No Kings Protests: Ignoring the Economic Elephant in the Room!

 

Years ago, I used to protest, it seemed the right thing to do. I protested Bush's wars during the 2000s, and during Trump's first term. There's no regrets for this, back in those days while there were local anti-war groups, it wasn't a "national" from the top thing. We didn't have a Soros group offering "themes" and telling us what to write on our protest signs. We didn't have people running around in blue vests to direct things or writing rules about what to talk about or not talk about.

My observation of the Oct 18th protest was two days ago. My husband is still a Democrat remember. He went to go protest, I sat in the car. Some may find this odd--"Peep hates the Democratic party!" My husband has the right to his politics. I do try to convince him of the realities of the world system, but he still thinks they are the best bet. 

I did tell him, maybe I'll do my own protest, and write signs about food costs, inflation, Palantir, and add a sign that says "No to Digital ID" but he didn't think that would be well-received. Us independents confuse a lot of people, it's not easy when you are outside of the two-party system. Sadly, most of America doesn't know that the UK has been protesting Digital ID all week, and as I wrote last week they are planning to bring Digital ID here, with carbon credits. This includes both parties. If there had been anti-Digital ID protesters, I wanted to talk to them but there wasn't. 

We were on the way to the library and run other errands anyway. In my small town, there was around 2,000 people. It was disappointing, there wasn't one sign dealing with the economy, there wasn't one anti-war sign in the mix. It was mostly the usual "no kings", a rather meaningless saying to me. Trump got elected. We may not like him but there was an election. Is he a king? Some of our Congressmen and women have been in for 40 years plus, they may border on king/queen-ships with their long reigns. 

There were a few things I agreed with, immunity rulings for Trumps bug me. One sign made me laugh, "He's on the list!" [I agree that's very possible] "No more AIPAC!" Yes, I agree with that definitely, too many politicians are bought off by them. "Make America Follow the Constitution Again!" --that's great to me! 

The  "no king" signs were kind of boring. One guy did have a good sign against billionaires, he was too far away for me to talk to. Maybe he was a freethinker mixed in with everyone else, but for the rest, it was just the usual pro-Ukraine, pro-trans, and empty sayings like No Kings. Some protested ICE, but then while I am against ICE's tactics, of rounding up citizens, LEGAL immigrants and other human right abuses, I don't support illegal immigration like most liberals. Why don't they care that all the jobs and housing disappeared for American citizens? There was only one counter-protester in the mix, standing up for Trump.

Maybe things are different in other cities, maybe some are protesting the economy and war, I hope so, I'm just reporting what I see here where I am. X is claiming that the protests were Boomer dominated. Many conservatives are making fun of it being an all elderly gathering, and that some nursing homes provided paid protesters. Our protest here was full of white-and grey-haired people, older people over 65 definitely dominated the crowd. I saw some members of Gen Z, I wondered if some came with their older parents or grandparents, almost no Gen X and lots and lots of boomers. 

Years ago I used to love creative protest signs but the repetitive "no kings" got on my nerves. We used to come up with our own themes, and what to focus on, like war with Syria, Medicare, etc. Sure there was some popular sayings during all these protests, like "I love my country but fear my government" and stuff like this but there was so much repetition. It was kind of dull. 

Protesting is just not the same! All the grass-roots efforts got commodified. It seems like every group that rises up, always get bought out somehow. The networks behind No Kings are a bit dubious.

Did my past protesting accomplish anything? The war stuff really mattered.  I ask that about even writing about things here. More people did figure out the narcissists and escaped them from people writing like me and I benefited from others who did so. The world situation, I'm not sure. If we are in the last days, am I shouting against the inevitable? Those are the thoughts that crowd my mind. There haven't been many victories for the common man, all the wars and financial oppression just got worse. 

My town has turned uber-liberal. It's a resort town and the rich liberals from a big city who like to vacation here have come pouring in. It's changed. It used to be a very Republican place, maybe not anymore. It is very boomer dominant here. The complaints about the protests being all boomers was true here. Maybe it wasn't in your town, but it was in mine. At this protest, almost 80 percent of the crowd were over 65 years of age with random Gen Z people mixed in. There were random millennials and Gen X sprinkled in here and there like this liberal pastor wearing a rainbow sash with a bible verse protesting Trump's treatment of immigrants. 

Many people close to me support "No Kings" and the protests against Trump. it's hard explaining why I don't take part anymore. Some are in shock that I have dropped out. I protested Trump during his first term, but now I say "Meh", the Democrats are just as bad.  Some may not understand but some of us see both parties as two wings of the same poisonous bird. The only things I even support on the left side of things are welfare, unions, and a few matters like that, and those are kind of low priorities to today's Democratic party. 

As everyone knows here, I left the left or the left left me. It ended my sojourn in the UU church. Some may say call it a day and go join the Trumpsters and the right wing. Maybe I have more in common with them now since my views on the second amendment and illegal immigration--well without the abuses match. Of course there's things I don't support there, Republican politicians aren't too nice to the poor and working class.

 I'm not a Christian Nationalist, I don't like the "go die in the gutter" ethos towards the poor or that they made being homeless illegal. The right wing is not ready to embrace a disabled woman dependent on Social Security. Trump does things I don't like, from signing a 70 billion dollar deal with Pfizer and sending 40 billion to Argentina. He's a bombastic show-boating narcissistic, who is more an actor, always blathering about "central casting". I don't like him as a person. He put an AI video of No Kings people being pooped on. That's just nasty. This kind of stuff is like we live in Idiocracy today. He's not for me, but something seems wrong with the whole country screaming about one guy, like Goldstein in the book 1984. People seem obsessed with the man. Maybe I was too years ago, but I broke out of it. Many of these problems started well before him, and my own household collapsed into poverty during Biden and when inflation really got running. My ire towards Pelosi, is just as bad as my ire towards Trump. All of the oligarchy are working against us. How come no one ever guesses that they may be controlling our protests too, to defuse any real energy to change things?

A lot of people are more "team oriented". It's more comfortable to have a group and fit in, instead of asking nosy questions. I'm a conspiracy theorist who was disturbed by Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals years ago, because it seemed manipulative. The Counterculture seems like it was mistake to me. Feminism just a betrayal to get women working like slaves.  The ideals of 60s brought ruination not prosperity to my own personal life. Many liberal boomers see the world in a far different fashion. Our lives were as different as night and day. I don't see the world how many boomers do, they truly believe they changed it for the better and brought in all these freedoms. I'm confronting the fact, I was more of a traditionalist then I thought, [more on that later]

Sometimes I felt like people at this protest were partying while the earth burned. I can see some people like the costumes and the spirit of fun, so maybe I am an old fuddy-duddy and sour puss. Gen X well life has been very different for us than the boomers. Not all boomers are rich, and some are good people, but in my own town, the turn out looked like Ollie Matthews said it did, a bunch of rich liberal boomers, who don't care that we can barely buy groceries or afford our bills. The ignoring of the economy got on my nerves. Maybe it's a facet of my wealthier town? I don't know. Tell me if you saw different.  Gen X is so checked out. Did they all die? Are they all working 2-3 jobs, anyhow they weren't at my local protest but very few. 

Also in our local crowd, even though we live right next to a predominantly African American community, I only saw 2 black guys, that's it. There were no Hispanics or other minorities. Some could have been in the crowd I missed.  I do think the Democratic party is less popular among their numbers, maybe because of the financial end of things. The poor and working class of all colors are just struggling way too much. 

Hey I used to enjoy my old protests in my old town, even though we protested war, we would have dinners together and this one guy would play the guitar and sing self written songs like "Never Trust the Government" He was a libertarian. We would laugh and debate. Life felt lighter then. I had uncharitable thoughts that the boomers dancing at protests just weren't understanding why young people stayed home or how we feel like our worlds were collapsing as many of theirs remain financially secure. Hey I don't want people to suffer if they are good to their kids so be it, but why are there no economic changes being discussed on the left now? Why is that gone? Why is the economic suffering IGNORED?

I felt annoyed by all the cartoon animals, and remember I'm a person crazy for cartoons and animation. People need some fun but if you are really protesting a ruthless dictator out to kill us all or something would you be partying this way? Maybe reading too much world history made me serious, all those wars, genocides, and the movie the "Day After" and wonder if the apocalypse is here. Isn't this stuff going to make people take you less serious. What do the homeless think seeing that as they limp by carrying their tent, or maybe some guy in jail who got TV privileges?

I usually like that stuff. Sometimes it seemed like people were dancing on the would-be grave of America. Some people I know get annoyed with me, when I talk about America collapsing soon. It's not a topic to be covered with most. The Uniparty always works for the oligarchs. It would be easier living my life thinking that at least some of them care. Even one I thought cared some, was all pro-Big Pharm. All the politicians are crooks. Is Newsome the guy who destroyed California going to come in and save the day? He's got actor/model looks that will help him but I don't support him either nor the rest of them like Pelosi and pals. Hillary Clinton lent her support to No Kings. Sorry but that kind of means No Kings is not a threat to the ruling class.

I saw some members of my old UU church, they remain committed to liberal causes. Many are great people. They were friendly, one guy smiled at me, they are friendly to me which I'm glad for. They probably thought I was out protesting like I used to. They know I'm married to a die-hard liberal. I have told my husband and other friends I can't be a Democrat anymore because of Covid. 

When protesters shout about authoritarianism and fascism does it matter when both parties have gone authoritarian anyway?  Where were you when they fired people for not taking an experimental medical product and locking people down and closing their businesses during Covid? Does anyone care about Constitutional freedoms or liberty anymore? I still live in fear of what the left may do to me. As much as I fear the right pushing all disabled into the gutter, with the left it could be mandates on the next pandemic go around. If they get the ability to force whatever dangerous vaccine they want on people via "Digital Ids" [an updated vax- pass] and demand carbon credits out of the poor or shut off us buying something because we ran out of carbon credits, that's a very bad outcome. Anti globalism and the left do not go together. Sometimes I just want to be left alone, I can't stand politicians in general. Stop scaring and threatening me. That's it, leave me alone. Being apolitical has been hard, I'm always walking on eggshells, hoping a liberal friend won't get mad at me for a conservative opinion or vice versa. I try to not talk about politics in real life, but other people will bring it up.

Some liberals do frighten me, because of the Covid stuff, I have good friends who are liberals too, but I fear violence in a way that is hard to describe. I spent years hiding my status, and lost former friendship groups and even left a church over this stuff. The reaction to Charlie Kirk's death no matter what really happened to him freaked me out. No one should celebrate anyone's death. Some liberals are talking Civil War, I saw this on a message board recently where they said, "We have to pledge our lives to liberty and honor", as they talked about being ready to fight the conservatives. You hear people call anyone who believes anything conservative, as being Nazis. What does that do but bring out the hate or see them just as a person they want harmed? I've been called a "hater" though Nazi hasn't been lobbed at me yet. What happens to independents if Civil War breaks out?

The right wing is far more gunned up but I hate talk like that. I've warned on here, that there's a reason for all those military guys being sent to our big cities and it's more than immigration and cleaning the crime up, some unrest is expected by the ones in charge.  They got everyone at each other's throats. I hope conservatives aren't counter-protesting, maybe it's good only one guy showed up with Trump signs at our protest. Let everyone do their thing in peace to keep the peace.

I agree with these posts. Some have said to me, "Get over it, Covid's over!" but both sides in my opinion have gone authoritarian. 

The young at least around here [Gen X on down] have checked out, there are exceptions to this of course. The young have been smashed by the economy, both on the left and the right. They can't afford homes or families, and you can see the despair many have gone into. It's really sad. I hate to say it but one reason the economy is not on the agenda of these protests is the billionaires are playing "Divide and Conquer", they'd rather we turn on each other than turn to them and ask where all the damn money is going?

Sadly, considering the financing of these protests and the scripting of their message, who is going to realize what's really going on? Trump is a lightning rod to deflect all the anger away from the ruling class. He was billed as an outsider, something I don't really agree with but this is how they sold him to MAGA. He was even sold as a medical freedom supporter along with RFK, but he signed a 70 billion dollar deal with Pfizer, so the games and lies continue. I don't see any use in screaming about one guy when the whole system is seeming to fall apart. Hey I protested Trump and made my own mistakes, though Biden turned out to be just as bad. Some of us just wish, things worked again. Politicians did their job, they looked out for Americans, they put Americans interests first instead of starting endless wars, and causing us endless pain and misery--both sides. 

One reason I cannot ally with the left, is because I see the left who praised Covid tyranny supporting globalist Digital IDs. It's scary how people aren't being told about these technocratic developments, they want it here too. Both parties part of it with Trump and ties to Palantir, and the Democratic parties love of vax passes and more. What does the left represent now when it comes to freedom, beyond "hating Trump"? This no kings thing didn't even have any real calls to actions as part of it, and the powers that be want it that way. What is the agenda? The courts are stopping some of the craziest stuff like Trump going after birth right citizens.  That's why they suppress all discussion of the economy, antiwar and other matters that are most important to the American people. Newsome and pals won't change anything, it will be business as usual. Maybe I have lost belief in politics. When everything is owned and managed by billionaires, this is what you get. I miss the old protests. 

Warning but will anyone listen?

 

Sadly will anyone listen? 

I drew a cartoon that economic destruction was coming in 2020. It's part of the Covid comic.

China has social credit scores now and the globalists here want to bring them to America. 

Say No to Digital ID

Years ago on my bible prophecy and conspiracy blog, I used to post about this kind of stuff.
I did this article on a biometric global cashless ID in 2013. It's weird so much of what I used to write about on there has happened. 

Religiously things have changed for me, more on that later. BTW this is not conspiracy. Multiple countries are lining up for Digital ID right now. 

You will be unable to work without a Digital ID in the UK

A digital ID [e-ID] passed in Switzerland

86 million bank accounts were closed in Vietnam for not signing up with a biometric Digital ID.

There's many more places than this.

They want to bring Digital ID here in the USA too.

"The plan is to inextricably link a formal, government-ID-linked profile to your internet access, ISP, and social media accounts. The goal? A centralized database of everything you read and consume online, all under the guise of solving bot activity and illegal immigration.

Who's behind it? The push traces back to entities like the ID2020 Alliance—founded by Microsoft, Accenture, and the Rockefeller Foundation—now folded into larger alliances with the same funders. This is about creating a global system of financial and social control.

The sales pitch is tailored:

• To the RIGHT: It's a tool to stop illegal immigration.

• To the LEFT: It's a shield against hate speech and a way to protect children.

The system will appear "vendor-agnostic," with different providers in different countries, but all data will be exportable in the same format to the same centralized database. This is the illusion of decentralization to mask a truly centralized control grid.

This digital ID is the key that unlocks the next phase: programmable, surveillable digital currency (both CBDCs and private versions from banks like JP Morgan). It’s the foundation for a public-private partnership that will determine your ability to participate in the digital economy and society.

The endgame? An internet where economic, social, and educational activity requires a digital ID. A world where your online presence—validated by this ID—could be tied to a gig-economy-style social credit system based on clicks and likes.

And in this "verified" world, who controls the bots? Governments and militaries openly admit to using bot farms for narrative management. The very institutions promoting this system are the ones who weaponize disinformation.

This isn't just about an ID; it's about building the infrastructure for a totalitarian panopticon, sold to us as convenience and security.

~ Camus"

Think about the global roll-out for the Covid debacle/Covid vaxx, this seems to be worldwide too. That's not a good thing. Twenty years ago, Christians like me were talking about how they wanted to install a global control system. We remember the warnings of Revelation 13 and other bible verses. I have talked about the "internet of bodies" on here multiple times, and the possible connection to vaxxes and more. 

Even if you are not religious, do you want to live being this controlled where all freedom is gone? Do you want every expenditure tracked? Do you want to live in a 15-minute city where you need to have your ID approved to go anywhere outside the boundaries, they assign you? Canada just banned walks in the woods in some areas, imagine not even being able to take a stroll anywhere without government interference? Do you want to live under a Chinese social credit system where you are blocked from employment or taking the bus if you write something non-government approved on social media, or have "too many vices" as they subtract from your score? Study up on China, it's coming here. 

Most Americans should get retroactive Fs in government class for supporting this, and other draconian measures. They must have slept through class when the class was reading 1984, Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451. Sometimes I do post on risky subjects on social media. I did on this, only a few Christian and conservative friends agreed with me. Too many of the liberal friends seem gung-ho for dystopia. That said, the politicians on the right are working to install this system as much as any liberal ones. 

You ever wonder why Trump is installing troops in multiple big cities? Makes me wonder what will happen here. Trump really seems to be into the AI thing. Remember Stargate? The right wing is for this too. Trump just told the UN, he plans to put in an AI system [most likely with the help of Palantir]

I've written about Thiel and Palantir here multiple times too and the growing control of the tech brothers.  Remember Palantir tracked Covid vaxxes nation-wide. People don't realize the implications here.

Ask yourself, why are they building multi-billion-dollar AI centers all over the place? What do you think will be used to manage all this micro-managing of everyone's life and control matrix? They plan one for my area. They already are jacking up the electric bills of many people where these centers have already been built. Hey when corporations like Blackrock and others who own the AI centers own your government too, you think anyone is going to care about keeping the bills in check?

I didn't own a smart phone until 2020, which was 10 or more years after people started getting them. Some people used to be in shock I wouldn't get one. I lived in an extremely rural town, where less people had them and had culture shock when I moved here because most had them.

 I only got one from a disability charity because I got too deaf to talk to people, don't live around anyone who knows ASL, and found ASL hard to learn,. I never wanted one. I have noticed in the last two years, I keep having to use my smart phone to "prove identities". My husband still does not own a smart phone and we can't afford one anyone. If mine dies or breaks, we probably couldn't get another one. I would have to talk to people writing back and forth, and yes, I've had to do that a few times. It does seem a Faustian deal. 

 They do plan to make your Digital ID be tied to your internet life, so there would be no more anonymous posts, if they get past internet activity, my social credit score for "conspiracy" "misinformation--I hate that word" and other activities probably would start me off with a score of -1,000. I don't care. Some speak out as they feel led. Maybe the day will come where I will have to leave the internet. If I was not disabled, I would have "dropped out" long ago. The modern world and me are not a good match.

I don't even believe in credit scores even though my present credit score is not that bad. It's just slave numbers to the megacorporation and matrix.
 

I remember all the talk of making the Covid vaxx mandatory and wondered if I would have to flee, or go into hiding, I still think about that stuff. My trust of anyone who pushed this or embraced this is gone. It separated me from an entire church. 

I have had so many friends die or get sick with worrying conditions that will shorten their lifespan, it's disturbing. The amount of human suffering and lost is indescribable and there are people who have lost even more people.  Think about how sick I am, I did not expect people to "go" before me.

 Then I go on my social media and see the brainwashed go on about getting new boosters in 2025. Some wanted to put us in concentration camps. Remember years ago when I wrote about the online guy that said I should be put in a concentration camp, he recently admitted to me later he regretted getting the shots and apologized. This is a different friend from the man who got cancer.  I didn't refriend him, but was polite and accepted his apology. Maybe he got health problems too, but who knows?  All the regretters know they are censored and the vaxx injured have gone through hell. 

Imagine a world where they could take a job or groceries away if you don't get a mandated vaxx? Maybe Covid was the practice run.

The other day Trump praised Bourla and Operation Warp Speed with double-talker RFK standing right there. He made a 70 billion dollar deal with Pfizer. Do you think the attempts to have mRNA forced on us, are over? The days could be coming where people will be refused employment, buying food, boarding a bus for refusing the latest vaccine. Vaxx passes were used in multiple places in Europe via smart phones and in liberal areas of the USA. There's one giant city in my region where the unvaxxed weren't even allowed to go eat in restaurants or go to shows. Now imagine this with a Digital ID and social credit system to keep people in check.

From a Jack Chick tract, I don't agree with everything he put out there, but is this so far-fetched now?

Add in all the puzzle pieces, the "internet of bodies", the tech dystopia, the rise of AI, the involvement of mRNA/vaxxes, the millions of jobs being done away with and the dystopia they are now building.  Go read and listen to some of Whitney Webb's podcasts and websites.

Caveat on all the above: I wondered if they were going to collapse the system, and if we were at the end of the industrial system due to peak oil.  The Great Reset may be a dismantling of the present industrial system and a neo-feudalism with people working in the fields and no more travel. They could still play the biblical "one world government" games with a new system.  Advanced technology and air conditioning for them, and the fields, pods and primitive life for you. One thing I used to warn of on conspiracy boards and I was seen as kind of a weirdo in doing it, was that a false great awakening was always possible. Where they claimed to be against evil elites, but then brought in worse. 

There are some out there who theorize that the Digital ID, Tech "Utopia" technocracy is a cover for what is really happening and they just don't have the energy or desire to pull it off. I have posted on X articles on how AI is a fraud and fake. It doesn't seem to "do" or produce anything except surveillance.

It is interesting in the Chinese video above, while they talked about the Black Mirror aspects, that they laughed and said, "This is China, things don't always work!", repeatedly. Hope that's not more propaganda, but it's possible. One thing that is not being talked about is how the USA dollar is dropping like a rock, gold is now selling like 3900 an ounce and silver is going for near 50 dollars. Most of America doesn't realize how rapidly the USA dollar is losing value.  I've had a few silver coins before but had to sell them for groceries. 

I did form the belief especially during my time in conspiracy, if you knew about it, there was other things going on or other things they were distracting you from. I still don't want a Digital ID though.