No Kings? ...or no Brains?

[Wapasha]

England has a King but we have a President. This is a stupid protest.

These "No Kings" protests are a complete waste of time. They have no objectives at all, none. They are not protesting to improve health care, to end corrupt K-Street lobbyists, to grow the economy, to cut taxes, to improve social welfare, to end a war, to save the planet, hell, they aren't even protesting to allow illegal aliens to remain in the US.

This stupid "No Kings" movement is just so perpetually angry, TDS afflicted Democrats can gather together and throw a hissy fit, shake their fists and shout at the sky.

 

[Wapasha]

Why do you think protesting the erosion of democracy and the move towards authoritarian governance is insipid?

Our constitutional system elected Trump as our president, and the TDS are upset about that. The deranged "No Kings" protests are protesting our Democratic system, because their candidate lost.

The "No Kings" protesters abandoned "our democracy" when they rejected their own Democratic Party primary election which nominated Joe Biden. They spit on the entire process, and threw all those primary votes away, when they sat their like stooges and allowed the oligarchs to kick Biden off the ballot.

Then they allowed these same unelected oligarchs to crown Harris as the only candidate the dems were permitted to vote for in the general election.

It's a lie when the dems say they respect and defend "our democracy," because all they have been doing since 2024, is reject our election process, reject our federal immigration laws, and trample on our constitution.

 

[frigidweirdo]

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

The utterly insipid demonstrations planned for Saturday are a great manifestation of U.S. Leftism in this, the era of Trump. They have no agenda, no plan, nothing to offer the American people other than a sophomoric hate for the President who roundly defeated them last November. To call their movement, "No Kings" is tantamount to saying, "Up with the Good; Down with the Bad." No one can argue with it, but it is meaningless.

The linked article tries to make the case that No Kings has the Republicans quaking in their figurative boots, but I don't see any of that. When your adversary is making an ass of itself speaking, the best strategy is simply to let it speak.

Our Beloved President, bringing a private-sector resume to the ultimate public sector executive position, is exploring the limits of Presidential powers, expecting to be shot down in some instances and successful in others. This is not "authoritarianism," it is good management - a strategy that will benefit everyone who succeeds him in the Presidency.

My older sister (86 and counting) participated with dozens of her bunkmates at an independent living facility in the last No Kings rally, and she was proud as punch for the experience. I figure she was a bit too old for the anti-war protests during Vietnam and she's finally finding a "cause" that she can protest about, even though nobody can articulate its meaning other than, "We are pissed off that we lost the last election."

I used to think that Leftists would never be able to surpass the stupidity of the Occupy protests, but I admit I was wrong. It is interesting that they didn't plan this for a Friday. Essentially none of them work for a living, and it would have been much more disruptive.

So you don't understand, spend no time to understand, and therefore come to the conclusion that this is all a waste of time?

I'd think people protesting a guy who doesn't understand the Constitution, doesn't care about the Constitution and is increasingly looking at China, Russia and North Korea to see how they do things, and copying them, would actually make you take notice.

But no. You know it's not your "team" so you hate what they're saying without even thinking.

 

[BULLDOG]

These "No Kings" protests are a complete waste of time. They have no objectives at all, none. They are not protesting to improve health care, to end corrupt K-Street lobbyists, to grow the economy, to cut taxes, to improve social welfare, to end a war, to save the planet, hell, they aren't even protesting to allow illegal aliens to remain in the US.

This stupid "No Kings" movement is just so perpetually angry, TDS afflicted Democrats can gather together and throw a hissy fit, shake their fists and shout at the sky.

Nobody will make you participate.

 

[Wapasha]

Nobody will make you participate.

Participate in what? This movement is vapid and empty, there’s no formal platform, measurable policy demand, or organized coalition of the grieved citizens that can be identified and addressed. It's just TDS afflicted haters throwing hissy fits on public streets, and waking around carrying signs.

 

[BULLDOG]

Participate in what? This movement is vapid and empty, there’s no formal platform, measurable policy demand, or organized coalition of the grieved citizens that can be identified and addressed. It's just TDS afflicted haters throwing hissy fits on public streets, and waking around carrying signs.

Then why are you and every other crazy trump cult member so riled up about it?

 

[marvin martian]

It's a lie when the dems say they respect and defend "our democracy," because all they have been doing since 2024, is reject our election process, reject our federal immigration laws, and trample on our constitution.

Great post, but the Democrats haven't accepted the results of an election they didn't win since 2000.

For more than a quarter of a century, Democrats have denied the results of every election they didn't win, often violently.

Election denial and political violence are the cornerstones of the Democrat party's platform.

 

[Wapasha]

Then why are you and every other crazy trump cult member so riled up about it?

Not riled up, just pointing how fake the left is, and how mindless the Democrat voters have become.

They all sat there and watched the candidate they voted for in the 2024 primary, get his duly won nomination to be on the general election ballot stolen from him.

Then they sat mindlessly as they were told they can only vote for Harris.

Now the Democrat voters are mindlessly marching for a protest that has no articulated agenda, and there is nothing even remotely tangible for Congress or state lawmakers to negotiate over.

The 1960s gave us the civil rights agenda. The 1970s had the environmental movement. Those protests mattered! They forced congress to pass sweeping legislation for clean air and water and civil rights.

I'm trying to wake up the "woke" on the Democrat side. These people are in a dream-like state, mindlessly and angrily protesting for nothing, which will accomplish to nothing.

 

[BULLDOG]

Not riled up, just pointing how fake the left is, and how mindless the Democrat voters have become.

They all sat there and watched the candidate they voted for in the 2024 primary, get his duly won nomination to be on the general election ballot stolen from him.

Then they sat mindlessly as they were told they can only vote for Harris.

Now the Democrat voters are mindlessly marching for a protest that has no articulated agenda, and there is nothing even remotely tangible for Congress or state lawmakers to negotiate over.

The 1960s gave us the civil rights agenda. The 1970s had the environmental movement. Those protests mattered! They forced congress to pass sweeping legislation for clean air and water and civil rights.

I'm trying to wake up the "woke" on the Democrat side. These people are in a dream-like state, mindlessly and angrily protesting for nothing, which will accomplish to nothing.

We got this. worry about your own shit.

 

[TimFitz]

Our constitutional system elected Trump as our president, and the TDS are upset about that. The deranged "No Kings" protests are protesting our Democratic system, because their candidate lost.

The "No Kings" protesters abandoned "our democracy" when they rejected their own Democratic Party primary election which nominated Joe Biden. They spit on the entire process, and threw all those primary votes away, when they sat their like stooges and allowed the oligarchs to kick Biden off the ballot.

Then they allowed these same unelected oligarchs to crown Harris as the only candidate the dems were permitted to vote for in the general election.

It's a lie when the dems say they respect and defend "our democracy," because all they have been doing since 2024, is reject our election process, reject our federal immigration laws, and trample on our constitution.

All of this is false. Which is typical.

“No Kings” is not a protest of the last election, as you deliberately misrepresent it to be.

It is a protest against the open lawlessness, serial corruption, incompetence, vulgarity and international disgrace by the man who won it.

It is also a protest against this lawless President, who could care less about either the Constitution or the rule of law.

And since this man routinely parades his imperial ambitions, it is a protest of that too.

He has already tried to suborn American Democratic rule once.

He’s trying it again on a slower, but much larger scale.

And protests will continue until that threat to what we stand for either leaves office or is removed.

 

[Wapasha]

We got this. worry about your own shit.

Got what? Your reasoning is circular. The “No Kings” protests lack a coherent message, and it has no actionable purpose. Therefore, there’s nothing meaningful to “get” or “participate” in — since these protests don’t articulate any specific goal or end game to achieve. You need to wake up. Engage in something meaningful to try and make a change. Well, besides engaging in, or promoting and encouraging violence, that is.

 

[Wapasha]

All of this is false. Which is typical.

“No Kings” is not a protest of the last election, as you deliberately misrepresent it to be.

It is a protest against the open lawlessness, serial corruption, incompetence, vulgarity and international disgrace by the man who won it.

It is also a protest against this lawless President, who could care less about either the Constitution or the rule of law.

And since this man routinely parades his imperial ambitions, it is a protest of that too.

He has already tried to suborn American Democratic rule once.

He’s trying it again on a slower, but much larger scale.

And protests will continue until that threat to what we stand for either leaves office or is removed.

My contention is that "No Kings" is vapid and hollow.

Okay, let's pretend it's a protest against Trump's "open lawlessness, serial corruption, incompetence, vulgarity and international disgrace." There is no manifesto, no actionable agenda, and no legislative actions before Congress. Go to the official web site, it's bereft of any coherent policy alternative, no logical foundation of anything from you, which I quoted above in bold.

The last election illustrated that it was the Democrats who "suborned American Democratic rule," e.g. democracy, when they kicked Biden off the ballot and forced Harris onto the ballot as the only candidate permitted.

The only person trashing our Constitution and figuratively speaking, declaring herself queen, was Harris, when she took part in deposing Biden from the ballot and ordaining herself herself as some type of hereditary figure on the ballot.

 

[marvin martian]

There is no manifesto, no actionable agenda, and no legislative actions before Congress. Go to the official web site, it's bereft of any coherent policy alternative, no logical foundation of anything from you I quoted in bold, above.

That's the case for the entire DemoKKKrat party right now.

 

[Papageorgio]

What they protest is great, I have no issue and I don’t care what they are protesting, our country was built on protesting. So they can protest all they want as long as they are peaceful. I don’t agree but it was nice to see peaceful protest, someone maybe learning.

 

[schmidlap]

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

The utterly insipid demonstrations planned for Saturday are a great manifestation of U.S. Leftism in this, the era of Trump. They have no agenda, no plan, nothing to offer the American people other than a sophomoric hate for the President who roundly defeated them last November. To call their movement, "No Kings" is tantamount to saying, "Up with the Good; Down with the Bad." No one can argue with it, but it is meaningless.

The linked article tries to make the case that No Kings has the Republicans quaking in their figurative boots, but I don't see any of that. When your adversary is making an ass of itself speaking, the best strategy is simply to let it speak.

Our Beloved President, bringing a private-sector resume to the ultimate public sector executive position, is exploring the limits of Presidential powers, expecting to be shot down in some instances and successful in others. This is not "authoritarianism," it is good management - a strategy that will benefit everyone who succeeds him in the Presidency.

My older sister (86 and counting) participated with dozens of her bunkmates at an independent living facility in the last No Kings rally, and she was proud as punch for the experience. I figure she was a bit too old for the anti-war protests during Vietnam and she's finally finding a "cause" that she can protest about, even though nobody can articulate its meaning other than, "We are pissed off that we lost the last election."

I used to think that Leftists would never be able to surpass the stupidity of the Occupy protests, but I admit I was wrong. It is interesting that they didn't plan this for a Friday. Essentially none of them work for a living, and it would have been much more disruptive.

Trump's cult is aroused by authoritarian rule, and is appalled by all the Americans who refuse to surrender to it.

The survey from the Public Religion Research Institute gave people two options. One was that Trump is a “potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys democracy.” The other was that he’s a “strong leader who should be given the power he needs to restore America’s greatness.”

Americans chose the “dictator” option by a strong margin, 56%-41%...

56% said Trump had gone “too far” in “using the power of the presidency and executive branch,” according to a July CNN poll. That was up from 52% in February.
57% said Trump had gone “too far” in using presidential power to achieve his goals, according to an April AP-NORC poll.
62% said Trump has gone beyond his authority as president, according to a September Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
69% said Trump was exercising more presidential power than other recent presidents, and 49% said both that and that it was “bad” for the country, according to a September Pew Research Center poll.
54% of registered voters said he is “exceeding the powers available to him,” according to a September New York Times-Siena College poll. (That included nearly 1 in 5 Republicans.)

... there is no question that Trump has disregarded the limits of his authority — and disregarded Congress — in extraordinary ways. The protesters don’t seem to be arguing that Trump is technically a monarch, so much as that he’s seeking to exercise unchecked power when he can.

And that seems to be an argument that a majority of Americans sympathize with.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/no-kings-rallies-trump-analysis

 

[struth]

Trump's cult is aroused by authoritarian rule, and is appalled by all the Americans who refuse to surrender to it.

The survey from the Public Religion Research Institute gave people two options. One was that Trump is a “potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys democracy.” The other was that he’s a “strong leader who should be given the power he needs to restore America’s greatness.”

Americans chose the “dictator” option by a strong margin, 56%-41%...

56% said Trump had gone “too far” in “using the power of the presidency and executive branch,” according to a July CNN poll. That was up from 52% in February.
57% said Trump had gone “too far” in using presidential power to achieve his goals, according to an April AP-NORC poll.
62% said Trump has gone beyond his authority as president, according to a September Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
69% said Trump was exercising more presidential power than other recent presidents, and 49% said both that and that it was “bad” for the country, according to a September Pew Research Center poll.
54% of registered voters said he is “exceeding the powers available to him,” according to a September New York Times-Siena College poll. (That included nearly 1 in 5 Republicans.)

... there is no question that Trump has disregarded the limits of his authority — and disregarded Congress — in extraordinary ways. The protesters don’t seem to be arguing that Trump is technically a monarch, so much as that he’s seeking to exercise unchecked power when he can.

And that seems to be an argument that a majority of Americans sympathize with.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/no-kings-rallies-trump-analysis

How has he disregarded the limits of his authority and Congress in extraordinary ways?

 

[ThisIsMe]

Here are your "peaceful" liberals:

 

[dudmuck]

How has he disregarded the limits of his authority and Congress in extraordinary ways?

withholding funds authorized by congress
dismantling agencies authorized by congress.
Blocking congressional oversight, and changing laws.

 

[schmidlap]

How has he disregarded the limits of his authority and Congress in extraordinary ways?

The devotion of hi cult would compel them to grovel at his every authoritarian imposition, but it's good to see that so many freedom-loving Americans get it.

 

[22lcidw]

Then why are you and every other crazy trump cult member so riled up about it?

We really are not. We just voice our opinions. I will say many are getting ready for you. When you come to them and push your agendas on them. Most likely if there is no civil war discourse you will win. The communist dictator we will have in the future will thank you by exterminating anyone who does not get with the new realities. There will be only one way of living. Hetero marriages with children. For the all mighty state. It is you who are acting out.