A bunch of bikers who support Trump (but not the official Bikers for Trump™) are planning a counter-protest at DuPont Circle. That's the same spot the stoners doing the #Trump420 thing are planning to use. Should be an interesting mix.

How dumb is this?

That's not protest. It's malicious disruption.

Do you need a safe space Sushy?

Why do you assume that this could have only benefitted Trump? Who says she wouldn't have won by 4 or 5 million votes, instead? And what does Trump possible do to make up 2.85m votes, which isn't some infinitesimal figure?

It definitely could have gone either way, all things being the same, even campaigning based on popular vote I'm sure Hilary would have won, but the thing is, if Trump was holding a rally in California everyday instead of smaller states, who knows what the impact could be? It wouldn't surprise me if the gap could have been smaller. It goes both ways though, maybe if Hilary would have actually campaigned she could have managed the 100,000 or so votes in the 3 states she so badly needed instead of ignoring them and just assuming she would win?

However, I think if elections were solely based on popular vote as opposed to the current electoral system Republicans would have been forced to change their ways by now, so this election probably would have had completely different candidates if we always had a popular vote system. It is kind of a moot point as everything, including our history would have been different.

As for the protests, I think they are silly just like the ones right after the election. Yes I understand it is your right, that doesn't mean it helps your cause, it can hurt it. Many who voted for Hilary accept the results and don't like seeing people whine in the streets because they lost. Focus on winning the next election, it is obvious many lessons still have not been learned by the left. I'm sure there will be plenty of reasons to protest soon, wait for an actual cause. Protesting because you lost a free and fair election is not going to gain any support. In before Russia (which didn't matter).

That's just my opinion, if you want to protest, go nuts! I just ask you do so peacefully and try not to cause too many obstructions. There is a good way to protest and a stupid way. There is a reason the OWS movement is known as a complete joke outside of this echo chamber, and also yes, the tea party is known as complete joke too but you already knew that.

To all the people saying don't protest etc...it's working! Trump has the lowest poll numbers of any incoming president. Nearly every Republican policy they are trying to legislate is unpopular. Republican politicians are unplugging their phones, fax machines and skipping out on meetings because of angry constituents. Keep it up.

Now that the election is done those numbers don't mean much at the moment. Park Geun-hye is down to 4% and last I checked she still hasn't resigned.

The numbers will matter in 2018 and 2020 though.

Well, would we rather that Trump is popular, not getting in twitter rants every day and proposing things that look to be popular/help people or the ****storm that is reality?

Barring some Nazification **** going down, he won't make it over 60% at any time during the next four years on any formal poll. I don't even think he'll make it above 50% for any longer than a week or two.

That's a protest. The GOP not allowing hearings for Merrick Garland was a malicious disruption.

The impeachment is certainly related to approval ratings.

I'd like to see the protests have an actual cause, such as protest the electoral college and try to get a movement going to get rid of it. In their current form, I don't see them accomplishing much.

When does the rioting start?

Queer Dance Party at Mike Pence's House

Hoping we get some live streamed coverage of this.

You know this is all DIY don't you?

In general this shiz is planned in open meeting, using consensus process, where anyone who attends has voice & vote. If you would like things to be one way or another, you should help with the organizing. Conversely, if you aren't involved in the organizing, don't you think you're being a little rude? As in, if my neighborhood is planning a block party, and I skip the meeting to pick the band, nobody is going to want to hear me whine about the choice.

Second, it's not like these kinda protests don't have a message, instead they have multiple messages. That is a very, very good thing.

good god

I disagree. Having multiple messages just dilutes the effectiveness of the protest and creates confusion. I'll bet a lot of the participants don't even know what the specific point of the thing is. They just see a chance to vent their anger and frustration at losing the election.

That did not work out to well at Altamont...

Amazing... another shutin interwebs 900-foot genius, who thinks they know how to do shiz better than the peeps who actually do it. No1curr what you think.

This really isn't a donkey/elephant thingee at all.

Love it when the people who don't like protests tell you the best way to protest.

Highly unlikely people care what you think either to be fair.

It always makes me LMFAO. Do they do this with sports too? Like some fool who despises football, and has never seen it played, second guessing what he heard from another peep who also despises football, was the game plan.

They even have a name for this shiz: Concern Trolling.

LOL no. What I think directly matters, and peeps most definitely listen to it.

The Resistance Manual is a wiki with lots of specific information about resisting a Trump/GOP agenda. Heavy focus on real world politics, broken down by topic, with specifics about how to act, who to contact, and where they are vulnerable.

We has live coverage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWqh63kSeOk



EDIT: Can I embed live uToobz?