The cowardly “officials” cancelled the protests, and 80,000 people proved that they don’t listen to spineless Democrats any more than treasonous MAGAs, and showed up anyway.
Craven Democrat politicians need to match the courage of their constituents, or find another job. It’s time for Democratic Warriors to step up.
What officials?
Capitol event organizers, who originally expected a turnout of 10,000 people, released this statement early Saturday afternoon:
"Out of an abundance of caution and in adherence to guidance from Governor Walz and the Minnesota State Patrol, all remaining No Kings events in Minnesota are being canceled immediately. This decision comes in light of the ongoing shelter-in-place order and the tragic shooting that targeted two elected officials and their spouses. We are doing this in accordance with local and state guidance given the suspect is still at large impersonating a police officer.
Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the communities shaken by this violence. We are in close contact with our hosts, attendees, and state and local officials and remain committed to ensuring all other events around the country proceed peacefully and safely"
I’m very out of the loop with this, I’m not from the USA. Which protests do we like, and which don’t we?
Officials cancelled anti-Trump protests after a Democrat representative was killed. (Trump is Republican.)
Which types you like probably hinges on how you feel about flak vested white supremacist militias, I guess.
Surprisingly, I’m not really in favour of them, the handful of pics vids I’ve seen didn’t have enough context…like there are Brits that are anti Farage cause he’s not authoritarian enough.
Oh yeah, tell me about it. You still get far-right protests against Israel where I’m from because while they like the genocide, they still hate Jews. Weird people are weird.
This protest is pro-democracy though.
Musk’s falling out with Farage was reportedly because he wasn’t rabidly far-right enough in the correct ways.
The “No Kings” protest was anti-Trump. Do with that what you will.
I’m assuming the handmaids are the good guys too? I’ve only really seen a handful of vids and not enough to get context.
People dressing up as handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale are typically dressed that way as a form of protest against the conditions that would lead to Handmaid’s Tale becoming a reality. Which is typically anti-Christian nationalism but can also include anti-MAGA/Trump which …the lines there are blurry at best.
Thank you for your explanations, just wanted to be sure.
Officials cancel all “No Kings” events
I don’t think it works like that, like it is in the fucking name.
That’s why 80,000 people showed up anyway
A good start.
11,000,000+ Nation Wide.
Neat so like 3% of people nation wide? Maybe a bit lower.
3.5% according to 50501.
Around 80,000 people still showed up to protest at the MN capital today, so I don’t think what “officials” say matters.
Good.
The social contract is unraveling.
Important comment, this has been fraying for several years and now it’s unravelling.
The officials can get fucked. What an absolutely absurd and cowardly response.
Democrats being democrats
I’m so conflicted on this take. On one hand, it sounds a little accelerationist/tankie. On the other hand, you’re not wrong. But they are trying to protect lives by recognizing there is a literal makes serial in the loose with not only the names and addresses of public officials, but also “no kings” rally flyers.
So it’s a fairly simple trolley problem question in the “what if” scenarios going through an actual concerned public official’s mind. It’s cool people showed up cause they all realized this dude was a coward and will only shoot people who are at an extreme disadvantage, and wouldn’t dare to go public with his violence cause there’s a chance he might get punched in the face a few dozen times before his homies in blue pull him out.
But you really can’t blame this public statement on “Democrats are cowards”, even though it is objectively true.
That conflict is stemming from your cognitive dissonance.
You want to believe Democrats are the good guys, but every day we see more reasons why that’s not the case.
There really is only 1 party in the US: the party of the ruling class. Democrats and republicans work together to oppress everyone else.
Less and≥objectively evil.
That’s all I have to say in response to you fuckheads who created this fucking monstrosity.
And I’ll repeat this same line to everyone who tries this bullshit “bIt BoTh siDeS!!1!” Bullshit.
You are directly responsible for the murder of innocent people!
Sleep well tonight realizing you’re a terrible person exaggerating one side, and minimizing the other’s shortcomings.
Don’t hurt your back bending over backwards to eat your own ass you fascist enabling piece of shit!
Hey, blame everyone who voted for Hillary in the 2016 primary for why we have 2 trump presidencies.
The democrats showed where their loyalties lie: they’d rather have a fascist than a progressive so that’s what we get.
Good job doing your part to support the two-pronged strategy. It’s what makes you average and I don’t expect more from you people at this point.
Now, keep getting angry rather than admitting how you’re part of the problem.
This…
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We can blame the officials. Don’t let the heckler’s veto work. It’s murder of course, but it’s also bullying. And capitulation only makes it worse next time. They’ll always have lunatics with guns.
Yeah, people misunderstand how citizen protests work when they talk about protest organizers like they’re in charge. Maybe they filed some papers with city hall and did some promotion, but there’s no such thing as “protest leadership”.
Yup protests have no head to kill. So try as they may this will continue until we are sure no nazis are inside our political system.
Why was this posted three hours ago, after the protests had taken place already?
This is just about the most on-brand thing I can think of for “the resistance.”
Sounds like something the king would want then to do.
I was at the capital protest, didn’t even realize it was canceled until they started talking.
I was also at the Earth Day protest and I loved seeing way more people today. I didn’t do the march and it was awesome seeing the march come down the street toward the capital grounds.
I wish we could have had their planned schedule today but I’m glad they still did something and it was a good mix of protest and the somber reality of the assassinations.
They tried! We had the protest anyway! AG Ellison spoke and everything.
Im not suprised that Liberal politicans would be this spineless, congratulations now they have a guaranteed way to shut you all up. Are we really going to back down as soon as the fascists shoot at us? Does freedom mean nothing to you people?
If I am understanding it correctly, a stay at home order was issued because the shooter was still “at large” having shot at authorities and then fleeing. The time the protests was supposed to be was covered under the stay at home order.
I think the protests should happen if at all possible, but I understand not wanting people on the streets when there is a known gunman about.
No statewide stay at home order was issued.
Edit: added statewide to clarify. Source: am 'Sotan.
Satan*
/s
How tan?
If the protests against Trump are canceled because his supporters assassinate Democrats, it will encourage more assassinations.
The stay at home order was for one suburb where the assassin fled on foot.
1 gunman, thousands of protesters. Hmmm.
Right, the gunman might run into the crowd and loudly announce that he was going to shoot them before being wrestled to the ground, or the gunman might find a safe perch and fire indiscriminately into the crowd, causing casualties, panic and chaos, then melt away into the night.
Tough to say which one is more likely
Just wondering if you know how mass shootings happen? Cause you listed their preferred recipe.
The one in the area of the shootings was cancelled due to a stay at home order, but the one at the capitol 100% happened, although with a different tone and not all the speakers showed up.
Can we also cancel all the monarch bullshit this administration is doing too?
Not without killing someone, it seems.
This will show the fascists that they have a means to shut down all protest.
As a Minnesotan I’d be upset if officials didn’t make this announcement. They had an individual who killed 2 people and seriously injured 2 more, whose vehicle was found with No Kings protest flyers, and who had a manifesto that seemed to indicate they had plans for greater violence.
This is the kind of thing people should be warned about. It’s not like it stopped any/many from going but they’d be derelict in their responsibilities if they didn’t let people know.
Letting people know and trying to cancel a protest are two very different things.
You cannot surrender to terrorists.
They didn’t, people showed up all over the state. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/14/warnings-state-officials-following-shootings-no-kings-rallies-minnesota https://www.startribune.com/trump-protests-gear-up-around-minnesota-us/601371723
Showing up is not an end in itself
“You’ll all be protesting correctly when I decide what that means and you somehow meet the arbitrary bar I set at the same time.”
You’ll be protesting correctly when you effect change.
Well tough guy, where’s your truck bomb?
Sorry, are you insisting that people from other countries need to come save you from the thing we’ve been telling you for decades was going to happen?
Lol this dude’s taking the piss. What a joke.
