Look deeply into the faces of these protesters. Look at their enthusiasm for the cause. Look at their signs. Not a single hand-made original thought. Each was handed a sign as they got off the bus, and collected their day’s pay for protesting.
We have won!
Look at the guy in the red shirt who wants a $15 minimum wage but also wants to let in illegals, who will work for far less than $15 an hour. Do they not see the irony? Oh, wait they’re just doing this for money.
Here is a list of Washington DC area restaurants closing for today’s ‘Day Without Illegal Immigrants’ protest.
This will make it much easier for ICE to round them up!
Immigrants in Washington are planning to participate in the “Day Without Immigrants” protest on Thursday. As the day approaches, the list of area restaurants closing out of solidarity or necessity continues to grow.
The nationwide effort, buoyed by social media, is meant to highlight the impact immigrants have on the country on a daily basis. It’s a response to President Trump’s efforts to crack down on undocumented immigrants, enact “extreme vetting” and build a wall along the border with Mexico.
Participants are encouraged to stay home from school and work, which includes many restaurants and bars. Here’s a list of the closings and service changes announced so far.
Acqua al 2: closed
Anxo Cider & Pinxtos Bar: limited menu of pintxos only
Arepa Zone: closed
Ari’s Diner: closed
Bad Saint: closed
Bangkok Golden: closed
Boundary Stone: kitchen closed, limited menu from 5 to 9 p.m.
Brookland’s Finest: closed
Brookland Pint: kitchen closed, bring your own food
Bub & Pop’s: closed
Busboys and Poets, 14th Street, Brookland, City Vista, Hyattsville, Shirlington and Takoma locations: closed
Clare and Don’s Beach Shack: closed
Co Co. Sala: closed
Daikaya: closed
DC Empanadas, Union Market and food truck: closed
Denson Liquor Bar: closed
District Fishwife: kitchen closed
Dock FC: closed
El Camino: kitchen closed, bar offering limited food
El Chucho: top floor closed, limited menu
Espita Mezacaleria: closed for lunch; kitchen closed for dinner
Ghibellina: closed
Hank’s Oyster Bar, Capitol Hill, Dupont and Old Town locations: closed
Hank’s Pasta Bar: closed
Harold Black: closed
Himitsu: closed
Ivy and Coney: kitchen closed
Jaleo, Penn Quarter, Crystal City and Bethesda locations: closed
Jetties, Chevy Chase, Penn Quarter, Foxhall, Macomb and Bethesda locations: closed; downtown open
Johnny’s Half Shell: closed
Justin’s Cafe: kitchen closed
La Puerta Verde: closed
Le Caprice Bakery: closed
Meridian Pint: kitchen closed, bring your own food
Oyamel: closed
Peacock Cafe: closed
Pizzeria Paradiso, Old Town and Georgetown locations: closed
Pow Pow: closed
Pupatella: closed
Rappahannock Oyster Bar: closed
RedRocks Columbia Heights: closed for lunch; limited menu 5 to 11 p.m.
Room 11: kitchen closed
Sakuramen: closed
Smoke & Barrel: kitchen closed, bring your own food
Sotto: closed
Stomping Ground: closed
Surfside: closed
Sweetgreen: 18 locations closed
TaKorean, Union Market, the Yards and National Place locations: closed
Taqueria Nacional: closed
Thip Khao: closed
Toki Underground: closed
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Two Amys: closed
Veloce: closed
Zaytinya: closed
Nearly 60 years ago, an episode of a TV showed called “Trackdown” told the story of a man named Trump who warns people that the world will be destroyed and that only he can save them… by building a wall.
Decades before The Simpsons predicted a President Trump, an obscure CBS Western from the 1950s called Trackdown featured a man who claimed he could prevent the end of the world by building a wall. The man’s name was Walter Trump, and he shares a number of similarities with the president-elect.
As pointed out by Snopes, in the episode “The End of the World,” which aired on May 8, 1958, the mysterious Trump was a confidence man, decked out in a cultish robe, who arrived in the town of Talpa and, “tells the townspeople that a cosmic explosion will rain fire on the town and that he is the only one that can save them from death.” The wall he wanted to build was designed to keep out certain doom, of course, but his mere presence arouses suspicion from some of the locals.
Trump’s plan never comes to fruition, and he’s eventually brought to justice by the show’s hero, Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, for grand theft and fraud. YouTube user Marcy Brafman uploaded portions of the episode on November 4, 2016, just four days before the presidential election.
