Just like more than 1,000 other communities throughout the United States, Easton took part in the non-violent day of protest called “No Kings” on Saturday. This was a national demonstration of opposition to the Trump administration. Hundreds of town residents from the Mid-Shore took to the sidewalks with signs on Dover Street as cars made their way downtown to the annual Pride Day festival.
The Talbot County Democratic Central Committee and the Talbot County Democratic Forum hosted the event.
With thanks to the many Spies who submitted their photos and clips, we were able to assemble an overview of this great American tradition of free speech and a historic day for the Mid-Shore.
This video is approximately two minutes in length.
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Nice to see people free to protest in a free country against a President they disagree with. Just remember he was elected by an overwhelming majority in our democratic republic. Hope you enjoyed your day, just sayin’.
Trump earned 49.8 percent to then-VP Kamala Harris’s 48.3 percent — hardly “overwhelming” but definitely not a “majority.”
Yesterday’s No Kings protest was the largest in US history.
The Park Service estimate is 12 million people in Blue and Red states.
Citizens who believe in our constitution are mad and will fight back.
Nope. Definitely not overwhelming! More like squeaked by! Bet there’s lotsa voters who wish they hadn’t stayed home that day!
That’s for sure! It was the voters who stayed home and those who wasted votes on 3rd party, no chance, candidates that ultimately led to Trump’s tiny margin of victory. The GOP needs to get off of the “historic election mandate” BS and wake up to what is really going on. Silence is complicity and many of the GOP congresspeople are up to their necks in it and it will eventually drown them.
I don’t think that word means what you think it does.
While trump won a majority of electoral votes, 312 to 226, this was not reflective of how slim his popular vote margin was due to gerrymandering of electoral districts in many states (including Maryland) that cause the House of Representative results to not reflect the statewide votes of each party. If gerrymandering were abolished and electoral votes were assigned according to the number of House seats won, the result of electoral votes would more closely reflect the popular vote tally. Yes, trump won a plurality of the popular vote, a significant accomplishment for a Republican presidential candidate this century, his win reflected neither a popular nor electoral mandate. Note that the large electoral margin in the recent election was accompanied by a relatively narrow GOP majority in the House of Representatives – in spite of severe gerrymandering in many “Red” states (yes, both sides gerrymandering districts including Maryland). If both the electoral college and gerrymandering were abolished, our election results would truly reflect the will of the people.
He did NOT win by an overwhelming margin. That is just one of his thousands of lies.
I’m proud of my adopted home.
No Republican president has won the popular vote since 2004 when George W. Bush in 2004 who took 50.7% of the vote. Prior to that, one has to go back to Ronald Reagan. Basically, the Republican Party has been a minority party for most of my lifetime. Distribution of congressional districts by states and the Electoral College have been a significant contributing factor in Republican successes over the past 30 years. Democrats should not rest smugly comfortable in the fact that the held Trump to a mere plurality (again) last year, but rather reflect on why they are so out of touch with the average vote. Republicans swept the White House, the House and Senate — yes, albeit with slim majorities — but arguing the finer points of the United States’ peculiar voting systems Is simply pedantic and wastes political energy. The rules of the road are what they are; Democrats need to get their act together and run hard to get across the finish line however that line may be draw. Republicans need to remember what facts are and re-learn how to tell the truth, lest they wish to consign themselves to the looney bin of history.
Thanks for posting this. It was an uplifting moment.
We join our neighbors in this opportunity to express our concerns.
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Thanks to the Talbot Spy for covering this. Some news outlets I’ve seen are only covering his parade and completely ignoring the largest day of protests ever. Like AOL “news.”
Thabk you.
I think I finally know who has sponsoring all these protests…Metamucil. -HR
Many much younger, particularly march participants all over the country, than the ‘wannabe king’…..
Overwhelming is a bit overstated.
So very glad to see these protests, against the WORST man to hold the high office!! The founding fathers would be agast at the current office holder.
Does anyone else find it amusing that the democrats were declaring ‘no kings’ on the same day that President was celebrating the founding of an army that actually overthrew a king?
Curious. Just like Les Mis is his favorite play. Go fiqure that considering the theme. Trump is a crass philistine who has no understanding of history nor anything else that does not financially or personally help his fragile ego.
What a crass philistine indeed. Anyway “Les Misérables” is technically a musical (or a rather prolix novel by Victor Hugo). If I may ask, what would you say the theme of that work is? Just curious.
Les Misérables is about a revolutionary uprising against oppression and the struggle of the marginalized against the powerful. It champions the rights of the poor and downtrodden. Trump’s policies, such as the deployment of the military to quell protests and his stance on immigration, have been seen by some as being at odds with these ideals. Specifically, the musical’s anthem, “Do You Hear the People Sing?,” which calls for revolution, is viewed as a surprising choice for someone who has only known wealth and power.
You GPT’d that, didn’t you?
Anyway, one man’s “revolutionary uprising” is another’s “insurrection.” One’s “marginalized” is another’s “deplorables.” The interpretation is a function of what side you happen to be on at the time. Go figure, indeed. -HR