Revolt

No Kings Redux.

I knew it was coming. Unlike last time, I couldn't get jazzed. 

I'd love to tell you I talked myself out of going at the last minute, but in reality I never made plans to attend.

My spirit is dampened to say the least. 

I can do 'woe is me' at home. And while I get that's not the point of these get togethers, I just couldn't muster the energy to go. 

The day here was perfect for it. It reached the upper 70s and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I can't tell you how many people came to the downtown Cleveland event - not because I was not there, but the new orgs I Goooooooogled just said "thousands". 

Yeahhhhhhhhh.......that tells a story, doesn't it? 

There were to be over 2600 protests country-wide. Ohio had a fair share of them. Even the NE Ohio red areas like Strongsville, Mentor, Hudson and the likes. 

I heard over 40,000 in Portland. 100,000 in NYC and Los Angeles (each). San Francisco had 50k. Chicago had "tens of thousands" - so that narrows it down. One report said there were over a million in Boston, but that last number seems highly unlikely. 

Many cities reported a greater showing than the one in June. 

That's great. 

But can we stop calling it "kings"?   

This fucktard doesn't want to be king, He wants to be - no IS - a dictator. 

Anymore, King / Queens are ceremonial figureheads at best. They are for show. 

Let's call this what it is. Even our own protests stifle the reality of the situation by not calling that out. Maybe "king" sells better in marketing shit, but it is so not the reality. 

I have to give it up to my Old Man's Running Group. Just about everyone who showed yesterday to run and eat at the bakery were leaving to go to one rally or another. It's a group where we rarely talk politics, but these guys were gonna go. 

Someone posted a few weeks back that the US is doing this all wrong - and maybe we are. They pointed to France where when they protest, they do it for days, weeks or months at a time, shutting down systems, cities, infrastructure. 

Let's be honest, like the title image, the Frogs have some history behind their success in that area. I mean, I'd PAY handsomely to go to a public execution of BLOTUS. 

What, if anything, comes out of these protests is to be seen. So far, no one in public office seems to be running scared of anything. Maybe we need to step up the game. 

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