Fifth Day of the Hammer, 74th of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Electra): First of all, fuck the New York Times. Yesterday, seven million Americans marched in the nationwide No Kings protest. Seven million. With a population of 340 million, that's two percent of all citizens, 2.7% of the adults. One out of every 50 Americans participated (not me, but that was yesterday's post). But today, despite the staggering numbers, the largest mass protest in American history and one of the largest in the world, the No Kings event didn't even make the front page of the New York Times. 

The top headline in today's on-line edition of the Times is on the collapse of the Gaza peace treaty and, fair enough, that could arguably take precedent over the national protests (but even that's arguable). However, for reference and comparison purposes, 24 hours after the event, No Kings is still the third headline on The Guardian, after the Gaza story and an in-house investigative piece about MAGA vs. MAHA, but the Times couldn't be bothered to mention the protest at all. 

But you know what else the Times has on that front page that couldn't find room for No Kings? "Epoch Times Reporter Resigns After Publication Signs Pentagon Rules." Great, a one-person protest took precedent over a 7M-person protest. "How Wendell Pierce Spends His Day Exploring New York City." Sports news (norts spews). Recipes. "50(ish) Apparel and Accessory Picks for Fall and Winter." 

Way down at the bottom of the page, the third headline in the second category (US News) of the surmmary, is the only story that even mentions the protests, and that story is about a meme the Stable Genius posted about the protest. We'll get to that meme in a minute, but it's tempting to say that the New York Times seems to now want us to know the protests happened, or maybe doesn't want to be the one to tell us about it.

FFS, if 2 to 2.7 percent of the population did something, anything, else, it would be an above the fold headline. "Seven Million Tune in to Last Episode of Seinfeld." "Seven Million Women Wear Button-Down Blouses to Work." They won't run the headline, but soon it will be reported that "Seven Million Cancel Their Subscription to the New York Times."

Yesterday, while the protesters were marching, 100,000 of them through Times Square right outside of the Times' offices, their only story about it sniffed that the Times won't report on crowd estimates. "Content, not numbers" with regard to protests is what the Times deemed noteworthy. But when that number is 2% of the population, isn't that something of a story right there in and of itself? What's next, "we don't report the number of votes candidates receive, just the policies they endorse"?  FFS, NYT, the numbers ARE the story, goddamnit!  

So about that meme. The President of the United States of America, the most powerful office in the world, posted an AI video of himself wearing a crown (naturally) and flying over No Kings protesters in a jet that literally shits all over the crowds. Before you say, yes, but South Park has shown far worse, think for a minute if you really want to compare the dignity of presidential behavior to the juvenilia of South Park. Remember when Republicans lost their shit for nearly a week because Obama dared to wear a tan suit? 

To put it another way, how would they react if  Kamala Harris posted a video of herself in a jet shitting all over the Charlie Kirk funeral?

Winter is coming. Today, Fifth Day of the Hammer, is the last day of Autumn. Govern yourself accordingly.