CSotD: Coming Distractions
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Anderson is 100% right, but the real message is not in his cartoon but in the shrug it inspires.
January 6 was only a bit over four years ago, and everyone of voting age remembers that day.
The fact that the architect of that attempted coup was voted back into office is astonishing and hinges on the American public exercising their right not to know.
If things weren’t clear enough that day, they became clear in the subsequent investigations. We learned how Trump had demanded that people coming to his rally not be checked for weapons, and how, once the riot began, he sat back and watched and refused to intervene.
Or did we?
Those who wanted to know followed the testimony carefully, while those who did not want to know stuck their fingers in their ears, refused to listen and relied on the idea that the media lies. Except theirs.
Throughout Trump’s first administration, his staff struggled to explain the things he did and said. Today, they simply issue blanket denials.
Karoline Leavitt confidently insists that the president isn’t making money during his presidency and is losing money by serving the nation. And people ignore the sneakers and Bibles and NFTs and cryptocoins, and willingly believe that the man is nearly broke.
Though for a mere $5 million cryptocoin purchase, the president will personally reassure you that he’s making no money.
You can also, if you’d like, believe that the autopen, which has been in use by presidents since Harry Truman, was used by the mysterious Deep State to sign fake legislation while an incompetent Joe Biden sat drooling at his desk, or, if that seems ridiculous, you can believe Biden is dead and was replaced by a robot.
Though Trump didn’t explain why the robot needed an autopen, since presumably he could have one built in.
But the stories don’t have to be logical or consistent. We’ve got eight states contemplating laws against chem trails, and chem trails don’t exist.
Next week, we’ll roll tanks down the street in Washington, to remind everyone that Donald Trump is in command of the army and everyone in it, and it will be glorious.
And while Dear Leader won’t need to storm the Capitol a second time, he can use the tanks to put down any traitors who show up in the streets of America to challenge his rule.
Some say that would be unprecedented, but that’s nonsense. We saw tanks in the streets of Prague in 1968 and in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Restoring order is part of a well-run government.
BTW, I got a laugh out of Patrick Chappatte’s look at the Trump/Musk quarrel, because Dear Leader thinking that Putin and Xi like and admire him is ludicrous.
I wouldn’t accept the idea that they like each other a whole lot, either, but they can quarrel over the spoils once Trump has finished alienating the world, unless they already have an understanding.
Meanwhile, the Trump Team is headed for the West Coast, where all hell is breaking loose, according to the official reports.
Bearing in mind that we’ve got a population convinced Minneapolis and Portland were burned to the ground by protesters, despite what people who live there insist happened.
We didn’t send ICE and the National Guard out to LA to stand around and dig the sunshine. There is a riot going on out there and they’re going to find it no matter how hard they have to search.
Things started out peacefully, it seems, but apparently deteriorated as the weekend went on, and I doubt we’ll ever know who did what, except that one side is professionally tasked with keeping the peace.
“Keeping the Peace” would not, one would think, include shooting at journalists. If you look at the 17 second mark, you’ll see the officer deliberately target the reporter.
The rest of her broadcast is a good summary of the whole scene as well as a tribute to her ability to suck it up and get back to work, which brings us to the other major kerfuffle of the weekend:
I have no idea what got ABC correspondent Terry Moran so fired up at midnight, and I’m sorry that the White House got hold of this and turned it into a major incident.
Moran has been suspended pending further discussion, which, given that he deleted it shortly after posting, would likely have been a tongue-lashing and maybe a short suspension w/o pay, but has now been whipped up into A Very Big Deal.
As the gag goes, when you wrestle a pig, you both end up covered with ****, but the pig likes it. In keeping with that observation, Miller is probably enjoying the attention, and especially the chance to make ABC look bad.
You don’t have to be a journalist to see how dumb this was. Everybody knows you can’t flip people off when you’re driving the company car, and that’s how being famous works, too: Whether you’re a rock star or a national reporter or a star athlete, giving up your personal life is the price of fame.
You have to decide if losing your job is worthwhile. It might be, if you were leaking the Pentagon Papers, but I doubt insulting Steve Miller rises to that level, particularly since nobody likes him anyway.
If I were still a working journalist, I’d be jealous as hell of a woman who could stand in the street doing her job while some macho punk in a uniform deliberately targets her with a rubber bullet, and then get back up and keep reporting.
I agree with de Adder, who is paid to express opinions and offers a good one here.
I’ve known good cops and good soldiers, but the armed forces and police seem vulnerable to the recent glorification of the “manosphere” in which we hear whining from chest-beating losers who couldn’t get lucky in a bordello.
That’s always been an issue, but one that was at least theoretically discouraged from the top.
Now there’s a new kid leading the parade, and he’s oh so macho, and determined to keep everyone marching in step.
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