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Insurrection Anyone?
Kunstler.com ^ | 17 Oct, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 10/18/2025 5:06:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber

"Friday is a perfect day to indict Schifty!" —Svetlana Lokhova.

Tomorrow [today], Saturday, October 18, you might have heard, is this year’s culminating “No Kings” protest demo all over the land. We’ve been to a couple of these curious spectacles since springtime here in the Hudson River Valley, in the next town over. The crowd there was just about entirely made up of aging Boomers, joyfully re-living the halcyon days of the Vietnam protests. It was kind of like a street production of the old Broadway hit Hair, only with a cast of 75-year-olds. Let the sun shine in! But this rural, small-town corner of America is overwhelmingly geriatric. There is next to nothing for young people to do around here, so they flee at the earliest opportunity. The catch is: turns out that opportunity is rather scarce elsewhere, too.

For sure, many of these hippie elders have children, even grandchildren now, who are exactly those who are not thriving in the places they have fled to. Deep down, they don’t really know who to blame. Something has gone wrong in this country. But their placards said “Resist.” Resist what? We asked. Trump, of course. Trump, Trump, Trump, we go a’marchin’. He’s Stealing our democracy! Meaning: Trump is the one responsible for our country’s decades-long descent into economic failure, political animus, and social degeneracy. You had to wonder who is paying them to yell an empty slogan that Nancy Pelosi has repeated a million times. We are going to find out.

Tomorrow’s [today's] “No Kings” action is apt to be a bit livelier in the crisp fall weather, at least in the cities where the under-employed, debt-oppressed, hormonally-driven younger gen folk gravitate into organized cadres more prone to physically acting-out their discontents — groups like Antifa. The street action lately in places like Portland, Oregon, Chicago, and Los Angeles has gotten quite a bit rowdier since last spring.

Positions have hardened, largely because the Democratic Party is going extinct. As that occurs, its tactics wax more desperate, tending more towards riots and violence. A lot of the recent violence is in service to the project of rescuing illegal immigrants from deportation. Democratic Party leaders such as LA Mayor Karen Bass say the protesters are defending “the community.”

Community is a magic word in the argot of The Resistance. Community is a giant, warm, welcoming amoeba that absorbs all comers into its gelatinous folds, conferring solidarity and safety from outside threats such as the US immigration laws. Of course, the reason that the Democrats are so desperate to rescue illegal immigrants is that millions were allowed to enter the country on-purpose by “Joe Biden” in order to provide a gigantic legion of fresh voters inclined to elect Democrats, so the party won’t go extinct. Thus, expelling them, as the professors might say, is problematic.

Flooding the land with illegal immigrants for four years was a deliberate program, then. It was melded with such devices as the motor-voter process that automatically registers to vote anyone who applies for a driver’s license. All a state had to do was declare that anyone, citizen or not, is eligible for the driver’s license. . . and, cazart. . . newly-minted voters by the millions! It was so arrantly in-your-face that you have to wonder why nobody has moved to stop it.

But they didn’t. Not even the hated Trump, at least not yet. But we have reason to hope that motor-voter and the other devices for rigging elections can be disassembled before the 2026 midterms. Surely the mail-in ballot has lost its justification — if it even ever had any — now that the Covid op is bygone. How can any state justify not requiring voter ID based on proof of citizenship at registration? It’s a sign of how generally psychotic — or nefariously careless —our culture has become that there should be any question about proof of citizenship.

You might have heard the good news that the Dominion Voting Machine company was sold last month to Liberty Vote, a Missouri-based company. Dominion machines had been used in twenty-eight states, including states with the sketchiest election results: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Dominion was previously owned and based in Canada, a country lately captured by crypto-Marxists in thrall to European banking interests. The Dominion machines have long been accused of containing modems enabling connection to the Internet, and thus to hacking. Plus, they’d contained lines of Chinese software. The new owner promises major changes in the way that votes are tabulated.

Don’t be surprised if tomorrow’s [today's] “No Kings” demo descends into violence, arson, and looting. The Democratic Party needs this to happen so it can provoke the president to invoke the Insurrection Act, so they can label him “Hitler” again. It is another absolutely in-your-face move. Mr. Trump has discussed the possibility of having to invoke the act. Such a dynamic course of events will backfire badly on the desperate Democrats. More than half the country has had enough of Woke Marxist roguery. They will probably be glad to see extraordinary measures used to stop it, and to override the rogue judiciary that lets it loose on the nation.

It can’t be hard at all to discover who has been paying for this Resistance uprising that includes the “No Kings” demos. It is relatively easy to track the money trails from one bank to another, or many banks to many others, and to see which NGOs are sending all the dough. . . and then who among the operational units are receiving it. It is all going to be shut down. People will be charged and indicted, perhaps even mayors and governors. The charges will be serious. Stand by to see how all this unspools tomorrow [today].


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: amoeba; argot; gelatinous; leftism; nefarious; newlyminted; nokings

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1 posted on 10/18/2025 5:06:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

CSPAN is supposed to be covering the DC No Kings Rally if anyone wants a good laugh.


2 posted on 10/18/2025 5:06:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: little jeremiah; Carriage Hill; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; JZelle; ...

James Howard Kunstler ping


3 posted on 10/18/2025 5:07:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Mostly AWFULs (Affluent White Female Urban Leftist) in the pic with a few cuck men.... They’re nutty as a fruit cake.


4 posted on 10/18/2025 5:08:51 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: lgjhn23

I am assuming that more than a few AWFULs will bring their ANTIDA grandchildren.


5 posted on 10/18/2025 5:10:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Losers still losing protest their loss with no recourse but to keep on losing

Democratically elected PRESIDENT Trump is exercising the authority granted by the Constitution and forbidden to a king. As a conservative, he is of all things heavily interested in change. Strangely believe it, but those progressives who live for change, are trying to resist.

President Trump is prevailing mightily


6 posted on 10/18/2025 5:17:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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Yep - for all of bo’s and Bidet’s EO foisted on America, not a peep from them at all.

HATE TRUMP is all they have.


7 posted on 10/18/2025 5:24:00 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: MtnClimber

“...like a street production of the old Broadway hit...”

It’s what democrats do, over and over again. Nothing but performance art from a bunch of trained monkeys. Meanwhile, the organ grinder George Soros, sits back and laughs at the destruction.


8 posted on 10/18/2025 5:30:15 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: MtnClimber
No Kings?!
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9 posted on 10/18/2025 5:45:26 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: MtnClimber

Aging boomers. What other sort might there be besides dead ones? Dead boomers are probably not demonstrating.


10 posted on 10/18/2025 6:15:04 AM PDT by arthurus (l| covfeve |l *.-l)
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To: MtnClimber

Click on each happy person in the image.


11 posted on 10/18/2025 6:16:10 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
Click on each happy person in the image.

You got that right. Leftism/marxism is the religion of the malcontents.

12 posted on 10/18/2025 6:20:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

A lot of them get enough pension money annually to live better than most kings did, but they are still unhappy.


13 posted on 10/18/2025 6:22:32 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

“No Kings” protests...brought to you by the same Party who crowned Kamala as their Queen without a single vote.

https://x.com/LurkBat/status/1979362316471931206

Put that on a sign and drive or walk by.


14 posted on 10/18/2025 6:24:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Brian Griffin

If you think the pensions are great, check out their health bennies.


15 posted on 10/18/2025 6:24:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: MtnClimber

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16 posted on 10/18/2025 6:45:59 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: MtnClimber

Bfl


17 posted on 10/18/2025 7:10:44 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, from the crowd one easily see that the vast majority are indeed women. And the guy dressed as a clown pretty much sums up the situation..


18 posted on 10/18/2025 7:18:01 AM PDT by unread ("A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: unread

I enlarged the photo and can only see one woman who has a hint of a smile. One big angry crowd. Kind of scary. Mass insanity is always scary. I’ll stay inside today.


19 posted on 10/18/2025 7:49:19 AM PDT by Deo volente
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To: MtnClimber

Grandma & Grandpa hippies need something to do.


20 posted on 10/18/2025 7:54:57 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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