Outside of typical remarks from Donald Trump, JD Vance and Mike Johnson and a Fox News report, party stayed mum
Republican voices were mostly silent as No Kings rallies and marches against Trump administration policies unfurled on Saturday, many in the spirit of a street party that countered the “hate America” depiction advanced by senior members of the party.
Instead of provocation, there were marching bands, huge banners with “we the people” references to the US constitution, and protesters wearing inflatable costumes, particularly frogs, which have emerged as a sign of resistance.
It was the third mass mobilization since Trump’s return to the White House and came against the backdrop of a government shutdown that not only has closed federal programs and services but is testing the core balance of power, as an aggressive executive confronts Congress and the courts in ways that protest organizers warn are a slide toward authoritarianism.
It’s almost like “peaceful protest” is something that fascists can simply ignore.
Protesting is peaceful, but honestly, it’s a show of potential capacity for violence. I went to the protest, but I went with eye protection, respirator, and ear protection. I wouldn’t put it past trump to order the military to deploy LRADs against protestors. Also brought medical supplies, multi-tool and a sign.
Also, for comparison, the largest right-wing protest I could find in the US was a mere ~650,000 people. We just put over 10x that amount on the streets in a single day.
It’s almost like peaceful protest is a building block, not a final outcome.
You don’t understand how dictatorship works. Something as small as a busted escalator can bring down regime. You can’t afford to look foolish.
Trump has looked foolish for literally the entire time and nothing has changed. Maybe you don’t understand how dictatorship works.
That’s why he can’t seem to quite grasp power like he wants. He even lost his re-election the first time.
My boy vlad in Russia locked that shit down quick.
Yea, he really got SLAMMED by the escalator fiasco. Or literally anything else in the last [his entire life].
What rock you livin’ under?
You clearly don’t know how dictators work.
You ever see Vladimir Putin get stuck on an elevator? No he’d have tha footage scrubbed and everyone who saw it shot.
You have to maintain a certain image if you want to be king.
Buddy open your eyes. You literally brought up the busted escalator that very clearly did not bring down Trump. Neither have his myriad of other on-air disasters and the party obssessed with screaming about child abuse has done nothing about his obvious attachement to Epstein.
We have loads of pictures on the internet of Putin in his stupid high-heels because he’s insecure about his height. I wouldn’t go around waving that shit around in the Red Square, obviously, but it’s not like they’re going around shooting everyone who might have seen a meme.
The evidence is right their in front of your eyes. You ignoring it is not a gotcha.
Buddy open your eyes!
Trump has been struggling as much as can to be a king. He’s been trying since day one!
Despite his mind controlled cult member following him blindly…. He still can’t make it happen. He keeps hitting roadblocks from us.
Yes, he’s making more progress than we’d like but you are a damn fool if you think things like the broken escalator aren’t hurting him. You’re a fool to not see he lost a lot of people already over Epstein.
You are a fool if you don’t see how someone like trump looks like a silly little baby compared to Putin or any other strong man dictator.
Looking foolish even for a moment hurts him very badly. It slows him down considerably.
The book “power broker”. The most powerful man in all of New York City (probably ever) was taken down by some moms standing in a park and blocking his bulldozer. That mother fucker battle sitting presidents and won, that guy walked all over mayors and governors, he wiped out entire neighborhoods and permentally blocked beach access to most of New York. He was a titan! He was defeated by looking foolish. He was destroyed by moms in a park. YOU CLEARLY DONT UNDERSTAND HOW DICTATORSHIPS WORK!
Sorry I can’t snap my fingers and make the world perfect for you. We are fighting against tyranny. It’s a long slow battle. Don’t discredit our wins as an attempt to stop us. We don’t buy what you’re selling.
Speed bumps, maybe, but they keep on being able to do stuff without consequence. People are still disappearing, there’s some tepid resistance from a couple centrist governors, and your economy is doing terribly yet he’s still very free to fuck around and post AI shit-bomb videos.
The only thing keeping him from anything is his own disastrous health and the “elite”, the real kings in the US are still allowed to do whatever the hell they want without any major pushback.
Let’s not get too far from the comment I replied to which was about something small being what brings it all down despite that not at all being the case. People aren’t afraid Trump, they’re afraid of the goons armed with guns that will do whatever the fuck he says and don’t give a shit that he’s a child rapist so long as they get a paycheck to go hurt people. We can post all the memes we want but at some point something has to happen about it.
Ya’ll’re acting so frickin’ tough for people that are generally regarded these days as being largely spineless. Farmers in France dumped shit on the roads when they were pissed, it doesn’t have to be violent but you better start causing problems.
I’ll leave you with the words of the group “immortal technique “ in their song “4th branch”
“Turn off the news and read nigga. READ. Read.”
Fascism on a national scale requires the consent or fear of the people in order to maintain power. They have to look strong. Anything that disturbs their voting bloc or contradicts the official narrative, especially on a broad stage, is going to cause them exponential problems because it looks like weakness. That’s part of why fascism is inherently weak. Being able to ignore dissent is a luxury afforded only to the truly strong.
The fact that they aren’t saying anything in this case means that they’ve calculated that the erosion of their base is preferable to letting the news cycle keep running with this.
My teenage pot head kid wrote this.
Sorry about that, let me know what you don’t understand and I’ll be happy to explain it to you.
It’s not true. Nobody outside of leftist groups or media care about this. It’s not out of trying to maintain fear or concern about erosion.
There’s nothing that comes from these protests anymore. We’re in a digital world. These analog solutions don’t work anymore. You need digital solutions. You need a network and digital presence to spread anything you do like this. But we all removed ourselves from any digital spaces so there’s no need for the right to prevent anything. They know this even 24hrs ago. We’re all back to work. A lot of people didn’t even realize this was going on.
Sounds like you raised a better man than yourself.
The Woman’s March, BLM, Occupy Wallstreet, and the first No Kings were all successfully ignored. Millions of Americans marching is clearly not enough for us to be heard.
7 million people is roughly 2% of the population. It’s 10% of the people in this country that couldn’t be bothered to vote. There’s also no threat or demands to accompany this protest. Like what are the people in power supposed to think. An easily ignorable voting block is slightly agitated enough to spend a few hours holding a sign? Are they going to stop working or consuming? Are they going to gather votes and banish the two parties that have failed us? No lmao they’re just gonna get together once every couple of months, there’s absolutely no pressure to a public gathering.