• Re: CNN Guest Mocks "No Kings" Mob: "They're Actually Protesting Americ

    From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Nov 26 03:19:04 2025
    Subject: Re: CNN Guest Mocks "No Kings" Mob: "They're Actually Protesting American Democracy"

    On Oct 22, 2025 at 1:27:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 10/22/2025 1:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Oct 22, 2025 at 1:30:44 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote: >>
    nanoflower@gmail.com wrote:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    News Nation host Batya Ungar-Sargon mocked the weekend's wave of "No >>>>>> Kings"
    protests, saying that what the people in the streets were actually >>>>>> protesting

    was not a king at all, but "American democracy" in practice.

    Ungar-Sargon shared a clip of her appearance along with the caption >>>>>> referring

    to the mass protests -- promoted and even joined by a number of elected
    Democrats -- as "a mass therapy session" and arguing that President Donald
    Trump was simply doing what he'd been elected to do.

    I actually said pretty much this same thing to one of the unhinged leftists
    who was trying to keep my from talking to my state assemblyman at the >>>>> Torrance
    "no kings" hippie party.

    She was chanting, "This is what democracy looks like!" over and over >>>>> again to
    drown me out. When she finally stopped and stared smugly at me, I asked her,
    "So you think keeping a citizen from discussing issues with his elected >>>>> representative is what democracy looks like?" The smug smile slipped a >>>>> little.

    "Democracy actually looks like people lining up at a polling place and >>>>> casting
    their ballots, not standing on a street corner whining when their guy >>>>> loses."
    Her face flushed with rage and she stuck her middle finger in my face and
    screamed "Fuck you, fascist!" before storming away.

    So that's what it's like to deal with a typical modern 'progressive'. >>>>
    The same can be said for the number of videos I saw today of the Trump >>>> supporter. Bad actors exist on both sides and pretending that your
    side only consists of angels is a lie.

    Whataboutism noted.

    Does anyone else remember leftists wishing Obama were a King?

    Absolutely. I said it during the first "No Kings" hippie rally-- leftists >> very
    much *do* want a king. Just one that's down with their agenda.

    https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/08/opinion/obeidallah-liberals-obama

    Although I'm not the Liberal you repeatedly insist I am (who *could*
    be?), I don't personally recall any longing to coronate Obama. More to
    the point, it's clear that, unlike Trump, Obama would turn it down...

    No kings!

    But I want the government to control healthcare, education, and
    transportation. Give me government grocery stores, give me universal basic income. Tell me what I am and am not allowed to say. Confiscate all the guns. Tell me as an individual I cannot own private property, control all the means of production, dictate how much money/profit I'm allowed to make from my own business, regulate every aspect of the economy, and then if I don't like it
    and go along with it, I'll get thrown in prison.

    I would take a king. I would take medieval, arbitrary, on-a-whim beheadings in the town square if I'm mostly left alone and do not have to live in a collectivist bureaucratic nightmare mommy-state voted into existence by ignorant, resentful, entitled 20-somethings, where I'm literally forced at gunpoint to pretend to be an enthusiastic participant in their communist group project.

    You don't get to take my money and property so you can use it to abort your children and give whatever remains to foreigners who broke into the country.

    Fuck you. Mine! You can't have it. You can't take it. I got it fair and square and if you try to take it, I'll throat-punch you a bunch of times.



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Wed Nov 26 07:30:47 2025
    Subject: Re: CNN Guest Mocks "No Kings" Mob: "They're Actually Protesting American Democracy"

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    . . .

    But I want the government to control healthcare, education, and >transportation.

    Transportation? You're going to have to explain your philosophy. At the
    very least, the right to travel in the public way is common law, and
    that right should be protected by government.

    Give me government grocery stores, give me universal basic
    income. Tell me what I am and am not allowed to say. Confiscate all the guns. >Tell me as an individual I cannot own private property, control all the means >of production, dictate how much money/profit I'm allowed to make from my own >business, regulate every aspect of the economy, and then if I don't like it >and go along with it, I'll get thrown in prison.

    I would take a king. I would take medieval, arbitrary, on-a-whim beheadings in >the town square if I'm mostly left alone and do not have to live in a >collectivist bureaucratic nightmare mommy-state voted into existence by >ignorant, resentful, entitled 20-somethings, where I'm literally forced at >gunpoint to pretend to be an enthusiastic participant in their communist group >project.

    You don't get to take my money and property so you can use it to abort your >children and give whatever remains to foreigners who broke into the country.

    Fuck you. Mine! You can't have it. You can't take it. I got it fair and square >and if you try to take it, I'll throat-punch you a bunch of times.

    Elliot Ness is gonna win that argument.

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Nov 26 14:08:47 2025
    Subject: Re: CNN Guest Mocks "No Kings" Mob: "They're Actually Protesting American Democracy"

    On 11/25/2025 10:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Oct 22, 2025 at 1:27:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 10/22/2025 1:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Oct 22, 2025 at 1:30:44 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    nanoflower@gmail.com wrote:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    News Nation host Batya Ungar-Sargon mocked the weekend's wave of "No
    Kings"
    protests, saying that what the people in the streets were actually >>>>>>> protesting

    was not a king at all, but "American democracy" in practice. >>>>>>>
    Ungar-Sargon shared a clip of her appearance along with the caption >>>>>>> referring

    to the mass protests -- promoted and even joined by a number of elected
    Democrats -- as "a mass therapy session" and arguing that President Donald
    Trump was simply doing what he'd been elected to do.

    I actually said pretty much this same thing to one of the unhinged leftists
    who was trying to keep my from talking to my state assemblyman at the >>>>>> Torrance
    "no kings" hippie party.

    She was chanting, "This is what democracy looks like!" over and over >>>>>> again to
    drown me out. When she finally stopped and stared smugly at me, I asked her,
    "So you think keeping a citizen from discussing issues with his elected
    representative is what democracy looks like?" The smug smile slipped a >>>>>> little.

    "Democracy actually looks like people lining up at a polling place and >>>>>> casting
    their ballots, not standing on a street corner whining when their guy >>>>>> loses."
    Her face flushed with rage and she stuck her middle finger in my face and
    screamed "Fuck you, fascist!" before storming away.

    So that's what it's like to deal with a typical modern 'progressive'. >>>>>
    The same can be said for the number of videos I saw today of the Trump >>>>> supporter. Bad actors exist on both sides and pretending that your >>>>> side only consists of angels is a lie.

    Whataboutism noted.

    Does anyone else remember leftists wishing Obama were a King?

    Absolutely. I said it during the first "No Kings" hippie rally-- leftists >>> very
    much *do* want a king. Just one that's down with their agenda.

    https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/08/opinion/obeidallah-liberals-obama

    Although I'm not the Liberal you repeatedly insist I am (who *could*
    be?), I don't personally recall any longing to coronate Obama. More to
    the point, it's clear that, unlike Trump, Obama would turn it down...

    No kings!

    But I want the government to control healthcare, education, and transportation. Give me government grocery stores, give me universal basic income. Tell me what I am and am not allowed to say. Confiscate all the guns. Tell me as an individual I cannot own private property, control all the means of production, dictate how much money/profit I'm allowed to make from my own business, regulate every aspect of the economy, and then if I don't like it and go along with it, I'll get thrown in prison.

    I would take a king. I would take medieval, arbitrary, on-a-whim beheadings in
    the town square if I'm mostly left alone and do not have to live in a collectivist bureaucratic nightmare mommy-state voted into existence by ignorant, resentful, entitled 20-somethings, where I'm literally forced at gunpoint to pretend to be an enthusiastic participant in their communist group
    project.

    You don't get to take my money and property so you can use it to abort your children and give whatever remains to foreigners who broke into the country.

    Fuck you. Mine! You can't have it. You can't take it. I got it fair and square
    and if you try to take it, I'll throat-punch you a bunch of times.

    Presumably, your signature on the Social Contract is forged. Even so, I question your idyllic portrait of life under Vlad the Impaler...



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