Puerto Rico protest on the highway. A view from someone's window

[Demovictory9]

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1. That is a huge crowd

[littlemissmartypants]

16. I just heard estimates are that a third of the island's population is marching.

With 3.195 million (2018) estimated population that's a million or more.

[malaise]

19. Wow!

Now that is a protest march

[hlthe2b]

2. Yikes!

I think we can start placing time bets as to when that Governor is GONE.

[Demovictory9]

3. yep. Trump has tweeted, spoken 100 times more hate. when are we going to fill the streets?

[Tipperary]

25. Yeah, we thought that the Virginia governor would be gone too.

Remember that?

[Submariner]

4. Rossell's father was governor in the late ''90s

I don't remember him doing too good a job helping islanders after Hurricane Georges in 1998. No ATM's, no phones, huge gas lines.

Vieques and Roosevelt Roads Naval station closed down depriving many people jobs back in the Y2K days on the island.

Ricardo doesn't want to resign and be a family embarrassment, so he will make the people suffer instead, if he has his way.

[LuckyCharms]

5. Trump will tweet that his inaugural crowd was bigger.

Because everything is about him.

[rzemanfl]

26. He will say they were ungrateful for the paper towels

too.

[barbtries]

6. so that brought tears to my eyes.

here on the mainland we're much too complacent, even at this late date. we need to be out there.

I'm guilty as hell. I can't stand the heat here in NC. I got rearended. those are the reasons I didn't make it to the last 2 protests I had intended to attend. I got no excuse.

[gopiscrap]

8. Mine too How inspiring

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Oh, noes, barb! When did you get rear ended?

I hope that is behind you. This is very inspiring. I used to live in PR. My heart breaks for the citizens. He announced that he wouldn't run for reelection but with so many people calling for his resignation he wouldn't win anyway.

[barbtries]

11. it was very minor and no damage.

i took some ibuprofen and muscle relaxers for a couple days and no sequelae. thank you!

[erronis]

14. Just to be another smarty-pants, but rear-ended is usually from the behind.

Ok, too much, too little.

Good luck to PR. I'm sure that they'd do better without Uncle Sam trying to screw them every chance.

[littlemissmartypants]

15. I thought about that. I do love a good pun.

I also like the occasional bad pun. I thought about it after I posted but I am just too lazy to change it. I too am a captive of the oppressive temperatures.

[malaise]

7. This is HUGE!!!

He is history

[Blue_true]

20. What political party is he from?

I got the sense that he was somewhat of a republican.

[malaise]

21. Yes indeed

The party is called the New Progressive Party but he's a ReTHUG

[Blue_true]

24. Good. The shit slide to where he belongs is what he deserves.

The Mayor of San Juan seems to be a hell of a leader and she is a Dem.

[Skittles]

10. outstanding

[gratuitous]

12. We haven't quite done that

But on those occasions when protests fill the streets, the local coverage is dominated by whiners who can't believe the police are letting "those people" block traffic, and why can't they protest some other time that doesn't inconvenience someone, and some windows got broken, and some jerk got pushed around or splattered with a milk shake (That had concrete in it! An attentive cop smelled concrete, whatever that smells like). The protesters are represented by some guy in a rainbow fright wig, and footage of him and his antics are all that airs on the side of the protesters.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. We need this in Washington with the chant

RESIGN NOW, RESIGN NOW, RESIGN NOW

Or LET THEM GO, LET THEM GO, LET THEM GO

OR GO FUCK YOURSELF, GO FUCK YOURSELF, GO FUCK YOURSELF while holding Agent Orange signs

you get my point.

[malaise]

22. or

All three

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. A cacophony of sound

with ONE message. We don't want you and NEVER did.

[flying_wahini]

17. Now THAT's a March!

Wish we could get people Here to March like that!

[BigmanPigman]

18. Their Gov is making excuses.

"I won't run again next time, I promise", etc. BS!