Then one day I was looking through these political articles I read and there it was like a punch in the stomach. She had been elevated to unearned commencement speaker by my own CUNY. I graduated from a CUNY school. I live in New York City. "Here? Here? Not here!" I found myself saying sitting in front of my computer. I watched to see when my fellow moderate right wingers would be speaking up. I was ready to sign a petition, go to a protest. I was ready. Eventually, a protest was announced. I thought, "I'm sure it's on Saturday and I can't go." I looked at the calendar and got very excited, "A Thursday-YES." It didn't take long before I realized it was Shavuos, so I actually couldn't go, after all.
Less than a week before the actual protest, I found out that they had changed the date so that Orthodox Jews could attend this. I got busy posting about the event everywhere I could think of. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time to get the word out. I think there could have been more people if we had, but I understand the reason for the original date being the date of the commencement itself and that they did change the date to open the protest up for us.
While I was on my way to the event, I was running late enough that I was still on the subway when it started, so I pulled up my phone and went to Tim Pool's channel to see if he was live streaming it. This was right at the point where he was going over to see the Neturei Karta across the street. "ugh, the NKs are there." So when I was eventually walking up, I knew to look for the larger group because NKs were across the street.
As I walked up, I was metaphorically hit by a ton of bricks when I spotted a couple of those stupid "NO!" signs. "Crap, the far left Whackjobs, too????" I thought. I mean I knew the NKs were there from the live stream, but I didn't think the "NO!" people, who are communists, had gotten a permit since I had made a point of checking their primary website to see if they had a protest listed. George "deep pockets for insanity" Soros must have found out last minute about our event and cobbled together a team and a permit. A cop yelled at me to move and I said I was trying to figure out where I go. So I found my way into "our" section. I wasn't close enough to see anything, but I could hear from the speakers. I only went once to walk up the sidewalk and then back into our section to try to get some video of the crowds. I couldn't really see on my phone and the video I took turned out to be useless. In this walk, there were two girls, in particular, that were shooting me dirty looks from the "NO" section. When I got back into the Pro-America, Pro-Jewish and Pro-logical politics section, I mentioned it to some people in the crowd. They knew exactly who I was talking about because they had been giving everyone dirty looks and also giving people the finger.
After Milo's speech I was within the crowd and in a minute or so, realized the barricades had been opened and the event was over. I was watching the crowds and eventually a group was walking towards the subway in a line chanting "U-S-A." I waited for most of them to pass and joined the line towards the end. Eventually something happened. I tried to ask people what happened. Everyone said they didn't know. I actually saw on some of the footage on Youtube later on that some of the people that I asked-who told me they didn't know were standing there when it happened. I hope someone didn't actually think I was leftist. EW.
That's pretty much the bulk of my experience at the event. I went home to look at the articles and video footage. Not only was there Tim's video, but there was another one from an international online news group name "Ruptly." I hadn't heard of them and their video was really well made and provided much of the more interesting coverage of the crowds which I will cover in another post.
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