There are always these movements that are under the nose of the elites and the politicians from Washington D.C. that catch my eye. These gesticulations highlight what the people on the ground are thinking or feeling. Far away from the halls of Congress and the seats of power are shadow campaigns on the ground that reflect the mood of the populous. Examples of this are the general election campaigns of John Kerry and George W. Bush for the presidency in 2004. Americans were doing something under the noses of Washington back then. The first example found in the dark corners of society and not seen by the elites was the urinal campaign. John Kerry was a Vietnam protester when he came back from the war.

Jane Fonda’s iconic participation in that protest was such an anathema to military families, that the urinal movement came to life decades later. All of a sudden, in the restrooms of many Veterans Service Organizations like the American Legion, Amvets, and other veteran halls and social clubs; rubber urinal mats with the face of Jane Fonda started appearing at the bottom of the urinals. Men got to stand up and piss all over Jane Fonda’s face. Now of course the organizations themselves were not responsible or even knew about it, but the people were just pissing away. Fonda backed Kerry for the presidency and John Kerry was so despised by the military guys that he served with, that they worked together to end Kerry’s campaign. There was even a name for it, the term Swiftboating came to the forefront of the American lexicon at the time.

Jane Fonda was already despised by at least two generations for being a left-wing loon. So, drinking a beer at the bar at a veterans social club, and then pissing all over Jane Fonda’s face on a mat at the bottom of the urinal, was just part of the 2004 presidential race. This whisper campaign in the restrooms was as real as Mount Rushmore, and it existed under the nose of the press, the elites, and the wicked politicians.

Another example of how the people speak to each other under the gaze of the American autocrats was an underground video game during the George W. Bush presidency. On 14 December 2008, an Iraqi journalist named Muntadhar al-Zaidi took off his shoes and chucked them at President George W. Bush during a televised press conference. Bush showed amazing reflexes quickly ducking under the flying shoes, never getting hit by either of them.

An underground video game was created about the incident. The game was called “Shock and Awe”, and it was a pun off the US shock and awe military start of the Iraqi War. The game was created by British entrepreneur Alex Tew. Alex recreated the Bush shoe-throwing incident and put the player in control of the journalist who chucked his shoes at George W. Bush. It was so fun to play, my daughter was young at the time, and she loved sitting on my lap throwing shoes at the president. A child could operate the game, just push the button and the shoe goes flying towards Bush’s face.

The game became viral before we used that term. I highly doubt that the President of the United States, at the time, had any idea hundreds of thousands of people were throwing shoes at his face every day from the comfort of their homes. This was yet another whisper campaign by the masses under the yoke of their rulers. Whether we were pissing on Jane Fonda’s face or throwing shoes at George W. Bush, the public has its own ways of getting a political message out amongst each other.

The latest example of this was the restaurant receipt campaign. People started writing on their receipts to vote for Donald Trump and your tips will not be taxed during the 2024 presidential campaign. I highly doubt the upper-crust know-it-alls had any idea how prevalent that was. There were certain restaurants where the servers were having contests to see who would get more Trump receipts. I smile when I think of how Americans surreptitiously speak to one another under the nose of the 21st-century Orwellian watchers. This was another whisper campaign from America’s proletariat that proves once again, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the working class does not swallow their elite bullshit.

C. Rich

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C. Rich

C. Rich is the voice behind America Speaks Ink, home to the America First Movement. As an author, poet, freelance ghostwriter, and blogger, C. Rich brings a “baked-in” perspective shaped by growing up on the streets and beaches of South Florida in the 1970s-1980s and brings a quintessential Generation-X point of view.

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