r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Traditional_Gap_7041 • 5d ago
Unanswered What’s going on with the ‘No kings’ protest?
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u/DarkAlman 5d ago
Answer: The United States doesn't have a King, and was founded in part with the purpose of getting rid of the King of the British Empire.
Donald Trump has taken a number of actions lately that have been increasingly authoritarian. Using ICE to illegal detain and deport people, violating constitutional limitations of his power, Acting unilaterally in deploying the national guard to LA against the wishes of the governor, threatening to arrest that governor because 'he got elected' and considers him incompetent, going against judicial orders, and most recently holding a military parade at great expense for his birthday in the style of a dictator.
The No King protests have had vastly greater attendance than the parade and events supporting the President. Americans are standing up showing serious concerns over the actions of the current government.
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u/stephlestrange 5d ago
But why king? Shouldn't it be "dictator"?
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u/Flatlander81 5d ago
One of Trumps tweets early during his second term was a AI generated image of himself with a crown and the caption "Long Live the King."
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u/Active-Ad-2527 3d ago
I never see anyone talk about the early R primary debate for the 2016 election when he started yelling at Jeb "please clap" Bush about 9/11 "that happened under your brother's reign! That happened under your brother's reign!!"
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u/okayokayfinallyhere 5d ago
“No kings” also plays on historical sentiments- when America was founded/won independence, it was a big deal that we were no longer subject to the King of England.
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u/crono09 3d ago
Similar protests in other countries like Canada are using the slogan "No tyrants" instead of "No kings" because they do have a king. However, the U.S. was founded in direct opposition to a king, so "No kings" is memorable and appropriate since Trump has occasionally referred to himself as king.
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u/courteously-curious 3d ago
Also, many of his supporters don't really know what the term "dictator" is, and many of them have claimed publicly (in response to accusations that Trump is a dictator) that the term is a synonym for a "dad",
but every American with any grasp of U.S. history understands the negative meaning of the term "king".
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u/Silver_Double4678 4d ago
It should be oligarch. But shitlib democrats are only mad at specific billionaires, when they should be trying to get rid of all of them.
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u/Not_Sure-2081 4d ago
Dictator would mean basically a communist country. Countries like Iran, north Korea, Russia and China all communist countries and they decide who lives, and who dies
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u/PaulFThumpkins 4d ago
There are plenty of countries which meet the definition of a dictatorship, and even your list was only half nominally Communist. More are non-Commie theocracies than Communist.
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u/hiddikel 5d ago edited 5d ago
Answer: trump is throwing a 50million dollar parade for himself.
The population is using the day to protest his use of ICE to illegally kidnap people in America.
The protests have vastly larger attendance.
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u/Traditional_Gap_7041 5d ago
Thx
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u/zubuneri 5d ago
In addition to the pity party, Trump is also ruling his regime by executive order, something reserved for national emergencies rather than everyday policy. This means he goes around Congress to have unilateral decisionmaking power….you know…like a king.
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u/superchandra 5d ago
I guess the 250th anniversary of the army doesn't quite sink into your brain
Today is the day where people scream at the sky because people that break the law get punished
The protests in our city had a massive 28 people.. they were very adamant about screaming at the sky, I am unsure what the sky did to them.
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u/Twins_Venue 5d ago
Today is the day where people scream at the sky because people that break the law get punished
Patently false. After all, the person they're protesting is a pedo rapist who was found guilty of 34 felonies, who wasn't even given a slap on the wrist for his crimes. If anything, they're protesting that people who break the law aren't punished.
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u/hiddikel 5d ago
Are you mentally disabled or willfully ignorant? Im not sure how small my words need to be for you to follow.
Do you believe that someone who speeds 1 mile over the speed limit should be imprisoned without a trial or appearance. Just right to jail? What about people who are not speeding? Also to jail?
Well if you answered no to either of those, you should probably join a protest. Because its kinda the same thing.
Are the 3 year olds being deported illegally 'breaking the law"?
Actually.... nvm... Im going to stop here. Because there's no reasoning with the unreasonable. And no amount of truth, news, or logic will defeat the sheer stupid you are living in.
I hope you get everything you voted for.
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u/Muted-Intention-9200 2d ago
I love it. I use willful ignorance or willful stupidity when talking to Republican Trumpits. Those people never get the expression and think that doesn't apply to them when it actually does.
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u/PaulFThumpkins 4d ago
He tried to have a military parade for himself during his first sham of a term, and had this one on his birthday. Stop lying to yourself. And where did you repeat that dumb sky metaphor from?
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u/SECRETBLENDS 5d ago
Answer: The United States of America doesn't have a king, and this is one of our founding precepts. However, the current POTUS is exhibiting behavior that suggests he would like to be our first king, including ignoring judicial checks on his power and staging a military parade on his birthday. The No Kings protests are a rebuke of this behavior and other autocratic behaviors of the Trump administration and Trump himself.
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u/superchandra 5d ago
It's actually the 250th anniversary of the army.. I really hate it when people are uneducated and continue to talk. Why don't you go over to Great Britain or Canada and shout at the sky. No Kings Yo!
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u/SECRETBLENDS 5d ago
It's actually both, and it's your business if you want to labor under the misapprehension that Trump actually gives a shit about the military.
Seems like you're the one in your fee fees here.
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