Women's March Protesters Did Dump Their Signs......But, Here's What Really Happened

[LongTomH]

Rightwingers are letting themselves feel righteous about pictures of signs from the Women's March on Washington being dumped in the streets. Snopes.com is calling bullshit on their fake concern.

I was unable to share the photo accompanying the post; but, here's the background on what really happened:

1) The signs in the picture weren't just tossed willy-nilly onto the ground; they were deliberately abandoned at that location — outside one of the entrances to the Trump International Hotel in Washington — as part of the protest:

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2) The hotel site was already politically controversial for reasons independent of the Women's March on Washington:

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3) Piling refuse in one location generally makes it easier for clean-up crews to do their job (although that factor wasn't why the protesters were dumping their signs outside the Trump hotel).

Regardless, one might fairly argue that a form of protest involving the dumping of litter on the ground for others to clean up is an unseemly one. However, the National Park Service noted that, overall, the crowds at both events (i.e., the inauguration and the Women's March) were "tidier" than those of previous years.

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The Park Service actually complimented the marchers:

“Fortunately, a lot of people, even though, the trash cans were full, have stacked the trash neatly as close to the trash cans as they could get them, so that is making our job easier,” Linroth said.

[underpants]

1. I ran into this on FB

It must be big shakes in RW world

[gratuitous]

2. They have to have something to complain about

Someone mentioned on Facebook that there were no arrests in her neck of the woods, and someone had to post a story from Eureka CA that the cops had made four arrests there. I went to the link, and it appears that the cops ran in four people for failing to get out of the street when the cops ordered them to. Not exactly a Bonnie and Clyde caliber crime spree.

[underpants]

3. True

Petty little delicate snowflakes

[5X]

4. I think Linroth is calling trump hotel a trashcan. n/t

[wildeyed]

5. Yep, they dumped them on Trump's hotel as a protest.

RW need the #alternativefact that they were littering because they got nothing else. Their base IS gullible, so they just crop and post. The march was huuuuuge, peaceful and effective. So they gotta make a bad thing up to smear them. It's just how they roll..... Just post an uncropped photo as a reply. They don't do well at words. Pictures and memes are your best defense.

This is good.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/315495-womens-march-protesters-leave-their-signs-at-trumps-dc-hotel

[JudyM]

6. They were left as kind of art installations...

Here's one at a metro station


And here's one at a little square

[Lucinda]

7. TY KNR