“No Kings" Protests (Latest, 3/28/26)

[korgguy1971]

I didn't see a thread about the new Kings rally for March / yesterday, so figured I would repurpose this thread for that. NYC or Rock, maybe we can change the thread title just to "No Kings Protests" or something more general(?).

Anyway, here are some of the funnier signs I've seen in threads around the internets:

 

[donbosco]

Decided rather than join the 11,000 in AVL to drive down to Burnsville in the heart of MAGAlandia. The crowd was 250-300 strong there.



I appreciated this guy’s message.

 

[donbosco]

Closer view.

 

[donbosco]

My wife took this from our apartment window in NYC. Still there today.

 

[heelinhell]

Just got a call from a friend who lives in Hendersonville, NC. She tells me that 5000 turned out. Hendersonville has a population of around 16,000 and is no bastion of liberalism.

Haven't seen the nationwide turnout but I'm guessing 9 or 10 million ?

 

[Batt Boy]

Just got a call from a friend who lives in Hendersonville, NC. She tells me that 5000 turned out. Hendersonville has a population of around 16,000 and is no bastion of liberalism.

Haven't seen the nationwide turnout but I'm guessing 9 or 10 million ?

Hendersonville, like Asheville, is not indicative of the county. Hendersonville may have 15k population, but Henderson County as 121k. The county has long been Red:

'12 62% Romney
'16 61% Trump
'20 59% Trump
'24 56% Trump

 

[korgguy1971]

Thank you to whoever updated the thread title

 

[donbosco]

Thank you to whoever updated the thread title

I realized that I could so i did.

 

[Kingpin]

My wife and I and neighbors attended our local No Kings march yesterday. The crowd was quite large (2-3000) and I would estimate more than the previous two NK marches we attended at the same place. We were just 1 of many such matches in Metro Atlanta, many larger (eg downtown ATL). The bigger story in Georgia were the many marches and turn out from all across the state outside of ATL. The local news reported on Marches that occurred in dozens of places across deep-red rural Georgia.

 

[korgguy1971]

 

[BillyL]

 

[farce©]

One of my favorite signs at the march in Charlotte was "IKEA has better Cabinets than Trump"

My sister was at the rally in Savannah and told me one of the signs read "I would call Trump a cunt, but he lacks warmth and depth"

 

[ZenMode]

The party not in the White House always seems to claim the party on the White House is a fascist, tyrant, etc.

 

[donbosco]

The party not in the White House always seems to claim the party on the White House is a fascist, tyrant, etc.

And sometimes it can be true.

 

[ZenMode]

And sometimes it can be true.

Technically it can.

If Trump were as described, it seems likely he'd use his evil powers to disallow the No Kings protests. It also seems likely that he never would have left office in 2020.....last I checked, Kings don't leave office. He would just "king" the Save Act into existence. He probably would have done any number of things to address the TSA issue...allow ICE to do TSA work. Maybe just kinged money to them so they'd go back to work. He probably would have told SCOTUS to go pound sand and left all of this tariffs in place.

 

[4thgenheel]

One of my favorite signs at the march in Charlotte was "IKEA has better Cabinets than Trump"

My sister was at the rally in Savannah and told me one of the signs read "I would call Trump a cunt, but he lacks warmth and depth"

my dad took a pic of a similar one but it said "IKEA has smarter cabinets than this admin"

 

[4thgenheel]

The party not in the White House always seems to claim the party on the White House is a fascist, tyrant, etc.

no, they don't.

fascism has a very specific definition and no one was throwing it around like you claim because it didn't apply. now it very much does.

Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind. (Published 2024)

Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.

www.nytimes.com

America is now in fascism’s legal phase | Jason Stanley

The US’s history of racism is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, voting rights and women’s rights are steps to toppling democracy

www.theguardian.com

 

[heelinhell]

Trump gets a look at who isn't bending the knee

Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

www.rawstory.com

 

[korgguy1971]

 

[4thgenheel]

Technically it can.

If Trump were as described, it seems likely he'd use his evil powers to disallow the No Kings protests. It also seems likely that he never would have left office in 2020.....last I checked, Kings don't leave office. He would just "king" the Save Act into existence. He probably would have done any number of things to address the TSA issue...allow ICE to do TSA work. Maybe just kinged money to them so they'd go back to work. He probably would have told SCOTUS to go pound sand and left all of this tariffs in place.

this reads like it was written by a 6 year old.

literally. "i can think of ways that things could be worse, so everything must be fine!"

just unbelievably puerile logic.