{"id":4202,"date":"2025-11-14T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:02:32","slug":"potemkin-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"Potemkin Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/potemkin\/potemkin300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/potemkin\/potemkin650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>11 x 17 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/potemkin\/potemkin300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.5mb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;No Kings&#8221;<\/a> shitfest<\/strong> before we get the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.removetheregime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these assholes<\/a> are rolling into town on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/potemkin\/removeregimeNov22poster.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">22nd of November<\/a> \u2014 a quite apropos date for this shindig as I&#8217;ve often found myself wishing for a cheap Italian rifle and a school book depository lately.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">This is from the same blast of inspiration which coughed up the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; flyer parody, and my disgust\/amusement at the continuous parade of half-assed Democratic astroturf &#8220;Potemkin Revolutions&#8221; through my city, such as the latest partisan bitchfest headed our way next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Caitlin Johnstone published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excellent Substack piece<\/a> recently about the flood of fake movements \u2013 mostly Democratic Party front groups \u2013 hitting us <a href=\"https:\/\/flareusa.cargo.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/removalcoalition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other<\/a> this year. It&#8217;s not just the shallow fakery that&#8217;s got me pondering, but how this strikes me as some kind of &#8220;domestic &#8216;color revolution'&#8221; blitz by the Democrats. Like US-backed &#8220;color revolutions&#8221; in Hong Kong or Ukraine, the DNC&#8217;s domestic version functions much the same way \u2014 divert and waste attention, time and energy and promote US capitalist interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">It&#8217;s not enough for the DNC to suppress our voices in their media and their phony &#8220;democracy&#8221;; they have to add insult to injury by flooding the public protest space with these inane fake &#8220;movements&#8221; which cause no trouble, make no demands and constitute no threat to the State or to Capital \u2013 and so are ultimately useless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">11 x 17 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/potemkin\/potemkin300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.5mb<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb We&#8217;ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed &#8220;No Kings&#8221; shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into town on the 22nd of November \u2014 a quite apropos date for this shindig as I&#8217;ve often found myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1521,7,10,132],"tags":[1510,1523,1522,1180],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2028-election","category-elections","category-media","category-party-animals","tag-no-kings","tag-removal-coalition","tag-1522","tag-color-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}