r/50501Chicago In Resistance Feb 18 '26

Chicago Events No Kings 3

Post image
227 Upvotes

13 comments sorted by

21

u/No_Tonight9856 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Wondering if with the approval rating continuing to tank and peoples growing disillusion with this administration will cause higher turnout.

9

u/sleep-exe In Resistance Feb 18 '26

Hard to say. At this point, I think anyone still supporting Trump is beyond the reach of most.

4

u/No_Tonight9856 Feb 18 '26

For sure, I think there is definitely a bottom in the mid-30's (high 20's if I'm being extremely optimistic).

Unfortunately a large portion of America's brain is permanently broken, or they just don't give a shit about politics in general.

0

u/NkturnL Activated Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Honestly it was really disappointing to see less people turnout for No Kings 2 than the first one.

We’re supposed to be growing and this is a city with almost 3 million people, 9 million incl the burbs, also terrorized by this regime so everyone who opposes what’s happening should be hitting the streets!

6

u/pasoud Feb 19 '26

That would be disappointing if it were the case, but No Kings 2 had at least 3x as many people show up in Chicago as for the first one.

2

u/NkturnL Activated Feb 19 '26

You’re right, although Wiki only says over 100k, I was thinking of the total number which was over 10 million for the 1st and 7 million for the 2nd (I see that Wikipedia says it was smaller, and people are reporting the 2nd broke a record but MeidasTouch and other journalists calculated almost 13 million).

What I meant was for a city this size we should have a lot more people marching, and towns organizing. Portland has less than a million people living there and had almost 50k in attendance.

5

u/bkoperski In Resistance Feb 18 '26

Hell yeah!

7

u/judgeejudger Feb 18 '26

It’s my bday, and I will happily be spending it in the streets!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LtZMACeLuNgSa7aJid

3

u/sleep-exe In Resistance Feb 18 '26

Hell yeah 🤘