The No Kings rally organizers said they wanted protest signs to be “non-hostile.”
OK, OK, but let’s keep in mind that this lady is Irish. These people tend to be a bit hot-blooded, which, under the circumstances, seems 100% fine.
A lady asked me why I’m part of the No Kings rally in Hopkinsville (Kentucky).
Because my father, and about five million of his Anti-Fascist, yes, ANTIFA, buddies, started at Omaha Beach and marched to Berlin to defeat fascism. I will to my last breath fight fascism here in the United States of America.
A few comments:
I’m so happy and proud to hear this! Tears are welled up in my eyes.
The folks who organized the rally said they wanted cool signs; yours should win a prize. (More legible version below.)
Kentucky isn’t exactly the intellectual capital of the Union, and Hopkinsville is quite a poke from anywhere. You must stand out there. Good for you!
In closing: Every true American should honor you and what you’re doing.
If I gave you a choice between a room in the “luxury hotel” pictured at left and a room in the place shown below in Oslo, which one would you pick?
Suppose I were to surprise my wife with a stay in a five-star Norwegian hotel, and I chose the oil rig. Yes, I could explain, “Honey, we’ll be able to scuba through real, authentic industrial waste! Opportunities like these don’t grow on trees!” Not sure how that would out for me.
There seems to be a great deal of bullshit associated with clean energy happenings around the world. Wish that weren’t so.
Decommissioning offshore oil rigs is a wonderful thing to do, in and of itself.
Another note to those who may not be intimately familiar with some of America’s less populous states — this one from Idaho’s capital, Boise.
Idaho went for Trump by almost 31% in 2024; it’s in the top five “reddest” states in the country.
Referring to the huge size of the crowd (see photo), one of the participants in the rally said, “You could have knocked me over with a feather.”
Here’s a clip of the No Kings rally that is taking place in Bozeman, Montana, a state that Trump won by a full 19.93% over his opponent, Kamala Harris.
For those who may be unfamiliar with Montana, it’s arguably the most libertarian state in the Union. Until recently, it didn’t have a speed limit; the theory was that if you’re not hurting someone, the State of Montana will leave you alone to make your own decisions.
Perhaps this is what irks people here most. They certainly don’t want to be told what to do by a would-be dictator.
Estimated crowd size: 3000 – 6000. Bozeman population: 58K.
The theory that is most commonly propounded here is that the mainstream media is essentially amoral; they do whatever is required to make money, and that means not pushing back on the president, regardless of the gross damage that is being done to our nation in the process.
Yet, I’d like to think that, if you or I were reporters with the mainstream press with access to Trump at this point, we might ask questions like:
• Can you name a few of the seven wars you claim to have stopped as U.S. president? If you can’t, what’s the purpose of the lie, and repeating it every few minutes?
• Please tell us about the real purpose for appointing obviously unqualified crackpots to important cabinet positions, e.g., Health and Human Services, the “War” Department, etc.
• Do you honestly believe that people who peacefully protest against your presidency “hate America” and are “domestic terrorists?” The presidents who held the White House in times of other large protests understood that this was all part of democracy, an institution that all real Americans cherish.
• How do you justify pardoning convicted criminals purely because they support your presidency?
• You clearly profit from your office, often by accepting gifts illegally. Let me give you a few dozen examples and ask you to comment. OK?
Of course, this hypothetical interview would have lasted about six seconds, but isn’t that better than throwing up softball questions and rubber-stamping the crap coming out of the president’s mouth?
If the history of American wars is to be judged by these three data points, the quality of our enemies is falling like a stone.
Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair William Hendrix (pictured), who until Oct. 9 worked as a communications specialist for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, reportedly used the N-word more than a dozen times in the chat with the spelling ending in “ga” and “guh.”
Hendrix was fired Oct. 9, The Capital-Journal learned.
No objection here.
If this guy had no education and washed towels at some low-end gym in Wichita, I don’t think anyone would have noticed, or cared. But his job was treating all Kansans with respect and dignity.
It’s quite gratifying to see that many of the folks in Europe are as horrified by the lawlessness of the Trump presidency as we Americans are ourselves.
The many millions of participants in today’s “No Kings” rallies around the world are doing everything possible to avoid hostility between the event supporters and Trump supporters who claim it promotes a “hatred of America” and “domestic terrorism.”
