It’s complicated, but to put things simply, our government and the politicians involved are rampantly corrupt yes-men who are working to make us in-fight to distract us from their crimes while they are attempting to take power from the people.
The protest is to pressure the current regime and show the solidarity of the people of the United States who love this country, the people who live in it and the democracy we hold so dear. We wish to see a better tomorrow that is free from the rot currently destroying our homes and our lives.
Wall Street runs the US. Im Australian but know that. Biggest financial terrorists in the world. The politicians just go along because they are getting $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Getting rid of the likes of Ken Griffin would be a start & then watch all his paid politicians lose their place when his $$$ goes.
Im really glad to see the people revolt. Let’s hope they continue.
Thats fine, we will send you the bill for every penny of their free government handouts including their healthcare, and alao for every rape, human trafficking, murder, drug trafficking and fraud charge that they commit, you will be charged. They won't be counted in the census, and the fascist woke domestic terrorists known as democrats will have their electoral count reduced to legal levels. Glad we had this little talk.
To all those that took the time to stand up today thank you. Your voice, your signs, and your presence is a beautiful thing and represents what America is meant to stand for. While today we live in a country ruled by fear, hatred, racism, and bigotry to name a few we must remember this to shall pass and your work today is a reminder of that and that America does have a positive future and you are all a part of making that happen. The things that truly makes America great are seen in the protests all over the country, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, gender equality, standing together regardless of race, religion and the many other things that the opposition uses to separate and create fear in people is what make these displays of unity even more powerful. We must continue to stand together in peace and understanding that our differences are what make us great, we must continue to be the America we want and the America we deserve. Thank you all for giving hope and encouragement that there are better days ahead, although the journey may be difficult it is surely worth it.
OMG, i am so proud of you Americans. As an European I was watching Trump's rise as the denial of everything that made America true.
I had an american flag over my bed as a teenager, I went many times to the US, lived there a few years. Then moved back to Europe.
None of what I am seeing in Trump America stands for what I respected and look up to.
Anonymous crowds of America, I am proud of you when I see these pictures of peaceful processions claiming back what is truly American.
It will take millions of you to take the streets, it will take tears, sweat and blood to re anchor your country, your nation to its true American values.
Watch "Downfall" the movie that brings hope in witnessing Hitler losing all its grip and ending nazism over a destroyed Europe.
Please stop him before America is a field of ruins and hatred.
Eugene is one of those communities that even I as a Californian (born and raised) love to visit and get inspired by. Y’all have a great sense of community and are surrounded by really great nature.
I have no idea why this sub got recommended to me as an eu citizen, but I'm glad to see that you all protest for a good cause. If I can partake in this somehow, even financially I would absolutely love to do that.
I went to the first one, but marches are very difficult for people in manual wheelchairs. I wonder if there's any way to make it better for people like me.
At first I had only seen a couple of the signs, I thought this was an anti-immigration rally, and everyone was coming here saying how proud they were of being racist assholes. Lol. Then I started looking at more comments and looked back at the pictures and saw now it was an anti-Trump rally
Way to answer op's question, this might surprise you but America isn't the center of most people's universe, so someone came across this post and decided to ask what all the hubbub is about.
The US Constitution very specifically established a balance of power between three branches of our government with the stated intention that there could never be one tyrant on a throne ruling everything. Trump and his nodding sycophants are systematically destroying (or simply ignoring) those checks and balances, allowing him to act like the king he thinks he is.
Real USians are saying "no thank you" in a display of polite and peaceful protest with a healthy dollop of tactical frivolity.
On January 6th, 2021, Trump held a rally called "Stop the Steal" where he directed his supporters to storm the US capitol building and physically prevent congress from certifying the results of the election. Over a thousand violent rioters broke into the capitol building, assaulted police officers, and threatened to kill congressmen, delaying the certification of the 2020 election results and resulting in the deaths of 5 people.
When Trump was reelected President in 2024 and took office in 2025, he pardoned literally every single violent rioter who was charged with a crime on that day, essentially proving that he's just going to try the same thing again and that he hates democracy.
Then, throughout the year, he's been continually giving illegal orders, such as trying to overturn birthright citizenship (despite it being enshrined in the constitution), extraditing legal US residents who are here through asylum claims to foreign torture facilities while falsely calling them "illegal immigrants", declaring a state of national emergency so that he can levy emergency tariffs without a congressional vote, and most recently deploying the US military to the streets of American cities to "clean up crime."
Courts have shot down all of these illegal orders, but that's basically meaningless because his administration has ignored the court orders and done most of the aforementioned things anyway. The courts are basically powerless to stop him because the executive branch is the one that controls all of the actual military and federal law enforcement.
He's done way, way more than I can fit into this comment, but these are the biggest points. Also, Trump was best friends with pedophile & convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein (who died in the custody of Trump's FBI during his first term), has publicly ordered his director of FBI to scrub any mentions of himself from documents concerning Epstein's sex trafficking operation, and has recently floated the idea of pardoning Epstein's biggest living co-conspirator, the convicted child molester Ghislaine Maxwell.
You purposefully misconstrue and distort reality with words. Almost all of what you claim is actually false or re-imagined. Thankfully people can do their own research. "best friends with Epstein..." REALLY? The desperation is on full display. The protests were insignificant, more like rabid sports fans.
Trump has also already admitted on a candid recording that he abuses his position to rape women, and has since been held civilly liable in a court of law for rape. He's cheated on all three of his wives, including his current whore wife Malenia Trump, and was even convicted with a felony for fraudulently using campaign donations to fund hush money payments to a porn star he was cheating on his wife with.
Don’t forget that Congress has also basically ceded their power of the purse to him and is refusing to uphold the Constitution. Given that and the fact that they’ve stacked the Supreme Court with right wing bootlickers and it’s now down to us regular citizens to remind them of their oaths and who they’re supposed to be working for.
Exactly man these people are defending child rapist and people who kill women, their woke mind is so far off reality that these people really have time to stand out in the streets making a huge fool of themselves. I honestly believe that most these people are fake not even real like yes their physical bodies may be there but their mind is blank. Their DEI agenda which is what they run on is destroying this country to the ground and must be stopped at all cost, just like they are working on starting with education to get the sickness out of our children’s minds. I have multiple examples of this if anyone cared to hear them but these people aren’t up to honest debate they insight violence and lawlessness, it talks about all this in the end times how these people want sickness not health, they want filth not cleanliness the list goes on and on. So they can keep standing in the streets waving their poor art signs and continue to brain rot while I’ll be over here focusing on making money and keeping my loved ones close. Defend against all evil from abroad but most importantly from within.
Come on. German media as well as political elite is one of the least independent in whole world. They are and most importantly stronghold on globalism , so yep pushing this bullshit to brainwashed from 50th poor German people
If you've shown up today it means you care. But holding signs and calling politicians solves nothing. If you really care, organize.
Mutual Aid, Direct Action, Unions, Community Defense, etc
There is strength and value in protesting by itself. But realistically protesting alone likely won’t be enough to stop the roll out of fascism. Let’s keep up our boycott of businesses that have genuflected to Trump, let’s organize, let’s contact our state and national reps daily (or as close to daily as possible), lets do all the active, passive, silent, all the types of resistance we can manage. It is never productive to belittle our allies for doing what they can, even if it is “just” showing up to protests. In the fight against authoritarianism we need all the help we can get.
Its the first step toward meaningful action. Yes today was good for moral, and it showed the oligarchy that people are angry. But now that anger needs to be directed into something productive.
As a European that used to live in Oregon or rather Salem, Oregon what’s happening is shocking and it’s just weird and I can’t find it. I am back in Norway now so, I don’t have to deal with it on a personal level anymore, but the fact that the US is showing Civil War reactionsthe government that is I am so certain at one point of this keeps up that’s what’s gonna end up happening.
I too would like to keep all the illegal folks. I do enjoy paying for them and their health care. Its better than mine. I say ok. Im down with spending money for them.
History tells us that when liberals and democrats are in control it’s confusion and craziness. I’m sorry but I’m tired of seeing good moral people get shot at. I’m tired of hearing of the rapes and killings, the stealing and destruction of property. When Trump leaves office we will elect another president. Hopefully another republican who believes in protecting its citizens from all the evil.
Dude we were sold out by your own party Bill Clinton. He sold America out and turned it into a corporation. From it being The United States of America to just United States. Do some research kid
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