To the editor:
This “no kings” nonsense is another example of the leftist Democrats displaying their underlying pre-adolescent psychology: Whiny, pouty, angry theater kids, acting out because they did not get their way and are now going to make the adults in America pay for it.
They are manipulated mental zombies who take packaged media snippets designed to stimulate emotion not cognition, and react without thinking or analyzing how they are being manipulated and for what purpose. They just feel, not think.
After four years of Biden and attacks on our sovereign borders, censorship of media and individuals, forcing people into taking a toxic shots and bizarre ineffective behavior (lockdowns, 6-foot distancing, ineffective masking, one- way aisles in stores, etc. etc.,) billions to support foreign wars and inflation, now they are angry that they can’t get more authoritarian behavior because Trump is reversing it?
So the Democrats project and transfer the anti-democratic actions they and their minions did under Biden, onto a president who is reversing these “undemocratic” abominations, so they order their virtue signaling theater groups to the streets to act out and feel like one of the cool kids, not knowing they are being used as props and not knowing exactly what they are protesting against, only that they are told to hate Trump and the America First agenda.
The minions who are either paid wannabe be Hollywood starlets and action figures, revolutionary wannabes or just decent people who have been lied to and gaslighted, are the true “useful idiots” and “fellow travelers” who can’t even articulate what it is they are protesting.
Is it following constitutional immigration law and deporting criminals?
Is it trying to stop wars and bring peace to the world?
Is it closing our borders to millions of unknown, unvetted illegals storming our towns and cities?
Is it holding those in power who have abused it to account for their criminal behavior (Comey, Brennen)?
Is it trying to streamline the highly-paid 3 million federal employees who are in hundreds of obscure agencies with functions that should not even be performed by the federal government?
What exactly is “the king” doing that has their pantaloons and petticoats in such a bundle?
All I hear is ridiculous platitudes like “save our democracy” (from what exactly???) and ludicrous name calling like racist, Nazi, fascist and every other “phobe” they can concoct to subvert the “democratic” election where 77 million Americans voted for this president.
So leftist Democrats, since you are so intellectually adolescent, like the spoiled little brats you are — take your ball and go home.
“We the people” are $38 trillion in debt and pay $1.2 trillion per year of interest payments on debt. This is the third largest expenditure behind Medicare and Social Security.
In 2023 $100 billion was identified as Medicare fraud. The current administration is trying to stop improper payments to ineligible recipients including the millions of illegals getting it through sanctuary states.
As of 2025, approximately 60.4% of U.S. households pay federal income tax. Conversely, about 39.6% of households pay no federal income tax and approximately 23 million eligible workers and families received a federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), costing $57 Billion. Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) can be more than the income taxes you paid because it is a refundable tax credit — ie it’s another subsidy.
The U6 unemployment rate is 8.1% and the workforce participation rated is 62.3% which means 37.7% of people able and eligible to work are not in the labor force. This is before AI kicks in and eliminates many jobs.
Yet, Democrats (and complicit Republicans) allowed millions of unvetted, unskilled and uneducated illegals into America, ostensibly to “take the jobs” that the 37.7% of Americans not working won’t do and are content on living off dependency programs.
So, if you are in the 60.4% group of taxpayers you should be supporting these streamlining, cost-cutting and repatriation of illegals efforts, not protesting against them.
We have to stop being a personal piggy bank for corrupt politicians enriching themselves and those who feel that they are entitled to the earnings of others.
Tony Cosenza
Cape Coral