Last week’s debate was a real education, but not in the way either candidate or his party intended. From Tarik Cyril Amar at swentr.site:
The fallout from the American president’s addled performance shows the real nature of Washington’s “democracy” and its empire
The first presidential debate of the 2024 elections at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024 © Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
There is very little to say about the content of the recent televised debate between the current American president, Joe Biden, and the former and likely next president, Donald Trump. That’s because the one feature that mattered was so obvious: Biden is, as those with eyes to see have known for a long time, deeply senile. That is a personal if not uncommon tragedy. Given Biden’s many sins – a lifelong record of systematic, almost compulsive lying, of policies that have, for decades, abused the weak and the poor and pandered to the rich, and, last but not least, the Gaza genocide co-perpetrated with his Zionist friends – it is impossible to feel pity for him. But given the unfortunate power of America, his mental decline is also a global scourge. Yet another one the ‘indispensable’ nation is inflicting on the rest of us on this planet.
The difference between before and after the debate is simply that now even the most mendacious Democratic Party hacks and behind-the-scenes manipulators cannot deny this fact any longer. Don’t get me wrong: Many of them are at least pretending to try, including former president Barack Obama, despite ongoing, widespread, and irrepressible speculation that Michelle Obama, his wife, might enter the fray at the last minute in the melodramatic role of – nobly reluctant – savior. And, of course, Democrats are also blaming anyone but themselves and their atrocious president. Yet their efforts are largely in vain. Even in America, with its post-truth media, the “secret” that never really was, is out, and the taboo is broken.
I’m surprised they didn’t throw up a test pattern.
Vintage legacy America had the sign off for the night with the Battle Hymn of the Republic and not come back until 0500-0600hrs.
Benny Hill, The Rat Patrol, Johnny Carson, and great movies like The Battle of Britain and Moses would be on before that.
Youngsters have no idea of all that we have lost.
Rumpswabs err I mean allies should learn from the meme of Osama, Gadaffi, Hussein, Ziolensky to be or not to be.
Breaking from Radio Free America:
The Battle Hymn Of The Republic