To A Man With A Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like A Nail

No King's Day and Antifa

No Kings

The title of this post is an old saying, and like most old sayings there’s a lot of truth in it. A person wants to solve problems with the tools they know; it’s a lot easier than learning to use new tools (or new ideas). So, to someone who hates, any opposition looks like hate. I bring that up, because House Speaker Pretend Mike Johnson (known to some as Mikey Bible) has called Saturday’s No Kings Day events “the hate America rally.” (He was surrounded by fellow House Republicans, as you can see here. Well, what the hell, it’s not like they’re doing any of the people’s business right now.)

To Johnson and his fellow crypto-fascists (I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt), any dissent from their party line has to be hate, because they are the only ones who can truly love this country. They have the key to Ultimate Truth, and all the rest of us must be possessed by the devil. In that, they differ a bit from their leader, Trump, who does not know love or truth except as those concepts may benefit him directly. People like Johnson and John Thune (his counterpart in the dysfunctional Senate) probably understand—at least on a distanced, intellectual plane—what truth and honesty are, not that that stops them for a moment from ignoring those qualities to curry favor and make their own beds more comfortable.

It is precisely the confluence of loony, unabated corruption and calculated capitulation to evil that makes Saturday’s No Kings Day so important. Important not as an end, because no sane person thinks that—however many of us may go into the streets this weekend—the Trump regime will collapse, but vital as a milepost along our way to the redemption of democracy.

Some of you know this already, but in my town (Brookline, Massachusetts, birthplace of John F. Kennedy (about 3/4 of a mile from where I’m writing this) and home of Michael Dukakis (around the corner, well, a couple of corners)), we’re having an “unofficial” No Kings event:

I tried to get on the No Kings schedule, but they wouldn’t approve us, because they say we are too close to Boston, which is an “anchor city.” I tried to explain that many of the people who regularly demonstrate with us are in their 80s and even 90s, and some use walkers or wheelchairs or other “mobility devices.” I made the point that such people were not going to make it to Boston Common for a multi-hour event. No go. (The resistance has become bureaucratized, which may have been inevitable.)

So, we’ll be out there on our own—well us and a few hundred, or maybe a thousand, of our fellows. But we’ll be with the rest of you in spirit. And I hope devoutly that everyone who can possibly be out on Saturday joins us—really try to get all your friends and family out, even if just to stand long a road or on a highway overpass. Into the streets! That must be our motto now.

Antifa

In his tirade against No Kings, Lil’ Mikey Johnson told his listeners that he is sure that there will be Antifa-types out on Saturday. He seems to think that Antifa is a bad word. Now, I know that some have responded that Antifa does not really exist, but I have found archival photographs proving that’s not true. In fact, the following photo shows the first organizational meeting of Antifa:

It happened on the HMS Prince of Wales on August 14, 1941.

I have also unearthed a photo of Antifa leaders planning for violence:

March 25, 1945.

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