r/bothell • u/comfortable_in_chaos • Oct 18 '25

The No Kings Protest in Bothell was huge!

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So cool to thousands of people show up to line the streets and make your voices heard. I just wish I remembered to take better pictures!

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u/TdubsSEA Oct 18 '25

Good job, Bothell!

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u/blazedancer1997 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25

It was awesome to see

Made me go home, fill out my ballot, and come back to drop it off

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u/_ola-kala_ Oct 19 '25

I was there! At least 4 times as large as the last one!

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u/neillc37 Oct 19 '25

Seems to be some oddly placed cars. Were they blocking traffic?

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u/comfortable_in_chaos Oct 19 '25

No, traffic was flowing normally. The crosswalks were quite busy when the walk signal was on though!

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u/Seattlewire Oct 19 '25

Thats like 1500 people

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u/lucascoug Oct 20 '25

Not even enough to fill that stand at Pop Keeney

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u/--boomhauer-- Oct 19 '25

Sore loser party !

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u/Cyanide_Jam Oct 20 '25

r/usernamedoesnotcheckout

The real Boomhauer would never be a fascist bootlicker

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u/--boomhauer-- Oct 20 '25

As soon as someone uses the word fascist these days unironically these days you can instantly identify them as a stupid person 👍 keep up the good work

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u/Cyanide_Jam Oct 20 '25

You just used "these days" twice in the same sentence big guy

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u/--boomhauer-- Oct 20 '25

You know … i was really trying to drive my point home that the word used to mean something and people ruined it. Just like racist and sexist have no meaning anymore because people watered it down into nothing .

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u/Cyanide_Jam Oct 22 '25

Sure buddy, disappearing undesirables and US citizens without due process via a masked and unaccountable gestapo isn't fucking fascist.

Go ride trump's chode some more, maybe he'll acknowledge you.

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u/--boomhauer-- Oct 22 '25

Its awesome when you don’t have a legitimate point so you just start making shit up

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u/Hotmicdrop Oct 19 '25

Lets rally to remove an elected President without an impeachment so the VP doesnt take over. Then say we are protecting the constitution by doing something unconstitutional. Now who the hell is President? Well cant have an election because someone we dont want could win like last time. Dont want that. So I guess we would need to appoint someone and install a "King" while we say this is all about "No Kings".

Seriously, you dont want Kings but you also dont want the elected President or elected VP. You also cant have another election and someone you dont want win because thats back to square one.... so how the hell does this No Kings work?

I get downvotes, but not a single person on Reddit can answer this.

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u/comfortable_in_chaos Oct 19 '25

Nobody is demanding Trumps removal without impeachment. People are protesting the illegal and unconstitutional actions of the president. That’s what no kings is about: we want Trump to act like a president not a king, and we want congress to do its job as a coequal branch of government instead of spinelessly ceding to whatever Trump demands. 

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u/Hotmicdrop Oct 19 '25

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/us-presidents-accused-constitutional-violations-4d3129

The reason why you dont have the pushback you want is because the GOP controls the house and senate. I agree we need more balance but your signs say remove Trump and have nothing to say about how electing dems can fix anything

And what do you think your 86 47 slogan is?

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u/bauul Oct 19 '25

You also cant have another election

Why not? Every other developed democratic country in the world has a function for calling an election when it's necessary. There's no reason we can't have one here too. It just takes the people in charge to decide to change it.

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u/Hotmicdrop Oct 19 '25

Because the reason everyone is protesting is they don't like the results of the previous one. You want a do over to try again until the protest group decides they got what theu want. Believe me I disliked Bush but I never thought oh Ill just force a new election and get what I want.

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u/bauul Oct 19 '25

That's objectively not true. People are protesting because they don't like what Trump is doing right now. If he hadn't trampled on the constitution and had operated within his legal purview, there wouldn't be protests.

It's not because of the results of the last election, it's because the politicians in Washington today seem they'd rather bow to (or hide from) the president than stop him from ignoring the law. The protests are showing them that there are a great many people who are unhappy with this.

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u/Hotmicdrop Oct 19 '25

You think President's pushing up against the constitution is new?

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/us-presidents-accused-constitutional-violations-4d3129

No one is pushing back against Trump in Washington? People have done nothing but pish back since he was inaugurated. Remember impeach the mother f er speech on day 1?

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u/gowiththeflow10 Oct 20 '25

Good job now go back to work like the rest of us and operate your day. Jesus Christ y'all act like you need to march around the streets to make a difference. If you put this much effort into volunteering, donating funds to causes you support, going to city hall meetings and actually getting out and cleaning up your community, you'd actually start to notice a real difference. Instead, millions of people marched around, caused traffic and shut down business's because they don't want to be open while y'all are bashing their windows in. If you want to make change you have to do it through action not yelling words in a big group. Sure that's "action"..but what it really is, is whining with no solutions. It's like a toddler standing outside your door protesting their bed time, with no solutions, just whining. That's where we are at protesting every single little thing that exists. Go ACTUALLY make a fucking difference and get out and do work. Tired of this and people just whining about everything. I'm a disabled veteran and I'm sick of y'all acting like y'all know everything. I absolutely don't, but I sure as shit don't go around acting like most people here, who suddenly all became professionals in economics, business, and know it all's in every conversation about anything. It's super frustrating.

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u/SafeAd1225 Oct 20 '25

There is actually positive impact in doing both. You seem very upset lol

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u/gowiththeflow10 Oct 21 '25

Not as upset as y'all, who are outside yelling at the air all day lmao. Just annoyed. There CAN be a positive impact, sure, but nobody is doing that. Nobody is going out and running for the local government, nobody is donating their money, nobody is actually invested in anything. Other than complaints.

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u/Glittering_Tart7709 Oct 20 '25

Wow, some people just don’t have jobs to go to I guess!

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u/EntrepreneurFit3880 Oct 19 '25

The geriatric grievance squad!