The
New Abnormal
A former president is in court this very day accused of
fraud and election interference and it involved a porn star
he
forced
to have sex. Why is this not on TV? (Yes, I KNOW why it's
not on TV but it NEEDS to be on TV, goddammit!)
We need to see the faces of
his accusers, we need to hear the inflections in the voices
of the witnesses. We need to see Trump sweat and squirm.
We need to hear him fart. We need a video record of this
trial for posterity.
In an era
of
cameras
in virtually everyone's
hand not
being
able to witness the proceedings of this trial first-hand
is simply a ghastly mistake.
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Welcome to 1979.
By that I mean, welcome to Iranian Hostage
Crisis II.
In 1979, in case you forgot, Iranian students took
American embassy employees hostage. It didn't take long
for the Iranian revolutionaries to figure out that Ronald
Reagan
would do
anything to be
president, so they conspired with him to keep the hostages
in Iran until
after the election, damaging the Carter re-election campaign.
After Reagan won we saw the destruction
and decline of unions and the middle class", and then
the Savings & Loan
Crisis, and then Iran-Contra, in which Reagan sent American
weapons to, well, Iran while simultaneously destabilizing
Central America. (Which is, as a result, where all the immigrants
are now coming from.)
Now Iran's proxy, HAMAS, has captured hostages of America's
ally in the region, Israel, and will hold them as long as
it can. The result makes President Biden look weak, though
he has little control over that fascist bug-wig Netanyahu,
and it is damaging Joe's re-election prospects. Trump, of
course, is doing all
he
can to encourage
Israel to "finish the job". Though not specifically
working with Iran (As far as we know) his interference only
makes the situation in the region worse.
As I said, welcome to 1979. Same playbook,
hopefully different results because the destruction to this
country
that Trump
will cause is as nothing compared to Reagan's alzheimered
assholery.
-
Lefty
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