Over the weekend, we had no kings, and it was reportedly the largest protests in American history.

Hashtag resistance, brother. Shouts out to that. I think, I think what are people saying? Like seven million people showed out. Yeah. There was a huge showing out in Michigan. There's a lot of stuff. People are saying it was like one of the biggest days for ballot petitions as well. But the ballot petitions are very focused. Oh, yeah. The ballot petitions are something where you go out and you sign it and you're signing for a thing that you want to see specifically. No Kings is not. Yeah, I do. I've been

sort of going back and forth about this in my own mind. And I do think the best part of no Kings is the

opportunity that grassroots groups have to like get out there. Yeah. And that's what we saw with like record signatures on ballot petitions. Yeah. I think that's like the best part of these style of events. But other than that, it's like there really isn't a positive vision. And that does kind of worry me. Yeah. And it's like I don't want to do the like internet leftist thing of like shitting on no kings because it's like when you have

what is literally a historic protest or I guess literally a historic turnout for a protest that means

something like it does mean something that seven million people whether or not they're all

old white people who made signs in their basement corny signs albeit showed up to like actually

say that they don't like what's going on it it's resistance like it it means something. Yeah. And it's like camaraderie. It's unity. It's solidarity. Like that's all good stuff. Exactly. I just worry about like the sort of broader, um, decentralization and lack of a shorefire direction because like with the BLM protests those were a bit more focused a lot more

focused actually like it was clear what those were about and there was a lot of people but I feel like

what got in the way of BLM really being successful two things one the Democrats co-opted it and

then did nothing for the movement yeah and two it was so decentralized that, like, there wasn't a body

that could continue to push on elected leaders to actually get done what, what was necessary to resolve the issue, which was, you know, defund the police and all that kind of stuff. So I just, I don't know, I worry about effectiveness and I worry that because the, the no king's protests are just like anti, right?

They're just like negative,

like,

we're anti-Trump.

I just like negative like

we're anti-trump i i just worry about like success well because it's like in a way it like almost

like kind of feels emblematic of what the democrats are and have been since trump took office in

2016 and it's just we're not trump like the protest is very much just, we don't like Donald Trump.

And that's kind of it.

You go and talk to the people at the protest.

Some of them are very progressive.

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