Protesters Rallied in Eureka Yesterday Against Trump Administration Policies
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A protester carries family photos of a World War II veteran with the words “Our dads fought fascism, now we are too! Good Trouble!” [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Protesters gathered outside the Humboldt County Courthouse on Saturday, August 16, for a “Fight the Trump Takeover” No Kings rally, one of two hundred thousand demonstrations held across the country county. The event, which continued from noon until 2 p.m., drew people opposed to the Trump administration.
View of the crowd at yesterday’s protest. An estimated 120-180 people showed up. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Demonstrators pointed to issues including funding cuts, redistricting, the expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the use of U.S. military forces on U.S. soil in support of immigration enforcement.
A protester and his dog outside the courthouse hold a sign reading “Redistrict to Foil Fascism.” [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Signs also raised concerns about threats to democracy, civil rights, and the environment.
A sign at the rally reads “The wrong Amazon is burning! The wrong ice is melting!” [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Many carried homemade posters with messages such as “Our dads fought fascism, now we are too! Good Trouble!” and “Which will you choose? Courage or Compliance?”
Demonstrators share messages including “Be the Light” and “Which will you choose? Courage or Compliance?” [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Others criticized the GOP, called for impeachment, or linked climate change and political accountability.
Participants hold signs opposing Trump and GOP policies, calling for impeachment and resistance. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
The courthouse rally was part of a broader effort across the nation to encourage people to push back against policies of the Republicans.
Protesters carry a banner contrasting redistricting congressional seats in Texas with redistricting in California. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
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Glad to see people are paying attention.
Every day Trump shows the Nation what kind of man he really is, and it ain’t a pretty sight.
I love it !!! Can you articulate what part of removing criminals and stopping them from taking advantage of American Citizens you are against?????
President Trump is the kind of man who is getting it done. He is cleaning up all the progressive and liberal social justice disasters we have been paying for the last sixty years. And that is not counting the FDR socialist programs. These proDEtesters have one common element. TDS. All the signs have different messages, but they all hate Trump. Did all these protesters like the way Biden ran things? They were good with that show?
There’s a difference between a president that (has no felonies) and does things you don’t like and a president who (has multiple felonies) thinks women are just their p****, and instigates violence,
3 %
Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services. From the website: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
1 %
Natural Resources and Environment. Wow, these liberal social justice issues are bankrupting the government! Ya think? Oh, that is what Fox is telling you? And your Orange Baboon? Try doing some research, why don’t ya? Of course, this doesn’t include the amount of money tax breaks to the already insanely rich cost us. The poor and middle class get taxed into oblivion while the rich pay next to nothing. Those tax breaks far exceed what we spend on social services. Stop parroting what you hear from a corporation that is feeding off your ignorance and do some actual research. Yes, this information was pulled from an Orange Baboon official government website. And, as we know, it may not be accurate as he is known to make sh*t up.
In reality, social spending from social security, veteran’s benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare, Medicaid, etc take up 64% of the budget. And are mandatory spending.
The bits you list are for additional funding beyond mandatory spending already included for things like Pell grants, Head Start, job training programs, etc.
And , while the poor pay no income taxes unlike the middle class, they certainly are the major beneficiaries of much of the budget already.
If you’re going to rant about unfairness in the budget, at least get right what you are ranting about.
The top 1% pays 39.5% of taxes.
The top 5% pays 20.5% of taxes.
The top 25% pays 15.9% of taxes.
The top 10% pays 10.9% of taxes.
The top 50% pays 10.5% of taxes.
The bottom 50% pays 2.8% of taxes.
Everyone files taxes according the respective tax brackets with allowable deductions established by the IRS. Sounds like you need to invest better and/or hire a better accountant……
This is the real way they win elections.
https://www.the gatewaypundit.com/2025/08/second-video-surfaces-michigan-democrat-city-councilman-abu/
Wanting magic solutions to fix your problems is not “paying attention.” It reflects the desperation of having not dealt with smaller problems before they became overwhelming.
That’s funny, I was just saying last night, that Newsom is showing the world what king of undemocratic man HE really is…
and IT’S what AIN’T a pretty sight…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/17/politics/gavin-newsom-california-redistricting
‘Gavin Newsom thanks you for your attention to redistricting’
CNN
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“Gavin Newsom knows the popular image of him is of a smooth talker with slicked-back hair, the wealthy liberal who co-owns a vineyard.
He knows, regarding the presidential ambitions he’s hardly hiding, that the biggest question he would face out of the gate is whether he could sell Americans on wanting California to represent their future rather than seeing it as the place where the wackiest liberal dreams go to run wild.”
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Not exactly a glowing review by CNN…
Newsom is a madman…
He has already completely lost it…
His undemocratic Gerrymandering scheme hasn’t even been approved by the required 2/3rds roll call vote in both houses of the California Legislature, (who are currently in recess), and he’s already acting like it’s a done deal…
Like it’s already a foregone conclusion, but the fact is, is it ain’t even out of the gate, yet…
It would be hilarious if this fiasco of Newsom’s actually failed to pass muster in both houses of the California Legislature…
The fact that it hasn’t even yet passed muster, and the fact that Newsom is counting his gerrymandering chickens before they have even hatched, as if he is highly confident that he ALREADY has 2/3rds of BOTH HOUSES of the California Legislature firmly seated squarely and obediently in his nasty little pocket, even BEFORE the required roll call vote in both houses, doesn’t speak too highly of our corrupt Governor, or our Democrat led California Legislature’s, so called, “Democracy”…
Newsom is out of his mind, along with anyone that would vote for either him or his undemocratic, unconstitutional, Gerrymandering scheme…
It’s a crystal clear conflict of interest…
If this was being done through a voter initiative, that would be one thing…
That this is being done through Newsom’s initiative, is entirely another…
If anything ever needed to be aborted, this stupid idea of Newsom’s needs to be aborted instantly…
I refuse to support it, and I hereby disown it, before it has even been voted on by the Legislature…
This is Newsom’s very own, ill conceived, non consensual, $235,000,000 brain child, and his alone…
I damn sure didn’t give him permission, and neither has anyone else…!!!
Eerily similar to Kamala Harris becoming the Democrat’s presidential candidate…
That harebrained idea didn’t get one single vote of consent, either…
Wake up, all ye Liberal Democrats, you are all getting played like a fiddle, AGAIN…!!!
Will you again, all march in lockstep, or will you finally snap out of it..???
If ever there was a monstrosity just screaming to be aborted, this “Election Rigging Response Act”, fits the bill perfectly…
As inherently defective and deformed as it is, it cries out to be promptly and unceremoniously “terminated”…
Arnold, that’s your cue…!!!
The biggest crime would be for this wretched, misbegotten offspring of an idea, to ever get passed by the California Legislature…!!!
If it does, the California Legislature’ reputation will surely also suffer irreparably…
St this point, there is no hope of saving Newsom’s completely ruined reputation…
Maybe he should try posing with a Diet Coke® and a Quarter Pounder®…???
Democrats have a super majority in both the Senate and House, so yes it is pretty much a done deal.
It will all come down to the voters and it’s going to take a lot of convincing.
But Trump is doing everything he can to convince them.
If it wasn’t for Fear of Trump, people might notice the pathetic idea of suspending, in not destroying, what is a good law for short term benefit is a pretty bankrupt action of the incompetent.
Trump is definitely his own worst enemy.
Luckily, he’s also his own best friend…
You keep failing to mention that this was brought about by Trump’s desperate attempt to hold on to power.
You mean his legitimate election, with the backing of the majority of the voters? Don’t know if you noticed, but he didn’t need millions of mystery voters to get the job done, and yes, all of us actual, real people who voted for him fully support what he’s doing.
“Democrats have a super majority in both the Senate and House, so yes it is pretty much a done deal.”
Yep, and that’s precisely why it’s so slimy for the Governor and the State Legislature to promote mutually self serving Gerrymandering legislation using a self serving legislative referral, without a voter initiative…
It’s a crystal clear corrupt conflict of interest, and should NEVER be allowed…
In fact, it should be henceforth STRICTLY prohibited…
We seem to have a moral dilemma here. Do the ends justify the means?
But you will have a chance to voice your displeasure at the ballot box.
The chances of it passing look slim, it will come down to how voters perceive things come voting time.
No moral dilemma here…
Immoral is, as immoral does..
As much as I dont like nuisance, I like the “show us your papers” ice gestapo a whole lot less.
It continues to surprise me that the same people who fear ATF & FBI support HSI which is also federal policing.
The only difference is they exclusively go after brown people
And therein lies the explanation for why white rhbb readers are down with it I reckon
But that’s short sighted. They’ll come for you too eventually.
Really? That’s the usual cry of the indefensible- “they are picking on me.”
How can there be a counter argument to Trump is picking on “brown” people where the overwhelming volume of illegal immigrant has come from where advocates decided it is convenient to be “brown”? In other words from anywhere other than Europe. Well hello? Most of the world by far is from other than Europe so it’s a guarantee they are going to be “brown.” You’ve already cooked the books. However racist that idea is.
It’s nice to see Trump is doing what he said.Trump wom the electoral ,popular and broke the blue wall .Under Biden ,what a mess.
Still waiting for all the day one promises….end to Ukraine war (he’ll give in to Putin because he thinks he’s a “good guy”, grocery prices down, etc., etc. All he’s done is cut programs and put that money towards ICE, building prisons in Florida, renaming bases for confederate loosers and let’s not forget the gold gilding of the oval office and cementing over the rose garden. Real important projects…give me a break! Prices are going up and he’s not doing anything about it because he has no clue. He’s already fired the head of BLS because he didn’t like the numbers…they were “rigged.” Yeah, right! He doesn’t understand the process to begin with. He can barely speak a comprehensible or recognize when someone he’s talking about is standing right next to him. What an embarrassment!
YAAAAAAAAWN….
I don’t get it! Humboldt is ran like shit. And you stand directly in front of the building they hide in, and you complain about someone on the east coast? You couldn’t produce anyone worth voting for! And didn’t hear a peep during the Biden administration. The guy took a nap and used his authority to pardon his son.. I don’t want to hear from a party that supports Newsom or pelosi
You would elect a San Francisco district attorney for president, shit Harris doesn’t even want the governor job.who do you even have to support?
You’re closest to correct, many are ‘right’ but incorrect in their reasoning.
fascism is on the agenda for those at the tippy top, they don’t care which way the marriage of governance and industry points on the unrealpolitik compass. Fascism is not exclusive to the right or conservative class.
this is theatre to prepare you for AI governance.
how far will they have to push the chaos to get the super majority to change the constitution?
Right? They could just turn around and see the building full of the local bad actors. And then actually do something about it. Instead they have their futile fists at the East Coast where they have absolutely no influence. It’s crazy! But I guess it’s that same kind of lameness that allowed Hitler to rise. Most people don’t know but at the time of Hitler’s rise there was a huge movement among the young- and some older- of non-violent protest. Yes they embraced non-violence. And so they were never taken seriously. Later they were eliminated.So yeah- wave your cardboard sign! If you really believe he’s gonna be King and a Nazi then you really should educate yourselves about such things and behave accordingly. What you’re doing is ineffective and stupid…. Here’s a really crazy idea though- Develop a decent political candidate that can beat him in an election! Reclaim your DEM party that sold out to corporate wealth while abandoning the working class!! Admit that there were real and plausible reasons that Trump Won and accept that YOU need to change, form better alternatives and maybe just quit whining and complaining and Get To Work,!!!!
For many there, these protests are as much a wakeup call to the Democratic Party as they are a condemnation of MAGA policies.
Has anyone other than John Fetterman done anything other than pick up the phone, hang up on the wakeup call, and snuggle back into bed?
Funny because we never see that aspect. Indeed the protests are being coordinated with the intent of bringing the unreformed DNC and DEMs back into power. So yes- I’m questioning your statement…
I’m curious how many people you’ve spoken with at any of these events.
I’ve heard that sentiment expressed many times.
National surveys show the same:
“Overall, roughly one-third of Democrats described their party negatively in the open-ended question… Only about 2 in 10 Democrats described their party positively” https://whyy.org/articles/democratic-party-weak-ineffective-poll/
“…Against Trump Administration Policies”
Which ones? 120-180 people (maybe) and they’re whining about 120-180 different things. Every sign in every picture in the article above is sniveling about something different.
120-180 people all screaming about a different issue makes for a cacaphony of dissonance.
120-180 people and only seven images are provided. Are these the only people the photographer found interesting? Are these the only images the author found interesting enough to include in her seven sentence article?
Or perhaps the six or seven topics on the signs were the only topics the photographer and/or author felt strongly about so those were the only ones included?
This young woman has some words to say about “no kings”. She’s gone viral, btw.
.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/viral-video-young-womans-mockery-lefts-no-kings/
Sad looking bunch !!!!
Old white people protesting cleaning up crime, illegal immigration, stopping endless wars, lowering taxes, fighting govt. waste. The left is on the wrong side of every issue, the failures of their policies are evident everywhere and they have no one else to blame especially in Cali. American people are tired of policies that create more crime and then being told crime is down.
It’s crazy how these people created a problem that they are now protesting against.
They’re screaming in a mirror at this point.
The real issue is identity politics, many of the people who are passionate politically are not in even educated in political theory or history, they owe allegiance for identity purposes. Think of churches in the 90s how powerful they were politically, and how exposure of scandal ruined their power base, this is the same thing on the opposite end. There will be no next generation of young believers, they gamed this out and this is why they fight to ‘educate’ the young in the way they do. This is all so tiring as all the secrets are exposed to the AI they will expose all curruption at some point in the future, this is unavoidable as the data is already out of their control and shopped to many outside interests. Every conversation had in front of a phone you clicked the eula on they have been using the liberal
interpretation of the idea of collecting all data so long as it’s being done to improve quality of service to convert speech to text and upload the text to databases. Understand that everyone who predicates their future on keeping secret their activity has lost.
jumping up and down on broken glass.
Change the channel.
“Old white people”? What a racist, ageist slur. What if you said ‘old, Jewish people”- whoa, you would be condemned for being anti- semetic. How about ” old, tribal Indians” or ” old, black people” etc etc. Uproar! It’s an outrage! Not so much with the old, white people in a negative, blaming context? How about old, Zionist genocidal murderers? Oops, anti-Semitic again, except the Palestinian victims are Semites. So, ” old, white people”?
get a life, your false outrage is boring. making a demographic observation is not racist. I also forgot that most are fat.
What wars did he end? What taxes did he lower? What prices has he lowered at all? Nothing. Still waiting for the promises. All he’s done is contributed to the national debt by increasing funding for his pet projects…ICE and building prisons in swamps. Crime is down in the U.S…in DC, Oakland, etc. Yet Dumpy has to bring in the National Guard in DC because his ego/power grab need to people to think he’s cleaning up the streets. Why not invite the homeless in DC to pitch their tents on the newly cemented rose garden? Ha ha!
Why don’t you guys take a bus to the White House and protest where you should be protesting?
Do you really think Trump gives a fuck about Humboldt county with all the Communists in arcata? He doesn’t give a shit about you and he won’t listen you’re wasting your time while looking like clowns in the street.
Go protest in mar-a-largo in front of his house!
Go down to New York and protest in front of his hotel!
Get over to the Cheeto factory and protest in front of his tanning beds!
This was one of more than two thousand demonstrations held across the country.
(Note to editor: the article says county. Unless there were 2,000 people standing in their yards, I’m pretty sure that should be country.)
“Protesters gathered outside the Humboldt County Courthouse on Saturday, August 16, for a “No Kings” rally, one of two thousand demonstrations held across the county.”
-‘RHBB’-
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Link please, evidence please…
It appears as though news from June 15, 16, 2025 has been mistaken for news concerning August 16, 2025…
2000 “no kings” demonstrations was a cumulative number tabulated a couple of months ago, not tabulated from August 16, 2025…
In an apparent unintentional mistake…
Good Catch, Jebs…!!!
Way to pay attention…!!!
ACTUALLY…
Even if “county” is switched to “country”, it has still been exaggerated by tenfold…
Hyperbole…???
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/16/us/fight-the-trump-takeover-protests
‘Demonstrators protest Trump-backed redistricting plans at over 200 events across the country’
(If CNN is to be believed…)
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So, Yesterday’s Eureka, CA, event, was just “one of two hundred” “Trump-backed redistricting plans”, protest events held in just 34 states across the country, not “one of two thousand “no kings” demonstrations held across the count[r]y”, from a couple of months ago”…
“I came in as the sun came up.
She glared at me over her coffee cup.
She said, “Where you been?”
So I thoguht real hard and said,
“I fell asleep in that hammock in the yard.”
She said, “You don’t know it boy, but you just blew it.”
And I said, “Well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
That’s my story.
Oh, that’s my story.
Well, I ain’t got a witness, and I can’t prove it,
but that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.”
I got that deer-in-the-headlight look.
She read my face like the cover of a book and said,
“Don’t expect me to believe all that static,
’cause just last week I threw that hammock in the attic.”
My skin got so thin so you could see right through it,
and I stuttered, “Well that’s my story and I’m stickin t-t-to it.
That’s my story.
Well, that’s my story.
I ain’t got a witness, and I can’t prove it,
but that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.”
-Collin Raye-
(Kym…)
“This was one of more than two thousand demonstrations held across the country.”
-Jebs-
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I see the correction you have made, but, still, it’s incorrect…
”Protesters gathered outside the Humboldt County Courthouse on Saturday, August 16, for a “No Kings” rally, one of two thousand demonstrations held across the count[r]y.
Is unintentional misinformation..
It’s ñot even close…
Not even count[r]y wide…
Because this event on Saturday, August 16, 2025, was in fact NOT a “No Kings” rally, at all…
Those No Kings rallys, were MONTHS ago…
I think that I have actually figured out what went wrong within this story…
Kym seems to have inadvertently mixed up and superimposed today’s “no trump redistricting” protests news, with “no kings” protest news, from two months ago…
Here is the two month old “no kings” protest news…
………
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/us/protestors-voices-no-kings-trump
[ ➡️ JUNE 16, 2025 ⬅️ ]
“The event was one of more than 2,000 “No Kings” rallies held across the country on Saturday…”
-CNN-
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(Please note it’s significant similarity to today’s article’s, unfortunately incorrect, very first paragraph…)
(“Protesters gathered outside the Humboldt County Courthouse on Saturday, August 16, for a “No Kings” rally, one of two thousand demonstrations held across the county. The event, which continued from noon until 2 p.m., drew people opposed to the Trump administration.”)
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And, on the other hand…
Here is today’s “no trump redistricting” protests news…
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/16/us/fight-the-trump-takeover-protests
[ ➡️ AUGUST 16, 2025⬅️]
‘Demonstrators protest Trump-backed redistricting plans at over 200 events across the country’
-CNN-
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SO,
One of two hundred events, August 16, 2025…
NOT…,
One of two thousand events, June 16, 2025…
I wouldn’t have caught it, if you hadn’t have caught the missing “r”…
https://www.newsweek.com/fight-trump-takeover-protests-saturday-2113930
‘Nationwide ‘Fight the Trump Takeover’ Protests on Saturday: What We Know’
Published Aug 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM EDT
Updated Aug 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM EDT
“More than 300 “Fight the Trump Takeover” events are scheduled across 43 states on August 16…”
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[Not “2,000 “no-kings” rallies”]
“No-kings” rallies happened on Flag Day, June 14, 2025, which also happened to be Trump’s birthday, not yesterday, August 16, 2025…
Yesterday wasn’t Flag Day, No Kings Day, or Trump’s birthday…
Okay so round up 2000 buses, remove the illegals from them like you were going to do anyway, and load them up with the Democrat protesters and send them to the White House!
Now, on the other hand, somebody needs to start protesting against Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg, which also wants to take everything over…
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/mark-zuckerberg-never-more-dangerous-20819500.php
There are several dangers at once, but I feel that a boycott of Zuckerberg is approaching…
Rich people are everywhere, and a lot of them are pretty crazy…
This protest group needs to focus on something, since they are all over the place as usual…
Humboldt. A diffuse group of whack-os that can’t agree on anything, smoking dope and wasting time…
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Nice too see their are an group of like minded people wanting too put a end too are current Marxist regime. It takes an village too support the incoming future new York governor views of letting his fascist views control housing and super markets.
ha ha ha , you funny guy. It’s twelve o’clock, do you know where your seniors are?
This is getting boring.
What was the daily pay for this event?
If you think folks need to be paid to protest Trump, I’d be curious which right-wing nut job news channel is spreading that moronic idea. What’s your source?
https://crowdsondemand.com/ will be happy to accommodate you
California is $61.36 Billion in dept. To add to the insanity, and the debt, the special redistricting election will cost cost California taxpayers at least $235.5 million.
I wonder how many protesters know that? I wonder if they would care or understand how badly mismanaged California is. Or, if it would make any difference.
Why would anyone already living off of taxpayer money add to the dept?
Details are a bitch.
MACA, Make America Chaos Again.
California contributes $83 billion more to the Federal government than we receive in services.
If we secede, we would have a $21.62 billion surplus.
We might also be able to avoid a lot of the rest of the shitshow MAGA is pushing the country into.
Jebs, wrong again… California’s Fabulous economy is a factor of it’s Fabulous climate, and it’s Fabulous location. The fertile valley is California’s real gold mine.
It sure as hell has nothing to do with it’s Ridiculous and corrupt spendthrift State Government.
Now, they want to redistrict all the economically productive counties into oblivion. But, I am a majority of one. More people want other people’s money than want be productive.
I used to think of myself as liberal, but it is interfering with my fiscally conservative viewpoint. Look around you, do you see Humboldt as a wealthy county?
How can you not notice that the last group of people pushing secession because they couldn’t bully the rest of the country were not only unsuccessful but devastated their own for generations?
You can personally do what you want. No one’s holding you from leaving but don’t advocate for taking the rest of us down with you and not expect to be called out. Or arrested if it moves beyond words.
The CSA was not the last group of people pushing for secession. https://theweek.com/articles/470078/6-secessionist-movements-from-throughout-history
And was it not the destruction caused by the invading Union Army that devastated the region for generations to come?
Independence movements can, and have, happened for just reasons.
There is also no obligation for the parent country to respond with violence.
I would love to see California peacefully gain independence while maintaining positive relations with the rest of the United States.
I actually think it would be in the best interest of the citizenry of the US, and for the world in general, if the US peacefully separated into a half dozen or so independent entities.
I’m not alone in believing this. https://www.newsweek.com/secession-movements-now-12-us-states-campaigner-grant-dahl-1939044
Balkanization never seems to turn out well.
Duh! You seem to have a fantasy that military action to suppress a secession would not occur. Sheer delusional and greedy fecklessness. As I said before to thunderous silence, California couldn’t muster the funds to pay the rest of the country for 45% of the land the Federal government owns of California. And that doesn’t include infrastructure.
Not being alone in wanting a magic of divorce to fix their own dysfunction is not a recommendation. It’s a condemnation.
There’s more than a little hint that a Texas replay is what meant- only with a reversal of roles between Mexico and the US- created by allowing immigration of foreign nationals without allegiance or even understanding into the US, leading to them wanting separation then petitioning the neighboring country to accept them. Despite the liberal misuse of the word traitorous, this is the first open traitorous words seen here. You don’t deserve the tolerance you are given.
We wouldn’t any a dime to anyone.
That land and that infrastructure would simply become ours.
I also have no idea how the petulant man-boy currently in office will respond.
I certainly hope it won’t be with force. There’s no need for it to be with force.
There would in fact be benefits to the Republican factions in the rest of the country if the country were to break into smaller pieces. But Trump has shown that he is prone to act without rationally thinking things through.
Spot on with your last line.
He didn’t advocate for violent succession. It isn’t traitorous to advocate for a peaceful separation no matter how unlikely you or I might think that would be.
It might not be traitorous but it’s unconstitutional — as I said below:
”In Texas v. White (1869) the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Union was indissoluble and although the Confederate states voted to secede those votes were legally null and void and the states had never ceased to be states of the United States.”
There are black folk advocating for the creation of all-black communities, outside the purvey of U.S. law. Do you support that?
“There are black folk advocating for the creation of all-black communities, outside the purvey of U.S. law. Do you support that?”
Do you support that?
Quit beating the over played “secession drum”. It will never happen…
“The issue of secession was definitively addressed by the American Civil War and the subsequent Supreme Court case of Texas v. White (1869). The Court ruled that the Union is “indissoluble,” meaning states cannot unilaterally withdraw from it.”
If California votes to become independent, any ruling by the US Supreme Court will become null and void.
And there is no requirement that the President order an invasion and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people to overturn a popular vote.
That’s not how it works, particularly with a Supreme Court Ruling from 1869. Tell me you failed High School Civics, without telling me you failed High School Civics.
And what does this even mean or have to do with California seceding …..
“And there is no requirement that the President order an invasion and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people to overturn a popular vote.”
The Union Army invaded the Southern States and hundreds of thousands of people were killed because of this.
If California does vote for sovereignty- and I’m fully aware that the odds of that happening are slim, there would be no requirement for the rest of the US to use violence to overturn the will of the California voters.
Lots of people seem to believe that is a foregone conclusion.
Jebs,
In Texas v. White (1869) the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Union was indissoluble and although the Confederate states voted to secede those votes were legally null and void and the states had never ceased to be states of the United States.
Therefore, a vote to secede would be unconstitutional and would not be allowed on the ballot— nor would the voters be stupid enough to approve it even if it were possible.
I suggest you stop beating that drum — it makes you look ignorant at best.
And those that try to test the court ruling will be considered traitors and delt with accordingly. The Union is indissoluble.
It’s amazing people defend Supreme Court rulings and try to convince themselves that controlled demolition of the experiment called that USA isn’t happening with zero phuks given to the judicial, legislative and executive branch.
we are having to reflect on how we arrived at this point where the management class robs the tax cattle blind, while perfecting the performance art of zero liability for anyone being able to identify the root causes of our crisis.
The court ruling is the law of the land so there’s no convincing to do. We arrived at this point due to democrat party rule.
California is not going to secede from the Union and President Trump is restoring law and order to America and our streets. The left and democrats are responsible for the shitshow President Trump was elected to clean up. That is his mandate. MAGA
You’re welcome to secede.
With the fourth largest economy in the world, California is the envy of the planet.
It’s economy yes. It’s corrupt Government NO.
And the collective Cal Universities have nearly 13,000 active patents. My family members are working their butts off to improve your world. And like our president, they’re not all perfect.
4th eh? I thought it was 3rd. Or was it 5th? With that level of money, no resident should be paying for healthcare whatsoever, teachers all make six figures, we have zero water issues, and a few other things. Things that other countries far down the list, that seem to accomplish such feats, yet that’s your only claim to fame is that you move lots of money.
The money from the fabulous economy is for the rich people. Oops- not supposed to say that out loud….
It’s unlikely that any of the infamously hateful Progressives who comment here with such derision of the rest of America even know what makes up any economy nor have a clue as to how much of California’s economy relies on other Americans. Nor how much of the California economy is due to having the good fortune of having large deep water ports funneling goods through California both ways from and to the rest of the US and that are maintained and protected by the rest of the country.
It is not their politics that provide California’s wealth. It is the activity of the derided corporations, financiers and consumers who create that wealth despite the headwinds created by California Progressives. Don’t be so outraged when people believe this outpouring of hate and hate California in turn.
https://cmanc.org/our-ports/ports-harbors-economic-impacts/
“…infamously hateful Progressives…”
Funny, most of the “hateful” comments I see are from you dissing progressives and from some of the other right-leaning commenters, especially from some of the now banned prolific right-wingers. It seems like you strongly dislike any kind of reaction to the stream of unpleasantness from the current administration but don’t recognize that you in turn appear to constantly generate “hateful” comments.
And that’s your problem. The inability to see your own intolerance while complaining about others.
***WHOOSH***
We’ve been run by democrat progressives for a very long time, so yeah, they deserve to be ridiculed for running an unsustainable debt burden on the tax payers.
Karen Bass is a feature, not a bug
Gavin Newsome is a feature , not a bug
they keep spending money they don’t have
think real hard what happens when the individual and or family tries this!?
But Republicans that cut taxes for the wealthy that drives up the debt is fine?
Somehow California having the highest – State Debt level, fuel costs, energy costs, property taxes, State taxes, homelessness, housing costs, cost of living; coupled with annual massive fires destroying 1000’s of acres and homes, massive failed multi billion dollar projects like the Bullet Train, loss of Fortune 500 Corp HQ’s to other States, exodus of population to other states…just to name a few.
Things that no one ever found enviable, or have said “yeah, I want some of that”.
But at least you can still ski in the morning and surf in the evening, while eating avocado toast.
Not anymore.
Oh look it’s time for the racist coffee comment hour!!!
Looks like the Circus is back in town. It must be with all the clowns standing around doing nothing but ripping Trump to pieces.
All they have to offer is lies and misinformation at this point and are becoming a public nuisance.
Abate the hate…!!!
Its amazing the people licking his boots. Gotta get rid of that Tangerine Tumor.
It’s a strange, powerful addiction that orange kool-aid.
And it Progressives who have it. If Trump disappeared tomorrow you’d have nothing to hate expect for your personal stereotypes.
The addiction is to the two party system that alienates people who live in the same communities who are distracted by the circus show, the pro wrestling, the sports ball, all the different ways the few have sought and successfully mitigated push back for taking money in the name of governing a city, state, or country for the betterment of its citizen
what we have witnessed over the past 60 years, is blunt force trauma masquerading as representative democracy.
ask yourself if you are comfortable with the fact that the people who were responsible for the assassinations of JFK,RFK,and MLK are still refining their control grid to make sure when we finally wake up, it will be for nothing.
How about replace government with a machine? The final mandate.
That would be a good sign at CannaFest!! ” What would you choose Courage or Compliance?” LOL 😂
😆 🤣 😂
The usual uninformed rabble. The President is ENDING WARS but that means nothing to inherently violent insurrectionists who’d rather burn down cities (2020) or riot and attack law enforcement (2020-2025) trying to rid our country of criminals. Low IQ traitors.
There were 2 thousand demonstrations held around the county? You mean country?
I was in error on multiple counts on that sentence. Fixed them all. Thank you for bringing them to my attention.
I don’t understand why these old hippies are so upset about an administration run by an uneducated serial woman-abusing vulgar, childish, name-calling playground bully self-serving grifter and third-rate game show host that is stripping services from the common people in order to enrich the billionaire class, declaring war on the environment, fomenting hatred and division domestically and internationally, scapegoating the poor and minorities, staffed with unqualified ass-kissing Fox News toadies…I don’t see what the problem is, these washed up freaks should just go back to doing macrame or organizing their old Grateful Dead tickets, or whatever they do, and get a life.
Well…they could go somewhere else and actually…umm…work! Instead of cluttering up our public spaces w useless whining wishing for some magical solution to appear on a unicorn. They are mentally unstable losers and it’s a terrible look for any town…
a) what makes you think they don’t work?
b) this country was founded on dissent. The Boston Tea Party, civil rights protests, Vietnam war protests, I guess those were a ‘terrible look’ too?
Ineffectual, is the word that describes everything done that produces zero results
math and physics are pretty straightforward
Here’s a job for them…
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/06/secretary-noem-unveils-no-age-limit-patriotic-americans-join-ice-law-enforcement
Even with the $50K signing bonus, will probably save the taxpayers on what some of these folks consume in “government aid.”
All the Jan. 6 traitors didn’t have jobs or took time off to attack our Capitol at the behest of Lying Traitor Trump over his lies about a free and fair election. These recent patriotic protestors didn’t attack anybody or defecate in the Courthouse hallway.. See the difference? Trump goons and minions get pardoned by Trump. Wow. Your idea of Democracy?
January 6th was a terrible look for the capital, but a peaceful protest on a weekend is a pretty harmless and respectful gesture. Your point about how they should be working instead of whining is unfounded and purely speculative.
Yeah, not like the MAGAts that swarmed our Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now there was a bunch of patriots! Really did America proud, debasing and defacing the center of American Democracy over the lies of Donald Trump. I Guess all your heroes were out of work that day. And guess who got pardoned by President Trump and who got fired by President Trump as our once great Nation slip-slides away?
It wasn’t until your rant got to game show host part that it was uncertain you weren’t talking about Newsom. In fact it was a question as to what game show Newsom hosted until you got to Fox News.
Apparently there is no discrimination to made for you between Trump and people who simply object to government subsidizing illegal immigration, subsidizing drag show queens and transgender student athletes a protected group group under the Civil Rights Act or pushing the agenda of self destructive Palestinians without caring for other Americans.
If you can only hate, don’t be surprised when it’s reflected back to you.
I have no stake in Newsom, but at least he can spell and appears to have more than a fifth grade education.
Your concern about the issues you mentioned (partly overblown wedge issues) allow you to go along with the dismantling of democracy, We all make choices.
Hate? Seems like there’s a good deal of that in the extreme right. Hang Pence.
It’s not Trump’s extremist rhetoric that is the threat. He will go away. He’s old and can’t unify a movement except as a personality cult. It’s yours for the rest of the country that is never going to heal.
It’s the fact that so many on the right are not vociferously objecting to his constant extremist rhetoric that is the threat. Instead you see rationalizations, excuses, and deflections.
The damage from Trump and his Republican acolytes will damage American Democracy for decades if not all time. You’re just trolling right? Nobody could be that oblivious.
I am wondering if these protests are ever going to stop. I would guess most of the folks there probably voted for Trump or he would have not won the election. Some of the signs are OK, but others I don’t agree with at all. On the positive side it looks as though most protestors are staying on the sidewalks.
Lest we forget who shut down America? Required workers to take an experimental drug or get fired? (except those who made the laws) Let big box stores stay open while mom & pops stores went under? Destroyed the learning and socializing of a generation of school kids? Required papers to enter restaurants? Required masks whether sick or not? Stay indoors when sun is the best disinfectant? THese “protestors” are a joke
The indescribable in full pursuit of the unattainable.
All these delusional miscreants are becoming a public nuisance…
Exhibitionist virtue signaling. Look at us, we’re better than you! And just what changes have been brought about by waving signs at passing traffic? Really, some facts, not just blathering on with cliches. Such a waste of time and energy, but they are so smug and self satisfied!
They finally have something to do, now that the country has forsaken the wet dream of the class of ‘68 and is returning to common sense and America First! policies. Being ignored is hard on socialists and Leftist Lunatics. But it appears they are getting used to it. It must be kind of how politically active federal judges appointed by the last two or three Democratic Presidents* must feel. Irrelevant and ignored…
This article starts out incorrectly…
The very first paragraph is wrong…
“Protesters gathered outside the Humboldt County Courthouse on Saturday, August 16, for a “No Kings” rally, one of two thousand demonstrations held across the county.”
This was not a, ” “No Kings” rally”, at all…
It was, in fact, a,
“FIGHT THE TRUMP TAKEOVER”,
rally…
FIGHT THE TRUMP TAKEOVERNational Day of ActionSaturday08.16.2025
https://www.fightthetrumptakeover.com/
And not, “one of two thousand demonstrations” ….
It was only one of two hundred events
Note the “Eureka” listing on the bottom of the FIGHT THE TRUMP TAKEOVER
SATURDAY 08-16-2025
EVENT LIST
As shown at the bottom of the list in the included screenshot…
Continued…
https://www.fightthetrumptakeover.com/
Funny…All these people yell democracy until it is not to their advantage and then they want to protest and disrupt society. Trump won both the popular as well as the electoral vote. Not only that the democratic Canidate puled nothing less than a coup against Biden since NO ONE voted for Harris. Thats right it was not put up for a vote. Whet they could no longer hide Bidens cognitive decline they just thew Harris in
Fine display of mental illness.
Please keep it up. 2026 and 2028 will be a cakewalk.
Y’all do realize that if all the states decided to gerrymander to the same extent that the democrats would lose BIGLY, right?
Don’t buy into the BS being peddled that red states are the one’s who benefit from this. Sure, they may have picked up more seats in 2024, but overall, the dems are the kings of gerrymandering!
I asked Grok to give me the numbers based on under-representation of the minority party across all states. In a fair state, the percentage of minority party representatives would be equivalent to the percentage of voters that voted for the minority candidate, right? Well, of course NO states live up to that standard because both parties have engaged in gerrymandering for quite some time, but democrats have been much better at it!
In red states, there is a 15.6% over representation of republicans in Congress, in blue states there is a 20.5% over representation of democrats in Congress.
That’s right, Blue states suppress the minority party voters a substantial amount more than Red states do. Here is the text from Grok’s answer…
Based on the data from the 2024 presidential election and House election results, blue states (those won by Harris) have a larger average discrepancy between the minority party’s vote share and their seat share (20.5%) compared to red states (those won by Trump, with 15.6%). This suggests that gerrymandering in blue states is worse at suppressing the minority party (Republicans) relative to their vote share than in red states against Democrats.
To arrive at this solution, I compiled state-by-state presidential vote percentages for Trump and Harris, classified states as red or blue based on the winner, and incorporated the number of House seats won by each party. For each state, I calculated the discrepancy as (minority party vote share) minus (minority party seat share). Positive values indicate underrepresentation of the minority party. I then computed weighted averages of these discrepancies for red and blue states, using the number of House seats as weights to account for state size. Single-seat states (where gerrymandering is impossible) and DC (no voting House seats) were handled accordingly in the aggregation.
-Grok
GIGO
The presidential vote yields an invalid comparison bc the presidential vote in many congressional districts varies widely from the congressional vote — for example, 13 Democrats won election in districts won by Trump while only 3 Republicans won election in districts won by Harris.
I doubt there’s a simple formula to prove which Party excels at gerrymandering but using congressional vote totals will give you more of an apples to apples comparison.
If the Democratic party ,and these protestors, could funnel their TDS into ideas, and solutions, then things might be better! Yelling at someone when you have no ideas of your own is just stupid!
Garbage in
garbage out
make no mistake
ths system is working as intended
Delusional communists
Found this in my email from a employment service
The dummies in action.