The No Kings protest really has the MAGA creeps shook

[Quiet Em]

A couple of these jerks drove through the one I attended in June. They get really mad that people don't like them or their con artist. It's clear that there is an effort to get more of these creeps to show up this time. If they do they will quickly realize that they are vastly outnumbered and people are not going to be intimidated by them. I'm looking forward to my local No Kings. Our June turnout was huge and I expect this one to have a large turnout as well.

[Walleye]

1. I think it's great that it's in all these different locations. We get a chance to come out and meet our neighbors.

[Quiet Em]

2. Absolutely. We met so many wonderful people at the last one.

The camaraderie was amazing.

[Attilatheblond]

4. Have a neighbor who is 'woke', aware, rock solid life long liberal, follows good news sources and is well informed

He lives alone, is smart, sensitive, shy, and therefore, has few distractions from the news, few contacts outside his TV and computer. His depression was getting the better of him and he is too good a neighbor to let go down the rabbit hole of despair.

Finally managed to get him to try going to one of our local protests, figuring he would see/meet other good, well informed people and maybe not feel so hopeless/helpless about all the ways things are going to hell.

It worked! He actually enjoyed seeing the turnout & meeting a few positive people. Went to the next protest. Texted photos of himself to his kids in other states. Showed off his 'kids' selfies they sent from their local protests.

He started going to a local DEM club with me and seeing the good things being done to advance DEM candidates, policies, and local groups that are helping less fortunate people.

He was SO looking forward to No Kings on the 18th, that he showed up at our protest location on Sept 18. Wondered where everybody was, texted and asked if he got the date wrong. Told him: Right day, wrong month. He is really looking forward to tomorrow. Shopped for travel size grooming/hygiene products to help our local Rural Outreach group's project to provide hygiene products for our homeless population here abouts.

He has always been a clear thinking, rock solid liberal, but being older and alone can make any/all of us feel hopeless. Now, he knows that, even as the days get shorter for people like him and me, we still have a lot of power and we have more friends than we ever knew existed.

Moral of my story: Invite those who are alone and seething with rage from feeling hopeless to fight the ugly tyranny raising so many threats to our nation. Especially, check in on veterans who could use some social contact and HOPE. If they aren't sure they want to join a protest, let them know they can follow you if they want to come, give them a time when you will be pulling out of your driveway to go. Chances are good, they will. You will have put a tool in their hands and they might just join the movement to let the fascists know we won't fold.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. This is how it is done: reach out, network, make friends, build sustained protest. . . . . . nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. MaddowBlog-As Republicans slander No Kings rallies, the party is proving progressive activists' point

Centuries after “L’État, c’est moi,” Republicans are putting their own twist on the adage: “I am the state” has effectively become “Trump is the state.”

The more Republicans argue that to oppose Trump at No Kings protests is to “hate America,” the more they prove the protesters’ point.

For too much of the GOP, “L’État, c’est moi” has effectively evolved into “Trump is the state.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-17T16:01:01.982Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-slander-no-kings-rallies-party-proving-progressive-activis-rcna238179

Ahead of Saturday’s No Kings rallies, Republican officials haven’t exactly been subtle in what they want to convey. The Washington Post reported:

Ahead of thousands of anti-authoritarian ‘No Kings’ protests planned for Saturday across the United States, Republicans are trying to brand the demonstrations as ‘hate America’ rallies, ramping up their rhetoric about the millions of people expected to peacefully protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies as they did in June.

After House Speaker Mike Johnson used the line a week ago, claiming the No Kings protest scheduled in Washington, D.C., deserved to be seen as a “hate America rally,” I started taking notes on how many GOP officials embraced that phrasing.....

“L’État, c’est moi” is a phrase attributed to 17th century French King Louis XIV. Now, 370 years later, Republicans are putting their own twist on the adage: “I am the state” has effectively become “Trump is the state.”

The party has been headed down this path for much of the year. Indeed, the president, not long after his second inaugural described himself as a “king,” which came just days after he similarly declared, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” a phrase often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Link to tweet

It was around this time when an official White House social media account released a portrait showing a grinning Trump wearing a crown.

Eight months later, his party has decided that anti-Trump protests deserve to be labeled “hate America” events.

If the goal was to discourage participation in the rallies, I have a hunch the GOP slurs will have the opposite effect.

Here is a better pdf of trump wearing his crown

trump really does believe that he is king and it taking these rallies very personally

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. That Vance, Johnson and others denounced it BEFORE the event means they fear it

They fear it so much that they want to take the risk of giving it publicity so they can get in front of it to lay the seeds for their after-the-event minimization of its importance.

[Attilatheblond]

7. They might be trying to rally THEIR supporters to try and disrupt us

We are the majority and if we turn out, their piss-ant attempts to make light of us will make them look like Wile E. Coyote after the ACME box arrived.