No Kings protests rattle MAGA as US approaches failed state
The David Pakman Show - October 20, 2025
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At the second nationwide No Kings protests over the weekend, an estimated 7 million people gathered peacefully across more than 2,700 U.S. cities—up from 5 million at the first event—showing a rapidly growing movement against Donald Trump. Despite MAGA predictions of chaos, the demonstrations were calm, organized, and widely attended, rattling Trump and his allies ahead of the 2026 midterms.
In response, Trump shared increasingly unhinged AI-generated videos online, depicting progressive commentator Harry Sisson being bombed with feces and himself being crowned king. Meanwhile, the protests united people across climate, reproductive rights, and international solidarity issues, emphasizing democracy, while the GOP largely remained silent.
Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, furthered authoritarian strategy with a Fox News interview claiming Democrats mainly consist of “Hamas, terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” Such dehumanizing rhetoric normalizes political violence and repression, echoing historical regimes where opponents were labeled enemies of the state. This deliberate “othering” signals a strategy to consolidate power and suppress dissent.
Trump’s physical decline was also apparent during a recent Oval Office event, where he appeared exhausted, slurred his speech, and sat down mid-event. His swollen appearance and incoherent delivery marked a troubling new level of deterioration.
Katherine Boyle, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, is an under-the-radar force in MAGA politics. She connects Silicon Valley to Trump-aligned forces through the American Dynamism Fund, promoting nationalist, militaristic, and Christian nationalist ideology under the guise of “patriotic investing.”
Trump’s Air Force One outburst illustrated an authoritarian mindset where “what I say goes.” He unilaterally declared the Hudson River tunnel funding terminated, suggested Ukraine let Russia keep seized territory, misrepresented economic data, defended a deal harming American farmers, dismissed 7 million peaceful protesters as “whacked out,” and appeared uninformed about Israel’s military actions. The episode highlighted a delusional, isolated leader obsessed with personal power and terrified by mass opposition.
Finally, the U.S. shows signs of systemic failure, with crumbling infrastructure, unsafe water, tent cities, teacher shortages, and declining life expectancy. Social cohesion is eroding, wealth is concentrated, and Americans struggle to agree on basic facts. Trump is symptomatic of these issues, and while the No Kings protests are encouraging, the country faces a choice between confronting decline or ignoring it.
On today’s bonus show:
Trump commutes the sentence of disgraced former Congressman George Santos. Right-wing commentators react to No Kings 2. Benny Johnson suggests Obama and Hillary indictments are next, and much more...
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Effective civil disobedience and successful activism require some degree of inconvenience and sacrifice. Strikes and Blackout are the most effective way to initiate change but they come with hardship and sacrifice. People could lose jobs and businesses may close.
But historically we have sacrificed far more. At this point, no one is asking people to walk miles to work every day for a year, endure personal violence or sacrifice their own lives like they did during the first Civil Rights Movement.
Our resistance efforts now are minor in comparison. The longer we wait to resist the more intense our sacrifices become. Above all resistance only works if we stand together. Mature adults are the ones building and leading this New Civil Rights Movement, the ones with knowledge of our history, the ones that fought for equality and remember what it was like before the movement. It seems like young Americans will need to directly feel the pain of the tRump's destructive cuts and illegal executive orders. This tRump nightmare could have been over already if we had united when he first revealed his authoritarian plans. Instead most Americans are sitting back watching our democracy collapse around us. So many more are clueless about the immense evil the tRump has unleashed in our country.
Unfortunately, people in this country don't want to be temporarily inconvenienced in any way and they definitely don't want to make the simplest of sacrifices like stop unnecessary shopping, avoiding traveling, limiting their entertainment!
Right now we have no where near the numbers of people consistently resisting that we need to save our democracy. The tRump is winning the war against our democracy and has begun the initial stages of genocide in America.
We have to decide if it is better to sacrifice some jobs or a few small businesses or do we allow the tRump to privatizing public education, health care and insurance, making it available to only the wealthy. On top of your mortgage, transportation, utilities, cell phone services and everyday essentials can you afford to pay private school tuition for twelve years and then college, medical expenses without insurance, nursing homes for your parents or grandparents? The tRump wants to privatize health insurance too. Say good-by to insurance benefits from work. Insurance is expected to double in price for everyone. Can you afford all of that? If not what will you have to live without?
The tRump has no plan to increase your wages. Do we continue to let the tRump regime, steal our Medical services, medications, food services for our veterans, disabled, children and the elderly. If we don’t resist more people will loose their jobs, homes, medical care, freedom and many more people will die from neglect while the tRump gives much more of our money to his billionaire oligarch friends?
Do we prefer to fight for our democracy or allow the tRump to continue to strip FEMA funds for communities that mother nature destroys, accurate weather alerts and food safety inspections? He has already ended science and medical research for climate change, cancer, vaccines, Alzheimer's and much more.
Would you prefer to have low wages forever, no civil rights, no truthful media, no right to choose what movies, TV shows or music we watch or listen to?
We need to bring down the true leaders of this country, the greedy billionaire oligarchs that fund the campaign of politicians that support the causes that make them richer. The only thing they care about is money. We need to hit them where it hurts - their bank accounts.
In order to do that and when possible we must stop giving them our money. We need to stop buying their products and using their services. We need to stop spending money unnecessarily. We need to make the oligarchs start paying the same taxes we do and they need to start paying their employees fair wages.
We need to support small businesses instead. Imagine if everyone stopped supporting the oligarchs owned national chain businesses and started shopping locally owned small businesses and restaurants instead. That's how we build our local economy.
SPEAK UP AMERICA! Words are our most powerful tool to support the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance. Please forward, share or talk about these messages with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post, restack or repost on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone.
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https://onemommy.substack.com/p/everyday-ways-support-the-anti-trumpfight?r=113nff
ADDITIONAL ANTI-TRUMP PEACEFUL RESISTANCE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/anti-trump-peaceful-resistance-resources?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The impact of person to person communication:
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/bernie-sanders-visits-deep-red-trump?r=113nff
SPREAD THE WORD! If permitted here are some e-posters to screenshot and share on your social media…
THE LYING KING
Please share with the Republicans in your life!
Did you know that the Lying King is a fuckin racist demon spreading hate around the world? And so is his evil Republican Regime! They lie about all kinds of stupid stuff. The Republicans can't even tell a believable tall tale, they are terrible liars. I don't believe that MAGA people really are as dumb as the tRump says they are. They must see, clearly by now, that he's destroying America, that he has lied about cheaper groceries, better jobs and about making America great again.
For example, the tRump says there are immigrant- murderers, rapists, drug lords - in EVERY neighborhood.
Were you ever afraid to let your kids play in your neighborhood?
Do you people feel safe in the USA now that he is deporting immigrants of every color even white people? Does your neighborhood feel safer now?
Did you ever have an illegal immigrant commit an act of violence in your neighborhood?
How many evil encounters have you had with people of color in your lifetime?
Will you feel safer yet, when the homegrown treasonous criminal traitor tRump sends his illegal bullies, ICE henchmen and armed military into your neighborhoods where your kids play and go to school?
Were you ever afraid to go into a Mexican, Chinese or any restaurant run by minorities? We're you ever disrespected or mistreated by your servers in those restaurants?
Did you know undocumented people have never received Medicaid or Social Security They pay Social Security but they never receive their money back like everyone else does.
Did you know that esteemed scholars, world and religions leaders of many faiths and countries are speaking out against the tRump because he's spreading hate and killing people around the world. He is dangerously turning our allies into enemies. Ask yourselves - When in your lifetime has an American President been so hated and disrespected and why now with DJT?
Did you know that we are on the global human rights watch list known as CIVICUS for the tRump's criminal actions, his disregard for our constitutional laws and civil rights, including the rights to free speech, protest, restricting truthful journalism, eliminating due process for people he doesn't like, defying direct judicial orders and so much more?
Did you know the only war zones in America are the ones El Führer tRump is trying to create in order to eliminate the people smart enough to speak and vote against him? Don't they know they have Republican supporters in each one of those “blue” communities, that they are hurting too?
Did you hear that the accused child and convicted molester of women is granting criminals, like himself, early release from prison if they agree to work as the evil ICE gangsters that kidnap innocent people and make them disappear for the crime of not being white enough? That's right, he is hiring marginalized known criminals of every color and paying people desperate for money huge bonuses to be his ICE Brigade? Did you know that they are openly going after children? Did you know they pull children from their beds, schools, their parents arms, zip tie and detain them in facilities without proper care? Did you know that that he is the only president to turn our military on peaceful American communities and citizens?
Did you know that tRump is controlling what can and can't be said on our national news? Do you prefer to live in a country where your Dictator chooses which movies, TV shows and music you allowed to watch or listen to?
The Republicans must have screws loose if they believe that intelligent Americans believe their nonsensical fabrications - no wonder they want to defund education. Did you know that those imbeciles wants to privatize public education? Can you afford to pay tuition for your K-12 kids and your college kids? Have you thought about what will happen to this country if the majority of our children get no education?
Are you threatened by people that have opinions different than your own? The tRump must be, if he is starting to target white American protesters, reporters, anyone that disagrees with him, even our comedians!
Are you even aware that Führer tRump has started the beginning stages of genocide in the USA and Americans are already dieing! Do you remember the story of the Holocaust? One evil dictator, controlling our newspapers, detaining people for the crime of having a religion different than his own, deporting them to death camps leaving the world with six million dead Jews. Does that sound familiar to you? One evil Limp Dick Traitor, controlling the news media, detaining people for the crime of not being white enough or speaking against him, deporting people off to never be seen again. Oh, how I hope we never get to six million.
Did you hear the tRump say that he wants to get rid of everything the Democrats want? Did you know that the Democrats want what you want? Did you know the Democrats not the Republicans are the ones who want to save our Medical Care Services? Insurance prices are going to double in January. Can you afford that and if not how will you pay for medicine, doctor, hospital, nursing care without insurance or Medicaid? Can you afford to stay home yourself and care/or pay for home care services for your elderly loved ones? Check your local nursing homes and home care services. Believe me it is incredibly expensive.
Did you know that the Convicted Felon in the Oval Office is taking aim at the disabled, sick children and the elderly with his cruel budget cuts. Are you glad that he believes that less than perfect people are better off dead because they cost too much to care for? Do you know what he plans to do with the money saved form cutting our medical care? According to his Big Brutal Bill our tax money will now go towards funding war, ICE and more tax breaks for the billionaire. Is that what you voted for?
Did you know that the Limp Dick Traitor, accused rapist is actively trying to strip more women of their basic civil liberties, making it harder for them to vote or to decide what medical care they receive?
Will you be grateful when happy productive Democrats, Republicans, men, women and children start suffering because they can no longer afford their life supporting medications?
Have you ever wondered why so many millions of people hate the tRump and are protesting around the world? Have you considered that their news, is different from yours? Have you ever considered that maybe they know something you don't? Don't you owe it to yourself to find out?
Did you know that even if you MAGA supporters don't believe anything I say, you owe it to yourself to at least do your own research and fact check everything I have written just in case I might be right? Because if I am right you need to prepare yourself and your family for the hell that's coming! Everytime those Republicans say something outrageous - DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH - before the tRump regime erases the truth from the internet - which I hear has already begun!
Did you know that the reason Führer tRump is allowed to get away with all of this evil is because the majority of - We the People - are doing absolutely nothing to stop him? This is our fault!
Wake up America the tRump is actively destroying our democracy and stripping away our civil rights. Speak Up, Join the Resistance, Be Done with the Republicans and the Democrats, they have betrayed us. Demand Change, Support the Progressives, they are the ones that what to raise your pay, provide free health care for everyone and free education for everyone, including college. And they want to help the less fortunate. Do Something before we have nothing left to lose!
If you are a Republican and are struggling with the decisions of the current administration - you are not alone.
If you are a friend or family of member of a die hard Republican MAGA supporter - you are not alone.
There's hope and support on Substack's "Leaving MAGA". Watch this interview with its founder.
https://open.substack.com/pub/leavingmaga/p/my-conversation-with-adam-kinzinger?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
You should know that Republicans have disappointed me too. I believe each and everyone of those Republicans are being paid, blackmailed or threatened by the immoral oligarchs to spread their evil lying propaganda.
Here's what you can do to help stop the destruction of America:
NEVER SHUT UP - SPEAK UP AMERICA!
Words are our most powerful tool to support the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance. Please forward, share or talk about these messages with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post, restack or repost on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone.
Let Senator Sanders shows us the power of listening and speaking one on one.
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/bernie-sanders-visits-deep-red-trump?r=113nff
To learn more about how to support the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance read: