Protesters in Atlanta: 'Just Patriotic Americans' - Unlike Traitor Trump
Denver: "Jeffrey Dahmer has fewer convictions than Trump"
Display in Denver portrays how Trump's 'Axis of evil' has taken over the nation
Over 100,000 in NYC protest the tyrant Trump
Protesters in Denver: 'Release the Epstein Files' Protesters in Trump's 'backyard' - West Palm Beach FL Protests in Minneapolis: Message to Mike Johnson
"This is what being a citizen is all about. When things are going well people take democracy for granted. And I think what we now realize is 'Oh no!' Something must be done. Democracy is not self-executing, we have to do something. We have to vote, we have to show allegiance, we have to protest when James Comey and Letitia James are targets of vindictive investigations and prosecutions. We have to say 'No' when colleges and law firms capitulate.
There is a thrill to being on the right side of history. These MAGA Republicans are not only evil but stupid. Because I believe their insane claims helped boost turnout yesterday" - Jennifer Rubin, on Velshi, yesterday a.m.
"Deploying the military against our peaceful cities is part
of the ruin trump is wreaking on our nation. Now he has also decided to destroy
part of the White House in order to build himself some sort of a ballroom where
he can show off even more than he already does. But I suppose the ruination of
part of the people's historic White House is not as important as the ruination
of our freedoms. Seven million people demonstrated across the whole country,
and there was no violence whatsoever. Trump's totally disgusting unAmerican,
subhuman response is that Ai video dumping feces upon us. He is truly public
enemy numero uno." - NY Times comment
"The mood of optimism and humor that came out of Portland and was organically adopted in these protests is a spectacular way to push back against would be autocrats. It's because they cannot handle humor. These protesters did that in spades." - Miles Taylor, author of 'Blowback - A Warning To Save Democracy From The next Trump', on Velshi, yesterday a.m.
A beautiful sight unfolded Saturday as more than 7 million genuine patriots in over 2.500 locations, made their feelings known on Trump's steady destruction of the government and Constitution.
"Hate America" fulminations as the MAGA dummies assert? Nope, roundly hating the first felon ever elected to lead this nation and everything he and his minions have done. Such as ripping away all environmental protections in favor of fossil fuels, militarizing U.S. cities, and holding the nation to ransom in a shutdown as they use it to lay off even more federal workers.
Meanwhile, in Colorado and other states food banks are now emptied - especially of proteins - as the Trump Mafia cut $500 million from the USDA funding that would have gone to SNAP. Then there is the ongoing prosecution of citizens for merely criticizing the swine, and dispatching ICE masked thugs to take down innocents in Chicago, even as they blow fishermen out of the water off the coast of Venezuela. Hate Donald Trump protests, you better believe it and you only have to see the signs and elaborate get ups - from comparing Trump to Dahmer (the Milwaukee cannibal - who killed and ate 16 victims), to bearing signs reading 'Fascist Felon". This was the First Amendment in action.
Of course, there will always be self-important nitwit columnists who seek to diminish or dismiss what transpired, such as Krista Kafer in an op-ed Denver Post column ('No Kings Rally Has Lost Even This Trump Critic', p. D2) yesterday. Whining:
"What did this No Kings protest accomplish? What was the message? Was it heard by anyone other than those making it? Did it change a single mind? Probably not."
In which case she's lost in a delusionary la-la version of Trump land, despite proclaiming she's a critic of Trumpism. Because as Miles Taylor put it on Velshi yesterday morning:
"Look, this president does genuinely view any dissent as treason. If that is true, we saw over seven million very proud traitors in the streets yesterday. But that's not what they were. What I saw, certainly in D.C., was patriotic Americans exercising their first amendment rights peacefully without a single terrorist, rioter or paid protester in sight. And I don't think we should let those words go. Those words that were leveled against these protesters before they even took the streets. Because it's a very alarming indication of where our country's headed which is to criminalize protests."
But it seems like Krista Kafer is quite ready to let them go. Indeed, maybe she has no clue where the country is headed as when she babbles:
"No Kings makes no sense. Yes, Trump is mendacious, vengeful and unscrupulous. He continuously violates constitutional boundaries by violating due process and usurping the legislature's prerogatives. He alienated foreign allies and uses government power to punish opponents. But he isn't the first to abuse power in these ways."
Well, maybe Krista was either asleep or not paying attention when the scenes emerged out of Chicago showing Black Hawk helicopters deployed over a South Shore apartment building with ICE thugs and FBI rappelling down onto the building. Then rampaging through apartments and hauling over thirty people out - including citizens - and putting zip ties on kids. Terrorizing the community, e.g.
ICE raid in Chicago terrorizes community
Or maybe also she didn't see the clip showing ICE thugs firing a pepper bullet into the head of a Presbyterian priest praying in front of one ICE-controlled bldg. e.g.
ICE agents shoot pastor in head with pepper ball
Or perhaps she never saw or processed the scenes of the extra-judicial killing of Venezuelan fishermen outside the sea limits of the U.S. Ordered by Herr Trump! (One wife of one of the victims told the NY Times he was a fisherman as were the others on his boat.)
Trump administration strikes a seventh alleged drug boat, killing 3, Hegseth says - CBS News
Venezuelan fishermen in fear after US strikes on boats in the Caribbean
And we won't even go into how Trump's repeated calls for his prosecutors to file criminal charges against adversaries have totally destroyed the DOJ's independence from the White House - making all the prosecutions a sham and undermining the rule of law. As the Wall Street Journal's Kimberely Strassel has pointed out, Trump's 'lawfare' goes far beyond anything Dem presidents have done - and even Richard Nixon.
Maybe, just maybe, Krista Kafer is simply too ignorant of American history - or world history - to know these are the collective tactics of a wannabe dictator. And NO president of these United States has ever used them before. As one of the No Kings organizers noted in the same Denver Post ('No Kings Rally Draws Tens of Thousands Across State, p. 1c):
"Today, millions of Americans stood together to reject authoritarianism and remind the world that our democracy belongs to the people, not to one man's ambition. This movement isn't about a single protest, it's about a growing chorus of Americans who refuse to be ruled."
Or as one protester in D.C. put it:
"We don't hate America. We hate what they - Trump and his minions - are doing to America."
Exactly!
And if poor Ms. Krista needs any more basis for these protests I suggest she read the two comments - from Jennifer Rubin and Miles Taylor - at the top of this post.
As for the proto-fascist Reeptards screaming that all those protesting on No Kings day were 'Hamas, Antifa or Marxists" maybe they need a lesson in logic. Namely the basis for the false association fallacy e.g.
"President Trump wants to make America great again. If protesters hate Trump then they must hate America"
They're promoting, which is a fallacy given:
- A person or idea is not the same as a country. A political leader, even a president, is not the physical embodiment of the nation itself. Protesters can disagree with a politician's policies, actions, or rhetoric while still being patriotic and loving their country.
- The argument is designed to manipulate emotions. By equating criticism of the president with "hating America," the argument appeals to the emotions and loyalty people feel for their country. This emotional appeal is intended to close off legitimate discussion about specific grievances or policies.
- It creates a false dilemma. The argument presents only two options: support the president or hate America. This ignores the wide range of positions people can hold, including disagreeing with a leader while still wanting what's best for their country.
- It's often a form of character assassination. This type of rhetoric attacks the protesters' character and patriotism rather than engaging with their specific arguments or concerns. This distracts from the actual issues being protested, which is a tactic often used in autocracies.
Beyond all this we now have solid proof the massive No Kings protests got under "the King's" thin skin. As Miles Taylor noted (top quote) "autocrats can't handle humor". He was so PO'd - but feeling neutered- he created an AI-generated video of him wearing a King's crown- flying in an F-16 - and bombing the protesters in NYC with tons of shit.
Shit bomber King Bonespurs
Squeaky Mikey Johnson insisted Dotard was "just using satire" but anyone with half a brain knows he could have done that without resorting to fecal matter drops. As NY Times Michelle Goldberg pointed out it merely reflected Trump's yen to "debase and cheapen" - also as one NYT commenter said "Indicative of a 3-year-old".
See e.g.
Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives. - The New York Times
Excerpt:
This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump
seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the
citizenry with excrement.
On Saturday, perhaps stung by the enormous nationwide “No
Kings” protests, Trump posted an A.I.-generated video on Truth Social that
inadvertently captured his approach to governing. In it the president, wearing
a crown, flies a “Top Gun”-style fighter plane labeled “King Trump” above
American cities crowded with demonstrators, dumping gargantuan loads of feces
on them. Amplifying it on social media, the White House communications director
Steven Cheung gleefully wrote that the president was defecating “all over these
No Kings losers!”
It is not at this point
surprising that Trump holds half the country in contempt, or that he treats
urban America as a group of restive colonies to be brutally subdued. This is a
man who told the military it should use our cities as “training grounds” for
foreign operations, and who has sent both troops and federal agents to
terrorize Los Angeles and other cities. The president’s attempts to demote the
residents of blue America from citizens to subjects have become so routine they
barely make headlines anymore.
The Trump gang’s compulsion to debase and cheapen almost
everything they touch is far more than a matter of style. Perhaps the most
puzzling thing about the second Trump administration has been its attacks on
pillars of American strength that pose no challenge to its ideology. It was
predictable that the White House would gut support for the humanities, but not
that it would defund pediatric cancer research. I expected it to try
to eliminate the Department of Education, but not to deliberately wreck the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, which helps communities in both red and
blue states when they’re beset by disasters.
What’s
curious, then, is not Trump’s eagerness to degrade us, but his uncontrollable
urge to defile himself and his office.
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by Thom Hartmann | October 21, 2025 - 4:58am | permalink
— from The Hartmann Report
The No Kings Day protests last weekend were breathtaking. Seven million or more Americans filled streets across the country explicitly condemning the way Trump has been running our country. They carried handmade signs, sang freedom songs, and for one afternoon reminded the nation that resistance still burns hot.
But here’s the hard truth: that energy, that passion, that righteousness means very little if it doesn’t translate into structure and leadership. Movements that fail to coalesce around leaders and build institutions typically die in the glare of their own moral light or fail to produce results.
We’ve seen it before. The Women’s March drew millions. Occupy Wall Street electrified a generation. Black Lives Matter shook the conscience of the nation. But without leadership, durable organizations, funding networks, and consistent strategy, these movements faded from the political field as quickly as they filled it.
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by Jaime O’Neill | October 19, 2025 - 5:18am | permalink
Yesterday, I joined with millions of my fellow Americans from sea to shining sea and beyond to express serious antipathy for monarchy, Donald Trump, armed and masked thugs paid to terrorize the citizenry, and other discontents. For me, that was in Sacramento, California’s state capital. If seemed a rather festive gathering with people sharing smiles, reveling in one another’s company, and bearing placards, the most common of which read “No Kings,” or variations on that theme. There were kids and dogs which lightened the tone. There had been a shadow of fear about provocations from Kristi Noem’s gestapo forces or Proud Boys, et. al. The Republicans had been encouraging their fellow fascists that anyone who showed up to a No Kings march would only do that because they hate America. Imagine that.
I had pledged myself to turn out for this long-awaited protest, if for no other reason than to bring my experience with protesting full circle. I also wanted to see if I was still capable of walking from Sutter’s Fort to the grounds of the capitol building, not to trash the place as had been done by that insurrectionist crowd that had beaten cops, broken windows, searched for the then current Vice President with the intent to hang him, and expressed themselves by shitting wherever they thought that would register as the clearest signal that they were mad and hell and weren’t going to hold it anymore.
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Trump HUMILIATED After "No Kings" Meme War BACKFIRES!
And:
by Robert Freeman | October 20, 2025 - 5:12am | permalink
The rally was in Livermore, California, a burgh of about 85,000, 50 miles to the east of San Francisco. This is a small, exemplary sampling of the many hundreds of signs carried by the many thousands of protesters.
“Memo to the fascists: peaceful protest is not violent insurrection.”
“ICE is Trump’s Gestapo.”
“When cruelty becomes normal, compassion becomes radical.”
“No Dick-tators.”
“Super callous fragile racist lying nazi POTUS.”
“No faux-king way we’re gonna take this.”
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by Harvey Wasserman | October 20, 2025 - 5:05am | permalink
The massively successful NoKings2.0 has again underlined Donald Trump’s four failing MAGA fascist roots: male dominance; global white dominance; US financial dominance; and the end of fossil/nuclear fuels.
They’re all linked to the impending collapse of the petro-dollar, the century-old pillar of American prosperity, about to disappear.
Autocratic hucksters like Adolph Hitler and Donald Trump have forever feasted on the human inability to cope with a perceived loss of status.
Hitler’s Nazi putsch was rooted in Germany’s inability to accept losing World War I.
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by Phil Rockstroh | October 20, 2025 - 4:59am | permalink
— from Phil Rockstroh's Substack
Absolutely no kings, despots, tyrants, dictators, Big Brothers, Dear Leaders, Il Duces, oligarchs, plutocrat CEOs, fairytale princes and vain princesses, grandiose techbros, galactic emperors, wrathful sky gods, princes of darkness…I am all in for protest marches to oppose despotic power e.g., No Kings events. All the best to you. Yet a march as day excursion…simply marching, hoisting witty signs, and chanting slogans into indifference air will not stop the extant and fast approaching fascist juggernaut.
An individual — my wretched, narrow ass included — must commit oneself mind, body, and soul to the challenge of resisting entrenched, ruthless, and treacherous power. The revolt begins within…against despair. Create something funny, beautiful, and heartbreakingly true. Bring it to the struggle—and keep bringing it.
The largest measure of living is: to continue showing up.
On my Facebook page, a rage-gripped commenter snarled at me in pixel, insisting the above passage was love paean to The Liberal Class and the DNC.
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