Lots of photos coming in from readers.
JaneM in Augusta, Maine
Cowboy Diva in Port Angeles, Washington, braving the rain.
LAO in New York City, with Red Dirt Girl in the hat.
From sylvanroad: Here is a photo of a 100-year-old (!) frequent protestor attending Falmouth MA rally. We had about 200 folks. Best moment: Wal-Mart driver giving us hearty honks.
More to come!
trollhattan
“Walmart Macht Frei”
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Elizabelle
@trollhattan: Yeah. That is creative. Wow. (ETA: Someone should do a photo essay, comparing photos of signs at Democratic protests to Tea Party/GOP protests. You will see who the grassroots really is. I love their creativity.)
Great photos! I like the protesters taking Susan Collins to task. (5th photo)
Yutsano
@trollhattan: The Seuss takeoff in the picture right with it gutted me.
rikyrah
Love the pictures ?
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle:
I know. But all I can think is, if we’re so smart, why do they have all the power?
Yarrow
Great photos! Love the ones from Port Angeles.
@trollhattan: That is a great sign. Hope it goes viral.
@Yutsano: Me too. Painful.
LAO
@trollhattan: @Yutsano: those signs stopped me in my tracks, I had to capture them. The gentleman holding the Walmart sign, designed and drew them both.
Yarrow
@zhena gogolia: Because they have focused on getting the power while we have focused on other things like governing and helping improve people’s lives.
zhena gogolia
@Yarrow:
Then we’re idiots.
Suzanne
@zhena gogolia:
We underestimated how badly we are hated.
We (liberals) are, for the most part, nice people who want good things for others. We want fairness and opportunity. And we are very good at seeing how marginalized people are hated. We knew that the right wing hated Obama, But we totally did not grasp that they hate all of us that much.
And we still have a tendency to attempt to react with understanding and empathy. Oh well.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: Because it’s easier to appeal to people’s selfishness?
And a lot of people (apparently newsrooms types and editors too) apparently think Republicans are all Howard Bakers temporarily wearing Donald Trump masks.
Mostly though: gerrymandering.
Which is why we cannot allow Trump to seat another USSC justice. Has to wait until Mueller endgame plays out. That would get me out into the streets.
Fuck gaming out how it would play in the midterms. There are a finite number of people who will vote Republican. Period.
But seat a corrupted justice, and Trump will skate and the USSC will not honestly address gerrymandering or any other important issue down the road.
Capri
Another two thumbs way up for the “Walmart Mach Frei” poster. That one deserves to go viral
zhena gogolia
Good luck with that!
debbie
@trollhattan:
Also “No one is illegal on stolen land.”
sukabi
@zhena gogolia: they lie (propaganda), cheat (gerrymandering, voter suppression) and steal (hello Russia) to gain and maintain power, while our side practices civility, forgiveness, and accommodation.
Dev Null
@zhena gogolia: Not endorsing principled defeat, but winning by cheating isn’t all you seem to think it is.
Dev Null
@sukabi: This.
zhena gogolia
@Dev Null:
I’m just remembering conversations with my highly educated and supposedly smart colleagues in the summer of 2016, and how they just couldn’t get past her e-mails. Sure, they would vote for her, but they just couldn’t help disseminating the wisdom of the New York Times. I’ve subscribed to the New York Times for 30 years, but I’ve never taken it as Holy Writ. I’m surrounded by people who are supposedly well trained in “critical thinking,” but “her e-mails.” We’re idiots, I repeat.
Dev Null
@Capri: Three thumbs up!
eclare
@trollhattan: Both posters in that photo were brilliant.
Elizabelle
I don’t think you can ignore Fox News (and Rush), which is grandfather to Breitbart and all the ugliness that followed.
They brainwashed a large susceptible segment of the US voting public.
I don’t see how we maintain a democracy with Fox News in the mix. You cannot replace brainwashing with intelligent programming, conditioned on logic.
It’s Goebbels TV. It’s a miscarriage of justice to let Goebbels TV and Citizens United hide behind the First Amendment.
dr. bloor
@zhena gogolia: Yeah, well, as John Lewis reminded us today, looks like it’s time for us to turn things upside down to get them right side up again.
Bill Arnold
@Elizabelle:
Yes. When DJ Trump is selecting among potential nominees to the USSC, his real litmus test is going to be their opinion on whether he can pardon himself, and secondarily, on whether he can be indicted while in office. Sure, it will be a person hostile to Roe-vs-Wade but most Republicans meet that test.
He will be nominating somebody who will rule on cases directly involving him. He will be attempting to judge-select to protect himself.
Dan B
Was at SeaTac (Seattle) Detention Center. Sheriff said it was 10,000! 70 miles south were 3,000. 25 miles north were 1,000. Dozens of demonstrations statewide. If I can figure out how to send pics to Cheryl I’ll do so.
EBT
@Yutsano: I mean, he did a lot of anti Nazi work himself.
Dev Null
@zhena gogolia: Tribalism beats intelligence, almost always.
As Feynman put the point in his Cornell lecture:
I have colleagues like yours. Colleagues who voted for Russian asset Jillie because they wanted to “give peace a chance”.
Sadly, I can’t asked them how they feel about separating families because we are no longer speaking.
Anyway…
… “idiots”, I do not think that word means what you seem to think it means.
And who is this “we”, Kemo Sabe?!?
Dev Null
@zhena gogolia: You might have noticed, but if not, I prefer “Vichy Times”.
Jes’ sayin’.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Unable to locate instructions on how to submit pics. The front-pager contact form doesn’t seem to have a place for attachments. Did Cheryl give instructions earlier?
Mine are from an Interfaith Council rally in our little PA village. Didn’t get to the big Philly rally, but we had a good vocal crowd and good speakers, local politicians and clergy from several faiths.
Dev Null
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Cheryl posted her contact info in the BJ blog post preceding this one.
As no doubt a gazillion other commenters will point out, shortly after Cheryl re-posts her contact info.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Dev Null: Ah, finally found it. I was getting lost in the picture threads as I was scrolling up and down through pics. Lost track of how many threads there were.
Teddys Person
@zhena gogolia: They lie and cheat.
edit: looks like many, many jackals got there before me.
Bill Arnold
@Dev Null:
I regret never having mentally interacted with that man. (Would have had to pursue it hard, but still…) Not many regrets, but that’s one. From personal second/third-hand stories, he really was like the character in the tales people tell of him.
Dev Null
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: good-o! I had no pix to post so I didn’t keep the link. Glad you found it.
Dev Null
@Teddys Person: One for all and all for one!
I really should not be posting when I’m in my cups.
Dev Null
@Bill Arnold: Closest I got was when he gave a lecture at my commercial / industrial lab. He called us all out as idiots.
AFAIK none of us held it against him.
We had that much respect for him. (Yeah, yeah: quelle surprise.)
Some of my colleagues took courses from him. I have no second-hand stories to pass along, but AFAICT they respected him.
It was a commonplace at my undergrad college that you could tell a doctoral candidate by the books the candidate toted along with him:
… Feynman’s Lectures on Physics.
Dev Null
@Dev Null: “… candidate toted along with him.”
I blush.
I meant to say “… candidate toted along with him-r-herself.”
(My apologies, all my distaff colleagues.)
Cowboy Diva
@Dan B: and 70 miles to the NW we had 645 per police count. Apparently it’s the largest protest/rally Port Angeles has ever had.