Is It 'No Kings,' or Is It 'OUR Kings, Our Riots'?

Not unexpectedly, I find myself in a target-rich environment, and I hardly know where to begin. Even though reports are yet to surface as of this writing on the expected events of the day, there certainly seems to be enough to write about.

For openers, the central subject here is a group of people who are chanting “No Kings”. If we take their self-promotion as an indication, they do seem to picture themselves as the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill to finally crush ancient Rome.
 
Self-romanticism aside, they also seem hopeful we won’t remember when THEIR kings shut down small businesses and Churches, while leaving the bigger stores (the ones that tend to donate to support Democrats) open.

THEIR kings stopped us from seeing their loved ones, particularly the elderly in hospitals, and certainly not in housing for the elderly, and a lot of THOSE lonely folks ended up dying alone, or in some cases, in the same room with people who already carried COVID-19 and were being warehoused in the very same nursing homes.

Yeah, COVID-19, you remember, the virus created with our tax dollars by the Chinese government at THEIR king’s request.

Speaking of that, THEIR kings forced us all to be jabbed with what they called an “experimental” shot, which they called a vaccine (it wasn’t), they claimed was safe (it wasn’t), and would prevent the spread of the virus. (It didn’t). What it did do was cause the death of a good percentage of those forced into taking it, under threat of losing their jobs.

THEIR kings forced us to abandon the health insurance plans we had, which worked, for government-run plans, which never have, and have cost us more and provided service that would drive any normal business into the weeds. At least it did have the advantage of providing big pharma record profits along with a healthy amount of money for the politicians who shilled for the plan.

They kept THEIR king in power, despite his demonstrably having fewer functioning brain cells than a jellyfish, refusing to acknowledge the problem. They are usually the ones complaining about voter disenfranchisement, Yet, when the heat on that point got to be too much and it looked like THEY were going to lose power at the hands of angry voters, the removed him with taking any votes at all, and replaced him with their hand picked candidate, who has shown themselves to be only slightly better off than the meat puppet they replaced... again without any votes at all.

It’s not the concept of Kings that bothers these thugs, but who the king is.

What they fail to understand, however, is that if Trump were really a king, the protests wouldn’t be allowed at all.

Or, if you like, a dictator. That one is in a similar vein. That “wannabe dictator” nonsense is based on a joke Trump made about his frustration with the Democrat red tape and wanting to be a dictator for one day to fix all the issues we face as a nation, a joke that was well appreciated and understood by the people in the room at the time. Of course, the “No Kings” folks have latched onto that and made it a battle cry. Anything they can use to claim they’re offended, I suppose.

Mind you, these are the same folks who scream about billionaires, saying the rich shouldn't exist, and charge anyone who opposes them with being a Nazi. And yet, they’ll take money from the billionaires who are financially backing these attacks on our society, and who have ties to actual fascist dictators in their history. George Soros, who actually wore the Nazi uniform back in the day, is one example. Fox News reports today:

Billionaire donor George Soros is reportedly funding many of the organizations leading the "No Kings" protests, like Indivisible, whose co-founders, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, received a $3 million two-year grant last year from Soros’s Open Society Foundations for "social welfare activities." Details about the "Palestine Contingent" weaving into the "No Kings" protests raises new questions about the way big Democratic donors like Soros are funneling nonprofit dollars into a professional protest industry that is fractious, divisive and partisan, potentially in violation of tax and nonprofit laws.

"Follow the money," always good advice, seems to have eluded these people as they seek any possible means to their desired end.
 
 I’ve written a couple of times previously on these kinds of gatherings, and after watching firsthand the violence of the ’60s and early ’70s, the outcome of those events, and many such occurrences since then, I can’t help but feel we’re going to be dealing with more of the same today.

There are a lot of other, aligned groups throwing in with this “no kings” crowd. Again, Fox:

Behind the emotion and patriotic imagery of the protests, a Fox News Digital investigation revealed that the movement’s polished "pro-democracy" branding masks a coordinated network of Democratic tax-exempt nonprofits and labor unions, political action committees, coalitions and for-profit protest consultants that include some of the most virulent activists against Israel, including self-declared socialist groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Democratic Socialists of America and Students for a Democratic Society.
 
According to a public database of the protest’s organizers, compiled by the Pearl Project, a journalism initiative, the protest’s "partners" include 265 mostly nonprofit organizations, including some anti-Israel groups, like Jewish Voice for Peace, exploiting their nonprofit benefits to wage a political war against the sitting president. Their nonprofit status shields them from paying taxes on most of their total annual revenues of $2.9 billion, even while they engage in partisan work they aren’t supposed to be doing. Critics say they are allegedly skirting, if not violating, tax and nonprofit laws. Event organizers didn’t return requests for comment.
 
"They call it ‘No Kings,’ but what they’ve built is an empire of tax-exempt organizations doing the Democratic Party’s work on the taxpayer’s dime," said Jennica Pounds, a computer scientist who runs a platform, DataRepublican.com, following the money on these organizations. "They are using every excuse in the book, from immigration to Israel, to rage-bait America. There is nothing ‘charitable’ about their professional protest enterprise, and they should be investigated for fomenting so much hate in America behind the shield of ‘charity work.’" 

Rage -bait. That’s about as good a description of this business as I’ve ever heard. Antifa, whom I’ve written about before, is also a large part of today’s “protest”, and Catherine Salgado has an article, also in the VIP area, on this point.

Asra Nomani at Fox is saying that the anti-Israel crowd is using today to campaign for their desired destruction of Israel. Asra goes on to list many different groups taking part in today’s temper tantrum… many if not most having 501 C3 status, meaning our taxpayer dollars are funding this nonsense.

Thing is, this kind of piling on is nothing new. Back in 2017, Buck Sexton, writing for The Hill,

The progressive left and their media comrades have been trying hard in recent weeks to construct a sympathetic narrative for “antifa.”
 
This is no easy task. These self-proclaimed “anti-fascists” (hence the name) have been showing up at rallies across the country since Trump’s inauguration, assaulting police with urine bombs, beating journalists bloody, and setting the occasional car on fire. All this is somehow supposed to protest fascism. Or Inequality. Or capitalism. It really depends on the day.
 
 The good news is, to know Antifa is to despise it.  

I note with interest that, as released back in 2017, Buck’s piece has “Antifa” not capitalized. In other words, either he or his editor didn’t feel it was a real organization. For the purposes of this article, I’ll follow suit, with the understanding that they are in fact a real organization, right down to the Uniforms, as Buck describes in that 2017 piece:

Antifa showed itself to be a pack of childish vandals posing as heroic resistance. For a mob of predominantly white males to gather in paramilitary formation, dressed from head to toe in black, with masks and batons to protest “fascism” shows that this group has no sense of history.
 
That some of its storm troopers use shields with “no hate” emblazoned on them as battering rams shows that they have no sense of irony either. There’s only so much that favorable media coverage can do to downplay or obscure the truth about antifa, and it’s anti-free speech zealotry. The Berkeley violence broke through that barrier.
 
Now the political left feels exposed. Otherwise sympathetic outlets have called for “soul searching” about antifa, and even Nancy Pelosi finally felt the need to denounce the violence of the masked malcontents. But none of what we have seen of antifa is new. 

Indeed! I have called them out in the past for using fascist tactics in their supposed efforts to eradicate fascism. I do so again today, knowing full well it won’t stop them from doing it again and knowing too that calling them out like this will likely make ME a target. Sexton explains this well, and what he suggests about Antifa also seems appropriate to apply to the remainder of this socialist stew of today:

Words more than anything else seem to raise antifa’s ire. They don’t rally against specific policies, for example, but they will swarm, menace, and shut down conservative speakers on college campuses. Antifa claims for itself the heckler’s veto under the cover of so-called “Nazi punching,” but it rarely if ever even attempts to punch actual Nazis.

And so this lie is exposed for what it really is: an excuse to inflict violence on any ideological opponent, at any time, for any reason. All they have to do is throw around the term “Nazi” to smear a conservative, and basic respect for the freedom and the rights of others no longer applies.

In other words, dehumanize them, and it's easier to justify violent stupidity.  Under that banner, your actions don't even need to make sense. Example: There’s a vid on X in my feed this morning from a few years back that someone reposted just recently. (Warning, language) It doesn’t embed cleanly, so instead I’ll describe it to you: Protest going on…. Possibly Seattle, given the time frame of the original post. Protesters marching by what is apparently a bakery, in the dark. An employee, from the inside of the bakery, gives the protesters a thumbs up through the window, which in response is almost immediately smashed with a rock. The last few frames of the vid are the employee with arms outstretched in a “What the bleep?” fashion.

What we are to be witness to today is more of the same and nothing short of another generation of brown shirts in action. The use of indiscriminate violence is the clue to this. As Sexton points out:

In reality, antifa is the closest thing to an authoritarian political movement in this country, and its ideology is a serious threat to freedom. Any concession to their side only encourages radical elements to demand even more restrictions on speech. That these leftist hardliners have either failed to read, or failed to understand, the First Amendment is all too apparent.

Some of the people being bused into these things are, in fact, veterans of the protests I mentioned from the ’60s and ’70s, apparently finding the pay worthwhile, and are eager to engage in the same anti-everything activity they did in their youth. It’s sad to know that many grandkids are not going to be seeing their grandparents for a while... at least, until they get bailed out.

Oh, and now we also know who is paying them. Soros, of course, as Catherine Salgado explains:

In news that probably surprises none of us, globalist billionaire George Soros is reportedly bankrolling the organization behind the “No Kings” protests. There’s nothing like having your supposed anti-tyranny protest funded by a pro-tyranny elitist with a god complex.
 
Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) has provided millions of dollars to the Indivisible Project, which is helping orchestrate the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests on Oct. 18, because they’re so deranged and historically ignorant they don’t know that July 4 is already America’s no kings day. But Soros and son are happy for the lefty activists they fund to be as ignorant and radical as possible, because there is no zeal to match the zeal of a self-righteous fascist masquerading as an anti-fascist.

As Sarah Hoyt says, “This is my shocked face.”

With the long list of successes that we’ve recently seen for those moving away from what these thugs hold dear, I suppose it is expected for them to band together. They feel themselves cornered, certainly.

Is this a last stand? Well, much as I’d like to think so, sadly, I doubt it.