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No Kings protests have been popping up all over the country in protest of President Trump and the United States’ involvement in the Iran war, and of course, the mainstream media has covered these protesters as if they’re a real force to be reckoned with.However, BlazeTV host John Doyle attended one of the protests in Dallas and explains that the reality on the ground tells a much different story.“If you Google it, ‘No Kings 2026,’ there are all of these leftist outlets — be those local, national, even on CNN, MSNBC, all the usual suspects — trying to just put all of this out there, put the imagery out there, to let people know that this is definitely a thing that is very real and very threatening and certainly happening,” Doyle says on “The John Doyle Show.”“The people who actually mobilize and show up to these Democrat quote-unquote ‘protests,’ these are the revolutionary class. This is an inherently sort of kinetic group of people, which is to say a people who are motivated almost chiefly by resentment against just normal American patriots,” he continues.Doyle explains that these protesters also “always need to be out on the streets causing problems, feeling as though they are pushing back against some force.”“It is this kind of 'Handmaid’s Tale' LARP for them. They really do enjoy the interaction with law enforcement, feeling as though they’re being freaking persecuted,” he says.And the visuals Doyle caught at the protest in Dallas only prove his point.“It’s extremely, extremely bleak for them,” he says, before showing a picture of one of the protesters.“It was this extremely obese creature, and it was occupying a mobility scooter, like how you see at Walmart. And there was a sign mounted on the mobility scooter … that said ‘#FreakingNoKings,’” Doyle recalls.“And then you have old people and then foreign people and then foreign old people, and everybody’s dying. It’s like, what? I’m not intimidated. I’m not even having fun. I just feel bad. I used to go in there and felt like I was in a lion’s den, you know? Do a little sparring with the people who want me killed,” he continues.“I had a smile on my face, a pep in my step. You’ve all seen it. I just felt bad,” he says.Want more from John Doyle?To enjoy more of the truth about America and join the fight to restore a country that has been betrayed by its own leaders, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream....Read More
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I realized CPAC was dead the morning of the first day. It would take a while to examine the corpse fully, but the smell of decay was unmistakable. One sign was perhaps the Dallas location of the body; while Big D is my hometown and a wonderful city, it’s removed from the palace intrigue of the D.C. elite, where this conference usually takes place. There’s also a concerted effort to expand the brand into new markets, such as Hungary and the U.K. CPAC Angola might be around the corner; who knows? Two well-dressed ladies in designer shoes, Mersedeh Shahinkar and Raheleh Amiri by name, were onstage. Their titles were “Victims of the Ayatollah,” and they explained in broken English why the U.S. should bomb their country into oblivion. The dozens of elderly people in attendance returned polite, tepid applause. I was bored.After they spoke, I heard loud shouting in the hallway. I grabbed my camera and shuffled off, along with most of the press corps, desperate for action. It was an extremely loud group of Persians, who, completely spontaneously and definitely not in some astroturfed way, began shouting slogans in Farsi while waving Iranian flags for the press. They held aloft signs saying MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN. They held pictures of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former shah, wanting him to sweep back into power. One wonders why the fail-son of an autocrat from the 1970s who has been living in Maryland for the last 30 years would be the ideal leader for Iran in 2026. I have my doubts. When I later asked a young Iranian guy from Glendale, California, with tattoos and a MIGA hat if he would be returning to Iran, he seemed legitimately confused. Peter GietlThis absurd scene of people screaming in Farsi was indicative of the entire event. There may have been more Iranians than Americans attending. Ethnic minorities of all stripes from the frontiers of the empire, here to entice us to send gold or legions to decide their petty squabbles. I saw people waving Iranian, Israeli, Cuban, Polish, Korean, British, Brazilian, and many other flags, but very few American flags, aside from the bedazzled USA jackets that seemed to be selling well at the merch booths. It’s a telling and depressing realization when your country has become nothing more than a cash machine or a weapon for other countries to get rich from or to use to kill their enemies. I’m guessing George Washington would have some questions.Ethnic minorities of all stripes from the frontiers of the empire, here to entice us to send gold or legions to decide their petty squabbles.I spoke with a delegation from Korea, angling for me to write about why the U.S. should overturn the Korean election, for reasons I couldn’t grasp. I met people from the U.K. and Brazil who were representing their respective parties. A conference to help unite right-wing parties around the world is badly needed, but I didn’t get the sense that CPAC was that venue.The most common question I heard from attendees was why the conference was so small this year, and that’s a question that needs more unpacking. Peter Gietl The most obvious answer is that President Trump skipped it this year and, with him, the gravitas and the momentum of the MAGA movement he carries everywhere. For several years, however, there has been a precipitous decline in the status and power of the Conservative Political Action Conference. I saw a noticeable lack of vendors, besides the very nice ladies selling bedazzled jackets, unlicensed Charlie Kirk shirts and hats, and some vibrating contraption for (I assume) losing weight. While some reporters were milling about from larger conservative outlets like Blaze Media, the Daily Caller, Fox, and the Daily Wire, there wasn’t the big presence you would see at, for example, Turning Point USA.Turning Point, through the tireless dedication of the late Charlie Kirk, has now become the preeminent event for conservatives, along with the National Conservatism conference run by Yoram Hazony. Attending both recently, it was obvious how many more serious people with big ideas and star power attended compared to CPAC. It’s also clear that they appeal to the younger generations of voters in a very deliberate way. There is real energy at Turning Point; young people and new ideas are championed. There is also a refreshing diversity of opinion at those conferences that was not on display here. CPAC was a series of milquetoast talking points you can find by switching on Fox News. "More war" would be the underlying theme, if you made me choose.There are also the obscene allegations against the chair of CPAC, Matt Schlapp. I suppose I could use journalese to euphemistically describe the multiple allegations, but why use obtuse language when the truth can suffice? Numerous young men have accused Schlapp of forcefully grabbing their genitals. Schlapp has maintained his innocence, but there have been large amounts of money allegedly paid to settle with at least one of the accusers. Perhaps I’m old-fashioned, but I would say after the fourth allegation of homosexual assault, you might not be the right person to run a powerful conservative political organization. Peter GietlThese conferences are always a bit performative, filled with grifters and endearing characters, but there was a sense here of a longing to return to 2000s RNC politics and just to pretend those days didn’t die as soon as Trump descended that gold escalator. Here, I saw numerous transsexuals for some reason. While sipping a martini in the afternoon, I witnessed 6’5” transsexual influencer “Lady Maga” posing for pictures with elderly people. It’s all so degenerate; my drinking partner described it as “blackface for women,” which is fairly accurate.The topic everyone seemed to be ignoring onstage was the outbreak of a very serious Middle Eastern war that has the potential to cause a worldwide depression. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) took the stage to lambaste it, but most of the other speakers were very muted or chose to ignore the topic altogether. Peter Gietl A generational divide will roil conservatism over the next few election cycles. Among older conservatives, there is a strong affinity for Israel and a belief that our policies should help Israelis as much as possible and that this war was entirely justified. Among those I spoke to under 40 at the event, there is a large degree of skepticism about the Israeli-American relationship and this war in general. This divide will transform much of politics in the coming years. There’s even talk among the Fuentes-adjacent America First wing of young conservatives about infiltrating and taking over CPAC. That seems like a bit of a stretch, given that they struggle not to disgust everyone they meet in the real world. In the meantime, I think it’s fair to expect more from conservatism than transsexuals, foreign flags, and naked grift.On the way home in an Uber, I chatted with an Egyptian gentleman named Mohammed, who explained the history of Sadat and President Sisi (Sadat is beloved, Sisi feared); why the war broke out in his opinion (a combination of the Epstein files and an attempted shift from the petrodollar); and how he has voted for Trump three times but is heartbroken that Trump wasn’t able to keep America out of another Middle Eastern war. 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In a nearly unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has issued a ruling on one state's ban on conversion therapy for minors, resulting in an important First Amendment win and setting a possible precedent for many states with similar laws on the books. In an 8-1 decision released Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled in Chiles v. Salazar that, when applied to talk therapy, Colorado's ban on minor-directed conversion therapy — or any therapy that attempts to "change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity" — "regulates speech based on viewpoint" in violation of the First Amendment.'The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.'The Colorado law, passed in 2019, was adopted "in response to a growing mental health crisis among Colorado teenagers and mounting evidence that conversion therapy is associated with increased depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts." The law thus prohibited licensed counselors from engaging in "conversion therapy" with minors, according to the opinion. Kaley Chiles, a mental health counselor in Colorado, brought the suit against Patty Salazar, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.RELATED: SCOTUS sides with officer over protester in qualified immunity case, reversing lower-court opinion Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesThe ruling overturns a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which ruled in favor of the law, not finding any violation of Chiles' First Amendment rights.However, the majority opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, concluded:In cases like this, it censors speech based on viewpoint. Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety. Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same. But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth.Gorsuch added that the law in question not only regulates the content of Chiles' speech, but "goes a step further, prescribing what views she may and may not express." Justice Elena Kagan, together with fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined the majority opinion, but wrote a concurring opinion "only to note that if Colorado had instead enacted a content-based but viewpoint-neutral law, it would raise a different and more difficult question."Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson alone dissented from the majority: "Stated simply, the majority has failed to appreciate the crucial context in which Chiles's constitutional claims have arisen. Chiles is not speaking in the ether; she is providing therapy to minors as a licensed healthcare professional." While these facts were clearly established in the syllabus and the body of the majority's opinion, Jackson's primary contention, stated at the end of her dissent, was that "the majority's holding means, in effect, that just because Chiles is a talk therapist — and not, say, a surgeon — a State can be prevented from incidentally imposing reasonable restrictions on the treatments she provides." "To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms," Jackson concluded. "It threatens to impair States' ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect." Matt Walsh, noted for his documentary "What is a Woman?," weighed in on the decision, attacking Jackson's attempt to uphold the ban: To be clear, this was a law that attempted to ban therapists from telling gender confused boys that they're actually boys, and girls that they're actually girls. It was literally a law prohibiting anyone in the therapy profession from verbally acknowledging biological reality to their clients. Easily one of the most psychotic pieces of legislation ever passed anywhere in the world at any time in history. The fact that Ketanji Jackson tried to uphold this law — even as her fellow liberals broke ranks with her — just proves again that she is the most unfit, unqualified, unhinged lunatic to ever hold a seat on the Supreme Court.Colorado is one of more than 20 states with laws prohibiting conversion therapy. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!...Read More
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