• Large protests are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to express voice discontent with President Trump’s administration.
  • Organizers aim to make the protests accessible by holding events in many places, including small towns.
  • The protests reflect growing momentum and dissatisfaction with Trump’s policies on immigration, transgender rights, and the firing of federal workers.

https://archive.ph/089uC

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Just a thought. Mother’s Day is on May 11th. People with children, time to use leverage. If you have MAGAt parents (most likely a maga father and mother whose learned to ignore the worst in her husband) make it clear that they won’t be able to see their grandkids for the month of May. You don’t get to actively destroy the country/world you and your children have to live in, then expect us to give you access to your grand children. Period. My dad is a magat(although suddenly since Trump got elected and started tanking the stock market, and Tesla is on a downward spiral, his vocal support of Trump\Musk has suddenly gone silent).

He’ll be dead before he realizes how wrong he was. Don’t care, I’ll get his money, and can use it to fund the resistance… But my mom, your mom, they do care, greatly. Not having access to grandkids will crush them. Put them to work, on the phones, calling representatives to demand for Trump’s forceful removal. Make it clear that if Trump’s still in office at the end of the month, the ban extends, and so on.

Their generation fucking sold out their own kids and got us into this mess. They aren’t going to feel the effects of a taking economy and country for several years. But we can make our parents feel the effects immediately by denying them affection and contact. It is our right and it is our most powerful tool.

Make it clear they will either assist with the removal of Trump or they will be forgotten. No funeral, no burial, no grave site you’ll be cremated and the ashes will be flushed down the toilet where they belong unless you undid what you have done.

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Stock market crashing -> now a reason for corporate interests to align with resistance -> finally hearing about protests in mainstream media

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To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism. This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.

From Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia”, emphasizes added.

The bourgeoisie aligning to the resistance has happened before. Now, make no mistake: they will betray the movement as soon as it’s in their interests to do so. Don’t trust them past the current crisis.

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That’s fine. Secure funding and munitions, build committed resistance groups. Let them know the funding situation, and that at some point your life line will become a leash, so keep enough spare equipment to blow off the arm that fed you for it’s own purposes

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Don’t even trust them now. Nothing has happened yet. We can say that they took our side after MAGA is out of power and the extremist apparatus that supported them is totally destroyed.

If there’s one lesson we can learn from Trump, it’s that it’s much easier to destroy something than it is to build it. IF we gain power again, we need to take that lesson to heart, and turn it against the fascists who gleefully applied it to the American people, and the rest of the democratic world.

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It’s fascinatingly dumb how short-sighted they are. Do they like having money? People deported, in jail, dead, unemployed, homeless can’t buy their stuff. A delusional hope of feeding off government money only works until the government no longer has a use for you, or decides to just take you over and you become part of the government.

It is in their best interests to support the masses, but they can’t ever see past 3 months in the future.

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These people didn’t get money from being smart. They got it from luck, and from violating laws that the government refused to enforce.

They don’t realize that before government regulations existed, instead of paying an incredibly reasonable tax rate, they were able to keep everything… Until an angry mob stormed their home and murdered them all

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Eventually! Yes! I got 3 billion dollars!.. Hmm tasty! How much is that Apple my fellow citizen?..its 2 billion dollars please!

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Last time I checked police depended on pensions too and they are invested

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congress almost never touches police funding at all, because they are useful tools.

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Emphasis on the “tools”

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Remember, folks: avoid attempts by bad actors to turn your peaceful legal protest into a riot, 47’s itching for an excuse to invoke martial law and seize more power. Disable biometrics on any phone you bring. Make sure someone knows where you’re going and is waiting to hear you made it home. Don’t post pictures or videos that identify people, who may be risking a lot more than you by being there. You don’t want to be the reason ICE disappears someone. Protect yourself from teargas but also from plain old sunburn and dehydration.

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Itching, he wants to invoke it, using specifically the insurrection act of 1807, tomorrow they may push it earlier then 90 days since it was always part of project 2025 and also due the senate most likely passing a bill to limit his power for tariff by needing approval from them to be used, so they enact it just a bit earlier to make sure national emergency still exist. Don’t be surprised if it is invoked as this was always planned as part of project 2025.

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Pull a Gandhi and sit and let them get recorded beating and arresting people standing still

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Problem is, 47, his henches, the entire GOP and cops in general have zero ability to feel shame or remorse, and nobody who does has the power to stop them. I think protesting peacefully but being ready to run and scatter seems to increase the likelihood you’ll live to protest again.

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it really doesn’t matter because Trump doesn’t care about or relate to actual fact for anything. HOWEVER, it is critically important that you get to the protest and start connecting to other protestors on Signal before the crackdown happens

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Signal? Found Hegseth, guys!

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We had an anti-Trump protest in Alabama. In ALABAMA. And this wasn’t mostly college-aged liberals. It was primarily older white people, the republican core demographic. If we, by some miracle, make it through the next three and a half years, the Republicans are going to suffer historical losses across the board.

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Even if the system isn’t completely rigged by then, it’s been proven time and time again that the average voter has the attention span of a toddler on sugar. I’m afraid what happens now, three and a half years away from the elections, will have no influence on the elections.

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“The new guy cant be as bad”

Or

“I’m not voting for a woman”

Or

“I’d rather vot for Trump than a demented person X”

I have very little faith in the average person.

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They are going to let the protests grow. By next summer, there will be massive protests about all sorts of bad stuff. Just pick your issue, there will be a protest for it. Most cities will have multiple mass protests over multiple issues simultaneously.

HitlerPig will encourage his RedHats to stir up some standard street violence, then send in the authorities to quell the violence with ferocious lethal violence. Many will die.

He will use that to justify Martial Law and suspend elections for the first time in American history. He can’t afford to allow the House or the Srnate to flip, and give the Drmocrats control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers.

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they have used agitators in the past before too during his 1st term. there is one right winger influencer his shtick is to agitate blm and these types of protests.

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the Republicans are going to suffer historical losses across the board.

No, no they’re not. Because they are and will continue to gerrymander and rig to ensure that they stay in power.

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They did after the Great Depression. The tariffs Trump is implemented have a good chance of creating a Depression.

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They aren’t changing any Trumpist minds. They just aren’t. The stock market could reach zero valuation and theyd still be shilling for Trump.

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While youre right, the MAGA core is a small portion of US voters. Even if it was half the Republican voters, thats about 15% of total US voters. They are a minority that pretends to make up 90% of the population. Get the turnout up and convince those brainwashed by Fox news and you got yourself a 70-30 win.

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Even the neo-Nazis are questioning Trump. Nick Fuentes seemed frustrated with him.

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Not possible as long as 90% of the public just need to be told that trans people are evil. I’m sorry man. I’m glad you’re optimistic but I’m increasingly convinced this is going to end in violence.

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about 15% of total US voters

pretty easy purge

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I’m going to one and so should you. Fuck these fascists.

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