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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/10/18/no-kings-nonsense-lee-harvey-   
   oswald-and-the-destruction-of-the-democratic-party-n4945001   
      
   Back in 2019, there was a Tampa restaurant called The New England Ale   
   House. John Taffer, the top muckety muck on the TV show Bar Rescue, took   
   over the place and renamed it “Das Brauhaus” — a German-themed restaurant.   
      
   Since it was just a few miles from my home in Tampa Bay, we checked it   
   out. (Spoiler alert: It sucked. Das Brauhaus closed shortly thereafter.) I   
   asked one of the waitresses why they went with a German theme when there’s   
   no obvious German connection in the area. (Huge Greek population, though.   
   The neighboring city, Tarpon Springs, has the highest percentage of Greek   
   Americans in the whole country.)   
      
   “Taffer told us people wouldn’t wanna go to a place called the New England   
   Ale House,” she replied, “because they’re mad at the Patriots for winning   
   all the time. So we went with Germany, since there’s nothing in their   
   history that’ll offend anyone.”   
      
   Yeah.   
      
   Look, when you begin pulling at the threads of a poorly-constructed   
   ideology, it unravels pretty quickly, because it was never securely held   
   together in the first place.   
      
   Stupid, contradictory ideas fall into that category.   
      
   Speaking of which: Today’s the day of the “No Kings” protests — where   
   millions of liberals are expected to take to the streets across all 50   
   states — protesting against “King” Donald Trump, who’s ruling like a   
   tyrant and destroying the planet… when he’s not, y’know, bringing peace to   
   the Holy Land and presiding over a government shutdown that was triggered   
   by the minority party.   
      
   Yeah.   
      
   But before we delve into the risks and PR dangers of today’s “No Kings”   
   protests, one last bar analogy: A common theme on Bar Rescue is the   
   “curse” of bad regulars. A bar is in the red, but still has half-a-dozen   
   regulars who’ll show up every day and spend money. And that’s good. But   
   the trouble is, they act like unpleasant, unlikeable jackasses, chasing   
   away all the other customers.   
      
   They’re rude and nasty, with an insatiable sense of entitlement. (Remind   
   you of anyone?)   
      
   Eventually, the bar owner has to decide: Do I stick with my regulars and   
   accept that I’ll never grow my business beyond a certain size? Or do I   
   kick ‘em out — knowing it’ll hurt my cashflow in the short term — but   
   since I wasn’t making enough money with ‘em, what do I have to lose?   
      
   That’s the predicament facing the Democratic Party: Their “regulars” want   
   to be Democratic Socialists. They’re demanding to be the party of Zohran   
   Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie Sanders. They’re calling for more anger, more   
   disruptions, more socialism, and more radical change.   
      
   In their minds, the reason why the Democrats lost in November was because   
   they weren’t liberal enough!   
      
   And it’s their party now. As Politico pointed out, they now have a   
   majority:   
      
   Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians   
   described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33   
   percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen   
   percent didn’t choose.   
      
   That’s a 20-point advantage for the Sanders, AOC, and Mamdani wing.   
      
   If you wanna know how ridiculously far left these people are, they view   
   Nancy freaking Pelosi — the quintessential Frisco liberal — as   
   representative of the Democratic Party’s MODERATE wing! That’s because   
   these young activists want real, actual socialism; none of that corporate   
   “triangulation” bull[spit]. And these are the exact same people who’ll   
   take to the streets on “No Kings” day!   
      
   Trouble is, that’s not what the American people want:   
      
   Though Democratic voters are warming to socialism, the ideology is toxic   
   to most Republicans and many independents, making it difficult for   
   socialists to win in battlegrounds. Even within the Democratic Party, some   
   voters are skeptical about the electability of democratic socialists in   
   swing areas, a reality Sanders faced during his two unsuccessful   
   presidential runs.   
      
   […]   
      
   Though Democratic voters reported viewing elected officials who describe   
   themselves as Democrats or democratic socialists roughly equally,   
   independent and Republican voters saw the socialists far more negatively.   
      
   […]   
      
   The results help explain why socialists and progressives have found   
   success in blue seats and cities — underscored by Mamdani’s victory in New   
   York City’s Democratic mayoral primary in June — but have struggled to   
   appeal to swing voters in battleground areas.   
      
   This is why so much is riding on today’s “No Kings” rallies: Either the   
   protests will be peaceful, patriotic, and inspiring — offering the ideal   
   optics to advance the Democratic Party’s core argument, i.e. Trump is a   
   dictator, all decent people hate him, America is about to be destroyed —   
   or it’ll be yet another high-visibility example of violent, angry liberals   
   doing violent, angry things.   
      
   If it’s the former, Chuck Schumer will have a strengthened hand in the   
   government shutdown negotiations. He was reluctant to act before “No   
   Kings” day, because otherwise, the AOC-loving base of his party would’ve   
   eviscerated him for compromising with “literally Hitler.” So if the   
   lasting visuals of the protests are patriotic young Americans, marching   
   peacefully and confidently, Schumer will have extra ammo at the   
   negotiating table, because the wind will be at his back.   
      
   (As opposed to being blown backwards by Sanders/Mamdani/AOC’s hot air.)   
      
   The end result will be a MUCH longer government shutdown. It’ll go on and   
   on and on…   
      
   But if it’s the latter, the Democrats are screwed, tattooed, and   
   barbequed, because JD Vance executed a helluva PR trap this week: He   
   tricked the liberal media into turning the Virginia attorney general’s   
   race into a national story.   
      
   If you closely follow politics, you were already aware that the Democratic   
   nominee for attorney general in Virginia, Jay Jones, was caught   
   fantasizing about murdering his political opponents — along with their   
   children.   
      
   But that’s not what the national media wanted to talk about: They were   
   focused on a dozen no-name Young Republican kids who used NSFW language   
   and offensive jokes in a private text. From the media’s perspective, it   
   was the perfect vehicle for branding the GOP as racists, misogynists, and   
   homophobic monsters (because of Trump, you know).   
      
   Unfortunately, that’s not a story with legs: None of the YRs were famous   
   enough for anyone to care.   
      
   So JD Vance jumped into the fray on a podcast — instantly spiking the   
   coverage. The media was so excited: Not only were they about to brand the   
   GOP as racists, but now they could implicate the #2 man in MAGAland!   
      
   That’s when Vance delivered the ol’ PR boomerang with a pair of X posts:   
      
      
      
      
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