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canetoad

(21,021 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:18 AM Oct 2025

The title 'No Kings'

Is past it's use-by date. And far too polite to describe what's happening.

Besides, the kings that really pissed off their people usually didn't last long. I can't think of any king who carried on the way tsf does and didn't end up deposed with prejudice.

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canetoad

(21,021 posts)
2. Yeah - nah
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:40 AM
Oct 2025

Maybe a single word - modern, assertive....I don't really know what fires people up to get some People Power going. Maybe just start calling it that. It worked for Corazon Aquino, in Ukraine and I guess other places.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
7. Back when Gov. Howard Dean ran for president his campaign was called People Powered Howard
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:55 AM
Oct 2025

I still have some of the t-shirts around, tho I don’t recall if they have the slogan on them.

My personal grievance is a severe lack of political protest music in this century. The right kind of music gets people unified.

GoodRaisin

(11,056 posts)
11. I like it. Dictator best describes what he is.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:10 AM
Oct 2025

We don’t use it enough. M$M is afraid to say it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
3. No Kings is fine, but how do you like No Tyrants?
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:43 AM
Oct 2025

Saturday October 18. No Kings!

Find a No Kings protest near you
https://www.nokings.org/

canetoad

(21,021 posts)
5. I literally had the thought when typing
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:45 AM
Oct 2025

The answer above to Hekate.

People Power. It's dynamic and true. Power returned to the people.

NJCher

(43,522 posts)
9. No Kings has seen it's day
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:09 AM
Oct 2025

Time for a new theme, for sure. Yes, he still acts like a king but this has been over shadowed by his mental decline.

BigmanPigman

(55,524 posts)
10. I believe that the enormous turnout for June 14, NO KINGS was
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:02 AM
Oct 2025

so successful that it should be used again to remind the same 5-11 million protesters to march on Oct 18th. It's the same theme/idea.

Over 2,100 are already planned and this will be even larger than the original NO KINGS.

werdna

(1,252 posts)
12. I, along with 2000+ protest organizers -
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:13 AM
Oct 2025

- in all fifty states respectfully disagree. The name still resonates with the perception of our Founding Fathers that, We the People, will not tolerate subjugation to one individual, sane or, as in Trumps case, seriously deranged.

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