Posted on 04/06/2025 1:14:27 AM PDT by EBH
A large anti-Trump protest took place in D.C., followed by a smaller Gaza protest and then a hamburger.
Saturdays.
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PenguinSix is an apolitical guy in a political town who likes to walk a lot. He has hiked over 17,000 miles (27,000kms) in the past six years and is still walking today. He is an American expat who spent the last decade in Hong Kong with his family and is now back in Washington DC, continuing his daily ritual of taking very long hikes around the city catching the sights and sounds of the city while live streaming to share with others
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What makes it so incredibly different is it is OUR tax dollars that pays THEM. We're their boss behind their paychecks and if 50% of the nation isn't paying taxes, we just cannot keep going the way they were with the fraud and abuse of the system.
With banks preparing for a Black Monday with deep margin calls...these types of protests seem to display a level of ignorance at the castle workers in D.C.
They are government employees that’s all most don’t seem to care or understand that they are part of a 36 trillion dollar problem.
“I am wondering if these government employees truly understand how much the country really doesn’t care? “
No need to wonder. Since the end of Reagan’s presidency private sector employees have experienced the job killing impacts of technology (personal computers and the Internet) and globalist one sided free trade policies resulting in the deindustrialization of the U.S. and the loss of millions of middle class jobs. At the same time federal government direct employment, and employment at NGO’s, lobbying firms, consulting firms and law firms dependent on government spending exploded.
Politicians and federal bureaucrats told jobless private sector employees to “learn to code” while at the same time greasing the tracks for hundreds of thousands of foreign IT workers to obtain work visas to take those coding jobs.
To the extent people care about fired government workers, it is a feeling these cuts were long overdue.
WE know all that as we experienced it, but these government employees took jobs thinking they would never be ‘fired.’
And like any normal employee who was fired due to recession, loss of job to overseas, etc. they will go through the same mental process we did.
BUT...the catch here is ...the public doesn’t have the empathy for them. In fact, many of them coming from things like offices set up to implement programs the public opposes makes for a unique and unqualified resume/CV. The last person I would ever want to hire would be the one that listed DEI implementation office for the Federal Government. Couple some of the previous policies and these indoctrinators will not be welcome in many small businesses.
So let’s say they were an IRS worker, now trying to get a job in the private sector. How many take up preparing tax returns for the average joe worker? Would you trust them to do that job?
Same with the third party contractors who deal with helping social security recipients?
There people are going to have a difficult time reorienting to the private sector in my humble opinion, it’s like they’ll need to be deprogrammed first.
All this time wasted whining and marching could be spent looking for a real job. I saw for 21 years all those career civilian employees who had it made in their jobs sitting on their fat asses, taking their own good time getting anything done. Made me want to puke. You could not fire one of them. If you counseled one of them for a lousy job, you had to keep doing it for a year or more, every 90 days, telling them what they were doing wrong, how to correct it, repeat, repeat. BUT, if you left that supervisory job, you could not give their file to your replacement so he/she could keep the ball rolling. NO! THEY GOT A DO OVER!! The new person had to see what was going on and start the process all over again. So, you never got rid of one of these bums.
The district of corruption bed bugs make themselves visible.
If they were pro-Trump under biden, they’d all be arrested as *insurrectionists*.
I watched Penguinsix regularly. He shows a lot of the “behind the scenes” stuff in D.C. Now that he has a Whitehouse press pass, it’s interesting to view things from a reporter/photographer side of events. I got tickled at him showing a “Save the penguins” sign at the protest rally. I agree he seems apolitical.
Another good inside view of government workers and lobbyists was by youtuber Peter Santenello a few months ago. Search for his video in D.C. Lady on it was govt worker and said she was basically punished for working hard. To much to explain, but worth a watch if anyone wants first hand view of why so many got fired recently.
I went to high school on the DC metropolitan area, it used to be said that DC metropolitan area was recession proof.
Over the years, it has proven that it actually is recession proof, but it has also grown exponentially larger and the sprawl is far reaching.
I’ve kept my eye on that area, visited ma and pa occasionally, even work there for several years. But when I left the first time in 1970, the greater DC metropolitan area “Mixing Bowl” at I-95 & the 495 beltway in Virginia was a Yield sign.
So things have changed... I wonder if it will still be recession proof post slimdown.
Are they “anti-Trump” protests or are they “pro-government fraud and waste” protests?
I’d say the later.
That’s true.
Exactly.
Exactly, I see this a lot on the social media websites. Especially where conservatives are responding to the violent assaults on Tesla. The response from the left is always ...J6.
If/when we ever pull together to ‘protest’ or ‘show support’...we are at risk from the lunatic left lawfare folks. They have essentially cowed many on the Right to be fearful of exercising a fundamental Right.
Trump had the courage to go back to D.C., but we have to have the courage to keep it if we ever hope to MAGA. President Trump can only set the table, we have to be able to risk the fight.
But it is something we all need to examine our hearts and minds regarding are we really the mouse caught in their trap of controlling the narrative, to the point we’re to scared to be arrested? I think it is a fair question to ask ourselves after watching them hunt down J6 folks. We can kick and scream all we want how even that was rigged by them to cause mayhem, but until we really control that story (which I do not believe we do even with the pardons) we have not filled in the gap of truth.
We still have a lot of work and fight in front of us. I just do not think we have yet figured out how we are going to get this done. Trump, Vance, Musk have risked everything. They are setting a very high bar as an example. And we see it everyday right here on FR, when people say...they can’t protest because they have to work, they might lose their job, etc. It might harm their business. They might get arrested. It is a psychological oppression to feel that way in the United States.
My joke to my wife....
“Do you know who was protesting in Washington DC?”
“The same people that protested against the Vietnam War in the sixties.
The exact same people.
They were 18 then.
They are 73 now!”
Where was all the J6 terror, screaming and crying? Where was the FBI. This is insurrection and we’ve even got Muzzie terrorists like Illhead Omar preaching against America and the losers who lost in November where throwing tantrums and doing the hokey pokey in the streets with all the sexual deviants. A bunch of Geezer Twerkers doing the Beetlejuice Conga. These protest shows me why none of them had any idea what they do with their civil serpent stay at home jobs.
Correction: PAID protestors protest president Trump- George soros uses unsaid money to pay the protestors”
Burning cities are all Dems are good at.
Old leftist whites.
I agree and yet those threats and risks are very real considering the way the judiciary is stacked against the right.
We can do our part in elections etc, but there’s not much we can do to remove corrupt and unjust judges from the bench aside from pray that God would do it.
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