If Trump targets coffee I’ll be getting my Colombian coffee beans the way I get my Colombian women: by smuggling them into the country in a dirty burlap sack.
Coffee is a popular response itt
I guess if you wanted to spike panic buying it might be best to focus on one brand/product. Probably not Folgers but something that typically isn’t stocked in large quantities so you can more easily clear a shelf of it.
Yeah, the consensus is coffee.
under those circumstances?
Sign at neighborhood B&B. I was surprised a business would express this sentiment. Good for them.
From last week’s protest.
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Felt the Bern today with probably more than the 36k people they said were in downtown LA today. AOC, Jayapal, Ro Khana, Neil Young, Joan Baez and others.
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I’m here an hour early for Bernie. Immediately directed to an overflow stage area outside the Huntsman. Seriously? The place holds 15k!
We got a small screen facing the sun, barely visible. Walking around campus it’s clear they’ve thrown up a bunch of new buildings so I know they have money. Come on, man.
Even though outside starting to feel claustrophobic. Not great.
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I was wrong. Pretty great after all. AOC and Bernie came by the overflow area and I was like 30 feet away. Lol they had to look straight into the sun.
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I don’t know the origin of this picture of the overflow. I can see myself, ha.
Screencap from the rally stream.
Bernie and AOC are in Idaho today and Montana Wednesday. Curious to see how they do there.
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Theyre also in one of the redder parts of California tomorrow.
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Everett Kelley, the president of the government employee union (AFGE), spoke at the Bernie/AOC rally in Folsom (Sacramento) California yesterday. Powerful speaker. He’s a former Baptist pastor. Maybe I should start going to church. Video (from previous speech) in post:
26k attended the Folsom rally
12.5k were in Idaho Monday
@Habsfan09 The thing I don’t understand about people criticizing Bernie is that when there are calls for direct action, we’re going to need people to respond. And you get people to act by getting their attention, letting them know they’re not alone, organizing them, and giving them leaders. Motivation comes from anger or enthusiasm. Bernie generates both.
Hank’s t-shirt
Bernie and AOC got 9,000 people in Missoula, Montana yesterday. It was mid-afternoon, mid-week, and I think there are about 120k in the area, so pretty impressive.
I’ve listened to Bernie speak a few times now and something I’ve noticed is how much of the content of his speeches is in accord with Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. In the movie Goodwill Hunting, Will says “that book will fuckin’ knock you on your ass,” and I agree. One way to describe is that it’s a recitation of past resistance movements in the US, some of which failed, but many of which had at least a measure of success. Bernie finishes his recent speeches with a quote from Frederick Douglass, which is in the book:
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
One of the other speakers in Montana was Sara Nelson, a flight attendants union president. She mentioned organizing for a general strike. She did that during Trump’s first term, though it didn’t happen because the threatened closing of the federal government (over border wall funding) was avoided when Trump caved. I can’t say anything about cause and effect but the threat and the activity of her members did add to the pressure on congress and Trump.
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It would be pretty nice if by opposing the Nazi stuff Trump is doing the Dumbocrats realized it wasn’t cool all the people they were deporting.
Bernie, like Zinn, is clear that the two parties are both more interested in maintaining stability for the benefit of the 1% than any social good. The back and forth of administrations is good cop bad cop. What’s new about Trump is the bad cop has gone insane. There was a deal between the parties and the rest of society. It was a shit deal for most of us but it at least kept the peace. That deal is broken.
No Kings rally this past Saturday.
News sources said 2500 people but could have been more. It seemed like a lot of people were confused about the start time, including me, as many were there an hour early. Then it went on for about four hours. Result being a lot of people were coming and going so the total attending could have been somewhat higher.
That was far too long imo. At the end, we marched downtown to the Salt Lake City-County building. The crowd had dwindled by that time, maybe 1000 left. Kind of a weird feeling to walk down the middle of State Street.
This protest had more media coverage than previous events, even Bernie/AOC. There is another planned for May 1. I hope people don’t get burned out. I was pretty worn out after this one. Took all yesterday to recover, ha.
Collage of some of the more aggressive signs I saw:
At upper left, small group of counter-protestors. They were pissed because cops pushed them off to the edge of the lawn. One lady went down on one knee to give them a double middle finger.
On the way there one very unathletically round young MAGA dude waved his sign, “More Men in Women’s Sports!” at me and asked how I liked it. I just kept walking, which he remarked was just so rude of me. Good times.
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I like marches better. Just standing around is hard.
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I’d have replied, “You’d lose to women, too.”
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Maddow agrees with me that media is paying more attention to the protests.
It must be true because a local TV person asked to interview me Saturday so they must be desperate. I declined though. 
The Ramstein kids joined the resistance!
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On prospects for a general strike. This Bluesky account is trying to organize people but it’s very much an uphill battle. One of their local groups got banned on the platform. Not sure if they got back on.