"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump | Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

This is a totally unfair and inaccurate comment. He already tore apart democracy when he deliberately incited jan 6th. Please give the megalomaniac appropriate credit in future

The fact that he can do all of this and face zero opposition within government and didn't even get punished once he was out of office (despite popular demand) kind of proves you didn't have a democracy to begin with.

Where was democracy when Bush's brother stole the election for him?

He tried his damndest to tear apart democracy back then too. It's just that there were still some safeguards in place, and people running things who weren't his sycophants. His first term would've gone exactly like this if he'd been able to. He wasn't a nuisance. He's an extremely dangerous man.

I had the same experience. First protest I’ve been to and besides one dude that drove by flipping everyone off and one crazy old dude with a “dems are pedos” sign (yes, with what’s happening in South Carolina literally right now, the irony was lost on this person), a very positive mood all around. Loads of folks driving by, waving and honking horns, some kids in attendance, and everybody getting along very well in support of a common cause.

That's interesting, I'm in a red state, purple location, and it was the other way around. The first 2 protests I went to in April (Hands Off and another one), it seemed like over 80% were (myself included) 50+ yo white people. Then yesterday I was happy to see lots more younger people and more ethnic diversity (though still whiter compared to proportion of the population). I saw more couples with their kids there too, and there were twice as many people overall.

You're a brave person. If I had a kid and a wife I would have thought twice. Which I'm sure you did. Thank you for your service. I hope you had a nice time with your family after. Feel proud. Be safe. I'd buy you a beer if I wasn't hundreds of miles away.

in my suburb the local stuff was sorta sad because it was mostly old, but granted younger folks are more likely to trek downtown.

Yeah, I love the no kings energy but we need to turn it into political action. Every politician who isn't on board needs to fear for their job. Both Republican and Democrat alike. David Hogg has the right idea.

Initially, wasn't Occupy a protest about the post-recession bank bailouts? Then the production team for Good Morning America put a self-proclaimed representative of Occupy, a "female-presenting person" named Ketchup, in the studio to ask them questions about it, and they had no media coaching whatsoever.

The movement is getting larger and louder each cycle. Protests like this dont bring down the government directly, but are demonstration that a movement has support

Unrealistic. No politician is going to voluntarily give up their job. Instead aim for making them quake in their boots and afraid they will lose their job in a year and a half if they don't hold Trump accountable for his constitutional violations. Make them oust Mike Johnston as Speaker and elect someone less radical at the very least.

Edit: all that is needed is for a handful of Republicans to defect from the party line and it's kowtow to Trump. Oh, and for the Democrats to stop cowering in the corner and step up to do their fucking job. Not sure which is the harder prospect.

That number keeps getting thrown around but this admin dgaf. That number only works when the admin believes in human rights and when the admin cares about it’s popularity.

What do you suppose happens at this magic threshold? I'll give you a hint- it's nothing. We still have to do the work to actually make a difference. Protesting and building momentum is good, but we can't just wait until we hit this magic threshold and pretend that will fix everything and rest on our laurels.

Way way too much stock is placed in that study.

For one, their total sample size was only 323 events, only 3 of which met the "3.5%" level. So the statement that change is inevitable based on only 3 instances is really crazy.

Further, none of those three instances had participants thinking that 3.5% was some sort of goal, it was a correlation. So now you have a lot of protestors treating 3.5% as a goal rather than some organic emergent property of the broader movement. Even if there was something inevitable about having a 3.5% participation rate when no one is aware of that metric, simply knowing of the metric can change a lot.

This has been the fifth major organized protest this year, each has been much larger than the last. There will definitely be another one within the next month or two. Keep an eye on 50501 for details to stay in the loop.

Damn, we were ALL convinced we only needed to do it once.

At the end of this term, George W Bush had around 30% approval. By that point, his administration had so obviously failed in multiple avenues that even Republicans were disowning him. By mid 2009, the Tea Party was pretending they weren't the same exact people who supported his every major action in the first place.

That 30% number can be taken as close to an absolute floor of support for any sitting President.

Whatever you need to tell yourself to justify your preferred mode of sitting on your ass and doing nothing.

What's the minimum something worth waking you up over?

wake me up when something comes of it.

I don’t live in the States.

What is the point of posting that then? Are you being paid to suppress opposition to the regime by by fomenting hopelessness or apathy, or is trying to discourage people during a time of crisis in their country just for your own amusement or ego-stroking.

Things lead to more things, and it starts with people coming together, organizing, and protesting. The Trump+Christian Nationalist regime wants us to shut up and sit down, to nip any resistance in the bud. You're helping them.

Most of them likely voted. The 2024 general election had about 65% turnout. The protesters only make up a few percent of the population.

The ones I was with had voted early, and were out canvassing. The kids were under 18.

That said, a lot of people are sufficiently disconnected from the news that they didn't get how much worse Trump would be this time.

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