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Aristus

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2. Just got back from the 512 overpass demonstration in Puyallup.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 05:20 PM
Saturday

Lots of people were there. About three times as many as the No Kings protest in June. Got a lot of honks, thumbs-ups and cheers. And of course, an inevitable one-finger salute from the usual gang of truckers, bikers, and slack-bellied suburban dad vehicles.

When someone waves a single finger at me, I always assume he didn't have the brain power to activate the other four.

One guy went up and down the line of protestors, shouting that he was right wing and trying to give people fist-bumps. No one took him up on it, and he would shout "DON'T WANT TO ENGAGE IN DISCOURSE ANYMORE, HUH?" Trying, as they invariably do, and failing, as they invariably do, to act the aggrieved party.

One Trumpster shithead nearly incited a violent confrontation when he drove up and down the overpass in his rolling-coal hillbilly-mobile, blasting black smoke at everybody. There was some yelling and finger-pointing. But no one took the bait, and everyone remained peaceful. Those rolling-coal shit-stains must not breathe the same air as the rest of us.

Anyway: Fuck Trump. No Kings.



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