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They’re quite easy to spot in public, especially on the subway. Who are they? They are the tired and worn-out socialist activists in weather-beaten jeans, t-shirts, calico or plaid shirts with the sleeves rolled up and dumpy hair frazzled in knots or bunched up behind blue kerchief sweatbands.
What I’m describing here are mostly the women activists, but you get it.
When I spotted this group on Philadelphia’s Frankford-Market line on Saturday, April 5 headed to City Hall for an anti-Trump Hands-off 2025 rally, I tried not to stare. The vibe I was getting from them was ‘worker-solidarity,’ or the lefty activist high I recall feeling when I was 21 and marching with 1971 progressives. After that rally, the local news stations reported that thousands of anti-Trump protestors had swarmed the area around City Hall.
Lefty activists inspired by these numbers gloated on social media afterwards, believing that a true revolution was brewing.
“The tide is turning,” they said. “People are waking up.”
There isn’t a revolution brewing, of course. Or, put another way: there’s always a revolution brewing in Philadelphia.
The people on Philly streets protesting Trump are really the activist (spiritual) descendents of Philadelphia’s murderer-activist Ira Einhorn, the so-called co-founder of Earth Day and a countercultural hero to gullible hippies and the city’s Democrat elite until it was discovered that he had murdered his girlfriend, Holly Maddux in 1977 and stuffed her body in a trunk and kept it in his West Philadelphia apartment.
Einhorn was a one-man genius con job who was able to mesmerize or hypnotize people to do his bidding. This pretty much describes the Democrat machine in Philadelphia.
The City of Philadelphia exists in a political bubble where woke politicians and left-thinking robots rule.
Call a demonstration protesting Trump and you’re guaranteed 2,000 protesters any day of the week. Yes, the Trump hatred is that thick; yes, the activists are that fanatical. These are the same grunge armies that marched (and rioted) for George Floyd in 2020; the same grunge haters that paraded and celebrated on Center City streets in 2020 when Trump lost to Biden.
Look at them closely and you’ll discover that some are wealthy elite liberals-members of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Franklin Inn Club, the Barnes Foundation, the National Constitution Center and the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America – who live in large stone mansions in Chestnut Hill but love getting up in jeans and “fighting” activist wear whenever there’s a new demonstration to show their hatred for Donald Trump.
For Philadelphia conservatives (Republicans), the situation is exasperating and close to hopeless.
Meanwhile, the Washington DC April 5 Handsoff 2025 rally included speakers like Maryland’s Rep. Jamie Rasken and Graa Martinez Rosas, Executive Director of something called United We Dream Action which purports to fight for immigrants (as in illegal immigrants).
At that rally, Rosas introduced herself as a proud queer undocumented immigrant (notice to ICE!) who had the nerve to talk about “our country” (meaning the USA) as she joined other speakers in saying, “Our numbers are growing,” which of course is what all these activists love to say, deluded as they are in thinking that the tide is turning against Trump and that very soon a revolution will send Elon Musk and Donald Trump packing. (Or worse, as some even “pray” for their assassination.)
On May Day of this year the same Philadelphia mob jammed Center City for an International Workers’ Day protest with a special appearance by Bernie Sanders.
May Day of course is one of the most important holidays in communist countries. China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos and North Korea all celebrate May Day with religious-like fervor. In the United States, the holiday is traced to 1886 when a labor strike for an eight-hour workday resulted in a bomb explosion in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, killing several people. In Europe May Day has pagan roots; it marks the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice.
There were many May Day anti-Trump protests throughout the country, as each big blue city comes equipped with its own horde of bedbug lefty activists ready to crawl out of hiding to show how much they hate Trump. Organizers framed these rallies with a somewhat polite phraseology: pushback against the assault on labor protections, diversity initiatives and federal employees. There was also a lot of talk about the evil doings of billionaires and the treatment of immigrants (the word ‘illegal’ is not in their vocabulary).
The May Day anti-Trumpers in Philadelphia included members of the AFL-CIO-diehard Democrat loyalists-and the “call up” activists described above who gathered in their ratty clothing and swarmed like locusts around Philadelphia City Hall-proof that the Trump regime is about to be toppled!-as at least 70 to 100 of them were arrested for sitting down at the intersection of Broad and Vine Streets blocking traffic in an already congested city; selfish, careless anarchists with only one goal in mind: to disrupt, by any means possible, the orderly tempo of a civilized society.
Talk about a tired and worn-out scenario.
On social media after the May Day demos activists gloated as they had done after the April anti-TrumpHandsoff 2025 rally: people are seeing the light, they said, when really it was just the same old activists, plus the labor unions, blowing their horns.
Philadelphia’s 6 ABC reported:
“While the demonstration was intended to be peaceful, it led to the blockage of a major roadway, causing significant traffic disruptions and creating safety concerns for both protestors and motorists. Officers on the scene issued multiple warnings instructing participants to clear the highway.”
Photographs of the protesters showed thin soy boy men draped in Palestinian scarves, Palestinian flags, signs reading “Stop the deportations,” and so forth. There were trans activists and BLM activists and just plain old pot bellied Democrat cronies in baseball hats.
It was a cornucopia of leftist causes, an orgasm of political intersectionality.
In what to me read like a nostalgic blast from 1969, CNN quoted an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation:
“Our enemies are not international students that organize on their campus. Our enemies are not undocumented workers that contribute to their communities, that pay taxes and can’t get services. Our enemies are not workers that work for corporations.”
“No – this racist, sexist, anti-worker, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic system is our enemy.”
This statement alone is proof why this revolution will never get off the ground. You can’t recycle these tried old tropes and expect the larger society to ever take you seriously.
What a group of absolutely hideous people in the photo, typical of all groups of delusional Leftists.
Yes, right? Why do they always look like that? Maybe being so ugly is what makes them mad at normal people all the time.
“We want more welfare!” shouted the mob.
Philly? Who would want to live in that shit-hole except people who want to get stabbed or shot by the usual suspects? San Jose CA is bad enough. I wouldn’t even visit Philly. Elton John was full of shit. Philadelphia Freedom, my ass.
The retards who live there deserve the suck they’ve made.
I understand your thought process, but remember that some of us can not get out easily. My husband died, the city seized HALF our house—don’t even ask how they can do that…they can’t but they did and they will never concede wrongdoing—and I’m very financially strapped. I’m hardly unique here, either. But I guarantee the very first chance I get, I’m out and never looking back.
Your loss- Philly is a vibrant City full of grit & spirit. It’s an amazing place to live, work & raise a family. If you’ve never been here, you could never comprehend all that this City has to offer. Philly loyalty knows no bounds. We’re the birthplace of American Freedom & Democracy, so it’s no wonder many of us are protesting what Trump is doing. A President who swore to uphold the Constitution, but has never read it nor can he comprehend it. He only ran bc he wanted to be in charge. Democracy means nothing to his posse. But some of us believe in having freedoms- and we will fight to keep them.
Stay in Cali- you could never handle Philly!
Someone called them Useful Idiots the UN, Hollywood the various Eco-Freak/Climate Change Groups the M.S. Media and DNC are full of Useful Idiots
Lice Louse Fleas Rats Liberal Democrats are other Vermin will need to Terminex Man
I completely agree with the first two commenters. These freaks always look the same. Same frumpy clothes. Same ugly faces. Same frothy pieholes perpetually open.
Recently I made a list of all the fake leftist holidays that have been invented over the last 25-50 years. But who knew that May Day was another excuse to have an anti-Trump demonstration.
My suggestion is have a Leftist demonstration to mark each fake holiday….to wit, the following:
Black History Month
Trans awareness day/month
Gay awareness day/month
Pride month
Juneteenth
MLK day
Asian Pacific awareness month
Hispanic Heritage month
Women’s International Day/Month
Women’s History Month
Labor Day
May Day
Imagine all of the roads you can block and shut down. Imagine all of the normals you get to piss off at least once a month. Imagine Leftists never winning another election because they are such pains in the a$$.
Party time….Lenin style!
Maybe the “May Day” is really just “m’aidez!” – the Left’s cry for psychiatric therapy!
Let all these haters of America be given one-way passage to North Korea. They will find there the actualization of their leftist. despotic belief system.
As a cautionary tale, they should also know they can freely go in to this centralized “utopia” but they can never leave.
The complete idiocy of these people sings like a broken record. They are historically ignorant of the many despotic regimes they worship from the safety of our country.
Even their clothes and hair cuts in North Korea are regulated. The equitable sameness they are passionately requesting destroys life.
Oh, and once there don’t contact America to rescue you from this hell on earth. After all, it is the paradise you so arrogantly championed by wishing to do to others what you will now experience for the rest of your lives. And protesting this regime will be the immediate death you have so viciously dreamed of for those in America who deeply value our Constitution and freedoms.
So go, chanting on until the plane lands and the dreams you have envisioned becomes a stark reality you refused to face.
What a grim, hopeless life so many leftists seem to be locked in to. The sooner they recognize that they’re going to die miserable and unfulfilled, the brighter their future might be.