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Ranting Randy

(294 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:58 PM Monday

Went to a Labor Day protest at the pier in Huntington Beach.

Two hours of camaraderie, chanting, and lots and lots of beeping and thumbs up from the passing cars. Saw exactly 1 pro trump sign and hundreds and hundreds of pro democracy/anti fascist signs.

Passers by were overwhelmingly in favor of the demonstration, and one trump-humper (with an appropriately weird messages on his truck) circled a few times, flipped us all off and then drove away.

Two of us discussed politics with a pro-Trump woman (who pushed her little doggy in a baby carriage) who tried to tell us that the polio and small pox vaccines we had as kids did nothing good and killed thousands; we laughed. There is no appropriate response to that nonsense.

My parents were terrified of polio and refused to have children until there was a vaccine. And when I was a child I had a neighbor who was seriously scarred from small pox, which is an almost non-existent threat today.

There were two people with signs on their hats:

The constitution is NOT a suggestion

If your vote had no power they wouldn't try to take it from you

The signs ran the gamut of “no kings” “pro-union” and “anti-trump” and I’ve attached a few pictures. There were dozens more that were good but this is a good sample.























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Went to a Labor Day protest at the pier in Huntington Beach. (Original Post) Ranting Randy Monday OP
Good stuff! marble falls Monday #1
Wow, you only saw 1 pro-Trump sign in Huntington Beach? That town is red! Or was... SunSeeker Monday #2
Great posters, every one! oasis Monday #3
Great stuff -- thanks! Hekate Monday #4
K&R! Wow, great signs! Thanks for sharing!!! Rhiannon12866 Monday #5
That's amazing, because Huntington Beach NameAlreadyTaken Tuesday #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Ranting Randy Tuesday #8
Oh, you're just saying that... Ranting Randy Tuesday #9
Huntingnon Beach, wow. That is bad for tRump. BigmanPigman Tuesday #7
Well, he does have access to the nuclear codes NameAlreadyTaken Tuesday #11
GREAT signs Trust_Reality Tuesday #10

SunSeeker

(56,532 posts)
2. Wow, you only saw 1 pro-Trump sign in Huntington Beach? That town is red! Or was...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:13 PM
Monday

Love your sign collection!


NameAlreadyTaken

(2,045 posts)
6. That's amazing, because Huntington Beach
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:01 AM
Tuesday

is a deep red pocket of southern California, as if a tiny chunk of Florida was scooped up and dumped onto the Orange County coast.

Response to NameAlreadyTaken (Reply #6)

Ranting Randy

(294 posts)
9. Oh, you're just saying that...
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:21 AM
Tuesday

cause its True!

However, the Maganuts lost an election in November by big margins as they tried to privatize the library and tried to install a censorship committee.

It is possible the citizenry are waking up, but I wouldn't bet on it.

We all need to work hard to get good candidates into every local, state and national election, for the next 75 years!

BigmanPigman

(53,577 posts)
7. Huntingnon Beach, wow. That is bad for tRump.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:06 AM
Tuesday

Personally, I believe that tRump WILL attempt to destroy what is left of the US when he feels he is going down, both in health and polls.

He is an extremely vindictive and not patriotic at all. He lives for attention, $$$$$, and sadism. I agree with James Carville's statement made earlier this week. When tRump knows he is NOT going to make it to the end of his term he will do all he can to take us down with him.

My gut instinct is telling me this. It is usually right, when I listen to it.

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