Posted on 11/08/2017 8:09:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK, NY — A collective scream Wednesday marked a year since Donald Trump was elected leader of the U.S.
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered for the anniversary, crowding into Washington Square Park Wednesday night and howling at the top of their lungs.
The cathartic group wail was the only release that would satisfy some New Yorkers after the year that's passed since Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. New Yorkers overwhelmingly supported Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections with all boroughs except Staten Island casting most of their votes for her – 79 percent of ballots.
The crowds started to gather in the park shortly before 7 p.m.
"Yell about everything that's enraged you not just since Trump's election, but the months leading up to it; everything that we've seethed about, but had no control over," the event's organizer, Nathan Wahl, wrote on a Facebook page inviting people to the event.
"Yell about Trump and his sexual assault, his arrogance, his racism, his bigotry, his intolerance of anyone with a different nationality or skin color or gender than his own. Yell about his calls to silence reporters, to quell the first amendment, his compassion for white supremacists, his encouragement of police brutality and violence."
John Eng, a Manhattan resident, came out with a "Dump Trump" sign on Wednesday night.
"I'm here to protest everything our president stands for. I believe the whole year has been a nightmare," Eng said. Eng cited Trump's actions on immigration and his statements about white supremacists among the most frustrating periods of Trump's presidency.
Eng, 54, said he couldn't pick just one moment from the past year that had most made him want to scream.
"When you wake up one day, you believe it can't get any worse, you can't get any more angry," Eng said. "Then something happens the next day."
The anti-Trump protesters were met by an unexpected group of Trump supporters on Wednesday night. A group of at least a dozen people, many dressed in "Make America Great Again" gear from the Trump campaign, showed up to heckle the protestors. The protestors and anti-protestors frequently got into heated arguments before and after the central scream, with one fight nearly devolving to blows after an anti-protestor stole a sign from a Trump protestor.
Eva Sahana, an organizer with the group Refuse Fascism, said she wasn't in Washington Square Park to scream helplessly.
"We are screaming in rage, we are screaming in pain, but we are screaming in unity and solidarity cause we have a plan and a way forward," Sahana said.
Sahana said she was "a little surprised" by the Trump supporters who had turned out, but not deterred by them.
"It's extremely, extremely frustrating," she said. "Luckily, those are not the people we're trying to speak to. We're speaking to the tens of millions of people who we know hate the Trump and Pence regime and these people have already crossed the line."
How childish.
Too late. People from NYC have been moving to Pennsylvania for the past 50 years. :(
Trump bought us a respite from Clinton tyranny, but I fear it will be very short one.
We are going to be destroyed in the 2018 election because the Left is fired up and our voters are not.
Gillespie was a weak candidate but the worst R is better than the best D.
The end is coming for America, soon. I have lost all hope — except perhaps that the Lord will come soon and consign the traitors and perverts to eternal fire.
“Cause we have a plan and a way forward”
Same as Hillary’s “forward”, lie and make things up.
If it’s really THAT bad, posts like this make it worse.
You don’t win by discouraging people.
What are YOU doing to help?
So just suck it up and go get a real job and work for a living.
That'll keep you busy enough to not worry about imaginary problems.
I caught a rerun of the Jim Nabors Variety Show the other night on one of the retro channels.
Andy Griffith played a bad guy, corrupt evil cop and Don Knotts made an appearance as his even more evil chief.
Pretty funny.
Not really.
In answer to your question, I am an old retired guy with no money and no influence.
All I can do is pray that the Lord comes soon and puts an end to this filth.
LOL my niece, at 2 or 3, would actually bang her head on the floor. My sister totally ignored her. That phase didn’t last long. Niece is ok. Went to Franklin and Marshall plus did a stint of grad work in England.
Considering NYC is the abortion capital of the nation I do not think the attacks there are coincidental. But then, I don’t believe in any coincidence.
They yell, but we prayed. We moaned in agony to the One who hears our unspoken pain for 8 years. Now He hears our relief and reserved thanks but it is joined with requests for justice and honor and a halt, a halt, of the death of the innocent pre-born whose silent screams He hears and whose pain He knows. He has vowed to avenge their deaths.
We appreciate that He gives us time although I wouldn’t. I have a very short temper.
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