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Pics from the pro Trump rally in DC..from Twitter post (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Sep 2017 OP
This Was At Its Peak.... Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #1
They should be banned from having American flags ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #3
Gotta love all the "flaggy" frocks. Marie Marie Sep 2017 #9
Yet the "hippies" were attacked for a flag hat band, years ago dixiegrrrrl Sep 2017 #43
They think they own it. I have noticed that people attending the BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #15
At a protest would be ok ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #62
If I wore it outside of rallies they would thing I am crazy. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #67
What is that "DC Black History Night Tour" sign about AJT Sep 2017 #6
I'd like to know also. Whatever it is, I'm guessing JDC Sep 2017 #11
There Is A Video Floating Around... Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #13
Here: DesertRat Sep 2017 #61
I think he's in the wrong place jmowreader Sep 2017 #14
Sounds like 45 needs to take that tour. nt DesertRat Sep 2017 #52
45 needs to go on a Scared Straight tour, so he can learn what it'll be like when he goes up jmowreader Sep 2017 #55
It's apparently a 'guerilla' marketing effort for a newish tour of Black History sites in DC... Princess Turandot Sep 2017 #17
I somehow really don't think that this is really their target audience. SeattleVet Sep 2017 #22
Agent Provocateur Turbineguy Sep 2017 #45
They must have been hoping for tv coverage. nt DesertRat Sep 2017 #53
Panda panda. Winner winber... lol HALIBUT pangaia Sep 2017 #19
LOL! MLAA Sep 2017 #35
Good one! hahaha InAbLuEsTaTe Sep 2017 #72
Yikes, that is actually embarrassing jimlup Sep 2017 #2
M.O.A.R mother of all rally's brokephibroke Sep 2017 #4
Period????? czarjak Sep 2017 #7
No, B.O.R.E.... as it was the most Barbaric, Offensive Rally Ever! InAbLuEsTaTe Sep 2017 #73
To be fair, at peak participation Control-Z Sep 2017 #5
Where are the pictures? japple Sep 2017 #24
Post #1 Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #27
Sorry, sorry. I thought this was a joke. This is the whole fucking thing? The whole japple Sep 2017 #32
Trump Didn't Address This Rally AFAIK... Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #36
There are pictures of the people with their guns "guarding" the perimeter dixiegrrrrl Sep 2017 #44
I thought guns were illegal in DC? n/t radical noodle Sep 2017 #49
Dunno about that dixiegrrrrl Sep 2017 #76
I don't have tv either, but find that Twitter carries some news videos dixiegrrrrl Sep 2017 #77
I don't do Twitter either! I have a technological disability. eom japple Sep 2017 #79
M.O.A.R Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #8
Ha! SammyWinstonJack Sep 2017 #48
Well yeah but you have to consider that they held it on a Saturday underpants Sep 2017 #10
Upholding a decades-old tradition rocktivity Sep 2017 #12
Millions Johnny2X2X Sep 2017 #16
Sarah Huck Sanders on Monday: It was the biggest Presidential rally EVER held! DesertRat Sep 2017 #56
Sad. .99center Sep 2017 #18
Lol, " American Guard "... Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #30
Lol! .99center Sep 2017 #37
Turns out bots can't rally DesertRat Sep 2017 #58
How did they make millions of grass green t-shirts?? lindysalsagal Sep 2017 #66
Less is MOAR! DesertRat Sep 2017 #68
That's alot of green hair. Too bad all the red hats were burned. lindysalsagal Sep 2017 #69
It looks like a sort of contest... syringis Sep 2017 #64
crowd looks kinda monolithic to me Chipper Chat Sep 2017 #20
Rednecky Should Be Added To The Dictionary.... Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #23
OH MY GOD, that is the 2ndfunniest thing I have ever seen about, well you know who. pangaia Sep 2017 #21
White militias rallying for Trump in D.C. .99center Sep 2017 #25
They'd still be reacting to it and talking about until their last breath. ATL Ebony Sep 2017 #75
As Jed Clampett would say, "Pitiful, pitiful..." japple Sep 2017 #26
Biggest crowd on earth! Must be a gazillion Trump fans there. 👱 LOL nt procon Sep 2017 #28
It's the largest audience ever to witness a rally, period, both in person and around the globe! nt Gore1FL Sep 2017 #29
Why are they all wearing green camouflage? NT Bleacher Creature Sep 2017 #31
Because America, that's why! Initech Sep 2017 #34
They should call it "E.F.O.A.R." (Epic Fail Of All Rallies) Initech Sep 2017 #33
Good one! MLAA Sep 2017 #38
Or BEFOAR ..beautiful epic failure of all rallies! MLAA Sep 2017 #39
Ooh I like it! Initech Sep 2017 #71
If you hold a rally and even the opposition doesn't care, did it really happen? Initech Sep 2017 #40
Lol🤓 MLAA Sep 2017 #59
T.O.A.R. (Tiniest of All Rallies) DesertRat Sep 2017 #63
Nice! MLAA Sep 2017 #78
Sad lunasun Sep 2017 #41
You cheated. You got a long shot. Here's a closeup that shows he got maybe up to 1000. japple Sep 2017 #42
Lol, The Tight Screen Shot Presidency Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #47
Umm, Donald, do you have something to say about this on twitter? smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #46
Maybe... syringis Sep 2017 #57
Or, everyone was wearing grass-colored camoflage. smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #70
Huge crowd at the BHDem53 Sep 2017 #50
Congratulations, Trumpsters! This is Your Woodstock! Please eat the Brown Acid! NBachers Sep 2017 #51
You will have much more... syringis Sep 2017 #54
Women's March vs. MOAR rally DesertRat Sep 2017 #60
OMG!!! ailsagirl Sep 2017 #65
Some of the crowd carried flags for "Kekistan!" japple Sep 2017 #74

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. They should be banned from having American flags
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:04 PM
Sep 2017

I would like to see legislation on that. Russian flags are ok, just not the Stars and Stripes.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
43. Yet the "hippies" were attacked for a flag hat band, years ago
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 11:26 PM
Sep 2017

and everybody yelled how disrespectful it was to "wear the flag"

which it still is, if you read the flag rules..
which no one appears to do since I see flags in front of houses, on porches, in the rain, all night long, or hung until it wears away, etc.

BigmanPigman

(51,635 posts)
15. They think they own it. I have noticed that people attending the
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:24 PM
Sep 2017

anti-fake prez type rallies I have attended are showing them more and more. I bought one myself but it is hard to carry both it and my signs so I wear it as a cape (Captain America).

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
62. At a protest would be ok
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 12:27 AM
Sep 2017

But if you just wore it around wherever, then people would probably think you were a tRump supporter. That is something that really bothers me. They are the opposite of what the flag stands for, yet they use it as an identifier.

BigmanPigman

(51,635 posts)
67. If I wore it outside of rallies they would thing I am crazy.
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 12:44 AM
Sep 2017

HIS supporters ARE crazy no matter what they wear or or where they are. You should encounter them in person...very strange. The Proud Boys (carrying flags of course) are really violent and scary.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
13. There Is A Video Floating Around...
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:19 PM
Sep 2017

...That The Foreskin Butt Plugs Wanted Him Removed, And He Refused.

jmowreader

(50,566 posts)
14. I think he's in the wrong place
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:22 PM
Sep 2017

This is the DC Black History Night Tour:

https://www.viator.com/tours/Washington-DC/DC-Black-History-Night-Tour/d657-43206P2

You see:
the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
the MLK Jr. Memorial
the Good Home Communities, and some of the oldest historic black churches in America
Howard University
the site of the Pearl Affair

you learn about black astronomer Benjamin Banneker

You cruise down the U Street Corridor, "the jazz mecca of DC."

The tour then goes to the cemetery that served as a stop on the Underground Railroad...

and ends at the African American Civil War Memorial

This looks like a really good tour to me.

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)
17. It's apparently a 'guerilla' marketing effort for a newish tour of Black History sites in DC...
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:36 PM
Sep 2017

He does both a day and night tour (which visit some different places relative to each other).

This article is about another event where the guy doing it planted that sign behind where Wolf Blitzer was reporting from outside of the Capitol, so his placard was visible whenever they show Blitzer.


http://dcist.com/2017/06/cnn_guerilla_marketing.php

It is one of two tours that Folden has been running since November, the other being a longer tour of sites affiliated with the Underground Railroad. Both begin at the Anacostia Metro, with a first stop at the Panorama Room for what Folden claims is the second-best view of D.C. The Night Tour then goes on to a number of sites that few visitors ever see—the location of the Snow Riot and a Georgetown cemetery that likely harbored runaway slaves—along with more well-known, if still under-visited locales, like the Frederick Douglass House.
....
To get the word out, Folden says he's been popping up at protests and other newsworthy scenes around town—sign in tow—beginning at the Trump International Hotel on the night the business mogul won his surprise victory. Most recently, he brought it to Trump's "Pittsburgh Not Paris" rally at Lafayette Park on Saturday (you can spot it around the .09 mark in this video, nestled among signs thanking the president and denouncing fake news).

"Wherever there's a whole lot of media in town, I'll be right there in the middle," he says.

SeattleVet

(5,480 posts)
22. I somehow really don't think that this is really their target audience.
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:47 PM
Sep 2017

Can you imagine any of these turds walking around DC at night, to learn some Black history?

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
5. To be fair, at peak participation
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:06 PM
Sep 2017

there were a number of people - enough to suggest perhaps a company picnic.

japple

(9,842 posts)
32. Sorry, sorry. I thought this was a joke. This is the whole fucking thing? The whole
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 11:04 PM
Sep 2017

friggin rally?

I don't have TV and don't often see all the images that others are able to view with mainstream. Where are the videos of Trump addressing this "rally?" Was it really an event?

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
44. There are pictures of the people with their guns "guarding" the perimeter
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 11:29 PM
Sep 2017

of the roped off area.
and what they show is 3-4 guys on each side, doing the guarding, and huge empty park area inside the ropes.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
76. Dunno about that
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 10:40 AM
Sep 2017

seems these guys have been getting away with walking around with guns since the election.

.99center

(1,237 posts)
18. Sad.
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:36 PM
Sep 2017
https://twitter.com/willsommer
"Militia guys love making perimeters that are like 4 guys and easily walked around"


"guilty of being white" shirt at the Trump rally


Oathkeeper / III%er militia types guarding the perimeter at Trmp rally on the Mall


Trump rally on the Mall includes members of the American Guard -- a group dubbed "hardcore white supremacists" by the ADL


Counter-protester with a Heather Heyer sign at the #MOAR pro-Trump rally


Proud Boy contingent extremely thirsty for some antifa (who show no signs of showing up.) chanting "get the reds out"


The last time I saw this thing, some Pizzagate guys punched its driver for playing music over their Pizzagate rally


Lots of III%er / Oath keeper militia types at #moar

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
21. OH MY GOD, that is the 2ndfunniest thing I have ever seen about, well you know who.
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:46 PM
Sep 2017

After the tuba guy.

And what is the Anerican Guard doing with Chinese cleavers on their backs?

.99center

(1,237 posts)
25. White militias rallying for Trump in D.C.
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 10:53 PM
Sep 2017

I wonder what the media and republicans would've said if Obama had black militias show up in DC to rally for him?

Initech

(100,105 posts)
40. If you hold a rally and even the opposition doesn't care, did it really happen?
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 11:17 PM
Sep 2017

I think the alt right fad is dying out. People are getting tired of their bullshit.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
46. Umm, Donald, do you have something to say about this on twitter?
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 11:30 PM
Sep 2017

No, I didn't think so.

It's quite obvious that you are a complete loser and hated by the majority of the people in this country.

japple

(9,842 posts)
74. Some of the crowd carried flags for "Kekistan!"
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 08:59 AM
Sep 2017

"Many attendees wore red "Make America Great Again" baseball hats, while others carried flags for "Kekistan" – a fictional country that some internet-centric right-wing activists claim as their homeland"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rally-washington-crowd-size-juggalos-insane-clown-posse-national-park-service-a7951046.html

Kekistan? I think that should be Kakastain.

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