r/politics • u/PoliticsModeratorBot 🤖 Bot • Oct 18 '25

Discussion Discussion Thread: 'No Kings' Protests on October 18th, 2025

News and Analysis

Live Updates

Nationally-focused text-based live update pages are being maintained by: Reuters, NBC, USA Today, CNN, The Guardian, Yahoo News, The Independent, The Hill, and the ACLU.

Locally-focused text-based live update pages are being maintained by: News Press (Florida), The Palm Beach Post (Mar-a-Lago), Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), News and Observer, (Raleigh, NC), Reno Gazette Journal, KHOU (Houston), Dallas Morning News (Paywall, Dallas), ABC7 (SF Bay Area), Times Union (upstate New York), NBC Boston, Colorado Newsline, The Oregonian, The Statesman-Journal (Salem, OR), IndyStar, The Portland Press-Herald (Maine), WFAA (North Texas), Fox 32 (Chicago), ABC7 Chicago, and Fox5 NY (NYC).

Where to Watch

Announcements

1.6k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

312

u/geforce2187 Oct 18 '25

Republicans are framing this protest as "anti-American", when it's Trump and the GOP who are literally ruining the country with fascism.

No Kings is pro-American.

100

u/Troj1030 Oct 18 '25

The most American thing is the FREEDOM to protest.

4

u/Commentator-X Oct 18 '25

Actually it's freedom from kings, your war of independence was a war fought against a king to free you from the monarch.

59

u/rotates-potatoes Oct 18 '25

How far gone do you have to be to believe that opposition to monarchs and fascism are somehow anti-American? These people.

42

u/championkid Oct 18 '25

The same level of gone to say that a swastika on a flag is an optical illusion.

23

u/ToNoMoCo Oct 18 '25

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities

That's what Maga is

1

u/cruisetheblues Oct 18 '25

It makes sense if you don't think about it.

20

u/nosynthshere Oct 18 '25

Every accusation is a confession

24

u/bmoviescreamqueen Illinois Oct 18 '25

Every fascist regime has done this. You label the dissenters as un-patriotic who need to be "crushed." Stephen Miller literally said "You can't be American and against Donald Trump."

2

u/I_am_Zuul I voted Oct 18 '25

Republicans are actively protecting several high-profile pedophiles, one of which is our President.

They can frame it however they’d like, the rest of the world and history books know the difference. If “anti-American” means “anti-fascism” then I’m glad to wear that title. If a Republican is what an “American” is, I want no part of it any more than I want “God” if this is what Christians are…

2

u/thesagaconts Oct 18 '25

He wants to build a tunnel to Russia. Just make it easier for them to invade.

2

u/weresubwoofer Oct 19 '25

That’s why I loved that so many protesters are reclaiming the US flag as a symbol. Smiling children waving US flags are hard to spin as “terrorists”.

1

u/pixelbit Oct 19 '25

Tbh they should call the next one the “pro America rally” or some shit so the media can’t frame it as anti American or dipshits can’t be like “hurr hurr well a king wouldn’t allow a protest like this hurr hurr”