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Activists Protest in D.C. Outside Capitol, Drag Effigy that Appears to Be of President Trump by a Noose
Breitbart ^ | 02/17/2025 | Hannah Knudsen

Posted on 02/17/2025 2:20:00 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Activists are protesting outside of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on Presidents Day, claiming to stand against “executive overreach.”

“​​The #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies,” the movement’s website states.

“The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media,” it explains.

One of those protests is taking place in the nation’s capital. The event page has a series of sign suggestions for participants, including “Down with authoritarianism,” “Hands off our federal dollars,” “Bring back the federal watchdogs,” and “Musk – We don’t want our data in your AI machine!”

A press release on the event also shows that the protesters apparently believe that President Donald Trump is “systematically” dismantling guardrails that “ensure accountability across the branches of government.” Ironically, they made no mention of the countless examples of waste, fraud, and abuse — uncovered by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — that have been allowed to run rampant for decades, wasting billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 50501; 50501movement; activists; arrestandexecute; astroturf; capitol; dc; doge; drag; effigy; enemycombatants; evolvedfungi; honeydoulemon; insurrectionists; noose; outside; president; protest; r50501; seditionists; threats; trump; violence
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I have no doubt in my mind these people would put conservatives and anybody they don't like and put them on cattle cars.
1 posted on 02/17/2025 2:20:00 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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Ah, the moonbats are back.
 
 

2 posted on 02/17/2025 2:22:41 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looks like an insurrection to me.


3 posted on 02/17/2025 2:22:47 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a lynching. A mostly peaceful lynching, but still. The Democrats have always been into that sort of thing.


4 posted on 02/17/2025 2:22:48 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We know that the FBI has the technology to identify these traitors by facial recognition. Round them up and stick them in jail for four or five years. Then trace the funding up to Soros and stick him in jail too.


5 posted on 02/17/2025 2:24:31 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Hands off our federal dollars,”

FRAUDULENT DOLLARS

“Bring back the federal watchdogs,”

THAT’S WHAT TRUMP JUST DID.


6 posted on 02/17/2025 2:25:16 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Follow the money. I’m sure there will be interesting links.


7 posted on 02/17/2025 2:27:02 PM PST by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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Call the F.B.I.!!!! There’s a noose there!!!


8 posted on 02/17/2025 2:32:31 PM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My reply to these “protesters” is, Get Your Hands Out of My Pockets!


9 posted on 02/17/2025 2:33:23 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who’s paying for this protest?


10 posted on 02/17/2025 2:35:55 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No matter how hard you try, you can’t fix stupid.


11 posted on 02/17/2025 2:37:32 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (Those who give up some freedom for some liberty deserve neither.)
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To: ViLaLuz

nothing like the immanent threat of executive overreach to bring protesters out in droves


12 posted on 02/17/2025 2:47:11 PM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Decentralized my butt.

Leftwing loons are herd animals. They cannot function as independent actors.


13 posted on 02/17/2025 2:48:48 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: ViLaLuz

Associated with something called Citizens Revolution, etc.


14 posted on 02/17/2025 2:49:38 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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“Who Is Organizing The 50501 Movement?
One of the moderators of the subreddit, u/honeydoulemon, told Snopes that the original idea came from another moderator, u/Evolved_Fungi.”


15 posted on 02/17/2025 2:51:06 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

sounds like an insurrection


16 posted on 02/17/2025 2:53:12 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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So..... if we are to more like the Germans with their “hate speech” laws Trump should have them all arrested for “insulting” a politician. CBS was gleeful for that power used by the polizei.


17 posted on 02/17/2025 2:55:07 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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50501 is the zip code to Fort Dodge. Tell me that isn’t a coincidence?


18 posted on 02/17/2025 2:56:46 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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Like to see them drag an effigy of Obama around with a noose


19 posted on 02/17/2025 2:57:58 PM PST by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet )
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“Down with authoritarianism,” “Hands off our federal dollars,” “Bring back the federal watchdogs,”

Coherence is not one of their strong points.

20 posted on 02/17/2025 3:03:16 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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