Millions of Americans all around our nation showed up for peaceful No Kings Day protests. Meanwhile, a small scraggly crowd turned up in Washington D.C. for the president’s gaudy military parade, a not so thinly disguised (and very expensive, my fellow taxpayers) birthday present to himself. Most of those that did show up in D.C. left at the first sign of rain.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the day was marked by tragedy, as the consequence of pardoning violent January 6 anarchists seems to have encouraged more violent anarchy, when Vance Boelter assassinated former Minnesota House speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.<\/p>\n
Maybe he thinks he will get a presidential pardon. Given that this administration enjoys rewriting American history, perhaps the history of this weekend will get rewritten too, and then Boelter will get that pardon after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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