Current Events > Will We See Even More Pro-Palestine Protests Once Trump Takes Over?

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When Trump takes over, will the amount of protests from pro-Palestine supporters increase tenfold? Because I'd imagine that they would have far more reason to be mad at Trump than Biden.

I think it'll stay about the same. Even if it gets worse, I think sadly, we've been at the ceiling for how many people care and how much.

Trump will have the military attack protesters.

It will certainly get more violent

Squall28 posted...

Trump will have the military attack protesters.

This. There might be a few protests at first. When soldiers start killing protestors, people will stop

Well the proud face-eating leopard party members insisted that they couldn't protest Republicans because it was too dangerous.

There was a significant lack of protest against Trump during the election when he went in record saying Israel should finish the job.

Any protest that does happen is going to end up violent

Squall28 posted...

Trump will have the military attack protesters.

It depends on how long the protest lasts. After all, it takes time to put on the battle rattle and actually get to the protest.

myusernameislame posted...

I think it'll stay about the same. Even if it gets worse, I think sadly, we've been at the ceiling for how many people care and how much.

This. Unfortunately.

Squall28 posted...

Trump will have the military attack protesters.

lmao where do you people get these things

when did he ever have the military attack anyone

you guys seriously just doom everything

Probably

And a lot of people will get killed in them

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

when did he ever have the military attack anyone

People have such short memories.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

lmao where do you people get these things

when did he ever have the military attack anyone

you guys seriously just doom everything

Are you for real with this bullshit?

Trump played a huge role in escalating violence during the George Floyd protests, and that's a movement without the baggage of 80% of the country viewing them as supporting a terrorist group, being as antisemitic as literal Nazis, or both

I don't want to hear any shit about people "dooming" over Trump trying to trample protests. He literally did this in his first term and that was without the Republicans fucking making their plans public and him outright saying there's an "enemy within". Fuck.

It'll be a lot less since he's literally going to deport pro Palestine protestors as a priority.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

lmao where do you people get these things

when did he ever have the military attack anyone

you guys seriously just doom everything

From his own cabinet. People in his inner circle said that in his first term, he asked if he could use the military on protesters

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

when did he ever have the military attack anyone

Let me go take this bible I'm holding upside down and take it down the street.

(have soldiers shoot tear gas to clear a path)

Theyll be afraid now

They'll flare up, I'm not sure there'll be more though because of the increased threat to life and limb and anger at protesters for losing Michigan. On the other hand, there could be more because people won't be accused of protesting just to sabotage the election anymore and loyalty to the Dems won't place an upper limit on the constituency for protesting. The George Floyd protests probably wouldn't have been nearly as big if a Democrat had been in office and an election had been approaching.

We'll see, but it'll probably get brutal. And I'm not really sure what the pressure point is because Trump's not gonna change his mind, he's gonna relish an opportunity to bust heads. It's unlikely that a pro-Palestine/anti-Israel protest would become the jump off point for a wider anti-Trump backlash for a lot of reasons.

Hey they already did what they wanted. They helped get Trump into office. Why would they be upset?

We will see one. On that one, Trump will send in the National Guard with shoot to kill orders.

It will be pro-Israel protests and anyone defending Palestine will face arrest.

No probably not.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

lmao where do you people get these things

when did he ever have the military attack anyone

you guys seriously just doom everything

Does this ring a bell? Shut the fuck up.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9039aa6d.jpg

They won't

All these "Pro Palestine protests" seemed to just be Trumpers in denial. They never said shit about Trump, just knocked Democrats

And if they did anything of substance, Trump will tear gas them

Nah, those people got their moral dopamine boost from pretending to really care, they can now go back to bitching about dems as Trump dismantles people's rights.

Plus, they should know Trump won't listen because we already told them exactly how it would go, but they weren't interested in hearing that.

Of course not. More danger + no chance of success makes this a no-brainer.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It'll be a lot less since he's literally going to deport pro Palestine protestors as a priority.

Where is he going to deport us to

Smashingpmkns posted...

Where is he going to deport us to

Nobody knows and they will make it up as they go along.

Meanwhile, detainees will be incarcerated in concentration camps and required to work as slaves. (This and the cruelty are the points, of course)

Smashingpmkns posted...

Where is he going to deport us to

Step 1: Revoke your citizenship.

Step 2: Put you in a deportation camp.

Step 3: Put the onus on you to find another country that will take you.

Step 4: Those not taken are put on starvation rations and worked to death as free labor, making up the shortfall of illegal workers who have been deported.

No as people get deported.

I imagine we'll see more protests across the board. Country looked like it was on fire during his first administration.

Kinda crazy we've gone four years without a *super* huge protest like that.

In my experience, people become more willing to protest matters of foreign policy when their party isn't in power. The thing that's tricky right now is figuring out what the rallying point for protest will be.

On the more obvious fronts, the Ukraine / Russia war may only last for a brief portion of Trump's term, turning against Israel is a non-starter for at least some portion of the Dems base, and many Dems will generally go along with an aggressive stance toward China.

Deporting illegal / legal immigrants is partly a matter of foreign policy and will generate protesting, but it doesn't really fit the bill for me since the action being challenged is local.

Distancing from / defunding foreign alliances like NATO or the UN are clearly matters of foreign policy, but also aren't great for widespread protest since these sorts of decisions (probably) don't result in immediate human suffering.

There are other brutal conflicts out in the world to get wound up about, but in general, American involvement is more indirect and the wars themselves are...messy, I guess? At least in the sense that I can't see the situation in Sudan, for example, ever getting boiled down into something easily digestible for the population to get invested in.

I guess if I have to pick something...I'll go off the board a little bit and select Cuba. It'll be fairly easy to turn it into a "our team is good, their team is bad" issue with Rubio leading the charge to undo whatever steps were taken to ease relations during Obama's administration, and the moves the Trump administration take to try to further cut-off Cuba from the world will exacerbate the ongoing humanitarian crisis without providing any real benefit to the U.S. or the M.I.C., which makes it a safe issue for pundits to get riled up about.

BeTheMan posted...

In my experience, people become more willing to protest matters of foreign policy when their party isn't in power. The thing that's tricky right now is figuring out what the rallying point for protest will be.

Large swathes of protests could happen if a viscerally horrific event akin to the one that kickstarted the BLM movement were to happen. Of course, I imagine that the current Trump admin might anticipate this and respond accordingly via tenets of Project 2025.