No Kings? When Will The Democrats Wake Up?

I'm always amazed at how Democrats/Leftists will concern themselves over trivia.  Trump said a bad word.  Trump insulted someone.  The horrors.  Meanwhile, he succeeded in bringing home the living hostages.  Thank G-d for Trump.  He may have succeeded in remaking the entire Middle East, even though Hamas is determined to not let that happen.  It is clear that Hamas will not agree to all of the terms of Trump's peace plan.  But if the Saudis, and others, are tiring of them enough, then maybe Trump will get them to join the Abraham Accords.  

So, while some of my friends and family, and Democrats in general, want to believe that Trump is a threat to the country, they ignore the real threats.  It's not just the drug traffickers and human traffickers that Biden let into our country.  How many terrorists got in?  How many Chinese and Russian sleeper agents got in?  Biden never seemed to care about that, as he even allowed that Chinese spy balloon to fly across the entire country.  Biden did not fulfill his obligation to protect the American people.  To care about our national security.     

But is there an even bigger threat?  I believe so.  Whether you call it radical Islam, Islamism, political Islam, whatever.  It is fundamentally opposed to the American way of life, and to our Constitution.  People like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are very well versed in using American ideals against us, while demonstrating their lack of belief in those very same ideals.  They know how to play to our emotions.  Oh, the poor Palestinians.  The oppressors in the U.S. and Israel.  They share the same textbook as the Democrats/Leftists.  

Now we have a radical Muslim about to become the mayor of our largest city.  Does this frighten anyone else?  Does it frighten any Democrat?  Or, have you fallen for the threat of being accused of being "islamophobic?"  What is islamophobia?  It's a made up term, created to compete with antisemitism and racism and sexism.  

As for Mamdani's policies, see Part I of "No Kings," as well as my 2 part post of  July 4, 2025, and the follow up post of July 27, 2025.  But is that it?  A few elected Muslim officials?  There are actually 4 Muslim members of the House.  As of 2023, CAIR reported a total of 235 elected officials in the U.S. who are Muslim.  Doesn't sound like many in a country of 330 million people?  Maybe.  But their influence is growing beyond their numbers.

And what about Dearborn, Michigan?  The mayor and city council members are all Muslims.  When a Christian resident complained about a street sign honoring someone with alleged terrorist ties, Dearborn's Muslim Mayor told this Christian he was "not welcome" in Dearborn.  The Mayor called the man a "bigot" and a "racist," and, of course, an "islamophobe."  Then the mayor added this:  "The day you move out of the city will be the day I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city."  Because a Muslim Mayor gets to speak to non-Musims like that.  Is that what you want?  If so, keep voting Democrat.  

I'll say it yet again.  NO - I do not believe that all Muslims are anti-American.  I do not believe that all Muslims support radical jihad.  But what about the ones who do?  What about the likes of Tlaib and Mamdani who are unwilling to condemn a terrorist organization that has killed Americans; and are unwilling to say that Israel has a right to exist as the Jewish state?  What about that?

No Kings? Just More Of The Same - Part II

I get it.  Trump is a King.  He's a fascist.  He's Hitler.  The Left/Democrats are quite good at this.  Choosing a word or phrase and convincing people that it seems to make sense.  But it makes no sense.  When Trump lost in 2020, he vacated the White House.  What kind of King does that?  Trump was duly elected twice.  Kings are not.  But Trump is always violating the Constitution, right?

I've got a few questions.  About Joe Biden.  Remember how he said he would not pardon his son, Hunter?  And how he and Speaker Pelosi frequently said:  "no one is above the law."  Hunter was convicted of gun charges and pled guilty to tax evasion.  What did Biden do?  Let Hunter be punished because no one is above the law?  No, he pardoned Hunter.  Like a King would do for his son.

Remember how Biden, as VP, took classified documents to his home, and kept them there?  Special Counsel Robert Hur said Biden "willfully retained" those classified documents.  But a VP has no power to declassify.  Was the King prosecuted?  No.  Hur said he was just a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."  Right.

Remember how the Constitution (Article II Section 3) says the President has the responsibility to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed?"  But clearly that provision did not apply to King Biden, as he opened the doors to 10 million illegal aliens.  Meanwhile, our Department of Homeland Security reports that, since June, ICE and Border Patrol agents have arrested 5000 people in Los Angeles - including murderers, rapists, gang members and other bad guys.  But the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which also not believe in enforcing the law, has declared a state of emergency because of ICE actions in LA County.  A democracy?  That willfully ignores federal immigration law?

Remember King Biden's loan forgiveness?  Let's be honest.  The Democrats like to buy votes.  Forgive student debt.  Open the borders to what they hope will be millions of future Democratic voters.  Anyway, in 2023, the Supreme Court told Biden that his plan was a no-no.  The President has no such power.  Ah, but a King does.  So Biden continued with his loan forgiveness through a work-around.  Until a Court of Appeal again slapped it down.  

We've all heard about how terrible a person Trump is.  He's a perv.  A creep.  Remember how Biden time after time would inappropriately touch women and girls, stroke their hair, and sniff them?  Creepy, right?  No.  A King has the right to have access to his subjects as he pleases.

Remember when Obama was President?  (I have to include a few comments about King Obama.)  Remember when he said if Congress would not do what he wanted, then he had a pen and a phone and he would take care of it?  Because that's what a King does.  Remember the IRS, under Obama, targeted conservative groups regarding their applications for 501(c)(3) status?  Tea Party groups were particularly targeted.  But a King can do that, right?

Remember (this is one of my "favorites") how Obama had the Justice Department target the media?  Generally, in a democracy, that's a big no-no.  But under a King?  Of course a monarch has that privilege.  That's why the DOJ seized records of the Associated Press (20 phone lines).  James Rosen at Fox, had his emails and phone records searched.  You all remember how the Obama Administration prosecuted more government employees for leaking classified information, than all prior presidential administrations combined?  Lucky for them that King Obama did not say "off with their heads."  Which Kings have done.  

And, of course, we all remember how Obama, and many in his Administration, went on the Sunday talk shows to tell the country that people should not pay attention to Fox News, because Fox was not a legitimate news organization?  And that Fox was "destructive" to the U.S.  True, Fox did not care very much for Obama's policies.  But I guess Obama set the example of attacking those in the press who would bot bend to the King's will.  

To conclude, don't we all remember how millions protested in the streets when Obama and Biden exceeded their powers, ignored Supreme Court orders, and acted as Kings?  No?  That's because it did not happen.  That's because all these demonstrations (from 1/21/17 through yesterday) against Trump, are nothing more than the nearly 9 year effort by Democrats/the Left to weaken Trump and even get him removed from office.  But we all know how the Democrats love their own Kings.

 

No Kings? Just More Of The Same - Part I

Yes, I saw that millions of Americans were out protesting across the country yesterday.  Protesting what?  Oh, various things.  But really, these anti-Trump mass protests started the day after his first inauguration, as I'm sure most readers recall the women's march of January 21, 2017.  So who is doing the protesting?  The temptation is to say (aside from the paid protesters) that these protesters are the usual leftist groups that make up much of today's Democratic Party.  But actually - those groups are indistinguishable from the Democratic Party.  What do I mean by that?  Let's look at one example.

As we know, Zohran Mamdani appears headed for victory in next months's NYC mayoral race.  Is Mamdani extreme?  You bet he is.  First, he is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  Next, we know that he founded his college's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).  SJP did call Hamas's terrorist attack on civilians in Israel a "historic win for the Palestinian resistance."  Mamdani has refused to outright condemn Hamas for that attack.  (His slight backtracking weeks before the election is clearly for public consumption only, and not a true reflection of where he stands.)  Hamas is a designated terrorist organization.  Hamas has killed Americans and taken Americans hostage.  

Mamdani has refused to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada."  The two intifadas in Israel resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent Israelis by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.  On Friday, Mamdani visited the mosque in Bedford-Stuyvesant, whose imam was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which killed six people.  Not to mention Mamdani's friendship with Hasan Piker, who declared that "America deserved 9/11."  

Given all of the above, surely no respectable Democrat would dare to support Mamdani, right?  Wrong.  Who does support Mamdani?  Barack Obama.  Bill Clinton.  NY Governor Kathy Hochul.  Former VP Kamala Harris (and to think she might have been president).  NY Attorney General Leticia James.  Congress members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pramila Jayapal and Jerry Nadler, to name a few.  Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernard Sanders.  And, the Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin.

So what is the difference between the Democratic Party and the socialists/leftists?  None!  No difference whatsoever.  How could anyone argue otherwise when so many "mainstream" Democrats support an avowed socialist, Israel-hating and Jew-hating person to lead the largest city in America - the city with the most Jewish Americans no less.  Need more examples?  Many thought Harris did not pick Josh Shapiro (the very popular Governor of Pennsylvania) as her VP running mate because he's Jewish and supports Israel.  Can't have any of that in the Democratic Party anymore.  And what about Pennsylvania's Senator, John Fetterman.  According to one source, he votes with his party 95% of the time.  But Axios reports that others in his party may seek to oust him in the primary.  Why?  He opposes communism and supports Israel.

Many (including friends and family members) seem to be either blissfully unaware, or simply indifferent, to the efforts being made across the country to oust whatever "traditional" democrats that may still hold elected office, and replace them with adherents to the DSA.  DSA - socialist and anti-Israel.  Are those democrats whom I personally know, aware that they have, like it or not, consciously or unconsciously, accepted that their party is an extreme left-wing party?  

I have repeatedly suggested to people that they might want to read some of JFK's speeches, in order to hear the words of a traditional, classical, liberal democrat.  I wrote a post on July 17, 2016, in order to remind people what classical liberalism was all about.  I have explained that classical liberalism has far more in common with conservatism than with leftism.  Again, just read JFK's speeches.  Leftism is the outlier.  Or, I should say that leftism was the outlier.  Now, it is an integral part of today's Democratic Party.   

By the way, it has been reported that Hamas has been summarily executing other Palestinians.  Supposedly because they collaborated with Israel.  Were there any trials first?  I saw no evidence of that.  But a Hamas leader claimed that "exceptional measures" were needed.  Because there was no time for a trial?  Where are all the keffiyeh-wearing Israel-hating protesters now?  Why aren't they protesting against Hamas?  Not a single one of those anti-Israel protesters can be seen now.  You know, the SJP, or Queers for Palestine, or the many others.  Aren't these the groups that say they are for democracy?  Against Kings?  Well, a democracy does not allow for summary executions of its own people.  But Kings have historically done that.