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These Orwellian United States

No Kings rallies will be held in cities throughout the United States this Saturday. We’ve had enough already. I look forward to seeing you there.

By Teri Carter, Oct 14, 2025

At a high-profile, televised funeral last month, the President of the United States stood on a stage and said, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them… maybe they can convince me that that’s not right but I can’t stand my opponent,” and the funeral attendees responded with what sounded like laughter.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson — whom it appears would rather shut down the entire federal government than risk a vote, led by Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, to release the Epstein files — has amped up his rhetoric in recent days saying, “They have a ‘Hate America’ rally that’s scheduled for Oct. 18 on the National Mall. It’s all the pro-Hamas wing and the, you know, the Antifa people, they’re all coming out.” Joining the Speaker, Rep. Steve Scalise and Rep. Tom Emmer also called the upcoming No Kings rally, which will be held in cities around the country, a ‘Hate America’ event.

The “they” Speaker Johnson refers to are not just Democrats, but anyone who opposes the president.

It’s been a long ten years since Donald J. Trump came down the escalator, 24/7 tweets from political figures became official government statements, and both our news feeds and social media feeds were transformed into daily, disturbing dumpster fires of resentment and rage.

Prior to 2015, we had mostly normal news at news outlets, facts were not ‘alternative’, and a tweeting president would have been a joke. Social media was mostly for keeping up with far-flung friends and family.

Man, those were the days.

Before Mr. Trump first became president in 2016, we did not have incessant talk of Red States vs. Blue States; politicians did not openly call the free press “enemy of the people”; political protests would have never been called ‘Hate America’ rallies by the House Speaker; we could not have imagined the deployment of masked, secret police thugs in our streets as if we were a third world country; we would have been aghast to see political appointees like Attorney General Pam Bondi speak so flippantly and condescendingly to our senators — OUR elected representatives — in an oversight hearing; we could not have imagined a president, cheered on by his party, giddily telling us how hateful he is while speaking at a funeral.

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