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Comrade Scott – NO KINGS – Denver, CO

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If you weren’t marching, it was celebratory defiance. Big crowd.

If you were marching, it was all Palestine-all-the-time. Same person at every Denver rally other than the AOC/Sanders rally is basically hijacked by the pro-Palestine crowd. Heh heh, I talked with people on the march who all were saying the same thing. We’re all there for a shit load of reasons but you’d never know it when marching.

Diverse crowd in terms of white and Hispanic on the Capitol grounds and the parcel across the street. Lots of groups with tents, lots of people, again, very celebratory in 96 degree heat and full sun.

Anyway, here’s my photos if you want em. I’ll admit, that last one, carried by a woman, makes no damn sense.

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  3. 3.

    Belafon

    One of the speakers brought up Palestine, but since there are a whole lot of people here in the DFW area that could be threatened by ICE or know someone who already has been, that never really caught on.

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    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @WaterGirl:

    No fan either and in a US context (as opposed to the UK or Australia), it’s downright impossible to use in any acceptable way.

    And yet, people saw this, eyes immediately drawn to that word and you could easily see their initial gasping reaction…until they read the rest.

    Then it was gut-busting laughter.  That’s when I decided to take the photo along with everybody else lining up to take a photo.

    I subsequently saw a second person, 20-something white woman, carrying one which tells me this is another of those signs we see that comes from somebody else and is copied.  Both signs were different writing, etc.

    That’s why I said in my email, there would be some that would be offensive and I really wasn’t sure you’d include it.

    The last one, after discussing it with others, might be a trans reference but I still don’t know.

  6. 6.

    zhena gogolia

    OT but not really, just read a great obit by Adam Nossiter of theologian Walter Brueggemann:

    Throughout his career, Dr. Brueggemann called for a questioning of, and a pushing back against, the status quo, with a focus on those on the margins of society.

    “It was a biblical matter for him, to be ignoring the poor while rewarding the rich,” Mr. Wallis of Georgetown said.

    “We will not understand the meaning of prophetic imagination unless we see the connection between the religion of static triumphalism and the politics of oppression and exploitation,” Dr. Brueggemann wrote in “The Prophetic Imagination.”

    He added, “It is the marvel of prophetic faith that both imperial religion and imperial politics could be broken.”

  7. 7.

    Anthony

    Similar to the last picture, I saw “Trump can oligargle my balls”, don’t remember who held it though.

  9. 9.

    Tony Jay

    I’m pretty sure the last one is a direct quote from The White House Situation Room. A well-thought out policy statement that Very Serious Media Types have spent paragraphs daringly  repeating while also explaining what it really means and why it’s just a perfectly normal and traditional way of executive level communication that no one should take too seriously or show distain for.

    I like these protests. Just a lot of good people getting together for a lot of good reasons and standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

  10. 10.

    WTFGhost

    @WaterGirl: I hate it’s use as a pejorative (“what a (you know)”), but after being connected to the Sex Positive community for umpty-years, I find its usage to refer to a woman’s own organ to be seizing/reclaiming the word’s usage.  YMMV, of course!

    Then again, here’s me, reclaiming “the eff word” every effing time I post.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @Tony Jay: New rotating tag, thanks to you:

    No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

  13. 13.

    Trivia Man

    Madison had one very large palestinian flag and i also noticed about 4 or 5 others. Cant recall the signs they had but definitely palestine centric rather than no kings

  16. 16.

    Tony Jay

    @WaterGirl:

    While the morons who voted for this extended tantrum ever so slowly come to realise that the judgement of history is barrelling towards them as they mumble “Oh Fuck… No!”

  17. 17.

    pajaro

    There was no sign of any Palestinian flags at the demonstration that I attended.

    I do see, sometimes, a Palestinian flag from one house that’s kind of at the entrance to my neighborhood.  The people who own it are an interesting barometer of the foreign countries that Trump has insulted:  They  had the Canadian flag up for a long time, paired for a while with a Danish flag.  The Ukrainian flag is flown on a semi-regular basis.  Colombia made an appearance I remember.  If it’s a rare period where Trump  hasn’t insulted some foreign country the pride flag will go up.

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    Matt McIrvin

    We had “Free Palestine” demonstrators at two of the three protests I’ve been in, and they were well-behaved and seemed to treat it as one of the many issues to be upset about, not particularly trying to dominate the proceedings.

  20. 20.

    Matt

    @WaterGirl:

    How dare people protest a fascist government at a protest against a fascist government, amirite?

    Try watching some videos of Gazans being murdered, that should help you feel better.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Trivia Man: There were 20,000 or so people and I saw about 10 or so whose signs, etc., centered Palestinians at the expense of the No Kings message.  That’s pretty fucking good message discipline, if you ask me.

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    Huddled masses defeating fascist asses is great.

    And the South African Nazi shitstain can gargle all of our balls!

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

    Comments like that last sign were very much known and heard when I was in the USN.

    Baud seems to recognize it as well.

    It was often used as in someone doesn’t have them.

    Which of course is actually true of half of humanity. But the comment isn’t about normalcy. It’s about someone with the brain of a dustball.

    As I imagine it was here, what with who the parade was about. (Hey, sometimes a parade isn’t about positives, only about one very negative jackass.)

    Or they are so big, as in they will allow someone to do something so stupid or dangerous that anyone in the range of normal wouldn’t.

  25. 25.

    JoyceH

    E. Jean Carroll is on with Nicolle right now and I’m glued to the screen waiting for the question that I’m overpoweringly interested in: “WHAT is your skincare regime?!” Woman is 81 and she looks 50-something.

  26. 26.

    WTFGhost

    So why parboil bacon? Well, there’s a secret few people know in this day and age. If you just barely cover your bacon with water (put the bacon in a frying pan, first, to keep the water from spilling – there you go!), or, have water up to the very tippy top edge of the bacon, if you enjoy bacon of (ahem) proper thickness (/snobby_preference) without quite covering it, then, your frying pan sees a solid mass of water, with a few impurities, like delicious bacon, and bacon fat that, however yummy, needs rendering out.

    If you slowly boil off the water, you’re boiling out all the water in the pan, including the water that was formerly in the bacon. If you fry bacon without this step, it will spatter, unless you cook it very slowly (and, yes, lovingly), but with this magic step, as soon as the water boils off, your bacon is starting to crisp up. Et voila, as the French might say if they suddenly barged in and tried to take credit for this magnificent idea – bacon with the boring bits boiled out!

  27. 27.

    ColoradoGuy

    In our little hundred-strong No Kings demonstrstion here in Erie, Colorado, I saw one split US/Ukranian flag, some Pride flags, and everyone had a big or little US flag. I was given a little flag … maybe not so little, a square foot or so, as I walked in.

    No speakers or music, just a crowd on the four corners of the town’s main intersection, chanting “No Kings!” and other things, and motorists chiming in with their horns. Surprisingly, no MAGA fingers or antagonism from the motorists.

    We were all in a great mood, realizing we were part of something much bigger than ourselves … the people of the U.S. standing up against tyranny.

  28. 28.

    WTFGhost

    @WTFGhost: This has been your every-so-often test of the pie filter system. This was only a test. Had the proceeding been an actual pie filter, it probably would have been slightly less sarcastic.

  29. 29.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @ColoradoGuy:

    I wondered about the Erie rally.

    Heh heh, I remember back 40+ years when it still had dirt streets and the town was mostly known for it’s bars where the biker gangs hung out.  An old friend lives in a development a little further west of the old town right off the Parkway just before 119th.  I still can’t get over it.

    Being it’s still Boulder County, I don’t have a feel for the general politics given it’s basically a Denver exurb.  I mean everybody makes (accurate) jokes about how all the RWNJs congregate in Highlands Ranch and how even they’re moving further away because it’s becoming “too liberal”.

  30. 30.

    ColoradoGuy

    We moved here in 2005 from the Pacific Northwest, and yes, Erie has completely changed in the last 20 years. Population about 35,000, and the median house price is a startling $700,000 (yes, really). Colorado really has a stunning growth rate … presumably, people moving in from the West Coast and escaping Texas. Politically, about half and half, but the MAGAs have the decency to keep their flag trucks and “rolling coal” away.

    Our Recreation Center and new library have become the new town focus, and the demo was planned to take advantage of the big parking lot at that location (County Line Road & Erie Parkway).

    We’re partially a Denver exurb, but also a Boulder suburb, since closer-in to Boulder gets more expensive every mile you get closer to Boulder (Boulder now has prices approaching the Bay Area).

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    Trivia Man

    @Omnes Omnibus: absolutely agree.
    I have no issue with their presence – Palestine, symbolized by the flag, is one very specific example of orange head’s failures and anti-civilization bias.

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    Gloria DryGarden

    @WaterGirl: I m glad you didn’t censor it. It was my favorite.

    Finally a nice, clever turn-about in usage for a word that has, indeed, been much misaligned, and misused. funny enough to call a friend and read it to him. Yay for renewal and appropriate use of the c word.

    i thought I replied to wtfghost about liking it, but I don’t see it.
    (I hope I didn’t get censored, but only failed to activate my submit button. Sometimes this iPad is slow to respond, or downright cantankerous.)

  37. 37.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Baud: i am amongst those who don’t understand it’s usage. But if it’s the bees knees, I wonder how I can find out.
    gargling balls, has not been a phrase I’ve heard except here, earlier today..

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