The fact that you take more offense to the "potty mouth" than you do the fascist, unconstitutional, and quite simply evil acts of the current administration is very telling.
Taking this attitude towards protests is something seen time and time again by people who are willing to ignore the struggles of others as long as it doesn't impact them personally.
It might not be how I would go about things, but people should be furious about what's going on, and there is still the freedom of speech in this country—and no, there is not a carve out in the 1st Amendment for profanity.
Amongst all the other vile acts he's committing, Trump is literally putting his face on coins and his signature on bills—that's what kings do and it's un-American in every sense of the phrase.
And hey, maybe you are mad about some of that stuff, but you chose to make this comment and nothing else.
Oh, not to mention Trump has the biggest "potty mouth" of them all, maybe direct your anger towards that if you actually do care about this and aren't just using your comment as a veiled way to say you support his actions.
What a joke. Obama forced us to buy health insurance or pay a fine, Biden made us take a jab or lose our jobs. Then your party skipped a primary, crowned Kamala WITHOUT a single vote while arresting your political opponent 4 times and taking him off the ballot. and new people claim that Trump behave like a king? I don’t care what a "potty mouth" Trump has, I don’t care what Trump did, said or who Trump was friends with 25 years ago, I don't care about any fake Russian dossiers Trumps opponents had created, I don't care what oppositional 'research' Trumps political adversaries come up with in attempts to discredit him. Trump is the only (non-politician)person in the last 50 years that’s stepped up to the plate and actually worked FOR the American people, closing the borders that the previous president left wide open, cleaning up the corruption and waste of tax dollars. Trump then took out two of the world’s worst dictators, so that the citizens of those countries could have freedom and democracy too, and the citizens of those citizens have openly shown their appreciation toward Trump for this. Many of us can see past all the propaganda and the garbage the media is pushing on us. The others are just a bunch of lemmings.
"No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism. 500 groups. Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about. That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure. That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline. And that is what you walked into on Saturday. You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. “No Kings.” It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic. But the signs were ready before your outrage was. That should bother you. Because you are not living under a king. You are living in a constitutional republic with elections, term limits, and a press that has spent years attacking the most powerful figures in the country without consequence. No one is being arrested for calling a president a fascist. No one is being silenced for dissenting. That is not tyranny. And yet you are being told it is. You are being trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian. Loving your country becomes suspicious. Wanting a secure border becomes immoral. Believing parents should have a say in their children’s lives becomes dangerous. Asking basic questions about elections becomes taboo. That is not clarity. That is conditioning. Every country on Earth enforces its borders. Most require identification to vote. That is not controversial anywhere else. It is only controversial here because you have been told it should be. And you believed it. Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it: Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign. That is what entrenched power looks like. Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades. But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time. You are told he is the king. No. What you are reacting to is not monarchy. It is loss of control. You do not hate kings. You hate kings that are not yours. Because when power consolidates on your side, you justify it. A sitting president steps aside. Within days, a replacement is effectively crowned without a real contest, without a meaningful debate, without voters having a say in a process that is supposed to belong to them. No primary. No debate. No ballot. And you said nothing. Three days before you marched, lawmakers aligned with your movement rejected voter identification requirements. At the same time, you lived through a period where you had to show documentation to participate in basic parts of life. You needed proof to eat, to travel, to work. But asking for proof to vote is suddenly oppression. That contradiction should stop you cold. Instead, it gets waved away. Look at how power is actually maintained. Non citizens are counted in the census. Census numbers determine representation." (con'd)
(Continued) "Representation determines power. Remove verification, expand the count, and you increase influence without ever needing a crown. That is how modern systems entrench themselves. Then look at speech. There is written evidence of government officials pressuring platforms like Facebook to suppress information. Not just misinformation. Information that later proved to be accurate. Scientists were sidelined. Doctors were ignored. Even humor and satire were targeted. Humor. When people in power are deciding which jokes are allowed, you are not dealing with a healthy system. That control did not come through loud decrees. It came through quiet coordination with corporations that act as extensions of political authority. That is far more effective than any throne. And it does not stop at speech. Across the country, institutions are redefining the relationship between parents and children, sometimes making life altering decisions without transparency or consent. The state is stepping into spaces that used to belong to families. History has seen that pattern before. Then there is the selective enforcement of rules. During lockdowns, small businesses were shut down. Churches were closed. Families were kept from their loved ones in their final moments. At the same time, large scale unrest that caused billions in damage and cost lives was treated as justified or even necessary. One standard for one group. A completely different standard for another. That is not equal application of law. That is power deciding what counts. And when it comes to political violence, the conversation is selective. When Charlie Kirk spent years walking onto campuses trying to engage in debate, he represented something fundamental about open discourse. The ability to show up, speak, and be challenged. But increasingly, one side is met not with argument but with shutdowns, intimidation, and sometimes violence. Data that complicates the dominant narrative gets buried because it is inconvenient. One side talks. The other side tries to silence. And you are told which one is dangerous. Look at who you marched alongside. Organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation were not hiding. They were present, organized, and clear about their goal: revolution, not reform. That ideology has already been tested in the real world. It does not produce freedom. It produces control. And yet they had signs ready for you. Hundreds of groups. Billions in funding. A coordinated message. And money that traces back to figures like Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire operating out of Shanghai with ties to networks aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were participating in something far more organized than you realized. Even institutions that once stood firmly for civil liberties are raising concerns. The American Civil Liberties Union built its legacy defending speech for people it disagreed with because it understood that once you start carving out exceptions, the entire principle collapses. Now even that standard is eroding. Look at the shift over time. Bill Clinton stood before the country and said illegal immigration was wrong and received a standing ovation. He expanded policing. He talked about limiting government. He operated within a framework that assumed borders, law enforcement, and free speech were foundational. Today, many of those same positions would get him labeled extreme by his own party. That is how far the ground has moved.(con'd)
(Continued) So when you chant about kings, understand what you are actually defending and what you are actually ignoring. Historians look for patterns when evaluating systems of power. Suppression of opposition. Disregard for process. Acceptance of political violence. Enforcement of ideology through institutions. Alignment between corporate and state power. Ask yourself honestly where those patterns are showing up. Because the answer is not as simple as the slogan you were handed. You marched against kings. But what you are actually enabling is a system that does not need a crown to control you. You think you’re resisting control while helping construct it."
Some of those people have potty mouths!
ReplyDeleteThat was probably me. I apologize. I got carried away. Peace.
DeleteThe fact that you take more offense to the "potty mouth" than you do the fascist, unconstitutional, and quite simply evil acts of the current administration is very telling.
DeleteTaking this attitude towards protests is something seen time and time again by people who are willing to ignore the struggles of others as long as it doesn't impact them personally.
It might not be how I would go about things, but people should be furious about what's going on, and there is still the freedom of speech in this country—and no, there is not a carve out in the 1st Amendment for profanity.
Amongst all the other vile acts he's committing, Trump is literally putting his face on coins and his signature on bills—that's what kings do and it's un-American in every sense of the phrase.
And hey, maybe you are mad about some of that stuff, but you chose to make this comment and nothing else.
Oh, not to mention Trump has the biggest "potty mouth" of them all, maybe direct your anger towards that if you actually do care about this and aren't just using your comment as a veiled way to say you support his actions.
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DeleteWhat a joke. Obama forced us to buy health insurance or pay a fine, Biden made us take a jab or lose our jobs. Then your party skipped a primary, crowned Kamala WITHOUT a single vote while arresting your political opponent 4 times and taking him off the ballot. and new people claim that Trump behave like a king? I don’t care what a "potty mouth" Trump has, I don’t care what Trump did, said or who Trump was friends with 25 years ago, I don't care about any fake Russian dossiers Trumps opponents had created, I don't care what oppositional 'research' Trumps political adversaries come up with in attempts to discredit him. Trump is the only (non-politician)person in the last 50 years that’s stepped up to the plate and actually worked FOR the American people, closing the borders that the previous president left wide open, cleaning up the corruption and waste of tax dollars. Trump then took out two of the world’s worst dictators, so that the citizens of those countries could have freedom and democracy too, and the citizens of those citizens have openly shown their appreciation toward Trump for this. Many of us can see past all the propaganda and the garbage the media is pushing on us. The others are just a bunch of lemmings.
Delete"No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
Delete500 groups. Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about.
That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure.
That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline.
And that is what you walked into on Saturday.
You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. “No Kings.” It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic.
But the signs were ready before your outrage was.
That should bother you.
Because you are not living under a king. You are living in a constitutional republic with elections, term limits, and a press that has spent years attacking the most powerful figures in the country without consequence. No one is being arrested for calling a president a fascist. No one is being silenced for dissenting.
That is not tyranny.
And yet you are being told it is.
You are being trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian. Loving your country becomes suspicious. Wanting a secure border becomes immoral. Believing parents should have a say in their children’s lives becomes dangerous. Asking basic questions about elections becomes taboo.
That is not clarity. That is conditioning.
Every country on Earth enforces its borders. Most require identification to vote. That is not controversial anywhere else. It is only controversial here because you have been told it should be.
And you believed it.
Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it:
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign.
That is what entrenched power looks like.
Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades.
But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time.
You are told he is the king.
No. What you are reacting to is not monarchy. It is loss of control.
You do not hate kings. You hate kings that are not yours.
Because when power consolidates on your side, you justify it.
A sitting president steps aside. Within days, a replacement is effectively crowned without a real contest, without a meaningful debate, without voters having a say in a process that is supposed to belong to them.
No primary. No debate. No ballot.
And you said nothing.
Three days before you marched, lawmakers aligned with your movement rejected voter identification requirements. At the same time, you lived through a period where you had to show documentation to participate in basic parts of life.
You needed proof to eat, to travel, to work.
But asking for proof to vote is suddenly oppression.
That contradiction should stop you cold. Instead, it gets waved away.
Look at how power is actually maintained.
Non citizens are counted in the census. Census numbers determine representation." (con'd)
(Continued)
Delete"Representation determines power. Remove verification, expand the count, and you increase influence without ever needing a crown.
That is how modern systems entrench themselves.
Then look at speech.
There is written evidence of government officials pressuring platforms like Facebook to suppress information. Not just misinformation. Information that later proved to be accurate. Scientists were sidelined. Doctors were ignored. Even humor and satire were targeted. Humor.
When people in power are deciding which jokes are allowed, you are not dealing with a healthy system.
That control did not come through loud decrees. It came through quiet coordination with corporations that act as extensions of political authority.
That is far more effective than any throne.
And it does not stop at speech.
Across the country, institutions are redefining the relationship between parents and children, sometimes making life altering decisions without transparency or consent. The state is stepping into spaces that used to belong to families.
History has seen that pattern before.
Then there is the selective enforcement of rules.
During lockdowns, small businesses were shut down. Churches were closed. Families were kept from their loved ones in their final moments.
At the same time, large scale unrest that caused billions in damage and cost lives was treated as justified or even necessary.
One standard for one group. A completely different standard for another.
That is not equal application of law. That is power deciding what counts.
And when it comes to political violence, the conversation is selective.
When Charlie Kirk spent years walking onto campuses trying to engage in debate, he represented something fundamental about open discourse. The ability to show up, speak, and be challenged.
But increasingly, one side is met not with argument but with shutdowns, intimidation, and sometimes violence. Data that complicates the dominant narrative gets buried because it is inconvenient.
One side talks. The other side tries to silence.
And you are told which one is dangerous.
Look at who you marched alongside.
Organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation were not hiding. They were present, organized, and clear about their goal: revolution, not reform.
That ideology has already been tested in the real world. It does not produce freedom. It produces control.
And yet they had signs ready for you.
Hundreds of groups. Billions in funding. A coordinated message. And money that traces back to figures like Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire operating out of Shanghai with ties to networks aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.
You thought you were fighting for democracy.
You were participating in something far more organized than you realized.
Even institutions that once stood firmly for civil liberties are raising concerns. The American Civil Liberties Union built its legacy defending speech for people it disagreed with because it understood that once you start carving out exceptions, the entire principle collapses.
Now even that standard is eroding.
Look at the shift over time.
Bill Clinton stood before the country and said illegal immigration was wrong and received a standing ovation. He expanded policing. He talked about limiting government. He operated within a framework that assumed borders, law enforcement, and free speech were foundational.
Today, many of those same positions would get him labeled extreme by his own party.
That is how far the ground has moved.(con'd)
(Continued)
DeleteSo when you chant about kings, understand what you are actually defending and what you are actually ignoring.
Historians look for patterns when evaluating systems of power. Suppression of opposition. Disregard for process. Acceptance of political violence. Enforcement of ideology through institutions. Alignment between corporate and state power.
Ask yourself honestly where those patterns are showing up.
Because the answer is not as simple as the slogan you were handed.
You marched against kings.
But what you are actually enabling is a system that does not need a crown to control you.
You think you’re resisting control while helping construct it."