It’s just a nightmare I couldn’t sleep through.
6 years ago:
How Trumpism is Making America Great Again; by forcing us to see the flaws of our institutions in the modern confrontation of reality & aspiration versus the lies of the Mirror World and its technological familiars: deep fake, AI and cyberwarfare groups, whether sponsored by state or private (religious, corporate, kleptocratic and/or ideological) actors.
The tiers and inequalities of our justice system; one for the wealthy, another for the poor. With adjustments for race and other implicit cultural biases.
By forcing us to confront the divisiveness inherent in and encouraged by our economic and political systems.
Even though they lie whenever their lips are moving, the projectors of the Mirror World can’t help revealing the truth of who they are and what they plan to do. For example, “the system is rigged” = “we’re rigging the system”. “The Democrats hate America and freedom and want to destroy it” = “We Republicans can’t wait to rule you all!”
(Maybe “They’re eating the cats and dogs!” = “You’ll be eating your cats and dogs!”?)
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Tonight:
“Well, breaktime’s over; everybody back on your heads!”
We had our four years of subdued Trump coverage; now the media can get back in gear for full-bore, non-stop hand-wringing, pearl-clutching, breathless reporting — “have you heard the latest??!! It’s so unprecedented and outrageous!! — Just sit back, and after 15 minutes of pharmaceutical ads, our flavor of talking heads will analyze this latest horror for the next 2 hours, until the next wave of bullshit washes us into a fascinating new cycle of outrage and analysis...”
Ah, yes; it’s all coming back to me now. Literally. All coming back.
Hey! Look! Here comes Jared! and Ivanka! and Melania! Besides the ever second-string DonJunior and Eric, we’re now introducing the latest Trump product... Barron (sorry, kid; it’s your turn in the barrel)! Say hi to your old pals Steven Miller, Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell, Tucker Carlson, and America’s Mayor, Raymond Giuliani! Plus a whole lot of other familiar faces we’ll drag out from under the bus.
And say good bye to Ukraine, and to Europe and NATO as well. Yeah, hasta la vista, baby, to all of those difficult-and-painful-but-not-really-worth-the-airtime-to-cover places, those not-America, shit-hole countries; quaint Eastern Europe, to hot and dusty old Palestine, Syria, Somalia, all those -stans, Asia, Africa...whatever, dude; you expect me to remember every last name?
Thank your lucky stars we all get to enjoy these last days of The Era of Dithering. The judicious restraint and delay of great-uncle Merrick da AG, Biden’s gallant refusal to take up the Gauntlet of Official Acts superpower glove offered to Presidents by the black-robed Court of the SCOTUS...Birds and bees, fish in the seas...
Here and now, in this, the mildest and most pleasant of the summers yet to come, “It ain’t dark yet, but it’s getting there”
Oh? “You want it darker?” “I wrestled with some demons; they were middle-class and tame; I didn’t know I had permission to murder and to maim. You want it darker? We kill the flame…”. A million candles burning for the help that never came. What wondrous new plagues will be visited on the world this time? We’ll see.
