It reminded me why fireworks usually feel calmer than Facebook.

I spent part of today reading the comment-storm... | Facebook - Jason Gillman

...under UpNorthLive’s “No Kings Day” story. 

It reminded me why fireworks usually feel calmer than Facebook.

• Head-count reality check

Let’s start with the basics: we had hundreds, not “thousands,” in Traverse City. That matters because scale is the central claim the rally’s organizers use to manufacture a sense of inevitability.

• Free speech is a feature, not a bug

If anyone honestly believed President Trump had donned a crown and outlawed dissent, yesterday’s march would have been illegal by breakfast. 

Instead, every “Long Live the King” parody sign, every reheated toddler-Trump meme and every “orange con” hashtag proved the exact opposite: speech remains free—even when it’s eye-rollingly repetitive.

• Tired tropes ≠ serious arguments

Trump-as-toddler? 

The man built a global brand, a skyscraper or six, and now sits in a job only forty-five others in history have held. 

If that’s your bar for “toddler,” the rest of us must still be in utero.
“Dictator day one!” 

A real dictator doesn’t endure court injunctions, Senate negotiations, or a press corps that treats every microphone like a piñata. Presidents wield power—by design—but ours comes wrapped in constitutional duct tape...