Asheville Daily Planet
RSS Facebook
No Kings protesters’ hypocrisy centers on derangement therapy for older white women ‘of privilege’
Sunday, 19 April 2026 22:53
By ROGER BUCKNER
Special to the Daily Planet

I have decided that what I love about the No Kings demonstrations are the costumes, the pink... and blue... and white... cotton-candy hair and, of course, the authentic native dancing — and the protester interviews.

The protesters just look like people whose presence commands respect... a people who know something about native dancing.  

Do you think they come across looking like P.T. Barnum and Bailey Circus clowns?  How many people did you load into that squirrel car to drive to the protest? That’s the information that is important to me — and only you have the answer.  

One thing that I am not noticing is that cross-section of American people — few brown people, few black people, few working-class people, few tradesmen, few men.

Mostly, it’s elderly white women “of privilege” — to repeat a pronoun that a protester used in a video. Of course, this is just a Denver video.  

When asked why it was mostly a protest of elderly white women, the response from one protester was that people of color didn’t have “her privilege” — they would be arrested if they joined the protest. Therefore, it was her duty to “stand in for them.”

Later, I saw an interview with a black man during which he stated that it was racist white arrogance to think black people needed anyone to stand in for them.  

Kind of reminds you of then-President Grandpop Joe’s statement:

“You ain’t black, if you don’t vote for me!”  

Is that like saying the Democrats are so used to people being kept on the “plantation” that they expect their vote? Like they can’t think for themselves... little children minds… “Honey, we’ll tell you what to think... Don’t you worry your ‘precious’ little head about that.”

The other video I watched was CNN talking about New York City’s No Kings rally.

The theme there was more of a hammer-and-sickle flag thing — well-seasoned with Jewish hatred, and Palestinian flags. (I am happy the truth is finally coming out and I have been vindicated — the apparatchiks and Bolsheviks exist).

 As the CNN commentator said — for a Nazis Gestapo Royalist (the latter is a “king thing”) repressive state, well, there certainly was a lot of free speech going on.  

The sponsor said he loved it when these people exercised their right of free speech because it allowed them to show the country (my words, being diplomatic) how uninformed they were. (Notice I didn’t say “stupid?”)

In my experience, the protesters can’t recall the price of a dozen eggs in the first two weeks of January 2026 — and compare that to the current selling price. 

In fairness, I am only referencing three “No Kings flop videos.” There are more —with the same theme... clown flop time.  

Evidently, President Trump is intent on keeping his campaign promises to the American people. One of his promises is:

“You are going to have to get used to winning. As a matter of fact, you are going to win so much you may get tired of winning.”

With the rescue of the two F-15 airmen in Iran this week (around April 6)… well, it looks like Trump wins again — as do we, the American people.

I wonder if these “No Kings clowns” can remember Operation Eagle Claw — the last American rescue mission in Iran. It was the one conducted by then-President Jimmy Carter on April 24, 1980.  

Remember, Carter was a Democrat. History agrees it was, unquestionably, a Democrat flop.  

When Carter ran for his second term (1980) after four years of inflation (it consumed 45 percent of my buying power), along with high unemployment, that’s when I left the “Democrat plantation,” i.e., I got out of the clown car. 
Roger Buckner, a political conservative and an Asheville native, lives in South Asheville. In his retirement, he is a hiking, biking, ballroom dance and motorcycle enthusiast. Earlier, as a member of the United States Marine Corps, Buckner served in the Vietnam War. Later, he worked for the Asheville Police Department and the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.

 



 


contact | home

Copyright ©2005-2015 Star Fleet Communications

224 Broadway St., Asheville, NC 28801 | P.O. Box 8490, Asheville, NC 28814
phone (828) 252-6565 | fax (828) 252-6567

a Cube Creative Design site