{"id":2614538,"date":"2026-06-16T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/news-flash-miserable-old-hippies-hold-another-anti-trump-cringefest\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:20:46","slug":"news-flash-miserable-old-hippies-hold-another-anti-trump-cringefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/news-flash-miserable-old-hippies-hold-another-anti-trump-cringefest\/","title":{"rendered":"Miserable Old Hippies Hold Another Anti-Trump Cringefest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnews-flash-miserable-old-hippies-hold-another-anti-trump-cringefest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2614538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-rips-left-wing-outrage-over-appeal-to-heaven-flag\/\" title=\"Bill Maher criticizes left-wing outrage on &#039;Appeal To Heaven&#039; flag\">text offers<\/a> a scathing critique of a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >political adn cultural event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">perceived<\/a><\/a> as disorganized and mock-worthy. It begins by describing a scenario where certain individuals,including elderly HOA presidents and Hollywood figures like Jane Fonda,gathered in New York city to stage a counter-event opposing a donald Trump-supported UFC match. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katy-perrys-post-flight-comments-perfectly-illustrate-the-farce-of-jeff-bezos-historic-all-female-crew\/\" title=\"Katy Perry&#039;s Post-Flight Comments Perfectly Illustrate the Farce of Jeff Bezos&#039; &#039;Historic&#039; All-Female Crew\">author dismisses<\/a> these attempts as pathetic and lacking dignity, comparing them to a dying mountain goat, and sarcastically notes that Trump wasn\u2019t likely humiliated by these efforts. The piece criticizes leftist activism, characterizing it as rooted in narcissism and a desire for confrontation that ultimately serves to bolster their own sense of importance. It highlights the hypocrisy of framing their actions as a fight against repression when, according to the author, no real opposition exists. Throughout, the tone is mocking and dismissive, emphasizing the perceived self-importance of those involved. The article concludes by mentioning Chris Bray,a senior correspondent at The Federalist with a background in the military and academia.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>No Kings, no dignity. <\/p>\n<p>They counterprogrammed the UFC thing, and be sure to read the chyron carefully: The event was <em>not<\/em> Rise Up Sin Gout, though that would have been an appropriate thing to call it. While Donald Trump was watching fights and flyovers out on his front lawn, a pathetic coven of elderly HOA presidents was gathering in a theater in New York City to cosplay Dietrich Bonhoeffer while buying bottled water at the concession stand so they could gulp down their SSRIs.<\/p>\n<p>It was the worst thing in the history of the known universe. Watching it was kind of like seeing footage from a nature documentary of the moment when the old mountain goat limps away from the herd to fall down and die, except that wild animals have a little bit of nobility because they don\u2019t spend their lives being pampered and flattered like an ancient mid-talent diva. I <em>challenge you<\/em> to watch twenty full seconds of this:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Take THAT, Orange Man!<\/p>\n<p>I swear to you that this is a real sentence, taken straight out of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/obsessed\/trump-foe-hosts-star-studded-event-opposite-his-ufc-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">actual news story<\/a>: \u201cOscar-winning actress Jane Fonda plans to humiliate the president on his 80th birthday by hosting a star-studded rival event on the very same day.\u201d If you don\u2019t remember Jane Fonda winning an Oscar, I believe this was an event that took place somewhere around 1804, and the award was presented to her by Vice President Aaron Burr. Anyway, somebody pat Jane Fonda on its widdle head, because how brave.<\/p>\n<p>The story with the sentence about humiliation went on to <em>explain<\/em>, in case the slow kids missed the point: \u201cThe fact that the event, dubbed the \u2018Rise Up, \u200bSing Out\u2019 concert, is on June 14 is surely no coincidence. The counter-celebration will take place at the same time as the UFC Freedom 250 match, where thousands of guests will gather in the arena built on the White House lawn.\u201d It was tens of thousands, by the way, spread out well beyond the lawn.<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of going out on a limb, you kind of have to guess that Donald Trump wasn\u2019t humiliated. But the framing is important anyway, because it reminds us of the thing we already knew: Leftist political activism is a catch basin for psychopathology and sadistic narcissism. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forrest Gump - Wesley \"apologizes\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fOthjaVvX6A?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They like the <em>feeling<\/em> that the fantasy of confrontation gives them: We really <em>humiliated<\/em> Donald Trump tonight as we went through not just our Depends but also the back-up pair.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetownhall.org\/event\/rise-up-sing-out-a-concert-for-the-first-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">actual announcement<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-athletes-gop-ags-defend-womens-sports-at-scotus-13\/\" title=\"Female Athletes, GOP AGs Defend Women&#039;s Sports At SCOTUS\">event framed<\/a> it as a fight against repression: \u201cIn a moment when our fundamental freedoms are under threat, music has always led the way. From the civil rights movement to today, artists have been at the forefront of the fight for justice and free expression.\u201d\u00a0But <em>no one tried to stop them<\/em>. No one ever tries to stop them. They tell people who aren\u2019t trying to silence them that they won\u2019t be silenced, while the rest of us sigh heavily and go on with our day.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The least interesting human beings who have ever lived are endlessly certain that their existence is captivating and important, and if you hadn\u2019t heard, just give them a few seconds to get around to telling you again.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No dignity: they counterprogrammed UFC, not Rise Up Sin Gout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2614539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sin-gout-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[14436,6430,20910,5894,3970],"class_list":["post-2614538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-activism","tag-anti-trump","tag-hippie","tag-politics","tag-protests"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sin-gout-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614542,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614538\/revisions\/2614542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}