So, another round of “No Kings” protests swept the nation during the weekend of October 18th, 2025. Or did they?

I can’t say that I noticed them all that much, and judging from many of the on-the-ground reports, the turnout was lackluster at best. The energy just isn’t there anymore, and corporate media, for all their preening and propagandizing, cannot enhance this declining movement.

The irony of protesting “No Kings” in a country that broke away from a kingdom, a global empire, is not lost on me. Of course, the greater irony is that if this country were still ruled by a king, I highly doubt that any “No Kings” protests would be allowed to proliferate across the country.

Consider the communist dictator, aka Dear Leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, following the first decade of his rule. At that point, he allowed dissent during what he termed the Hundred Flowers Campaign. He permitted student and general protest in post-World War II China to, as he claimed, “Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend.”

The Chinese intellectual classes approached this newfound freedom with caution. Then, when they realized they could speak their minds freely (so far), intensely (and correctly) criticizing Communism, Chairman and his red goons cracked down within weeks, and shut down all dissent. The truth is that Mao’s generous invitation was a honey-pot scam to lure out his greatest detractors, arrest them, and silence them for good. 

We would see a similar crackdown in this country if there were any threat of President Trump turning himself into a king.

I have lost count of how many........

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