re: I'm Going To The No Kings Protest

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Yea let’s commit property damage to our political opponents…

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Better than your heroes assassinating people.

Bunch of old self loathing white people and young green hair freaks.

Called them losers multiple times as I slowly drove by with a big thumbs down.

So if any you TDS losers were there, that was me. Loser.

Y'all gotta get some pictures!

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And while the blue hairs are shouting and crying I will be applying these to their bumpers.

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And while the blue hairs are shouting and crying.

As a stauch conservative almost blue hair BB, I totally approve. Give those hippies hell. We always did.

Younger BB's == Gen X'er in outlook.

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through out the last 4-5 years I wear American Flag hats

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ain't it crazy that we live in a country where there are people that are enraged at the sight of their own country's flag, and will fly the flags of foreign nations outside their homes all while proclaiming to be the party of inclusion. And they will feel self-righteous doing so.

Nobody gets pulled over for anything in Portland. One of the most underrated aspects in living in a deep blue area. I rarely pay for street parking bc most areas have no parking monitors. I don't drink much, but when I do drink and drive a couple times per year its not stressful like it is in the south or Midwest

I just got back from one very local to me. The TL/DR version - what a bunch of ignorant, close-minded a-holes (with one exception).

I didn't wear a MAGA hat, I just looked around, found one lady with a no kings sign, and politely asked her to explain, that I don't understand what the protest is about. She rattled off some non-sense, but before I could really get into a discussion with her, several men around here told be to eff-off, told me to go join the other a-holes (the Trump supporters). Then one guy gets in my face and accuses me of getting in their face. I calmly said, I'm standing right here, you came up to me. More cussing from him. Well, it was getting heated enough, I just said, well, I came here for a discussion and to learn, I was hoping I would find people willing to have a discussion, but you showed me the opposite.

So I walked down 100', found two young ladies and a 50's-something woman. That woman actually did have a discussion with me (the one exception). She said Trump was going to run for 4 terms. I said, any talk like that is a joke, it's just not going to happen, so you really shouldn't worry about that. So she said there were a lot of other things. But before we could carry on that conversation, other people in the crowd were telling her to not talk to me. They are here for a protest. They accuse me of just wanting to stir things up. This lady agreed that I was being polite and respectful. I told her she should go talk to her people over there that cussed me out. About that time, another young lady came up to me, pretty much asking me to move on and stop talking to people. Hmmm, free speech anyone? I have a right to be here, and if anyone says they don't want to talk with me, I'll respect that. I'm here to learn. But she insisted it was a protest. not a place to have a discussion. She said I should have my own protest. I said if I did, I would welcome respectful questions, that's how I would get my point across. She just shrugged this off, and was a bit more insistent that I just leave.

Then she said she is one of the safety co-coordinators. OK, I'm being calm and respectful, you should go talk to your people who were getting threatening. Well, she just want things to be safe. Well, I'm here to learn what this is about, she said she would give me her #, and I could call her to debate. No, I want to learn from these people. She says no one ever changes their mind (so why protest?). One lady that was trying to get me to leave said she had to go, her "count" was up? Dunno what that meant?

A few others were telling me to leave, and at that point I think I learned all I was going to learn. As I left, I told that 1st group that I found a lady that was willing to have a discussion, I held back from saying "not like you a-holes', but I kept it calm, and they hurled more insults.

BTW, I'm 70, not tall, more beer belly than muscle - not threatening looking at all.

Yep, these people are idiots, even the one that was willing to talk.

Sounds like a lame Saturday