Luigi Mangione’s Attorney is not messing around calls out NYC Mayor Eric Adams for trying to influence the jury pool with prejudiced statements and says his client is being treated like a spectacle whose right to a fair trial is being violated.
Trump is profoundly evil, but he is a very conventional kind of profoundly evil, of the same variety as Biden, Obama and Bush before him.
The big lie about Trump is that he is a special deviation from the norm, and both sides believe this lie. Everything about the actual policies of his first term reveal that he is a very ordinary Republican president, who is evil in more or less the same ways as all the other evil Republican presidents. He didn't do anything that wasn't already being done by those before him and won't continue to be done by those after him. But both Democrats and Republicans see him as a drastic departure from status quo US politics, differing only in whether they perceive this as a good thing or a bad thing.
This happens because US presidents cannot significantly differ from one another in actual policy and decision making. If they were the sort to disrupt the status quo too much, they never would have been allowed to ascend to the presidency. There is simply too much power riding on the US empire for any significant change in its operations to be tolerated by the actual power structure which really runs things. So because presidents and viable presidential candidates cannot significantly differ from each other in terms of policy, they instead differ from each other in terms of narrative and emotion.
That's what we're seeing in all the emotional vitriol and passion and frenetic punditry about Trump on both sides of the US partisan divide. A bunch of empty narrative fluff pouring a lot of emotional energy into either supporting or opposing a very ordinary evil in a very ordinary Republican president.
If they didn't do that, the entire US political landscape would just be Democrats and Republicans agreeing with one another about 99 percent of the evils of the US empire and half-heartedly disagreeing about the remaining one percent. And that would give the whole game away. It would kill the illusion that Americans live in a real democracy where their votes actually mean something and they actually have some meaningful degree of control over what their government does. If this understanding took root, it would only be a matter of time until America's heavily-armed population began thinking thoughts of revolution.
So we're left watching these ridiculous histrionics over what amounts to the ordinary everyday pendulum swings between ordinary everyday Democrat governance and ordinary everyday Republican governance, with one side remaining in control about half the time and both sides working together to push the status quo further and further into oligarchy, militarism and tyranny.
The whole US political spectacle is all emotion and no substance. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
My account is on restriction/warning and about to be banned. Heavy censorship on TikTok. Any time you try to accurately discuss world history or current events outside of the hegemonic western narrative you’re mass reported and called a liar and your account gets taken.
If you find yourself having an opinion about the outcome of the Venezuelan election it’s because you’ve been propagandized to have that opinion by the usual Economic Hitmen who tried to overthrow Venezuela government before so they could steal their oil.
If you want to be deprogrammed from your brain washing by Economic Hitmen & their paid liars in the corporate media, watch this:
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Apparently this is why I constantly lose tens of thousands of followers and get censored here.
If you're not a bot, reply with 🇵🇸.
Let’s prove a point to Mr Musk!