'Trump Is A King!' Say People Freely Protesting In A Free Country | Babylon Bee - "Anti-Trump protesters raged at his near-omnipotence. "He's just doing whatever he wants," another rallygoer said. "Nobody is standing in his way. Except for Congress. And the media. And Hollywood. And multiple rogue federal judges. And every member of the Democratic Party. We don't even live in a free country where we can protest, which is why we're protesting. It's time for us to draw a line in the sand and stand up to demand the right to do exactly what we're all doing today.""
Meme - Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok: "Wow this is sick. North Carolina State Rep Julie von Haefen (D) posted a photo from the “no kings” protest which calls for Trump to be beheaded‼️ @FBI"
Salt Lake City ‘No Kings’ protest murder suspect pushed Antifa views - "Arturo Gamboa, the man charged with murder after a deadly shooting at Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest, appears to be a self-described anti-government radical who publicly supported Antifa, rejected the US electoral system, and once said justice should be taken “by any means necessary," a Facebook page with the same name from Utah reveals. While Gamboa did not fire the shot that took the life of 39-year-old Arthur Ah Loo, police say his armed and threatening behavior sparked the confrontation, says the Salt Lake Tribune. Witnesses say Gamboa appeared at the protest wearing a gas mask and carrying an AR-15-style rifle in a backpack. He allegedly emerged from behind a wall and began running toward the crowd with the rifle raised. A designated “peacekeeper” at the event, wearing a high-visibility vest, opened fire with a handgun—striking Gamboa and inadvertently hitting Ah Loo... A Facebook page with the same name shows radical left-wing ideology. In a June 2020 Facebook post, Gamboa reshared a pro-Antifa message that read: “Antifa means anti-fascist. If you are anti-antifa then you are pro-fascist... If you support Trump, you support a fascist. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.” That same day, Gamboa posted a call to reject the democratic process, writing: “Quit playing the electoral game. They use their two-faced tricks to pacify us. Justice must be taken into the hands of the people, by any means necessary.”... Gamboa was an active supporter of Black Lives Matter during the 2020 riots, according to posts from the account, which saw violent riots across the country that caused billions in damages. His band’s lyrics and public statements frequently echoed anti-capitalist, anti-police, and revolutionary themes."
Updated: Man accused of murder at Salt Lake City 'No Kings' protest is a radical leftist - "A Latino radical leftist and alleged Antifa supporter has been charged with murder after allegedly causing the conditions that resulted in a Samoan man being killed at the Salt Lake City "No Kings" protest on June 14. Arturo Gamboa, a 24-year-old member of the leftist Utah-based punk band Rade, was apprehended at the scene wearing all black and having a semi-automatic rifle. A "No Kings" liberal "peacekeeper" volunteer with bad aim tried taking out Gamboa with three shots, but instead, fatally wounded a bystander. The “peacekeeper” may have seriously misjudged the situation, as it’s unclear if Gamboa was actively posing a threat. The “No Kings” protest organizers, who are part of nearly 200 Democrat-aligned unions, PACS, nonprofits, and activist groups, did not want a significant police presence there and relied on these “peacekeepers” instead. Many left-wing activists are encouraged to believe that they are constantly under threat of mass killings by MAGA white supremacists or police, leading them to both open and concealed carry at their events while in a state of paranoia. Arthur “Afa” Ah Loo, a 39-year-old fashion designer, died from his injuries in hospital... Gamboa previously told music publication Slug Mag that he detested American global influence, citing racism. “This is exactly how the system is meant to function,” he said. “The American system is a steam train that’s always been fueled by black and brown bodies.”... Meanwhile, Democrats and liberal media are obfuscating the details of the shooting, leading some in the public to think a pro-Trump gunman killed a protester and that the protest was peaceful."
More proof Trump incites violence!
Meme - Clifton Duncan: "The "No Kings" people had no issue dictating who was essential, dictating who you visited, dictating that the elderly die alone, dictating what you inject into your body. They dictated you lock yourselves at home while they went to the salon and dined at fancy restaurants and took vacations and threw parties. They dictate language, want to dictate what you drive, want to dictate how you cook your food, dictate that you ignore basic biological realities. Disobey the dictators and they kill careers, kill reputations, kill relationships, destroy city blocks, resort to terrorism. They crave control, and embrace social and political violence when they lose it ..but they are fighting to save democracy!"
Andy Ngo on X - "The Portland Police and local media are hiding the ideological motivations stated by a "No Kings Day" riot suspect accused of trying to carry out an IED bombing on the freeway. Suspect Alex Wick ("he/they") posted a video just hours before the attack."
How Anglosphere conservatives can thrive in the age of Trump - "the new Trump ascendancy could easily leave conservatism discredited. Certainly, it’s already been a key factor in the defeat of conservative parties in Canada and Australia. Hence the question: how should conservative political parties respond to the Trump phenomenon in order to keep their character while maximizing their chances of electoral success? Whatever reservations conservatives might have had about his character, Donald Trump’s re-election was an energizing moment for conservative political movements. And the new administration’s domestic program: controlling the border, making government more efficient, repudiating “wokery”, and continuing the use of fossil fuels is a robustly conservative one. But the new administration’s foreign agenda: imposing punitive tariffs on Canada and Mexico, claiming that Ukraine had somehow “started” the war with Russia, and seemingly wanting to do “deals” with dictators, has not only been at odds with America’s global “brand” as the benign superpower, and deeply unsettling to America’s allies; but also jarred with the general conservative view that alliances are to be nurtured and that the Anglosphere is “family.”... A smart move by conservatives would be to push for much deeper cooperation between the other members of the Anglosphere... It was always a mistake to see Reagan-Thatcher conservatism as exclusively, or even mainly, economic. Those two conservative titans respected freer markets as the best means of securing individual prosperity and national strength, not as ends in themselves. They supported smaller government and greater freedom because it’s strong citizens rather than a nanny state that creates the best society. They saw love of country, a commitment to excellence, and personal responsibility as the key to a strong social fabric; much more so than “equalizing” taxes and over-generous, incentive-sapping social welfare. Their record was freer trade with like-minded democracies, rather than with geo-political rivals; and of boosting local industry via robust competition and domestic deregulation rather than government subsidy. Whether it’s Trump Derangement Syndrome or the almost equally prevalent Trump Fascination Syndrome, the U.S. president’s out-sized political personality is denying oxygen to everyone and everything that’s not referencing him. Because America matters, and because the president has so much sway over what America does, the wild ride will continue. But what counts, in the end, is less what someone else does, that’s up to him; and more what we do, that’s up to us. Conservatives should respectfully dissent from any rogue actions by the current administration, while remembering that there will be a new one within four years. Donald Trump is just one manifestation of American conservatism, not the embodiment of it."
Opinion: Canada’s southern neighbour bites back - "Disparaging the United States has been a Canadian tradition since the War of 1812. Now that an American leader has, for the first time in memory, offered some gentle ripostes, Canadians are playing the victim. Unless they pull out of the national nosedive, the country may never recover. I grew up in Calgary and am familiar with the deeply woven forms of anti-Americanism that define the national identity. The joke goes that Canada is the world’s oldest continuous civilization of anti-Americans. Until the end of the Cold War, most of this was merely the constructive friction of a close partnership. However, the safety brought by the Soviet collapse freed Canada to display its anti-Americanism more openly. “I like to stand up to the Americans. It’s popular,” then-prime minister Jean Chrétien said in overheard comments in 1997. The George W. Bush years pushed Canadian disdain to a whole new level. When Harvard academic Michael Ignatieff returned to Canada to run for prime minister as the Liberal party leader in 2006, he established his bona fides by condemning the country that had made his career. The anti-American invective from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., meanwhile, echoes the anti-British bombast that poured forth from the Voice of the Arabs radio in Gamal Nasser’s Egypt. The CBC also produces a steady stream of anti-American cultural elites, such as former governor-general Michaelle Jean, whose husband in 2006 made a conspiracy theory documentary that accused the U.S. of colluding with Iran’s hostage-takers in 1979. Canada’s high priestess of literature, Margaret Atwood, fires off anti-American volleys knowing that her left-leaning readership in America with accept them with their famous good-naturedness. Her dystopian 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, describes a fundamentalist Christian society in New England that forces women to bear children. It is an unabashed hate letter to the American founding. Disgusted Canadians often migrate, today accounting for 821,000 American residents, enough to fill a major Canadian city. “I don’t think we can keep sticking our finger in the eye of America and somehow feel that they won’t react,” warned Liberal Senator Jerry Grafstein in 2002. He had proposed a national day celebrating the U.S. following the 9/11 attacks as a way to combat “endemic” anti-Americanism in the country. The following year, future Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper described the Liberal government as “driven by a petty jealousy of American power. Over and over, we hear a stream of small-minded, undignified, anti-American comments passed off as foreign policy.” His moderation was abandoned after 2015 under Justin Trudeau, whose father, Pierre, wore his anti-Americanism as proudly as the roses in his lapel. The younger Trudeau’s ascension could not have been more ill-timed. After a national love affair with Barack Obama, Canadian elites foamed at the very idea of Donald Trump. “Perhaps Canadians who are in the habit of blindly signalling their contempt for a duly elected president should consider the fact that they are insulting the American electorate every time they make another tired Trump joke,” wrote retired Manitoba judge Brian Giesbrecht before the 2020 election. The plea fell on deaf ears. So, as Trump prepared to take office for the second time in 2024, he finally let loose. Liberal mismanagement of the country, and the bilateral relationship, he charged, had rendered the country “not viable.” It was as if 200 years of Canadian identity was finally coming home to roost."
Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam says Trump ‘destroyed’ major art form - "Gilliam argued that the return of Trump has significantly affected the state of humor by challenging “woke” ideals. “I think Trump has changed things considerably,” he said. “He’s turned the world upside down. I don’t know if people are going to be laughing more, but they’re probably less frightened to laugh. “There have been woke activists with a very narrow, self-righteous point of view. That’s frightened so many people, and so many people have been very timid about telling jokes, making fun of things, because if you tell a joke, these people say you’re punching down at somebody. No, you’re finding humor in humanity! “So, irony, satire were basically dead. And humor, to me, is probably one of the most essential things in life. You’ve got six senses, and the seventh sense is humor, and if you don’t have that, life is going to be miserable.”"
Philip Cross: Boycotting the U.S. has had little effect so far - "So far, neither the Trump tariffs nor our boycotts of travel and purchases from the U.S. have had a significant impact on the American economy. Inflation remains tame at 2.4 per cent, down from 3.0 when Trump took office, and The Economist estimates tariffs have raised prices only 0.13 per cent. Both real GDP and total employment continue to expand — by 2.0 per cent and 1.1 per cent, respectively, year-over-year. Sustained growth and low inflation have led Fed Chair Jerome Powell to characterize the U.S. economy as “still in a solid position,” justifying his decision to hold interest rates steady so far this year. Tariffs and boycotts haven’t dented the American economy mainly because trade still plays a small role in it... Prime Minister Mark Carney’s hasty withdrawal of the ill-conceived digital sales tax after Trump threatened more tariffs showed how confrontation can backfire, revealing our own vulnerability and weakness instead of pressuring Trump to make concessions. The 20th-century political scientist Karl Deutsch used to quote the European saying that “a nation is a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours.” The resurgence of nationalism in Canada in response to Trump’s actions is based on the mistaken view that we are still a major player on the world stage and that our actions can significantly impact the American economy. In our frustration and anger about the Trump administration’s actions, we should not develop a hatred of our neighbours to the south, who will always be the main market for our exports and destination for our travel."
Coca-Cola to release new Coke with sugar. Trump says it's 'better' than corn syrup. Is it? - "American food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, the managing culinary director of Serious Eats , is one of Mexican Coke’s many fans. In 2023, he conducted a taste test — American versus Mexican Coke. Despite the number of people who swear by the superiority of the Mexican version, testers preferred the flavour and aroma of the American product seven times out of eight. López-Alt concluded, “Those folks who prefer Mexican Coke (like myself), really just like the idea of Mexican Coke — whether it’s because they think real sugar is tastier/healthier than corn syrup, whether it’s because Mexican Coke is more expensive and harder to find, thus more valuable, whether it’s because of its exoticism, whatever the reason — strip away the Mexicanness of it, and suddenly it’s a lot less appealing.” Shining a light on factors other than the type of sweetener, the Serious Eats taste test also found that people prefer glass bottles to aluminum cans, a sentiment echoed on Reddit’s AskAnAmerican thread. “For me personally, it’s the glass bottle,” one user posted. “(I don’t know) what the difference is or why, but it simply tastes better.”"
Epstein believed Trump was the 'rat' who snitched on him to FBI: biographer - "Being labeled a “rat” by a former close friend would likely sting Trump, who has used the word to deride people who co-operate with law enforcement."
Epstein scandal is the essence of Trump - "The most entertaining part of the Trump-versus-Epstein conspiracy is that it’s ensnared the U.S. president in his own make-believe, never-happened, deny-it-unto-death world, and it’s hard to escape a world you invented and exist at the centre of... until now because MAGA world bought whatever he was selling, and a subservient Republican Congress bowed and scraped obediently to whatever was expected. But MAGA is a movement founded on conspiracy theories and it absolutely believes there’s a conspiracy going on over the Epstein files. So if Trump doesn’t comply with its demands for full details of the conspiracy, he must be part of the conspiracy. This puts the president in the very position in which he so enjoys trapping others. He once promised to release the Epstein files. Then he said there’s nothing worth releasing. Now he says he’s ordered the release of the files he said aren’t worth releasing. Is he telling the truth, or is he part of a coverup? That’s hard to gauge, as you’d first have to establish which of his contradictory positions the question pertains to. And the one thing about a conspiracy is that denying you’re part of one only feeds suspicions that you’re lying. So there’s no easy escape for Trump and it’s driving him batty"
ALX 🇺🇸 on X - "BREAKING: Newly Declassified documents from the Durham Report Annex reveals Hillary Clinton personally approved of the “idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections” in order to “demonize Putin and Trump”"
Meme "I THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE LESS POWER."
Crying Soyjak: "FASCIST!"
Meme - "Donald Trump is the first racist in history to have... ..dated a black woman ...deported an ex-Nazi ...upgraded MLK's birthplace to a national historic park ..posthumously pardoned legendary boxer Jack Johnson ...kissed the Western Wall ...loved his Jewish grandchildren ..established an Opportunity & Revitalization Council to restore insalubrious black neighborhoods ...signed a major criminal reform bill ...granted Alice Johnson clemency ...loaned his personal jet to Nelson Mandela ...declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel ...moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem ...overseen the lowest black unemployment in history ..denounced David Duke over 20 years ago ...been given a lifetime achievement award after paving a way for blacks to enter corporate America... WORST. Racist. Ever."
Rasmussen Reports on X - "Obama and Biden sat in that August 3, 2016 Situation Room briefing and said, yeah, let's let the highest officials in our administration fabricate evidence to frame the opposing party candidate Donald Trump. Pure treason. Interview summary from @mirandadevine"
Laura Loomer on X - "A lot of people owe President Trump an apology. Obama WAS in fact spying on Trump and weaponizing the intel agencies against Trump. It was always true."
Dinesh D'Souza on X - "I’m hearing that we can’t put Obama in handcuffs because that might cause civil unrest. But wait! Democrats didn’t hesitate to drop 90+ charges on Trump. They were ready to lock him up for life, and deal with the ensuing civil unrest. Besides, “No one is above the law.”"
Meme greg @greg16676935420: "🚨BREAKING: Tesla owners are scrambling to remove their anti Elon stickers from their car now that he is feuding with Trump"
"How to remove sticker from car. Search term. United States, Past 7 days. Interest over time"
John Strand on X - "WOW: 130 *retired* judges file a brief demanding Judge Hannah Dugan’s charges be dropped—after she was caught aiding & abetting an illegal alien They say she has “absolute immunity for her official acts” Abusing your position to help commit crimes is an “official act”? 🤡"
DC_Draino on X - "These 130 retired judges sound an awful lot like the “51 former intel experts” who said Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake This bulldog broke the law and now she’s being held accountable Americans aren’t fooled by these deep state tactics anymore"
Thread by @SenEricSchmitt on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨A massive win for President Trump against rogue judges. Chief Judge Boasberg was brazenly trying to punish the President for a dispute over an order the Supreme Court later said he had not power to issue in the first place. The D.C. Circuit just shut him down. 🧵
This fight dates back to March 15, when the President invoked the Alien Enemies Act to fast-track the deportation of dangerous Venezuelan gang members and cartel affiliates from our country. Several of the aliens facing removal sued in D.C. Despite not being the emergency judge on duty, Boasberg assumed control of the case and, in the evening of March 15, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting their removal under the AEA. However, by the time the order was issued, planes carrying these TdA members were already in the air. Boasberg orally ordered the government to return these criminal aliens to the U.S., but he lacked authority to do so and never memorialized this command in his written minute order. His written order merely prohibited the government from "removing" class members. The government, for months, has asserted that it didn't violate the order because the TdA members had already been removed from the U.S. when the order issued. In the meantime, the government appealed Boasberg's order to the Supreme Court, which held he lacked jurisdiction because these were core habeas claims, which under longstanding precedent, must be brought in the district of confinement. Nevertheless, Boasberg plowed ahead with these baseless contempt proceedings, ordering the government to either return these dangerous criminals to the U.S. or to identify the government officials who purportedly violated his order.
Thankfully, the D.C. Circuit has put a stop to the Chief Judge's power trip. First, Judge Katsas explained that the TRO was insufficiently clear to support a contempt charge. The government's interpretation of the order was perfectly plausible. Second, Judge Boasberg's oral orders were likely well beyond his authority and the government was correct to base its conduct on his narrower written order.
Since January, we have faced an epidemic of rogue federal judges ignoring the law and Supreme Court in a mad dash to thwart the President's agenda. Hopefully, with this ruling Chief Judge Boasberg and his rogue colleagues will get the message that they too must follow the law."
When left wingers claim "no one is above the law", they mean that judges can make whatever rulings they want to push the left wing agenda
Memo Reveals D.C. Judges Predisposed Against Trump Admin - "Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties... Judge Boasberg’s comments reveal he and his colleagues hold an anti-Trump bias, for the Trump Administration had complied with every court order to date (and since for that matter). The D.C. District Court judges’ “concern” also went counter to the normal presumption courts hold — one that presumes public officials properly discharged their official duties. Apparently, that presumption does not apply to the current president, at least if you are litigating in D.C. And what is both troubling and ironic is that only a few days later, Judge Boasberg, in a case in which he completely lacked jurisdiction, as the Supreme Court would later confirm, entered a lawless order commanding the Trump Administration to halt removals to El Salvador. So, one of the judges concerned about Trump following the law, ignored the law. Nonetheless, Judge Boasberg would later find “the Trump Administration committed criminal contempt of court” by failing to turn the planes around or fly the gang members back to the U.S., even though the court’s written (and unlawful) injunction ordered neither. As I said at the time, the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court seemed hellbent on finding the Trump Administration in contempt. It would seem, we now know why: Judge Boasberg and his colleagues prejudged Trump as a scofflaw. The reality, though, is the president has shown great restraint in the face of an avalanche of lawless lower court orders. In fact, recently released emails related to the case before Judge Boasberg confirm the Trump Administration’s intent was and remains to obey all court orders — even those lawless ones. Those emails came to light after a whistleblower made spurious allegations against Emil Bove, whom Trump has nominated to serve on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals... As Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Chair of the Judiciary Committee, noted yesterday, “Bove telling subordinate DOJ litigators, in advance of anticipated litigation, to avoid a court order that negatively impacts a mission is inconsistent with instructions to outright ignore a court order, and entirely consistent with Bove’s sworn testimony.” And at his confirmation hearing, Bove, under oath, attested that he has “never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order.” But as Justice Alito reminded Americans a mere month after the Judicial Conference attended by Judge Boasberg concluded, “[b]oth the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.” The Trump Administration has been doing its part, but the lower courts remain rabid in their attack on the rule of law — and now we know that at least some judges are likewise flouting their obligation to remain impartial or recuse from the case when they aren’t."
