From Coffee & Covid on 18 Oct ...
I do think they should be more
specific. For one thing, surely not
all kings are bad. If we depose the Burger King, who will stop the Hamburglar? Personally,
I could live without Stephen King, but I also say “live and let live.” Good luck to him, I say. Let him babble about his loony liberal ideas and abuse adjectives all he wants. Don’t
cancel him, for Pete Buttigieg’s sake.
Having invested more time than I care to admit studying this silly protest, investigating
George Soros’s funding trail, wondering about foreign coordination, and so on, I’ve come to understand one thing. “No Kings” is not a normal protest. There’s no particular policy or position they oppose or want changed. It’s just a big tent for anyone who doesn’t like Trump to enjoy a day of raging against the Trump machine.
It’s the All-Protest! Come one, come all! Every progressive complaint welcome!
No Kings is less like a protest and more like an
emotional clearinghouse for generalized Trump resentment. There’s no legislative demand, no policy plank, not even a unifying grievance beyond “Trump = bad.” It’s the political version of primal scream therapy — catharsis through ‘collective activism.’
In other words, it’s group therapy cosplaying as democracy. They should call it a mental health session. Instead of protest signs, they should hand out clipboards, mood surveys, and those folding paper crowns that Burger King gives out for kids’ fast-food birthday parties.