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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:49 PM Saturday

The GOP's extraordinary rhetoric about the 'No Kings' rallies

President Donald Trump and his allies have spent weeks painstakingly trying to manufacture an image of an irredeemably violent American left.

This despite a series of rulings from judges, including several Republican-appointed ones, saying the image being painted is a mirage. And it’s despite hard data showing that, even as left-wing violence has increased this year, it still pales to decades of right-wing violence.

But ahead of the “No Kings” rallies across the country on Saturday, the GOP’s effort has taken a rather stunning turn.

The Trump team and its allies suggested that the rallies, which are likely to draw millions of people, will essentially be chock full of antifa, terrorist sympathizers and even terrorists themselves.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-extraordinary-rhetoric-no-kings-090052239.html

No antifa as the GOP would describe them at the rally, I attended though one woman had a sign that said, "I'm your Aunt Tifa."

Overall, it was a rather positive well attended event. The speakers emphasized deescalation over confrontation pointing out that passive resistance was how Ghandi was able to kick the British out of India.

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The GOP's extraordinary rhetoric about the 'No Kings' rallies (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP
The country is being asked to follow the delusional narrative bucolic_frolic Saturday #1

bucolic_frolic

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1. The country is being asked to follow the delusional narrative
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:52 PM
Saturday

and we're not taking the medicine. Moreover, there is no truth to it nor facts to back it up.

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