No Kings?

 I got a kick out of watching some coverage of the "No Kings" rally that took place over the weekend.  I'm an independent voter who leans right.  What I don't understand is the rage and hatred for our current president.  When he was first running for office, I wondered if he was serious because I knew he was rich but I didn't know much else about him.  I tend to vote for policy over personality.  I agree that at times, Trump is brash and unfiltered, but the way he is treated by the mainstream press and others, I almost can't blame him for lashing out at times.  The press pushed so many lies such as the Russian collusion hoax and others.  The democrats who hate "election deniers" don't seem to mind if people deny the 2024 election.  The hypocrisy is amazing.

Trump was tried and convicted of 34 felonies in NY.  I asked someone was who gleeful about this and they could not specify what the felonies were.  As I understand it, an accountant who worked for Trump received an invoice from a lawyer and recorded the transaction as a "legal fee".  Somehow, the prosecutor with the help of a selected and liberal judge somehow turned a misdemeanor which was past the statute of limitations into 34 felonies.  Now the press and other politicians gleefully say the president is a felon.  I believe this case will be overturned but the purpose of bringing the charges didn't succeed since Trump for elected anyway.  

But this no kings issues is funny.  Trump was duly elected by the American people, in a decisive manner.  If you want to talk about democracy, the democrats haven't held a real primary election in many years.  Biden and Harris were not elected in primaries.  They were appointed.  They even tried to remove Trump from the ballot in several states.  How is that for democracy?   Some of the people who advocate for democracy don't even know what it means, just like those who claim that Trump is a King.

If Trump was "Hitler" or a "Nazi" as they claim, do you really believe that you can go on TV in front of a camera and criticize Trump and be alive the next day?  Or the governor of Illinois saying "when the democrats get back in power", they will prosecute ICE agents (prosecute Federal workers for doing their job?).  If Pritzker believed (truly) that Trump was Hitler, there would be no "democrats getting back in power".  He said the lies out loud.

I sometimes wonder if these protests are even organic.  It seems like many protesters were paid, as evidenced by large groups of people leaving the protests at a certain time, meaning their "shift was over".  I could be wrong, but if I am, don't these people have better things to do?  

If so many people wanted to protest "No Kings". why didn't they do it during covid when we were told to stay home (which didn't slow down covid), or to stay 6 feet apart (which didn't slow down covid) or to avoid gatherings (which didn't slow down covid), or to get vaccinated (which didn't slow down covid) and in the meantime, the Kings like Gavin Newsom is not wearing a mask and eating in a fancy restaurant during the beginning of Covid and Nancy Pelosi who wasn't afraid of sneaking around to get her hair done.  In Hawaii, we were not allowed to sit on benches outdoors at the beach.  The covid police would come and chase people away even though being outdoors was likely the best way to avoid covid.   I was accosted by a police officer because I walked into the road briefly to avoid a group of 5 joggers on the sidewalk.  Once they passed, I went back on the sidewalk, and the officer told me I wasn't supposed to go on the road.  I said I wasn't supposed to be within 6 feet of the joggers also.  He took down my name and gave me a warning and said I could be subject to a fine if I did this again.  

My point?  Nothing Trump has done resembles a king but what many governors did during covid looks like they were the leader of North Korea or some other authoritarian regime.