This is one of the answers to “what’s the point in protesting?” It builds solidarity, as others have pointed out upthread.
But if the MAGA boycott of Walmart turns out to be real, it might be symbolic in a positive way to shop there.
A friend of mine tells me that there was a large group of protestors, marching around the US embassy.
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!
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.
Est 4,000 protested in San Antonio.
Gov. Abbott sent National Guard troops to be on hand, as he did to other “blue” cities.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Yeahh!! as long as you don’t go to 1848…
Unfortunate. 1832 was yet another failed rebellion.
I just have to say: When they make my wife cry, this is not acceptable.
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!
I hope so, unless the Sweet Angel of Death takes him off our hands and St. Peter leads him to the down escalator.
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.
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 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.
If we’re allowed to cite obscure points of French history IRT Trump, there’s always General Georges “The Man on Horseback” Boulanger
“Despite his charisma, he lacked coolness, consistency, and decisiveness; he was a mediocre leader who lacked vision and courage.”
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.
Less risk of an “accidental” poisoning.