Posted on 10/19/2025 9:06:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like many Americans, I watched with interest as the “No Kings” spectacle unfolded. It was rather like a box of Monty Python's chocolates. I had no idea what I was going to get, but I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like it much. In this, at least, I was not disappointed.
So, what, exactly, did this crunchy frog of a “No Kings” thing accomplish? We haven’t had any kings since the day we declared our independence. And before I had my coffee made this morning, I was deeply concerned, so I checked. Turns out, we still don’t. So, apparently, the protests were quite successful in helping us dodge the bullet. (Well, we still have Stephen King, but, undesirable as that may be, let’s not worry about that, at least for now.)
From the after-action reports that I’m seeing from around the country, indications are that, for the most part, grayer heads prevailed among the protesters to the tune of 80% or 90% in some cities. Based on appearances, the protest organizers must have raided every bingo hall they could find in every reliably leftist city in the country. (That might explain the one group shuffling around the Colorado state capitol that was reportedly chanting, “B27.”) I suppose many viewed it as a last fling for the Woodstock generation.
"Woodstockholm Syndrome"
They're no longer protesting anything meaningful. They're protesting because it's fashionable, because it's the only thing they have left. It's revolutionary cosplay. A pressure-release valve for a populace with absolutely no power over its ruling class.
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I was amazed at how many of the protesters were riding motorized wheelchairs, Rascals, and the like. Must have absolutely killed the batteries in those things. An odd sight, all told , for a group of people supposedly representing new and fresh ideas.
I’m also seeing reports from folks on the ground that many were well-rewarded for their efforts, with most reports indicating $300 to $500 for the day. I’ll leave to others the task of documenting where, exactly, that money came from and, for that matter, how the tax situation was handled. It should be noted that not all of them were paid. I guess they simply wanted to be involved with something larger than themselves. It does leave me wondering how small you need to be to have something like this measure larger than you are.
According to what we're being told, the job included being bussed in, carrying a pre-made sign for a couple of miles for the sake of the cameras, and then being bussed out again, in some cases to another location to march there. When you’re thin on marchers, it’s what you need to do, I suppose, to generate a multiplicity of those impressive-looking pictures in the news tomorrow. The result of all that effort being that, again, we don’t have any kings. Now, of course, we didn’t have any kings day before yesterday, either, but it’s best not to dwell on such minutiae. So, great job, all. You got what you wanted.
If we took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it?
Probably registered a bunch of people. I think we should do similar events. Heck even the Charlie Kirk event couldn’t get 8 million around the country. I was disappointed that this day wasn’t more involved.
There IS no B-27. B stops at 15. “I-27” would work, though.
Damnit!! THAT’S why I can never get BINGO!! That and they never call J-106.
If we had a king, they couldn't have had their drama club party without getting arrested. If they try that in the Kingdom of Thailand, their new home would be a roach infested prison.
I figured the B27 was the plane design between the B25 and the B29 for the generation who sired the protesters.
My son and his wife ran across some of these “no kings” idiots in Idaho. Seriously, we just discovered Antifa a few months ago. DUH. I told them the old John Wayne’s saying “life is hard. It’s a lot harder, when you’re stupid.”
I didn’t research it this time, but for the one held in June, I kind of checked out the various locations and time frames in Illinois. It seemed like they were purposely set up to not overlap in communities that were fairly close to each other, possibly ensuring that the demonstrators would easily be able to attend several in different locations through the protest day.
So, the way they were scheduled may well have facilitated people attending multiple events, to be “counted” multiple times (kind of like election day antics, I suppose).
I thought there were something like 30,000,000 streaming the Charlie Kirk memorial event, which did not even count the millions watching on TV (cable, etc.). Is that the event to which you are referring?
That stunt was a textbook example of the straw man logical fallacy.
Where can I sign up to make $500 a day, that would be $2,500 for a family outing.
Complete with transportation and I hope a meal lan is included.
They must have succeeded, we don’t have a king.
They succeeded. I just checked. We have no king.
We have no king but Elvis.
No Kings yet they voted for the Kenyan that unconstitutionally mandated we buy a companies product (health insurance), and then Biden who mandated we take an experimental vaccine or have our livelihood destroyed, in addition to him having US citizens raped, robbed slaughtered, by the foreign invaders he flew all over the country. But Trump is the tyrant you see because he is upholding his oath of office and doing what he was elected to do.
these marches and protests never accomplished and changed anything. All those protests back in the 1960’s got the libs was it got them Richard Nixon. 95% of the country pays no attention to this nonsense.
Have the idiot children tried stamping their feet and holding their breath until their faces turn blue?
But Jesus.
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