Speakers included U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, State Sen. Ceci Maher, State Rep. Matt Blumenthal, and activists from Equality CT, the ACLU and Working Families Power

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It was like Woodstock all over again for many aging liberals.

Except instead of "peace, love and happiness," the sentiment at the Stamford "No Kings" protest was more like, "f*ck ICE, free Palestine and 86-47."

And there were plenty of Trump-Hitler references, too.

A Hearst reporter and police officer each separately estimated that 500 to 1,000 people had packed into the lawn in front of the Superior Court, but State Rep. Matt Blumenthal claimed it was more like "5,000 people" in a Facebook post.

Congressman Jim Himes kept chanting "five simple words" -- "there are no kings here" -- as he played into how "depressing, anxious and fearful" democrats are feeling right now.

"I spend a lot of time in the black church... it is probably the most wonderful distillation of God's love, the highest concentration of the values we all hold dear, Christian or non-Christian," said Himes, laying it on thick.

"And the reason I tell you this is that when you sit in a black church amongst the children of people who suffered for 400 years, more than any other people in this country of great promise, there is another five words that rings out and I need you to remember them," continued Himes. "Joy cometh in the morning. No matter how dark the night is, no matter how anxious, no matter how fearful, joy cometh in the morning."

Matt Blinstrubas from Equality Connecticut took the mic next, complaining that "all three branches of government" are attacking LGBTQ rights.

He boasted about how democrats in Hartford blocked all proposed Republican legislation to "curb" their rights, and "did not give any of those bills so much as a public hearing."

The ACLU sent a representative, Dan Barrett, to "bring some love" to the crowd.

Then a wild activist from Working Families Power, Mars Rodriguez, used his "very loud voice" to deliver a speech that would have made Marx proud.

"This present moment is not an issue of partisan politics, this isn't about left or right, this is the culmination of the class struggle," he argued. "It is therefore our duty as the people of this nation to not only ensure that MAGA fascism does not represent us, but to ensure that we don't go back to the status quo..." in other words, viva la revolucion.

The Working Families commie was followed by State Sen. Ceci Maher, the woman who proposed legislation that would prevent parents from challenging inappropriate library books and also give librarians a cause of action to sue parents for emotional distress caused by daring to challenge a pornographic library book.

Maher wants to "take back the American flag" from Trump... which means she got the message about the "negative optics" after that video went viral of the LA rioter standing on a trashed car while holding a Mexican flag with cars burning in the background.

Then she actually said the deadly attack by a Tim Walz appointee who killed Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman yesterday, "stands solidly on Trump's head."

She also moaned about how "they are going to take away all the money" from PBS and NPR.

"We need media that is going to tell us the truth," said Maher, who conveniently left out the fact that her daughter is the CEO of NPR, the same NPR that has been acting like a communications arm for the democrat party.

State Rep. Matt Blumenthal took the stage last. He opened up by chanting "no kings, no kings, no kings in America," before complaining about Trump's election integrity order that would require voter ID.

Blumenthal bragged about taking steps to defy Trump on progressive issues like LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, the shield law, the funding of Planned Parenthood, and protecting illegal immigrants under the state's Trust Act.

"Did you think that we acceded to these illegal Executive Orders here in Connecticut?" Blumenthal asked the crowd. "Hell no, we didn't!"

After Blumenthal finished speaking, the protesters made their way to the sidewalk, and marched down Hoyt toward Summer and then Broad Street, while chanting things like, "hey hey, hey ho, these fascist f*cks have got to go" and "no ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA."

A number of shop owners on the route complained that their businesses were negatively impacted by the peaceful, but not exactly friendly, protesters.

Though that didn't bother the protesters who seemed to think that standing in the street, yelling and swearing about how much they hate Trump is actually accomplishing something more than earning them a feature in the upcoming “Highlight Reel of Wokeness.”

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