{"id":59003,"date":"2025-10-19T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59003"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:17:54","slug":"sobs-mislabel-no-kings-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59003","title":{"rendered":"SOBs mislabel &#8216;No Kings&#8217; rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><em>Spoiler alert: Be advised that this brief blog post contains a healthy dose of profane invective aimed at those who defen<\/em>d <em>Donald Trump&#8217;s power grab.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The rotten sons of bitches who continue to assert that those of us opposed to Trump&#8217;s unconstitutional power grab &#8220;hate America&#8221; are demonstrating the worst form of demagoguery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Communities across the nation rallied to protest Trump&#8217;s quest for power by staging the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rally. They carried signs. They called immigration officials &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Gestapo.&#8221; These rallies were peaceful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I am unaware of anyone who stated that they &#8220;hate America.&#8221; And yet that&#8217;s he kind of horse shit we heard from House Speaker Mike Johnson and a host of other right-wing dipshits who are intent on demonizing those who merely are dissenting from government policy decisions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>These assholes don&#8217;t grasp that the nation was founded on dissent. That dissent is an essential part of how we hold our elected officials accountable. I suspect we&#8217;ll see many more of these rallies for the remainder of Trump&#8217;s time in office. And we&#8217;ll hear plenty of epithets that tell lies about those who participate in them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The rotten bastards.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert: Be advised that this brief blog post contains a healthy dose of profane invective aimed at those who defend Donald Trump&#8217;s power grab. The rotten sons of bitches who continue to assert that those of us opposed to Trump&#8217;s unconstitutional power grab &#8220;hate America&#8221; are demonstrating the worst form of demagoguery. Communities across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOBs mislabel &#8216;No Kings&#8217; rallies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7042,7419,10492],"class_list":["post-59003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-dissent","tag-maga","tag-no-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59005,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59003\/revisions\/59005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}