{"id":10767,"date":"2025-10-25T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:04:36","slug":"the-un-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/10767","title":{"rendered":"The Un-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The house speaker has the arrangement backwards. Mr Johnson is the employee<\/em>. We (TheAmericanPpl\u2122) are the employer<\/em>. He works for Us. We pay his salary. Dig? We NoKingers are taxpayers, Johnson. If you’d step outside your own head and look around you’d soon find that the protesters you so cavalierly dismissed as “un-American” are themselves GovCo employees (just like you!), war veterans, investors in T-Bills, IBonds, TIPS, stocks of military sub-contractors etcetera etcetera. Collectively not only are very many of these protesters paying your salary – never more reluctantly so – these hard-working Americans as you so cynically refer to them when it suits your purpose are directly invested in America. And you have the temerity to refer to them as “un-American?” You ungrateful sniveling little toady. Who do you think you could be? If I were king I’d fire your ass in a hot second. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. It used to be said, mostly by Libertarians but old-fashioned, small-government, abolish-the-income-tax republicans as well, that it was government<\/em> employees who were parasites on capitalism and thus they were the real “un-Americans.” How dare you try and reverse the shibboleth. You want to see a real un-American, Johnson, look in the mirror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Johnson is a lawyer; according to his wiki page he was especially adept at defending religious liberties. How quaint. Before creeping into congress he once defended a group that wanted tax incentives to build a Noah’s Ark amusement park (on a property adjacent to the owner’s Creation Museum<\/em>) against the loud objections of local taxpayers who didn’t want to pay for this nonsense. Johnson won the case, on a legal technicality, but you have to ask yourself why he would align himself with the cause of religious wingnuts. Unless, maybe, he’s come to believe that these wingnuts are the real<\/em> Americans, and that it’s the disbelievers (and\/or believers in the wrong<\/em> fantasy) who are the un-Americans, and the best way to rid the country of these un-Americans is to out them, turn real<\/em> Americans against them, and in this way start a holy war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just thinking out loud here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The house speaker has the arrangement backwards. Mr Johnson is the employee. We (TheAmericanPpl\u2122) are the employer. He works for Us. We pay his salary. Dig? We NoKingers are taxpayers, Johnson. If you’d step outside your own head and look around you’d soon find that the protesters you so cavalierly dismissed as “un-American” are themselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10767"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10776,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions\/10776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}