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Top Comments (10)
Black people, but let me just speak for myself as a black woman, I am not willing to be in the streets because I truly believe that will be the pretext for the administration to unleash the violence. We need white voices, so THANK YOU! We are all impacted by this implosion of our democracy, but this country has routinely projected that they value some voices over others. So I’m leaning in and again, THANK YOU!!💙💪🏾🇺🇸
7-8 million and no violence or arrests! We are peaceful an not afraid..and not violent.
I never thought I'd tune into Bill Kristol weekly but here I am, a woke gay veteran listening to Bill Kristol!
The counter-protesters at my small town's protest decided to try to rile people by shouting "USA! USA!" They were somewhat bemused when the whole rest of the crowd took it up. 😅
I saw one crank and he was driving thru the crowd with a trump hat…..the crowd laughed but no anger at him….everyone was friendly and determined that people be 😊heard and discussed things..it was eye opening to see so many people agreeing…no more bunkers. We need to get out more
The “hate America” rhetoric definitely helped turn people out. My son was maybe not going to go until the govt told him not to. He’s like “that’s when you’ve gotta go and catch the government lying to you.”
My sign on Saturday in Portland said: Trump Hates America.
When I heard the stupid utterances by Johnson and Scalise accusing protesters even before they marched, I couldn’t help but think back to what a shitfit they all pitched when Hillary called some of them deplorables.
The boat bombings really upset me. God only knows who these folks are and how much they suffer when hit. It's a terrorism by the USA and seems completely unhinged.
Patriots versus Poopers. This is the new divide in the US.
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Black people, but let me just speak for myself as a black woman, I am not willing to be in the streets because I truly believe that will be the pretext for the administration to unleash the violence. We need white voices, so THANK YOU! We are all impacted by this implosion of our democracy, but this country has routinely projected that they value some voices over others. So I’m leaning in and again, THANK YOU!!💙💪🏾🇺🇸
7-8 million and no violence or arrests! We are peaceful an not afraid..and not violent.
I never thought I'd tune into Bill Kristol weekly but here I am, a woke gay veteran listening to Bill Kristol!
The counter-protesters at my small town's protest decided to try to rile people by shouting "USA! USA!" They were somewhat bemused when the whole rest of the crowd took it up. 😅
I saw one crank and he was driving thru the crowd with a trump hat…..the crowd laughed but no anger at him….everyone was friendly and determined that people be 😊heard and discussed things..it was eye opening to see so many people agreeing…no more bunkers. We need to get out more
The “hate America” rhetoric definitely helped turn people out. My son was maybe not going to go until the govt told him not to. He’s like “that’s when you’ve gotta go and catch the government lying to you.”
My sign on Saturday in Portland said: Trump Hates America.
When I heard the stupid utterances by Johnson and Scalise accusing protesters even before they marched, I couldn’t help but think back to what a shitfit they all pitched when Hillary called some of them deplorables.
The boat bombings really upset me. God only knows who these folks are and how much they suffer when hit. It's a terrorism by the USA and seems completely unhinged.
Patriots versus Poopers. This is the new divide in the US.