Posted on 06/14/2025 6:03:52 PM PDT by thecodont
Thousands of people took to San Francisco’s streets on Saturday as part of the “No Kings” protests taking place across the country.
The crowd in San Francisco swelled to many thousands as it stretched from Dolores Park to Civic Center, possibly even 100,000, according to an estimate by SFGATE photographer and online photo editor Douglas Zimmerman, though an official tally was not immediately available. The nationwide “No Kings” mobilizations are protesting the Trump administration and coincide with both the president’s birthday and his $45 million military parade taking place in Washington, D.C.
The demonstrations come on the heels of weeks of protests across California and the nation denouncing raids on immigrant communities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the start of Saturday’s protest in San Francisco, people created a large sign on the lawn at Dolores Park that read “F—K ICE.” Earlier Saturday, hundreds gathered at a building used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco after immigrants throughout the region received text messages the night before saying they were required to check in with immigration officials at the building.
Other signs at San Francisco’s “No Kings” protest read “The real criminal is in the White House,” “No Kings since 1776” and “No Kings, No Fascism.” Call-and-response chants abounded, including one denouncing “evil, evil fascists” and another saying, “Who’s got the power? We’ve got the power!” A third simply declared, “Trump must go now.” Throughout the day, protesters were seen dancing, playing live music and interacting with people driving nearby vehicles, many of whom honked in support of the demonstration.
Similar protests took place in cities across the Bay Area, including Oakland, Colma, Menlo Park, San Leandro, San Mateo, Hayward and Benicia.
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Now that is an insurrection.
Unimpressed by the turnout in one of the most vial traditional America hating / degenerate cities in America. SPIT.
Did Mad Maxine and Greasy Gavin give speeches?
So much for “Democracy”! Pathetic. I am ashamed of the left and the billionaires who pay the pathetic democrat supporters. SHAME!
True. Let’s just give them the J6 treatment in that case.
Gee. I hope the nice protesters didn’t step in any human excrement while tromping about Baghdad by the Bay.
What a useless demonstration.
I was out today running errands and was delayed by traffic come to a standstill in downtown Oakland. The protest scheduled there was supposed to have gone on from 1:45 to 2:45 pm near Oakland City Hall.
By 3:00 p.m. the crowd had dissipated and the roads were once again cleared for movement.
My impression, as a bystander, was that for the crowd gathered (I would generously estimate no more than 20k) this protest was in addition to “No Kings” and anti-Trump sentiment (unfortunately I saw a sign posting a death threat to the President, albeit in Spanish) a general temper tantrum for open borders, anti-immigration enforcement/ICE, homosexual pride month, abortion, Palestinians, anti-white sentiment and reparations, and anything else they could throw in.
There were a lot of handmade signs.
The crowd was overwhelmingly white and middle class in appearance. Age ranged from youth to a number of middle-aged and older participants.
The best thing I can say about this is that it seemed to be orderly (despite the illegal blockage of traffic) and there seemed to be no vandalism (at least while I was there for the hour I observed) and no injuries or other personal disorder.
Army birthday coverage was way better. My contemptometer for theses assclowns is off scale high! 🖕
The disaffected, ne’er do wells, bums, derelicts, no-counts, no-goodniks, dodgers, slackers, vagrants, no-goods, good-for-nothings, drifters, transients, goldbrickers, tramps, urchins, vagabonds, roamers, do-nothings, shirkers, panhandlers, sundowners, waifs, ragamuffins, idlers, loafers, sluggards, down-and-outers, indigents, slugs, gamines, lazybones, slouches, drones, and gimme-dats ALL show up for events like this.
Change my mind.
When Federal judges say there is no rebellion, no insurrection in court cases, the Trump lawyers should include as evidence chants of “Trump must go now!”, not “Trump must go away on January 20, 2029”. Somebody should record these protests.
A lot of fugly white women and cuck “men” at my local protest.
Overall these protests were a massive bust yeah some areas saw large crowds but overall no one cared I went to Ralph’s and Trader Joe’s with my mom today saw zero protesters just people going about their business shopping
Very.
You deserve a medal. Even better, you have earned a transfer.
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My thoughts exactly.
This is all organized by NGOs that stupid people fund.
There were more lefties at the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 than there were for the “No Kings, Open Borders and Full Amnesty” whinefest today.
If you were in that area about 3PM, you were smart not to be there starting 2.5 hours from now (6.30 PST).
As you probably recall, many of these Marches can start out somewhat orderly, but once the sun goes all the way down, (aprx 9.30PST) a lot of the stone cold Anarchists come out to wreck and destroy whatever building or show window they can get close to. Why? “Because it’s there!” I would not be on or near Telegraph Ave, near People’s Park (Berkeley) by then, unless I was a brave MOLE, which I am not.
And maybe not.
Maybe this one will have run out of steam after Suppertime.
Many protesters may need to go home and smoke another bong of Medicinal MJ. Depends how much they have been paid for today’s Services Rendered.
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