So what form does the resistance take?

dirtywick said:
you also got a parade of bored looking troops walking past a bored looking president
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The troops may actually have performed a not-so-silent but still quite subtle protest against Trump - more than just looking bored!
Trump gets STUNNED as Army seems to DEFY HIM (MeidasTouch on YouTube, June 16, 2025 - 16:04 min.)
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on veterans who have said the Army members who participated in the parade intentionally did not stand in formation because they didn’t want to be used as props for Trump’s dictator birthday parade.
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5:22--> Shannon Watts points out the following: "For the kids, the song they were playing" during this dictator parade is called "'Fortunate Son' by Creedence Clearwater Revival'" which is "a protest song that critiques the social injustices and class disparities of the Vietnam War draft system" that Donald Trump exploited to claim he had bone spurs to get five deferments to not be drafted into the Vietnam War.
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I didn't recognize the song and I never really listened to Creedence lyrics, but it sure sounds as if its narrator could be one of the marching soldiers complaining about privileged ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ like Trump. It can't be just a coincidence, can it?!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, Lord?
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Yeah-yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
Hoo, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"
Hoo, they only answer, "More, more, more, more"
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For more than 20 years, I've been wondering why Lieutenant Mario Conde, the main character of Cuban author Leonardo Padura's novels, hardly ever listens to Cuban music. He and his Cuban friends almost always listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Now I think I know why.
 
Stout said:
Dammit! I was hoping to wake up and enjoy some kickass riot footage with my morning coffee but all I get is a parade of White boomers from Reddit.
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In denial much?!
You confuse the No Kings protests with the sad spectacle of orange boomer Trump, who can't keep his eyes open while getting his ass kicked by his own parade.
"Built on Evil": 18-Year-Old Slams Trump Parade & U.S. Injustice in Viral Protest Speech (DWS News on YouTube, June 15, 2025 - 10:26 min.)
18-year-old Atlanta resident Lavora Vincent delivers a fiery speech at an anti-Trump protest, slamming the U.S. military parade on Trump’s birthday as “North Korea-style propaganda.” Speaking out against injustice, Lavora says America was built on oppression and pledges to represent herself when Congress won’t. “If you’re not angry, you’re not listening,” she declares.For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DWS News.
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The vast majority of those protesters are far too young to be boomers, and they are not all white.
Besides, what do you suddenly have against white people???
 
dann said:
The vast majority of those protesters are far too young to be boomers, and they are not all white.
Besides, what do you suddenly have against white people???
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Boomers!....Boomers everywhere
Dragging their children and grandchildren along.
Looks like a crowd heading to a Neil Diamond concert.
 
I don't know. I'm happy to hear that there were lots of boomers in the dissent. We old codgers get all the blame because so many of us have ossified into ideological coprolites, so it's good to know there are still a few who remember what we once thought important.
 
bruto said:
I don't know. I'm happy to hear that there were lots of boomers in the dissent. We old codgers get all the blame because so many of us have ossified into ideological coprolites, so it's good to know there are still a few who remember what we once thought important.
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Yeah, but it's pretty safe for senior citizens to be uppity. I'd rather see more young blood getting fired up and taking action.
 
Me too. It's good that the vast majority of the protesters aren't in the age bracket that will die out in the next 10-20-30 years.

Trump appears overwhelmed as opposition grows and support withers (MSNBC on YouTube, June 17, 2025 - 5:57 min.) Rachel Maddow looks at the powerful movement building against Donald Trump as his time in office becomes increasingly shambolic and he becomes more of a laughing stock in front of the whole world.
4:11--> He hasn't done anything as president that would win anyone over to his side. And the number or people who voted for him or supported him otherwise, who are now regretting it grows by the day. And they don't just grow privately. They grow in the headlines every day. Everybody against him is getting stronger and more confident. Everybody with him is starting to get a little worried about how long they can stay with him, as they see their numbers dwindle and they see him fail and flail over and over and over again.
So for a would-be strongman, he's not strong. He is a remarkably weak and feckless political figure who is nevertheless trying to overthrow the American form of government while pushing incredibly unpopular policies and executing everything incredibly poorly. With a laughing stock full of a terribly, terribly staffed administration and cabinet.
I mean, who's in the Trump administration who you think, like, 'hmm, skills'? Or you think, 'hmm popular'? Or you think, 'hmm, growing political capital for this president by the day'? Honestly.
And on the other side, the opposition against him is big, deep, growing, confident, and increasingly unstoppable.
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Look at the failing and flailing Trump supporters in this thread who are telling us not to believe our own eyes when we watch footage from the protests.
Their cognitive dissonance is growing by the day. It has been the one skill set that it took to be a faithful Trump supporter, but the incongruence between what they see and claim to see is growing to a point where it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to maintain the facade.

Nowadays, their old 'red pill' and 'blue pill' nonsense, which was supposed to lend them an air of insightful rebelliousness, to make them appear to be heroes fighting against the tyrannical 'deep state', nowadays it just makes them look utterly ridiculous and out of touch.
It is beginning to dawn on them that, all this time, they have been busy swallowing the blue-pill ideology handed to them by the oligarchs supporting tyranny.

It will be a rude awakening, and it will probably be experienced sooner by Gen Y and Z than by Boomers and Gen X.
 
Thermal said:
Yeah, but it's pretty safe for senior citizens to be uppity. I'd rather see more young blood getting fired up and taking action.
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I don't know the police like to hurt the elderly. As for young people, they are likely working too many jobs to have the time to protest. Seriously when you work two full time jobs to earn enough for rent, when are you supposed to protest?
 
On a Saturday, which is what they did.
(44 photos from the No Kings protests. Some of them show boomers, but the majority of protesters are younger than that.)
 
Blue Mountain said:
White people were the demographic most in support of Trump. And now they're turning against him.
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bruto said:
It's safer for older white people. They're not profiling us.
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If the protests had more young people and people of colour then the right would be saying that it was just the "usual suspects" and that unless the protests included enough white middle aged people then they weren't valid.

There is no "correct" demographic that would enable them to admit that several million people taking to the streets across the country represents a significant protest against the current administration.
 
Stout said:
White people!...White People EVERYWHERE
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Congratulations! You acknowledge that people are protesting against the tyrant EVERYWHERE, and they are not just black people or people of color, although there were several of those, too. You should take a closer look at those photos and videos.
The protester who was killed in Salt Lake City was a person of color - and an immigrant.
It's good to see that very few black people in the USA listen to Trump fan Tariq Nasheed, who also claims that there were no black protesters on Saturday.
 
Be good if there was lots of peaceful, civil disobedience and non-violent resistance.

This weekend's marches were a good start. The riots in LA were not helpful.
 
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