Posted on 08/12/2024 4:46:54 AM PDT by Twotone
~As you know, I loathe writing about the so-called presidential "election" "campaign" - because I regard its leaden rituals as one of the biggest structural defects of American self-government. At least other countries manage to produce their dismal wanker "leaders" without two years and a bazillion dollars of exploratory committees and caucuses and the faux-folksiness of Iowa state fairs and New Hampshire pancake breakfasts and all the rest.
So in theory this last month should have been right up my alley - as huge holes were blasted into the stately unhurried calendar on both sides:
In one party, the presidential candidate came within maybe an eighth-of-an-inch of having his head blown off on live TV.
In the other party, the presidential candidate was more successfully dispatched - and the millions of primary votes he'd supposedly received simply nullified.
Either of these would be extraordinary events in any other country. And yet, under the smooth narrative management of the American press, they were mere spasms of momentary discombobulation before the normal somnolent service was resumed. "Democracy Dies in Darkness," The Washington Post informs its readers every morning. In fact, under the court eunuchs of the US media, democracy dies in broad daylight.
First, the Pennsylvania assassination attempt was memory-holed - in an industrial-strength illustration of Orwell's brilliant coinage: any day now there will be some poll showing thirty-seven per cent of registered voters are entirely unaware that a would-be killer hit Trump in the ear.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
…Generally between the hours of 10pm Tuesday evening and 4am the following Wednesday morning.
Mark is in good form here. He gets in a few zingers. Plus, the review of Rear Window is good.
See Tagline.
Some planned to murder President Trump on live TV, almost shooting him “Kennedy-esque” through the back of the head. This was the first and only time CNN was carrying a President Trump campaign speech live (what a coinky-dink). It seems that almost no one wants to speak of this atrocity against America. The SS seems to be involved in this attempt. Were is the outrage? Shouldn’t Citizens demand truth? Should Citizens demand justice?
Thank you. Now I understand.
snicker.
mark
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