Hundreds shout “Shut down the Senate!” at protest of Elon Musk’s takeover of USAID in Washington, D.C.
Hundreds of protesters gathered yesterday, February 4, 2025 to protest Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s illegal intrusion into federal government offices, and seizure of the U.S. Treasury. Protest signs read “COUP,” “Nobody elected Elon,” “Felon!,”Impeach President Musk,” “Stop the billionaire grift!,” “Stop the felons’ smash and grab,” “America is not for sale.”
A national protest of the Trump/Musk power grab is occurring today at state capitals all across the country. The protest is called the #50501 movement, which stands for 50 states, 50 protests, one day. It was organized online under the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501.
At a protest in front the the Treasury building, an unidentified male speaker said, “Never before have people who have had nothing to do with our government come over here and tried to steal our taxpayer money. They have access right now to some of the most private information about you, about your kids, about everybody you love, they have that information right now. Are you going to let them take it? They have access to all of your taxpayer money, and at the flip of a dime they can take it away from agencies, from taxpayers, from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, they can take it away. Are we going to let them?” The crowd roars, “No!”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), speaking at the protest: “Musk has grabbed control of America’s payment system. This is the system that makes sure your grandpa gets his social security check on time. This is the system that makes sure your mom’s doctor gets paid for her Medicare exam. Elon Musk wants the power to turn that on, to turn that off, as Elon Musk decides. Elon Musk wants the power to say to your grandpa, who is a cranky guy who sometimes disses Elon on X, doesn’t get his Social Security check on time. Elon Musk wants the power to say to your mom’s doctor, ‘You’re not doing it the way I would,’ so your mom’s doctor doesn’t get paid.”
Scott,
I am reading what you write, so unless you are lying, what you think is evident. I also watch/listen to a lot of liberal media.
This forum is pretty awkward but I think what is written here is revelatory of average people who care to comment.
I always consider the possibility that I’ve been lied to. I am a professional skeptic and I’m familiar with most of the players (on both sides).
What I find interesting is that you guys never talk to each other…but like I said, this format sucks.
So you’re assuming our responses to a MAGA troll are representative of our true thoughts and feelings.
Sorry, harry, but I see no indication of any skepticism on your part other than dismissing out of hand any liberal point of view.
Round and round we go…
You doubt my skepticism. You think I’m a MAGA troll.
I think you’re a pretty doctrinaire democrat/liberal.
Chiefs or Eagles?
If it’s not Denver, I don’t care all that much, but I’ll say Chiefs out of conference loyalty.
Which team wants to put people in concentration camps, and make women second-class citizens?
My husband and I haven’t had a team since we left San Fiego years ago
I’m sick of Mahomes. I wanted the Bolls two weeks ago.
Now I don’t care
This isn’t cleaning house. It’s burning the house down.
The house needs a lot of work. People don’t like change, largely because of self interest.
There will be a ton of resistance. The “other side” is not stupid.
I wish we could say the same.
What the GOP (and their spineless, “I’m laughing at both sides, but I only talk trash about the Dems” mouthpieces) lacks in intelligence and reason, they make up for in proud ignorance, hypocrisy, and ideological cowardice.
Cute…
“Never before have people who have had nothing to do with our government come over here and tried to steal our taxpayer money.”
For the last four years, people who have nothing to do with our government have been crossing our southern border illegally and stealing our taxpayer money with the help of USAID taxpayer funded NGOs…
like the ones who set up hapless Venezuelan migrants in overcrowded apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado and then lied about the gang members who were terrorizing the residents.
Before you get teary eyed about USAID you should know a lot of the organizations they support pay their CEOs close to $500,000 annually.
Time to clean house.
I’d rather have migrants than Mad Harry here. I mean dude, what value to you provide to society? Will you be picking our produce, or is sh*t posting on blogs your “job”?
Nice to see that you subscribe to the Anne Landman philosophy of “permanent underclass”
immigration. I’m thinking about getting you guys some t-shirts made.
“WHO WILL CLEAN OUR TOILETS?”
African Fable for BadMouthHarry:
Fable: DON’T ARGUE WITH DONKEYS
The donkey said to the tiger:
– “The grass is blue”.
The tiger replied:
– “No, the grass is green.”
The discussion heated up, and the two decided to submit him to arbitration, and for this they went before the lion, the King of the Jungle.
Already before reaching the forest clearing, where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey began to shout:
– “His Highness, is it true that the grass is blue?”.
The lion replied:
– “True, the grass is blue.”
The donkey hurried and continued:
– “The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts and annoys me, please punish him.”
The king then declared:
– “The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence.”
The donkey jumped cheerfully and went on his way, content and repeating:
– “The Grass Is Blue”…
The tiger accepted his punishment, but before he asked the lion:
– “Your Majesty, why have you punished me?, after all, the grass is green.”
The lion replied:
– “In fact, the grass is green.”
The tiger asked:
– “So why are you punishing me?”.
The lion replied:
– “That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green.
The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave and intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey, and on top of that come and bother me with that question.”
The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who does not care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on arguments that don’t make sense…
There are people who, no matter how much evidence and evidence we present to them, are not in the capacity to understand, and others are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and all they want is to be right even if they are not.
When ignorance screams, intelligence is silent. Your peace and quiet are worth more. ❤️
It’s good advice, but, respectfully, I don’t believe in “rising above” issues of racism, misogyny, bigotry, and the general hatred of anyone who’s “different”. This administration and their slavering followers don’t bother hiding their feelings, and decent people need to say, out loud, and to their faces, “What in the hell is wrong with you?”.
I wasn’t sure where you were going at first…”bad mouthharry.”
By the way, bad hat harry is a reference to a line in “Jaws” and was also the production company of the TV show “House”.
I don’t aim at changing anyone’s mind, but you never know when something you say (well) can penetrate the obstinate darkness.
In addition, I just love to talk about politics. It helps me to clarify and test my theories and its just plain fun to plumb the depths of the leftist mind.
BadMouthHarry and BigMouthHarry are more fitting for you, just sayin’. It’s doubtful you could change the mind of anyone and equally doubtful you could have an open mind to learn anything. You just flap your big mouth to no end.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you here, harry. You aren’t “plumbing the depths of the leftist mind”. For the simple reason that you don’t ask questions. You aren’t asking us what we think, you’re telling us what we think and then laughing about how wrong we are. You’ve been told what we think, and it never occurred to you to consider the possibility that you were lied to.
The average salary for a director of USAID is $120k-$177k/year. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/US-Agency-for-International-Development-Director-Salaries-E39213_D_KO40,48.htm
Thanks for correcting the usual falsehoods, Anne; I doubt there’ll be an acknowledgment.