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Old White People Rally Against ‘Kings’

A Heavy Day. A Moving Day. But Most Of All, An Uplifting Day.

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">What do you call seven million old white people gathering all over the country&quest;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Not a Barry Manilow reunion tour&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">It is&comma; of course&comma; the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No Kings” rallies&comma; which happened over the course of Saturday with seven million protesters&comma; nearly all of them members of the AARP&comma; gathering around the nation in order to protest kings&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">You may have noticed we don’t have kings here in the United States&period; We have a constitutional republic&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">No matter what you think of Donald Trump&comma; Donald Trump has been subject to the dictates of Congress&period; He has been subject to the dictates of courts&period; There are actual laws and regulations on the books that prevent the president of the United States from instituting tyrannical power over the rest of the country&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">One of the most amusing things about these &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No Kings” rallies is the supposition by the Left that they stand in opposition to grand expansions of executive power&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">That is absolute bull&period; It is nonsense&period; I’m old enough to remember Barack Obama&period; I’m old enough to remember Joe Biden&comma; who tried to use the Occupational Safety and Health Organization in order to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans&comma; and our company had to sue to stop him&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">I remember President Biden telling the Supreme Court that while they were attempting to stop him from getting rid of student loans&comma; he would circumvent them and find another way to do it&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The idea that these people who are opposed to Donald Trump do so to oppose expanded executive power is ridiculous&period; It is the <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Democratic Party<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> in the United States which has&comma; writ large&comma; expanded the power of the executive branch wholesale over the course of the last century&period; Since Woodrow Wilson&comma; the expansion of the executive branch of government has been nonstop&period; It has sometimes been paused under some Republicans&comma; but it is rarely reversed&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">When it comes to the modern Democratic Party&comma; the idea that they want to delegate power back to the states or delegate power back to Congress is a lie&period; As soon as a Democrat is in power&comma; they simply want to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Thus the very premise of these &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No Kings” rallies is false&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailywire&period;com&sol;episode&sol;ep-2299-old-white-people-rally-against-kings" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><img loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" class&equals;"size-large wp-image-974957 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171&period;webp" alt&equals;"DailyWire&plus;" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"171" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171&period;webp 1024w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-300x50&period;webp 300w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-768x128&period;webp 768w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1536x256&period;webp 1536w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-2048x341&period;webp 2048w" sizes&equals;" &lpar;max-width&colon; 1024px&rpar; 100vw&comma; 1024px"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Left-wing Axios <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;axios&period;com&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;18&sol;no-kings-protests-october-18-turnout" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">reported<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&colon;  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;According to a statement from the &OpenCurlyQuote;No Kings’ protest organizers&comma; Saturday’s turnout was &OpenCurlyQuote;one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U&period;S&period; history’ with over two million more people taking part than participated in similar protests in June of this year&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Of course&comma; you remember how much of a difference it made when they protested in June&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">You don’t&quest; You forgot already&quest;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">You forgot already because it didn’t matter at all&period; It is now Monday and everyone already forgot&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">More than 2&comma;700 events were planned as part of the protests across 50 states as of Saturday&comma; as well as several internationally&comma; including in London&comma; Paris&comma; Rome and Lisbon&comma; Portugal&period;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">I get a kick out of places that <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">actually have kings<&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> saying that they’re going to have &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No Kings” rallies&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">These rallies are ridiculous&period; If you look at the pictures of people who are dressed up as lobsters in Massachusetts or Superman in New York City or inflatable chickens&comma; you think to yourself&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t think these are the folks who are going to change America in any real way&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;988687" style&equals;"width&colon;874px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-988687" class&equals;"size-large wp-image-988687" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-2241486145-864x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"People participate in a &quot&semi;No Kings&quot&semi; national day of protest in Boston&comma; Massachusetts&comma; on October 18&comma; 2025&period; From New York to San Francisco&comma; millions of Americans are expected to hit the streets to voice their anger over President Donald Trump's policies at nationwide &quot&semi;No Kings&quot&semi; protests&period; &lpar;Photo by Joseph Prezioso &sol; AFP&rpar; &lpar;Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO&sol;AFP via Getty Images&rpar;" width&equals;"864" height&equals;"576" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-2241486145-864x576&period;jpg 864w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-2241486145-300x200&period;jpg 300w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-2241486145-768x512&period;jpg 768w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-2241486145&period;jpg 1024w" sizes&equals;" &lpar;max-width&colon; 864px&rpar; 100vw&comma; 864px"&sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p id&equals;"caption-attachment-988687" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">JOSEPH PREZIOSO&sol;AFP via Getty Images<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">And that’s putting aside the people who arrived at these rallies in order to promote violence against the president of the United States&comma; or against people on the right-wing&period; Those people were in plentiful supply&period; Politicians showed up&period; They spoke alongside radical agitators and organizers&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">We’re all supposed to pretend that <&sol;span><i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">that <&sol;span><&sol;i><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">never happened&comma; speaking alongside terrorist supporters&comma; people who despise the country&period; If you’re a politician&comma; like Bernie Sanders or Chris Murphy from Connecticut&comma; and you speak alongside Qatari mouthpiece Mehdi Hasan&comma; or you speak alongside people who have openly promoted terrorism&comma; that’s kind of a big deal&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">My favorite moment of media coverage came when MSNBC <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;mediaite&period;com&sol;media&sol;tv&sol;msnbc-interviews-a-unicorn-and-bear-at-no-kings-rally-looking-as-ridiculous-as-we-can-to-protest-ridiculous-trump&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">interviewed<&sol;a> a person dressed up as a unicorn&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&lpar;A rally is truly serious when people dress up as inflatable unicorns&period;&rpar;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"><strong>Reporter&colon;<&sol;strong> Angel&comma; I’ve never interviewed a unicorn live on MSNBC&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"><strong>Unicorn&colon;<&sol;strong> Always a first time for everything&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"><strong>Reporter&colon;<&sol;strong> Angel&period; Talk as loud as you can&period; Because you got kind of a big snout here&period; … I’ll say that again&period; I said it’s hard to hear you&comma; but tell me what brings you out and to be inside this high unicorn costume today&quest;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"><strong>Unicorn&colon;<&sol;strong> Well&comma; we’re here to represent the loving&comma; hardworking community of Los Angeles&period; We’re here peacefully protesting&comma; looking as ridiculous as we can&comma; just so maybe we appeal to the president because he is a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power&comma; and we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"><strong>Reporter&colon;<&sol;strong> I’ve never heard a more serious message come out of a pink unicorn&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">I don’t think that’s true because I think that half of the MSNBC staff are pink unicorns&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">It was an impressive showing&comma; with great intellects&period; People like actor John Cusack&comma; who was last relevant when he was standing outside a bedroom window holding a boombox in a movie from 1989&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">But if you thought that Cusack was the only old actor who showed up to pay tribute to the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No Kings” rally&comma; I present to you&colon; &lpar;drum roll&rpar; Robert De Niro&comma; who seems to have chosen poorly when he drank from his choice of Holy Grails&period; He is now aging extraordinarily rapidly and also apparently turning into a hobbit&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">He praised Letitia James&comma; the attorney general of New York&comma; for saying F&period;U&period; to Trump&comma; &lpar;which she may be saying from jail soon&comma; depending on how her mortgage falsification case goes&rpar;&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I like what Letitia James is doing&comma;” he declared &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She’s fighting back&period; She’s saying F&ast;&ast;&ast; you&period; … I will not be taken down by this person&period; I am not afraid of him&period;” He also had comments about Stephen Miller&comma; calling Miller&comma; who happens to be Jewish&comma; a Nazi&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Bernie Sanders yelled&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re here because we’re going to do everything we can to honor the sacrifices of millions of men and women who&comma; over the last 250 years&comma; fought and sometimes died&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">I can’t take him seriously&period; Nothing you do can make me take him seriously&comma; because he’s not a serious person&period; The fact that the Democratic Party has elevated him as an ideological thought leader after spending his entire life being a useless pustule on the ass of American society is indeed a reflection of what their party stands for&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Sanders spoke of how much these people loved America&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Yet there were a shocking number of non-American flags over the Washington&comma; DC rally&period; There was a giant Palestinian flag in solidarity with Hamas&comma; of course&period; In Los Angeles there were tons of Mexican flags&comma; so many that the CNN reporter noted it&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts decided that he was going to give a speech while donning a trans flag&period; J&period;B&period; Pritzker&comma; the would-be presidential candidate from Illinois &lpar;who typically has to be lowered into these things by crane&rpar; stood in front of a bunch of signs&comma; including a F&ast;&ast;&ast; ICE sign&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">For the sake of his bodily health&comma; I hope it was a very short march&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">A Barry Manilow reunion tour would have been a heck of a lot less screechy&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><br &sol;>&NewLine;<br &sol;><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailywire&period;com&sol;news&sol;old-white-people-rally-against-kings">Source link <&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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