Protesting is natural. If I step hard on your foot, you will probably protest, unless you decide to poke me in the eye first. But group protests are, in reality, contrived. They have a social or political function, I suppose, but they do not represent anything important: if it is already difficult to get two people to agree in their own marriage, imagine how complicated it can be to achieve consensus among thousands of humans. This is why the most successful demonstrations are “against” something, and never in favor of something.
The protests against Trump bring together people who are capable of sharing a basic, primal instinct: irrational hatred of the president. All this makes the slogans at contemporary demonstrations seem more like a competition to see which group of protesters can display the smallest brain mass.
A witty anti-Trump protester triumphed weeks ago with his sign: “I’ve Seen Better Cabinets at IKEA.” Brilliant. Although I like that love song invented by a group from my country better: “You’re more complicated than assembling Ikea furniture.” Another angry man wrote a sign that read “Make Lying Wrong Again,” but someone must have told him that it’s rude to talk about the Biden family when they’re not present.
At a recent protest in the U.S., a very inspired sign read “This Dictator Brought to You By Low Info Voters,” … it gives the exact measure of the left’s respect for democracy.
At a recent protest in the U.S., a very inspired sign read “This Dictator Brought to You By Low Info Voters,” and I love it, because it gives the exact measure of the left’s respect for democracy. Besides, if there were free and fair elections, and there were voters, whether informed or not, the winner could not be considered a dictator, unless all your notions of history were learned from Mother Jones.
Of all the lunatic protesters, my favorites are the environmentalists. The environmentalists of the 1980s were more fun, dressing up as wolves or kakapo birds and hanging a cute sign with the text: “Don’t kill us!” In an attempt to revive the stupid slogans of Beatlemania, a few years ago, 20 lunatics toured Germany with a banner that read “Burn borders… not coal.” The dumbest politicians in Europe eliminated borders and coal, and the result in 2025 is an unprecedented success: illegal Arab immigration is collapsing Germany, and there are an average of 79 knife attacks every day. As for coal, the price of electricity has skyrocketed. I wonder where the 20 guys with the banner are now. (RELATED: The Outbreak of Migrant-Related Crime and Rape in the EU)
A highly original slogan, a true work of art, is “There are Co₂nsequences.” Since Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to the wall and said that his banana — the fruit — was for sale for $120,000, nothing so witty has been seen. At a recent protest, another sign confused me: “SEX. Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about climate.” On the one hand, it hadn’t caught my attention. On the other hand, why do I have to talk about the climate? And as for “sex,” I have a theory that women talking about the climate in bed are the leading cause of male impotence in the world, and that men talking about the climate in bed are the leading cause of women’s headaches in the world. With that slightly prudish obsession that 21st-century environmentalists have, another girl was carrying a depressing banner: “It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your coal!”
Protesters in the U.S. this spring: “IF YOU’RE NOT ANGRY, YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION!” I read in the press that it was a demonstration against Trump. The banner carrier wants everyone to be very angry. My opinion is that he is well on his way to achieving this if he continues to disrupt traffic in his city to shout such nonsense during working hours.
The good thing is that many of these slogans act effectively as idiot detectors. For example, whether it’s in Paris, Casablanca, or New York, if you find people chanting this, you can be absolutely certain: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Oh, and don’t forget: these days in Spain, in Barcelona, a group of idiots have been shooting tourists with water pistols as a gesture of protest against tourism. I would love to be a tourist there right now, to make him swallow the water pistol, as a gesture of protest against the proliferation of idiots. (RELATED: Spain’s Far‑Left Dictatorship Has Become a Reality)
There is, in short, something paradoxical about street protests of any kind. In most cases, those who join in are not the sharpest pencils in the box. Only that would explain why there are people who dare to join a small group of infantilized adults shouting, “Don’t look at us, join us.” And, generally speaking, those who protest against fascism and democracy don’t know what fascism is, nor do they know what democracy is.
The environmentalists protesting in front of a parliament building have never set foot on a farm in their lives and believe that chicken eggs are planted like lettuce. Anti-capitalists know nothing about economics. And feminists hate real women. And then there are the pro-illegal immigration protesters, who have me completely baffled: so they’re in favor of us not paying taxes and social security contributions, and working under the table? Seriously? Sex! Now that I’ve got your attention, protester: that could be seductive.
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