves the ground tonight, around 9pm, so will, or did, I ride up out of the alcohol sea of despair 6 years ago.

I love the homeless 60 year old I gave my bag of movie popcorn to as I left the movie “Don’t Call Me Negro” last night. He said “I don’t drink, smoke or do air conditioning.” He sees air conditioning as one of the nation’s greatest threats.

Alcohol related events of 2/19/2017

—Female speaker: Last class of the Death Penalty Conference  “The only thing between you and all of the bars in San Diego is this class.”

—the people pouring out of the bars screaming as I walked down 5th Ave in the Hillcrest district last night.

—People drinking, bars open, on my early morning walk to and from 24 hour fitness gym  and the Hilton

San Diego is fueled by alcohol.

Some Senator wants the last call time pushed to from 2am to 4am in California

I learned that at the only substance abuse class given at the conference, you get zero continuing education of the bar credit.

I’d say out of the 1000 Death Penalty Conference goers, there were  maybe 4, including me, who didn’t have lawyer body. (A lawyer body is flabby and out of shape)

Nothing at the convention advocates for mind/body connection.

No 24 hour fitness booths.

No “Other Bar” booths (The other bar is lawyer alcoholics anonymous)

It’s all cerebral.

All 1000 participants should have marched in unison in the  anti Trump protest march to the Federal Building  Saturday.

They should have see “A Perfect Arrangement” and “Don’t Call Me Negro”

Before each class, a personal trainer should have been present to put them through a work out.

End of entry.

Note: I attended the Death Penalty Conference in sanDiego California in February 2017.

[sunflowerseedinbloom]

Just sharing this here cause this is terrifying bro

I legit thought the whole rest of the world was leaning far apt right and in favour of trump and I almost had NO HOPE. I even told my partner this morning that I was so worried that there would be nobody on the outside who would step up for us. My partner who does research 24/7 didn’t see ANY news about international protests. Everything we learned was that everyone outside of the US was in agreement with this shit man (at least, international governments were in agreement)

If you’re non-american Please give me hope and tell me there are voices outside of the US speaking up for us and fighting where we literally cannot even see or access.

[live-laugh-luigi]

edit: join the subreddit for updates, i think thats where most of the planning is happening. it seems that the date may be changed to allow more time to organize and plan

second edit: you can also follow on bluesky

[nando161mando]

Did you know the world was protesting against Trump or was that news hidden from you?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/jan/20/anti-trump-protests-photos

[mugiwara-lucy]

One of the main reasons why I’m voting for Kamala Harris is because sometime within the next couple of years there will be two open seats in the Supreme Court.

Let’s not forget one of the judges that Trump appointed in his first term OVERTURNED ROE V WADE. And the old fucker BRAGS about it:

If he gets back into office, I’m sure we can all anticipate AILEEN CANNON being one of those Supreme Court justices. And if you all don’t know who she is, she threw out the case where Trump STOLE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE:

In a nutshell, if Trump gets into office, he will appoint two younger Supreme Court justices younger than Clarence Thomas, meaning the Supreme Court will be locked HARD RIGHT for AT LEAST 30 years.

By then, that means our potential children and grandchildren (if you even want to have kids) will have LESS RIGHTS THAN US.

Do you really want that?

That’s why I feel with Kamala Harris being President, we can BALANCE OUT the courts!

Please Vote Blue.

Thank You 🙏

[saywhat-politics]

[lgbtqtext]

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[victusinveritas]

There are people who have been doing this shit for decades. Take advice from them. The people at CrimethInc are great.

If you wear contact lenses, skip em and wear regular glasses. Tear gas and pepper spray can get trapped by the contacts and that's a bad time. In the milk/water vs tear gas debate: water for tear gas, milk for pepper spray if I recall the old maxim.

More below the cut.

A friend and long-time protester posted this in a comment:

"From my experiences I can tell you a few things

Keep all your info related to the protest offline

Don’t even say you are going

Don’t tell anyone personal info

Not even you’re real name

There will be cops among you

Don’t wear anything identifying

Wear Covid masks and a hat or hoodie to avoid ID and kinda loose but not too loose dark clothing with no logos or anything identifying

If you wanna bring something to record

Bring a USB spy gadget camera that does not have WIFI connectivity

Don’t bring your phone

If you absolutely need a phone

Get a disposable flip phone that has no Wi-Fi connectivity

And destroy it after being in one location

Other organizing tips

Avoid “free speech zones”

Those are areas that cops plan to box ppl in to crack down on everyone

It’s best to divide larger groups up into smaller groups all over the city

It’s easy for cops to surround everyone in one place

They don’t have the resources to handle it when protests break out all over the city

Also bring a few leaf blowers as they can blow the tear gas back on the cops pretty effectively

It’s also hilarious

Beware of ppl doing stupid shit

They are usually infiltrators

Do not ask anyone their name

Don’t ask for personal info, phone numbers etc

Anyone asking questions

Avoid them

Beware of anyone trying to get too friendly with you

If you are a medic

Don’t wear anything to indicate you are a medic

They target medics

Y’all will need lots of milk to flush out tear gas outta your eyes and nose

Carry a backpack with supplies and first aid, tear gas, food, milk

Etc

Don’t use your debit or credit card while you are on location

Cash only

But like I said

The protest is much more effective if it’s spread out over many locations

Than centralized in one place

Being in one place gives them all the advantage

There are much more of you than them so spreading out strips their defenses and are much easier to overwhelm a small group of cops than literally going against all the cops

Study OpSec

*Be sure to take the milk out of your backpack when you get home.*

This won't help with protest safety, but it will prevent a disgusting backpack disaster in your closet a week later."

[sscarletvenus]

Ilan Pappe is a preeminent author, historian and speaker who has written about the Nakba, the series of calculated horrors and atrocities on the basis of which the apartheid regime called israel was founded.

genocidal maniacs are persecuting anti-genocide intellectuals.

detaining and interrogating Jewish scholars is definitely not antisemitism...

madness!

[dramamccringe]

I've seen so many people spreading misinformation about this on TikTok, so...

DON'T wear make-up or contacts while protesting NEVER!

Contact with chemicals will PERMANENTLY damage your eyesight! It will make you BLIND you idiot

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

Project 2025 is terrifying. But when the history books talk about this period, they will point to July 1, 2024, as the beginning of the Fascist Era in the United States.

That's the day SCOTUS ruled on the perfectly-named Trump v. United States, in which the Court said the president could not be prosecuted for crimes committed in office.

In the 11 days since, Biden and the Democrats have taken absolutely no action. That's because they are not an antifascist party. They will capitulate and capitulate until fascism is complete.

The media are playing this down as something that only applies to Trump. As something not especially dangerous. As something normal.

Protest, strikes, even "rioting" (a slur for direct action) are not failures of democracy, they are integral to it. The system has failed and will not replace itself. The People still have the power to make real, substantive change and create a society that is not just not-fascist but actively antifascist. And anticolonialist, antiracist, antisexist, genuinely democratic, and free.

Voting for Democrats AT BEST delays the inevitable furthering of fascism for a short while, and AT WORST actually accelerates fascism by empowering capitulators. Want to vote Biden? Fine, waste an hour of your time.

If you want to actually fight fascism, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT.

[2025washingtonprotests]

Hello. I’ve made this account to spread the protest i’m going to organize statewide for washington state. updates will mostly be posted on my tiktok, here. ( user is gatorzz0 )

i need your help to spread this to my fellow washingtonians. i also need help in finding other people to help me organize this. please help spread this for me so we can make it happen.

[x-fun-in-funeral-x]

Do not roll over and obey in advance. Don’t let them take your rights away. DO SOMETHING !!!

[redhoodie1723]

Yeah let's also cancel Lewis Hamilton for meeting and having conversations with Putin... Yeah... Also maybe Seb too because he was also there???? Yeah... Right...some of you have never had a job where you had to talk positively about someone you didn't like or approved just for the sake of keeping that job.

idk which time ur talking about hamilton and putin meeting up and making friends, as the only time i can find that they've interacted was at the 2015 russian grand prix where putin was giving out the race trophies. hamilton, vettel, and perez were all on the podium for that race. correct me if im wrong and theres another time theyve met, but thats literally all i can find.

now, first of all, there's a big difference between having to interact with a political figure on a race podium, and choosing to interact with them freely out in the paddock, taking pictures with them, and praising them in additional interviews. there's also a big difference between being polite to the current leader of the country you're in that is known for killing/imprisoning people who speak out against him, and actively supporting an ex-leader who has (as far as we know) never actually killed someone for not being supportive.

if you ask me, it would've been unsafe for hamilton or any of the drivers on that podium to speak out against putin at that moment or act impolitely. on the other hand, the biggest trouble norris could get in for not praising trump and taking pictures with him is maybe a talking too back at the mclaren HQ. like, lets be real, it would be ridiculous and insane of mclaren to fire norris after all the time/resources theyve put into his development, especially now that its finally starting to pay off. it would be like shooting themselves in the foot, a move thats generally reserved for ferrari's strategy team or sauber's pit stops.

furthermore, you are simply assuming that norris' job wouldve been at risk in this situation. not once has it been implied that he was threatened or coerced into this situation. its even less likely that that has happened since piastri hasn't made any comments or taken any pictures with trump as far as i can find. for all we know, it could've been norris' idea to do all that. so, not exactly the strongest defense here.

and even if he had been forced into the corner and told to take pictures and play nice, he also took it a step further to compliment trump in other interviews saying it was an "honor" and there's a lot to "respect" about trump. hamilton has never come out saying any of that about putin. in fact, he has come on the record since then condemning putin and his actions. can you tell me where norris has come out condemning trump and his actions? no? that's funny.

[hersheysmcboom]

Am I the only one who thinks the pro palestine movement has started to become kind of cult like