You’re damn right he is. Because you deserve to be mocked….as Sasha Stone devastatingly explains in the sharpest defenestration of the Axis of Unethical Conduct that I have read this year (current company excepted, of course.)
You can read it all here. I have been burned all three times I subscribed to a substack, but Sasha Stone’s essay on the implications of the “No Kings” tantrum yesterday was so superb that I may subscribe just to reward her, even if she takes a multi-months long posting vacation like Glenn Greenwald did, or go nuts, like Ken White. Not only was her piece virtually exactly what I would write today, I almost thought I did write it.
Stone is a film industry blogger who has lived and worked in the Hollywood progressive bubble. Naturally she was a Democrat, but was red-pilled in 2020, as rational citizens should have been, and increasingly become a critic of her former party and fellow travelers.
These are some highlights from “No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum,” but again, read it all…
- “Protests are meant to be the voices of the unheard. Yet these protests are the voices of those who never shut up. Not for one minute, not for ten years, and all of us have had to endure them like being trapped inside Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with hundreds of thousands of Veruca Salts.” [Note to the culturally illiterate: she is the spoiled little girl who throws an epic tantrum in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and sings the song, “I Want It Now!” JM]
- “The voices of the unheard? More like the side that had everything. All the media, all the institutions, all the culture, and for a time, all of the government. The people had only Trump…[The Left] managed to have the mother of all protests in the Summer of 2020, smashing windows, burning buildings, beating up cops, and throwing massive fits that said WE’RE MAD! But mad at what? Democracy? Sorry, you lost an election?”
- “Elections only counted if the Democrats won. The other side was not allowed to win, try to make a change, or fight for their right to representation. Not in 2016 and not in 2024. So the protests will not end because the people have to be made to suffer for their vote.”
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“The Democrats became totalitarian while in power, not just censoring speech on social media, not just institutionalized cancel culture, and a transgender contagion that was spiraling out of control, an obsession with race and racism and antiracism, and if that weren’t enough, they weaponized the Justice Department and tried to throw Trump both in jail and off the ballot. Suddenly, the Trump chaos wasn’t looking so bad. But we still lived through the first president to have his home raided by the FBI, the first mug shot, and then watched him almost getting his head blown off on live television. None of that made even the slightest bit of difference. They were still somehow the victims even though they lost both 2016 and 2024 entirely on their own.”
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“Whose fault was it that the Democrats have given their party over to the lunatics who still insist trans women are women and that they should be able to play in sports against real women? “We just need to change the messaging,” said King Barack. What choice did reasonable people have but to vote the Democrats out and keep them out until such time as they can come back to sanity?”
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“They fight against mass deportations and want an open border, while also demanding free healthcare for all. They never see any problem with this. To them, it’s a human right that someone else always has to pay for. They are the victims here, and all of America is expected to address their needs OR ELSE. NO KINGS! They’re like the attention-starved kindergartner who can’t stop crying in the corner, the stalker ex who monitors your every move, and the nagging wife who won’t leave you alone, all rolled in one — what about ME? What about my NEEDS?…”
Well, bingo.
I seldom doubt that I have seen these issues clearly since at least late 2016, but it is still gratifying to discover someone objective and articulate who sees what I see.
Ethics Alarms 
All they want is Cuban or Russian or Venezuelan or Iranian single party rule, nothing less.
If Trump were thought himself an actual king wouldn’t he have closed the National Mall and the parks during the shutdown as Obama did?
It seems to me that the No Kings movement simply wants to install their own king.
As for some of the demands they make it would be an interesting thought experiment to ask the question how can we distribute the goods and services produced affordably if the government was barred from borrowing money from future generations to pay for such things.
How would we ration the medical care, food and housing which seem to be the “kitchen table” issues that so many seem to think is a government responsibility.
The anti-capitalists want government to make these affordable but the only way for them to do so is to implement wage and price controls on those items at which point people will begin to line up to be first to get the limited amounts available because suppliers will not be willing to offer the amounts desired or the types of array of things people were once able to choose from. This means that some bureaucrats employed by the government will tell you what you can have and how much.
Seems to me that is how the king used to ration goods and services. Those loyalists to him get the lions share and the proletariat be left eating rats.
“The Democrats became totalitarian while in power, not just censoring speech on social media, not just institutionalized cancel culture, and a transgender contagion that was spiraling out of control, an obsession with race and racism and antiracism, and if that weren’t enough, they weaponized the Justice Department and tried to throw Trump both in jail and off the ballot. Suddenly, the Trump chaos wasn’t looking so bad. But we still lived through the first president to have his home raided by the FBI, the first mug shot, and then watched him almost getting his head blown off on live television. None of that made even the slightest bit of difference. They were still somehow the victims even though they lost both 2016 and 2024 entirely on their own.”
This right here.
The average Democrat or Progressive, I would wager, probably unintentionally or actually quite intentionally model their self image on some form of Star Wars analogy. No doubt they self align with the rag tag bunch of plucky rebels gathered from a diverse mix of outsiders facing down the evil tyranny of the Empire bent on suppressing diversity of thought and freedom of the market.
How much more unaware of themselves can they possibly be?
I’m constantly surprised at how good people can get at deceiving themselves into thinking things that are just completely ridiculous.
I have relatives who went to one of these No Kings protests. Of course, they were completely silent (or even supportive) when Biden tried to unilaterally impose vaccine requirements in order to have a job, forgive billions of dollars of student loans, pressure private companies to censor its citizens, and defy the USSC by reinstating a ban on evictions.
But no, Donald Trump is a wanna be king because he is enforcing immigration law. One of the few things that the federal government is actually supposed to enforce.
Yep