It took me a good 15 minutes to stop laughing! Some folks in the city came up with the damn near perfect anti-ICE protest, and they did it with *style*. Now, my husband found this, and we decided it was too good to pass up and so, so good to share, even though it’s a week old. Please be advised that the writing for this could be considered “graphic”. Shall we begin? With thanks to Common Dreams:
‘Operation Dildo Blitz’ Anti-ICE Protest in Minneapolis Ends With 50+ Arrests
Demonstrators hurled insults and sex toys at federal agents outside a Minneapolis government building on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s deadly Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown on undocumented immigrants and their supporters, with state and local police arresting more than 50 people. Dubbed “Operation Dildo Blitz,” the protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building saw demonstrators place sex toys in a chain link fence while others handed out rubber phalluses to protesters who threw them at passing federal and local law enforcement vehicles.
Now you should see why there was laughter here. ICE *are* dicks, and that’s one of my *cough* favorite words to use when describing these yahoos. And yes, I need a new one, but phalluses don’t have the same impact. Too many syllables. Now, it’s a little unfair for them to go after local police, because they don’t have anything to do with ICE and are in a battle with them to try to investigate the two shootings. But federal, well, that can be a different story.
Demonstrators shouted “Eat a dick!” and “Fuck ICE!” as they pelted the vehicles with dildos. A local sheriff’s deputy was reportedly struck upside the head. Activist Russell Ellis, who posted video of the demonstration on Instagram, said the protesters “showed real balls.” “Dildos coming your way! Dildos! Dildos!” Ellis barked as the toys rained down on vehicles, landing with rubbery thwunks. “It’s raining dicks!” One protester told VisuNews that they were attending the demonstration “because ICE likes to bend over for Daddy Trump.”
Showed real balls. Ahahahaha! Bend over for Daddy Trump. Truer words were never spoken about ICE. They are Trump’s … well, okay, Gnome’s personal mercenaries, so ICE bends over to do their will? Oh, yes. As you are tired of hearing from me about ICE, I’m sure (ha) we shall move along.
Asked what inspired her to show up with a literal “bag of dicks,” another protester said she was motivated by last month’s fatal shooting of legal observer Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. The protest marked one month since Good’s killing. “The number one thing that you need to do right now is build community,” the woman said. “You need to talk to your neighbors. You need to start organizing. The local police are not going to help you. They are not your friend… so we rely upon each other.” Later in the afternoon, police declared the protest an unlawful assembly before rushing in to arrest 54 demonstrators.
Well, we can guess that they had to do something because someone up the food chain was screaming about it. One would hope that they (quietly) found it as funny as we do. Can’t laugh while they’re on duty. This is one of the best, if not *the* best, protests we have found thus far, not including No Kings. Kinda wish we could have been there. We can hope it was worth it to get arrested, even if they’ll have to go through a bunch of nonsense in court. No matter what, though, Operation Dildo Blitz was a roaring success!!!! See you soon!
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Dicks for dicks.
Poetic.
Karmic.
Hilarious.
Hence much laughing! We first found this gif on Imger, so I went looking to see if it was an actual story. And as you saw, yes, it really happened! Kinda wish I’d been there 😉