BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A group of protestors gathered outside the Federal Building in downtown Bellingham about noon on Monday, February 17, 2025. The assembly was reportedly coordinated as part of a national “50501 Movement,” referred to as such due to a goal of 50 protests in 50 states on 1 day. The protests are a response to what organizers describe as “the fight to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach.”
Other similar protests in Washington State were scheduled in Olympia, Port Orchard, Port Townsend, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and Wenatchee.
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The point of the protest was?…
Another gathering of misguided and angry individuals.
President Trump has done nothing unconstitutional or over reaching. Securing our borders and deporting illegals…yes, individuals that entered our country illegally is what the voters of this country elected him to do.
If these haters don’t like it…I suggest they relocate to a country that is not a republic.
Uncovering wasteful and corrupt spending of tax payer dollars has been a promise of the democrat party for decades. When it uncovers democrat corruption…well apparently that’s a whole different matter.
Get your pronouns straight and help the country for a change. Blind hateful rhetoric serves no purpose.
I didn’t attend the protest, but I am sympathetic for several reasons. First, I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but I read the constitution regularly and I recently read through the Federalist Papers. I am not prepared to say that Trump has acted unconstitutionally, but he may have. For instance, Article 1, Sections 7 and 8 clearly give Congress, not the executive, control of the federal budget, taxes, and a raft of other stuff. I think Trump may have overstepped there and I think his actions should be carefully examined and perhaps stopped.
For that reason alone, if I had been able, I would have been at the protests to encourage judicial scrutiny of the constitutionality of his actions.
Second, as a computer professional with 30 years experience with government and enterprise software, I am very disturbed to read reports of what his been done by Musk. Putting inexperienced junior engineers in charge of critical national computer systems is reckless, to say the least. I want congress and the judiciary to be aware of my concerns. This is another reason I would have been at the protests.
Finally, the Democrats have regularly held up corrupt members of their party to sanctions. They are not perfect, but neither are the Republicans.