Möbius Dick

SteynonLine ^ | July 26, 2024 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

~The so-called New Hampshire Seacoast, which is actually a New Hampshire Oceancoast, is about as far as you can go from my corner of the state and still be in NH. So I don't get there terribly often. But maybe I'm missing out...

(video of whale falling on a boat)

Is it a metaphor? Is the whale Trump? And the fishermen the Deep State?

Or is the whale the Deep State? And the fishermen Joe and Jill?

Or is it just another of Fauci's gain-of-function projects?

~I dissent somewhat from the notion that what befell Joe Biden just five days ago was a "coup". The toppling of Liz Truss by "the markets" in October 2021 was a coup - and the new PM and new Chancellor promptly steered the Government in a different direction (ie, back in the old direction). Even in the more limited sense of a "palace coup", in which one faction of the ruling junta moves against another, what happened in Washington last Sunday was no such thing.

Whoever was in charge of America's government a week ago remains in charge today. Because that was the purpose of the manoeuvre - to ensure that nothing changes. For it to be a coup, one would have to believe that the decrepit Biden has wielded executive power these last three-and-a-half years. That is self-evident codswallop. He has been a squinting, croaking, stumbling, bumbling frontman for whoever's actually running the executive branch. Whose identity would be interesting to know, don't you think?

[Rummyfan]

...So he had outlived his usefulness, and it was necessary to replace him with another front-man - or front-woman, front-BIPOC, front-Montreal-schoolgirl, whatever. The operation was the inversion of a coup: it was to prevent the possibility of any change. You may get excited about all the glass-ceiling-shattering - the first female president! the first South Asian president! the first Jamaican president! the first British subject since Barack Obama! the first Canadian president since Chester Arthur! - but all the shattered glass piled up to your chest is there to distract you from the fact that, aside from the glazier's bill, everything stays exactly as it was.

[Rummyfan]

...So he had outlived his usefulness, and it was necessary to replace him with another front-man - or front-woman, front-BIPOC, front-Montreal-schoolgirl, whatever. The operation was the inversion of a coup: it was to prevent the possibility of any change. You may get excited about all the glass-ceiling-shattering - the first female president! the first South Asian president! the first Jamaican president! the first British subject since Barack Obama! the first Canadian president since Chester Arthur! - but all the shattered glass piled up to your chest is there to distract you from the fact that, aside from the glazier's bill, everything stays exactly as it was.