# October 18, 2025 "No Kings" Protests **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 15, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993 "2025-10-15T14:10:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [October 17, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/81 "2025-10-17T02:24:49Z")
There’s a rumour on Facebook that ‘Proud Boys and Trump’s Incels plan to attack cops at “No Kings” protests so that Trump can send in the military.’ The meme advises protesters to sit down if they see violence, leaving only the provocateurs standing. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/82 "2025-10-17T02:32:33Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > While I do care about the illegal search aspect there honestly is nothing on my phone that would be of interest to anyone, least of all law enforcement. Not to belabor (even as I am belaboring 🙄) it’s just to head off potential hassle. KWIM? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/83 "2025-10-17T02:52:01Z")
Gov. Abbott is sending in the National Guard to No Kings protests in Texas. > **[Gov. Abbott to send National Guard to “No Kings” protest](https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/16/texas-greg-abbott-national-guard-no-kings-protest-austin/)** > > Austin's mayor clarified in a statement later Thursday that the troops would not be on the streets unless there was “emergency need.” ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/84 "2025-10-17T02:55:59Z")
Unreal. Exactly why we need these protests. > **[Republican Governor Orders National Guard Deployed to No Kings Protest](https://newrepublic.com/post/201899/republican-governor-abbott-national-guard-no-kings-protest)** > > Greg Abbott is ready to have the National Guard confront people expressing their First Amendment right. ETA: Ninjaed ---
**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:** [October 17, 2025, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/85 "2025-10-17T06:02:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Every time we go to a rally/protest, I think we should carry those signs As happens here from time to time - [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/7913/32508124457_370c8a6967_b.jpg "People") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/patricklondon/32508124457/) And in case you don’t already know where it came - Father Ted and his side-kick Dougal are instructed by the bishop to protest about a “blasphemous fillum”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gT9xuXQjxMM/maxresdefault.jpg "Down with This Sort of Thing. Careful Now. | Father Ted") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9xuXQjxMM) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/86 "2025-10-17T06:08:16Z")
I attended the local rally in June. It was a gorgeous afternoon, and probably the safest place in town while I was there. The one scheduled on Saturday is in a park that has very little parking, and thunderstorms are scheduled for Saturday. I’ll see how the weather is before I go. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/87 "2025-10-17T12:37:06Z")
Ummm… What’s with the frog costumes/references??? ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/88 "2025-10-17T12:42:55Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > What’s with the frog costumes/references?? As usual, Portland is keeping things weird: > **[With dancing frogs and naked bikers, Portland resists Trump's National Guard...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/17/portland-resist-trump-national-guard/86437449007/)** > > In Portland, Oregon, public sentiment runs strongly against Trump's plan to send in the National Guard. The city is fighting back in offbeat ways. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/89 "2025-10-17T12:49:57Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > As usual, Portland is keeping things weird: And the response from our government to that is… Full Title: **US House Speaker calls naked bike protest at Portland ICE facility ‘threatening… ugly’** > **[US House Speaker calls naked bike protest at Portland ICE facility...](https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/15/mike-johnson-portland-naked-bike-ride/)** > > Rep. Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, is the latest national GOP leader to criticize the protesters in Oregon. > “What I’ve seen is the abuse of law enforcement by radical leftist activists,” Johnson said. “Most recently, the most threatening thing I’ve seen is the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there, I mean it’s getting really ugly.” > > Elected officials appearing behind Johnson smirked and laughed, but Johnson didn’t break a smile. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/90 "2025-10-17T14:34:14Z")
Sure threatens easily, doesn’t he? And really telling that he can’t find anything more so. Anybody know if the frogs are connected with this? > **[Library of Congress Aesop Fables](https://read.gov/aesop/048.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/91 "2025-10-17T14:43:04Z")
I’ll be going to the one at the Capitol in Lansing. Not sure what I’ll be wearing (I don’t have a frog costume or anything yellow) and what my sign will say but I’m going because I am pissed. And I want them to know it. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/92 "2025-10-17T14:49:43Z")
There are a handful of protests within a 30 minute drive here in South Florida. I’m going to the one near the beach, about a 15 minute walk from a large underutilized mall with tons of parking. The weather looks like it’ll be beautiful. This will be my first No Kings protest, but it’s time to join in. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/93 "2025-10-17T14:54:47Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Anybody know if the frogs are connected with this? > > [Library of Congress Aesop Fables](https://read.gov/aesop/048.html) I assumed it was connected with Exodus 8: > **8** **1** [[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%208&version=NIV#fen-NIV-1712a "See footnote a")]Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. 3 The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. 4 The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’” Or it might just be people keeping Portland Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/94 "2025-10-17T16:13:54Z")
I watched this video today. Others might be interested, so thought I would share. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_BcAjBx1ciI/maxresdefault.jpg "No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights, & Deescalation - 10/15") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BcAjBx1ciI) ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/95 "2025-10-17T16:23:04Z")
I plan to join in the same far north DFW suburb, along the same street that we held the first one, back in June. Interestingly, during the first protest, there was a steady line of people along about a 3/4mile stretch on both the east and west sides of a busy six-lane divided street, and I heard estimates of around 3,000 people (in a city of 200,000). This time, the Mobilize page says _“Our NO KINGS {city name} will be held on the WEST SIDE (NOT both sides) of {FM123} between {Blvd A} and {Blvd B}. The east side will be left for counter-protesters.”_ ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/96 "2025-10-17T16:39:33Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > If these people fully take over, nobody’s safe, sunglasses or no sunglasses. > > And they’re more likely to do so the more that people are afraid of them. > > There’s a lot to be afraid of. But it’s important not to show it. People laughing at them decreases their power. People visibly afraid of them increases it. I am inspired by your post > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘Proud Boys and Trump’s Incels plan to attack cops at “No Kings” protests so that Trump can send in the military.’ I have no doubt there are plans for this ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/97 "2025-10-17T17:37:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Proud Boys and Trump’s Incels I ‘understand’ why the so called Proud Boys would do this (shit heads) 💩 But why incels? And why are they Trumps. I mean they are losers with an imaginary axe to grind, perhaps that’s why they like Trump? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/98 "2025-10-17T18:06:35Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > But why incels? Because nobody else will have them? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/99 "2025-10-17T18:31:35Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > thing I’ve seen is the naked bicyclers Doesn’t Johnson have some sort of unholy deal with his son to monitor each other’s porno consumption? He’s probably afraid that now he’s going to have to self-report. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993/100 "2025-10-18T12:49:38Z")
I wonder what became of the guy who was threatening to expose his Grindr account? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-18-2025-no-kings-protests/1023993.md?page=6)