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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   Like many Americans, I watched with interest as the “No Kings” spectacle   
   unfolded. It was rather like a box of Monty Python's chocolates. I had no   
   idea what I was going to get, but I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like   
   it much. In this, at least, I was not disappointed.   
      
   So, what, exactly, did this crunchy frog of a “No Kings” thing accomplish?   
   We haven’t had any kings since the day we declared our independence. And   
   before I had my coffee made this morning, I was deeply concerned, so I   
   checked. Turns out, we still don’t. So, apparently, the protests were   
   quite successful in helping us dodge the bullet. (Well, we still have   
   Stephen King, but, undesirable as that may be, let’s not worry about that,   
   at least for now.)   
      
   From the after-action reports that I’m seeing from around the country,   
   indications are that, for the most part, grayer heads prevailed among the   
   protesters to the tune of 80% or 90% in some cities. Based on appearances,   
   the protest organizers must have raided every bingo hall they could find   
   in every reliably leftist city in the country. (That might explain the one   
   group shuffling around the Colorado state capitol that was reportedly   
   chanting, “B27.”)  I suppose many viewed it as a last fling for the   
   Woodstock generation.   
      
      
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   “We dropped the whole ‘no kings’ theme of the protest so as to not upset   
   the monarchy” is so unbelievably funny   
      
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   They're no longer protesting anything meaningful. They're protesting   
   because it's fashionable, because it's the only thing they have left. It's   
   revolutionary cosplay. A pressure-release valve for a populace with   
   absolutely no power over its ruling class.   
      
   I was amazed at how many of the protesters were riding motorized   
   wheelchairs, Rascals, and the like. Must have absolutely killed the   
   batteries in those things.  An odd sight, all told , for a group of people   
   supposedly representing new and fresh ideas. And that ignores all of the   
   points I brought up in yesterday's VIP column.  Still, same story. We   
   didn’t have any kings the day before yesterday. The as-yet-unconfirmed   
   result is that we still don’t. Good job, gang.   
      
   I’m also seeing reports from folks on the ground that many were well-   
   rewarded for their efforts, with most reports indicating $300 to $500 for   
   the day. I’ll leave to others the task of documenting where, exactly, that   
   money came from and, for that matter, how the tax situation was handled.   
   It should be noted that not all of them were paid. I guess they simply   
   wanted to be involved with something larger than themselves.  It does   
   leave me wondering how small you need to be to have something like this   
   measure larger than you are.   
      
   According to what we're being told, the job included being bussed in,   
   carrying a pre-made sign for a couple of miles for the sake of the   
   cameras, and then being bussed out again, in some cases to another   
   location to march there. When you’re thin on marchers, it’s what you need   
   to do, I suppose, to generate a multiplicity of those impressive-looking   
   pictures in the news tomorrow. The result of all that effort being that,   
   again, we don’t have any kings. Now, of course, we didn’t have any kings   
   day before yesterday, either, but it’s best not to dwell on such minutiae.   
   So, great job, all. You got what you wanted.   
      
   Oh, and in Times Square, the crowd dispersed at exactly 1 p.m. All of   
   them. Yeah, strictly a grassroots effort, that. Given the relative age of   
   the protesters, I can only assume that they all left at that time because   
   the Golden Girls marathon was on at three. Or perhaps they were due to   
   appear on the bridges over the Cross Bronx. Anyway, for that effort, they   
   got what they wanted. We still don’t have any kings. Yeah, great job.   
      
   I didn’t get up to nearby Rochester, but I hear from friends in the area   
   that the same thing happened in the downtown area there. In that   
   situation, they packed up and “organically" moved on to one of the 'burbs   
   to march there.   
      
   How many people went to this farce? I did gather a few examples before I   
   went to bed last night. NBC reports that there were some 3,000 marching in   
   Boston, a city of about 676,000 people. That's 0.443% of the good people   
   of Boston deciding to participate. In Huntsville, Alabama, a city of about   
   300,000 people, they managed to gather up around 1,200 for their   
   performance. Uh, folks, my admittedly rusty math tells me they got around   
   0.4% of that city's population too. Reports from other cities that I   
   checked were of a similar paltry nature, usually smaller in percentage,   
   even, than these examples.   
      
   Pulling back for a broader view doesn't help those numbers. The immensely,   
   reliably accurate NBC reports that the "No Kings" organizers claimed to   
   have gathered up the impressive sounding number of around 7 million   
   marchers nationwide. I’m not going to impugn the honesty of the organizers   
   by suggesting they pulled that number out of thin air, so let’s go with   
   what we are given:   
      
   At the last census, the population of the kingdom—err sorry, the   
   country—was 347 million people. Not including illegals of course. So that   
   7 million they managed to scrape up constitutes around 2% of the   
   population. Indeed the only places they got any kind of serious crowds   
   were in the deepest of deep-blue cities. The rest of the country seemingly   
   declined the invitation to look like an idiot for the cameras. And those   
   figures make the assumption that the protesters were all legally in the   
   country. I think we have a really good working definition for performative   
   protests.   
      
   Honestly, I expected a better showing. I can hear Marvin the Martian   
   complaining: "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-   
   shattering kaboom!" Still, that great effort resulted in us having no   
   kings. Just like the day before. So, great job. You got what you wanted.   
      
   Now, look at the pic at the top of this page and ask yourself: What does   
   this "No Kings" march have in common with a statue of Lenin from the   
   armpits up?   
      
   Clearly, they’re both called an artifact of a nearly extinct political   
   system, and a bust.   
      
      
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   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama   
   / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
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