'No Kings' coordinator desperately hands out talking points to clueless demonstrators

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: The nationwide “No Kings” protests raised eyebrows for all the wrong reasons Saturday, October 18, after a viral video showed its organizers seeming panicked.

Conservative commentator Gunther Eagleman dropped the footage on X (formerly Twitter).

Mockery as protest coordinator hands out 'comms cards'

In the clip, one protest coordinator could be seen desperately trying to hand out what she called “comm cards” — informational sheets apparently meant to tell people why they were even protesting.

“We need to get the word out to all the people that are here today,” one frazzled coordinator shouted into a megaphone. “We have a bunch of comm cards. We have 30,000 comm cards. But we need you to take a stack and get them out to all the people back there who don’t know what’s going on.”

Eagleman shared the clip with the caption, “BREAKING: The protest coordinators are PANICKING because the crowd is SILENT. They’re DESPERATELY trying to get info sheets out to the crowds. ‘Get them out to people back there who don’t know about what’s going on.’ Nobody knows why they’re actually there. FLOP.”

Critics pounced, with many claiming the whole "No Kings” movement reeked of staged activism.

"If you need 'comm cards' at a protest, you are paying people to be there. There is nothing organic about these protests," one declared on X.

"Dozens and dozens of confused senior citizens bussed in from the local senior centers because they were told there would be pancakes and coffee," another quipped.

"I’ve seen first-grade Christmas Concert 2nd rehersals that were better coordinated," a comment read.

"LMAO that’s the sweetest sound in politics… silence. All these 'revolutionary masterminds' spent weeks screaming online, probably thought they were about to lead the next French Revolution, and now they’re standing in front of a confused crowd that doesn’t even know why they showed up. That’s not a movement, that’s a mass participation oopsie. When your army needs cue cards to remember why they’re mad, you’re already cooked. FLOP of the century," someone else offered.

"No Kings, but plenty of clueless pawns," another joked. 

George Soros and the 'No Kings' connection

According to the Daily Mail, the “No Kings” protests are being bankrolled in part by Open Society Foundations (OSF), billionaire George Soros’s network of philanthropic organizations.

OSF has reportedly funneled $7.6 million in grants to Indivisible, one of the three progressive coalitions spearheading “No Kings.” Those grants make up a big slice of Indivisible’s roughly $12 million annual revenue. One disclosure showed that in 2023 alone, the Open Society Action Fund issued a $3 million, two-year grant “to support the grantee’s social welfare activities.”

“In total, the OSF has awarded nearly $8 million to the Indivisible Project from 2017–2023,” said author Matthew Palumbo, who’s writing a book about the financier's son and successor Alex Soros.

“Despite Alex trying to portray himself as a moderate face, he clearly has no problem associating with a protest whose other sponsors include the Democratic Socialists of America, among other radical groups,” Palumbo noted. 

OSF’s website proudly notes that the 95-year-old “has given away more than $32 billion of his personal fortune” to his network of foundations.

Even Texas Senator Ted Cruz jumped into the fray this week, warning that Soros might be fueling something far more serious than a clumsy PR stunt. “There’s considerable evidence that George Soros and his network are behind funding these rallies, which may well be riots all across the country,” he said.

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