Trauma Boss is conditionally and temporarily released from hyper prison only to attend a No Kings Day protest. He doesn’t make eye contact with Dictator of Dictatortopia as he leaves.
Trauma Boss grabs a sign at a “rebel” sign-making party. His sign says, “No Kings! / Down with Fascism! / Fuck Leaders and Bosses!”
He goes out with throngs of employees, ex-slaves, recovering and experienced grassroots activists, interns and common folk and holds his sign. He slides it behind somebody’s umbrella so that the “Fuck Leaders and Bosses!” part is completely hidden.
People cheer and wave and laugh and celebrate for an hour. Everybody driving by loves Trauma Boss and he smiles and accepts adorations like he is used to. He has a great time with everybody! He appreciates them all and they all appreciate him.
Trauma Boss (grinning in a supportive crowd): “No kings! May none of us ever be forced into tightly confined, closed-doors multi-year secret relations with communities of fascists and national enemies! Break all prison walls! No kings!”
[after the protest trauma boss is hanging out in a small group of protestors and quips that most of the billionaires thinking they are colluding to acquire power are complete stooges and have no idea how to run a country, and dictator of dictatortopia is a bit of a blowhard. others laugh along but the way he says it raises a couple eyebrows. “oh? what is your experience with that?” trauma boss laughs and
[[[trauma boss: “well we were responsible for resting power in this country. We’d done it many times over. I combined my experience in criminal military espionage with machine learning marketer’s AI to traffick everybody and control all the devices in the nation. these guys have no idea what they’re up against. we’re going to rest power from them all. I don’t know why dictator of dictatortopia thinks he is so great.” most of what trauma boss said was so out of the tone of the environment that it went mostly unheard. people figured he was criticizing the military industrial complex. but — [one branch dropped]