If you can’t laugh at the government, at whom can you laugh? From Karen Kwiatkowski at lewrockwell.com:
Trump is making many things happen simultaneously. Two of them – transparency of the state and ridicule of the state – perfectly match America’s mood, and will determine her future.
The world is overwhelmed by the rate and depth of the changes the new administration is making. Around 185 million Americans have only really known the Bush 43, Obama and Biden presidencies – all examples of government secrecy and lies, avoidance of press conferences, and canned, often meaningless, statements. Bush and Biden were especially known for misspeaking and getting their facts wrong, and Obama was far more soothsayer than head of state.
Bush 43 gave an average of 31 press conferences and media interviews per year, Obama 71, and Biden 41. Trump 45 beat them all, averaging 117 press events per year, and he’s on track to exceed that in his current term.
The media’s stumbling incoherence during a Trump 47 press event (while he signed executive orders) on Inauguration Day reveals their lack of practice, and their incompetence. Did they fear, as happened the previous week, that asking the wrong question might be cause for being roughly physically ejected from the press event? Not at all! Out of long habit, they feared asking questions to which they didn’t already know the answers, and being chastened by their editors or blacklisted from future media events. Like chained dogs, they accept their prior condition, and embrace it.
He runs circles around Bolsheviki Enemedia.
Shh don’t give them any helpful hints.
The state? A collection of educated derelicts who couldn’t find work in the private sector.
This just in from Khold:
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