✊ NO KINGS PROTEST DAY — Newsletter by Julie Bolejack, The Mindful Activist

(October 2025 Edition — “We Tried to Warn You”)

Why No Kings? Because We Fired One in 1776.

Welcome to No Kings Protest Day, America’s newest — and most necessary — national tradition. It’s the day we dust off our old “We the People” energy, hoist a cardboard crown on a golden toilet, and remind the self-anointed Emperor of Everything that this is still a republic.

Yes, I’m talking about that man — the once and future monarch of Mar-a-Lago. The one who never met a law he couldn’t ignore or a flag he couldn’t wrap himself in like a weighted blanket for narcissists. The one who promised to “drain the swamp” but instead replaced it with a moat and alligators wearing MAGA hats.

Since January 2025: A Brief Timeline of America’s Descent into Dumb

Let’s recap, shall we? Because the list of absurdities grows faster than his legal fees.

January 2025: Trump’s inauguration — now with fewer crowds and more armed “poll watchers.” His speech? A 48-minute sermon on loyalty, vengeance, and how “real Americans” love him so much, they’d “die for him.” Many already have, though not in the heroic way he imagines.

February: The Department of Justice quietly rebranded as the Department of Retribution. Its new logo: a golden T-shaped gavel smashing a stack of subpoenas. Merrick Garland was replaced by a man whose chief qualification was “looks intimidating in sunglasses.”

March: Journalists started disappearing from press briefings, not because they were arrested — oh no — but because they were simply no longer invited. The new rule? Only questions beginning with “Mr. President, how do you manage to be so right all the time?” are acceptable.

April: FEMA was defunded to pay for the Trump Freedom Monument, a 900-foot statue of Trump shaking hands with himself. Meanwhile, hurricane survivors in Florida were told to “bootstrap harder.”

May: The Environmental Protection Agency was absorbed into the Department of Energy and renamed the American Oil Enhancement Bureau. The new mission statement: “We don’t regulate; we celebrate.”

June: The first state to pledge allegiance to “Trumpism” — literally — was Texas, where schools began morning recitations of the revised Pledge:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the Leader who makes it great again, one nation, under Trump, with loyalty and vengeance for all.”

July: Congress tried to pass a bill affirming that presidents are not, in fact, divine beings. The bill failed in the House, where 134 members now wear matching “Trump 4 Life” lapel pins.

August: The Supreme Court, now boasting three new appointments selected from Truth Social comments, ruled 6-3 that “a president cannot commit a crime while tweeting.”

September: The White House Press Secretary announced the creation of the Ministry of Greatness, an agency devoted to correcting “negative thinking” about the administration. Its motto: “You will be happy, or you will be investigated.”

Norms? Freedoms? Those Were So 2024.

Let’s talk about what’s actually gone missing, besides our collective sanity.

• Freedom of the Press: Now just a quaint memory, like Blockbuster Video or empathy. Reporters either self-censor or risk losing “patriot points,” the new metric determining whether you can keep your job, passport, or social media account.
• Checks and Balances: Congress? Rubber stamp. Courts? Loyalty tests. The people? Gaslit into believing authoritarianism is just “efficient democracy.”
• Peaceful Dissent: Protesting is now considered “economic terrorism” unless you’re wearing camo and carrying a Bible-sized AR-15. Then it’s called “heritage expression.”
• Religion: Evangelicals finally got what they wanted — a golden idol. And he talks back.

Why No Kings?

Because the Founders fought a revolution to escape exactly this — a blustering monarch who believes the law is a mirror and the people are props.

Because democracy dies not in darkness but in a blinding floodlight of stupidity, broadcast live on cable news, sponsored by MyPillow and despair.

Because when a president crowns himself “chosen by God,” it’s not humility talking — it’s hubris wrapped in holy water and hairspray.

Because America isn’t a stage for one man’s ego. It’s supposed to be a place where no one — not even a billionaire with a God complex and an unpaid catering bill — is above the law.

So, What Do We Do?

We march. We shout. We hold up our signs — “NO KINGS,” “WE THE PEOPLE STILL MEANS US,” “1776 CALLED, IT WANTS ITS BACKBONE BACK” — and we don’t back down.

We remind our children and grandchildren that freedom isn’t handed down; it’s defended, one protest, one truth, one sarcastic sign at a time.

We stay loud, stay angry, and above all — stay ungovernable in spirit. Because the moment we stop mocking tyranny, it stops being funny and starts being forever.

This No Kings Day, remember:

We’re not subjects. We’re citizens.

We’re not kneeling. We’re marching.

And if anyone asks who we think we are —

tell them, “We’re the descendants of revolutionaries. And we don’t bow.”

Julie Bolejack, MBA

WEBSITE: juliebolejack.com

SHOP: mindfulactivist.com

P.S. Though I have a lung infection, but make a brief appearance at the Indiana Stare House for today’s protest

MY HOUSE