Posted on 07/06/2024 4:55:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Things were bad, and they knew things were bad, and they knew others must also know things were bad, and yet they would need to pretend, outwardly, that things were fine. The president was fine. The election would be fine. —Olivia Nuzzi, NY Magazine.
There’s a reason that the fable of The Emperor’s New Clothes is so potent: it describes a mentally ill society that retreats into abject unreality, to avoid contending with truth. Alas, this archetypal human quandary shoves such a society towards nemesis: downfall and punishment. And that is exactly the consequence of our news media’s craven, dishonorable, degenerate behavior the past decade.
They have disordered our nation’s consensus about reality with peremptory lying about everything, in service to a political party that lies to its citizens about everything. The big question is: who or what recruited them into serving the Party of Chaos, and why did they go along?
You can explain the media’s initial repugnance to Donald Trump going back to his 2015 debut in politics. Much about him had a low-class odor, despite all the gold-plating — his origins in tawdry Queens, his career as a builder in Manhattan where the trades are mob-controlled, the Atlantic City casino debacle, bankruptcy, ditching Ivana and his mid-life playboy reputation, the tacky TV show, the increasingly mystifying hair-doo, his rough, jumbly manner of speech. Everything about him repelled the Ivy Leaguers who increasingly filled the ranks of national-level journalism.
Despite all that, Mr. Trump raised five kids successfully. The grown ones had careers and they all visibly loved him. With that and his overt masculinity, he assumed the lineaments of the archetypal Daddy, which enflamed the enormous cohort of feminists who had taken over the Democratic Party behind their avatar Hillary Clinton. And when he squeaked out an electoral victory over her in 2016, they were sure it was a cheat. The menace of Daddy in da (White) house pushed them over the edge psychologically.
Daddy was all about setting boundaries, which was the antithesis to the “progressive” (and transgressive) agenda of the Dems, and was probably the reason that his talk of “building the wall” along the Mexican border drove them nuts. It signaled patriarchal control of a whole lot of other things, too. Boundaries galore!
Now, it happened that the Democratic Party was also the favored party of the DC permanent bureaucracy, which had been growing and growing for decades and had become overtly politicized during the eight years of Barack Obama. Mr. Trump threatened to downsize this leviathan government, meaning many patronage jobs might be lost. (Boundaries would be imposed!) The warrior branch of this Deep State was the Intel community. The FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the State Dept, and elements of the military were commissioned by the Democratic Party to destroy Mr. Trump.
They used the machinery of the law to lay one trip after another on the president and effectively hog-tied him — RussiaGate, the Ukraine phone call impeachment, the George Floyd anarchy — and when those operations failed to oust him, they ran the Covid-19 caper (with enormous collateral damage to the people and their economy), which enabled rigging the 2020 election with mail-in ballots. Once Mr. Trump was squeezed out-of-office, the FBI turned the J-6 protest at the Capitol into a riot, which Nancy Pelosi then converted into an “insurrection” using the House J-6 committee. The J-6 incident, they dearly hoped, would rid them of Mr. Trump once and for all.
The news media went along with every bit of that, year after year, converting each mendacious act of the party and the bureaucracy into consumable narrative, and lying either overtly about all the ops, or just omitting to report on the dark truth behind it all. Any reality-based thread that happened to leak into public view from independent alt-news reporters was branded by CNN, The New York Times, the WashPo, and many others as “misinformation” — a newish concept produced by a cadre of language Stasi skilled at inverting the meaning of anything to bamboozle the public. It appears that the news media became so invested psychologically in its own dishonest product that it began to believe its own bulls[***].
Or, at least, they wanted to pretend to believe it. One of the big problems was that absolutely everything they labeled “misinformation” or “conspiracy theory” turned out to be truthful, and that was becoming an inescapable embarrassment. And then the biggest blunder they made was going along with the Deep State’s selection of “Joe Biden” in the very sketchy Super Tuesday primary of 2020. The old grifter had next-to-zero support in all the preceding preliminaries and somehow (abracadabra !) he swept the field.
By then, the Democratic Party, and its public relations arm in the mainstream media, had descended into florid mental illness. Everything they stood for post-World War Two flipped to its opposite. Suddenly, they were against free speech. They weren’t coy about it. They just made-up some new bulls[***] about free speech being “hate speech.” Similarly, they were against a free press. They went along with all the misinfo / disinfo bulls[***] the government cooked up and supported its role in suppressing the news. They were no longer anti-war, the party-of-peace. They were now pro-segregation and pro-discrimination (white people need not apply) according to Critical Race Theory (a childishly sketchy doctrine). Most of all, they were no longer skeptical of anything that the leviathan establishment wanted to do, including abridging the liberties of American citizens.
Then there was the campaign to use the most powerful human instinct, sexuality, as a weapon to disorder the minds of American children, leading even to the mutilation of their bodies — a program that unmistakably tipped toward genuine evil, suggesting that actual psychosis lay behind the Cluster-B crypto-Marxism used to justify it.
“Joe Biden” was fine with all of that, and the news media was fine with “Joe Biden” and whoever was using him as a front. Of course, it was evident during the 2020 campaign that “Joe Biden” was not up to a job as demanding as Chief Executive of the US government — and that was even apart from the dense criminal web of influence peddling discovered around him and his family, which the news media ignominiously ignored. But now the years have gone by and there’s no hiding “Joe Biden’s” rather gravely diminished mental abilities.
Last week’s debate gave away the game. It had the effect of finally turning off the gaslight that the news media has been shining over the republic lo these many years........
Is the MSM inverse logic an intentional deception or is this how the left really thinks?
I recently saw a clip of Rachael Maddow saying “If Donald Trump becomes president again he just might start putting his political opponents in prison.”
There was this liberal talking head show yesterday; one of the commentators wanted to use an example of how Trump skirted the rule of law, and said, “Trump declared a fake national emergency to build a wall congress didn’t want…”. Think about how right Trump was
The author is correct about so many things….
However, he is wrong about the Gaslight. They turned one off only to have the government and mainstream media turn on one hundred more. The gaslighting of the American people, to divide us, while the ‘deep state’ and the democrats rob the treasury, will continue.
“Are you going to believe a four-star Marine general and his own chief of staff, John Kelly, who told us that’s exactly what Trump said, or a disgraced, defeated president, liar like Trump?
“It’s about the fact that — think about this — 40 of his 44 top advisors in his administration refuse to endorse him — 40 out of 44, including his vice president. And they refuse to support him this time. It tells you a hell of a lot about the man they worked for.”
“And Donald Trump is motivated by revenge and retribution. Well, revenge and retribution never built a damn thing. But what built America is hope, optimism, a possibility. (Applause.) That’s what’s always built America, and that’s what we’re going to continue to do: build America today.
“The choice in this election is simple as this: Donald Trump will destroy democracy. That’s not hyperbole. He’ll de- — I will defend it.
“He’ll never — I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future.”
Should have listened to Washington’s comments about political parties.
Exactly!!!!
Gaslight?...What gaslight? I’m not feeling it. Not even a fake photon’s worth.
Bookmarked. Great article, thanks for posting.
So many sociopaths...so little time.
later
BTTT
They haven’t turned it off.
This is a modified limited hangout.
That reminds me of Clinton’s first term - when they declared that there was a “healthcare crisis”…
There was no such thing. It was a blatant excuse for politicians to get their hands on BIG $$$ medical industry.
We USED to have the finest in the entire world until then… Now, I don’t trust it as far as I can throw it. I’ll die at home, in my own bed, thank you - before I’d ever trust an American hospital again.
EVERY time our government and media cries - “CRISIS!!”, it’s a lie and they’re out to take over ANOTHER part of our lives. This is all our government does any more..
Olivia Nuzzi, a reporter, knew things were bad. She documented things were bad. Her personal experience was that things were bad.
Yet she didn’t report them.
Biden is diseased. He cannot help it.
The media is complicit in allowing him to continue. They, and his family, are to blame for this mess.
And yet the democRATs want to elect Joe again. He is just a puppet and they don’t care.
Kunstler, Denninger, and ‘Sundance’ are ALWAYS a ‘must read’...
“and his overt masculinity”
This is the REAL PROBLEM women have with Trump, and Putin for that matter.
“I recently saw a clip of Rachael Maddow saying “If Donald Trump becomes president again he just might start putting his political opponents in prison.””
How does he do that? Does he do no-knock raids? If so, how many can he do in one day - it does get tiring. Oh, he’ll have the police do it - nice try, but why would they do it, a phone call, nope, gotta get a warrant. Won’t be so easy for Trump to lock up his opponents - I guess he’ll be out of luck, once again. By the way, how many did he lock up in his first 4 years?
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