“No Kings Day” was Saturday March 28, 2026. It was also “No Wars Day.” On February 28 that sick orange convicted felon joined Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu in bombing Iran, killing the Supreme Leader along with others.

A popular meme says, “Netanyahu has been waiting over 40 years for America to bomb Iran and now Trump is a president dumb enough to do it.”

The felon, and his joke of a secretary of defense, Pete Kegseth talks about sending our military members into harm’s way as if they’re 12-years-old going wild on their latest video game.

No one from the felon’s administration can point out a reason for the war, nor can anyone point to an end date, or what “victory” looks like.

When he started the war the Felon-In-Chief said absolutely no boots on the ground in this war against Iran. But in the past two weeks the president has sent thousands of Marines to the area to build an invasion force to raid and take over Iran’s Kharg Island, which is about 16 miles off the coast of Iran and processes about 90 % of that nation’s oil and gas production.

The felon’s attitude about attacking Iran is so cavalier, it is very unlikely there will not be any guardrails to stop him from going off the cliff, with the United States in tow.

We know he is lying about talks with the Iranian Government — because the felon’s lips are moving —  also the leaders of Iran claim no such talks and possibilities have taken place, although his grifter son-in-law Jared Kushner and Epstein buddy Steve Witkoff are the felon’s special envoys to the Middle East and Iran in particular.

On March 24, 2026 Secretary pf Defense Pete Kegseth said, “We negotiate with bombs,” when asked about using diplomacy.

Are you kidding? These mongrels, these cretins, are treating this Iran War — and all the other little illegal bombing campaigns — including the illegal invasion of Venezuela and the illegal kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores like it’s a fucking video game. Those were — and are — real human beings injured, wounded and killed. Real human beings being displaced from their homes by the relentless onslaught of bombs reigning down from the skies … can’t call them the Heavens because the heavens are supposed to be filled with peace, love and joy, not death and destruction.

We can all agree Maduro is a bad guy and the past leadership — and current government leaders of Iran are bad, bad people, all of whom caused untold amounts of suffering and death on their nations’ populations, but that doesn’t make it legal for the U.S. government, or any other government, to go in and kidnap or kill those foreign government officials. It just doesn’t.

At the very least the orange convicted felon in the Oval Office needs congressional approval to start a war — or whatever he is calling it today. It is a war, make no mistake. As of this morning 13 service members have been killed in this war and more than 300 wounded. With over 5,000 U.S. Marines and members of the Army 82^nd Airborne on the ground now and another 10,000 — basically a division — on their way, we can expect a lot more U.S. casualties, not to mention the countless Iranian civilians who will be needlessly slaughtered by our military, like the school filled with young girls. It wasn’t an accident. The building, with all the school girls was “triple tapped,” as it is colorfully described, which means three missiles slammed into the school in quick succession in an attempte or so it seems, to murder every living soul inside.

Now all the U.S. allies in the region, especially the ones adding wealth to the American grifters like Jared Kushner and his partner in “diplomacy, Jeffrey Epstein pal Steve Witkoff: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (UAB), Oman, Bahrain and Qatar are getting bombed daily by Iran.

Then of course Israel, one of the worst perpetrators of war crimes since Nazi Germany, continues to get missile and other bombing strikes. Please, let’s call the continued destruction and dislocation of residents in Gaza what it is: nothing less than genocide.

If that wasn’t enough for Netanyahu and his lackies in the Israeli government, they have started invading Southern Lebanon, destroying everything in their path. Who is paying for this war crime? It’s a rhetorical question — we are, the U.S. taxpayers.

Netanyahu and his puppet, the convicted felon, have talked about rebuilding Gaza into nice seaside resorts — without the permission or inclusion of Palestinians — where Palestinians and other Arabs/Muslins are not welcome — nice little places where we white folks can relax and have (possibly a Palestinian) waiter bring drinks, towels, sunscreen and let’s hope, scantily-clad entertainment! Weee!

Then there are the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem who had their homes stolen from them … the list of crimes against humanity and war crimes is long.

The domestic issues continue, starting with the occupation of American cities by Trump’s secret army, Immigration and Customs Enforcement — ICE. They have just been deployed to U.S. airports so they can walk around, stand around and sit around in their body armor carrying their M4 weapons and sidearms, pepper spray, stun guns and batons … you know, I’m Old School. The batons are Billy clubs. That’s a real term. Look it up in your Merriam-Websters.

Billy Club noun
: a heavy usually wooden club
specifically  : a police officer’s club

And who is going to take responsibility for the murders of a Mom and loving partner Renee Nicole Good and Veterans Affairs Hospital nurse Alex Pretti? Not to mention 46 others killed at the hands of ICE, be it in custody or ICE prisons.

Who answers for the deaths of Alberto Gutierrez Reyes in California and Geraldo Lunas Campos in Texas? The current Director of ICE Todd Lyons, or the new Homeland Security Director, former Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin? Like his predecessor, former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Mullin has absolutely no experience in any kind in law enforcement.

He may even be guilty of stolen valor, claiming he was in a super duper secret service that worked with Army special forces in ops that are sooooo secret, he can neither confirm or deny he was part of any military, or para-military, unit involved in super top secret operations around the world. Just a rarely humble observation and opinion: Maybe he watched Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, one too many times. You know that scene, when Jeremy Renner’s character, William Brandt is standing there before a super-secret congressional committee answering questions with the response, “I can neither confirm nor deny any such action took place without the secretary’s approval.”

That’s a very cool scene in a very fictional movie about what we can presume is a fictional super-secret covert government organization that was first seen on television when the TV series first aired on CBS on September 17, 1966. I know because I was plopped in front of the television watching it.

Created by Bruce Geller, it featured Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, Peter Morris, Peter Lupus and Peter Graves playing the stand up leader of his IMF crew, Jim Phelps (c’mon filmmakers! Why treat the character so slovenly?).

Let’s not forget the team’s first television leader, Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill. C’mon man, stop forgetting about Hill’s contribution to the cult classic.

At any rate, maybe Markwayne Mullin has seen that movie, absorbed that scene, way too many times to be allowed into the upper echelons of government, The guy is just a shifty … dishonest, Trump Kool-Aid drinker.

Full disclosure: I’ve seen all the Mission Impossible movies way too many times so it was easy  to pull that quote out of the air with just about all the details, including Alec Baldwin playing CIA Director Alan Hunley.

Remember in MI3, Laurence Fishburne’s character IMF Director Theodore Brassel? Actually, the character of Director Brassel is far more intimidating than Director Hunley. You know that scene when Brassel tells Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) he will bleed on the flag to keep those stripes red? That’s very menacing because you know, that’s Morpheus and Clean (Tyrone Miller in Apocalypse Now, the badass with the twin 50.)

Anyway, too much movie stuff. I’m off to the No Kings Day protest on San Diego’s bay front. I urge everyone to participate. If You’re not sure where (for future marches), click this link. Organizers say everyone is within an hour’s drive of a No Kings protest.

We have to get busy winning elections and then ridding ourselves of this criminal, grifting and murderous regime. We need to end the Iran War, defund ICE until reforms can be put in place, restore as many of the employees who lost their jobs due to the incompetence of DOGE and return SNAP, Medicaid and other safety net programs to their former levels of funding.

We have no kings, or dictators or even wanna’be dictators, in America.

Let’s end on a light note: Would you like a laugh? Said by the convicted felon’s spokesperson/dupe, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:  “If you’ve heard it from the President of the United States, obviously it’s true.”

How crazy was that?

One last thing: Emily Gregory won the Florida congressional district that represents Mar-a-Lago, the convicted felon’s private hide-away in Palm Beach, Florida. A mother of three, a small business owner and a public health expert, this highly energized Democrat now represents the orange menace. If the GOP/MAGA Cult is in such disarray, so chaotic and so HATED by a majority of the American electorate they can’t even hold onto their Dear Leader’s home district … propriety (and the friendly requests from the publishers) prevents me from dropping the usual F-bomb here — but the GOP/MAGA Cult is screwed in the mid-term elections.

Here’s another funny note: my next dental appointment is on 420 Day! Here’s a link to catch up on the 420 history and culture. Here’s to the Waldos.

Now this is actually the last thing as I head out to the No Kings Day march in Downtown San Diego:

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES, UNREDACTED — except for the names and information of the victims.

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Obviously I missed the deadline to post this before the No Kings March. You know how embarrassing it is to forget, pass by or otherwise ignore one of the major tenets of journalism, make the deadline? Sure, I live an often pain-filled life at my age (I’m old) where heart disease and other ailments prevent me from spending a lot of time out of bed on some days, but that’s not every day — not even most days. It’s occasional. I just got … not lazy, tied up in my social media accounts. I spend way too much time on social media. I was about to write waste too much time on social media, but I only thought it was a waste of time before I got an Apple iPhone.

I’m addicted.

My friend Jim, who is also my first editor, well, who knows what he would say, but back in the day we didn’t miss deadlines.

Instead of writing (a lot) more, I’m posting some of the photos I took on No Kings Day in Downtown San Diego, at Waterfront Park. Unfortunately I forgot to grab my drone when getting out of my friend’s car. He drove off to find parking and then texted he would bring the drone with him.

It’s a long, disappointing story that includes my friend’s long trolley ride to the march and then replacing a propeller blade on the drone. Yet, it was a great treasure to be there, among 50k others who feel the same as I do, people who are celebrating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, supporting the removal of crooks and convicted felons from government.

Be forewarned some of these images might be a bit shocking, rude even, obscene to a serious degree … and funny. We were there for some serious issues. Like to save democracy and the rule of law, to match the power of truth to the sadistic, fascist power grabbers, plural, because the convicted felon is not acting alone. We were instructed to be joyous in our resistance, so be joyous as we take down this criminal regime and its enablers in Congress.

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This Just n, March 31, 2026.  That convicted felon in the White House and his mini me Pete Kegseth have decided they want to get out of the war with Iran abruptly without gaining anything, like opening the Strait of Hormuz. They want — another one for the “I Kid You Not” files — the British and French to get in the war and open the strait for everyone.

In other words, the felon wants our European allies to clean up the mess that the insane, addle-minded adjudicated rapist started with his buddy, the equally racist and vicious killer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Let’s not forget the contribution by Little Marco Rubio, Pete Kegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and everyone else in his cabinet plus all the enablers in Congress.That isn’t even the worst of it. There are reports that Kegseth’s stock broker at Morgan Stanley tried to buy defense stocks right before Kegseth and his boss, the convicted felon, started this war against Iran.

It gets worse:  what has me enraged this evening: That [expletives deleted] is sending ICE agents to the Marine Corps Recruit Depots in Parris Island, South Carolina and San Diego, California, where I graduated from Marine Corps boot camp. The felon’s secret army of masked thugs will be there to round up the families of brown-colored recruits hoping to catch some alleged undocumented people.

Peter Miller needs to go. The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General Eric M. Smith, needs to stand up for our Corps, stand for the people serving under his command and their families. Smith can — and should — do it quietly and behind closed doors. Marines don’t talk shit in the media …

I hope we continue to have No Kings Days while this convicted felon is in office. He needs to go as well.

Enjoy the photos.