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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Why do Dems insist on being disruptive and destructive...”
They are virtually powerless politically, having tantrums like a 4 year-old is all they’ve got.
The people I saw demonstrating today were way too old to cause any trouble. They could barely walk and some were in wheelchairs, ancient hippies reliving the Vietnam days.
The FBI is unconcerned with violent left wing brownshirts, only with peaceful right wing Christians.
hi
thanks for that
under the circumstances, that’s good news
usually these street gangfests are comprised of strong youngsters recruited on campus, etc. they can become very theatening to innocent citzens just trying to walk by
old codgers in wheel chairs protesting? why? they’ve already imported their communist-China wheelchairs, they won’t have to pay any tariff
smiles smiles
but I’d best not kid them too much, since I (at least hope) to get old and codgery and to have so much free time to be able to relive my (misguided) youth
smiles s mile
“Tens of thousands of…”
I was downtown today and saw lots of 8th grade and senior high school groups and also those looking for the last of the cherry blossoms. I did see a few bedraggled granolas holding signs. Obviously the scumbags covering the “protest” counted every tourist they saw. This type of desperation counting happens often in DC. I was at a Smithsonian event on the mall about 30 years ago and they counted a group of protesters who happened to be there at the same time. Lol.
Boring
RE: ...way too old to cause any trouble. ... ancient hippies reliving the Vietnam days.
Still keep an eye on them. They studied Che Guevara quotes in Rolling Stone and Ramparts Magazine when they were in college.
“Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.”
Attributed to Fausto Coppi, a renowned Italian competitive cyclist.
He was said to have crafty techniques for defeating younger opponents in races.
RE: nutty professors....
Those professors are used to the shell game. 🥜🥜🥜🥜
Work Tue-Thurs., take off all summer as classes close down and make sure to make it to tenure and retirement. Teaching assistants do the work half the time.
You’re welcome, FRiend, it was amazing, I was laughing my head off.
I’m shaking in my boots.....
Is this the clarion call for blm/antifa to get busy this summer?
Heh, I just hope they all made it to their cars OK, it was pathetic. I was in college with them, I look like Superman compared to them.
its an insurrection!! Round them up and jail them!!!
havent heard any damage reports
maybe they shouldnt have told them they were coming
Simple solution
Volley Fire
Yep. I watched the DC protest on Fox News. There’s no way there was 10s of thousands there. Maybe a few thousand.
No.money to pay the college crowd,as the grift has dried, lots of homemade signs.
Hands Off is an activist resource for the organization Indivisible as you point out. Here are some key facts people should know about the associations and people associated with Hands Off and Indivisible.
The Indivisible Project (or Indivisible) is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., and created in late 2016 as a response to the election of President Donald Trump. The Indivisible Project was established to provide liberals a practical guide for “Resisting the Trump Agenda.”
Indivisible’s most prominent allies include the Democratic Socialists of America, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood, the Working Families Party, Tides Foundation, among others.
Other listed partners include Americans for Tax Fairness, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Caring Across Generations, Economic Security Project Action, Fair Share America, MomsRising, the National Education Association (NEA), the National Women’s Law Center, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Unrig Our Economy.
Founders Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, both former congressional staffers, are career political operatives. Greenberg worked as an assistant in Congress for former Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Virginia), and served as policy director for Perriello’s unsuccessful 2017 Virginia gubernatorial campaign.29 Levin served as deputy policy director for Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), and more recently as associate director for federal policy for Prosperity Now, a left-leaning nonprofit that seeks to expand entitlements and welfare programs.
sorry to have to say but there’s still a ton of $$$ out there for sedition and street rioting
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.