I just clicked on the No Kings livestream and someone named Afeni Evans, who is listed as an "Impacted Activist" whatever that means, is shouting at the camera and a large gathering of people in Washington, DC:
This Republic was sold as our American dream. Home of the free. Land of the brave. Yet it has produced the outcome that we are currently experiencing. A system that edifies oligarchs and creates false monarchs...
The social contract has been broken but we the people must revive it...We the people can be brave and make this broken house into a home for all of us. Because we are the source of power in this country. Our labor, our taxes and our faith keep this system going. So we must have the revolutionary hope that collectively we, the powerful people, have the capacity to create something better.
This is just bog standard Marxist claptrap. A better world is possible. What that always means is that someone else should be paying for things. If billionaires exist that's proof something is wrong and, through some alchemy that is never explained, those people took something from you and it's not fair. If they have so much and you have so little, it must be because you were robbed.
The lifeblood of the Marxist activist is envy and the hoped for revolution is just the eschatology of envy. It's the promise that one day soon envy will result in a collective shakedown, a looting in which everyone participates and for which no one is held accountable. Some societies have done this and the result was always a bloody disaster.
She's exactly who you'd imagine she'd be. Someone who hates America. Whoever labeled this a "hate America" rally had a point.
Afeni Evans, who has posted "fuck America," praised Hamas "resistance," called Charlie Kirk a "bitch" after he was killed, and cheered the Trump assassination attempt, is now speaking at No Kings with @BernieSanders and @ChrisMurphyCT. https://t.co/xcy14KpF9I pic.twitter.com/LqPTu66KjF
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) October 18, 2025
Look at who is behind the rally and her inclusion makes perfect sense.
Don't you find it interesting that No Kings protests are being funded by fascists and communists. pic.twitter.com/j1snHka21A
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) October 18, 2025
Earlier on the bill today was Sen. Chris Murphy who has become one of the spokespeople for the anti-Trump resistance. He says Trump, the man elected president of the United States just 11 months ago, is midway through a "totalitarian" takeover of the United States. The logic of that, if you really believe it, can't possibly end with street protests, can it? He's standing behind panes of bullet-proof glass but seems to have forgotten we've already had two attempts on President Trump's life in the midst of rhetoric just like this.
JUST IN: Democrat Senator Chris Murphy says America is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover, whines that the media isn't "riding to our rescue."
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 18, 2025
"You guys can handle the truth, right? You guys deserve the truth, right?"
"The truth is that Donald Trump is the most… pic.twitter.com/Ln1oVp8mdi
He's not even being that subtle about it. He's telling people this is a by any means necessary situation even as people on the left keep taking shot at their enemies.
Senator Chris Murphy, yesterday:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 10, 2025
“We're in a war right now to save this country. And so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary in order to save the country." pic.twitter.com/bdj1rlsDT5
So that's what's really happening at today's rally and who is behind it. But, contrary to Chris Murphy's complaint, the media will do its best to keep all of that far from readers who will instead get a bland and upbeat gloss vague enough that no one is offended. In other words, here's the Washington Post:
Millions were expected to attend the rallies, organizers said in advance, with the largest crowds expected in Washington, New York and Chicago. The events were one measure of the unhappiness with Trump’s second terms, with polls showing the president’s approval rating in negative territory. The opposing reactions to the protests from leaders in both major parties showed some of the country’s stark political divisions.
Protesters lined Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Saturday morning, many waving placards with messages critical of the Trump administration. Men, women and children held signs such as “No Kings” and “billionaires are killing USA.”
The organizers — a large coalition of groups that includes the liberal organization Indivisible and the American Civil Liberties Union — have emphasized their desire for Saturday’s protests, which they have said are anti-authoritarian, to be a peaceful show of disagreement and concern with the direction of the country under Trump. They said they’ve trained “tens of thousands” of people in de-escalation to avoid friction with law enforcement and counterprotesters. A statement on the “No Kings” website says that weapons of any kind should not be brought to the rallies.
Anyway, a good turnout in New York. Looks like a few thousand people, i.e. not nearly enough to fill a small stadium, but I'm sure they'll claim it was 100,000 or something ridiculous.
Seeing all these people gather in New York City and around the country really makes me think about the fact that nothing changed after the first No Kings protests that made zero impact and nothing will change after today’s No Kings protests
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) October 18, 2025
Have fun pic.twitter.com/VJIAIH2lR3
Crowd looks similar in Chicago. It's several thousand people.
BREAKING: MASSIVE crowd gathers in Chicago for anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protest.
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 18, 2025
pic.twitter.com/PcgiOYsCfa
And Washington. This looks much smaller but it's hard to tell if this is a bad angle.
Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC pic.twitter.com/dpKlbJQZoq
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 18, 2025
So there you have it. In cities with millions of people there might be 5,000-6,000 turning out. Far fewer than routinely pay to turn up for baseball games. They will add at least one zero to whatever the real numbers are and claim this shows "the people" have all decided something. But the people did all decide something last November and nothing that happens today will change that.
Overall, I think these protests tend to follow a pretty steep law of diminishing returns. That's certainly what happened with the Women's March. The first one was legitimately large and by year 3 there was very little momentum left. In this case, I think the No Kings rallies in June were probably bigger. I suspect if they do this a third time it will be obvious that the crowds have shrunk. They'll have to come up with a new label and start over.
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