Teapot Tempests

 

"Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggerations, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as in fact as not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter to tears the descent is all too easy to sniveling and giggles..." -- Joseph Conrad

The latest "bombshell" in the resurrected Epstein farce, from the formerly-respectable Wall Street Journal, is that Donald J. Trump, allegedly, wrote the pimp a typewritten note or letter alluding to a "secret" and "an enigma", complete with a drawing of a naked woman or somesuch, and sent it to the bastard on his 50th birthday.

The Journal, of course, did not reproduce said letter in any form, nor does it even mention having verified the document in question.

But it ran with the story, anyway, because I guess it made good "copy" and they wanted to be first to break this "bombshell" which was no such thing. If you can't verify that Trump wrote it (you think Trump ever went anywhere near a TYPEWRITER in his life? Who was still using a typewriter in 2003?) and you can't reproduce it as evidence, then why do it, at all?

Well, I've answered that question, already, and naturally the second one that comes to mind answers itself: reporters hate Trump. In fact, the entire journalism establishment hates Trump. Anything that makes Trump look bad, guilty, salacious, dirty, they will run with faster than the speed of light. It's just too good to do stuff, like I don't know, verify the story or investigate the people involved, or get any background on the thing, at all. 

Because journalism is about narratives and shaping public opinion to match those of the Journalist, not to inform or to expose truth to light.

It all reminds me of an old poem which I read once in passing in Orwell (by Humbert Wolfe):

"You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(thank God!) the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do
unbribed, there's no occasion to."

Doesn't matter which side of the pond you're on, they're pretty much all the same. It's all "we're chock-full of integrity and stuff, unless it pays not to be."

This explains why someone like Rachel Maddow can continue to pollute the airwaves forever, despite being as wrong as it is possible, or even credible, for someone to be. It explains why news departments at the Big Three networks, and even the smaller outlets like CNN, can continue to spew the most outrageous nonsense as somehow being "factual" for years on end.

Integrity and honesty be damned if there's a dime or any means of juicing up democrats still in exaggeration, misrepresentation, misinformation and outright lying.

Because there will always be an audience for that sort of thing. People don't like reality, you see.

But, Reality always wins, doesn't it?

This little teapot tempest -- Trump may have been friends with Epstein! -- was quickly forgotten just as soon as Tulsi Gabbard did something that takes hella guts -- she has apparently opened the Pandora's Box that was Russiagate, and named the names!

Its still open to question as to whether she has the receipts, but its looking as if she does.

Then again, that's what Pam Bondi said about the Epstein files.

"Wait and see" now becomes the watchwords for the day.

So far, all the names you would expect to be on Tulsi's scorecard are there: (Clinton naturally), Obama, Clapper, Ohr, Strzok, Comey and the full Rogues Gallery of leftwing nightcrawlers. 

She even broke out the T-word.

Whether anything, finally, sticks to any of them, for the accusations have been dutifully sent to the DoJ for investigation and possible criminal action to be taken, but at this stage, let's just say it might pay to keep your powder dry.

For while I, too, salivate at the thought of a Hillary wearing an Orange jumpsuit and James Clapper being gang raped in the prison shower after dropping the soap, history has shown us a thing or two about what happens when a democrat gets accused, even prosecuted, for obvious malfeasance, even with overwhelming evidence against them:

1. They stall the process until no one cares, anymore, ala Bill Clinton, and then fold in secret so no one knows.

2. Their friends and allies in the bureaucracy find ways to cut deals or make things disappear, blunting the spear of the prosecution.

3. The Republicans, many of whom have been breathing fire on the very subject for years, suddenly get cold feet, afraid to set "a precedent". The fact that the Other Side set some pretty disgusting ones, setting precedents -- and prosecuting former high government officials for what may be actual crimes -- is one that needs to be set. Repeatedly. Until people stop doing it.

As I've stated earlier this week, if it is seen that corruption pays or will go unpunished, you just encourage more corruption. Until someone is hanging by their privates from a lamppost in Times Square, all the rest of it is theater. And if you're main concern is that someone will retaliate against your people in future, then fucking man up and let the retaliation take place, wherever it's warranted. You can't have clean government when only one party ever suffers consequences for malfeasance, or so I've heard GOP talking rectums repeat ever since Watergate.

When you're in a fight, sometimes, you have to get punched in the face in order to get your own blows in.

Nevermind "Gentleman's Agreements" (as an example, the idea that ex-Presidents do not interfere with the current President's business): if any of this stuff is true, and provable, the Other Side here just told you those aren't exactly going to be honored. In fact, you can hardly point to anything approaching "scandal" in which the Left has adhered to agreements, whether gentlemen's, or not.

The GOP needs to stop this bringing pillows to a gun fight nonsense. The left doesn't care about orderly government, law, propriety, honesty and integrity, or any of the better virtues of the human spirit: only about POWER.

And as we've seen, power to them means the ability to destroy civil society, systems of law, social conventions, and even the laws of economics, in order to advance further destruction, chaos, confusion, and dependency which they then use to justify their heavy-handedness, their exalted positions and their serial abuse of citizens, to then only obtain more power in ever-subtler forms, or even in obviously obnoxious manners.

In this instance, they simply got used to abusing everything in creation, and got too brazen for their own good.

If someone isn't inside a cell and facing a firing squad, then Tulsi's Tempest is just one more little kabuki play where the ending is a tragic one. It means the complete loss of faith in any institution and the end of self-government.

If she's got the goods on these assholes, Mr. Speaker, and Mr. Senate Majority Leader, and Madam Attorney General, then do the investigations, do the litigation, and unleash hell.

Or, kill yourselves.