Watch TV news, if you can.

It appears that there are more people in D.C. protesting against Trump than there were in attendance at the inauguration yesterday. Add to that the protests across the nation and the world.

Categories Education Reform

48 Comments Post your own or leave a trackback: Trackback URL

Lloyd Lofthouse says:

January 21, 2017 at 1:47 pm

Trump will dismiss this like he does everything else. Putin’s Russia will support him to ignore the protests and move on. What else can we expect from a life-long con man, cheat, serial liar, sexual abuser of women, psychopath, narcissist …

Trump, by definition is a tyrant in training.

Reply
- kathyirwin1 says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 2:51 pm
  
  Trump certainly will dismiss but these marchers will not let go of the power they are experiencing. Remember thst this is a First Time for many😳.
  
  Reply
  - Lloyd Lofthouse says:
    
    January 21, 2017 at 3:01 pm
    
    As long as Trump continues to support hate and far right extremism in its many GOP guises, the resistance will not only stiffen but grow.
    
    Eventually, I think Trump will cross a Constitutional line in the sand to crush the resistance, and then elements of the resistance will respond with violence.
    
    Trump will push back with violence and violate more Constitutional rights and then we will have a full blown Civil War on our hands.
    
    Trump’s alleged future beahvior is easy to predict, because he has a long history that helps reveal what he’ll do.
- Jonathan says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 6:12 pm
  
  Lloyd,
  
  These are massive demonstrations in cities across the U.S. Do you think the aprox 2,000,000 people coming out means anything to elected officials? Or is the discontent and concern that’s bringing people out ultimately inconsequential?
  
  Reply
  - Lloyd Lofthouse says:
    
    January 21, 2017 at 7:55 pm
    
    I think it will mean something to members of Congress coming up for reelection in 2018.
    
    Trump will dismiss it as contrived, fake, media lies, exaggerations, if he doesn’t ignore it, but when has Trump ignored anything that makes him look like the unpopular, serial lying, groping, con man, psycho, narcissist that he is?
    
    We’ll know in the morning if Littlefiingers went on another Twitter rampage between 3 – 5 a.m. Maybe his daughter will drug him and lock him a padded room until he forgets in a day or two.
- Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:
  
  January 22, 2017 at 12:11 pm
  
  Trump IS a TYRANT. He is an entltled dirty old man who is BULLY with a small hands and a big crooked mouth.
  
  Reply
  - Lloyd Lofthouse says:
    
    January 22, 2017 at 12:31 pm
    
    When I said Trump is a tyrant in training, he is. He was a tyrant on a small scale in business, but now he is a tyrant on the biggest and most powerful stage in the world and he is learning how to adjust. The more he’s allowed to get away with, the more he will abuse that new power.
    
    He has already been allowed to not release his tax records, his medical history, and divest from his business empire.
    
    If this looking the other way continues, imagine what he’ll try next that he has never done before. As a private sector con-man who regularly molested women by groping them, he didn’t have the power of a U.S. President.
    
    Imagine what he might be thinking if he can become America’s first dictator for life, all powerful with no checks and balances, something he has never had before as a private sector con man who fought in the courts and defied the orders of judges to thwart the government from punishing him for his fraud and tax evasion efforts.
    
    For instance, it has been documented that when Mao ruled China from the Forbidden City where the emperors once ruled, he had the Red Army recruit teenage girls from rural villages to have sex with him. To these young illiterate girls, it was like winning a national beauty contest and was a honor to sleep with Mao who was like a god to them. These army officers knew what Mao liked and searched for young girls that fit that physical profile.
    
    If the young girls got pregnant, then they were married off to an officer in the Red Army to make sure they never revealed the child was Mao’s.
    
    What would Littlefigners do with this kind of unlimited power that he’s never had before? The more power he is allowed to have beyond what the U.S. Constitution allows, the more power he will crave. And the GOP is letting him have his way, so far.
Laura H. Chapman says:

January 21, 2017 at 1:54 pm

Thanks for the heads up. A niece is among the throngs in LA.

Reply
Mary says:

January 21, 2017 at 1:57 pm

Just back from Chicago rally and march — the initial estimate was 25,000 but 150,000 have showed up, demanding change.

Reply
- carolmalaysia says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 5:56 pm
  
  I just looked up the march/rally on the Chicago Tribune’s web site. It reports that 250,000 showed up!!! There were so many that the scheduled march had to be cancelled.
  
  I was surprised to read how many countries across the globe had scheduled protests. Included were protests in La Paz, Bolivia, Singapore and Indonesia. (I taught music in Malaysia and Bolivia.)
  
  This morning CNN was showing protests in London and Paris.
  
  Reply
- Eleanor says:
  
  January 22, 2017 at 8:52 am
  
  I was also at the Chicago march/rally. We had about 20 people in our group,and all our cell phones were down from about 10:30 to about 12:30 – perhaps too many people in one area?
  By 2:30, Chicago Tribune was reporting 250K people. We were told the march was off, but we continued our march through Chicago’s Loop.
  
  Reply
GregB says:

January 21, 2017 at 1:58 pm

Comedian Michael Ian Black, who is marching in DC, tweeted about the best sign he saw: “We Shall Overcomb”.

Reply
- speduktr says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 9:45 pm
  
  Chuckle.
  
  Reply
lylegray says:

January 21, 2017 at 2:03 pm

agree with fellow Vet, Lloyd Lofthouse, however it is time to “Resist and Insist”…a “perfect storm” allowed a minority of voters to elect a candidate who cannot be “normalized”…this is the time to put your phones on “auto-dial” to your representatives….weekly…let them know how you feel….

Reply
NCMom says:

January 21, 2017 at 2:26 pm

Just got back from marching with 17,000 in Raleigh, NC. It was my first ever political rally and I was blown away. We need to persist and follow through in 2 years with our votes. Can we maintain this level of intensity?

Reply
- booklady says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 2:54 pm
  
  We’d better maintain intensity. Urge all to call senators & chair Lamar Alexander re not confirming DeVos because $5.2 million fine for PAC donation not paid and she’s not qualified.
  What’s next task?
  
  Reply
- LeftCoastTeacher says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 2:54 pm
  
  It’s up to President D.ump. The more of his bulltweet people encounter, the more intensely he will be opposed. The anger here in LA is palpable, and D.ump ain’t gonna stop dumping on us any time soon. Trumpty Dumpy ran on a wall. Grumpy’s wall will cause a great fall. All of his horses and all of his men won’t make America great again.
  
  Reply
- Eleanor says:
  
  January 22, 2017 at 8:53 am
  
  See lylegray’s column above, copy and paste, and share it far and wide ….
  
  Reply
  - Eleanor says:
    
    January 22, 2017 at 8:54 am
    
    Oops, meant “comment” above …. sorry
- Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:
  
  January 22, 2017 at 12:12 pm
  
  NCMom,
  
  Good for YOU! Thank you.
  
  Reply
kathyirwin1 says:

January 21, 2017 at 2:46 pm

MSNBC is trashing DeVos right now and Michael Moore calling her out!!!

Reply
- kathyirwin1 says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 2:49 pm
  
  Good Job Randi W speaking a solid soundbite on MSNBC. Well over 1 Million people in the streets. Boston and Denver packed with bodies.
  
  Reply
Susan says:

January 21, 2017 at 3:13 pm

Just got home from the Womens March in Nashville. Thousands of people turned out. It was the biggest demonstration I’ve ever seen!

Reply
Gordon Wilder says:

January 21, 2017 at 4:23 pm

One of the women said there were a hundred more buses at their rally than at the Trump inauguration.

Reply
Judith Malys says:

January 21, 2017 at 4:24 pm

Watched most of the day…this is awesome!

Reply
Helen Schulman says:

January 21, 2017 at 4:29 pm

I wyatched news and saw people hiding being faces deliberately smashing windows in DC. This violence and destruction of personal property is disgraceful running counter the message of Trump opponents. Or doe it? I’v seen the likes of Occupy Wall Street , and Occupy Democrats and others who believe in right to only one opinion: Their. These are the same groups that terrorize Jewish students and others on College campuses across America for a point of view other than their own.

Reply
- flos56 says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 5:11 pm
  
  Any violence is an aberration.
  
  This is a peaceful march.
  
  Reply
- dianeravitch says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 6:07 pm
  
  Helen, we must have watched different marches. The ones I saw in D.C., NYC, and elsewhere were peaceful.
  
  Reply
  - reibelcastillo says:
    
    January 22, 2017 at 1:52 am
    
    Diane .
    This is just the bigining , I ❤️ NEW YORK BUT NOT TRUMP ; GO YANKEES AND TRUMPS GOOOO
- Jonathan says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 7:33 pm
  
  Helen,
  Your watching footage from demonstrations that occurred yesterday
  after the inauguration, not the woman’s march, which, was apparently peaceful despite the huge turnout.
  
  Reply
John Webster says:

January 21, 2017 at 5:04 pm

These protests aren’t a march for women’s rights; these walkers support a catchall of left-wing causes. It’s a form of performance art: people who didn’t vote for Trump displaying that they still don’t support him. It’s healthy exercise, but otherwise a perfect waste of time. Trump’s political fortunes will rise and fall depending on the concrete results of his official actions, not on what a few hundred thousand walkers did today.

Reply
- dianeravitch says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 5:16 pm
  
  John,
  
  I would say it’s a March against Trump and his threat to civil liberties.
  
  Reply
  - KrazyTA says:
    
    January 21, 2017 at 8:20 pm
    
    dianeravitch: and LBJ and Nixon, e.g., never even noticed or cared about or were affected by all those mass demonstrations and huge numbers of demonstrators that frequently kept showing up on their doorsteps…
    
    And all the other myriad activities that those expressions of mass sentiment powered.
    
    Suuuuuuure…
    
    😏
  - Lloyd Lofthouse says:
    
    January 21, 2017 at 8:44 pm
    
    I was sent to Vietnam in 1966 when the polls showed that 59 percent of Americans believed that sending troops to Vietnam was not a mistake. There were still protests, but the majority of Americans supported the war so the protesters were ignored.
    
    But by early 1968 only 35 percent approved of LBJ’s handling of the war and by August that year 53-percent felt it was a mistake to send troops to Vietnam. A huge shift in two years and by then I was out of the Marines and in College on the GI Bill witnessing the growth of the resistance to that war.
    
    By 1971, support for the war was down to 28 percent and people were mad.
    
    How did today’s peaceful protests, not just in the U.S. but around the world, compare to the numbers that turned out in the early 1970s to protest the Vietnam War?
    
    Does anyone have a comparison, because today was the start of the visible resistance to Trump, and this could grow really big before Trump resigns and/or leaves the White House to go live in Russia where he will feel safer?
    
    I read that there were huge roars from the crowd in Washington, like waves, a Tsunami of sound that would repeat. If Trump heard that roar from the White House, if it rattled the windows and shook the walls, he probably pissed his pants.
Jonathan says:

January 21, 2017 at 5:58 pm

I went to the March in Philadelphia. 20,000 expected, over 50,000 showed up. Men and woman young and old. A hopeful sign.

Reply
John Ogozalek says:

January 21, 2017 at 6:17 pm

We were at the march in Binghamton, NY. The county executive said that 500 people were expected…..his crowd estimate was 3,000. Marchers walked on the sidewalks. I heard from one of the parade organizers that a Republican city official had denied a permit. (That comment is unconfirmed.)

A sunny, warm afternoon for Upstate New York with lots of positive energy. A sharp contrast to the ugly tone of Trump’s oath taking yesterday

Reply
rum, sodomy & the lash says:

January 21, 2017 at 7:25 pm

Why is this surprising? Left-wing kooks love protesting. They epitomize the mob mentality our founders were so suspicious of.

Fact is: the nearest county to vote Trump was 50 miles away from D.C. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Reply
- John Ogozalek says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 8:47 pm
  
  I think you’ve been drinking too much rum Port of call on a Saturday night?
  
  Trump is the king of the mob.
  
  Reply
- GregB says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 11:53 pm
  
  What is it supposed to tell me?
  
  Reply
Christine Langhoff says:

January 21, 2017 at 10:25 pm

The march is Boston was estimated at 175,000 people. As to violence, the Boston police comissioner shouted out the crowd for being polite and cooperative with those patrolling the march.

Reply
- GregB says:
  
  January 21, 2017 at 11:52 pm
  
  Quit bragging about how wonderful Massachusetts is! 🙂
  
  Reply
  - carolmalaysia says:
    
    January 22, 2017 at 7:12 am
    
    I’ll brag about any town, village or city anywhere in the world that comes out against Trump. (Not a rebuke since I know you’re kidding.) I loved the news that Chicago had 250,000 protestors.
    
    I protested in a small town in Indiana called Valparaiso. We had hundreds of people with many different signs. My large heavy poster board signs said, “Putin’s puppet” with a cartoon feature of Trump being pulled by strings. Another said, “Grabber in Chief…NOT my President”; “Our eyes are on YOU”; “2.8 million votes didn’t count” and “Thanks, Donald for being the voice of American Bigotry”. I like to draw and loved my cartoon drawings of Trump with an orange face and highlighter yellow hair.
    
    A Canadian friend sent me photos of a protest “Women’s March” In Ajijic, Mexico, a small Mexican village where she once lived.
    
    I imagine that Trump is loving every moment of his being recognized all over the world. His lawyer Cohn had advised him to get publicity, either positive or negative. The negative ones, he claimed, would be forgotten in three months.
    
    I sincerely doubt that any of us will forget. My signs are ready for the next protest.
    
    What will it take for Trump’s loyal followers to realize they’ve been conned?
Akademos says:

January 22, 2017 at 6:21 am

As policy after policy comes out against the middle and lower classes, when will supporters realize they have been duped? And that they have upended the country in such a way that they will be among those who sink? And that they have turned our state of affairs into a global embarrassment?

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/96881572/?client=safari

Reply
carolmalaysia says:

January 22, 2017 at 8:31 am

Millions Across the Planet Unite to Rebuke Donald Trump
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet
January 21, 2017

…You have to be a pretty universally reviled figure for people on every continental land mass of the planet to turn out in droves to protest you. The new president is so unliked around the globe, the world staged an unprecedented day of protest in response to his presidency….

Nothing like this has ever happened to an American president—or any world leader for that matter.

Cities in nearly every state played host to sister marches. The largest demonstrations were held in Chicago, Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angeles and Madison, Wisconsin…

There were also demonstrations across Europe and the UK, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Africa also took to the streets to protest Trump and the values – racism, misogyny, bigotry – to which he gives voice. The list is too lengthy to fully include here, but there were 30 events in Canada alone, as well as marches in Berlin, Cape Town, New Delhi, Belfast, London, Oslo, Nairobi, Sydney, Mexico City, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Geneva, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Reykjavik and Stockholm…

As protesters around the world rallied against his presidency, Trump and his team were out spreading misinformation and lies in a desperate attempt to rewrite the narrative….

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/millions-across-planet-unite-rebuke-donald-trump#.WISypYim8XI.email

Reply
carolmalaysia says:

January 22, 2017 at 9:53 am

I thought for sure Trump would have a Tweet comment about the world wide protests. Guess it was too big and he had to “ignore” it.
,…………….
On first day in the White House bubble, no mention of protesters outside from The Washington Post

…But if reporters expected a reaction to the news of the day, they didn’t get it. Instead, the White House spokesman opened by attacking the media for “deliberately false reporting” over a mistaken report the day before that Trump had removed a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office. He moved it to a different part of the room.

Spicer also upbraided reporters for their coverage of Trump’s inauguration, claiming, as Trump did during his CIA visit, that the media deliberately underestimated the size of the crowd. He accused the media of pursuing “false narratives” about the new president.

When he was done, Spicer gave a summary of Trump’s day, then turned and left. He did not respond to shouted questions about the marchers still massed on the streets of the nation’s capital….

http://wapo.st/2jLnryI?tid=ss_mail

Reply
Karen Wolfe says:

January 22, 2017 at 12:09 pm

750,000 in Los Angeles! Here’s an aerial view. It was awesome. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-womens-march-live-here-s-an-aerial-view-of-the-massive-1485036542-htmlstory.html

Reply
carolmalaysia says:

January 22, 2017 at 12:53 pm

Here is an estimate of the number of protestors who showed up yesterday to protest Trump. Of course, not all cities were listed.

Headline: At 100 of 700 protest sites: 3.5 million and counting

By Meteor Blades
Saturday Jan 21, 2017 · 5:59 PM CST

Sources vary from police to organizer estimates to media estimates.)

What they all seem to have in common—as we’re all aware by now—is that more people—typically FAR MORE—showed up than expected. In addition to the 500,000 to 680,000 in D.C., the 400,000 in NYC and the 250,000 in Chicago, there are these:

100,000+ in Denver (Denver Post)
60,000 in Atlanta (police estimate)
40,000-50,000 in Austin, Texas (Austin American-Statesman)
750,000 in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times)
100,000 in Portland, Oregon (The Oregonian)
5-10,000 in Augusta, Maine: (police estimate and organizers’ estimate} 600 in Augusta, Georgia (WRDW)
15,000 in Cleveland: (police estimate)
90,000-100,000 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota: (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
22,000 in Houston: (police estimate)
75,000-100,000 in Madison, Wisconsin: (Channel 3000)
8,000 in Dallas (police estimate)
6,000 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (organizers’ estimate)

Now, all we need to do to convert the millions who showed up today into an ongoing effort to topple Trump, Trumpism and the politics that put this fascist crew into office.

20,000 in St. Petersburg, Florida (Tampa Bay Times)
300+ in Jackson, New Hampshire (Conway Daily Sun)
9,000 in Lansing, Michigan
3,000 in Detroit, Michigan
15,000 in Tucson, Arizona: (police estimate)
20,000 in Phoenix Arizona: (The Arizona Republic)
10,000 in New Orleans (New Orleans Advocate)
15,000 in Nashville, Tennessee (Nashville Scene)
1,000 in Monterey, California
7,000 in Colorado Spring, Colorado (The Gazette)
130,000 in Seattle, Washington (KING 5 News)
35 in Zebulon, Georgia
1,500 Duluth, Minnesota (organizers’ estimate)
30,000 in Raleigh, North Carolina
1,500 in Wilmington, North Carolina (Star News)
600 in New Bern, North Carolina (Sun Journal)
800 in McMinnville, Oregon
15,000 in Montpelier, Vermont
40,000 in San Diego, California (SDPD)
3,000 in Bend, Oregon
200+ in Ogden, Utah (Standard Examiner)
175,000 in Boston, Massachusetts (Boston Globe)
1,000 in Lafayette, Indiana
15,000 in St. Louis, Missouri
25,000 in Charlotte, North Carolina (Fox46)
5,000 in Providence, Rhode Island
7,800-10,000 in San Luis Obispo, California (KSBY)
11,000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
2,800 in Charleston, West Virginia (Fox Eyewitness News)
2,000 in Charleston, South Carolina (Live 5 News)
10,000 in Hartford, Connecticut (New Haven Register)
3,300 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Argus Leader)
1,000+ in Rapid City, South Dakota (KEVN)
1,600 in Newport, Oregon
1,200 in Carbondale, Illinois
84,000 in Oakland, California (CBS)
20,000 in Sacramento, California
1,000 in Kingston, New York (CKWS)
6-10,000 in Bellingham, Washington
10,000 in Portland, Maine (Portland Press Herald)
1,000 in Newark, Delaware
10,000 in Miami, Florida (Miami Herald)
750-1,000 in Ukiah, California (Ukiah Daily Journal)
6-7,000 in Asheville, North Carolina
6-7,000 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1,000 in Ketchum, Idaho
5,000 in Lexington, Kentucky
85-100 in Alpine, Texas
30,000 in Santa Ana, California
3,500 in Laguna Beach, California
1,000 in Langley, Washington
10,000 in Reno, Nevada
4,000 in Las Vegas, Nevada
2,000 in Anchorage, Alaska
6-10,000 in Kansas City, Kansas
6-9,000 in Memphis, Tennessee
5,000 in Spokane, Washington
1,000 in Port Townsend, Washington
100,000 in San Francisco, California (CBS)
7-800 in Murray, Kentucky
30-40,000 in San Jose, California
5,000 in Santa Rosa, California
3-5,000 in Boise, Idaho
10,000 in New Orleans (New Orleans Advocate)
8,000 in Santa Cruz, California
500 in Clemson, South Carolina
5,000 in Stamford, Connecticut (Stamford Advocate)
11,000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan (MLIVE)
7,000 in Park City, Utah (Park Record)
7,000 in Little Rock, Arkansas (Arkansas Matters)
2,500-4,000 in Erie, Pennsylvania (Go Erie.com)
500+ in Idaho Falls, Idaho (Local 8 News)
5,000-10,000 in Birmingham, Alabama (AL.com)
26,000 in Des Moines, Iowa (WHO-TV)
8-10,000 in Seneca Falls, New York (CNY Central)
10,000 in Helena, Montana (Billings Gazette)
12,000 in Omaha, Nebraska (Omaha World Herald)
2,000 in Lincoln, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star)
1,200+ in Cheyenne, Wyoming (Wyoming Tribune Eagle)
1,000 in Fargo, North Dakota (Valley News Live)
10,000+ in Sarasota, Florida (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
25,000 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Action News)
5-7,000 in West Palm Beach, Florida (Palm Beach Post)
3,000 in Roanoke, Virginia (WBDJ7)
22 in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska (ADN.com)

Reply
- Lloyd Lofthouse says:
  
  January 22, 2017 at 1:35 pm
  
  Trump’s first early Sunday morning tweet about the protests across the U.S. and the world.
  
  Trump Tweeted: “Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.”
  
  http://wgntv.com/2017/01/22/president-trump-tweets-response-to-saturdays-demonstrations/
  
  Trump alleges that the protesters did not vote?
  
  But I’m sure that most if not all of those protesters did vote. That’s why Hillary Clinton had almost 3 million more votes than Littlefingers Donald Trump, votes that Donald Trump has dismissed as illegal voting.
  
  Someone then must have talked to Littlefingers, probably his daughter, the girl he’d date if she wasn’t his daughter, the girl he was caught on film groping, to Tweet this an hour and a half later, “Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don’t always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.”
  
  Reply