Impeachment March (Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia)

The Worldwide Impeachment March was on July 2nd. People in dozens of cities rose up and marched and protested. Thousands of people in Los Angeles. Thousands of people in New York.

Less than twenty people in Saint Louis. Counting the four speakers.

As the President would say, Sad!

It wasn't organized until a few weeks ago, so you could say Saint Louis was late to the party. (Or, you could say, we were early - even Gary thinks we need more evidence before an impeachment would fly.) I must say, the woman who organized it brought along the very best speaker system I have ever seen at any march. When the Park Service sent over some bike police, she assured them there would not be a rowdy mob. One authority figure stayed behind anyway.

It was interesting expressing one's political views as one pf a merry band of twenty, instead of buried in a mob that fills the street for blocks. We were dead in front of the Arch beautification effort, right on the edge of the area where tourists ...well, where tourists find out the Arch is sold out for the day by two o'clock. Poor planning, tourists. And when there are more tourists at any one moment than there are people in your demonstration, the tourists are emboldened to express their views, too, especillyif they can't go up in the Arch.

While we were listening to the speakers, one tourist yelled, "You lost!" The speaker at that moment was prepared with "We all lost, brother."

When the state senator was speaking, one tourist moved off to the right and started yelling over her. "YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING WHY DON'T YOU RUN FOR OFFICE?" I could have pointed out the irony but decided to "go high."

One little child was following his family, then turned back and made mocking gestures. I decided to interpret that as his mockery of Trump.

Our low turnout made us feisty, though. We cheered and chanted with what little might we had. We did not march, but we rallied.

I wish I could show you a photo of our lawful assembly, but I didn't turn around and take one. I did take a photo before we began, and given that there are NO photos online, I give you this as the documentation that Saint Louis called for Trump to be called out for his crimes and misdemeanors.