I think that the protests have finally gotten the politically uninformed to look around and see what’s happening. Most of those “independents or those who don’t identify with either major party” are just not in the habit of informing themselves about policy. Many, or maybe even most, get the bullet points on the daily news and that’s it. Now, somewhere north of 6 million people have protested Trump’s policies and the news has been covering it. It has shaken them out of their routine. They’ve looked around and educated themselves and realized that this is not normal.
I hope this means the next round of protests hits the 10 million people mark.
It still angers me how so many people were confused when Joe Biden wasn’t one of the candidates on election day. I understand not watching the news but like wasn’t that all over social media?
One of the problems with social media is that that algorithms they use act as a filter based on your previous clicks. If one never clicks on political stuff, then their feed will rarely if ever show them political stuff. Someone who never pays attention to politics, and doesn’t watch the news, could easily remain completely ignorant of major issues unless someone they personally know tells them something or they are personally inconvenienced by a protest.
that algorithms they use act as a filter based on your previous clicks
Along with pushing right wing content that’s completely out of step with reality, which they love to inject into people’s feeds because it drives engagement.
It’s kind of baffling to me. All of my friends are to some degree engaged in politics. But there are probably whole chunks of society that just brain rot through the day looking at memes and don’t really think about anything.
I think I kind of radicalized one of the guys I worked with just by talking to him about broad strokes of history and labor. If instead of me they had hired some bland “don’t talk about anything” standard guy, he might not have learned much. Talking to people can help.
I think you’re right. And I think it’s in large part because news is largely a right-wing echo chamber. Not that there aren’t left-leaning outlets, but the most visible outlets are either overtly right-leaning or spend all their time platforming right-leaning people and then lending them legitimacy by mainstream-washing the completely bonkers garbage they spew.
“Kristi Noem, known for her no-nonsense stance on pet discipline…”, “President Trump attended an understated and somber celebration of American military history…”
Anyway, point is when enough people stand together they become difficult to ignore and de-legitimize. Just the act of uniting so many people from every walk of life, particularly in light of Trump’s failure parade on sadness street, is empowering. Trump barely broke into double-digit thousands offering $1k per person (I don’t know what the actual number is, but I’m sure it’s not more than 10% of the “official” tally).
It was a stroke of genius to hold the protest on Trump’s birthday, making it a clear contest which Trump lost by yuge margins—margins like you’ve never seen before. Some people are saying the biggest margins ever.
Even Fox News can’t spin that as anything other than abject failure, and if there’s anything MAGA hates more than minorities, it’s losers.
I hope this means the next round of protests hits the 10 million people mark.
No Kings hit 13 million in total. The estimates you see floating around were produces by Alt National Park Service, who had people out there counting, and the reason there are many is that they posted estimates on their (I think Bluesky???) account as the day progressed, so larger estimates simply came from later in the day and 13 million was the final estimate. And no, this doesn’t mean Trump will be legally forced to resign by the 3.5% “rule”.
I’ve not seen the 13 million number posted anywhere. Do you have a link, perchance? Also, I have no clue what a 3.5% rule is.
Couple of posts:
- “We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest”
- “A lot of people have questioned our No Kings crowd estimates…”
- 3.5% rule
The 3.5% rule is more of an observation than a rule. It’s hopeful, but little more than that.
I couldn’t quickly find a citation for 13 million, but the first post does indicate counts are still coming in.
Oh look, the 1643rd time I’ve seen this headline. Call me when the angry mobs start forming.
🎵"Do you wanna build an angry mob? Or ride our bike around and crush their balls? I think some justice is overdue I’ve started painting their brains on the walls!"🎵
I think it doesn’t matter. Trump has lost nothing. Every second he’s not in prison is a win.
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Trumps core issue is his account balance.
Trump’s core issue is his lack of core stability and balance control
I’m speaking to what he really wants. What he really wants is more money. You are speaking to something that is really wrong with him.
This over voting in lock-step with Russia and North Korea. 🤦
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I thought it would be cutting medicaid, that’s kind of surprising to me.
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Don’t worry America and Israel will fake a terrorist attack and gain support from their brain rotten base and drag us into another war in the Middle East. Hey America we bout to be great again!
Now if only the military would turn on him in accordance with their oath to defend the constitution from domestic threats…
Sadly, there are still so many people in the US motivated by hate, and they’ll vote accordingly
Every time I see this picture I can’t help but think it should be the man in the left wearing the construction outfit. Even our damn memes are biased.
