As America prepares for the No Kings Rally — a celebration of democratic resistance and constitutional humility — it’s worth asking: what kind of kingdom are we resisting?
Recent headlines suggest we’re not just dealing with a president. We’re dealing with a monarch-in-waiting, armed not with a crown, but with a blacklist.
He’s already renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War — now he’s eyeing the Department of Justice for a makeover: the Department of Vengeance.
Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to punish his political enemies. He’s called himself “your retribution”. He’s floated criminal referrals for Letitia James, who dared to hold him accountable for civil fraud. He’s targeted James Comey and John Bolton, not for crimes, but for defiance. And he’s done it all while testing the waters of public appetite for vengeance — a campaign strategy that doubles as a loyalty test.
This isn’t justice. It’s grievance cosplay.
The so-called Department of Vengeance isn’t a real agency, but it might as well be. Trump’s allies have proposed purges of federal institutions, loyalty oaths for civil servants, and even a new “Department of Government Efficiency” — a euphemism for gutting agencies that don’t kiss the ring.
Let’s be clear: this is not about restoring order. It’s about rewriting the rules so that dissent becomes disloyalty, and accountability becomes treason.
And yet, the system resists. Grand juries refuse to indict political targets. Judges push back. Juries — those pesky peers — still ask for evidence, not vendettas. The machinery of democracy may be creaky, but it hasn’t collapsed. Journalists, too, are standing up. They walked out of the Pentagon after they refused to sign agreements that they would only write approved stories.
So, as we gather for the No Kings Rally, let’s remember: the crown isn’t just a metaphor. It’s a warning. When a leader builds a Department of Vengeance, he’s not just settling scores. He’s auditioning for tyranny. Trump is a wannabe Fascist, but like John Bolton once said, “To be a fascist, you have to have a philosophy. Trump’s not capable of that. You know, Adolf Hitler wrote a profoundly troubling book called Mein Kampf — My Struggle. Donald Trump couldn’t even read his way all the way through that book, let alone write something like it.”
Nonetheless, Dumb Donnie wants his revenge fantasies. We just want to keep our republic. Join the rally and help us.
Peace & Love, and all of the above,
Earl
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Remember the entire 8 years of President Obama’s and Biden’s administration, republicans baselessly whined about the politicization of the Justice department?
Now they’ve done nothing but jump in and wallow in the lawless muck that is this administration.
Trump is a pathological liar. The things he complains about are the things he wants to do. Now that he’s sinking into Dementia and surrounded by sycophants telling him that he’s great and popular, he’s even worse. They’re trying to wear us out, but we’ve got to hold out for the mid-term elections and swing the balance of power away from him and impeach him. The third time is the charm.
I’ll be honest, I’m finding news updates from the US more akin to a dystopian novel, or the goings on of an African dictatorship.
Trump is an embarrassment and causing a lot of pain around the world. We just have to take over Congress in the mid-terms and impeach him and his ilk one by one.
I like the sound of that 🙂