They said tens of thousands of protesters would be here. They claimed they would “shut down the DNC for Gaza.” Like the Chicago riots during the 1968 Democratic convention, their demonstrations would snarl the city, shake the party and doom the candidacy of “Genocide Joe.”
Then came Kamala Harris — and the protest fizzled.
Organizers anticipated there would be 30,000 to 40,000 protesters on hand for Monday’s kickoff. But only a few thousand showed up; police estimated 3,500
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Looks like they moved from the DNC to the Israeli consulate:
200 protestors, 72 arrested.
I hate my government, that I can have some small influence over, arming the perpetrators of genocide.
Burning US flags on Chicago streets will get a response.
Burn any flag you want, but if it’s a US flag in a US street don’t be surprised with the consequences
What’s the consequence? Is it illegal to burn a flag in the land of freedom?
Not really no. You think what, random people would intervene? To save a piece of cloth? Grow up.
Yesterday I got temporarily banned from a conservative community for calling them out for pearl clutching about This. Exact. Thing. I told them in a week we’d forget about this. They were peaceful protests. No deaths, no property damage, none of that would add to their message.
Ok, the ban might be for calling out the mod about his name calling but the dude’s a full blown fascist so I couldn’t care less.
IMO doing real damage to the Democratic candidate’s chance of being elected would have been the farce.
