Though the “No Kings” protests that took place on Saturday didn’t seem to live up to the hype, one gathering in particular is getting some attention in light of an image from the event shared on the participant’s Twitter/X account.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who was the designated lead impeachment manager in President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in January 2021, gave a speech at the Philadelphia rally where he fired up the TDS-suffering crowd with talk of impeachment “the moment that somebody in public office begins to act like the master of the people”:
We’ve got no kings and we’ve got no slaves, we’ve got no masters and no serfs. […] The moment that somebody in public office begins to act like the master of the people, that is the moment to evict, eject, reject, impeach, try, convict, and start all over again.
Watch:
A photo posted on Raskin’s Twitter/X page from the event early in the day Saturday, however, caused some well-deserved snickering and mockery when folks noticed that the flag he was speaking under on Flag Day of all days was… the Pride flag:
Obviously, the photo was intentionally taken that way because you see more of the pole and the flag than you do Raskin, who looks small standing next to it.
I wasn’t the only one who marveled at the chutzpah of an elected official to pretend like we’re living under a king’s rule as he exercised his freedom of speech under an LGBTQ flag, free from government punishment, and on one of the most patriotic days of the year to boot:
It was especially interesting in light of the recent Politico article that talked about how Democrats were on a campaign to “reclaim” the American flag:
To be fair, someone from Raskin’s comms team apparently got the memo, posting this photo hours later.
The point still stood, though. Showing allegiance to the LGBTQ flag, especially on Flag Day, just was not a good look. At all. I should also note that as of this writing, the photo tweet that is pinned to the top of his Twitter page is the one with the Pride flag.
Others pointed to kingly-like behavior that Democrats, including Raskin, seem to be okay with:
Not to mention how the DNC essentially rigged the presidential primary process against Bernie Sanders in 2016 so they could coronate Hillary Clinton as their nominee, as former DNC interim Chair Donna Brazile all but straight-up conceded:
“I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff. I had gone department by department, investigating individual conduct for evidence of skewed decisions, and I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.”
“The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.”
Let’s also not forget that Raskin tried to prevent the certification of Trump’s 2016 election victory by objecting to 10 of Florida’s 29 electoral votes:
While he had the right to raise objections, we were reliably informed by Democrats after the 2020 election that, under the new Rules of Engagement, doing so made one a treasonous, “insurrection”-supporting election denier.
We could go on and on here, but I think the point has been made.
Democrats are almost always guilty of what they accuse their Republican opposition of doing. But remember, it’s always (D)ifferent when a Democrat does it, always.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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