That's where our politics are now: Take the slightest perceived potential advantage and blow it up by a factor of a thousand.
Then be really, really outraged.
This actually gets us nowhere, of course.
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It's like going to breakfast and asking where the milk is, and some goofball thinking you want directions to the local KKK meeting.
They might think you mean MLK Day which is the holiday on the 3rd Monday in January.
That's actually more plausible. In New Orleans it's common to refer to Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard as "Milk Boulevard". One of the deliberately self-effacing mispronunciations along with "pee-tolemy" (for Ptolemy) and "C.L. 10" (for Clio)