Remember The Maine, Screw The Media

Thomas Jefferson once famouly remarked he would rather have newspapers without government rather than government without newspapers.  He predated George Orwell, and can therefore be given a pass for not understanding that newspapers were nothing more than another arm of the meddlesome cuddlefish of empire.  One wonders what TJ would have made of William Randolph Hearst's iniquitous role in instigating The Spanish American War.

Well, our “muscle” sat there in the harbor for a couple of weeks until, tragically, it blew up along with 200 of its sailors. Immediately the American newspapers put forth the story that the Spaniards had treacherously used a mine to destroy the ship. Hence the headlines: “Remember the Maine!”....So—“Remember the Maine”—remember? Well, the thing is, it wasn’t blown up by a mine at all. Most experts now agree that the cause of the fateful explosion was a fire in a coal bunker. Yes, our old friend coal. It was big in 1898. Sure glad we’ve moved on from the stuff here in the “modern” world. The slowly growing fire in one of the battleship’s coal bunkers eventually ignited the ship’s powder stores. Boom! War! History!

So a major media outlet ran early with an incorrect version of a story.  They did so in full knowledge of the fact that it just so happened to support what they and their buddies wanted to see happen next.  Spain was sent packing from Cuba and we got to exploit it instead.  Teddy got his Bully Little War and The Legend of The Rough Riders spread like a pernicious Spanish Flu bug.  Another piece of the American Republic had died and was now replaced by The Amerikan Empire.  Journalism with a mission had impelled governance and events rather than merely reporting upon them. 

The good news is as that we learned from all of that and "Yellow Journalism" is regarded as a scourge.  I kid.  It's decried in the manner that !RACISM! is right before the virtue-signaler blames all evil on The White Man the way peasants in Beowulf blamed their woes upon The Grendel. So it is with justified suspicion that I view the following with the skepticism of a seedy gumshoe asking "What's their angle, anyway?"

A migrant family, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, runs away from tear gas in front of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico.

(??: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) pic.twitter.com/pz7hkxsN9g
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 25, 2018

Then, predictably, the mantra began that the United States is "gassing babies."...

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If gassing babies was so bad, then I fail to comprehend how Barack Obama avoided impeachment.  The US Border Patrol passed the gasses to the teeming masses about 80 times during his enlightened and liberal reign over the empire.  The Washington Times attempts to reabilitate his laughably homosexual Beta-Male image with the following reporting.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in fiscal 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s final full year in office.  Use of CS rose again in fiscal 2017, which was split between Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal 2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The Washington Times.  Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently — including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under Mr. Obama. Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.  The data poses a challenge to the current anger over the Border Patrol’s use of tear gas Sunday to prevent a mob from busting through sections of old border fence in California.  Critics, including Latin American leaders, immigrant-rights advocates and congressional Democrats, have said use of tear gas is “un-American.”

No wonder John McCain and Mitt Romney had no prayer!  The only thing missing was the mortar barrage using VXII-tipped nuerotoxin rounds.  If Trump's use of the bug juice reminds Alexandra Ocasio-Crazy of Auschwitz, then Barack Ostengropenfuhrer Obama must have her dreaming at night of being ravished by viscious Nazi gaulighters.  It may only be a fever-dream, but apparantly the PTSD it gives her is for real.  Using gas on border-crashers is un-American, dammit!  Isn't un-American what the left voted for twice with Barack Obama?

So why, whines the Cuckservative Catamite, does Barack Obama get to serve up the Jim Jones Kool-Aid at San Yisidro and not face harsher criticism, while Donald Trump does it once and get accussed of being Josef Mengele without the Evil Genious IQ?  The answer to that one is "Umm, duh!!"  The media couldn't just put their thumb on the scale.  They've totally sat on it.  Remember The Maine and screw the media!  They are utterly invested in the business of lying to us all.

The Mathematics Of The Kakistocracy

Le Chateau Heartiste highlights a very interesting question from the comments on one of his pieces.

Btw, what kind of democracy is it that the 2% has more power than the 98%?

I respond with a certain sadness to the query posed above.  My friends, it is not a Democracy.  At least it is not the bright and shining lie we were sold as Democracy.  It is a manipulated Kakistocracy.

Every so often, the betters who tell us what we are permitted to think mess it up.  They ask us what they really think expecting a different and less unpleasant result than you would get from say taking the temperature of a struggling Ebola patient in an ICU Ward. One example where the beliefs of those living in Amerika run afoul of The Gospel of The 2% involves the benefits of International Trade.  Reuters/Soros (Oops I mean Ipsos), had the temerity to ask...

Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each of the following... International trade hurts average Americans because it keeps wages down due to the cheaper costs of foreign labor?  3,397 Responses  Agree 69.4%  Disagree 30.6%

Here we have a clear and definitive divergence between what the overlords in the gilded capital want and the desires of the piddle-itch peasantry in the hinterlands.  And this is not the only major issue on which the desires and needs of the people diverge from the preferred status quo favoring those to the manor born.  By 40%, this poll reflects disagreement with the elite preference for unrestricted international trade.  If it accurately reflects the sentiment of the country, we've got a majority of 128 Mil; out of a population in the ballpark of 320 Mil that want their elite opinion to do the FOAD.

This begs an essential question.  How can these "leaders" get away with crap like this.  Democracy implies consent of the governed.  The governed just indicated that a huge majority of them want this particular policy direction reversed.  Shouldn't our elected representatives fear the popular reprimand?  They do fear a reprimand, but it's not a popular one. This is what our Democracy is responsive to.

Politico quoted Rowe threat to deny funds to GOP legislators who do not sign the discharge petition which will create an amnesty for at least 2 million DACA migrants, plus many of their chain-migration relatives.

Meanwhile, the peasants get itchy rectums in countries other than just the US of A.  In Sweden, The Swedes are questioning just how intelligent it is to import masses of people who are 180-degrees different culturally, religiously and racially than the usual member of Swedish Society.  This is diametrically opposite to what the Swedish governing class wants.

The Social Democrats, Politico reports, have "struggled to respond" to the Sweden Democrats' rhetoric on the issue, particularly in light of a recent spate of violence in Sweden's immigrant ghettos. Their lack of strength on the issue has actually caused Swedes to turn from the Sweden Democrat party; the group is facing a near 30% drop in support from the last election cycle.

Folks, this is an acid test.  Democracy is never about what the people want.  It is about what those skillful at manipulating the people want.  The Swedes, like the members of congress and the Amerikan voters; are all about to get railroaded.  It will be for their own good.  It will be because the elites care.  Actually, it won't.  But we all know this already and are patiently waiting until it all falls off the cliff and we can rebuild from the societal ruins.  Until then, they all just wanna be elected.