No Kings Day protests across the U.S. and across the country have been massive, and there's a good chance you'll see some of the protests in your social media feed this weekend. No Kings Day is a day where people come together to protest the Trump administration and its policies, and we're here to talk about it.
00:00:00.000Maryland. Maryland was a little bit off the hook. The biggest city in the state, Baltimore, of course, not only had a huge turnout for No Kings, again, it's another one of those cities that Trump is threatening to send the military into it. That, I think, helps goose turnout in any city that he's threatening. But Baltimore, simultaneous to its very large No Kings event, also had a huge marathon this weekend. That said, credit to the city and its public safety and political leadership.
00:00:26.780Everything seems to have gone off without a hitch in Baltimore. Here's a look at Baltimore and also Townsend, Maryland and Frederick, Maryland. Boston? Come on. Look at that. Again, not AI. That's a real thing. Look at that crowd in Boston. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told the huge crowd at the Boston Common that in Boston, every day is No Kings Day because, duh, it was just huge in Boston.
00:00:52.120But there were more than 100 No Kings protests in little old Massachusetts. It's Michigan also had more than 100 No Kings protests this weekend all over the state, including up into the Upper Peninsula.
00:01:04.820Here's a look at Ann Arbor up in the upper left where they had a huge turnout, also a really big turnout in Detroit. There's a look at Ferndale, Michigan in the lower left there.
00:01:14.160And, of course, our beloved Flint, Michigan in the lower right.
00:01:17.980Let's take it above Trump. Like, the reason that people should care is that the more you consolidate the power in one person, the less power you have as an individual.
00:01:27.660The country was not set up to be an all-powerful monarchy.
00:01:33.080But over the last 25 years, you've had both parties make government a hell of a lot bigger and provide a hell of a lot more power to the president.
00:01:41.380Trump has taken that and he's put it on steroids.
00:01:44.620Republicans are gleeful because they have the power.
00:01:47.640But like you said, they will do unto you what you did to them.
00:01:51.780You've been in the game longer than I have, Joe, and you know that there's no new power that is ever introduced into politics by one party that is not used and often abused and stretched to new lengths by the next one.
00:02:10.920I don't know why I was surprised to see something that huge for No Kings in Minneapolis, but Minneapolis was just gigantic.
00:02:17.140Here's Minneapolis and also Duluth in the upper left, Anoka, Minnesota, and Northfield, Minnesota.
00:02:26.880Head from Minnesota down to Mississippi.
00:02:29.220No Kings protests, not just in, you know, Collegetown, Oxford, Mississippi, the home of Ole Miss, and in Jackson where people rallied on the South Lawn in the Mississippi State Capitol.
00:02:39.060But you also saw good turnout and big protests in Hernando, Mississippi, and in spunky little beautiful Gulfport, Mississippi.
00:04:11.120And that is why you see some of the breaks with the newer parts of the, you know, sort of like the podcast things that align with Trump the last cycle.
00:04:17.960They don't really see themselves as part of that we.
00:04:20.900And so they're willing to be more vocal and critical on a lot of these things because they don't see themselves that way.
00:04:26.980But anyone that's really seen themselves as part of MAGA thinks, you know what, we now have made a deal with the devil.
00:04:32.520We have to go through with it because if we don't, they're going to come and get us.
00:04:34.940It's not even fully into his first year in office here.
00:04:38.600And he just had one of the largest days of protest in American history against him in every freaking state in the country.
00:04:47.300And so, yeah, naturally, he celebrates the occasion by getting out of backhoe to start tearing down the White House.
00:04:54.300He really doesn't want to have to answer to the people.
00:04:56.940You wouldn't do that if you ever thought you had to.
00:04:59.000There's a big protest movement now in this country, a big, sustainable, growing, peaceful, fired up protest movement standing against this very unpopular president who is not doing anything to make himself more popular over time, while the popular resistance to him just grows and grows and grows.
00:05:19.240About Republicans complaining that he is being dubbed a king is that in their minds, he has already surpassed that title anyway and moved on to a much higher calling.
00:07:32.720Tuesday, 21 October, Year of the Lord, 2025.
00:07:36.340In fact, of my great production crew here, in the Rachel Maddow, you know, she gets into this thing.
00:07:42.400And I think the next block you and I talked about, about three and a half percent.
00:07:45.640If you can pull that, I want to play that a little later.
00:07:48.240Dave Bratt's going to write shotgun with us this morning.
00:07:51.040The, you know, Rachel Maddow, the brains of the operation, I think it's pretty evident now she's punched out.
00:08:02.920I mean, they spent 30 minutes on the show last night because you can only watch her on Monday.
00:08:06.74030 minutes on the show talking about the epic fail of the No Kings.
00:08:13.680They're hanging their hat on this of, like, Trump's authoritarian breakout can only be stopped by the No Kings movement.
00:08:24.800First off, it's the dumbest name in the world, but let's forget the branding for a second.
00:08:28.860Their whole purpose is they're trying to make an argument that this thing is building with intensity.
00:08:33.140This is building with, this is building with a scale because they've got this theory of the case from that whack job up at Harvard, the Institute of Politics, the one that Natalie Winters goes through and, you know, blows up every couple of weeks.
00:08:49.300She's got this theory of how countries are these political scientists of how countries stop the rise of authoritarians.
00:08:58.440And they've got three ways they do it.
00:09:07.260And essentially three and a half percent, their theory, these political scientists, right, who are all a bunch of guys, men and women don't know anything, that at three and a half percent of the population, you have a breakout.
00:09:20.920And that's how you thwart the rise of the authoritarians.
00:09:24.800But you can tell they're trying to make this no kings thing.
00:09:40.700And all they do is bitch about everything because all of most of them are in dead end jobs.
00:09:46.660They've been they've never really been rewarded in life for what they feel is their proper place in the universe, particularly intellectually.
00:09:54.800So they're just the meanest, nastiest, most bitter people in the world.
00:10:00.200One of the reasons I love the MAGA movement is kind of the determination and grit, but also just the good old American, you know, the the the understanding and adversity.
00:10:12.440Right. Right. In comradeship and in brotherhood and all that, you can have fun.
00:10:17.700And it's the glint in the eyes of people and understanding what they're fighting for, a higher cause, which is defense of this republic as a as the new Jerusalem.
00:10:30.960We're fighting a spiritual war and folks understand that and embrace that.
00:10:34.760On the other side, you just have the same bitter, you know, people that don't feel they've been rewarded in life because they're smarter than everybody and they're stuck in some dead end job.
00:10:45.620Either as a teacher or professor or, you know, something or something that's attached to to the government.
00:10:53.180Right. And so they never think they've been rewarded and they're bitter for it.
00:11:25.700Full spectrum dominance to the fact that they've shut down the government on illegal aliens because they don't have illegal aliens or everything.
00:11:33.400And the reason is they don't have enough of the American people.
00:11:35.700Now, and Brad's going to join me and say, I want to get to this instrument of divine will or the providential nature of President Trump's political life.
00:12:33.420And that CNN tells me that's 10 seats.
00:12:35.720The New York Times, I think, says 19, although I may have those reversed.
00:12:39.400But somewhere between 10 and 19 seats will flip and become, you know, not just competitive, but seats that it should both groups think the Republicans will pick up.
00:12:52.100But in addition, we have our daily work here at the War Room, which is, you remember, this audience delivered, I don't know, eight or 10 seats in 21 and early 22.
00:13:00.760That became the basis for Polly Pockets speakership, McCarthy first and then replaced by Polly Pockets.
00:13:12.140The gross amount of that number is 21, as Alex de Grasse, who's kind of one of the chief architects of this and was the chief architect of 21 and 22, has come on here.
00:13:22.980Now, that includes the five in Texas we've already banked, but it also it doesn't net out the five that it looks like unless we make some dramatic changes.
00:13:32.820And what I mean by that is get President Trump engaged in the in the contest out there, which the locals here to four have not wanted.
00:13:39.560But you must get Trump engaged to stop Newsom in California.
00:13:45.320You add, I don't know, 10 or 12 there, maybe 15 there net.
00:13:57.640It makes it very, very, very difficult for the for the for the radical Democrats to think that they can have a shot of taking back the House.
00:14:08.960Now, look, we're going to fight every day for that, but it makes it the it makes the odds longer.
00:14:13.540Also, there's a couple of structural issues in that demographic shift about the Senate.
00:14:20.400You add on top of it, what I think we're going to make a top priority is a mid decade census.
00:14:28.680Stephen Miller and I had it that no illegal aliens will be would be counted because illegal aliens cannot be counted and should not be counted.
00:14:36.120And that was overruled by Wilbur Ross and the Wall Street crowd over commerce at the time.
00:14:41.600We kick that back in and hey, guess what?
00:14:45.860It becomes self-evident on the electoral college basis.
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00:17:13.760They ran this like like the Bolsheviks ran things.
00:17:19.880Remember the billboards about people that if you know anybody that went to January 6th or whatever, the lives of others like the East Germans and the Stassi.
00:17:41.240Trump's coming back and we're going to set things right here.
00:17:43.540So the American Cincinnatus, that would be Donald Trump and you are his legions.
00:17:51.080And the left is going to become more and more apparent because of demographic shifts in the nation and geographic shifts in the nation that structurally it's going to be harder and harder and harder for the Democrats to actually, you know, take over, take, take back the institutions.
00:18:15.300This is why I say maximalist strategy, move with urgency and seize the institutions while seizing the institutions.
00:18:24.860And they're going to get more and more violent and more and more dangerous.
00:18:28.000And they're going to be putting up guys like Mandami in these big urban areas where they can get all the illegal aliens in and get them somehow to vote.
00:18:35.380That's why you have to have ICE officers at the polls in 2026 and, you know, be rolling up people and arresting people in mass deportations.
00:21:46.500Do not forget the assassination attempt.
00:21:49.940We came one-eighth of one-eighth of one-tenth of one-twentieth of one-millimeter from having President Trump's head blown off, right, on live TV.
00:22:00.240That was the work, that was the hand of God.
00:22:05.080That was the hand of God that gave us the opportunity, the inflection point, for you to use your agency three months later, four months later, and deliver this stunning victory.
00:22:21.740The same divine providence to put me in a prison, right?
00:22:30.240Dave Brett, can we, John Stewart, and John Stewart is not his name, but John Stewart mocks, openly mocks Christ and mocks God, right, in this discussion of President Trump.
00:22:47.080Is President Trump, you're my theologian here, is President Trump the instrument of divine providence, the instrument of God's will, sir?
00:22:55.300Yeah, yes, and, you know, as Charlie Kirk taught us, right, what Charlie did that was so great, you know, he was mocked.
00:23:28.460I mean, for the one in authority is God's servant for your good.
00:23:34.300But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason.
00:23:40.560They are God's servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
00:23:45.700The left is freaking out because President Trump not only brought renewed energy to the government, to that sphere, and to justice, and to arresting the wrongdoers, but he's also brought tremendous strength and courage, and it's contagious on the spiritual front.
00:24:05.600You know, Christ suffered on the cross for all of us.
00:24:09.220And, you know, if you haven't ever pictured that, that he took on the wrath for the entire world's sins of all times.
00:24:16.820Just picture the wrath of God going into one man.
00:24:20.720And if that doesn't convict you and make you feel thankful to God, he suffered so that we can be free.
00:24:28.540And now this country, we live at the absolute pinnacle of freedom.
00:25:42.160Yeah, well, the main point, and I think the serious of this moment, right, Stuart just mocking Jesus Christ, juxtaposing humor, that's some dangerous ground, right, when you talk about the wrath of God, et cetera.
00:25:58.640And then he mocks all the Christians who are trying to make great statements about what President Trump means in their lives.
00:26:04.100But this moment in time, the left, right, the left cannot offer up an alternative worldview, and I think that is kind of a key as to what's going on.
00:26:14.160They've built up K-12, higher ed, and their philosophical system is called deconstruction.
00:26:20.560That comes straight out of Karl Marx, right, the permanent revolution of destroying all of our loves.
00:26:26.780It's a great Catholic, R. R. Reno, his return of the strong gods.
00:26:31.160The left is tearing down all of our loves, the love of God.
00:26:35.800They're clearly – they've destroyed God and taken them out of the schools.
00:27:24.900The left is devolving into a morass of anarchy, chaos, and violence because for decades they've depended upon illegal alien invaders to be the basic substrate of their party, and President Trump is out of that.
00:27:43.920There's a bunch of Christian preachers saying, hey, our evangelicals, our congregations are afraid to come in here.
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00:30:04.180She's taking $20 million a year for one night a week.
00:30:07.580$20 million a year for one night a week.
00:30:09.400And she doesn't have her fastball anymore.
00:30:13.880I've said forever, she brings the operation.
00:30:16.280There's no – she spent 27 minutes, I think, last night going through state by state of this ridiculous no energy, a bunch of PBS watchers sitting around the same whining and griping they always do, these liberals, right, progressives, because it's never good enough.
00:30:37.520They've got a frictionless life, basically a frictionless life, and all they do is bitch and moan about everything.
00:30:44.940There's a great piece in the Free Beacon of the MSNBC event, the live event they had, where they think rolling out Martin Sheen is like going to grab – because this is the fantasy.
00:30:55.900They go back to Martin Sheen and the constitutional lawyer and the white Obama.
00:31:00.640He's going to solve all the problems, right?
00:31:48.880And that's going to scare a bunch of them off and you're going to have the devolution of the Democratic Party understanding they can't win national elections.
00:31:59.760With no illegal aliens gone, they have no muscle.
00:32:06.520They're not going to be able to win the House on a national basis.
00:32:09.220They're not going to be able to take back over the Senate.
00:32:10.920The Electoral College is permanently shifting our way in 2030.
00:32:14.540Now I say permanently, we have to deliver on what we're saying we have to deliver.
00:32:19.920And the president, I think you're going to see a big pivot back to domestic issues quite shortly.
00:32:25.080He's trying to solve – he's trying to solve these wars and these problems with China, the economic war there, as a domestic concern so we don't get sucked into more 20-year wars.
00:32:33.840This is why the CIA director should come forward right now to the American people and tell about the gun-decked intelligence that you told the president of the United States that almost sucked us in to a land war in Persia.
00:40:08.760Well, in your nine month investigation, how much how much did you go?
00:40:12.700Because this is like back to your original thing when when Andrew Breitbart was so blown away about what you've got an acorn or so many other things you would go in and be at the tip of the spear.
00:40:20.940When you put out these other videos, were you an active participant in the investigation?
00:40:26.100Like we saw you here in your Willy Wonka outfit throughout the investigation?
00:50:08.900It has to be O'Keefe going in undercover and get the SBA guys on top of it and now get Cash or Dan Bongino or Pam or Russ or somebody's attention.
00:50:17.620But this is not – it's not – this is – why is Congress on this?
00:50:20.920Why is this in the appropriations process not come out and say, no, we're not doing this anymore, brother?
00:50:25.820Yeah, well, you see, Trump is carrying the whole load.
00:50:31.460Congress – Russ Vogt a couple years back had a $1.5 trillion cut per year.
00:50:38.340Congress put in a $1.5 trillion cut over 10 years and couldn't get it to happen.
00:50:42.680There's money laundering going all over the place, right?
00:50:45.060There's $300 billion going over to Ukraine.
00:50:49.240When I was in Congress and asked your congressman, everybody out there across the country, ask them what you're doing on foreign policy, they wouldn't let us discuss foreign policy.
00:51:24.020And right now, the power from the left, the dark money, Zero Hedge had an incredible piece a couple days ago on the billionaire dark money flooding into the governors, flooding it.
00:51:34.380Yes, everybody follow that, and I'll jump back on and we'll cover that another day.
00:51:40.920Dave Bratt, social media, you're a warrior, sir.
00:51:43.660Yeah, Bratt Economics, Getter and X, and I'll be posting a lot.
00:51:48.280We just had a very successful CEO summit at Liberty, and thank you guys for helping us cover that.
00:51:53.600I want to get some footage from that and have you come and explain it.
00:52:31.940It kind of looks downrange at what's going to happen, so you can kind of think through your personal life, your business life, your political life, all of it.
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