I do think there is some like...morale boosting in doing a thing like No Kings. It shows you aren't along in feeling like this is all a huge terrible mess, and maybe gets you meeting people to try and change that. I just hope that's happening and it's not just kind of a circle jerk.

Like what was the core, simple, direct policy ask of "No Kings"? Does it have one? If it's just "we don't really like Donald Trump and the current admin" well we have like a year before anything can even BEGIN to happen about that. Can we do anything in the meantime?

Look, I'm glad people are organising these protests, but something more, and coherent, needs to come from it other than "look at all the people!" and social media posts of the most creative signs for it to amount to anything.

He is, without a doubt, one of the dumbest and most consistently wrong people I ever have the displeasure of seeing regularly pop up in my feeds.

I'd also like to add, in addition to those things Steve over here mentioned, Mr. Kirk was also armed with literally millions of dollars of backing for his organisation since he was like 17.