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1 minute ago, Scheiss Meister said:

Little bitty Navasota.  I took these a little late in the protest.  There were about half again as many at the height of it.  That's a lot of folks for our conservative town, and we got a goodly number of honks and full hand waves.  Not nearly as many one fingered salutes as waves.  I was impressed and encouraged. 

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Is that you on the right of the bottom picture? :) 

 

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As for turning my phone off, leaving it home, etc., I have three brothers who are MAGA as fuck.  They will beat each other half to death to be the one to turn me in if the "re-education" camps are opened.  Big brother knowing I was there doesn't matter.

1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Is that you on the right of the bottom picture? :) 

 

Nope.  Too pretty.

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I drove past the one in Boerne - bright red Boerne - as it was winding down. There were easily 200 people still milling around, waving at cars.

Some assole truck driver, license plate BIG TYP, rolled coal or whatever it's called on the protesters. 

 

It was also Barktoberfest in the park nearby, but that was a different crowd.

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7 hours ago, South Austin said:

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The odds are low. For sure. But what gave me a bit of hope is that there was a text thread of folks that all understand who Trump really is, and what conservatives are really doing. 

We discovered later that a Trump supporter had been added to the text string. As I looked at all the texts railing on Trump by a whole bunch of people on our group, I realized that stuff was going to start to sink in on this person. He was hearing it from a huge group of his closest friends. It was almost like an accidental intervention. 

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8 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Drove from Austin to Anahuac this morning for @austingirl's cousin's wedding. Drove past two nice-sized protests in Giddings and Brenham. We stopped in Brenham for lunch, so I walked over and talked to a few protestors. They were rightfully upset about Medicare, Social Security, and the impact of tariffs on farmers. Don't write off small towns. There's a lot of people there just as pissed as the rest of us.

I’ll write em off still bc those brown ppl are still raping them literally and economically come voting time. 

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I didn't take any pictures of myself at the protests, but basically I looked just as good as Paul Newman at the 1963 Civil Rights March. You'll have to trust me on that one.

 

Paul Newman at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and  Freedom : r/OldSchoolCool

 

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16 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

I didn't take any pictures of myself at the protests, but basically I looked just as good as Paul Newman at the 1963 Civil Rights March. You'll have to trust me on that one.

 

Paul Newman at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and  Freedom : r/OldSchoolCool

 

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I just got back from the one in Austin.  It was my first political rally/protest of any kind.  The crowd was very large, but to me it felt…ineffectual.  Im glad I went but I think the time for that stuff was 2-10 years ago.  I was surprised there weren’t more Trumpers out there.

I still predict we don’t get out of this mess without a lot of violence and an economic depression.

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3 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

I just got back from the one in Austin.  It was my first political rally/protest of any kind.  The crowd was very large, but to me it felt…ineffectual.  Im glad I went but I think the time for that stuff was 2-10 years ago.  I was surprised there weren’t more Trumpers out there.

I still predict we don’t get out of this mess without a lot of violence and an economic depression.

Yeah I guess ineffectual that trump isnt going to step down or anything. But it creates momentum. We need more of these. They may eventually a weekly or daily thing if things get worse enough 

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Just now, SubliminalHorn said:

Yeah I guess ineffectual that trump isnt going to step down or anything. But it creates momentum. We need more of these. They may eventually a weekly or daily thing if things get worse enough 

I am probably just being cynical.  But I looked around, and even though there were tens of thousands of people down there, I just saw a bunch of people who voted for Harris and Biden and Clinton.  I didn’t see anyone acting nearly angry enough; people were acting happy and enthusiastic.  And even though it’s millions of people across the country I don’t think any one in power on either side is going to really take any kind of positive action because of it.

We’ll get a temperature check in 12.5 months with midterm results, but things just feel too far gone.

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6 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

An organization called Austin News reports there were 15,000 protestors in Austin.

I heard them announce that’s how many were at the Capitol. A lot of people either joined along the way or at the end at Auditorium Shores. I think that’s number will go up 

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3 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

I heard them announce that’s how many were at the Capitol. A lot of people either joined along the way or at the end at Auditorium Shores. I think that’s number will go up 

I started at the Capitol and marched to Auditorium Shores. I only lasted a few minutes there though. I'm much better at marching and shouting than I am standing and listening to people talk.

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I started at the Capitol and marched to Auditorium Shores. I only lasted a few minutes there though. I'm much better at marching and shouting than I am standing and listening to people talk.

I yelled up at the APD chopper working overhead.
Honestly, I don’t think they heard me. They were pretty high up there, and the rotor blades are pretty loud.
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1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

I didn't take any pictures of myself at the protests, but basically I looked just as good as Paul Newman at the 1963 Civil Rights March. You'll have to trust me on that one.

 

Paul Newman at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and  Freedom : r/OldSchoolCool

 

PM sent. 
 

1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said:

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Similar sign at our protest. 

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


I yelled up at the APD chopper working overhead.
Honestly, I don’t think they heard me. They were pretty high up there, and the rotor blades are pretty loud.

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On 10/14/2025 at 3:21 PM, mchookem said:

so i think i'm going to my first protest ever on saturday. what a world we have become. 

well. that was enjoyable, absolutely gorgeous day! ☀️ way more people than i expected here in White-lanta. law enforcement was a very benign and sparse (visible) presence...i waved and gave a thumbs up to a couple standing a block off and got the same in return. people in vehicles blocked at intersections were totally chill, chatting out their windows...one youngish marine veteran was sitting in the bed of his pickup giving fist bumps to the crowd and wearing a Fuck Trump hat lol.

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awesome signage...

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and im always especially fond of simple to the point brevity...

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i haven't looked at anything from other cities yet, hope Austin didn't have problems...but Denver did it's thing pretty well, i'll be interested in hearing the numbers on the news tonight.

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oh yeah we saw the guy in charge of it all 😆

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56 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

One battle after another 

I think that’s the point. We want a party atmosphere. We won’t be goaded into violence

Abso-fucking-lutely this.  Peaceful partying to show those MAGA fucks that "This is America.  Not their fascist bullshit one. 

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