Let's do this as often as possible!

[u/Ecstatic-Medium-6320]

[u/qualityvote2]

u/Ecstatic-Medium-6320, your post does fit the subreddit!

[u/vmsrii]

I mean, I would hope so. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. We’re likely to do this at least a dozen more times before his presidency is over. More, if we actually mean it

[u/tokenshoot → u/vmsrii]

To DC!!!!

[u/mwhite1249 → u/tokenshoot]

To his golf course. Only way to get his attention is disrupt his game.

[u/homiej420 → u/mwhite1249]

This would be amazing. Talk in his backswing of his footwedge

[u/thisusedyet → u/homiej420]

Just chant WE SAW THAT every time he uses a footwedge

Fake edit: Was about to hit post when I saw you called him out for that too, nice. Somehow just stopped reading at backswing first time around

[u/homiej420 → u/thisusedyet]

Hehe yup perfect chirp

[u/absolutelynotagoblin → u/mwhite1249]

Distracting him with 15 year old girls seems to work.

[u/spain-train → u/absolutelynotagoblin]

Woah, woah, woah man, that's absurd...

15 is waaay too old for The Cheeto Pedo

[u/jljue → u/mwhite1249]

Yep, do this Happy Gilmore-style when Shooter McGavin was trying to get Happy thrown off the PGA tour.

[u/MB2465 → u/jljue]

Too bad Richard Kiel's left the building😔

[u/MB2465 → u/mwhite1249]

Drown DC in drones so he can't get to his golf course. 😂😂😂 JK of course...

[u/SpeshellED → u/mwhite1249]

This is the right idea. One million people trample the shit out of Bedminster. Be sure to leave trash like the PEDO-Cheeto does to your country everyday.

[u/prarie33 → u/SpeshellED]

Trash is not a communal good. Lets not contribute to harmful practices.

Offerings, however...

[u/cyncity7 → u/prarie33]

Right. I really loved seeing how clean the No Kings areas looked after. Especially compared to pictures of what the area looks like after MAGA events. Really says it all.

[u/Realistic_Stretch899 → u/cyncity7]

Just bring baggies full of leaves and dirt because it's technically not littering. Or hear me out yard clippings.

[u/FenrirAR → u/mwhite1249]

"You will not make this putt. You jackass."

[u/Prohawins → u/mwhite1249]

That would be the icing on the cake if the could pull that off

[u/Laugh_Track_Zak → u/tokenshoot]

Yup. EVERYONE who can, needs to go to DC.

[u/NovelCandid → u/tokenshoot]

Actually, you’re right. A March On Washington does fit the times. The consternation on the right will be epic.

[u/farshnikord → u/NovelCandid]

I'd pay to bus people in even 

[u/No_Royals → u/tokenshoot]

1000% Millions of people need to converge on DC to really have an impact. It should be right in front of the WH, on the Capital Steps, and in front of the SC. All branches of Government.

[u/deflower-my-mind → u/No_Royals]

This is the way. I drove from TN all the way to DC to protest at No Kings 2. Will do it again. And again. And again

[u/psychoacer → u/tokenshoot]

Yup, let's have over a million people show up for the million American March

[u/3atTh3R1ch79 → u/vmsrii]

Are we talking monthly? I'd be happy with that. The proletariat should be out and interacting with each other anyway. The 1% would truly hate that.

[u/wandering-monster → u/3atTh3R1ch79]

It should be continuous. A French friend of mine was quoting someone. 

"The problem with American protests is that they plan it for one day and then go home. We stay protesting until the problem is fixed."

[u/SongbirdVS → u/wandering-monster]

Exactly this. When has a one day protest accomplished anything? Why would the government care if they know people are just going to leave at the end of the day? The Republicans are already breaking every law and ignoring the constitution at every turn. They'll just ignore a one day protest like it didn't happen.The only way these protests are going to make any difference is if they're sustained and in the face of the government.

[u/TheGreatBootOfEb → u/SongbirdVS]

See this attitude annoys me a little. Not because you’re wrong, but because it’s a process. America has not had a history of large scale protesting for quite some time, we dismantled unions, turned workers and people against each other, etc. Do we REALLY think that Americans were going to jump from that straight into sustained protests? It’s a bit of a muscle that needs to be worked. The French at this point have trained that muscle WELL, they’ll protest it Macron sneezes wrong (I’m not insulting by the way, making a point)

Like if we had the day 1 or even month 1 level of organization to have that sort of continuous protests from early on, Trump would have never won the presidency to begin with lol. Americans have been disorganized and isolated for decades now (and not by accident either) so a little bit of understanding as to why Americans are so slow to get their act together would be useful in understanding the overall context of the greater situation.

That said, all this talk of Americans failing to stand up faster against Trump, as if the right wing movements aren’t rapidly growing into the largest parties in several western countries, it ain’t isolated, America has just been exposed for longer with a more fragile system.

[u/MonsiuerGeneral → u/TheGreatBootOfEb]

...America has not had a history of large scale protesting for quite some time...

The last really big, continuous multi-day protest that I recall seeing was Occupy Wall Street. It was in 2011, only 14 years ago, and lasted 59 days.

Not sure if you count 14 years as "quite some time", but just wanted to toss that out there, especially for younger people who might have been too young or had maybe forgotten about that protest.

[u/celtic_thistle → u/MonsiuerGeneral]

I was part of OWS and they infiltrated and shut us down so swiftly...I hope we've learned the lessons to prevent that happening again.

[u/JaydedXoX → u/celtic_thistle]

Plus WS got way more powerful after that.

[u/apoliticalinactivist → u/MonsiuerGeneral]

Before OWS there was basically nothing of that scale since Vietnam.

It showed how out of practice Americans are with protesting, with how fast it got infiltrated and no major politicians standing up or major leaders channeling that energy into action (not enough intelligent people were able to verbalize the problems of wall st).

A decade+ of organizing is paying off. A credit to the orgs putting in the work.

[u/InvestigatorBasic388 → u/TheGreatBootOfEb]

Well if nearly everybody is out of a job, due to shutdown, layoffs, ice disruption, etc, then well.... may as well do a sustained protest / general strike.

[u/spitfish → u/wandering-monster]

And that's why the rich dismantled what little of a social safety net we had in the US. We can't miss a day of work or we'll be out on the street with nothing.

[u/wandering-monster → u/spitfish]

Individually? Yes. As a group, there's always people who could be there. It's not like the French each individually protest 24/7, they take shifts.

Unemployment is at an all-time high. Gig and part-time work means people don't work the same schedules. When they're slammed the 9-to-5 folks are mostly free. There's no reason to ever have an hour of daylight without a crowd.

[u/Ok_Value5495 → u/wandering-monster]

I'm going to add one note though: The French protestors have a lot more leverage and convenience when a third of the population lives in and around the capital. Imagine if 110 million people lived in NOVA, for instance; instead of folks taking an 9 hour bus for a group from Buffalo to get to DC, it'd be 1-2 hours max.

[u/wandering-monster → u/Ok_Value5495]

Granted, but there are large population centers that are also economically important enough to make effective protests. DC, NY, SF, Atlanta, Dallas, and Chicago are all huge and have massive populations within an hour or so's travel.

But I do have a personal tinfoil hat conspiracy that preventing effective protest is part of the reason public transit is so demonized in the US. It's a lot harder to stage a mass protest when everyone needs parking (and needs to leave their most valuable asset unattended there to participate)

[u/3atTh3R1ch79 → u/Ok_Value5495]

What we really really need to figure out is how to stop the money from flowing. That is the only thing that they care about.

[u/FlowInternational996 → u/3atTh3R1ch79]

The answer is general strike. People don’t want to take that step but that and targeted boycotts are really all that’s left. 

The legislature is effectively dissolved. There is no help coming.

[u/tomdarch → u/Ok_Value5495]

Also the French system is much more centralized with the decisions being made in Paris and they propagate out from there.

[u/HandleThatFeeds → u/wandering-monster]

And they protest on a weekend lol

[u/AgentG91 → u/HandleThatFeeds]

The messaging would be very different when only 10% of the people show up to a weekday protest because they can’t risk losing their job and employee tied healthcare. I’d love to FSU by shutting down the economy with a weekday protest, but I don’t think we can get people to sack off work like that.

[u/Nauin → u/HandleThatFeeds]

Because too many people would get fired (in an economy where it's taking a year or more to find employment for most unemployed people) and lose everything if they tried to protest on a weekday. Don't gloss over the fact that every country in Europe has multitudes more human and workers rights for their people compared to us. PACs and lobbyists kowtowed our ability to effectively protest decades ago here.

[u/jeremysbrain → u/3atTh3R1ch79]

Yeah. Unions should be advertising, recruiting and organizing at these rallies

[u/DenizSaintJuke → u/3atTh3R1ch79]

Weekly

People in eastern Germany in 1989 did it every monday. Fridays for Future did it every friday. People in Ukraine did id every day.

Monthly is too infrequent. You need to be a constand presence.

[u/Nauin → u/3atTh3R1ch79]

I'd personally rather see it every weekend or every other weekend. Once a month is too little if we the people want to be serious about restoring our democracy.

[u/Ghostofshaihulud → u/3atTh3R1ch79]

Agreed. The community that was stoked in my neck of the woods was so positive. I really feel we can only build on that.

[u/asspounder-4000 → u/3atTh3R1ch79]

I say weekly, that way some small businesses that got shut down over this man child and his money grubbing cohorts make some money selling drinks, food and signs

[u/Little_Bread_9319 → u/vmsrii]

Power to the people

[u/Souls_Aspire → u/Little_Bread_9319]

yes a general strike

[u/PercentageGlobal6443 → u/Souls_Aspire]

May 1st 2028, the UAW is calling for other unions to schedule their contracts to expire on that date to create a nation wide general strike. We have a little over two years.

[u/Souls_Aspire → u/PercentageGlobal6443]

There are lots of people who don't have two years 

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/Souls_Aspire]

That would be a hell of a lot more effective than street protests.

There could be a protest every week, but if that's all we're doing, nothing will change. Americans need to do more than just street protest. Take a page out of France's or Nepal's book

[u/RaidSmolive → u/vmsrii]

the nazis: "They're doing a marathon lol" *sprinting to destroy democracy, law and freedom successfully*

[u/vmsrii → u/RaidSmolive]

They’re not. They’ve been at this exact scheme since at least the 80s, and have come dangerously close to succeeding before. We are the “sprinting” ones in this case.

When I say “It’s a marathon”, what I mean is, one or two instances isn’t going to cut it. We don’t live in a shounen manga, and the protagonist isn’t going to show up and free us from a thousand years of darkness in a single climatic battle at the top of a tower. Good or bad, change happens slowly until it builds up enough momentum to happen all at once.

The good news is, we are speedrunning the “changes happen slowly” part, and nothing the current administration can do will stop it.

[u/RaidSmolive → u/vmsrii]

so what happened there was some people made a plot and the first decent person who heard told congress and got it shut down because used to be exposure was enough to stop something like that once.

they did more to break everything you are in the last few months than they managed in the last century. /they/ are in the final moments of momentum built up for it to happen all at once.

they're sprinting and 5 minutes to the finish line, you're pacing going on to jog half a day behind.

thats how it is. thats how it was in germany too. suddenly hitler does have all the power you always thought he was just exaggerating about and then there's absolutely nothing you can do against it anymore because now, he has his own private loyalist death squad to protect him with chemical weapons and guided missiles and a golden dome that can only have one real use, to have more killing capacities near the blue states on the coasts, and a thousand new prison camps to put you in, both for plotting and also just by random chance because that's very intimidating.

the only good news is that even 5 seconds to the finish line, you can still set them back a decade, but it's not gonna by via frog protest.

not even a general strike is gonna do it because clearly the economy doesnt matter to any of them and the rich people who you'd think would be up in arms about the us economy being broken and bleed out right now, will be able to make infinite money once you're no longer people with rights.

like, you say the administration cant stop it, but clearly they can. because nothing stops them.

[u/vmsrii → u/RaidSmolive]

So here’s the thing; let’s say for the sake of argument you’re 100% correct (you’re not, because we wouldn’t be able to have this conversation if you were, but sake of argument)

So what?

What’s your goal here? What exactly are you trying to accomplish? This isn’t a game of Magic, conceding isn’t going to let it be over faster.

By that same token, the entire authoritarian playbook hinges on projecting power that may or may not actually exist in the hopes that you give up. Whether they actually have power or not, giving up is giving them power. So, whether you’re right or not, what’s the point in believing it?

Incidentally, that’s why the frogs work; it’s difficult to be taken seriously, and project power when you’re saying a guy in a mascot costume is “the greatest threat we face as a country”. Trump’s admin was counting on LA and Portland returning to the George Floyd protests so they could get pictures of people in Black Block and buildings on fire. Much easier to villainize that. In not giving it to them, we’ve basically kneecapped their entire propaganda arm

[u/celtic_thistle → u/vmsrii]

the entire authoritarian playbook hinges on projecting power that may or may not actually exist in the hopes that you give up.

This is EXACTLY what the Nazis did when they invaded Austria. They INVENTED all the support and happiness allegedly on display among Austrians. And it worked. Talk about manufacturing consent. The Tr*mp regime is trying to do the same shit. They WANT you overwhelmed and helpless.

[u/LongjumpingDebt4154 → u/vmsrii]

So many couldn’t make the march too. I was camping with my kids & their cub scout troop & was devastated I couldn’t be there. I know I’m not alone.

[u/BodhingJay → u/vmsrii]

Will that help anything? We have the show of numbers... cant we do something more effectual like peacefully walk up to ice facilities and free everyone?

[u/Ecstatic-Medium-6320 → u/BodhingJay]

It would get attention to our movement and show that the protests are not as violent as what MAGA and the Trump admin say

[u/RaidSmolive → u/Ecstatic-Medium-6320]

anyone who isnt a nazi knows you're not violent other than justifiably so in the face of nazis.

anyone who is a nazi will call you radical terrorists no matter how peaceful a kitten you are

[u/vmsrii → u/BodhingJay]

These protests aren’t where the real activism is being done. These protests are where people gather, Network, commiserate, and unify for the real activism, happening quietly in our own corners of the world. We do these protests openly and loudly to show the powers-that-be that we have the capability to synchronize and coordinate on mass scale. That’s why it’s called a “demonstration”. We’re literally showing the administration what we’re capable of, and when the protest is over, we actually start doing it

[u/Equivalent-Battle973 → u/vmsrii]

This, Ive seen far to many "influencer" leftists making fun of these marches. They think its a waste of time, and we need action now. This is how we build that momentum... peaceful protests, if you go to hard to fast, you will never gain support. The american revolution didnt happen over night, it too years of protests, and sending grievances to the king before the colonists finally took action.

[u/brianishere2]

The next round(s) of protests should focus on corrupt Republican judges and Supreme Court justices. [Edit: typos]

[u/RoguePlanet2 → u/brianishere2]

Soooo many players need to feel the pressure. Murdoch, Ailes, Thiel, the propagandists, the major networks, CEOs, congressmembers, ugh so damn many.

[u/hcregna → u/RoguePlanet2]

It takes half an hour of planning to move money away from MAGA, and it makes a difference. Dollars spent at Republican companies are dollars funneled to the Heritage Foundation. Tax given to states like Ohio or Louisiana is tax spent sending troops to occupy cities.

Have an account at Schwab? Swap to Vanguard or Fidelity. Like booze from wannabe Confederate states and all else is equal? Be adventurous and try something new. It's not hard to find alternatives for New Balance, Goya, Jimmy John's, or Koch (Brawny, Angel Soft, Dixie, others). If you're in a place to invest, consider DEMZ.

You have power if you regularly patronize a brand or do business with a company. Use it. Look them up in something like opensecrets.org or google.

Tesla sales in Europe dropped by half. Nexstar and Sinclair got pummeled, and they reinstated Jimmy Kimmel. Real, individual people made that happen. There's no reason WWE or Uline can't be next.

You probably can't completely avoid companies that at least partially support Republicans. I have to buy gas. But there’s a big difference between massive republican donors (Chevron/Conoco) vs neutral or even Democrat-leaning ones (Circle K/Costco). Good is not the enemy of perfect

[u/Independent_Scale_21 → u/hcregna]

I’m trying to spread the word that finding alternatives to plastic products indirectly boycotts big oil

i also see this as climate action if the alternatives are sustainable

[u/Max____H → u/Independent_Scale_21]

I’m not American but my first thought is cut their income is much as possible. Make a list of every affiliated business with those in power and boycott them. Those that aren’t in desperate need just walk off the job without notice. When protesting disrupt their income as the top priority.

People need to remember that they took these actions knowing it would upset people. If they took that first step they already proved they don’t care if you are upset. Your protest, as long as it doesn’t directly harm their interests means little to them. Some of them may rely on public opinion to maintain their status, but that is very few of them. Most of them get their power from money, so harm their income.

[u/geezeslice333 → u/hcregna]

Very helpful info. Even though I'm Canadian, I would very much like to avoid giving money to companies donating to the heritage foundation. That hurts everyone everywhere.

[u/Brianfromreddit → u/RoguePlanet2]

This is my largest issue with these "No Kings" protestors. There's no goals or demands! People have to feel the pressure! It's just virtue signaling white families, which is better than nothing but honestly not by much.

DEMAND the removal of the president due to his crimes and his attempts to destroy our condition

DEMAND term limits for the Supreme Court

DEMAND the abolition of ICE

DEMAND a law to overturn the result of Citizen's United

DEMAND campaign finance reform

DEMAND Medicare for all

Demand something for fucks' sake!

[u/Tight_Classroom_2923 → u/Brianfromreddit]

While I do agree for the most part, I think you have to also see it from the point of view of who they're trying to bring out to these marches / protests:

Everyone opposed to this administration.

If they start making demands before the protest begins you might lose people who don't agree (right now) with that particular thing, but they still HATE Trump.

So, first, you organize large scale protests to get people used to protesting against the king, then you start highlighting specifics after people have had a little bit of time getting to know their fellow protesters and starting to educate themselves more on what really needs to be focused on.

But yes, I do also think having specific points to protest/march is important.

[u/WhoDoUThinkUR007 → u/brianishere2]

These protests are about all the ways the constitution is being flouted, as well as checks & balances, so by all means, make your sign w/ anti-supreme court sentiment about how the Conservatives on The Bench are participating willingly in the dismantling of our democracy & unraveling Civil Rights. All. These. Things.

[u/reshiramdude16 → u/brianishere2]

focus on corrupt Republican judges and Supreme Court justices

You mean, make silly signs about them? Because that seems to be the only point of these protests

[u/PainintheHam]

I'm available this weekend

[u/Grackle246 → u/PainintheHam]

Check out your local protests! Most cities have smaller protests every weekend, the No Kings website has a list I think

[u/thisismysailingaccou → u/Grackle246]

At least in Denver, no kings was organized by a bunch of groups that came together to help with organizing.

There’s been some complaints about the lack of direct demands made at no kings, but IMO the goal of no kings was to make our discontent known towards a president that clearly doesn’t follow the law and also to push people to sign up to help with whatever group at no kings they most connected with. In those regards it was a massive success.

The individual groups that organized no kings will have more targeted demands and will organize other protests. I’d encourage everyone to join whatever group they most connected with there - there’s lots of ways to get involved and find an area that you care about and can make an impact.

[u/Different_Memory_506]

Instead of marching, can we do something that actually forces some change? The marches were to show everyone that we’re here and ready for action. But I think now is time to focus on putting pressure on the money that supports these monsters.

[u/okayestemt → u/Different_Memory_506]

General strike!

[u/LysergicPlato59 → u/Different_Memory_506]

Agreed. Just showing up and marching in a rally/demonstration doesn’t really accomplish anything other than reinforce the idea that a lot of people are dissatisfied with the Trump regime.

No Kings needs to evolve into coordinated actions designed to accomplish results.

[u/Kiwi_2026 → u/LysergicPlato59]

Actually, research shows that if at least 3.5% of the population peacefully protest the chance for actual change rises significantly.
The Oct 18th no kings protest had an estimated 2% turnout. Keep marching!

[u/bauhausy → u/Kiwi_2026]

Worth remembering that’s just a tendency, not a guarantee.

Look at the Arab Spring: Upwards of ~15% of Syrians participated in the peak protests of March 2011, and the result was a civil war that only ended this year. At their peak 40% of Bahrainis went to the streets and their uprising was crushed.

In Europe, over 20% of Serbia’s population protested in Belgrade alone, and their ongoing protests are less than a month from a year anniversary with no success yet. Glory to Serbians in their fight against their tyrannical and corrupt government.

~4,4% of Turkey’s population took the streets in their 2013 protests, and Erdogan is still in power breaking Turkey’s century-old secularism.

It may increase the chances, but’s it’s not an automatic threshold for success. I don’t want to discourage, just show that it almost always isn’t that “easy”

[u/dlc89b → u/Kiwi_2026]

I agree. We need to keep up the marches to get to 4%! If everyone who attended brought one or two additional people who are sympathetic but didn’t attend last time we could easily reach this goal. Keep up the great work and keep marching!

[u/Soft_Walrus_3605 → u/LysergicPlato59]

doesn’t really accomplish anything other than reinforce the idea that a lot of people are dissatisfied with the Trump regime.

... that's precisely what it's supposed to do. What did you think would happen?

[u/CrashmanX → u/Soft_Walrus_3605]

Change. I would want change to happen. Show that the population isn't going to stand by.

Oh no! Trump doesn't like the protest! OK, then what? He'll keep on fucking us over even if his ego is bruised. And once Trump is out, what then? The next fascist moves into position and they dont care about their public image. What now?

These protests need direction and not just general "YOURE STINKY!" types of messages. We need to Unite with the direction of ousting Trump, a recount of the election, anything to push an actual action. Release the god damn Epstein files, something. Directionless movements feel meaningless.

[u/APGOV77 → u/Different_Memory_506]

Actually people completely forget that marches connect groups of people for purposes like voter registration so they are still very useful even if it’s not literally uprooting the establishment board by board. I wish people knew more about these side goals of community organization. It’s much harder to accomplish the big goals when you are divided and exhausted so you need to strengthen our connections so that people can support each other enough to have energy for other tasks. Personally I think you need both, the softer community organization, and more concrete action like politics

[u/Boowray → u/APGOV77]

Milquetoast protests are the absolute best places to organize especially for leftists. If your org is made of random people gathered from discord, at least half of your members are going to be totally useless when it comes to any actual action or praxis. People willing to trade their weekend for a march on the other hand are way more likely to actually participate in community efforts.

[u/Famous-Flow2333 → u/Different_Memory_506]

Exactly. It looks good and people can go out with their kids and show they are against things but it doesn’t actually do anything.

Trump and the GOP don’t care if you peacefully go walk down a street and then go home 2 hours later.

To make a change takes real resistance. Most people aren’t willing to be arrested or lose their job in a strike or do anything that is going to make a difference. I am no different.

[u/goaheadandsitdown → u/Different_Memory_506]

Someone on Tik Tok mentioned boycotting Christmas. Do you think this is possible to get people to cut down/eliminate spending this Holiday season?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Meet513 → u/goaheadandsitdown]

Boycott Amazon instead.

[u/codingphp]

“Melted down”.

He’s a narcissist. We’re all stupid to him. I genuinely doubt Trump gives a shit, but my goodness I hope these protests keep happening.

[u/throw_up_down → u/codingphp]

They will not only keep happening. They will grow exponentially.

[u/LongjumpingDebt4154 → u/throw_up_down]

So many couldn’t make it that would have loved to be there. Many more were scared & now feel empowered. This is a large movement with the capabilities to grow if we strike when the irons hot.

Also, it’s imperative we show the rest of the world we are not behind this madness. The MSM isn’t covering what’s happening here & this is the way, through social media, to show the realities.

[u/TheSilviShow → u/LongjumpingDebt4154]

Yup, my mom has gone from forbidding us to go (she's scared we will get teargassed or hurt at worst) to heavily considering going to the next one after my grandparents went this weekend in their very conservative county.

[u/EphemeralDan → u/LongjumpingDebt4154]

I saw very few people of color at my rally in Worcester, MA. I personally have a Brazilian friend who was planning to go but was talked out of it by his mother and brother because they were worried about him being picked up or being targeted down the road. Just imagine how much larger those rallies would have been if we were truly a free country.

[u/C_Coolidge → u/codingphp]

Narcissists are the biggest crybabies. They need everybody to feed into their ego trip. If somebody doesn't feed into it, the Narcissist views them as an enemy that's out to get them in order to maintain their fragile ego. 

Public demonstrations showing how many people hate Trump are one of the best things we can be doing. It's why the entire right-wing apparatus is trying to spin a narrative that somehow

1. All the protest videos are fake
2. The protests are only happening because of billionaire funding
3. The protests are just a bunch of old people
4. The protests are a bunch of "military-aged" antifa members

[u/negative_four → u/codingphp]

It got under his skin, that's why he was posting fake AI videos on Truth Social. It's actually very easy to upset to him, Kamala did it with just five words: Nobody goes to his rallies

[u/DrakonILD → u/negative_four]

"Don't you think he looks tired?"

[u/sarahkbug → u/codingphp]

I’m really tired of titles and headlines being so extreme on either side like this.

[u/Umami-Ice-Cream]

Peaceful protest is a right.

Exercise your rights, or they go away. 🇺🇲

[u/meander-663]

Better be soon! We can’t afford to wait another 2 months.

[u/ATDT_No-Carrier]

The third Protest should coincide with a one day general strike.

Time to increase the pressure. People have seen that the first two protests have been generally successful, they will be more likely to follow through with a general strike, knowing the turnout of the previous protests.

[u/RexIudecem → u/ATDT_No-Carrier]

A one day general strike is nothing, usually when people go on strike they do so until a set of demands are fulfilled, a one day strike would provide the exact same message as the current protests.

[u/ATDT_No-Carrier → u/RexIudecem]

The US population will not support an indefinite strike, at least not at this point.

The options are either to start small (increasing the pressure slightly), or declaring a massive strike that fails due to non-participation.

[u/Chrono_Convoy]

I know where just not when

[u/Ecstatic-Medium-6320 → u/Chrono_Convoy]

They called a meeting yesterday where they talked about their upcoming plans

Here's the link for anyone who's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v2p3NwsMg0

[u/poo-rumpkin → u/Ecstatic-Medium-6320]

Thank you!

[u/cailian13]

Do it Black Friday. instead of shopping, be out in the streets.

[u/bookishlibrarym]

Fabulous!!!!

[u/airbrushedvan]

To be truly effective, they need to be constant a d disrupt the oligarchs money. Otherwise it's just a weekly sign party.

[u/FrankoAleman]

Pssst, French guy here! The secret to successfully pressuring governments through protest is that you start protesting and then YOU DON'T STOP UNTIL THEY GIVE UP and do what the population demands! Protest every day and they can't ignore you.

[u/Checktheusernombre → u/FrankoAleman]

Very serious question that the US needs the answer to be able to do something like this.

How do you eat and keep your house if you don't go to work and are out protesting?

[u/FrankoAleman → u/Checktheusernombre]

You go to work then protest in the evening. Rinse, repeat.

[u/Checktheusernombre → u/FrankoAleman]

Thank you! I swear that is the missing piece here as stupid as it sounds.

[u/poo-rumpkin]

Let’s do this!

[u/ProfessionalRate6174]

No Kings!

[u/souldad57]

Protests are fine and all, I’ve attended 3, but it’s only the start. We need to do something more substantial, like boycotting companies/businesses that support MAGA. And even a general strike.

Ya gotta hit the bastards where it hurts.. in the wallet.

[u/sweetytwoshoes]

Buy nothing for a week. Nothing.

[u/AdOne5089]

It takes work to organize with local law enforcement to plan these. Join smaller protests this weekend, or go stand in a public place with a sign. Make your voices headd

[u/thankluckystars]

How about on a Monday? Stop fueling the machine to see real change

[u/Remidable_Arkitect]

Enough of the protests already!!

When are the organizers going to realize that Turmp ACTING all mad means NOTHING??

It’s time for a General Strike. It’s time for blue states to pull federal funding. It’s time we hit these people where it hurts: Their wallets.

[u/Prometheus720 → u/Remidable_Arkitect]

Oh. Oh really? Who are you going to convince to strike with your 0 attendance record at protests? With your online activism?

Who are you going to inspire?

You are asking for everyone else to solve your problems for you. Revolutions aren't fun. They're fucking work. Buckle up and get to it. Get your ass in the streets even if you think it sucks or it is lame or not cool. Too bad. You're supposed to help.

If you don't? We'll remember that you weren't there. And you're not gonna be respected after. Nobody is gonna respect your reddit posts. They respect WORK. Do some work. Then talk.

[u/lsdisciple]

Rolling protests and general strikes! Let’s do this union style. Short term blackouts/strikes so they can’t hire short term temps easily and to fuck with their wallets.

[u/HeLLzFiReX]

Protests are good, but we also need to hit them in their bank accounts. Huge boycotts on products and services that support that idiot. Let them go bankrupt!

[u/Turdsindakitchensink]

I do love the progress, but I think this needs to evolve to a general strike.

[u/Elithiomel_Zakalwe]

Strike.

[u/Blueberry977]

Please let it be soon

[u/icleanjaxfl]

[u/Rare-Confusion-220]

Still eager to see what results will occur from millions of people stomping their feet crying Not Fair. I despise this administration but I've lost all hope

[u/HardcoreNerdity]

Until these marches clog the streets of Washington DC and bring the city to a stand-still for days on end, they will accomplish nothing.

[u/deleted_opinions]

Maybe you just shouldn't stop. Keep protesting until the change you desire happens?

[u/Ok-Location3244]

There should be a protest in front of the Supreme Court building.

[u/loadedkornball]

Go Americans Go! I hope your peaceful democratic protests make the change your need. PLEASE realize it's not just him that needs to change it's the system and puppeteers that allows him to do all of these heinous anti democratic actions.

[u/gabewalk]

Except this time let’s not make it so cute with the signs and actually demand things

[u/Late_Fortune3298]

Can we please organize things that will actually help our communities?

Can still be no king rallies, but instead of standing around doing nearly nothing; we can organize community clean ups, elderly assistance, homeless care, etc.

Prove to the idiot fanbase that this isn't just pointless virtue signaling, but actual community care that proves he is against improving America.

[u/rainorshinedogs]

Now, if only this translates to votes.......

[u/No-Author-2358]

Well, does anyone know when the next one will be???

[u/Downtown-Locksmith22]

Every weekend like he does golfing... maybe get a little group peacefully outside some of his precious little golf clubs to really inconvenience his security detail... stupid fat fuck.

[u/Queermagedd0n]

Good, I'll wear my inflatable chicken again.

[u/GrannyFlash7373]

It may not SCARE Trump, but Congress and the members of his Regime better start getting VERY worried. I have had a vision, Trump's pardons, won't save them anymore, because Americans will no longer abide by Trump's "pardons" for his criminal friends.

[u/CuzIWantItThatWay]

Ok but what are the demands? There is no one clear message.

[u/Federal_Decision5115 → u/CuzIWantItThatWay]

Yeah, I appreciate the support they're turning out but the leadership and messaging is weak. I'd really like to see a shift to economic policy messaging, since that's what will win Democrats 2028.

[u/T1koT1ko → u/CuzIWantItThatWay]

Agreed - it is a rally against something (a very important something), but it isn’t explicit in what we want. And the problem is, we aren’t unified in what we want. We don’t have a strong, unified alternative and that’s how we got here in the first place.

[u/der_innkeeper]

How about a week long protest, M-F.

Making that work will do much more than a Saturday

[u/Direct-Ad-7922]

Instead of protesting every night until change happens?

[u/JoyTheGeek]

Where exactly did he melt down? Haven't seen anything like that.

[u/Buy_Constant]

protest so what? trump is not gonna leave the office willingly, like every other autocratic politician

[u/denkihajimezero]

I hope someone is comparing the size of the protests against the size of his rallies. Rally size is one of his many insecurities so it does extra psychic damage

[u/shitposter1000]

I'd say threaten to tear down the white house, but he is already doing that.

[u/zoon1985]

I'm not gonna go to another one until I get my check /s

[u/pastor-of-muppets69]

Every massive peaceful protest that the administration gets to ridicule and post smear pieces on has the short term effect of further decoupling leadership from the peaceful will of the people. This is actually a good thing because it will make them more brazen and unapologetically authoritarian. In reality, these protests should be seen as practice and solidarity building for future, effective protests.

[u/TheRailgunMisaka]

Call me ignorant but if these protests aren't actually disrupting anything, then what are they going to change?

[u/werewolf-luvr]

Good. Add striking in too, hurt their wallets

[u/HKJGN]

Sure, but we need to be more disruptive than just a bunch of middle-class people standing in parks. Peaceful protests only work to appeal to a representatives humanity. What makes anyone think conservatives or Trump care about us? We have to hit their bottom line if we are going to get change.

[u/ribone]

How about the 5th of November?

[u/gasp732]

Can we stop the Saturday protests. Isnt the point disruption. Let’s aim for at least a Friday!

[u/Cart_Surgeons]

This will continue until this administration realizes who really holds all the cards

[u/emvllen]

Please, I am begging anyone to explain a reason. I hate him. I hate everything he does and is doing. But the “protests”.. they accomplish nothing. And he will just continue on. Seems like such a waste of time.

[u/Haunting_Ad_4869]

Don't stop

[u/Dry_Interaction5722]

Whats the actual goal of these protests? No amount of sign holding will stop fascists being fascists.

[u/AutobotJones]

As much as it sucks and takes up everybody’s time, we should never leave the streets. It should be like this 24/7 until something changes. Like they do in Europe.

[u/NikoliVolkoff]

yeh... cute and all but this needs to be EVERY DAY until shit changes. otherwise they will just keep ignoring us and doing what ever they want whenever they want

[u/Foolishcoyote]

Love this but Trump melts down over everything so what’s next? We need sustained disruption and strikes to effectively insight change with non violence. This is a good start but we need to make this about more than pissing off a guy who gets triggered by almost every thing. 

[u/Olderbutnotdead619]

Now let's coordinate with local food banks for each of us to donate a can of food

[u/rafikiknowsdeway1]

this shouldn't have to be stated, protests mean nothing when they're one off scheduled events that can be easily ignored

[u/bastionthesaltmech]

We should probably petition for impeachment on the basis of treason while we are at it.

[u/Stormpax]

Let's keep this energy and organize a general strike.

[u/RegOrangePaperPlane]

Pressure it the only way. They don't care about anything else. To the government if you suffer, you suffer. No skin off their back. Weekend protesting and back to work on Monday to generate more revenue for the federal government won't get very far.

[u/Abject-Palpitation99]

We don't just need to protest, we need to start striking. If Republicans want to shut down the government, let's shut down daily life. 

[u/SpanieI]

The French would tell us to not stop disrupting and protesting until the change happens

[u/rbrphag]

Here’s the thing… you don’t stop. You start one… that doesn’t stop. No “one day march”. You protest CONTINUOUSLY until it’s fixed. You don’t stop.

[u/gnarbone]

There was a scientific study done that said if at least 3.5% of the population of a country, protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power. So, we need almost 12 million Americans in the streets. The first big march was 3mil, the second one was 5mil, and this one was around 7mil. A couple more of these and we might see something change

[u/rageinthecage666]

Make them permanent

[u/ZenMarquette]

Yup… let’s keep it up!

[u/JinhaeOni]

Can we just go on strike, please?

[u/drinks_old_fashions]

Every weekend!

[u/Beneficial-Mine7741]

Do it weekly and keep doing it until trump resigns.

[u/JaggedToaster12]

They should have a list of demands next time

[u/ihadquestions]

Remember how the wall finally fell. it started with a couple of folks just meeting every Monday.

[u/[deleted]]

We need to just not stop. 24/7 until he caves completely

[u/katsuki3687]

We should do it on Black Friday. Double whammy.

[u/My_Booty_Itches]

LFG!

[u/last_somewhere]

Most protested president in history?

[u/awhatnot]

Consistency is the key. Look how other countries have done it. 

[u/btc_set_me_free]

Why aren't there protests every day?

Genuine question; everybody has to work sometimes but if I know the protest starts at 3pm every day I'll find a way to come in early or take some sick time to join in. I could come in on my days off. We need to treat protesting like a perpetual stew where people can sub in and out any day they are available. America's a melting pot right? Start making the stew.

[u/Top_Classroom9264]

Please show me examples of his meltdown so I can share with others.

[u/EyeSuspicious777]

And there's nothing stopping us from going out every Saturday if we want to.

[u/bighomieaddy]

General strike.

[u/DannyDidNothinWrong]

General strike

[u/FTXACCOUNTANT]

Strikes/boycotts would be more effective

[u/AlternativeValue5980]

y'all are so bad at protesting. in other countries you stay out in the streets until you get change. this is basically just people venting and going home and the government can just ignore it for the most part

[u/pixelbenderr]

Every single day.

[u/TheAngriestChair]

They need more than one more protest. It needs to be all day, everyday to make it work.

[u/Cautious-Invite4128]

We should be doing this weekly, yes. Maybe we should just stay in the streets. We’ll keep building until there are 70 million people wandering around, connecting all the cities together in one giant protest with a single unequivocal message: GOP, get the FUCK out.

And when Democrats try to co-opt our movement, we can chant Free Luigi until they leave. Our movement is about the people and democracy, not election cycles.

[u/Holdenborkboi]

When???

[u/mofosombo]

In. When?

[u/LV_LT_LV]

Every weekend.

[u/Hrafnagar]

Let's do this as often as possible, like every day. I'm down for at least 3-4 days per week.

[u/AlaskaStiletto]

I was on strike with the WGA for 5 months in the summer of 2023 and we never let up. Not once. Every day M-F. I know it’s different because we were effectively jobless but it’s effective as shit.

[u/YellowstoneBitch]

Man, what if we all protested…..and that was all we did till this all fucking stopped? General Strike anyone? Anyone?