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Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

October 18th<\/sup> ,2025<\/i><\/p>\n

I was watching a clearly rattled Trump tell a Faux News reporter, \u201cNo, really, I\u2019m not a king. Not a king.\u201d He somehow failed to be very convincing.<\/p>\n

The \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest is under way, with possibly ten million people turning up in at least 2,600 locations to protest the Trump regime. There are another 100 locations in Canada and across Europe. The people are rising, and the Trump regime is fearing them.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a saying in America: \u201cThe government should fear the people. The people should never fear the government.\u201d Millions of people across the country have remembered that lesson.<\/p>\n

The final pre-demonstration note of the regime\u2019s efforts to frighten, anger, gaslight and lie to us came yesterday when Trump commuted the sentence of the repulsive and disgusting George Santos, who emerged blinking into the sunlight this morning. Trump wanted liberals to erupt in fury, but he\u2019s been to that well so many times that liberals didn\u2019t take the bait. We already knew that Trump was a vicious, amoral, senile piece of shit, and nobody excepts him to be any better than he ought to have been.<\/p>\n

He wanted anger and loss of control from the demonstrators. What he got was weary disgust, loathing, and contempt.<\/p>\n

For the rest of the GOP, things are just as bad. The leaked emails from the Young Republicans, thousands of lies, smears, hate and self-pity, merely cemented the public perception that the GOP had not only lost its way, but was completely in thrall to the worst humanity has to offer. These aren\u2019t young Ayn Rand idealists: these are the sorts of people who shot Jews in the back of the head and kicked their still twitching bodies into corpse-filled ditches. JD Vance did himself no favors with his avuncular chuckle and a \u201cboys will be boys\u201d defense; it just shows what an utterly empty and amoral vacuum this slick little opportunist really is.<\/p>\n

ICE may have begun its campaign of terror aimed at undocumented workers, but as it became more and more obvious that the effort to frighten and cow was aimed at everyone in America, the campaign has backfired. People saw the images of politicians and judges being arrested and roughed up, innocent bystanders trussed and thrown to the ground like sacks of potatoes, and naked, bound children being herded into Uhauls to be taken who-knows-where, and recoiled in disgust. These pitiful, masked, vicious little Nazi cowards, some of them the desecrators of Congress on January 6th<\/sup>, were the antithesis of everything America stood for.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a brilliant meme circulating on the web that anyone who believes the ICE propaganda should read.<\/p>\n

It goes, \u201c If you’re using undocumented people’s tax records to find them and kidnap them, then it was never about them not paying taxes.<\/i><\/p>\n

If you’re showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.<\/i><\/p>\n

If you’re showing up at courthouses, it was never about getting them to do it the right way. If you’re kidnapping women and children, it was never about criminals.<\/i><\/p>\n

If you’re not giving them due process, it was never about the Constitution. And if you’re spending billions of dollars to do it, it was never about the economy.<\/i><\/p>\n

And if you’re doing all of this in the name of a 34-time convicted felon, then it was never about following the law.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

History has tales of such police state bullies, be it Hitler\u2019s Schutzstaffel or Stalin\u2019s People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (better known as the NKVD), or East Germany\u2019s Ministry for State Security (aka Stasi). All eventually fell, and the members spent the rest of their lives hiding their gruesome past, living in constant fear of exposure, knowing friends and neighbors would spit on them, and children disown them, should details of their past emerge.<\/p>\n

That is what the future holds for the strutting cowardly bullies in ICE. They will suffer for what they are doing now.<\/p>\n

Decent people are repulsed by the scapegoating and cruelty of the Trump regime against immigrants, gays, and trans. Knowledgeable people know this is just the start, and they will come for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

The Lord Ha-Has of the right wing media, oblivious to what eventually became of Lord Ha-Ha, continue to pump the party line that the \u201cNo Kings\u201d rallies are \u201cHate America\u201d riots, and that the demonstrators are all paid to be there, and that protest has become an industry. Let\u2019s see: ten million demonstrators at $500 a head would be five billion dollars. About the only people who could afford that would be the over-entitled dirtbags who inflicted Trump upon us in the first place. Doesn\u2019t seem likely, does it? Let\u2019s face it: they aren\u2019t about to return anything to the people who made their obscene wealth possible in the first place.<\/p>\n

The shutdown was supposed to be the GOP\u2019s final consolidation of power. The idea was they could use the shutdown to avoid any accountability to Congress, blame Democrats for the shut down, and use it as an excuse to further dismantle the United States. At the very least, it would be enough to keep their own followers in line, and they saw no need to give a fuck what any non-Republican thought.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s disintegrating as the shutdown approaches its third week. They tried claiming that Democrats simply preferred to \u201cwaste a trillion dollars in tax money.\u201d And of course the usual dim-wits tried claiming that if the government shut down, nobody would miss it.<\/p>\n

Of course, tens of millions of people are already missing the thousands of services and programs, big and small, that have been halted by the shutdown.<\/p>\n

And an unlikely ally has shown up: Health insurance providers. In thirteen states this week, they projected the increases in premiums people would face if the effort to dismantle Obamacare hidden in Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d wasn\u2019t rescinded\u2014the main point the Democrats are fighting the budget update on. For the luckiest people, the new rates are horrifying. For most, they will be devastating, and may, for thousands, be a death sentence.<\/p>\n

According to Health System Tracker<\/a>, \u201cEnhanced premium tax credits that make coverage more affordable will expire at the end of 2025, driving up out-of-pocket premium payments by over 75% on average. This is expected to cause healthier enrollees to drop their coverage and create a sicker risk pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

In some cases, out-of-pocket premium costs could quadruple. For some people, this seems a poor trade-off for richer, happier billionaires. The people who made who made Trump, the senile pederast, possible.<\/p>\n

Family matters meant I had to stay home this morning. But it didn\u2019t stop me from making my own voice heard through this piece, and to show my solidarity with the protesters.<\/p>\n

As they say in Portland, \u201cRibbit!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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