The Daily Populous Sunday January 19th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by smh.com.au and submitted by netsheriff

Washington: Tiffany Flowers still remembers how stunned she felt when she learnt Donald Trump had won a second term as president.

On the night of his resounding victory against Kamala Harris, Flowers, who heads a voting rights coalition that defends elections, was in a “war room” with other community leaders, working non-stop to keep voters and poll workers safe.

Demonstrators make their feelings clear ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Credit: AP

“I was so busy that I didn’t actually sit down in front of a television to watch the results until almost 10 o’clock,” says Flowers, who was one of thousands of people protesting in Washington on Saturday ahead of Trump’s inauguration.

“When it became clear he’d won, I just kind of went into shock. Truly. It didn’t even occur to me that it would be a shellacking like that. It just felt so gross, as somebody who truly does believe in the possibility of America and what we could be.”

nerphurp on January 18th, 2025 at 22:47 UTC »

> One man in a MAGA hat carrying a large military-style backpack tried to provoke the crowd by placing himself at the front of the march but was escorted out by police as he told reporters:

> “This is a new transformation – God has appointed Donald Trump and whether we like Biden or Trump, we have to honour that.”

This idea that your favored political party coming to power nullifies the rights of your opposition, and gives an individual citizen authority over said opposition, is pretty damn anti-American.

But when you believe it's divine intervention, there's really not much room to find common ground.

buttmcweiners on January 18th, 2025 at 22:12 UTC »

Good. He deserves this for the next four years. And no, I don’t give a shit about some unmarked vans trying to abduct me at a rally. Not yet, anyway. We stand in tight lines and protect each other at these things. The ones I’ve been to anyway. And even if they take me, there will be more. We won’t roll over.

Blablablaballs on January 18th, 2025 at 21:55 UTC »

Mass protests need to be the new normal.