Glenn Reynolds reports — with photos — from the Boston "No Kings" event.
Makes me kind of wish I'd walked downtown to get some pictures of the Madison march. I was wary of violence. You never know.
But here's David Blaska covering the Madison event, with photos. Text: "'No Kings,' like many a partisan demonstration, was a BYO punch bowl of Leftist causes: End the War on Drugs. No Public Land Sales. Trans rights. My Body, My Choice. And, unforgivably 'Free Gaza.' No outward support for the Ayatollah, at least. Our favorite placard: 'Local Unpaid Agitator.' Note this well: at least nine of 10 signs were home made. My fellow Republicans will dismiss this as the work of George Soros and his checkbook at their peril...."
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I don’t care for the implication because ‘homemade’ signs are present it means this isn’t a top down, well funded leftist operation. It’s ignorant, like ‘widespread voter fraud’…
:"My fellow Republicans" .... what, what, what!
"This is what Democracy looks like!"
So, Trump is legitimate and not Fascist? Progress in the cradle of Progressivism.
Any free Luigi signs? Whatever the motive in Minnesota, you won't find people praising the assassin or happy that he hit his target.
You don't have to astroturf Madison.
A sloth rally would be good, or anyway some other sin.
What do sore losers know about democracy?
"The Great Satin" would be a good anti-king rally sign.
thats where all that afl cio and indivisible money went, very lame, the usaid clampdown shows,
I like the juxtaposition of the white left's never-ending self-absorbed non-stop rage street theater, filled with self-centered freaks...
vs.
The patriot and colorful mix of families at the 250 year celebration of the US Army.
BTW - Trump only spoke for 8 minutes - because this was not about him - this was about our good men!
Quite the contrast:
https://x.com/wil_da_beast6193406783490198741630/status/?s=02
"I was wary of violence. You never know."
You should be wary of violence by the Democrats. They're out there assassinating people who don't toe the party line (or in Trump's case, trying to assassinate)
And don't think the cops are going to save you. The cops in Minnesota got into a firefight with the assassin inside a house, and yet still managed to let him get away to kill some more.
Imagine that: Cops came under fire by a Democrat Party assassin and they just let him get away.
He's out there.
Hunting.
I don't think these protests are the work of Soros; I think they're the work of grassroots fools. Fools can win in democracies of course. Perhaps it's even a tactical advantage.
It's ironic that smelling salts are a cure for the vapors
Unforgivably? If Democrats want to know why their efforts are flailing, this would be it. The majority-minority base really hates Israel and isn't at all shy about saying so. If you can't get a bunch of cretins together in an American city to shriek Orange Man Bad, you might have zero influence left. But only the most hopeless NPCs saw this as anything but Kamala style astroturf.
"MSNBC wanted the US Army 250th celebration to have a “dark, malevolent energy” and are forced to admit that it didn’t and was a beautiful patriotic parade."
They forget that “dark, malevolent energy” is reserved for their buddy Joe Biden.
Did anyone else notice that the mainstream media was promoting "No Kings" events the same way they'd be telling you where to find Thanksgiving parades or July 4 fireworks. Locally, the Charlotte Observer was featuring guides "where to find your local No Kings" rally. Web "news" sites, same thing. It's almost as if the legacy media was rooting for "No Kings," rather than just reporting.
if we hadn't seen the receipts from data republican, I would agree, there's probably more than a little old fashioned so called blm embezzling see air america, the den of scum and villainy, from where msnbc talent arises,
bagdadbob -
The mainstream Press is an arm to the corrupt Soviet-Democratics. (Soros-D-luxe)
blank pages, a reference to the cult Carpenter film, which seems more apropos in this era,
Best sign:
They’re eating our checks.
They’re eating our balances.
as they were with Occupy and so called BLM/Antifa,
"No Kings" doesn't work well as a way of rallying anti-Trump outrage. Nobody thinks Trump is trying to establish a monarchy (sorry, Don Jr.). And labelling someone a would-be king doesn't have the same emotional punch as calling someone "Hitler" or a "dictator," which the left already tried, without success. Consider the fact that there are no fast-food chains called "Burger Hitler."
its very lame, but it's mostly their money,
we've seen this program so often, it hardly surprises, except the excessive attempt to make it sound not astroturf,
When I think of a king, I think of the king of Canada (and England) Chuck 3
He has powers that would make Stalin blush with envy and nothing but tradition (they call it their constitution) to prevent him using them.
Yet he stumbles through life without doing much harm to his country.
Other kings seem even more harmless
They are a waste of space but why would anyone worry about them?
John Henry
he seems to virtue signal alot about gaza and skydragons,
is there a good hanover heir they can borrow from Germany,
"I think they're the work of grassroots fools."
They are the work of Democrat Party NGO's funded by USAID.
On his way out the door, Joe Biden funneled $30 billion of YOUR tax dollars to Democrat-controlled NGO's to do precisely this sort of party rallying.
Locally, it was just 5 somewhat elderly people with a large "No Kings" sign but I can't say it didn't work. No kings of America today! Just ineffective mayors and governors determined to stop the elected president of the country.
At 8:01 pm last night I wrote a comment about the signs Glenn had photographed to go with his story. Two of them called for “No War But Class War.” Sadly for them, the class war ended with a victory for the workers last November when they elected Trump. Turns out members of the working class don’t a whole lot like to be ordered to live without air conditioning and go without gas stoves and eat bugs by folks they, the workers, regard as overeducated and under-brained.
The pictures I’ve seen show the military parade attended by young, ethnically diverse families — a demographic that Democrats can no longer even dream of capturing — while the “No Kings” attendees in the pictures I’ve seen are mostly old white people — a demographic that time itself will shrink. John Judi’s and Ruy Texeira were wrong in 2002. Identity politics doomed the Democrats.
First, another apology to the very decent Lem and others I mis-addressed yesterday. Hours of being called a Nazi in Georgia heat and humidity, culminating in a forceful surprise chest-bump and having one enormous nutcase guy scream "Karen" at me and having to be held back from worse just left me dehydrated and punchy, but that's not excuse enough without apologizing. Amusingly, a few elderly women from the nutcase's side were offended by his sexism and told him off. I was the sole counter-protester.
Second, I was in on the planning calls for this protest, and it was decided (from on high), in advance, to make the signs, but not the slogans, home-made this time because too many people were noticing the professional labels from socialist and communist groups on the mass-produced signs. But virtually every sign, hundreds of them I saw at one site, said "King Trump" and "Nazi." And the protest organizers who create the messaging and run the zoom calls are professionals who do get paid. This is a very sophisticated, national movement. The sponsors who registered the protests, AFT and CWA, yes, they get Soros money, and they are also run by people with (usually former) memberships in the CP-USA and current ones in WILL/WAND, such as Georgia State Senator Nan Orrock. I can name names and track payments.
More proof? Besides the undeniable uniformity of the messaging, so far I've also found two very obscure but identical signs (one, Local Unpaid Agitator) that were at the rally I attended and also appear in news articles from other parts of the country. There were many hundreds of people on those zoom calls. The media is careful to avoid reproducing the vile "Nazi/Racist" slurs, but they comprised about 95% of the signage I saw. Photographed. And counted. So wny aren't they in the news? Not a mystery.
Dogma: " Consider the fact that there are no fast-food chains called "Burger Hitler.""
I think you just hit on a great Iranian business plan!
JSM
And then there's always Burgemeister Meister Burger. The Rankin-Bass trademark must have expired by now.
JSM
John Henry: "[C3R] stumbles through life without doing much harm to his country."
I tried putting this on the Trooping the Color thread last night, but either Google swallowed it or I fat-fingered it while on the bike rack at the Army 250 parade:
One really sweet bit of Trooping the Color happened when they dropped him back off at Buckingham Palace. Charles was by himself on a tiny reviewing stand in front of the gates, returning one final salute to the lads as they went back to barracks. It was like something out of a Babar book, or Young Mr Grace in Are You Being Served?.
Kind of emphasized how he is at once all-powerful and harmless.
JSM
Leftist Rule #1:
If leftists are angry - their violence is justified.
So if the signs are handmade these folks are not representative of the batshit crazy segment of the population? Really? His “fellow Republicans” will do better if they pay attention to the people who elected them and ignore these leftist loons.
On his way out the door, Joe Biden funneled $30 billion of YOUR tax dollars to Democrat-controlled NGO's to do precisely this sort of party rallying.
…yah, it’s helicopter money, too. They need to spend it for ‘results’ and so they do, with little regard for cost/benefit. These are brainiacs who loathe finance and so, like government money from the Treasury, there will be plenty more where thet come from
But while there was plenty of anti-Trump stuff, I’m not sure there was any more than a regular Pride parade would have featured.
…if it was the regular Saturday Pride parade on that part of Boylston the crowd would be ten deep…
Is the very large, dour Goth chick doing a fire breathing routine still making the rounds at every parade and protest? Madison has a sort of potluck approach to these things.
Blaska doesn't think a Soros-funded group can instruct people to make their own signs and then pay them to show up waving those signs? I hope his fellow Republicans aren't that gullible.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/game-on blairs law illustrated,
I was in upstate NY and went by the protest in Colonie, and they were all wearing Keffiyeh's and waving Stand for Gaza signs. Only a few No Kings signs. All old people. The old protesters think their hate still matters.
Soros isn't the culprit, he's just malefactor reaping the benefits. Majority blame must go to the American people who allowed their institutions to be absorbed by the Democrat Party, particularly the education of our children. USA kids for at least 40 years have been brainwashed with libtard gibberish and had all the common sense drummed out of their heads. Millions of little Patty Hearsts are now ready to serve The Democrat Party, to riot and loot for the Democrat Party, to kill for The Democrat Party, to destroy America for the Democrat Party. They have to be told not to wave the flags of foreign nations and chant Death To America because it alerts the populace to the threat.
The home made signs here are not a surprise. The "No Kings" was well advertised ahead of the designated day. The signs I would trace back to NGO's/Soros types are the professionally printed ones that pop up at "spontaneous events".
I should add that (like hiding DEI departments under a new name) the left CAN learn. Not about their core issues. Oh no, those are religious in nature. But they CAN learn tactics. There were too many people noticing the pre-printed signs for a grass roots, spontaneous, uprising. Solution, tell the bleating troops to buy a poster bpoard and majic markers.
"Makes me kind of wish I'd walked downtown to get some pictures of the Madison march. I was wary of violence. You never know."
I think that this protest was demographically different from the recent ones that devolved into violence. It looked much more like older people and families.
Also, maybe the violent activists came to realize that the violence was actually hurting their cause and stayed home this time.
Boston's WBZ radio reported that a *million* people attended the march. Pure bullshit. Shameful gas-lighting.
I am amused today at how the social media posts are making a big deal about how peaceful the local protests were. I guess there are a few ways to look at it:
1) The protestors were mostly older people. Older people would seem to be less prone to violence than a younger crowd.
2) If it is newsworthy that your scheduled protests were not violent, maybe that's not quite the flex you think it is.
To be fair, the protestors here in New Haven were a little more balanced with respect to age than the last time there was a "big" protest on the Green, but the crowd was overwhelmingly white again. The last time there was a big anti-Trump protest here (March, I think), it felt like the protesters skewed 50+. This time I'd put them mostly in their late 30s and older.
Days like yesterday make me so thankful Donald Trump is President.
If Kamala had won, our borders would still be open. Any disagreement would be met with protests like yesterday”s - only they wouldn’t be aimed at “kings” - they’d be aimed at all of us. And they would be turbo charged by all the USAID financing.
And our nation’s 250th birthday would be treated as an embarrassment, something to be ashamed of.
Thank you Mr President. And Happy (belated) Birthday to the US Army.
@JAORE:..."the left CAN learn..."
They showed this yesterday - the Black Bloc types were told to stand down and stay home, and they did. The Progressive NGO Left understood very well that any chaotic violence would juxtapose very poorly with a patriotic military parade happening at the same time, with perfect order. That's a smart move. There's plenty of summertime left for fire & violence, later. And Tina Trent's insights about making the signs homemade, but with the same messages, points this out too.
People like @DataRepublican(small r) are extremely helpful at understanding how this machine runs and is sustained.
I don't think these protests are the work of Soros; I think they're the work of grassroots fools.
Michael Fitzgerald @11:25 provides the counterpoint, and TTrent the evidence: you can have individuals acting on their own recognizance in whom has been inculcated, over decades, certain viewpoints that have been aggressively promoted at great expense. The fact that the promoters didn't also print the signs doesn't mean they aren't recruiting, organizing, and running the show.
Finally finished listening to the brainwashing book (never again, audiobooks!). Disappointingly, after laying such strong groundwork for contextualizing* the "ideological purity" requirements of the left, the author ends the book by talking briefly about some guy, a classic Disaffected Youth, who started exploring the, what, Rightosphere? She didn't call it the Intellectual Dark Web, and she did invoke white supremacy - the impression I got was that she didn't really understand what he was watching and listening to, just that it was right-leaning. Anyway, she said that over the course of a few weeks of exposure - willing self-exposure, abetted by the algorithms that kept feeding him the same kind of thing - he began holding opinions he had never held before.
Thank goodness (I add snarkily), he self-deprogrammed and has now dedicated himself to helping others understand the subtle, inexorable, but also self-aided process of mind-altering that he experienced.
But the author says not one word about the effects of some sixteen years of compulsory exposure to the granddaddy of single-perspective algorithms - the Western education system.
* Contextualized as brainwashing, that is. The whole point of the book is that so-called "brainwashing" doesn't leave you with a blank-slate mind and isn't accomplished without your participation on some level (in the classic cases like POWs, self-defense; in more "benign" versions like cults, the need to reconcile cognitive dissonance, plus social pressure). But it is powerful, it is very hard to resist, and almost everyone is susceptible.
I now realize, looking at some of the 'No King's rally photos, that the signs saying 86-47 could really just be noting the dominant age group that is present.
A transgender train. Toot! Toot!
Why do these people hate Elvis so much, anyway?
Nothing the left and Democrats do is "grass root".
LA and Portland are still on fire. Expect more.
Dave Blaska doesn't know what he's seeing. He seems very smart. He just needs to do more research and infiltrate these groups, if only online. They'll know you're there: just ignore it. Maybe I'd advise a fake name, but I find better success, and peace of mind, with simple honesty.
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