Posted on 04/05/2025 2:40:14 PM PDT by Libloather
Tens of thousands of protesters descended on DC Saturday as part of nationwide “Hands Off!” rallies against spending cuts from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Trump’s new “Liberation Day” tariffs — with one speaker calling on the crowd to make the two men “afraid.”
The huge crowd assembled with homemade — and in many cases vulgar — anti-Republican signs near the Washington Monument while similar events unfolded in New York City, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
“Trump and Musk, who want to be dictators and want to be kings and lords, they are afraid of the power of love and truth and justice!” declared activist minister William Barber II, who was one of the first speakers at the DC event.
“They are afraid of your unity and diversity. Well, let’s keep them afraid until they change,” he roared. “This is an outright battle for civilization! We are not going to bow to power drunk neofascist extremists.”
A coalition of Democratic and left-wing groups organized the event, which is one of the first large DC rallies against Trump since he reentered the White House in January. Simultaneous protests unfolded at over 1,000 locations across the country, including the Big Apple, at Columbia University and Bryant Park.
Opponents of Musk have vandalized Tesla facilities and vehicles across the country, which Trump, who survived two assassination attempts last year, has denounced as domestic terrorism.
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They’ll clock out by noon
My only fear is what i will have to do to some nutty protestor if they get too close to me.
If if things get too crazy, maybe they should be afraid of conservatives facing off with them that are, shall we say, “well armed””?
The activist minister...
https://www.epi.org/people/rev-dr-william-j-barber-ii/
He serves Deep State, not God.
You’re protesting in the wrong place, folks. Go down to Bellville, TX and throw a fit there. Their law enforcement folks are pushovers.
what took them so long
it been over 60 days
Astroturfers!
the tariffs were the last straw?
glad to see the left protesting taxes
Oh I’m scared. SCARED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If their protests are peaceful and legal, let them rant. The second the protests become violent, arrest them all: we did it to veterans in the 1930s who didn’t deserve it, we can do it to the Marxists and paid-idiots who would deserve it.
Murdoch Lefty News FAILS to State it was a Huge DUD .
No one showed but the paid soros rent a mob .
No Crowd Photos .
means
No Crowd .
The media Trump Gop hate is so intense . Its scary .
Is the FBI there to foment violence? Or do they just do it at non-paid rallies.
Let crooked cops be cops!
As a side note, the Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire soon. We should expect to see millions of leftists out there protesting the tax increases from the expiration of the tax cuts, no?
OMG, I saw the demonstration in Grand Junction, CO! They were all about 80 years old! More than one great grandpa pushing great grandma in her wheelchair while she held the sign. Lots of Musk hate, and free speech signs, but they aren’t likely to be alive to vote in the next presidential election. The Democrat party has no future, there were no young people. GJ and surround area pop is about 90k, crow size estimate was “almost 100”. They are outnumbered here, the county went 60-40% Trump both times.
Why do Dems insist on being disruptive and destructive. I simply don’t understand.
The US labor party, i.e. Democrats, now hates tariffs. In another story pigs are flying out of my anus.
nobody’s afraid of SorozNazi street thuggery
though, inho, it must be stopped (as it is all too similar to how the Nazis upset the German social compact in the 1930’s). there’s a vast difference between peaceful assembly and “let’s make then afraid!” threats and intimidation
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