Trump Won: How Long Will the Media’s Infantile Tantrum Persist?
November 9th, 2016Have you ever seen anything like the media’s hysteria in the wake of the Trump victory?
I didn’t want Clinton and I didn’t want Trump, but seeing that Washington Post shit the bed so spectacularly is, I have to admit, massively satisfying!
I can’t ever recall experiencing schadenfreude to this extent.
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As another more-or-less dispassionate ex-pat observer overseas, living in the Land of Schadenfreude, it’s a truly strange sensation watching the wheels come off stateside.
So much panic among the politically deluded “left” who vouch ever-so-unknowingly for the Mena Mob’s legal fixer. Comparisons to Adolf, naked fear on full display, talk of leaving the country, ranting on about intolerance even as they transmit theirs to anyone who will listen.
Don’t get me wrong, Trump is at best a business-savvy buffoon playing the game for as yet undetermined masters. Like Key, I didn’t really have a horse in the race either, growing ever-more-tired of the accelerating rate of questions from the natives asking after my thoughts on the American election.
My pat answer quickly became “I try NOT to think about it”, by way of deflecting all but the most determined interrogators.
In reality, my early read on Mr. T cast him as a subversive Clinton foil, running on the Republican side by way of splitting the party and pushing the election to the Bush/Walker dynasty’s old friend and favorite fixer from Arkansas.
So, did he actually exceed expectations and “earn” the win by virtue of HC’s cardboard personality, complete inability to look or sound like a human being and/or the slowly dawning reality among even the most centrist of status quo loving moderates that she was, is and will always be a political creature of the highest order, i.e.: a sociopath.
We’ll never know. Ultimately, my adjusted take on his possible role(s) in these whining times is that of scapegoat, as Kevin inferred. Will he be the man history sees fiddling as Rome burns? It certainly makes more sense than him winning on “merit”.
I mean, come on, am I the only one who senses an enormous political pile-up waiting just up the road and around the corner?
As for rounding people up, that particular fear button is a serious non-starter. No, I think he’s been handed the Oval Office to stand watch over the defenestration of the present American system.
Or perhaps the gods just have a really sick sense of humor and the whole election cycle has been nothing more than Zeus and his drinking buddies having a serious laugh at humanity’s expense.
Either way, I’m awfully glad to have changed venues to a rural setting rich with the simple things required for a simpler, healthier life when we did nearly fifteen years ago.
Good luck America — I have a feeling you’re going to need it.
Just a comment on the round-up thing.
I would classify it as the hardest red pill of all to swallow and even I find it hard to accept (when I am in normalcy bias mode).
Notwithstanding that, I would raise the following two points:
1. When countries go totalitarian, they enact round-ups. Stalin’s springs to mind as arguably the most logistically challenging due to the size of the USSR, but he did it nonetheless. So it can’t be excluded on the basis of difficulty or lack of precedent.
2. In Peter Hennessy’s “The Secret State” (2010), declassified Cold War materials form the UK government were dissected in great detail. What strikes you when you read it is the level of preparation by several NATO governments for locking down their homelands and rounding up their citizens in the run-up to WW3 in a process described by the book’s author as the secret state transitioning into the “take no chances” state. They were (are) terrified of the loss of centralised power or, as they put it, the emergence of rival power bases in the regions. Continuity of government became such an obsession that they had a “red list” file – as of the early 1980s – on every single person deemed a potential dissident, and they had plans in place to go after them and intern them, regardless of the logistical difficulties. Nowadays, with NSA and things like SEAS, how much easier do you think it would be for anyone to become targeted and tracked…
Whether or not those Cold War models for round-ups are still in force, the fact remains that private individuals who express dissenting viewpoints are plainly and very simply more vulnerable to eventual arrest than in previous eras, and they should accordingly assume the worst, regardless of consoling thoughts about the incompetence of government. Governments today are not only showing an increasing appetite for harvesting every byte of data on each one of us, but also showing a trend towards increasing tyranny; extrapolate that out into the future and your own life’s timeline may very well intersect with their round-up timeline.
Yes, the liberal media has gone nuts. I watch some liberal TV shows: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and Realtime with Bill Maher. The shows were kind of funny with their making fun of Trump before the election, except when the election got real close Bill Maher became VERY annoying when he got extremely serious about how everyone had to get out and vote for Hillary, because if Trump became President the whole country would go to pieces. Now Noah and Colbert act as if the worst thing to ever happen has happened, and constantly bitch and whine about it. It is hard to listen to and watch.
The Colbert Report was usually very funny, but now that Colbert is on Commercial TV his bit is now that of a completely biased annoying liberal.
John Stewart was pretty funny too, although toward the end of his run he had much more of a liberal bias. Trevor Noah is getting very annoying. I probably won’t be able stand Maher’s whining when his show airs the next time.