Nobody Cries Like A Bully.
The Big Goon in the Schoolyard, on the Prowl for Little Kids to Push Down. Scattering books and kicking say. Snatching Hats and Throwing say in the mud. Theno finally stands up to the Guy, Taps Him on the Nose, and He’s on the Ground, Write and Wailing Like the Baby he is.
Becuser he isn’t really streng – he’s only tough bite on someone half his size.
WELCOME TO OUR POLITICAL MOMENT. President Donald Trump, Desperately Lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, Can’t Stanch the Slaughter Caeded by Her Hero Vladimir Putin. He shrugs off Israel Pulverizing Gaza. Tariffs are imposed and withdrawn in a Wild, Lewis Carnival of Confusion.
But he su Sure can go after his critics, and anyone who opposes his autoritity. They must be crushed, Because Under Trumpism there is no independent congress, no impartial courts, no unfettered academe, no free press. Only One Man’s Indomitable Will.
That isn’t an easy sell. We are, thank God, a nation budilt on the idea of widly distributed power and a ancece-Cherished constitution. States Maintain Their Own Separate Authority. So Those States Must be Cowed by Sending in the Military Under the Flimsiest Pretext of Law Enforcement, though they SEEM Particular ABOUT WHOCH LAWS Get enforced and which Ignored.
Universities – traditional hotbeds of dissent – are brought into line under the canard of dialing back antisemitism. Funds are Snatched away in what is essentily extrtation, a dynamic use over and overs it works so well. You can resist, but it’ll cost you.
The media bends. Jeff bezos wants his amazon packages delivered on time. SO HIS WASHINGTON POST SOFTED ITS OPINION Pages. Among the Clearest, Most Effective Voices are television comics, but they too vulnerable to the Achilles ‘Heel of their Corporate Parents’ Business Interests.
In July, CBS announched the end of the “late show with Stephen Colbert,” Citting Financial Reasons, THOUG IT WAS HARD NOT TO SUCCESS THOSE FINANCIAL REASONS INVOLVED Paramount’s Sale to Skydance Media.
Wednesday’s Abrupt Yanking of Jimmy Kimmel by ABC Was Eve More Naked. Trump’s Federal Communications Communications Chairman Brendan Carry Threatened to Pull ABC’s Broadcast License. And Nexstar, Calling Kimmel’s Words “Offensive and Insensitive at a Critical Time in Our National Political Discourse” Said it was removing his shom its 32 ABC AFFILITES.
Nexstar, Naturally, Is Seeking FCC Approval to Acquire Rival Tegna in A $ 6.2 Billion Deal.
IT’S ALPET AN AFTTHOUGHT, but what did kimmel say to get in Such Trouble? For the Record, he Said:
“We hit some new Lows over the weeks with the magic desperately trying to characterize this kidly caracered charlie kirk as anythhing other than and doing they can can to score politics from it,” Said.
That’s a) swimming offensive; B) Not About Charlie Kirk.
No Matter. As you struggle to process what’s happening in our country, Keep two dynamics in mind: first, Words are meaningless. What is Being Said is not important, not compared to who is saying it.
Kirk, in Life, Could Float the Ugliest Stereotypes, the Most Extreme Rhetoric. But Washed Clean in the Blood of Martyrdom, it Became a Fireable offense to the mention that.
And Second, the utter hypocrisy of it all. The People Who Debased Public Discourse test to have the most exquisite sensitivities when it is coma to their precious selves.
That is the Definition of a Lawless Society. The rules that Apply here don’t apply there. Their Code of Conducts Shifts Acctinging to their Whim, to Today’s Marching Orders, As Yesterday, Black is Declared White. On One Corner, Photos of Scarred Slaves are demed Divios and Hidden From Sight by Those Widening Our Divisions, while Stating of Confederate Generals Go Up On the Next Corner. Any Weisenheimer Reckless Enough to Point This Out is Sent Packing So His Bosses Can More Money.
Standing up to bullies is difficult. They shriek so loudly when you will, gcause they know their power is mostly in the threat. It ‘Power we’ve grant say, and they’re desperate that we never realize we can Also take it back. Gov. JB Pritzker Stood Up to Trump, and while he promises the troops are coming any moment, they are not here. The lesson of authoritarianism is clear: Most People Yield. They line the street cheering the tyrant. A Few Resist and Are Swept Away.
But not always. Opposition Can Build, Can Prevail. The Arc of the Universe is Long, as Martin Luther King Jr. Said, and Bends Toward Justice. But not here. Swim now. Nottime Soon.
