Back in January 2017, when things seemed most bleak — we had no real idea how bad things would yet become — we went to the Women’s March and it was uplifting. To see hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, black and white, thronging the Nation’s Capital to protest against Trump was a remarkable experience, and we pledged then that we’d continue to go to protests and document them. In fact, we created a gallery documenting these protests over on our sister site, TulipFrenzyPhotography.com.
We understand that, going into the final few weeks of the election, it has become a Republican talking point that those who’ve shown up to protest Trump, and most recently, the Kavanaugh SCOTUS nomination, are a “paid mob.” Hmm. Let’s go through some of these demonstrations, via photos of attendees, and see if they look like they needed George Soros to write them a check before they showed up. In the interests of brevity, I’ll show only a few photos per demonstration. And admittedly, because I went to so many, not all of them were uploaded to Word Press, and so I’m left here tapping only into images of only those demonstrations I wrote about on Tulip Frenzy. For photos of the Kavanaugh demonstrations, go see my Instagram: @tulip_frenzy.
These were attendees from the Women’s March. Do they look like a “paid mob” to you?
A week or so later, people began coming out to protest Trump’s evil Muslim Ban. Do these look like paid protesters?
Continued protestors against the Muslim Ban. Paid mob? I don’t think so.
Next came the Tax March.
Then the March for Science. Paid mob? You decide.
The Climate March. These people look like it too money to get them out?
I think this was the March for Truth.
These people, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, came out in protest of Trump’s failure to deal with the devastation in Puerto Rico. Paid mob?
The March for Black Women last fall was inspiring.
And then there was the Anniversary of the Women’s March in January.
We could go on and on. The protests we saw in Washington last week renewed our spirits. Calling any of these American families protesting for our rights “a paid mob” is just more derp and hooey, exactly what we’ve come to expect from our President and his cronies. They’re the real paid mob. Lock’em up.
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