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How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and Won the Normies
Yahoo! News ^ | Mon, October 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM CDT | Ana Marie Cox

Posted on 10/20/2025 11:53:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Unicorns are supposed to be rare and mythical. But at Saturday’s No Kings protests I saw the largest outbreak in America outside a Lisa Frank store. They were everywhere, but I was surprised to see almost a dozen of them down in New Braunfels, Texas. As at many of the No Kings protests across the country, attendees embraced the example set by the taunting frog outside Portland’s ICE facility and came in outfits that you could find threatening in only the most silly and specific of contexts: Cookie Monster was there.

But you don’t pass up a chance to meet a unicorn. I got five of them together to pose around a sign one had brought: “Born to frolic, called to fight fascism.” What’s a group of unicorns called, I asked. One of them answered promptly: “A blessing!”

When I’d interviewed Latino participants at the Austin No Kings protest back in June, their voices were thick with emotion and one young man teared up. In New Braunfels, I also talked to a young Latino man who said he was worried about being deported (“though my family has been here since before it was Texas”)—but he was shouting at me from inside an inflatable dinosaur costume and holding a sign that said “No king, only T-Rex.” The dinosaur was no less passionate than the people I’d spoken to in Austin, but he laughed a lot and waved his short arms at passing cars honking their support, too.

New Braunfels is about halfway between Austin and San Antonio and between 2010 and 2020, its population doubled from 50,000 to almost 100,000 as the metro areas have swollen to meet each other. Contact with two of Texas’s bluest oases has...

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1 posted on 10/20/2025 11:53:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Yahoo News” sucks so bad.


2 posted on 10/20/2025 11:55:21 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Looked like a lot of abinormals were there.


3 posted on 10/20/2025 11:55:39 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Looked like a lot of abinormals were there.

What hump?

4 posted on 10/20/2025 11:56:40 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: Jim W N

True.


5 posted on 10/20/2025 11:57:12 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nice spin Ana, you lefty wonkette.


6 posted on 10/20/2025 11:58:50 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Fido969

A cringey effort to redirect attention from the murderous left


7 posted on 10/20/2025 11:58:58 AM PDT by daku
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah, I could not get past the headline. Anyone who describes people not wearing a unicorn suit as a normie is too ridiculous to deserve anything more than a snort.


8 posted on 10/20/2025 11:59:28 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

New Republick.................


9 posted on 10/20/2025 12:00:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I crashed our local No Kings Rally wearing my Trump 2028 cap and Trump 2028 t-shirt while waving my flag with one hand and holding a "Honk for Trump" sign in the other.

I didn't see any unicorns but one chick wearing a balloon pig suit (at least I THINK it was a balloon suit) kept standing in front of me trying to block me. Fun times.

10 posted on 10/20/2025 12:00:58 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re almost all a bunch of bored old Boomers who still can’t get over losing the election almost a full year later. Nothing more to it than that.


11 posted on 10/20/2025 12:00:58 PM PDT by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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Sure


12 posted on 10/20/2025 12:02:13 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The true deplorables


13 posted on 10/20/2025 12:04:30 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Fido969
“Yahoo News” sucks so bad.

The term is an oxymoron. Mostly a rehash of material taken from rolling stoned and mother jones.

14 posted on 10/20/2025 12:04:38 PM PDT by pfflier
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Much better than the usual Democrat rioters burning cars, buildings, looting and killing people. Must be a different wing of the party.


15 posted on 10/20/2025 12:06:38 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was watching a bunch of videos this morning of them being interviewed:

“What are you protesting?”

“How Trump is a King and stuff”

“How is he a King?”

“By doing King stuff”

“What kind of King stuff?”

“Like what Kings do, I don’t know”

One person? Nope, this guy was interviewing one after another talking the same way.

It told me unequivocally these people are being paid


16 posted on 10/20/2025 12:07:54 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Man, the mockingbird push here reeks of desperation and flop sweat.


17 posted on 10/20/2025 12:09:42 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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Blew their brains out with drugs back inthe sixties. Not all old people are that situpid.


18 posted on 10/20/2025 12:10:33 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yea, okay.

Sorry but I was working Saturday and I ran across a few of these around my area, and I gotta say, they were WHITER than a ski slope.

Looks like that soros money didn’t filter down into the ethnic neighborhoods.


19 posted on 10/20/2025 12:10:56 PM PDT by HamiltonJay ( )
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How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and

Won the Normies

???

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( Deep breath )

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Sure, sure it did.


20 posted on 10/20/2025 12:12:13 PM PDT by cuz1961
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