Hollywood comedian Tim Allen accidentally stepped into one of the strangest contradictions in modern American politics this week: a movement screaming “No Kings” while applauding an actual king.
“Would have been funny to see the facial reactions of an actual King with a no Kings parade yelling at him,” Allen posted on X after King Charles III addressed Congress.
Would have been funny to see the facial reactions of an actual King with a no Kings parade yelling at him. pic.twitter.com/QvqqKh4ZSk
— Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) April 28, 2026
Funny? Yes. But also revealing.
The same political machine chanting against “authoritarianism” rose to its feet for a monarch wrapped in royal ceremony while simultaneously flooding the streets for May Day protests organized by socialist, Marxist and openly communist groups. The irony was so thick it could be spread on toast.
One social media user summed it up perfectly: “The party chanting ‘no kings’ was clamoring to stand in ovation of a real King.”
Another added: “The democrats give an actual king a standing ovation. The irony.”
This is what happens when politics becomes theater and ideology replaces principle. The script changes depending on who is holding the microphone.
Meanwhile, Allen has been walking a very different road. Earlier this year, he revealed he completed a 13-month journey through the Bible.
“Humbled, enlightened and amazed at what I read and what I learned,” Allen wrote. “I will rest and meditate on so much. I will begin it again.”
That sentence explains more about America’s political divide than most cable news panels manage in five years.
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Because Scripture does something ideology cannot do: it confronts the human ego. Marxism feeds it. The Gospel crushes it.
The modern left has spent years replacing God with government, morality with activism and repentance with outrage. Now the same activist ecosystem behind the “No Kings” protests is marching under banners connected to May Day, a holiday embraced for generations by communist revolutionaries, atheistic regimes and anti-Christian political movements.
According to a Fox News Digital investigation, roughly 600 groups with an estimated $2 billion in combined annual revenue mobilized about 3,000 May Day protests nationwide. The network included chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America alongside communist organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Communist Party USA.
The coalition pushed slogans such as “No Work No School No Shopping,” “Tax the rich,” “No ICE. No War,” and “Workers Over Billionaires.”
The Revolutionary Communist Party called for dismantling the “capitalist-imperialist system.”
The Maoist Communist Union summoned activists to join an “Anti-Imperialist Contingent.”
And all of this erupted on May 1, a date loaded with spiritual and ideological symbolism.
Modern May Day politics traces back to socialist labor movements, but May 1 also overlaps with Walpurgisnacht, the occult festival tied to witchcraft folklore and later embraced symbolically within Satanic traditions. Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan on Walpurgisnacht in 1966.
That connection matters because Marxism and Satanism share a common instinct: rebellion against God-ordained authority.
One attacks heaven spiritually. The other attacks it politically.
Both reject submission to God.
Both enthrone self.
Both promise liberation while producing bondage.
The Soviet Union murdered Christians. Communist China bulldozes churches and monitors worshippers with surveillance technology. Marxist revolutions throughout history replaced crosses with governments demanding total allegiance.
That spirit never disappeared. It just traded military uniforms for protest signs and hashtags.
Fox News Digital reported that groups tied to Shanghai-based businessman Neville Roy Singham helped drive the protest ecosystem. The report stated that organizations in the network promoted narratives aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.
The article also noted that many organizations involved in the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests participated in the May Day demonstrations.
That overlap is not accidental.
A culture rejecting God eventually rejects truth. Then reality itself becomes negotiable. Men become women. Evil becomes virtue. Criminals become victims. Churches become obstacles. Borders become immoral. And suddenly people applauding kings insist they are fighting monarchy.
George Orwell warned about political language designed to make lies sound truthful. America upgraded the concept. Now the lie comes with hashtags, corporate sponsorships and celebrity endorsements.
Allen’s response stood out because it cut through the absurdity with one simple observation.
A man who just spent more than a year immersed in Scripture recognized hypocrisy the moment he saw it.
That tends to happen when people read the Bible.
The light comes on.
And once that happens, the circus stops looking normal.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a journalism background from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and at the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
