This originally accidentally posted Saturday. I thought I had hit the timer to publish today, when it actually is. But, I hadn't, so the original is deleted, with further expansion.
So, what's the deal with this No Kings movement, setting aside the false flag with No Kings signs by Vance Boelter?
No Kings? Comes off as basically Berniecrats. Not much in the way of actual leftists, let alone ones that might actively support third-party movements. Indeed, per Wiki's page on 50501, it strikes me as very much like the "Indivisible" movement, which I quickly loathed. Though all these people claim to be non-partisan, and the Democratic Party is not officially affiliated with them, they're para-Democrat people. None of them is friendly to third parties of the left.
Wiki calls 50501 "grassroots." I highly doubt that.
As for No Kings itself? It has an "about" link, but ZERO actual "about" info. Like the "Buy Nothing" of early this year, that's at least a yellow flag if not a red one.
Taking 50501 as its "backbone," let's note that the first protest was on Feb. 5, long before Trump's "big beautiful parade" was even planned.
I would march in an antiwar protest organized by Answer, North Korean affiliation and all, before I'd march in one of their events. (And I have actually knowingly done so before.) Speaking of? Where do these people stand on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza?
Probably bland bullshit on the latter and NATO/US warmongering on the former.
For that matter, if 350 is one of your partners, on climate change, you're probably climate change neoliberals who don't know Democrats stole the Green New Deal from the Green Party and then watered it down, who don't know that Sunrise Movement is the kiddie pool version of Gang Green Sierra Club, and who think the Paris Accords were real not Jell-O.
That's the other reason to challenge Ken Klippenstein's piece Saturday, beyond all the reasons I did this morning. These are the people who have no problem with the Deep State or the Nat-Sec Nutsacks™ establishment — as long as it's in "safe" Democrat hands. And, Ken's a duopolist himself, so a slice of my Saturday Substack note applies to him. There are many others it applies to as well. Alleged leftist Chris Hedges comes immediately to mind. I called out Hedges on Substack a couple weeks ago for not noting the general militarization angle; I'm sure he also either ignored, or doesn't care about, the duopoly-based angle of No Kings. Hedges also has other problems. Beyond hating on all atheists, not just Gnus, he's today's Charles Sumner, a religious leftist who touts a religious higher law. Hey Chris, what happens when your higher law meets the religious right's.
And, Klip on Monday now says "it's not a manifesto," or that law enforcement says it's not one. My first look at his first piece Saturday, I thought he had been "read in" more than he was revealing. Now, it doesn't look like he was "read in" more than any other investigative reporter. But, it would still be nice if, since Minnesota's state cop shop says it won't release it, Ken spills all that he knows. And, if he wasn't getting anything else Saturday than other media, and wasn't even getting all of it firsthand, well, then, that's another framing issue.
On the other hand, someone like Tim Shorrock "got it." Per his Shitter feed, on Saturday, retweeting other people in DC, he repeatedly mentioned "militarization."
We can certainly talk about Trump's slipstreaming on the Army's 250th anniversary with a parade for his birthday as well. We can criticize the price tag.
But, you know what? If Kamala Harris were president, Democrats would have no other problems with a Flag Day/Army 250th USSR-type parade. (That said, Merikkka itself did stuff like this back many decades ago, too.)
And you know who else puts Army 250th first, Trump birthday second? Wikipedia.
So, again, don't listen to bullshit from the left hand of the duopoly.
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