Neary Every Day In My World
By Mitch Berg
This is, as Barack Obama might have called it, a “composite conversation”. It happened – in bits and pieces, with different people.
No Kings Protester (“NKP”): No kings!
Me: Couldn’t agree more. And what luck – we don’t have one!
NKP: You know what we mean. Donald Trump is acting like a King!
Me: I mean, if you disagreed with ICE’s tactics, I might agree – but that doesn’t make Trump a king any more than it made Bill Clinton one when the FBI killed Randy Weaver’s family or killed almost 100 people, disproportionally children, in Waco…
NKP: I don’t know anything about that, and I don’t care.
Me: OK ,that’s fine. But you DO know that the “No Kings” organization demonstrated against the removal of Victor Maduro, who has murdered tens of thousands of people…
NKP: I don’t know anything about that.
Me: And in favor of the dictators of Cuba, who’ve murdered tens of thousands of Cubans and many more around the world.
NKP: Don’t know, don’t care.
Me: Huh. And today the organization is supporting keeping the Mullahs in power – and they may have murdered more of their own people in a single day than the Nazis ever managed.
NKP: Not sure how that’s relevant.
Me: Well, “No Kings” keeps supporting actual dictators.
NKP: I don’t know about any of them.
Me: And billionaries, too?
NKP: Yep!
Me: So you’re aware that “No Kings” is funded by a network of plutocrats, including not only the usual Soros family trash, but Neville Singham, the billionaire who moved to Shanhai and is dedicated to spreading Communism – which has murdered as many as 100 million people?
NKP: So you say. I can’t confirm any of that.
Me: You certainly COULD if you wanted…
NKP: I oppose kings in the US. That’s ALL I care about.
Me: Huh. Like when Trump created a snitch line, an Orwellian thoughtcrime database, fired people who stood up for their medical autonomy, and pushed censorship of dissent and drove legislation to gut the Fourth Amendment for law-abiding citizens…
NKP: Yeah! That’s some real fascist snizzle, there.
Me: Every last one of those was either Tim Walz or Joe Biden.
NKP: <blinks>
Me: So it appears to me, a mere casual observer, that while you may oppose kings, you seems to be fine with dictators.
NKP: JANUARY 6!
Me: How so?
NKP: FASCIST! FASCIST!
Me: Wait’ll next week when we talk about the leftist and socialist roots of “fascism”
(But NKP has left the conversation).
Al
