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The No Kings protest had record numbers of people and achieved nothing. That's because it had a limited time frame and a mandate to not be disruptive.
It doesn't matter how many people you have if you annouce ahead of time "we will gather until 10:00pm, then clean up after ourselves and go home." That just tells the people you are opposing that they can ignore you and you will leave on your own.
Those numbers only matter if you take action with them until you get results. The protests need to be every day and continuous until Trump is removed from office. Not "evenings and weekends while we still continue to go to work and provide value to the oligarchs."
Those crowds carry an very clear implicit threat: "We're here, we're pissed off, and we're getting angrier, and we're ORGANIZED!"
MAGA leaders understands the danger those crowds represent, and they are afraid of them, make no mistake. What they are probably too stupid to figure out is that for every person out there protesting, there are an equal number at home, spreading the message online, among their family and friends, etc.
IF the Peace Levee breaks, it's going to get really dark for MAGA, and they KNOW it. They are covering their cowardice with transparent fake bravado, and they are desperate that we don't see it whenever Hegseth, Noem, Bondi, Patel, Homan, PeeWee Himmler, Besset, etc. blather.
And yet despite those crowds, here we are. The crowds and numbers did not prevent this. Action is needed.
You remind me of the posts I was seeing after Jan6, with people whining that the Traitors would totally get away with it. Eventually, over a thousand were convicted, and MANY went to prison, many for YEARS. You have to give the system time to play out.
We are just getting started, and the Midterm Election is the next big milestone. Until then, the mission is to keep amping up the threat until they finally surrender.
If not, we deploy the threat, but there are still important legal steps to get through first. They're response to those steps will determine how far we'll have to go, but we aren't there yet.
And Trump gave a blanket pardon to all of them.
I'm sure the people in Venezuela, Mexico, and Greenland will be glad to hear that action might be taken after the midterms. Plenty of time for Trump to destroy NATO with his illegal invasion of an "allied" nation.
All the people being kidnapped and shot by ICE just need to wait until the midterms!
After they'd spent a significant time in prison. Even one day in prison is a serious punishment that you will NEVER forget.
It's also attached to their permanent record and will follow them forever. I own a business, and hire people regularly, but no MAGA, and certainly no Jan 6 traitor, will ever work for me. I don't care one bit if you were pardoned. If you hid it from me, and I found out, I'd fire you the first second I discovered it.
Also, when MAGA is removed from office, the entire MAGA administration should be ruled invalid, and all legislation, executive orders, and especially pardons should be rolled back. Round up the criminals, and put them back in prison, including the Jan 6 Traitors.
Or maybe we should load them on planes, and just drop them off at obscure rural airfields all over Russia. Land without permission, kick them off the plane, and just fly off, and leave them behind. Russia created this mess, let them deal with it.
Should, yes. And after Jan 6 Trump should have been held accountable. Instead nothing happened until he was elected a 2nd time and the case was dropped. I have no faith that what should happen will actually happen.
No Kings is run by idpol libs who think a return to normalcy is somehow the path forward. When normalcy is exactly what got us here.
They also had no demands. They believe targeting a cog in the machine like Trump instead of the machine is going to be effective for change.