{"id":89805,"date":"2025-07-24T05:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89805"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:33:59","slug":"no-kings-but-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89805","title":{"rendered":"No Kings.  But Lords&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Liberals are protesting Donald Trump for exercising his authority as President. They don&#8217;t want our country to be ruled by a king.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But maybe by Lords?\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0There are so many examples of liberal Democrats thinking they are above the law, better than ordinary people, entitled to do as they please.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The governor going to a French restaurant while the rest of his state is locked down. A governor&#8217;s daughter spying for protesters burning down a city, a high official running a secret email server, a legislator getting rich from insider trading&#8230;&#8230;.. the list goes on.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Liberals don&#8217;t want Donald Trump to be King but they sure would like to be Lords and Ladies themselves. As for the rest of us peasants in flyover country, if we do not grovel sufficiently before the new nobility,\u00a0 they will replace us with illegal immigrants who will.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Joe Doakes\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"composer_signature\" dir=\"auto\">There&#8217;s been a notion of this phenomenon since the dawn of the term &#8220;limo liberal&#8221; in the 1980s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: Liberals are protesting Donald Trump for exercising his authority as President. They don&#8217;t want our country to be ruled by a king. \u00a0 But maybe by Lords?\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There are so many examples of liberal Democrats thinking they are above the law, better than ordinary people, entitled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,20,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89806,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89805\/revisions\/89806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}