Yes, more on No Kings, but this is something else important to consider. We struck a nerve with our protests, and Trump, and Mike Johnson, and KKKaroline responded like children. From Trump’s disgusting video to the “hate America” comment to “Hamas terrorists” and other nonsense, we definitely hit a nerve. Why would they react so strongly (like little children in a schoolyard) when they could have just acted like it never happened?
It seems pretty defensive. They were trying to make it small. They were trying to say it was nothing. But it wasn’t small, and it was major. By belittling it, they thought they could make it less. Well, it didn’t work. Many more people came out, and many more people at home saw the pictures of the people. This was broader than expected. They can’t stand being outshone. No, Trump and Moses Mikey, with KKKaroline as a bonus, couldn’t take it. From CNN:
Impressions gathered around the country by CNN reporters also indicated that many people with more moderate views also took part in protests that felt like block parties to register concerns about a president many of them see as un-American. Demonstrators dressed as frogs, chickens, and Statues of Liberty mocked the unhinged rhetoric of the administration about the protests just as effectively as the president’s vulgar social media posts mocked them. In time, Saturday’s protests may come to be seen not just as a reaction to Trump’s first nine months in power but as a harbinger of greater resistance to come. At the least, they show that while many of Trump’s supporters back tough-guy policies like expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and extrajudicial executions of claimed drug traffickers on the high seas, many other Americans don’t.
Many other Americans don’t agree. That’s big. Moderates came out, too, because they see Trump ignoring the rule of law with the mostly *his* Supreme Court. He ignores the court cases that are decided against him and does things anyhow. A Republican Congress is jumping at its own shadows, afraid of what Trump might do to them.
And don’t forget Epstein, which is why Moses Mikey Johnson has had the House on recess and keeps refusing to swear in the new democratic House member. He is trying to keep the shutdown going so he can blame it on the Democrats. He can obfuscate all he wants, but we know better. We’ve figured that out. The Senate is working, trying to decide on something that they can agree on enough to have it ready for the House *IF* they ever come back. But I digress.
“We have millions of people turning out today,” Colleen Connell, executive director of the Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on Saturday. “There are clearly more of us than there are of those who want an autocracy or a dictatorship. And so the message is pretty clear that we, the people, you know, own this country and that we are going to respect the rule of law and we are going to stand up and we are going to protect our democracy with peaceful protest and peaceful dissent.” Organizers claimed 7 million protesters came out over the weekend. If that’s true, that means nearly 10% of the 75 million people who voted for Kamala Harris last November left their homes to join a protest.
7 million. That’s more than the first one. Nearly 10%. Those numbers are big. How many would come out to support Trump *as* their king? Not many, we would think, we would hope. They prefer the anonymity of social media, so they can talk big, but don’t have to do so in person. And really, Trump hides behind Truth Social. He doesn’t have the numbers to have a rally and say that he is the King of the United States, not out loud, not yet, and we hope never. To close:
And while warnings of encroaching authoritarianism may initially have seemed overblown, growing numbers of Americans seem to think that sitting on the sidelines is untenable. This follows a warning by Obama on Marc Maron’s final podcast that it wouldn’t be a huge sacrifice for more Americans to make their views known a year before the midterm elections. “We’re not at the stage where you have to be like Nelson Mandela and be in a 10-by-12 jail cell for 27 years and break rocks,” the former president said. Retired government worker Peggy Cole of Flint, Michigan, told CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi she traveled to Washington for a protest because it was a “scary time.” “It seems to me, (Trump is) taking our government, our democracy, and dismantling it piece by piece, slowly, but surely, if we sit by and don’t do anything about it,” Cole said. In some ways, Trump is proving the protesters’ point.
BOOM. And there we get down to it. Trump and others’ mockery of the protests is to tell you they’re not afraid and they are going to keep going with their bullsh!t. We, the people, have challenged that because we know better. We will continue to challenge them. We will not hide behind social media and newsbytes. We have spoken. We will again. [Edit: the article also contains information about George Santos’ pardon and the undeclared war with Venezuela.][Subscription required.]
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