- 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]
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!
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