It's "No Kings Day" in Democrat Connecticut. (But Who Is The King?)

On June 14, 2025, "No Kings Day" was a nationwide series of protests across the United States, organized by the 50501 Movement and a coalition of over two hundred progressive groups, including Indivisible, MoveOn, and the ACLU. The demonstrations, held in nearly 2,000 cities and towns, aimed to reject what organizers described as authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of democracy under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The protests coincided with a military parade in Washington, D.C., marking the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, which organizers criticized as an arrogant and self-aggrandizing show. An estimated 4 to 6 million people participated, making it one of the largest single-day protests in U.S. history, with a flagship march in Philadelphia. Protests focused on issues like immigration raids, civil rights erosion, and executive overreach, with events ranging from urban rallies to small-town gatherings, all unified under the slogan “No thrones, no crowns, no kings.”

In lock step with the others, Connecticut joined the nationwide No Kings Day protests, with over thirty demonstrations held across the state. From Hartford’s State Capitol, where people gathered on the north lawn, to smaller rallies in towns like Norwich, New Haven, Bridgeport, and Stamford, protestors voiced opposition to the Trump administration’s policies. Events featured speeches from activists, veterans, and lawmakers like U.S. Rep. John Larson, addressing issues like women’s rights, immigration detentions, and cuts to public institutions.

Query: Did it ever dawn on any the protestors attending the protests in Connecticut that those preaching to them about “No Kings” are really a part of a perverted Royal Priesthood and an unholy nation serving for personal power and gain and the exploitation of the citizen? Did it ever dawn on these same folks that in supporting this royal family, their own personal situation has not taken a turn for the better in decades? Moreover, in the mire of their own lives, did it ever dawn on these people lecturing them get richer and more exploitative by the day at their expense?

Many find great irony in the paid day of protest that is the improved talking point of liberalism. It is the new anti-Trump mantra that he is now a "King" and needs to be stopped, even though he was elected President. But I can see several "Kings" in Connecticut that should be stopped (but we know they never will).

Sitting in the Royal Court is King Governor Ned Lamont, the Unaccountable, being the first King that holds an emperor like existence as the ruling King of the state. “King Ned” has used the state as the Oak HC/FT hedge funds personal piggy bank with the profitability of the draconian Convid-19 measures he declared and proclaimed with Sema-4. No one at the political ballgame is allowed to question any financial interests with Sema-4, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, 4-CT, Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, “The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, Tidal River Fund, McKinsey, GeneDX, and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies. King Ned has never published a tax return. No one knows King Ned's net worth although his wife Annie is worth $650 million according to Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/profile/annie-lamont/).  Thus the Lamont's are closing in on nearly a $1 billion in wealth but King Ned somehow sympathizes with the common Connecticut Taxpayer as they toil daily to pay the astounding taxes of the state King Ned is the overlord for.  But King Ned cares. He kept you “safe from Covid.” He wants childcare for your children so the state can indoctrinate them in their design. He blinks at porn in children’s libraries. He cares nothing about the middle-class homeowner as their zoning laws may rot in Hell. You are not supposed to question any of his hidden dealings. He really does reflect the true characteristics of royalty.

As First Lord, King Dick Blumenthal, an established Vietnam Veteran, and Connecticut's Democrat/Socialist United States Senator for life, maintains a handsome net wealth from his 2023 financial disclosure form estimates a figure between $81.37 million and $132 million (https://finbold.com/guide/richard-blumenthal-net-worth/). King Dick is another Democrat politician whose wealth was obtained to a large extent by his wife. King Dick is a dangerous man, as the most dangerous place to be in Connecticut is between him, and a camera. King Dick insists to be in front of the press daily with his false promises and bellows about his is going after this group, individual, industry and or country for their misdeeds. King Dick did a great deal of damage to the state as Attorney General but he was repaid by becoming Senator for life after he burned too many bridges as Attorney General. Blumenthal enjoys also enjoys diatribes against President Trump. He too really reflects the true arrogance and characteristics of royalty.

The next Lord Chancellor King is the well-known Democrat/Socialist/Progressive/peripatetic idiot Junior United States Senator for life Chris Murphy. King Chris is basically broke since he apparently has a lot of mortgages and is going through a divorce. King Chris has a deep and psychotic hatred for all things President Trump. The Israel/Iran conflict brought these words of wisdom from King Chris; "Trump created the problem. The single reason Iran was so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon is that Trump destroyed the diplomatic agreement that put major, verifiable constraints on their nuclear program." (https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1935463595363680454?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet). King Chris in the opinion of many helped to nurture Iran meeting secretly with Iranian Mullahs and promoting former autopen, analyst driven, President Biden's supposed nuclear deal with Iran.  Murphy loves talking the Socialist's game plan and loves being in front of the camera moaning about how bad things are when there is a Republican President and how great things are when there is a Democrat President. As far as royalty, Chris resembles the model of an out-of-control scion of an established royal family, where he given respect only because of who “his people” are. Even though his status is attributed being a man of no accomplishments, he too, is royalty.

Bringing up the rear is Attorney General Democrat/Socialist King William Tong. Tong is a champion of illegal immigration, anti-business, and any type of lawsuit against President Trump. He makes former Attorney General King Dick Blumenthal, look like a pansy in his tirades against all things conservative and or normal. From boys in girls’ sports to constitutional rights for illegal immigrants and the surgical mutilation of vulnerable and confused children, the Activist King William will spew his way or the highway at all comers especially Connecticut Taxpayers (who pay his $206,062 salary). King William likes to refer to himself as a "firewall" to President Trump and consistently condemns all things Trump. In my estimation, this man has the aggressive characteristics of William Shakespeare’s Brutus in “Julius Caesar”, and the other Kings should watch him closely.

 There are other lesser Kings in Connecticut presiding over their domain with similar vim and vigor. The following Democrats are Kings with their autocratic and lack of comprise rule; Democrat/Socialist State Senator Leader Martin Looney and Democrat/Socialist State Senator Bob Duff. These Kings rule with an iron hand with little to no oversight in their disregard for the rules and laws of the state and their continual scorn and disdain for the citizens of Connecticut. But why should they care? They are Kings. (You and I are mere subjects and vassals).

So, who really are the “Kings?”  These individual Kings that I have mentioned are an insult to the state and its citizens. Yet they continue to win re-election over and over again and buffalo poor and confused citizens that they are “for the people”  And many wonder why the protest on June 14th was against a President who actually wants to better the country and upend the elitist "King" Democrat status quo that is the true cancer to the state and country. 

It is also interesting to note that June 19 was the Holiday of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery. Social media is replete with the comments of many normal and decent citizens being enslaved by the Connecticut Royal Family of oppression and shame and feeling trapped as they are unable to leave. One asks if slaves could be freed, why not the good people of Connecticut? But alas, this Royal Family has other designs.

So, who really are the Kings? I submit unto you, the paid protestors and "concerned" liberals should really focus on where the royalty really lies in the failed Kingdom of Connecticut.

 

House Bill 5002: Connecticut’s Horrific Housing Hell of Horrors

Ever since the dawn of the Republic, it has been the desire of about every happy and productive American to either buy or build their own home and go about living by their own chosen design. America is the land of free people, and many people developed their skills and talents to start on the trek to living life in the manner they wished in a place they could call their own home. All being well, the home was the economic driver for many trades and professions, and in the vast majority of cases the home became the single largest asset owned by many families, an asset that could be sold or passed on to the next generation.

Entire communities and economies were built around residential homes. Connecticut was a great leader in this effort with no state income tax until 1991 and a great commitment to community and value in its cities and towns. In the residential sections of our once great cities, skilled tradespeople and machinists of color left the racism and oppression of the south and came to work in the burgeoning Connecticut firearms industry. Their employment and hard work granted them fine homes and cars in the northern parts of Connecticut’s major cities. There was no welfare. None was needed. There were no cries of systemic racism. If the Black guy worked more hours that the White guy, he made more money and had a newer car and a bigger home. Life was not perfect, but it was simple, and it worked. And it worked up until the time of the enactment of the dastardly and economy-killing income tax 35 years ago and the shutdown of the firearms and manufacturing industries throwing many working class and Black people onto the welfare system.

But in Connecticut, citizens know nothing, and politicians know everything. This great politically based masterminding has disenfranchised people of color and the working class and thrown Connecticut into a perpetual, debt laden and welfare-burdened economic stupor. And the horror movies worsen every day. Regardless, (and undeterred), the Democrat-Socialist majority-driven political system is now doggedly proceeding to destroy the last vestige of economic freedom and security for legitimate and taxpaying citizens in this state, being their home. Therefore, enter House Bill 5002: Connecticut’s Horrific Housing Hell of Horrors.

As is standard procedure in Connecticut, journeys to economic and social destruction are preceded by the pontificators of the impending plague: "Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) issued the following statement today on House Bill 5002: "...“No matter how loud the anger, lies, and irrational voices get, we must remain steadfast in our mission to build more housing, lower costs, and grow the economy.” (https://www.senatedems.ct.gov/senators-looney-and-duff-release-statement-on-house-bill-5002-2). After systematically destroying the Connecticut economy over time, I, and many others did not realize that elitist/socialist State Senators Looney and Duff were experts in housing construction, experts in free market housing economics, Connecticut Taxpayer funded "affordable" housing and removing local control of land from Connecticut's 169 villages, towns and cities.  All in one big, beautiful, communistic/socialistic, power grab of a bill, the same HB5002.

 

Needless to say, the bill itself is the usual Connecticut Democrat Party mumbo-jumbo of incoherent gibberish that offers payouts to the politically connected in the state. The politically connected who know they can profit from it with its over one hundred amendments and supplements that have been added. Trying to read it all and actually understand the bill defies logic. (https://legiscan.com/CT/bill/HB05002/2025). It is inarguable that the bill is a true and classic rip off of the independence of local zoning laws, local land use laws and ultimately, the Connecticut Taxpayer. It promises a Utopian creation of all sorts of housing/transportation/affordability and a dream society that would be well beyond the reach of the collective mental candlepower of those comprising the Connecticut political and administrative system. Furthermore, this hellacious monstrosity proceeds as the state continues its economic decline to socialism and ruin with state government being the largest employer in the state, high taxes, a declining business environment and $100 to $150 billion dollars in short and long term debt along with unfunded liabilities in excess of any of the “fiscal guardrails” you may have heard of.  

But we know none of that does not bother the Connecticut Democrat Party in the least. Why should it? They know you are there to write the check.

Needless to say, the underlying grand design of this bill would be the Soviet-style veneration of a limited elite while working class areas will look like communist block homes of all the same sizes, color being gray, drab and uniform. Herein, the failed concept of the perpetual slum and the encouragement of vagrancy is once again resurrected, a concept that was reduced to a hail of gunfire, drugs, and gang violence in places like Father Panik Village in Bridgeport and Southfield Village in Stamford.

For example:

(https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00049-R00HB-05002-PA.PDF)

House Bill No. 5002
Public Act No. 25-49
AN ACT CONCERNING HOUSING AND THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS
PERSONS.

Page 9:Sec. 4. (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Social Services
shall, within available appropriations, develop and administer a pilot
program to provide portable showers and laundry facilities to persons
experiencing homelessness. Such program shall be implemented in not
fewer than three municipalities and shall provide not less than three
portable shower trailers and not less than three traveling laundry trucks.
The commissioner may contract with one or more nonprofit
organizations to administer the program. Not later than January 1, 2027,
the commissioner shall submit a report on the success of the pilot
program, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the
general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General
Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing. The pilot
program shall terminate on January 1, 2027. 

Page 10:(1) "Affordable housing plan" means a plan for the development of
affordable housing units in a municipality pursuant to subsection (b) of
this section;
(2) "Affordable housing unit" means a dwelling unit conveyed by an
instrument containing a covenant or restriction that requires such
dwelling unit, for at least forty years after the initial occupation of the
unit, to be sold or rented at, or below, a price that will preserve the units
as housing for which persons and families pay thirty per cent or less of
their annual income where such person or family is considered a low-
income household, very low-income household or extremely low-
income household;
(3) "Compliance implementation mechanisms" means (A) changes to
a municipality's policies and procedures, and (B) proactive steps a
municipality may take in order to allow for the development of
affordable housing units, including, but not limited to, (i)
redevelopment of a site, (ii) seeking funding for the development of
affordable housing units or sewer infrastructure, (iii) donating
municipal land for development, and (iv) entering into agreements with
developers for a development that includes affordable housing units;

What does this mean? There are many examples from this bill that should alarm all property owners and taxpayers. The bureaucracy that this bill creates should be an impetus and impulsion to move out of Connecticut ASAP. It is a land grab pure and simple. Unions and the politically connected will cash in building the slums of the future, which slums with no state economy to speak of will then become the taxpayer-supported welfare projects of the future. Bad and out of control residents will eventually receive the protection of an eviction-free world where regardless of what they do, they will be guaranteed a roof over their head and ruin the residential experience for good residents. Drugs, (then-legal), crime, and gang violence will return. But do not talk to me. Talk to the esteemed Senators Duff and Looney, who claim this is “economic development.”

Home ownership is a constant debate in our economy. Affordable housing has been a debate in our economy for well over 50 years. How is "affordable" housing defined in our economy after billions of dollars has spent by all levels of government to make it more "affordable"? The definition of "affordable" housing seems to change constantly according to political needs and wants not from a prospective of economic needs and wants. It should be logical that the less governmental interference there is with the housing markets, the quicker free market solutions can take place to make housing "affordable". It worked simply fine before Democrat-centric politicians systematically began destroying the system and the Black working-class almost four decades ago. Connecticut through this hellacious HB 5002 wants to control the entire process of housing to protect the wealthy mansions of Greenwich where King Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable and his cronies reside while destroying the working middle class communities throughout the state, the places where families saved money and bought their own homes without governmental intervention and ridiculous zoning laws.  

HB 5002 goes against any type of common sense when it comes to this concept of "affordable" housing. The costs of this bill for both the town and state are astronomical. My question to Martin Looney, Bob Duff and the Connecticut Democrat Party is how many homeless people do you have living in your spacious homes? Any? And what gives you the right to control housing in the state? Just more madness and controlled destruction, compliments of a political regime out of touch with any reality, and not caring the least bit about any of that.
 

 

The World Is a Volatile Place. (But Connecticut Is Always The Place With The Steadiest Of Habits)

 It was the week that it was. The Middle East. Russia vs. Ukraine. Musk and Trump. Tariffs. Harvard. The revocation of student visas. President Joe Biden was non compos mentis while in office. Volatility. Unpredictability. Danger! It is all a reminder that the only constant in the 21st Century world, is change, and tomorrow is always another day.

 However, year after year things never seem to show any positive change in Connecticut. You know, Connecticut! The Land of Steady Habits. And ask any decent law-abiding taxpaying citizen in Connecticut as to what these steady habits are and they will pick from the following list. Fraud. Concealment. Incompetence. Crime. Redundancy. Reading pornographic texts for children into the General Assembly record while Democrat elected officials make videos dancing and gagging like fools. Elitists using a “budget emergency” to launder investment cash to the UCONN Foundation via a specious tax credit. (June 5, 2025 THIRTY WITH TONY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8wCu_v35EQ (THE SHOW! DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE A HEART? THIRTY WITH TONY 6 5 2025) Drag Queens in Libraries. Drunken lawmaking. Drunk driving legislators applying for “accelerated rehabilitation.”  Followed by their perfunctory “repentance” and “turning the page”. Assaults on the home via corrupted zoning or gross mismanagement of rampant crime. National embarrassment.

THE SHOW! DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE A HEART? THIRTY WITH TONY 6 5 2025

Like we said: Steady habits. So steady that you can time a metronome to all of it.

But nothing characterizes “steady” in Connecticut like the formulation of the state budget. When the budget is assembled (calling it “crafted” would be an insult to the term) these same legitimate citizens can bank on higher taxes, more unfunded mandates, more non-budgetary bills being codified into disastrous laws therein, more reckless spending in the crumbling cities with no accountability, bogus “utility price cuts” and other impending disasters on the way to manifestation.

Per terms of the concept, this budgetary disaster is the steadiest habit of all.

Perhaps you like to talk about the budget in greater detail? Not much new to report other than once again we will await as to how the socialist-driven state Democrat party will now save us from ourselves again as they have every year for the past three decades. This year’s whopper of a budget increases state spending to $55.8 billion dollars for the next two years. As is par for the course, the state budget increases yearly while there never is a mention from any politician of any party of the $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities that the state has on its corrupted books. Who will pay this debt? When collapse comes, will property taxes triple as state aid crumbles? Is that the idea so that more trash new dimension slums of the future could be built in place of houses? Will your child’s school close? Will there be no police and fire services even if you hate police and firefighters and you need them at a point in your life? This is the cold hard reality of the world we now live in, a reality that no legislator has even given lip service to for many years running.

But these issues are not important. Other things are much more critical. With no eye towards consolidation or efficiencies and tax savings, this new budget magically increases redundant spending for the usual social services, domestic violence issues, drug addiction, education, municipal aid, and as usual pork barrel grants, gimmies, and freebies that the Connecticut Democrat Party loves in their never-ending quest to continually be re-elected and buy out the vote.  Also, Connecticut Taxpayers see no tax reductions. The idea is that you will pay more and more taxes . If you question this continuing path to disaster, you will be labeled a right-wing fanatic or a racist along with several other things. (For after all, Connecticut habits must remain steady).

Of course, the budget itself is not written for the common person. For who are you to demand fiscal accountability, anyway? For those sad souls that have read either the entire 279-page version of this monstrosity of fiscal gibberish or parts of it, you are to be commended. For those who do not have time since you are working many hours to pay your Connecticut state and municipal taxes here are some highlights for you to assist you in going insane, as not one dollar of spending was cut:

(https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/opm/budget/2026_2027_biennial_budget/governors_budget_2627_final_webversion.pdf )

Page 54: General Fund Debt outstanding is $1,682,162,437 and Interest on that is $853,058,397 for a total of $2,535,220,834. Looking at that in real terms, almost 8% of the budget is just General Fund Debt and interest alone. 

Page 68: Department of Economic and Community Development (“DECD”) budget for two years is over $560 million dollars in order to continue its inept and malfeasant “economic development” legacy of the “First Five”, Sema4, ADVANCE CT, Digital Currency Group and the (happily derailed) “Artificial Intelligence Bill” embraced 30-4 by the state senate this past May. Due to intentionally garbled records and disclosure, it is entirely unascertainable as to how much this department has wasted in your taxpayer dollars in no interest loans/bad loans/non repayable loans, “Ned Deals,” “Ned Deals We Have Not Found Out About Yet” and other crony-driven disasters.  Even with all this spending, Connecticut is last and or near last in most economic categories. Why does this sieve and debacle of an economic development agency continue year after year? To suffice political nepotism? Now move to Page 85: Same failed agency has a budgeted estimated cost of fringe benefits is over $7.7 million dollars. Why? It is inarguable that over a half billion dollars of taxpayers’ monies is wasted here, as Connecticut would still be dead last in all economic categories had not one dollar been spent by the DECD. Also keep in mind that the state would have had all of the funds not so wasted in the treasury in this case.

But wait! There’s More!! Help is supposedly now on the way for you, Mr. and Mrs Vassal, with "cuts in your electric bill" as somehow SB-4 "AN ACT CONCERNING ENERGY AFFORDABILITY, ACCESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY. To improve service and reduce costs for electricity ratepayers in the state.", does this trick. In reading and rereading this bill from an economic point of view, I really cannot see how it will save more than a few dollars of one's electric bill nor do I understand why the Republican minority voted in favor of it. The gist of this bill is to use state bonds to pay down some of the public benefits portion of your electric bill. Could any elected official tell me from where does state bond money come from other than the Connecticut Taxpayer or any foolish investor purchasing a Connecticut bond that is in danger of default? Thus, the burden of these "public benefits" changes paid by the Connecticut Taxpayer and ratepayer is the continuing due tribute for the massive amount of bonding the state embarks upon year in and year out. How does address the shortages of electricity in the state due to the incredible amount of "green" energy mandates that the state requires from its remaining two electric companies? The bill vaguely addresses bringing more natural gas into the state to produce electricity and allowing the evil nuclear energy segment of energy to have some new and limited capabilities. That said, who will be the great minds, leaders, and fiscal engineers who will marshal these bold new sources right to your wall switch in your home? Hint: You will not see these players sitting on the state bench, even if you look all of the way down (and even into the stands).

The new overspending by this $55.8 billion dollars budget is an incredible power grab by the Connecticut Democrat Party with little opposition by the Republicans. Since the outcome was a foregone conclusion, a great stand for principle and sanity for the woe-begotten taxpayer could have been made if every Republican had walked out of the chamber refusing to consent to this budgetary and faux legislative farce in the least way.  But principles, courage, clarity, and boldness in Connecticut always take a back seat every year to “collegiality and bipartisanship.” And as the steadiest habit of all, the collegial and bipartisan results are always worse than those of the last budget.

Once again, the Connecticut Taxpayer is damned by elitist power brokers and state-serving bureaucrats who care not one iota for those who actually work for a living in the state. And these days, they no longer even bother to hide this grievous fact.