- I found the responses of the two grinning protesters empty and fatuous, but not incoherent. They are protesting to protest, because it’s “democratic.” It’s fun being in all that energy and shared emotion. I marveled at this back in college; I’d venture that most protesters at these large rallies can’t articulate what it is they are so upset about.
- I also think the mother might have brought her daughter to the “No Kings” rally as to experience democracy in action, and because they probably live in a community where the schools and institutions and communities are knee-jerk Left, and the mother can boast of her commitment and virtue. It’s sort of nice in a way.
- In New York, there were Palestinian flags, plus signs and chants calling for defunding the police. Communist groups were part of most of the demonstrations. Of course, pro-open borders, anti-ICE signs were in abundance too. Question: how do mostly moderate, educated, otherwise rational Americans appear to be allied with such groups—pro-terrorist, anti-law enforcement, anti-American—and not wonder, “Wait, why am I associating with these people?”
- There were riots in the demonstrations in Portland and L.A. “Peaceful protesters” threw bricks at police officers in L.A. Nice. How many of those people know that the “right to protest,” aka free speech, does not include throwing things?
- Doug Emhoff, Kamala’s Beta Male hubby, posed for pictures in Malibu with Trump Deranged D-list celebrities like Kathy Griffin. How low can you go?
- According to a copy of the permit for the “flagship” “No Kings” march in St. Paul, Minnesota, Indivisible, a national Democratic political advocacy organization funded by radical Left billionaire George Soros is the lead coordinator for the protest. Fox News reported that Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and self-proclaimed communist living in China also finances many of the activist groups that fueled the “No Kings” tantrums, including the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham.
My father used to tell a joke about a man who kept snapping his fingers compulsively. His wife sent him to a psychiatrist, who asked him, “What’s with the finger-snapping?” “It keeps the elephants away,” the man said.
“What?” said the shrink. “There are no elephants for hundreds of miles from here!” “See?” the man said. “It works!”
The “No Kings” protests are like that.
Ethics Alarms 
It’s a terrible shame that no Democratic operatives bothered to hand out the talking points to these poor women. At least they could have parroted something back to the mic.
Of course, that pre-supposes they know how to read…
But like you wrote, we still don’t have a King, so mission accomplished!! Keep snapping the fingers.
500 Groups With $3B In Revenues Are Behind The #NoKings Protests And Communist Call For ‘REVOLUTION’
PWS
Your dad’s joke later became the basis Ernie and Bert “banana in my ear gag, ” which is sort of the Who’s On First of Ernie and Bert on early Sesame Street, when Mr. Hooper was still alive, Big Bird was dumb as a post, and Elmo didn’t exist. Bert sees Ernie with a banana in his ear, and asks him why, Ernie says to keep the alligators away, and Bert says, “you meatball, there ARE no alligators on Sesame Street,” to which Ernie says, “works pretty good, huh?”
The only thing I can say at this point is that a lot of otherwise normal Americans let themselves be brainwashed by the loudmouths of the left and fed the view of the 60s through the golden lens of memory, when it was all about the young people with all these great new ideas (like camping out in VW vans that reeked of unwashed feet [bleah!], frying their brains with whatever came down the pike, having as much sex as possible, and generally ignoring anyone over thirty). Now they think they’re going to bring us into the Age of Aquarius.
“The only thing I can say at this point is that a lot of otherwise normal Americans let themselves be brainwashed by the loudmouths of the left and fed the view of the 60s through the golden lens of memory…”
They kept the memory alive through even family tv shows of the ’70s & ’80s. The collusion of Hollywood, the media and the Democrats is long and insidious. People were being programmed to accept leftist cant and even Alex P. Keaton was shown as growing only when he moved slightly out of the conservative box.
That joke annoyed me because it mashed up two different, equally silly jokes. The original was, “Hey, why is thee a banana in your ear?” “What??” “I said, WHY IS THERE A BANANA IN YOUR EAR???”
“I’m sorry, I can’t hear you. I have a banana in my ear…”
I think that was also parodied on “Sesame Street”, too.
The original joke was a bit on “The Simpsons”, too:
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn’t work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
Yes, but Homer asked, “Donuts. What can’t they do?” Sublime in its purity.
jvb
I was thinking the other day how confusing it is when your caregiver tries to teach you about the world. You end up with a mental model of how things work that is wrong because your caregiver didn’t have enough sense to actually learn how to reason.
It pains me to watch this.
On another video, people were chanting death to America and trying to block a citizen journalist from going into a crowd to ask people questions. The anti-border folk are hostile and EXCLUSIVE as everything when it comes to their ideological American hating safe spaces.
Celui-ci?
https://www.youtube.com/live/7PcN8025-f0?si=J7857STmIFpRIjUt
You end up with a mental model of how things work that is wrong because your caregiver didn’t have enough sense to actually learn how to reason.
That’s not really it, I do not think. Radicals reason a great deal, but they operate with sets of different “priors”. Neither the average Liberal (at No Kings) or the average Conservative (at Trump rally) can or do reason, frankly. They are in many ways of similar stock. And frankly (in some areas) the Trump “Conservative” is even on a slightly lower plane. They are a class that demagogues require.
And though some (higher-order) Conservatives have predicate-sets that are more conventional and better purveyors of Liberal philosophy (in the original sense), there is a developing critique of the (classical) American “Conservative” who (they often say) has not done the proper work of holding up (true) conservative ideas. They say “They conserve nothing” and they describe them as “Liberals” (in the newer sense) “who drive at the speed limit”.
And they also question (and at times deride) the “Boomer Truth Regime”. That insult, if it is one, does not win friendship!
I really like though that you know and I hope can teach (me, I am a good student!) “how things really work”. I am being (obviously) ironic because the truth regime really do believe they “know” the real truth. The saving truth. But I tell you honestly that among the questioning set (generally Millennials and younger) we are beginning to have our doubts.
It pains me to watch this.
Imagine how God and the Demiurge feel!
Sure. Some Trump supporters are strange. I am skeptical of anyone who votes for someone and can say nothing they disagree with. But the average Trump voter:
Your average liberal:
The Democrats have lost their way to such an extent that I cannot vote for them until they change course. I am a 90’s Democrat. I am not against the idea of welfare, and I don’t like people being discriminated against., even if I personally don’t agree with their personal choices. I am also not blind, and I am a huge supporter of free speech. One of the parties is very obviously better than the other.
The Democratic Party has now turned into the party of a college freshmen who smokes weed in his dorm.
The anti-border folk are hostile and EXCLUSIVE as everything when it comes to their ideological American hating safe spaces.
One of the main points I teach these days is the way to understand, through causal analysis, how this present generation was created. It is a tough lesson but, being a tough teacher, I accept responsibility.
First, they do not “hate America”. Rather they represent a New America which, certainly, the Boomer Generation helped to create. (Forgive me for focusing on that “Boomer” label but it is important). The Old America was one of general patriotism but also of very defined self-identity and I do mean White identity. America, up till 1965, defined itself in this way. Pride in nation, pride in people, and capable of seeing themselves as European stock and carrying forward a “destiny” particular to that cultural and racial group. Do you notice? By writing this I have, in the mind if readership, committed thoughtcrime. You are not allowed to think in these terms nor express what I just expressed.
You made decisions, and you accepted decisions taken, that fundamentally changed the entire nature of national identification. It was socialists and communists in the 1920s and 1930s that started this, but it was after WWll and then strongly in the 1960s where the Old America fell into disfavor. The former “binding glue” of identification, of pride, and of power, was morally challenged and vilified. The “polymorphous rebellions” of the 1960s, powered by intense lyrical protest songs and extreme youthful idealism, established a new value system, a new set of proper identifications in contrast to a set of condemned identifications.
Here we must take a side trip into an old pattern of focused hatred: The North’s condescending, visceral contempt for the Imagined South. In the “land of psychological projection” the Northernman visualizes the Southernman and channels hatred and self-contempt in a very peculiar mental and spiritual ritual. The divisions opened in the Civil War are “psychological patterns” extremely notable in our present. The divisions follow the emotional and to a degree the intellectual lines established then, during this defining conflict. Frankly, America learned to hate itself then, and through hate and projection the new America, and a new religion of politics came to be defined (one could say “was born”).
Then, in approximately 1965 under the pressure of the Vietnam War civil crisis and the Civil Rights Movement, a tidal wave of New Identifications washed over the mental landscape and through the education system. Similar to Soviet indoctrination, but empowered by an academic class and, super importantly, the American Business Class. The Nation had to be remade along lines of New Identity. Always, the figure to be hated could be invoked kind of like in Orwell’s Two Minute Hate: the trope of the Southern Racist. A multi-use mental figure onto which the “sin” of original Americanism, of former expunged identity, could be cast and projected. There are maybe as many as 20 films of the 1970s-2000s that present this “hatable figure”.
Then we must turn to the definition of that most important of wars: the World War Two. This involves a furiously expressed anti-fascist mood that is quite similar, psychologically, to the invocation hatred of the Southern Racist. The Nazi was born as the Emblem of what is utterly detestable, indeed anti-human: the stand-in for Satan and for all that is hateful in man.
You taught this to your children! You put them through elaborate snd dramatic moral rehearsals where, visualizing their fine and righteous American selves there among either the Southern Racist class, or in Nazi Germany among the Fascists, they themselves would “rise up” and rebel against cultural satanism! Because, you see, they SEE and they understand the True Doctrines of human salvation.
This explains “your children”. They went through the reeducation camps, they absorbed the Truth, and they were transformed into apostles of New Americanism.
The amazing thing? That you do not really see nor understand much of this. Your country has been transformed, literally remade, in new imagery that is woven into its Civil Religion! And now it is as if a generation of Zombies roam about through the streets. But they are weirdly mind-dead. They are like shells of the human. Gobs of protoplasm without a notable brain-mass. Effectively, all that they can really do is to riot, because riots of confused impulses rage in them. When they see, or when they sense, that Dread Fascist or the White Nationalist, they do not think their rage, rage rises up in them like a Holy Spiritual Fury!
And, it was illustrated in the Simpson episode, Much Apu about Nothing:
Homer: Ah, not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, honey.
Lisa: By your logic, I could claim this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn’t work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock!
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around here, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
Lisa reluctantly accepts Homer’s money.
-Jut
Great minds think alike!
“Where learned you this, Jut?
”It’s on the St John’s College reading list…”
”Oh dear God…” (:::reaches for the cyanide flask:::)
Uh, come again?
-Jut
Always looking at the bright side of life; at least there are some young people at the No Kings rally. Most of these protesters are aging baby boomers who earn extra money by being bussed to any demonstration organized by Soros backed organizations.
We’ve been in NYC the past several days. Happened to be strolling to our restaurant in Times Square on the day of this protest.
I heard claims the protest was, nationwide like 8 million people. We saw about 30 and they were all aging white boomers at this one. So I’m skeptical.
We got into our restaurant which was pretty “intimately” seated. We were very close to a two older ladies who were just aglow from their days’ activities but we couldn’t hear the conversation.
They stood up to leave and bumped me
One of the ladies: “oh pardon me! Sorry!”
Me: “understandable and a no problem!”
Her: “how has your day in New York been?!”
Me: “real fun! How bout yall?”
Her: “we’ve been marching!”
Me (thinking marching was a euphemism for having walked like 1,000 miles which is what we’d just been doing all day seeing the sights): “feels like it!”
Her: “we’ve been in the No King’s Protest all day”
My wife (staring in wife code): *don’t say anything*
Don’t say anything
Don’t say anything
Me: “well isn’t it great that don’t have one then?”
She left with a bit of a harumpf.
Indeed. By most measures, it was a successful protest. They didn’t want a king. They didn’t get a king. They won! Wahoo!
jvb
Democrats cried when we killed the Ayatollah (arguably worse than a king)
Democrats cried when we removed the dictator of Venezuela.
They aren’t against kings.
Well, then there is this:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HDPz0UScKn8/
https://torontosun.com/news/national/ndp-leadership-convention-equity-cards
jvb