I can.
Three, in fact.
But I’ll save them for the end. Meanwhile, yesterday’s mass scream of frustration was about as futile and useless as a protest can be. Let’s review the Ethics Alarms Protest Ethics Check List:
1. Is this protest just and necessary?
2. Is the primary motive for the protest unclear, personal, selfish, too broad, or narrow?
3. Is the means of protest appropriate to the objective?
4. Is there a significant chance that it will achieve an ethical objective or contribute to doing so?
5. What will this protest cost, and who will have to pay the bill?
6. Will the individuals or organizations that are the targets of the protest also be the ones who will most powerfully feel its effects?
7. Will innocent people be adversely affected by this action? (If so, how many?)
8. Is there a significant possibility that anyone will be hurt or harmed? (if so, how seriously? How many people?)
9. Are the protesters prepared to take full responsibility for the consequences of the protest?
10. Would an objective person feel that the protest is fair, reasonable, and proportional to its goal?
11. What is the likelihood that the protest will be remembered as important, coherent, useful, effective and influential?
12. Could the same resources, energy and time be more productively used toward achieving the same goals, or better ones?
The cumulative clear answers show a protest that is even sillier than the usual ones. We don’t have a king, and Donald Trump doesn’t act like one. If he did (or could), all the obstructionist, partisan judges we have seen over-reaching to block his legitimate policies would be in prison, without heads, or on the lam. The anti-democratic citizens (and illegals) demonstrating yesterday are not the supporters of our elected President and our system that elected him, but those who still refuse to accept that election (or his first one, for that matte).
They were also carrying signs like this (in Boston, at least):
Yes, this guy’s a moron.
“Number of kings holding steady at zero,” one conservative wag tweeted.
“The No Kings protests appear to be a massive success,” wrote long-time Trump Derangement victim Jonathan Chait. Success at what? Meanwhile, con-artist Elizabeth Warren tweeted, ‘Today, I stand with the millions of Americans making clear this country doesn’t belong to a king. It’s a democracy, and it belongs to the people.”
And the people voted for Trump over the undemocratically-nominated DEI hack your party gave them as an alternative, after four years of using a shell of a man as a puppet POTUS.
Trump is as much a king as Warren is a Native American.
I see three positive results of the protests. First, they were entirely peaceful, reminding everyone smart enough to be reminded but dumb enough not to have figured it out themselves. The events produced what constitutional protests are supposed to look like, and they were exactly what the anti-ICE riots in L.A. are not. Second, the protests illustrated why the Democratic Party is so unpopular and in danger of crumbling, just like its representatives in Congress showed us when they acted like second-graders to protest Trump’s State of the Union speech a few months ago. The protests contained a mess of varied far-Left obsessions, illustrated by Pride flags, pro-Hamas displays, call-outs for illegal immigrants, and advocacy for socialism and Communism.
Mostly, however, the protests were a nice safety valve release for the Trump Deranged like the sad, once-intelligent seniors on my Facebook feed, who sounded like they were going to the senior prom.
Ethics Alarms 
“Trump is as much a king as Warren is a Native American.”
Heh!
PWS
it was a sad day for me. Seeing the hyped coverage of the No Knock kings while there was so little attention paid to the 250 years of blood shed by the army in defense of this nation and the liberty fought for by the us army. Not a word of gratitude expressed by the no kings just cacophony supporting all things they object to. And a variety it was.
Advocacy for socialism and communism:
“No kings! But we will accept faceless genocidal bureaucracies that keep all the property they claim to share!”
Nah.
The greatest protest against Kings is the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment.
Someone astutely noticed that some Canadian cities hosted protests but had to tactfully change the phrase to “No Tryants”.
Because Canada still has a King.
Ha!
I do wonder what would happen at a Pride event if someone carried a No Queens sign. Does it matter if the royal is male?
The No King’s protest gave a bunch of propaganda brainwashed gullible morons a feeling of accomplishment. They all earned themselves a nice participation trophy…
The real dimwits deserve a Gotchie:
PWS
Do s that qualify as a “positive”.
Tangential to this and your previous post, New Zealand has released their 2024 List of Banned Baby Names . Among them are any suggesting aristocratic titles, such as King, Duke, Princess, etc.
Who paid to organize this idiocy? And, generally speaking, what’s wrong with these people? The Democratic party has been reduced to protests and lawsuits. The party is evaporating before our eyes. Weirdly historic.
One positive thing the local No Kings protest accomplished was ensuring that I do not subject my children to the local high school.
I live in massively conservative Wyoming and we had a few people who wanted to do something. They threw a fit on Facebook and were soundly mocked. However, the loudest person for this protest said “I’ve been a Constitution teacher for the last ten years at the high school and we need this protest because Trump has been doing so many unconstitutional things with his executive orders and Congress hasn’t acted to stop him. If we truly believed in the Constitution, we’d have these protests too.” In further posts, she defended Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as better at following the Consitution than Trump, ignoring all calls to defend her assertions, especially when faced with specifics. Other comments included her doubts that we would ever have an election again, because Trump won’t stand for losing power.
If that is the quality of my local civics teacher at the high school, I needed to know it to convince myself that we would not subject our children to such an idiot. I’ll cover dialectics as well as the Constitution.
“Other comments included her doubts that we would ever have an election again, because Trump won’t stand for losing power.”
This coming from a self-anointed Constitution teacher, ten years in?
Honestly; words escape me!
PWS
https://x.com/scottadamssays/status/1934215386670743768?s=46
Chortle.
I wonder what percentage of protesters also protested the COVID lockdowns.
Because it is beyond debate that public health officials were acting like absolute monarchs.
Pffft, as I was walking back to L’Enfant Plaza yesterday under the fireworks, the protesters I saw consisted of one guy with an upside down American flag and one guy with a sign walking down Madison avenue repeatedly singing “Donald Trump is a fucking putz,” repeatedly. If that’s the best they can do is chant a meaningless phrase repeatedly, then all of this was just a big joke.
The parade still went forward, the speeches were still given, and I don’t think any minds were changed. I wonder if the fact that there were 6,000 American soldiers present, a lot of them armed, along with police from almost every agency federal state and local might have had something to do with at least this group of protests staying peaceful.
Someone I know from Wisconsin who has become terribly Trump deranged in the last couple of years sent me pictures of an empty barricade and said that they were proof that there was no one at the parade yesterday. I wasn’t going to get in an argument that wasn’t going to change anyone’s mind, but I know what I saw yesterday, and the final crowd tally was around 250,000 people. I would have liked to have seen more, but this was a little bit of a niche parade (a lot of the attendees were Army buffs, veterans, or friends and family of marchers) and probably wouldn’t attract the same numbers as you would see for a salute to America or something like that.
This we’ll defend!
BTW, “Do You Hear the People Sing” is from a musical set in 1832, and the process that began with France 1789 ended with “a whiff of grapeshot” from Napoleon.
Ah yes, “Les Miz.” If you asked everyone at the protests, about 99% of those who claimed to know the song and the show would tell you that the (absurdly derivative and pompous) Broadway hit is about the French Revolution.
The sign in the image is certainly not what the Left is pushing to achieve. It wants 1950 Russia and is willing to give the rest of us 1945 Germany to get there.
Losers every one.
It’s not a lot, but they could have accomplished something had they chosen to protest at (or near) a Walgreens. It might have increased the store’s business by making people that had to listen to the protests sick.