The protesters weren’t the only senior citizens at the ‘No Kings’ protests today. In Massachusetts, Senator Ed Markey was out in full force, yelling about the fact that we don’t have kings in the United States, as if we didn’t know that.
The ironic part is that Ed Markey has been in elected office in Massachusetts since 1973.
From his Wikipedia page:
Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from the state of Massachusetts, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served 20 terms (18 full, two partial) as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013. Before that, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. When Senator Patrick Leahy retired in 2023, Markey became 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 remainder of Kerry’s Senate term in a 2013 special election. Markey defeated Stephen Lynch in the Democratic primary and Republican Gabriel E. Gomez in the general election. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 2014.
Look at this old fool, talking about kings:
No Kings in Newton. No Kings in Massachusetts. No Kings in America. pic.twitter.com/5AqsDc0tSL
— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) October 18, 2025
Do you know why Markey was really at the protest today? Because he is about to face a younger challenger in Massachusetts and he needed to show the base that he’s still with them.
From CBS News in Boston:
Keller: Seth Moulton running against Ed Markey in Massachusetts Senate race is all about age
Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton officially announced Wednesday he’s running against 79-year-old Sen. Ed Markey in the 2026 U.S. Senate race.
“I just don’t think we can wait six years for new leadership in our party,” Moulton, 46, a Democrat who represents the Sixth District, north of Boston, told WBZ-TV. “The status quo is not working, and our party leaders are clinging to that old playbook that’s gotten us two terms of Donald Trump.”…
Moulton acknowledged Wednesday that “Senator Markey and I agree on a lot of the issues.” However, Moulton added, “He’s been in elected office for half a century. That’s longer than I’ve been alive. And I just believe it’s time for a new generation of leadership in Washington.”
Markey, like many others in Congress, needs to retire.
We don’t need lectures about kings from people who have been living off government jobs for more than half a century.