# "No Kings" rallies, Saturday June 14th 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 6, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268 "2025-06-06T15:40:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/141 "2025-06-15T02:44:35Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Really good for my soul to know that I am not alone! This is one of the answers to “what’s the point in protesting?” It builds solidarity, as others have pointed out upthread. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/142 "2025-06-15T02:47:58Z")
But if the MAGA boycott of Walmart turns out to be real, it might be symbolic in a positive way to shop there. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/143 "2025-06-15T02:49:00Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Early this morning, I walked by the US embassy in Ottawa and was passed by a woman with an anti-ICE sign, sorta rolled up. I don’t know if there was a gathering there later in the day or not. A friend of mine tells me that there was a large group of protestors, marching around the US embassy. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/144 "2025-06-15T02:54:18Z")
We had one in town today, and had a solid turnout of around 400 people! A pretty fun, festive vibe, too. There were a hwndful of por-Trumpites, but they got drowned out by our noise, and eventually got bored and wandered off. Today was my third demonstration _ever_! Tripler I’m starting to get the hang of this! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/145 "2025-06-15T03:19:11Z")
I went. Had a good time. Nice turnout. Got a free hat, some “Deport Elon” stickers. Took Ted the Dog. He nearly stole the show. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/146 "2025-06-15T03:51:36Z")
Est 4,000 protested in San Antonio. > **[Thousands gather for ‘No Kings’ demonstrations against Trump administration...](https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/06/13/protests-over-immigration-raids-expected-in-downtown-san-antonio-on-saturday/)** > > At least two demonstrations against President Donald Trump and immigration raids brought in thousands of people downtown San Antonio on Saturday evening. Gov. Abbott sent National Guard troops to be on hand, as he did to other “blue” cities. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/147 "2025-06-15T04:02:04Z")
Nice collection of signs! I couldn’t go but think an annual No Kings Day is a great idea. Perhaps a different day than the losers bday. (comments are funny, people trying to calculate people per sidewalk foot…range is up to 20000. Town was pretty gridlocked for awhile) > **[Thousands Show Up for 'No Kings' Protest in Santa Barbara](https://www.edhat.com/news/thousands-show-up-for-no-kings-protest-in-santa-barbara/#comment-200183)** > > Over a thousand demonstrators lined Cabrillo Blvd Saturday to join the nationwide "No Kings" protest opposing the Trump administration and defending democracy. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/148 "2025-06-15T04:08:55Z")
I was going to go to the one in Hudson, OH (pop 23k) which was the one closest to me but my friend was going to downtown Cleveland so I went there. I cannot judge crowd size AT ALL so I have no idea how many people were there. It actually felt kind of small for a “big city”, compared to all of the cities I saw on Instagram (San Diego holy heck!) However, there were a ton of protests within a half hour of me, as I live between Cleveland and Akron. Mentor, Akron, Kent, Cuyahoga Falls, Chagrin Falls, Bainbridge, Ravenna, Hudson, and I think some others I missed. So I think all of the suburbanites stayed closer to home and weren’t coming downtown. Cleveland itself is 50% Black and the crowd I saw was about 80% white. So the Cleveland protest wasn’t huge but all of the Cleveland/Akron metro area showed up BIG TIME. Anyway, it was fun and peaceful and fulfilling. I had a sign with a picture of Jonathan Groff as King George in “Hamilton” saying “We will NOT be back!” I’ve been enjoying watching videos and looking at pictures from around the country. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/149 "2025-06-15T04:26:55Z")
One speaker at the Bellingham, WA rally was a Reverend. I couldn’t see him, but he sounded African-American, and I got the impression he was 80 years old. He said something to the effect of ‘We’ll have to fight for the rest of our lives.’ Mrs. L.A. just sobbed in my arms, saying she can’t do this for the rest of her life. (Yes, we’ve had some drinks tonight.) She wants this to be solved _now_. 💔 The Reverend was speaking from the perspective of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement of the '60s. He’s right. _Semper Vigilans_ as is the motto of the Civil Air Patrol. I get it. But Mrs. L.A. is pretty new to politics. We _must_ remain vigilant. But right now, we need to purge the fascists. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/150 "2025-06-15T04:47:19Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Anyway, it was fun and peaceful and fulfilling. I had a sign with a picture of Jonathan Groff as King George in “Hamilton” saying “We will NOT be back!” Nice! This reminds me, as I was nearing the parking area, driving past the already packed sidewalk, what should come up on my Spotify but “I’ll Be Back”. It was just so perfect and gave me a laugh and a jolt of energy. I would have blasted it but it wouldn’t have been heard over the crowd noise. ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/151 "2025-06-15T04:53:15Z")
Yeahh!! as long as you don’t go to 1848… ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/152 "2025-06-15T05:10:12Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Most obscure sign I saw: “They may want Germany 1933 but they’ll get France 1832”. Unfortunate. 1832 was yet another failed rebellion. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/153 "2025-06-15T05:30:32Z")
I just have to say: When they make my wife cry, this is not acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/154 "2025-06-15T15:03:03Z")
My personal thanks to everyone who protested. You _completely_ let the air out of Trump’s spoiled child birthday parade! I’d buy you all a beer if I could afford to! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/155 "2025-06-15T15:07:55Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I guess this will be an annual event for at least the next three June 14ths I hope so, unless the Sweet Angel of Death takes him off our hands and St. Peter leads him to the down escalator. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/156 "2025-06-15T15:07:55Z")
You’re welcome, I’ll have a hard apple cider and say it’s from you! ( this is fair, a friend visiting from out of state last week dropped off a half dozen such hard ciders and an unopened bottle of Kraken rum that he had bought while visiting _other_ mutual friends but wasn’t going to be able to take on the plane, so it’s still gift booze!) But I think it was effective, no, not in moving the needle on Felon47, but I saw a lot of people who came in, saw the crowds, and you could see the weight lifting off of them. That again, they weren’t isolated, alone, in seeing what was going on and wanting to -do- something about it. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/157 "2025-06-15T15:10:33Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Unfortunate. 1832 was yet another failed rebellion. It would had to wait until Napoleon III had a big case of hubris in 1870, lost big in his military campaigns and finally the new republic that deposed Napoleon III realized that the revolutions of the past had a point. How ~~cool~~ [dialectic](https://medium.com/higher-neurons/hegelian-dialectic-for-dummies-84ab5ba2fd67) is that! > Hegel posited that history and reality unfold through a series of contradictions and their resolutions, leading to the development of higher levels of understanding and freedom. This is more notorious when one realizes that Hegel did not see the end of kings and emperors, he died in 1831. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/158 "2025-06-15T15:24:45Z")
If we’re allowed to cite obscure points of French history IRT Trump, there’s always [General Georges “The Man on Horseback” Boulanger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Ernest_Boulanger) “Despite his charisma, he lacked coolness, consistency, and decisiveness; he was a mediocre leader who lacked vision and courage.” ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/159 "2025-06-15T15:26:36Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Trumpists may be getting all their news reporting (and fauxiste imitations thereof) from right-wing sources, but even die-hard Trumpists have a hard time limiting their news awareness solely to right-wing media. I was at a No Kings event in Roseville CA. Placer County is a very Red district, and I am the local Libtard in my very MAGA and churchy neighborhood. While I was waving my sign around on Sat, I received the following text from the neighborhood message pool: _“Just a heads up - there are protesters on Galleria Blvd. - 700-800 people - blocking traffic. Might be a good place to avoid.”_ [Only a bit inaccurate, no one was blocking traffic, though there was _a lot_ of traffic to the event, and the crowd was more like several thousand.] To which my neighbor across the street responded: _“What is the protest about?”_ [If it isn’t on Fox News or they don’t hear it from the pulpit, it isn’t happening.] At that point I weighed in: _“Pro-Democracy! It’s great! Come & join us!”_ I don’t think I will be getting any more invites to the block barbecues. ---
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> [@bobsmom101](#): > > I don’t think I will be getting any more invites to the block barbecues. Less risk of an “accidental” poisoning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268.md?page=9)