The “No Kings” demonstrations this past weekend showed the future belongs to the right
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This past weekend hundreds of thousands of leftist protesters gathered in numerous cities nationwide to protest Donald Trump under the strange banner of “No Kings” that somehow portrayed Trump as a new king attempting to subvert democracy. Numerous commenters on the webpage have documented the protest’s emptiness, noting that it offered no real policy options except a desire to have Donald Trump removed from office (violently in many cases), even though he was properly elected by law.
Many others, including an NBC anchor, also could not help noticing the aged nature of the protesters.
So from what we can see from our viewpoint here in the studio and talking to our crew on the ground and some people I know who are there, this is an older crowd. There’s not a lot of folks, and granted, it’s a big crowd here, I’m not good at estimating, but it’s definitely over 2000, maybe close to 3000. We can’t see everyone, but it’s an older crowd, a lot of white hair you see out there, Q-tips, as we used to call them in the business. They are out protesting, and not a lot of young people.
None of this is a surprise. The strongest base of the Democratic Party is the 1960s baby boom crowd that protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s, celebrated sex, drugs, and rock & roll, and has never found a Democrat they did not love blindly. For the past decade this aging Baby Boom generation has been repeatedly told to hate Trump, and this past weekend’s demonstration allowed these old hippies the chance to show off how well they have been indoctrinated by the left.
What was far more striking about this event to me however was the contrast between the old, white-haired “No Kings” protesters and the very youthful attendees at every single conservative demonstration or event. The bottom picture to the right comes from a “Student Action Summit” in July, but it is typical of most conservative get-togethers. The crowd tends to be young, enthused, and covering a wide spectrum of demographics.
One could argue that I am comparing a general protest with a student event, but this trend is not limited to just such student conferences. The make-up of all recent rightwing public protests and events has trended young. And following Kirk’s murder, his organization received more than 120,000 requests to open chapters in schools and colleges across the United States.
The young have become intrigued by conservative ideas, and want to know more. And they also appear quite uninterested in what the left has to say, because what the left has been saying for more than a decade has been limited to only one note: “We hate Donald Trump!” That position is hardly an agenda on which to build a new world for the next generation.
This contrast tells us where the future lies, and it is not with the baby boom generation (from which I come). Their time appears over, with this last spasm of Trump hate their final gasp for power. Instead, the trend says the future will belong to the new young generation of conservatives, many of whom are embracing the old-fashioned Judeo-Christian religious traditions of the Bible and the American Dream.
I admit that I might be grasping at straws, and the future will not be so bright. Certainly it is dangerous to extrapolate a future from this single data point.
And yet, it does seem real, and if so, expect there to be major political shifts in the coming decade. The cultural and political landscape is about to change drastically, and hopefully in ways that will bring this country back to the values that made it the wealthiest and most prosperous nation ever seen in human history.
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NO KINGS INDEED: A THREAT TO “DEMOCRACY”
Now I have written about this several times in the past and I guess I will be writing about it again today.
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/no-kings-indeed-a-threat-to-democracy
The Democrat party leadership and the people who follow their direction and their strategy in acquiring and retaining political power in America chant “NO KINGS”, referring to the Trump administration. But what they do not take one second to realize is to take a look in the mirror.
And if the people were to actually look Objectively into that mirror and actually see themselves and what the political party that they are aligned with demand they would clearly see themselves as being radical, authoritarian and much like a monarch I.E. a KING!
Remember: 2015 the Democrat party machine unceremoniously removed the Democrat party’s people’s choice to run against D.J. Trump (R) and that was the “Independent” party Communist, Bernie Sanders (I). Replaced him with “the next in line” Ma Barker (Hillary Clinton). Forget about what the people wanted.
(How do you know that Bernie Sanders is a bonified full blood committed Communist who just hides behind the “I” Independent party designation? His words and the fact that he honeymooned intentionally and symbolically with his brand-new wife in 1988 in……………….MOSCOW while the Cold War raged!!!
B. Sanders: “That was a strange honeymoon”)
WHEN THEY START COMPARING A COMMUNIST TO JESUS YOU KNOW TROUBLE IS COMING
And remember once more: 2020, who did the people of the Democrat party want to run against D.J. Trump? The then current president who beat Trump previously, Joe Biden (D). And who did the party machine again unceremoniously install after Nancy Pelosi “made the phone call” and removed President Biden from contention as the candidate to represent the Democrat party? Vice President Kamala Harris. The absolutely worst, most uncomfortable and incompetent candidate to stand for the presidency in American history. She would symbolically do just fine, leadership or competence not required.
Why is that? Because the Democrat party runs internally as a political party monarchy meat puppet master where the everyday American people who foolishly adhere to their edicts are ignored and told what they are going to do, what they are to believe and who they are mandated to hate, and of course, who they will be voting for. The people of the Democrat party are but mindless drone surfs in the Democrat party machines political party power Kingdom.
No Kings Day Indeed.
President D.J. Trump is definitely a threat to Democracy, the Democrat party’s radical self-serving perverted version of “Democracy”.
Are you Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 10/19/25
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This is what I have observed first hand of the various left-wing protests I have seen in DC this year – definitely older, very white. (And with a couple exceptions, very sparse.) This is in contrast to the protests we saw during Trump’s first term, which of course were often big, and fairly diverse demographically.
It’s like the whole thing is just burned out now. Lots of young and minority voters here in DC* may well still dislike Trump, but they feel a lot less motivated to show up at protests than they did in 2017-2020.
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* Note the geographic qualifier. There’s really no place in the rest of the country like DC. (For which, in most respects, we can be thankful.)
It is not necessarily true that with age, comes wisdom.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, these fools would not have been allowed to protest anything if Donald Trump were truly acting like a king.
Like him or hate him, Trump has followed the law, often to a fault.
As the last of the hippies die off the last people in the democrat party will be the young people we see now.
Aoc represents that new group of entitled lefties.
The ones younger than her want even more entitlements. They don’t even want to work anymore.. They want free schooling, free housing, free utilities, free transportation, and a consequence free life style.
They need a big daddy to put his foot down and teach them what life is all about, not some mama protecting them.
Taking away all their free stuff might just help in this.
As for DC.
I truly think that ALL the residents should be moved out. The whole of the area should be a totally federally owned and controlled. No private property, no residences, the only roads should only be used by public transportation busses and maybe cabs, more subways.
Federal employees ride public transport, elected officials might have federally owned private transport to work or at best driving permits like on military bases.
Tourists would ride public transport.
“””””They need a big daddy to put his foot down and teach them what life is all about, not some mama protecting them.
Taking away all their free stuff might just help in this.”””””
Second sentence takes care of the first. No need to put the foot down as long as they get nothing that they haven’t earned. Even in the cases of family support, it gets old carrying the freeloaders. Or if it doesn’t, let those families carry the freight, not yours via uncle.
I include immigrants from horrible countries in the no free stuff along with the lazy entitled from here. I’ve heard people say, “we can’t let them starve”. I say, Why Not??? i feel the same way about expensive “free” school K-12 along with universities. I could go on, but if you are in agreement, it’s not necessary. And if you’re not. it’s just annoying.
A big factor could be that generation still is unable to comprehend that the TV and newspapers are intentionally lying to them. The younger generations probably received at some media mocking it, or at least some exposure to the other viewpoint.
I surmise the mainstream propaganda corporate media hyped it up. I wouldn’t know because I deplatformed them .
The violent rhetoric and outright ignorance from the clips I saw were most disturbing.
Richard M,
The street-level footage I saw of other “No Kings” demos elsewhere in the country were a pretty good match to the DC crowd – mostly old and white.
The Grim Reaper will not be kind to the Left. The older lefties that haven’t already croaked soon will. Many of the younger ones will likely acquire some sense as the cultural defaults shift rightward. Those that don’t acquire some sense won’t be as numerous and, to a pretty good first-order approximation, will have no kids to which to pass along their fusty ideas. I read the other day that U.S. fertility rates are now politically bimodal – roughly 2.0 in red states and roughly 1.4 in blue states. That means the Right will pretty much reproduce itself while the Left will not.
F noted: “It is not necessarily true that with age, comes wisdom.”
Yes, wisdom requires learning from experience. As is said ‘Good decisions come from experience; experience comes from bad decisions.’
Several Liberal authors noted over the weekend that the protests weren’t changing society; they were annoying people trying to get on with their lives. Apparently, a revelation that pissing people off will not bring them to your cause. Cue The Beatles ‘Revolution’.
Don’t we have elections to decide such things? You lost. Go home. Move on. Or, at least that’s what *you* tell the opposition. As the philosopher Malcolm Reynolds asked: “Why are you arguing what’s already been decided?”
Hello Dick,
I like your optimism, but in a country that’s about to see its largest city elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor, mainly on the backs of Millennial and Zoomer white voters, I wish I could share it.
Even Don Rickles got in on the act. (AI generated)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aqJ0FWMK_7g
And then CNN claims biggest turn out ever… Turns out all the pink hats in the audience was from 2017 woman’s march in Boston, not New York… Yes, CNN used old footage to fake high turn out.
https://wltreport.com/2025/10/19/7-million-no-kings-turnout-is-biggest-ever/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=7-million-no-kings-turnout-is-biggest-ever
And then there’s the AI video of trump with a crown flying a jet he posted himself.
https://wltreport.com/2025/10/19/watch-president-trump-shares-hilarious-video-about-harry/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=watch-president-trump-shares-hilarious-video-about-harry
In the good news file, he flat turn down the united nations global warming tax on the world. Let everyone know there would be reprisals against any country that voted for it. Unlike teddy Roosevelt, he speaks loud and directly and swings that big stick!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/bullet-dodged-attempt-united-nations-force-massive-climate/
Protest culture is very much a part of the Boomer playbook—but most of the unpleasant videos of folks overjoyed by Kirk’s death were young. The Internet is the street, to quote the late Hugh Downs.
Right now, there is a lot of talk about A.I. slop.
Yes, it is sad to see some of the videos of Stephen Hawking—but let us make some comparisons.
A.I. Slop….the use of (computer-generated) images of famous people against their will for parodies
Saturday Night Live–used (actor/make-up) images of famous people against their will…for parodies.
The SAG folks in Hollywood think that only they get to make images. Some lament the disparity of wealth–perhaps we should focus on the disparity of images.
The biggest weapon of Boomers was the narrative. They controlled entertainment to inculcate whatever politically fashionable message of the day was.
The opposition to that was a handful of religious protesters with a few cardboard signs.
The script has flipped.
Where I think NASA centers do deserve financial support in case NewSpace markets fail–I am super-libertarian with regard as to information freedom
If you want a killing blow struck against narrative–America is going to have to abandon the idea of trademarks and copyrights altogether.
Yes, that’s a big ask.
Now anyone can use images of anything they wish for their own entertainment. Then Data would be right about television not lasting long into the 21st century.
No more Pinkerton thugs kicking doors down because someone bought D&D material that Wizards of the Coast didn’t want released yet. No more C&Ds from Paraborg to stifle fan films and garage-kit spaceship models.
True market freedom across the board.
Only that can break the control of images.
Someone noted in the thread of another post that the 1970s were weird in the South. The 1970s were weird everywhere, because the hippies (not all the baby boomers) were trying to figure out how to implement their version of utopia. Well, they implemented something, and now we have a huge mess to clean up, from boys in girls’s locker rooms and restrooms, to a culture that insists the criminals are the innocent ones, to an entire political party with a murder mentality, starting with innocent babies still in utero and now extending to political opponents. But then again, the Democrats were into eugenics from the 1920s and even taught the concept to the Germans a decade later.
It’s kind of funny that the hippies got started protesting a war that was started and run by Democrats, yet they voted for Democrats almost exclusively. Not wise then. Not wise now. Apparently to become wise not only do we have to make bad decisions to learn from, but we have to also realize that they were mistakes, otherwise we don’t learn the right lessons.
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Robert,
You wrote: “I admit that I might be grasping at straws, and the future will not be so bright. Certainly it is dangerous to extrapolate a future from this single data point.”
You seemed to be thinking of additional data points from the past, but unlike Richard M, you didn’t mention them.
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Blair Ivey wrote: “As the philosopher Malcolm Reynolds asked: ‘Why are you arguing what’s already been decided?’”
I love that line, and I use it as often as possible.
The “No Kings” protests were really sad. Just a bunch of aging white far left hippies trying to be relevant. The only young people were the nutty ones who take theater classes in high school.
Even the memes our side came up with weren’t that funny because the left has become totally absurd and difficult to mock. This is about the best one I saw:
https://tinyurl.com/ycafeyfu
I’m a 74 year old boomer and I have nothing in common with the over-aged hippies of the “No Kings Movement” or any of the other leftist freak shows. Those people are an embarrassment to others of us who are unfortunately in their age cohort.
Trump may not be perfect but he is far better than any of the alternatives that have been offered to us over the last several decades.
Make America Great Again is not just a political slogan but words to live by.
@Cotor
I didn’t hear hardly any outrage at Dems being disenfranchised by their own party in 2015.
I was astounded to see them stand for it again in 2024.
The Democrats are the battered wives of the US political system. “Yeah, I know he abused me, but I know he really loves me.”
I wrote: “Well, they implemented something, and now we have a huge mess to clean up, from boys in girls’s locker rooms and restrooms, to a culture that insists the criminals are the innocent ones, to an entire political party with a murder mentality, starting with innocent babies still in utero and now extending to political opponents.”
Upon further reflection, it seems to me that all these implementations are merely for the convenience of those doing the implementations. “If it feels good, do it” was a phrase from the hippy era. It is all self gratification — and instant. If you want something, it is OK to be a criminal, because you are the one without — the one oppressed by circumstances. If you want to mingle with the girls, pretend to be one. If sexual intercourse feels good, do it, and if a pregnancy results, that is when it is OK to be a baby killer. If you disagree with someone politically, it is OK to assassinate him. Next: if you disagree with your neighbor, it will become OK to kill him, too. It is all about the self.
No wonder they held this protest; it was another way to feel good about themselves, and no wonder there were violent words; these words were yet another way to feel good about themselves.
It is all about the self. I had an English teacher in college, teaching essay writing, who insisted that this philosophy be the theme of all our essays. She assigned books with these topics and had us write essays to support the themes. No wonder we have generations of Democrats who are so selfish. They were taught that they are the important ones, that their feelings are the only things to consider, that their self esteem was all that matters. No wonder they behave like three-year-olds. They were never required to grow up. No wonder so many young Democrats live in their parents’ basements. The parents cannot make them uncomfortable enough to entice them to grow up. Charlie Kirk was right: college is a scam, not only on the students but on the parents who paid only to discover their children were taught to remain infants.
Jeremy Hatfield
And they still want more:
SOUNDLY REJECTED IN THE PRIMARY: AND CURTIS SHOULD STEP ASIDE?
Andrew Cuomo, a disgraced former Democrat governor of New York State, a sexual harasser, the governor that actually fully enacted, empowered and personally signed into law the radical “progressive” Leftist Democrats and their “Seattle Is Dying” political agenda in New York State. Cuomo on his knees pandering to the radical Left empowered the Leftists within his own party. And he was then SOUNDLY rejected by his own fellow Democrats who chose a stone cold by his own words Communist over him in the Democrat primary. And you want Curtis Sliwa to step aside?
Curtis Sliwa is the bonified Republican party candidate for mayor. Curtis Sliwa in my understanding of him and this is the reason that he is the worthiest person to lead New York City WILL NEVER STEP ASIDE. Let the chips fall where they will.
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/when-they-start-comparing-a-communist-to-jesus-you-know-trouble-is-coming
Curtis Sliwa is without doubt the strongest full blood American horse in the race for mayor and all of this talk about him bowing out “For the good of New York” is all delusional and IMO will never happen. It is YOU Mr. Cuomo who needs to remove yourself from the contest for the mayor of New York City! What nerve, what a pathetic nerve.
Let the strong horse run and let the strong horse lead. And if the radical Lefts “strong horse” who by his own words has established that he is in fact a follower of the Karl Marx school of political strategy and governance wins then let him lead the city as the people who elected him to political power have chosen. Bill DeBlasio 2.0 on steroids.
There are consequences in all things, especially politics. Choose wisely.
See and understand what the “progressive” agenda actually accomplished in Seattle, it aint pretty: https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/seattle-and-now-new-york-american-political-death-cult
Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 10/21/25
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I thought Sliwa died….did he ever run against Koch?
Richard M,
The Millennial and Zoomer lefties self-concentrate in places like NYC. Someone once described NYC as the great unflushed toilet of Western Civilization. Good call. Despite occasional attacks of sanity, as during the Giuliani mayoralty, NYC can never seem to stay on the wagon.
I think there is simply an invincibly rotten political culture in NYC as there is in Latin America, where such national relapses into suicidal leftism have been endemic since the Spaniards were overthrown. The departures of large banks and financial services companies from NYC started in a serious way during the DeBlasio years and have continued. The biggest beneficiary to-date has been Miami. I expect this trend to take a sharp spike upward if, as seems all but certain, Comrade Mamdani is NYC’s next mayor.
But Blue states are all losing population except for California which is merely treading water – its erstwhile rapid growth now an increasingly distant memory. Population growth is almost exclusively a red state phenomenon these days and that will be just as true going forward.
The Righting of America is a process, not an event. But it is now well underway and things are generally the better for it. One can always find individual places that are still quite appalling, but root-mean-square, the slope of the trend line is positive. And, for whatever it may be worth, that seems true of much of the rest of the world as well.
Socialism in any for or degree only works with a sound and strong capitalist economy to feed off of.
Just how much capitalist “blood” can be drained before the nation is killed.
As for proof just look at China. With a little threat of tariffs from the US their whole economy is starting to fall apart. They became so dependent on trade with the US they can’t take a 60 day slowdown.
NY will only live with support from the rest of the nation.