Misreading the Room
Their hegemony is showing
Girl-Power Parabola—Three billionaire-adjacent women and two token scientists took a ride on Jeff Bezos’ phallus, lasting under 11 minutes. Absolutely no science was conducted on the ballistic heave.
Katy Perry knew the view inside the capsule is what really matters,
until you touch down on mother Earth, and then the photo op moves to the outside.
Bezos’ fiance, “notable children’s author” Lauren Sanchez was the “Captain” of the fully-automated, ground-controlled ship that cannot be slowed or steered. What are the chances that a noted children’s author and aspiring space captain would meet Jeff Bezos—a man with a giant bookstore AND a rocketship, and fall in love? All their Hallmark movie is missing is a Christmas theme.
Thing is, judging by TikTok (wasn’t that supposed to be sold or banned by now?) and other reactions that flooded the streams yesterday, the people are not buying into the “empowerment of women” from a few minutes of free fall at the far edge of the atmosphere in a billionaire’s hobby rocket
One commenter noted they would have preferred the mission was in a submarine, to visit the Titanic.
Captain Crunch and his recreational mishap in the cold, deep waters of the North Atlantic was among the first clues the American people—folks who once lapped up Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous—had stopped defaulting to wealth-worship. It is central to cultural hegemony that the tools and measures of stratification be revered by those who suffer from them. As long as wealth (power) is considered a valid measure of moral and personal merit, wealth (power) may be used to directly prevent others from attaining it. That started to fall apart before we realized it had, and billionaires whose surpluses contributed to their own ends brought the social sentiment to the surface.
Cheering for Orcas sinking yachts, Luigi Mangione becoming a folk hero, Tesla dealership arsons; there is a class consciousness awakened that had seemed dead and gone after the post-WWII prosperities, and a war on labor.
Propaganda Barbie Press Conference with Prejudice—Looking more and more like Sean Spicer trying to verbally drive home the lie that the first inaugural crowd was the biggest ever, KKKaroline Leavitt proffered documentation that Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s wife took out a restraining order against him in 2021, stating he punched and scratched her. Insisting via exasperation that at last this was the proof that justified his being kidnapped and trafficked to El Salvador by ICE.
This is an obvious distraction, meant to capture the least-observant and least-informed among us. Along with KKKaroline’s angry opener, the administration cashed in a victim chit—providing a grieving mother an audience of the global press, to recount the gruesome details of her daughter’s rape and murder. Not by Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, but by another man, who just happened to also be El Salvadoran.
At the end, KKKaroline fired off an obligatory, “Do you have any questions?” and dismissed an audible, “I have a question,” with a blunt “No,” and left the dais. The poor woman who was being used as a distraction was allowed one more comment, where she insisted she was not being political, as she was obviously being used as a political tool.
Here it is, for those who may have missed it, or who might need an emetic.
Wednesday’s exhibition (a press conference involves impromptu questions and answers) was a mark of desperation. The Trump administration’s best-laid plans are being screwed up. Part of it is Trump’s truly immense #failureship—not only is he lazy and sloppy, but he synergistically compounds these qualities in others. Image matters more than anything, because it is the easiest thing to manipulate. Far easier than doing meaningful work.
ICE captured Abrego-Garcia separate from anyone else, and threw him in with others we have been told were all members of the same Venezuelan gang. After having defied a court order not to remove the captives from the U.S., they took photos of them in an El Salvadoran prison.
The federal judge who ordered the planes to be turned around, and whose ruling was unanimously affirmed (how often has that happened in the past 25 years?) by the Supreme Court, has determined there is probable cause to open a criminal contempt investigation into the government’s failure to apply due process before deportation. This is the nipping in the bud of the mass depopulation plan, which began with the normalization of deportation without due process of “criminals” and “terrorists.”
Photos of inhumane treatment and conditions serve the purpose of reinforcing the unsubstantiated accusations. The degree of condemnation is supposed to match the degree of offense, so the images of the condemned justify their condemnation. Trotting out a grieving mother to recount how details of a rape and murder were recounted to her would never be accepted as testimony in a trial, but it serves to move public opinion. Pay special attention to the purported fact that the assailant was El Salvadoran, but pay no attention to how even he was afforded a public reading of the charges against him and an attorney to present his defense.
Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador, in an attempt to meet Abrego-Garcia. He was thwarted, but had a meeting with the Vice-President who told him the United States is paying for the prisoners to be held there.
The Trump administration’s SOP is to bullshit us when they are caught, and when that lie is detected they double-down and bullshit us further. But there is no substance behind their show. They are a ballistic missile, launched by billionaires, without the ability to slow down or steer, and they never bothered to pack the parachutes, since they never planned on coming back.
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