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The headline on the page of the national organization responsible for the anti-Trump protests proudly claims, "In America, we don't do kings."
Yes. We do.
Listen to the President Trump sycophants as they flip with every Trump flop. He demands obedience. His weak followers give it to him.
Note the Democrats who ignored President Biden's mental state for four years. Or the ones who 100 percent supported Vice President Harris, although, conveniently for her, she never ran in a primary.
They did this while attending "No Kings" protests, pretending it was just the other side that was happy to ignore all democratic principles.
What America needs is less loyalty to its politicians and to its parties. What we need is independence.
I personally voted for Donald Trump in 2024. He's been a disappointment, but it was one mostly expected. I saw value in "America First," ending the Obama-Biden-CIA misadventures in western Europe, in calling out the shocking intelligence corruption influencing our elections, in DOGE reining in our spending, etc. I also trust outsiders more than insiders. The way the system rejected Trump lent to his credibility, in my eyes. But on most of those counts, Trump failed. On spending, it's worse than ever. Now he's bombing ships in South America, calling them drug dealers and terrorists. Couldn't be the oil, right? And America First? Hah.
My vote for Trump came after supporting Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2024 and, when he lost in the primaries, listening to Democrats tell me I must now support Hilary Clinton or Joe Biden. The problem was, as I saw it, these two Democrats were nothing more than Neocons, who literally voted for George W. Bush's war in Iraq. To this date, I'm still convinced Bush created more death and destruction in the world than Trump ever did, as badly as Trump's presidency is going. I've never agreed with the "Blue No Matter Who" nonsense that some Democrats proudly chanted in 2016 and 2020. Blue No Matter Whoism is in the same vein as the ride-or-die Trumpists. They are the unthinkers. The loyalists. The ones who fawn over their First Lady while denigrating the other's.
Maybe you remember all the noise that the Democratic base made about the Jeffrey Epstein files in 2016. Nope. You don't. Because, for the most part, they didn't make any noise. People who've followed this case understand that this looks bad for Trump, but even worse for Bill Clinton. Democrats wanted no part of that when Hillary was running for President. But now? The coast is clear, so Democrats are going after the Epstein Files full bore. And now Trump, in cartoonish fashion, has ordered the DOJ to investigate Democrat connections to Epstein.
It's no worse than the Biden FBI, which had the public ratting on neighbors and co-workers spotted at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Much less worse, in fact. But it's still awful.
Trump is using the government to go after Democrats.
And if you're a Democrat, and if you have an honest bone in your body, you know the Democrats had it coming after the way they went after, not only Trump's inner circle, but every day Trump supporters.
It's not the "Kings" at the root of the problem. Sure, they play an important role. But the real issue isn't the Kings, it's the people who can't stop acting like unthinking, loyal subjects.
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Sal Randazzo
Neighbor
11-18-2025 8:46am
Tran, read the book or watch the move Animal Farm. It's the answer to everything. Leaders eventually turn into the people (pigs) who's injustice they saught to remove. Said differently, leaders become the same as the rulers they hated. It's a sad but predictable cycle.
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Daniel Kowalczyk
Neighbor
11-18-2025 3:47pm
It's hard to ignore someone who is fine with electing a three time adulterer with 34 fraud convictions who paid a **** star for ***. But when you rationalize his plans for taking over the government as some kind of nefarious plot, and the people investigating it as complicit and evil, that's some serious rationalization. Then he orders the Congressmen he owns to stop any immigration overhaul in order to ensure he has an election policy to campaign on and deport law abiding immigrants to foreign prisons. Lost any respect I may have had. Now just stand by and watch as he trashes the economy with his kingly tariff policies that should stay with Congress, and he rips health care away from millions while gilding the White House with trashy gold and raking in billions in untraceable crypto currency. Well done!
11-18-2025 3:56pm
And you voted for Biden - who you knew wasn't up for it.
Who didn't run his own White House. Who was incapable of understanding his decisions. And you were willing to do it again.
And then you voted for Harris. Who ran once, and wasn't even a contender. Who ascended without a primary. Who sounds like she should be hosting daytime TV, not running for office.
Here's the difference.
I always knew my support was iffy. And while there are certain things he does that I'll support, I don't support him, other than defending outrageous attacks.
And you will still support whoever they throw in front of you.
No matter what.
Am i right?
PMF
Neighbor
11-20-2025 11:15am
Big difference in voting for 2020 Biden versus 2024 Biden.
Luckily, Democrats weren't faced with the dilemma of voting for him again. In that respect, the Democrats made a responsible choice. How they got KH on the ballot is sketchy at best. It's tough when your choice is a candidate forced onto the ballot and a **** grabbing insurrection enabling felon. We are indeed shackled by the two party system.
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties...This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
-- John Adams, letter to Jonathan Jackson, October 2, 1780
11-20-2025 1:20pm
RIght.
They would have voted for Biden and we all know it.
And they voted for Harris, who only got votes because she was a Democrat. We all saw her catastrophic performance in 2020.
PMF
Neighbor
11-20-2025 3:19pm
There’s a big difference between who people voted for and the way so many continue to rationalize and defend everything the current administration does. A good example is accepting the gift of a 747 from a foreign, sometimes hostile, government. Another is printing billions of dollars through crypto schemes. Or federalizing a state’s National Guard and deploying them as federal troops within our own borders. It’s incredible to watch how his base justifies every one of these actions without hesitation. What happened to “drain the swamp”? All he’s done is optimized the swamp.
What’s concerning isn’t simply who supported him at the ballot box; it’s the inability among many of his supporters to look at something and say, “that was a mistake,” the way you just did. The only real answer I can see is something like what Elon suggested: introducing a completely new party into Congress to shift the balance toward something more reasonable and rational, instead of the party-over-country dynamic we’re stuck in now.
11-18-2025 3:51pm
I've read a lot of Orwell books and essays over the years.
Sam Henry
Neighbor
11-19-2025 6:03pm
I really miss having an actual newspaper in Saline. This opinion piece is just sad.
Les Pressel
Neighbor
11-26-2025 5:07pm
If you want real journalism look at the sun times
Les Pressel
Neighbor
11-26-2025 5:15pm
Is there a conspiracy that he doesn’t believe in? It appears not. The inconsistent logic and ignorance of this drivel is amazing. I will show this to my kids to encourage them to not drop out of college and end up like him.
