Yesterday, about 20 Trump supporters held a little rally on the sidewalk in front of our headquarters on Meadow St. (aka, Rte 13) in Ithaca.
Approximately 60 anti-Trumpers staged a counter-rally that started out on the sidewalk across the street. At some point, they swarmed across the street, getting right up in the faces of the Republicans and blocking traffic during rush hour on the city’s major artery.
Some jerk posted on Facebook that “A planned political rally being held by Tompkins County Republicans in the 300 block of South Meadow Street is blocking the right lanes of Route 13 northbound.”
So typical to leave out the rather important detail that it was NOT the Republicans who were blocking traffic!
The Ithaca PD parked a couple of radio cars across on-coming traffic to protect the protesters, who apparently swarmed them too.
At least one of the Lefties was carrying a sign featuring a hammer smashing a piggy bank and saying, “Defund Police” so, in the cops’ defense, maybe they left because they were scared. Or maybe the far-left, deep blue PTBs running Ithaca told them to leave.
In any event, they were clearly not prepared for the little GOP rally to turn into a nasty mess. They did nothing to protect the Republicans from the snarling mob screaming “Fascists Go Home”, not even when the thugs stole and set fire to Trump signs, flags, and hats.
The anti-Trumpers shouted “You’re not welcome here” and “Go inside” at the Trump supporters, while pushing and shoving them until they retreated inside the Republican storefront. Towards the end of the rally, several protesters tore down the “Vote Republican” banner.
After over two hours, the thugs declared “victory” and marched to the Commons through the streets, blocking traffic and garnering cheers and waves. There, they celebrated and discussed future plans.
“Today was a tremendous victory for the forces of anti-racism,” their spokesman said. “It was a spontaneous and almost joyful display of, not only disgust with racism and fascism, but also a positive affirmation of an alternative politics, celebrating human dignity.”
Dearest was at this thing for a while. He told me after he got home that it got scary enough that his heart started racing. Since he’s scheduled for heart surgery next month, he left early.
I am profoundly grateful that he and all our GOP friends stayed calm and got out of this thing without injury. The photo below is a screen grab I did from video that one of our GOP friends took. It scared the bejeebers out of me.
We’re not holding our breaths for the Ithaca police or District Attorney’s office to give a crap about the well documented fact that far-from-peaceful protesters blocked traffic, menaced peaceful protesters, and destroyed many dollars worth of private property.
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What about trump’s ithaca rally??????????
or did I miss out on your report
I’m sorry you live in surrounded conditions…..
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This IS my report. 🙂 And thanks be to God, who gave me wicked bad allergies that forced us to move to the country, we do NOT live IN Ithaca.
We’re still in Tompkins County though and, this year, the local GOP (Dearest is very active with them) decided to try having its hq (physical pre-election presence) in Ithaca.
It’s always been in our village before, mainly because Dearest is the person who instigated the idea of even having one.
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2nd pic from bottom of “Socialism over Barbarism” fails to honor Stalin as one of the most barbaric of all socialists. Or pseudo-socialists if we follow the slippery stream of logic of Jonathan Riley, a deep thinker with a following of 106 people. Enjoy the read, my eyeballs bled. https://medium.com/@JonathanRileyAL/stalin-wasnt-socialist-but-thank-god-america-is-cfa0e438bfc2
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“Those of us advocating for what we call democratic socialism in America aren’t trying to get rid of capitalism, we simply think that a better combination of capitalism and socialism includes things like the socialization of what is essential to life, such as healthcare and education, because these things shouldn’t have to be a profit-making scheme for the rich. We think that most of those things can be paid for by, brace yourselves, actually taxing the rich and Wall Street trading, and I personally also think we should seriously consider a shift towards economic democracy.”
This reminds me of an article a nun gave us once about why Catholics should ignore that silly abortion thing and vote for Democrats all the way. Satan’s a liar, but nobody ever said he was stupid. In fact, he is reputed to have been the most glorious and intelligent angel God ever created. It stands to reason that his best lies would sound oh so erudite.
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Last pic, showing middle finger flipper in foreground left, yellow shirt. The science community has long held that the middle finger, when used as a communication device, rates the equivalent of 1 point on the I.Q. scale. What kind of deep-thinking toe-fungus can we expect from Ms. 2 IQ?
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LOL … thanks for the laugh, JBob. I am still feeling a tad shaky and weepy about how badly this could’ve gone for my man. One of his heart valves is shot, so getting a bad fright, racing heart, is an invitation to disaster. NObody expected this thing to be more than a dozen or so middle class fuddy duddies holding some signs beside the road during rush hour!
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