Judging from my friends and groups who are involved in the protests, I would say that MSM and right-wing nut-balls are painting an untrue and warped picture of what the demonstrations goals are. Its a way to discredit the issues being brought to fore and infantilize ("crybabies") or demonize ("anarchist thugs" or "liberals") the protesters. Of course MSM wants you to believe its all about boo-who Clinton lost.

I can see all over social media this meme has been accepted as fact.

Example. Skip ahead until the lady on the left starts to speak.

https://www.facebook.com/socialistworker/videos/10154753358409066/

Few more Autumn's and Spring's to see.
Yet,
I will stand among the cannon fodder of the first ranks.
Protecting the youth behind.

Police State Clarification Statement: I am not currently, nor have I ever been, nor do I intend to ever be,
in possession of a guillotine.

But I find myself wishing if this scene could somehow be directed to fracture an illegitimate media, and maybe even wake/break the mindless sycophants it has undoubtedly contributed. At this point, I presume media news to be largely a sham, the multitude of recent mea culpas demonstrate that they know they have little to no credibility left; the apologies serve as an admission.

But I'm also a bit harsh. I don't want these one-and-done 'apologies' that fade into the memory hole. Media LOVES repetition. But, considering they have near zilch in the credibility department, they're going to have to work hard to earn back any sort of trust. So they may have to buckle down. I want to see repeated admissions that they screwed this up and I want repeated attempts to help the public understand what they have contributed to and some contribution about ways to mitigate the damage they have done.

From what I understand, these protests are prompted by fear of the pending Trump presidency. This same type of fear has apparently even contributed to a rash of suicides and near-suicidal tendency. Our corrupt and fear-mongering media contributed greatly to this. As did sites like dkos, that amplified and perpetuated this fear.

Somehow, this fact needs to be thrown in media's face; it needs their immediate attention and action. They need to acknowledge that anyone that postulated an apocalypse if Trump were elected, contributed to some post-election travesties. Anyone that posted world-wide financial collapse and ruin, the depictions, even now, of a meteor-like devastation to the world because of Trump (check recent Der Spiegel for example), contributed. Anyone posting within prominent internet sites, similarly exclaiming horrible calamity and devastation if Trump is elected, shares blame. There is no shortage of media examples, especially leading into the final campaign weeks, similarly alarming horrible, tragic consequences if Trump. These dire messages were absorbed by the young, the emotionally vulnerable, and now we must witness the terrible consequences of this folly. Unfortunately, anyone that engaged in what I just described, likely contributed to that. Future admonitions against a candidate need be more measured and reasoned, sans, "we're all gonna die if that TERRIBLE MONSTER is elected!!!!" Children, young people, and emotionally vulnerable are now terrified because of this sort of leadup, and being so utterly scared, are succumbing to severe despondency or lashing out of angst, fostered by that barrage of doomsday speculation presented them as absolute truth, and are now seeking escape from the impending and inevitable doom they were promised.

No matter how self-assured victory, they could lose. Yet that was never considered and no restraint shown. Now convinced by those in the media, forums and blogs, that evil will envelop, enslave and torture them, some poor souls have descended into suicide and destruction. That needs to be prevented from happening again.

In conjunction with that, I want to the media talking heads to similarly acknowledge the contradictions they have contributed toward, along with the sites that ran with and perpetuated the large contradiction we are now seeing with the purported purpose of these protest demonstrations. What I hear oft-chanted in these protests, are mostly 'Dump Trump' and 'Not my President'. While I would have preferred Stein, like any other election year, I get what I am given by the plurality. But what these media and sites like dkos did, was support the exact opposite of what these protests appear to now portend.

On the day prior to the election, the media's and dkos stated outrage at Trump for hinting he would not accept the election results. That attitude was, to quote some of the terms I read: criminal or treason.

To further quote, people that did not confront or speak out against this affront to Democracy, those people were, "cowards." They also scoffed and ridiculed Trump's 'rigged' claims; how dare he criticize U.S. democracy!

Then, a day later, these same people now claim the election was rigged, but it was rigged in Trump's favor, and multiple protests launched, involving all those same Hillary supporters, now themselves shouting they would not accept the election result.

Again, I want the media repeatedly acknowledging their part in this obvious contradiction, this double-standard. That it is disingenuous and if it was wrong for Trump to question or refuse the result, it is wrong now...or vice versa...either way, but it has to be one way or the other and apply equally. That people refusing now are not credible if they criticized Trump for the exact same attitude. I want the media and these people to both see and admit that they have no credibility until they can apply the same standards to themselves that they established for another only a day before.

Just a little fantasy I have...I won't hold my breath or anything. However, if anyone has any suggestion to prompt/chide media to engage like this, feel free to post some hints or suggestions to accomplish such.

Thanks for posting your observations from ground zero. I have complained elsewhere that I couldn't tell what the protests were about from my small island in the Caribbean. I can't imagine that Clinton, with her biweekly massive crowds of 60 paid rally attendees has enough fans to fill up the streets in LA. . . I can imagine that hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees would be quite worried about massive SWAT raids by jackbooted deportation police brown shirts. Even Dominicans worry about parts of their families being deported. The nightmare is a sort of long march of the Armenians, the Nabka, the Trail of Tears...

Lets see, I have an interesting video from a Black anti-Clinton (pro-Trump) person: Kiki Green. I agree with much of what she says about Clinton and supporters, but am aghast that she thinks Trump is the solution (not much of this on this vid). I offer this as a bit of anthropology from the Black community and a neutral attitude.

Warning very graphic language and ranting.

By saying that the result of the federal election process doesn’t need to be respected, the protest seems also to be saying that the process itself has no legitimacy.

That could be interpreted as “Bundy ranch from the Left.”