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7 million old white people gather across America to protest President Trump. President Trump sends a kind of shocking gif in response. Plus, we get into the latest in the Middle east, in Ukraine, and actual serious news. First Thursday night on the debut episode of Friendly Fire, we announced Daily Wire lifetime memberships. We mentioned only 10,000 exist. But here's something new. You can actually win a lifetime membership, which is a sweet deal. Download that free Daily Wire plus app in the App Store, then open the app, tap, explore, and follow me. That enters you for a chance to win a lifetime membership. You also get alerts when I release new episodes, breaking news, live chat during the show, and much more. If you've already downloaded the app and followed, you are already entered. For everyone else, get to work, download that Daily Wire plus app and follow me today. Well, folks, what do you call 7 million old white people gathering all over the country? Not a Barry Manilow reunion tour. No, it is the no Kings rallies. The no Kings rallies apparently happened over the course of Saturday with 7 million protesters, nearly all of them members of the AARP, gathering around the nation in order to protest kings. Now, you may have noticed we don't actually have kings here in the United States. We have a constitutional republic. And no matter what you think of Donald Trump, Donald Trump has actually been subject to the dictates of Congress. He has been subject to the dictates of court. There are actual laws and regulations on the books that prevent the President of the United States from simply instituting tyrannical power over the rest of the country. And one of the most amusing things is about these quote, unquote, no Kings rallies is the supposition by the left that somehow they are opposed to grand expansions of executive power. That is absolute horse pucky. It is nonsense. I'm old enough to remember Barack Obama. I'm old enough to remember Joe Biden, who literally tried to use the Occupational Safety and Health Organization, that agency, in order to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans. And we had to sue to stop him. I'm old enough to remember the Biden administration because I'm more than two years old, and I remember President Biden literally telling the Supreme Court that while they were attempting to stop him from simply getting rid of student loans, he would just go around them and find another way to do it. The idea that somehow people who are opposed to Donald Trump are not opposed to him because of specific policies, but based on a sort of broader rubric of anti executive power is just ridiculous. It is the Democratic Party in the United States, which writ large, has expanded the power of the executive branch wholesale over the course of the last century. Since the Progressive era, going all the way back to Woodrow Wilson, the expansion of the executive branch of government has been non stop. It has sort of paused sometimes under some Republicans. It is rarely reversed. And when it comes to the modern Democratic Party, the idea that they want to delegate power back to the states, they want to delegate power back to Congress, it's a lie. As soon as a Democrat is in power, they simply want to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States. The very premise of these no Kings rallies, just silly. Just silly. And it is worth noting that again, disproportionately old white people, Very, very old, very, very white people. According to Axios. According to a statement from the no Kings protest organizers, Saturday's turnout was one of the largest single day demonstrations in American history. Over 2 million more people taking part than participated in similar protests in June of this year. And you remember how much of a difference it made when they protested in June. Oh, wait, you know, you forgot already. You forgot already because it didn't matter at all. Yeah, well, this one, it's Monday and I think everybody already forgot. More than 2,700 events were planned as part of the protests across 50 states as of Saturday, as well as several internationally, including in London, Paris, Rome and Lisbon and Portugal. I do get a kick, I, I will admit, out of places that actually have Kings saying that they're going to have no Kings rallies. Like they had a no Kings rally in London. There is like right this very instant a king of the UK like that. That is a thing that exists. Organizing groups included the aclu, American Federation of Teachers, which of course relies heavily on the expansion of federal power. Human Rights Campaign Indivisible. And Move On. Move On's executive director said in a Saturday statement, quote, across cities and towns large and small, rural and suburban, in red areas and in blue areas, millions of us are peacefully coming together for the no Kings to send a clear and unmistakable message. The power belongs to the people. So, you know, does this make any sort of real difference? I mean, not really, because frankly, these rallies are kind of faintly ridiculous. I mean, if you look at the pictures of people who are dressed up as lobsters in Massachusetts or dressed up as Superman in New York City or dressed up as inflatable chickens in New York as well, you think to yourself, I don't think these are the folks who are, who are going to change America in any real way. And that's Putting aside the people who arrived at these rallies in order to promote violence against the President of the United States or against people on the right wing, those people were in plentiful supply. Politicians showed up, they spoke alongside radical agitators and organizers. And we're all supposed to pretend, of course, that that never happened, that speaking alongside terror supporters, for example, people who despise the country. If you're a politician like say, Bernie Sanders, or if you're a politician like say, Chris Murphy from Connecticut, and you speak alongside Qatari mouthpiece Mehdi Hassan, where you speak alongside people who have openly promoted terrorism, that's not a big deal. It is kind of a big deal. I mean, to be fair. But again, I think the note that is sounded here is not one of alarm. It is simply a note of weirdly aged hysteria. Perhaps my favorite moment of media coverage came when MSNBC interviewed a person dressed up as a unicorn. Because, you know, a rally is truly serious when people dress up as inflatable unicorns. Here are some of the footage from msnbc. And again, I always make the note that when we show footage from msnbc, they should be thanking us because we are tripling their audience. Here is, at a minimum, here is one of the reporters with a very politically active unicorn, Angel. I've never interviewed a unicorn live on msnbc. It's always the first time for everything. Angel. Talk as loud as you can because you got a kind of a big snout here. Say that again. Sorry I said it's hard to hear you. But tell me what brings you out and to be inside this hot unicorn costume today? Well, we're here to represent the loving, hard working community of Los Angeles. We're here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the President because he is a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power and we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening. I've never heard a more serious message come out of a pink unicorn. Well, I mean, first of all, I don't think that's true because I think that half of the MSNBC staff are pink unicorns, to be fair. But it is really an impressive. It was an impressive showing, a truly impressive showing. With great intellect arriving people like, for example, John Cusack, who took some time off from his wild anti Semitism to rip into President Trump. I need to hear from the guy who was last relevant when he was standing outside an apartment complex holding a boombox in a movie from the 1990s. Here we go.