The No Kings rallies across the country this past Saturday - were the biggest protests in American history since and except for environmentalist demonstrations on the first Earth Day in 1970.
They were also a resounding failure.
Why were they a failure? Because Trump is still uninhibited and undeterred. He demonstrated that in a childish, ninth-grade way by releasing an AI video of himself flying a jet fighter that bombed protestors with feces. It was his way of tweaking his detractors: "Look, I'm scared, I'm scared!"
Oh, and one other thing: The media either covered the protests insufficiently or not at all. I didn't see any reporters or TV crews at the protest I took part in. The New York Times featured a couple of pictures on the front page with an explanatory caption that noted an article about the protests on . . . page 23.
Page . . . 23.
As Neil Diamond sang back in the early eighties, it ain't a front page story, and it some cases, it didn't make the papers. Losing democracy ain't new.
Except when . . . it happens . . . to you.
Oh yeah, don't expect the military to save us by staging a coup d'etat against their Commander-in-Chief. The military strikes on those fishing boats in the Caribbean keep happening, and although one Navy admiral resigned in protest, no one remaining in the military will even so much as challenge Trump's orders.
In semi-related news, former future President Kamala Harris celebrates her sixty-first birthday today, her first birthday as a retired private citizen.
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