The protesters weren’t the one senior residents on the ‘No Kings’ protests immediately. In Massachusetts, Senator Ed Markey was out in full drive, yelling about the truth that we don’t have kings in the US, as if we didn’t know that.
The ironic half is that Ed Markey has been in elected workplace in Massachusetts since 1973.
From his Wikipedia page:
Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician serving because the junior United States senator from the state of Massachusetts, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Get together, he served 20 phrases (18 full, two partial) because the U.S. consultant for Massachusetts’s seventh congressional district from 1976 to 2013. Earlier than that, he was a member of the Massachusetts Home of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. When Senator Patrick Leahy retired in 2023, Markey grew to become the dean of New England’s Congressional delegation.
In 2013, after John Kerry was appointed United States Secretary of State, Markey was elected to serve out the rest of Kerry’s Senate time period in a 2013 particular election. Markey defeated Stephen Lynch within the Democratic major and Republican Gabriel E. Gomez within the common election. He was elected to a full time period within the Senate in 2014.
Have a look at this previous idiot, speaking about kings:
No Kings in Newton. No Kings in Massachusetts. No Kings in America. pic.twitter.com/5AqsDc0tSL
— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) October 18, 2025
Have you learnt why Markey was actually on the protest immediately? As a result of he’s about to face a youthful challenger in Massachusetts and he wanted to indicate the bottom that he’s nonetheless with them.
From CBS News in Boston:
Keller: Seth Moulton operating in opposition to Ed Markey in Massachusetts Senate race is all about age
Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton formally introduced Wednesday he’s operating in opposition to 79-year-old Sen. Ed Markey within the 2026 U.S. Senate race.
“I simply don’t assume we are able to wait six years for brand spanking new management in our celebration,” Moulton, 46, a Democrat who represents the Sixth District, north of Boston, informed WBZ-TV. “The established order shouldn’t be working, and our celebration leaders are clinging to that previous playbook that’s gotten us two phrases of Donald Trump.”…
Moulton acknowledged Wednesday that “Senator Markey and I agree on loads of the problems.” Nevertheless, Moulton added, “He’s been in elected workplace for half a century. That’s longer than I’ve been alive. And I simply consider it’s time for a brand new era of management in Washington.”
Markey, like many others in Congress, must retire.
We don’t want lectures about kings from individuals who have been dwelling off authorities jobs for greater than half a century.
