This suggests pretty strongly that somebody in their propaganda manufacturing world figured out that the "terrorist" angle was getting no traction with the public; that the only thing it really accomplished was to emphasize what fools Mike Johnson and Karoline Leavit are.

Yesterday and today, with an infinitesimally small number of actual arrests and police departments nationwide reaffirming that protests were peaceful, crickets.

Second, the thing I am NOT seeing in the MAGA faithful comments anywhere are references to the "terrorists", "antifa", "America haters", and so on. Last week, the No Kings terrorists posed such a threat potential that Texas' leadership went through theatrics of calling out their Guard units.

I'm noticing two other things alongside this. The first is that this line of ridicule seems new. I can't remember seeing anything like it before, say, this past Friday.

What they can't do with their mockery is change the numbers that actually happened yesterday and that are going to keep happening. It can't change the way that this turnout showed decisively just how deeply unpopular the current would-be regime is.

One thousand dollars says that this is a coordinated talking point, because the trolls and bigots in MAGA leadership understand the same thing that Portland's inflatable frogs do: making your opponents look ridiculous, worthy of mockery, can serve to weaken them.

Even that jaw-droppingly crass AI video of King Trump piloting a fighter jet to dump literal shit on Americans is in this vein: it's trolling we deserve, because we're ridiculous, etc.

Variations include versions of "you wouldn't be able to protest if we had a king", as if the 7 million+ who were out yesterday don't understand that.

This suggests pretty strongly that somebody in their propaganda manufacturing world figured out that the "terrorist" angle was getting no traction with the public; that the only thing it really accomplished was to emphasize what fools Mike Johnson and Karoline Leavit are.

Yesterday and today, with an infinitesimally small number of actual arrests and police departments nationwide reaffirming that protests were peaceful, crickets.

Last week, the No Kings terrorists posed such a threat potential that Texas' leadership went through theatrics of calling out their National Guard units.

Second, the thing I am NOT seeing in the MAGA faithful comments anywhere are references to the "terrorists", "antifa", "America haters", and so on.

I'm noticing two other things alongside this. The first is that this line of ridicule seems new. I can't remember seeing anything like it before, say, this past Friday.

What they can't do with their mockery is change the numbers that actually happened yesterday and that are going to keep happening. It can't change the way that this turnout showed decisively just how deeply unpopular the current would-be regime is.

One thousand dollars says that this is a coordinated talking point, because the trolls and bigots in MAGA leadership understand the same thing that Portland's inflatable frogs do: making your opponents look ridiculous, worthy of mockery, can serve to weaken them.

Even that jaw-droppingly crass AI video of King Trump piloting a fighter jet to dump literal shit on Americans is in this vein: it's trolling we deserve, because we're ridiculous, etc.

Variations include versions of "you wouldn't be able to protest if we had a king", as if the 7 million+ who were out yesterday don't understand that.