There are no kings in the US.
We currently have a senile ruler who thinks he is one but that’s not the same thing. Nor does the fact that he has an entire political party willing to abandon every moral and political principle it might once have claimed to have in order to coddle our ruler’s illusions change the basic fact on the ground.
There are no kings in the US.
The problem, of course, is that Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump has been behaving as if he were a king for the last nine months, with the full support of a corrupt and authoritarian Republican Party, and at current rate he will destroy the American republic by the end of the year if he is not blocked from this extremist course of action. This assumes he hasn't succeeded already, of course.
You know the Founding Fathers would have had this resolved by sundown on January 7, 2021, and we’d all have been spared a great deal of trouble if they had, but times apparently have changed.
So we march.
Today was the second No Kings Day march held nationwide this year, and by all accounts it seems to have been bigger than the last one. American patriots marched in cities and towns all across the country – there were nearly a hundred marches just in Wisconsin – and the news cycle and social media are currently dominated by images and reports of American citizens peacefully and proudly working to take their country back from those who claim to be our absolute masters.
This has our Pedo-In-Chief and his minions, cronies, lackeys, and slaves panicked, yes it does. All week long they’ve been trying to discredit this mass movement of Americans, calling marchers terrorists, criminals, and paid actors, because they know that their power is hollow, that it rests on the illusion of popularity and inevitability, and that millions of American patriots taking to the streets to demonstrate their rejection of this regime makes that illusion vanish. And once it vanishes, so do they.
The criminal regime of Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump has done immense damage to this country and its institutions, its people, its standing in the world, and its economy, and even those who once supported it are slowly turning on him now that the full extent of its crimes are becoming clearer. The regime knows this. They know that the economy is crashing – they’ve ordered the federal government not to report on it anymore to try to hide it, but that tactic hasn’t worked and they’re staring a full-blown economic meltdown in the eye. They know that the Epstein Files haven’t disappeared from the public mind despite illegal military action abroad and at home to try to distract people, and that once the GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is forced to do his job and swear in the new representative from Arizona (whose victory has been officially certified by that state) the votes will be there to release them. They know that the shutdown of the federal government is entirely on them and the public understand that. They know that Americans reject the use of military forces taking over peaceful cities, that calling peaceful cities “war ravaged” doesn’t make them so, and that whatever Americans think of immigration the idea of having masked thugs kidnapping people off the streets and disappearing them into secret prisons is immoral and disgusting. They know their agenda is on fire and disappearing before their eyes.
They know that presidents get impeached, but kings get beheaded.
But there is nothing more dangerous than a cornered rat, and the fact that they know these things and are still determined to ram their agenda down the throat of an unwilling American public lets you know that they will burn the place down and piss on the ashes before they admit their crimes.
So we march.
We march in the name of the American republic. We march in the name of our children’s futures in a nation run by the people, for the people, and where the people includes all of the people not just wealthy straight white men.
We marched today, here in Our Little Town, because if I am ever fortunate enough to have grandchildren and they ever ask me what I did when the republic was on the line, I damn well plan to have something concrete to tell them and this is a good start.
We currently have a senile ruler who thinks he is one but that’s not the same thing. Nor does the fact that he has an entire political party willing to abandon every moral and political principle it might once have claimed to have in order to coddle our ruler’s illusions change the basic fact on the ground.
There are no kings in the US.
The problem, of course, is that Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump has been behaving as if he were a king for the last nine months, with the full support of a corrupt and authoritarian Republican Party, and at current rate he will destroy the American republic by the end of the year if he is not blocked from this extremist course of action. This assumes he hasn't succeeded already, of course.
You know the Founding Fathers would have had this resolved by sundown on January 7, 2021, and we’d all have been spared a great deal of trouble if they had, but times apparently have changed.
So we march.
Today was the second No Kings Day march held nationwide this year, and by all accounts it seems to have been bigger than the last one. American patriots marched in cities and towns all across the country – there were nearly a hundred marches just in Wisconsin – and the news cycle and social media are currently dominated by images and reports of American citizens peacefully and proudly working to take their country back from those who claim to be our absolute masters.
This has our Pedo-In-Chief and his minions, cronies, lackeys, and slaves panicked, yes it does. All week long they’ve been trying to discredit this mass movement of Americans, calling marchers terrorists, criminals, and paid actors, because they know that their power is hollow, that it rests on the illusion of popularity and inevitability, and that millions of American patriots taking to the streets to demonstrate their rejection of this regime makes that illusion vanish. And once it vanishes, so do they.
The criminal regime of Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump has done immense damage to this country and its institutions, its people, its standing in the world, and its economy, and even those who once supported it are slowly turning on him now that the full extent of its crimes are becoming clearer. The regime knows this. They know that the economy is crashing – they’ve ordered the federal government not to report on it anymore to try to hide it, but that tactic hasn’t worked and they’re staring a full-blown economic meltdown in the eye. They know that the Epstein Files haven’t disappeared from the public mind despite illegal military action abroad and at home to try to distract people, and that once the GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is forced to do his job and swear in the new representative from Arizona (whose victory has been officially certified by that state) the votes will be there to release them. They know that the shutdown of the federal government is entirely on them and the public understand that. They know that Americans reject the use of military forces taking over peaceful cities, that calling peaceful cities “war ravaged” doesn’t make them so, and that whatever Americans think of immigration the idea of having masked thugs kidnapping people off the streets and disappearing them into secret prisons is immoral and disgusting. They know their agenda is on fire and disappearing before their eyes.
They know that presidents get impeached, but kings get beheaded.
But there is nothing more dangerous than a cornered rat, and the fact that they know these things and are still determined to ram their agenda down the throat of an unwilling American public lets you know that they will burn the place down and piss on the ashes before they admit their crimes.
So we march.
We march in the name of the American republic. We march in the name of our children’s futures in a nation run by the people, for the people, and where the people includes all of the people not just wealthy straight white men.
We marched today, here in Our Little Town, because if I am ever fortunate enough to have grandchildren and they ever ask me what I did when the republic was on the line, I damn well plan to have something concrete to tell them and this is a good start.
No kings in America.
Not now.
Not ever.
2 comments:
You know, I was protesting on the front lines from the fall of 1969 thru the summer of 1972. Collectively, we accomplished a great deal. We (quite naively) thought that we had done our bit, and we could concentrate our efforts on building and living our lives.
Never did I imagine that, some 50+ years later, I would find myself back on the protest lines with a cleverly worded sign in my hands. Fewer than 15% of the registered voters in Elko County are Democrats or Independents. I am an Eisenhower Republican who has been registered as an Independent, and I’ve voted against these assholes since 1976 - however - I found myself somewhat encouraged by the fact that 80% of the people I talked to yesterday were MAGA republicrats. They feel that they’ve been betrayed, and boy, are they pissed. Hope, naively, springs eternal.
I know that I will not survive to see this country regain its former status as a world leader. But I took an oath in August 1972:
“I [state your full name], Do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
You will notice that there isn’t an expiration date in that oath. I have faithfully served (lo these many years) to the best of my ability. I shall continue to serve as required until my final breath.
Lucy
I'm glad that even the MAGA folks have figured out that this isn't appropriate, and I hope that they are willing to help get this two-bit grifter out of the White House and into the big house where he belongs. Happy to work with whoever is working toward the same goals I am, I suppose.
I suspect that none of us will live to see the US regain its status as a world leader - that ship may have sailed for good, in much the same way that the world isn't all that interested in hearing from Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, or Portugal when it comes to geopolitical commands. This may not be the worst thing in the world, as the nations on that list that have figured it out and are working within the current reality are doing pretty well and the one that isn't (hello, there, King Charles!) will probably get there by and by.
But I will join you in defending the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. See you on the barricades, my brother.
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