No Kings protests flop?
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Sunday, April 19, 2026 16:01
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Here's something to protest: Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship.
Not if you're an anchor baby. If your parents aren't citizens and don't belong here, you don't either.
They're all going home.
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Hilarious HUMILIATION: 'No Kings' Protest Fizzles with TINY Crowds and Failed Chants
"MSNBC had a MUCH larger crowd than what CNN was airing at the same time."
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I noticed the demographics too. A bunch of white haired boomers, maybe like he said "a 60's hippie reunion".
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Haha....
Yeah. That's what my old man was telling me.
I said it must have been all the old hippies that didn't sell their souls and become CEOs and Politicians. They're so old they don't even realize that the Democratic Party ain't even their party anymore.
Pathetic.
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MAGA’s spin on No Kings Day 2 was both insane and revealing
Donald Trump has not yet consolidated anything like absolute political power. But parts of our society — the Republican Party and supposedly independent institutions like CBS — are in effect living inside a bubble in which they operate as if he has. Within that bubble, a cult of personality around Trump has been built, a cult of personality worthy of Kim Jong Un. And to show their fealty to Dear Leader, Republicans must engage in bizarre rhetoric.
What are we to make of the completely unhinged things Republicans were saying in advance of the protests?
CNN has a good rundown of the craziness coming from leading Republicans in advance of No Kings Day 2. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the house, called them “hate America rallies” consisting entirely of the “pro-Hamas wing” and antifa. Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary — remember when people thought he was the adult in the room? — said that the demonstrations would involve “the most unhinged in the Democratic Party.” And Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, attacked the whole Democratic base: “The Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.”
These claims were all self-evidently absurd. So why make them? CNN says that it was a “weird strategy”: Calling grandmothers Hamas terrorists won’t convince anyone who isn’t already deep in the MAGA tank and will backfire as those not in the tank see the disconnect between this rhetoric and the reality of the protests.
But it all makes sense once you realize that what we have been seeing in operation isn’t the Trump administration’s strategy for dealing with its critics. It is, instead, the strategies of individual MAGA apparatchiks for dealing with He Who Must Be Obeyed.
Political scientist Xavier Marquez noted that autocracies that cultivate a cult of personality around their leader are prone to “flattery inflation.” Marquez’s examples go all the way back to the Emperor Caligula, but the logic has remained the same over the centuries.
Here’s how it works. The ruler’s lackeys and courtiers believe that they must praise him to the skies, proving their loyalty by offering paeans to his wisdom, character, and golf game. And they must continually up the ante.
How do you show your loyalty? By paying the costs of humiliation. The more grotesquely over the top your praise, the more credible it is as a signal of support for Dear Leader. Apparatchiks’ willingness to degrade themselves will hurt their reputation with other people. But for exactly that reason, it serves as proof of loyalty to the one man who counts, Donald Trump. The more appalling the self-abasement, the more effectively it will serve this purpose.
A similar process of self-reinforcement applies to telling lies that serve the autocrat’s ego. Call it “mendacity inflation.” Trump insists that he’s overwhelmingly popular and that only a lunatic fringe disapproves of his presidency. Well, to show loyalty his hangers-on must go further, declaring that grandmothers and parents pushing prams down 7th Avenue are illegal aliens and violent criminals. The humiliating absurdity is a feature, not a bug. Simply lying about demonstrators isn’t enough; to prove their MAGA mettle, people in Trump’s orbit must tell lies that are grotesque and ridiculous.
Again, what’s historically odd about this is that while Trump’s personal depravity may match that of historical autocrats, his power doesn’t. Call him Caligula, if you like, but he can’t order Senators — even Republican Senators — to commit suicide. (Dear historians: yes, I know that many of the stories told about Caligula were probably exaggerated.) He’s only able to act as if he has absolute power within a limited enclave, a bubble created by greed and fear.
Does it matter whether people are out there marching and carrying signs, even if they number in the millions? Well, there is a solid body of research by political scientists like Erica Chenoweth about the effects of
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The only people here with a personality cult around Trump are SECOND and THGR, with theurcendless repetitive posts about
TRUMP.
TRUMP?
TRUMP!
Trumptrumptrumptrumptrump
Trump Trumpity Trump
Pmurt.
More Trump!
Get a life.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Trump posted on social media himself dumping his diarrhea on No Kings:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The only people here with a personality cult around Trump are SECOND and THGR, with theurcendless repetitive posts about
TRUMP.
TRUMP?
TRUMP!
Trumptrumptrumptrumptrump
Trump Trumpity Trump
Pmurt.
More Trump!
Get a life.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37057764/crowned-donald-trump-dumps-brow
n-sludge/
Agolf Shitler and his Turd Reich must go
https://imgur.com/gallery/no-kings-agolf-shitler-his-reich-vU2NQ6e
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I think Libtards really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get Trumptards saying they are against anti-fascism. Using antifa is giving Trumptards some distance. I genuinely think some Trumptards don't even know what antifa or anti-fascism stands for.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Your posts show just how ignorant and dishonest you guys are. Wow, all the evidence shows that 7 million protested. Two million more than last time, which was between 2.5 and 4.8 million. And yes Gilligan, I was there. See if you can pick me out.
Signym, who desperately wants to be seen as an honest poster, broker on these threads, can add this thread to the piles of evidence she is not. She can’t even get real about this protest. If you must lie comrade, you’re wrong and the opposite must be true. Of course, Jack sat at home. That’s what a big mouth does. Talk shit and watch others; the movers and shakers get it done. The only MAGA that showed up were those who are sick of Trump.
And yeah, I had a great time.
T 
Millions protest nationwide for 'No Kings' Day
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