For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
– Hosea 8:7
As usual, politicians and the mainstream media are pretending that a disaster they helped create, born from an evil they planted at the turn of the century and have lovingly tended and fed since then, has absolutely nothing to do with them. As the internet meme expresses it, “But we didn’t think the face-eating leopards would eat our faces!” So they point fingers and try to cover their tracks and repeatedly “explain” how an explosion happened while ignoring the powder residue all over their hands and clothes. The Capitol riot was the direct result of hysteria that politicians of both major parties, aided and abetted by the US journalism establishment and supplied with propaganda by hordes of religious fanatics, violent thugs and sociopathic profiteers, have enthusiastically promoted for a generation in order to trick useful idiots into accepting ever-increasing levels of surveillance, censorship, and police violence. Yet their reaction to this is akin to that of a lifelong smoker pretending that his lung cancer was due entirely to his most recent pack:
Sen. Ben Sasse…blasted GOP lawmakers who had…tacitly endorsed QAnon in an op-ed in The Atlantic…warning that the Republican Party risks destruction if it doesn’t repudiate the crackpot conspiracy theory…Sasse said the riot was a “blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago”…the…Party “faces a choice,” Sasse says: “Dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution”…or be a “party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them…We have to repudiate people who peddle those lies”…
But Sasse isn’t the only one who refuses to recognize that QAnon is nothing more than the most recent flowering of the “sex trafficking” hysteria; look at the number of edits I needed to make to bring this Washington Post article into line with reality:
…the failed insurrection illustrated how the p[opular “sex trafficking” mythology]…has radicalized Americans, [justified extensive tyranny] and gained a forceful grip on [American] belief. Born in [approved government anti-sex and anti-migrant propaganda], QAnon played an unmistakable role in energizing rioters during the real-world attack on Jan. 6. A man in a “Q” T-shirt led the breach of the Senate, while a shirtless, fur-clad believer known as the “Q Shaman” posed for photographers in the Senate chamber…The [Evangelical Christian-] base[d narrative which has developed into a myth]…which imagines Trump in a battle with a cabal of deep-state saboteurs who worship Satan and [harvest] traffic[ked] children for [a magical life-extending chemical in their blood], helped drive the day’s events and facilitate organized attacks…The…movement’s evolution, from an [official fantasy intended to justify increased government surveillance, internet censorship, and oppression of sex workers] to a hallmark of pro-Trump violence, is a signal of the danger [moral panic, whether natural or synthetic,] poses to s[ocie]ty…“The takeaway from this is that [even government-approved] disinformation is a threat to our democracy,” said [psychologist] Joel Finkelstein…
Maggie sez
Wapoo sez
Insurrection, my hind foot.
I’ve heard the term “insurrection” blabbered by so many pearl clutching politicians and so-called “journalists” that I’ve concluded they think every citizen is a naif who never saw a schoolyard tussle.
As riots go, the Capitol riot was weak tea compared to the actual riots in major cities earlier in 2020. But the Capitol riot hurt a lot of Democrat feelz.
I recall 1954, when three men and a woman, Puerto Rican Nationalists, entered the Capitol congressional chamber gallery, waved a Puerto Rican flag, drew semiautomatics and took potshots at the 83rd Congress. They hit five congressmen, none fatally.
The news media didn’t call that an insurrection, even though it was much more like an insurrection than the fools who put their feet up on congresscritters’ desks this year.
The four Nationalists were charged and convicted of ordinary crimes, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, assault with intent to kill. They got long sentences.
They were later charged with seditious conspiracy, but convicted of ordinary conspiracy. They got even longer sentences.
Jimmy Carter commuted their sentences in 1989. They got a heroes’ welcome at the airport in Puerto Rico.
Wapoo “journalists” need to grow up and grow a functioning brain. They are thinking with their amygdalas. Either that or they believe everybody else is.
I agree with “en passant” re insurrection. The major news media have been gaslighting the public with fake news since at least 2008. Even non-Trump supporters are starting to figure that out. In the meantime, in place of the objective news that may have never really existed, I now follow about 50 blogs and podcasts and try and distill truth from those. And I chucked the darn TV.
As for the chemical-in-children’s blood myth, the version I’ve heard calls it “adrenochrome”, it’s produced only when they are scared to death, and it is not “life extending” but some kind of unique high. God save me from any better understanding of a horrible practice like that, whether it’s real or not.
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