Days before the Biden inauguration, with a planned armed military presence designed to stifle protest that will be worthy of a banana republic, it is both sad and enlightening to see that the hypocrisy of the presidential campaign and its operatives will continue uninterrupted into the regime.
Let us count the ways.
Begin with the narratives of the Biden apologist and Trump hating Lamestream media, who have been quick to paint The Capitol riots as the work of typical Trump supporters. CNN interviewed a couple of the people on hand, neither of them Trump supporters, for insight.
It turns out that one interview subject is a female making a documentary of the other, a male Black Lives Matter activist.
But were they reporting or participating?
In another bit of video that said female didn’t want aired but was posted on social media, she is heard laughing and saying “We did it!’ while hugging Mr. Black Lives Matter, who ostensibly was there solely to document the event but encouraged others to misbehave and allegedly misbehaved himself.
It was all good fun, except Mr. Black Lives Matter went and got himself collared because, according to an FBI affidavit, the G-men heard him on video yelling things such as “we about to burn this (stuff) down” and “we accomplished this (stuff). We did this together. (Expletive) yeah! We are all a part of this history.”
I suspected that Mr. Black Lives Matter didn’t vote for Trump, nor support the president. This was confirmed with a quick internet search that turned up a report that Mr. Black Lives Matter also faces criminal charges in connection with a Provo, Utah, protest he organized in June.
In the TV report, Mr. Black Lives Matter characterized himself as a supporter of that group, not Trump.
Ms. Filmmaker is heard wondering nervously on the social media video if all this interaction is being filmed and then being assured it would be deleted.
It wasn’t deleted.
The Associated Press got comment from Ms. Filmmaker when this all blew up in her face on the very same social media she likely uses to cyber-brag about her exploits. Explained Ms. Filmmaker about her worry regarding the tape’s deletion: “I am incredibly private.”
Hint to Ms Filmmaker: Don’t show up and participate in public events doing things of which you don’t care to cyber-brag, allow someone to video you, then expect privacy.
Hint II: In the future, consider giving such concern for privacy to those whose images you capture in similar circumstances.
In the kind of unfortunate overreach that dominates what I prefer to call Un-social media, it was misstated that Ms. Filmmaker was a CNN employee. No, she’s just a CNN guest and a general freelancer who has worked for, among others, National Public Radio, the latter not exactly being a Republican bastion.
Other protesters/rioters have been identified who most certainly are not Trump supporters, but they are given short shrift in media reports.
Were the bulk of the people behaving badly at The Capitol Trump supporters? I’d argue they were. But just as our military and intelligence outfits can mobilize masses of “freedom fighters” in foreign lands with just a handful of “advisers” sprinkled in their ranks, I’m thinking the flames were stoked at The Capitol protest by agitators placed strategically to take advantage of the situation.
Again, this does not excuse those who broke the law. It does, however, invite a fuller picture to be reported rather than just telling us what fits the narrative.
No narrative has been larger than the need to shut down the economy and lock down the masses to fight COVID-19, a disease that almost exclusively kills the old and sick, but pretty much gives the young and healthy the equivalent of a bad cold.
With the smash hit “Harris-Biden Comes To D.C.” about to open in said town, talk fills the Democratic halls of power of the need to re-open the economy. Left unsaid is this is to help Harris-Biden, just as screeching for and mandating lockdowns was designed to harm Trump and maybe combat the virus as a side benefit.
No less a flip-flopper than Democrat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said this week it’s time to forget all the shutting down of businesses because the alternative is “We will have nothing left to open.”
Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a repeat visitor to the well of hypocrisy. She chastised her citizens to stay home because “getting your roots done is not essential” then went out to get her hair trimmed.
Caught in the act, Lightfoot’s excuse was “I’m the public face of this city”
And not a pretty one at that, either literally or figuratively.
These days Lightfoot thinks bars and restaurant should re-open their indoor facilities “as quickly as possible.”
Why would she say this when Chicago infection rates are up? Because Lightfoot is following the science – political science.
Got to help Joe look good because, God knows, he needs all the help he can get.
Already some in Biden’s leftist coalition are unhappy. The proposed stimulus checks have been marked down from $2,000 to $1,400, because Biden is including the most recent $600 checks issued during President Trump’s term.
If Biden also subtracts the $1,200 from the first Trump stimulus checks, we’re down to $200 net.
Biden also has put out an opening proposal of $10,000 in student debt forgiveness, which has been widely panned as totally insufficient for those who ran up $100,000 or more in debt getting their degree in various unneeded disciplines.
Biden did call for a $15 minimum wage, which should guarantee that those on the low end of the wage scale will have minimum job opportunities as well as minimum totals of hours worked going forward.
The Green New Deal must wait for Biden actually to warm the desk chair in the Oval Office, but if he can’t do better than $1.9 trillion to start, the supposed total cost of this current proposed stimulus package, he’s not going to get praise from his socialist enablers on that front, either.
Rest assured, though, that criticism of Biden will be muted by the media as we spend months and perhaps years pillorying Trump and his supporters, trying to resurrect an economy put on life support mainly by Democrats in Blue States and Cities, and generally continuing the disinformation campaign that, along with electoral mischief, swept Harris-Biden into office.
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