Taking Stock of What 'No Kings' Accomplished

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. 


Austen Allred

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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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3isHcXXMAAeQXo?format=jpg&name=360x360


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"Woodstockholm Syndrome"

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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