A palace guard: Sire, the peasants are revolting.
The King: You can say that again.
It’s an old line, with many variations, and none the worse for wear. The best lines, for me, were in the newspaper comic The Wizard of Id, especially for the depiction of the king — always pictured squat, grumpy, and dragging a tattered robe full length behind him.
I cannot imagine why both the line and the king reminded me over the weekend of the Confucian overlord of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. For he is not squat nor does he drag a long robe behind him — at least not in public. On the “grumpy” side the jury, as the saying goes, is out.
However, he surely does have the manner of a king. Purely on his own say-so he cancelled the account of the president of the United States, just days before a new one is to be sworn in. Jack, as most twitterers refer to him, has had four years to do this, but he waited till the last moment, using the attack on the Capitol as his excuse, when the backlash would be minimal, with his many anti-Trump confrères ready to toast him at the next Silicon Valley jamboree, and of course so many in the madly partisan anti-Trump press ready to dish out screeds telling him how brave and wise he is.
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