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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Yup
Great post. He brightened up a lot of people’s lives.
Left us Feb. 15, 2022.
RIP
Making people “ afraid”…is terrorism. Y
They are pushing as hard as they can to get Civil War II started. All of this Tesla s^^t and the “peaceful” protests along with the waste and misuse of government funds that DOGE has found are only waking people up. These morons have not even tried to think this through.
“THOUSANDS!!!”
They killed them all in the womb. Serves them right.
ya i am afraid you are right a few dem billionaires will gladly spend money to destroy this country
it is really strange
how some people who are so advantaged in USA (and other western societies) can be working (and spending so much money) trying to weaken or destroy the very countries that have enabled their successes
there’s something strongly psychological about this
“Bishop” William Barber is of satan.
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