They may call it No Kings, anti-ICE, ‘Hands Off,’ pro-Palestine, ‘mostly peaceful’ looting and burning protests of BLM or Defund the Police, anti-fascism, the National Student Walkout for ‘sensible gun control,’ the Women’s March, aka the People’s March or they might just call it a “day of rage”
Have you wondered if it’s mostly the same people no matter what the issue? How do they appear to be so organized with professionally printed signs and a leader on a bullhorn feed a “line” and
then the useful ganders chant it back? Is what we see real or is it largely a performance?
This tells us a lot: Crowds on Demand is “your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR stunts, crowds for hire and corporate events nationwide in every city.” They state on their website to have made campaigns involving hundreds of people come alive in just days. By their own admission, Crowds on Demand received over 100 lucrative anti-Israel requests since Oct. 7, but it plans to stay away (FOX 5/20/24). So how many campaigns and protests use a core of actors to gin up a crowd, stand behind an unpopular candidate or even compose the protesters?
Right now the left doesn’t know whether to be outraged over Israel pounding Iran, increased deportations of illegals, DOGE uncovering billions in fraud or waste or Trump’s election. So they created the “No Kings” hoax which was actually just a cheap parody of the official birthday parade of King Charles III held in England also on June 14th-no original ideas from these people.
It was also their attempt to detract from the national celebration of the 250th Anniversary of our U.S. Army. I would remind those that hold those ‘No Kings’ signs, the U.S. Army freed us from King George III. So we honor the Army current and past who valiantly served this nation so that those activists could have the freedom to hold their signs and express their “days of rage.”
Ralph Miller
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I grew up just over the state line in Ringgold, and now live in East Ridge (no income taxes here). I consider myself a conservative, at least fiscally (I’ve never understood the obsession some “conservatives” seem to have with policing the goings-on in strangers’ bedrooms). If I could pay lower taxes and the government could keep their pork-filled snout out of my business, I’d be happy as a clam.
I do not understand how the example of a rich, fast-talking New Yorker has somehow become the champion of the Southern common man; I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. He’s pushing the “Big Beautiful Bill” that lines the pockets of his Wall Street buddies at our expense and our children’s (we’re increasing the deficit to give tax cuts to people making > $200k) and we’re cheering him on because, why? He might hurt a few Mexicans more than he hurts us?
A lot of people held their noses and voted for him because of Biden’s economy, but he’s only making it worse. It seems like every day he shoots his mouth off and my retirement drops another 3 percent.
So yes, I showed up to protest the jerk. First time ever at something like that. And no, I didn’t get paid.
Charles McCullough
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Mr. Miller loves to use the typical conservative response of “paid actors” any time there’s a protest he doesn’t like.
You missed the entire point of the protests but that’s not surprising. We’re all aware we have no kings in this country and the protests were to remind someone that he’s not a king despite acting like one.
For the record, there were approximately 4,000 locals at Miller Park on Saturday; not your allegedly paid actors.
Robbie Nicholson