Putting Roseanne In Perspective

Be forewarned should the Kanye Kardashians join your team. Don't be shocked if Madonna states that she no longer wants to blow up the White House and breaks into her comeback hit, "Make America Great Again." Zeitgeist weather vanes are not always opportunists but should they decide to practice opportunism, they are msaters of the craft.

Do you support principles or do you support proper nouns? If you are in the former category you will take celebrities with a grain of salt. You will enjoy their work as best you can without a commitment of the loyalty you might pledge to say, the New York Yankees.

Kanye did not marry a wealthy princess because he was some sort of exulted artist. Kanye became a media pet by assigning racial motives to Hurricane George.


A STAR IS BORN


Those of you who now pledge allegiance to Roseanne Barr, please be reminded how she Kanyed her way to the pinnacle of pop star success and conquered the hearts and minds of media gods. This would not be Roseanne's only Kardashian tactic but it would be her most overt.

NOSTALGIC YET?


I, for one, never appreciated the original "Roseanne" show. Then as now, I believed that the blue collar character was beyond pop culture's grasp. Archie Bunker sometimes dispensed folk wisdom but more often, he was a simple-minded buffoon. Archie and his coworkers could not grasp the pitfalls of accepting a pay raise that was of lesser numeric value than the cost of living index, despite the dire warnings from his college-educated son-in-law. If only Mr. Bunker had been educated, he too could have spouted pseudo-intellectual cliches as he finally got a handle on basic arithmetic.

I watched the season premiere of "Roseanne." It was the first time I sat through an entire episode. Surprisingly, there were some good lines. Surprisingly too, was the brevity of the controversial political discourse. A minute or two of the lead character explaining to her Hillbot sister why she and her husband voted for Trump. Not exactly pushing the envelope. I sensed a trap being set for all those MAGA newbie fans.

Cut to Roseanne Barr getting fired alongside two hundred little people for making an allegedly racist tweet. I will boldly assert that Barr's comments might be rude but they were not even vaguely racist. Count me in the school of thought that grown people do not make negative comments about other people's looks. But remember, the funniest thing now, and forever is that which we are not supposed to laugh at. Roseanne understands this and if a person happens to resemble a simian (and I hold the view that Valerie Jarrett does not resemble a simian) then she is going to bring that to our attention.

Let's face it, some people just have a simian look. Growing up, I remember two different kids who had at various stages of their lives, earned the nickname, "monkey." It wasn't because they ate bananas either. Yes, both kids were white. I bet if we searched with insensitive eyes we could find people from all over the globe who could be cast in "Planet of the Apes" sans makeup.

Delicately stated, I don't believe Valerie Jarrett resembles one of our primate relatives.  She also does not look African, not even a little bit. But if one does make fun of someone's physical characteristics, and that certain someone is only genetically 1/16 or 1/32 (possibly less)  a member of a given race and shows no physical characteristics associated with said race, how can that possibly be a racial slur?

In 2015 I read "The Communist" by Paul Kengor. It had some shocking details but the most surprising revelation for me was that Valerie Jarrett identified as black. I knew of her for at least seven years and I had no idea she had any genetic link to the Nilotes or the Bantus or the Cushites. It was kind of like Elizabeth Warren identifying as Native American. Can't judge a book by its cover, huh?

I call your attention to our Public Broadcasting System. Valerie Jarrett appeared on a show called "Finding Your Roots." Presented as lighthearted entertainment, it is neither. The Left is always hyper-political and Uber-Leftists like Gates and Jarrett, even more so. Forget the hokey "I am in so much suspense" nonsense. She appeared on this silly ass deceptive show to establish her blackness. She would not have bothered to appear had she not felt the need to do so.


BLACK LIKE ME?





OR BLACK LIKE ME?

                                                                         

Why would Valerie Jarrett pass herself off as African-American? Probably for the same reason Rachel Dolezal did. Like Elizabeth Warren, she has profited from her dubious minority status. And she will forever be able to play the race card against anyone who might accuse her of something egregious, like espionage for instance.

In summary, Barr might be miscast as Joan of Arc. Roseanne and Kanye will be fair weather friends at best. They can fight their own battles.  

But do take heed! The race card is now the ONLY card in the Democrat deck and they will play it against anyone and everyone who disagrees with them.With apologies to the late Senator who meant well, racism is the new McCarthyism.

When Did The News Become the news?

Maybe it was always thus. Maybe the news media and the news were always Clark Kent and Superman but they at least wore glasses and pretended to be separate and distinct characters. 

Maybe the Cronkites and the Bradlees and the Sulzbergers were not essentially different from their descendants, but they at least pretended to be reporters. Maybe they were just a little more suave, a little more subtle, a little more sophisticated. None of them ever proclaimed, "I am Kal-El and I come from the planet Krypton!" Maybe they were just good at keeping secrets to themselves.

Can we pinpoint when the News became the news? I cannot do so but I can tell you it was a fairly recent phenomenon. If I were pressed to give an immediate answer I would say that holes appeared in the dike during the Reagan Administration and the dam broke in 2008. At any rate, the dam did break and the fourth estate flooded all those other estates as well. 

Sometimes a snap shot tells the story better than a video. The ever-insightful, always profound, always truthful Daniel Greenfield offers a revelation that succinctly captures the state of American news media.

But this time the media wasn’t just manufacturing a messaging consensus through its echo chamber. Instead it was directly involved in a conspiracy that eavesdropped on the political opposition and that is attempting to overturn the results of the 2016 election using not only dirty tricks, but the government.

Media smears are nothing new. Media coups are a whole other thing.

James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, allegedly coordinated with CNN. And then took a job at CNN. Clapper isn’t alone. Obama’s CIA boss, John Brennan, is over at NBC News. Josh Campbell, Comey's assistant, is at CNN. The three arms of the Deep State offer interchangeable employment. Much as Fusion GPS was paying the wifeof a top DOJ official to investigate Trump.

This is what organizational integration looks like. And that’s what a Deep State looks like.

CIA or CNN? Who can tell the difference?

The investigation of the investigation has made it very clear that top CIA and FBI people were coordinating with the media. When CNN knows what’s going on at the FBI, that’s a leak. But when the FBI knows what’s going on at CNN, that’s close coordination.  

Spygate depended on close coordination between Clinton’s people, the media and Obama’s intel folks. But it was the media that lubricated the alliance of the Democrat Deep State behind the coup.

Why Have The Democrats Given Up On The Moral High Ground?

I lifted the graphic from Reuters, via Pacific Pundit. According to a poll that probably over-sampled Dems, the Republicans now hold a 6.2% lead over their arch-rivals in Congressional races.

Usual caveats. A a lot can happen between now and November. The GOP has blown slam dunks before. Your mileage may vary.

With the fine print out of the way, I filed the blue wave reports in the drawer with Nate Silver's election night predictions. And as Spygate unravels, Independents, some Democrats and possibly even one or two Never-Trumpers will sour on the Democrat Party. A growing number of voters are disgusted with the Obama/Clinton Crime Cartel and the Dems are not trying to win them over.

Not that the Dems have a rightful claim to the moral high ground but they always recognized its advantages and by fraud or foolishness they would play a mean game of King of The Hill. Usually, it was about the children. The women. The poor. Not that they cared about members of these groups but they always expressed their unending concern for them anyway. The Dems seemed to understand that their moral superiority was NOT self-evident to everyone and they pressed on tirelessly with their conspicuous compassion. 

Today's Democrat sees no need to wrestle for moral superiority. Their virtue is axiomatic. It is so obvious and so unending, there is no need to sell its existence to a larger audience. With each skin of the onion, with each display of corruption,with each revelation of Obama spying, the Dems never see the need for damage control.

 Yes, there are distractions like porn stars and Robert Mueller and the umbrage that comes from a brash man calling gangsters animals. Yes, these are attacks on Trump to establish the moral upper hand but it is all negative. More limbo than pole vault. Not even an effort to say, "We are so wonderful." 

Clapper is a serial perjurer, so ask CNN to hire him as a blather boy.  If Comey is a crooked cop, make sure he lands an ethical leadership gig and gets plenty of airtime for his silly ass book. If John Brennan is a Commy thug who abused his powers in a big, big way, who cares? These guys are overdue for the landfill and the Democrats put them on their coffee table. Don't mind the smell.

When Richard Nixon's White House was caught in acts of wrongdoing that were trivial by comparison to the crimes of the Obama Administration, the GOP did not circle the wagons for their miscreants. They recognized that Attorney General John Mitchell was a crook and they allowed him to be treated as such. On the Senate floor, Republican Howard Baker famously asked, "What did the president know and when did he know it?" When it had become obvious that the president had lied to the citizenry, Senator Barry Goldwater privately asked him to resign. 

One could make the cynical case that the actions of Watergate-era GOP were motivated by political calculations and not displays of moral clarity. Point taken. To that one could counter that The Republicans had the good sense to distance themselves from bad actors. Take out the trash, move on and six years later Ronald Reagan would be on his way to the White House. Whatever the motive, the Republicans never conceded the moral high ground.

I used to think the Dems would always have an advantage because they were, on average, smarter than Republicnas. That changed. Not sure when it changed, but change it did.  Unless and until the Dems distance themselves from thugs and thuggery, there will be no blue wave.

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THE JOKER MEETS THE CHOKER

The Incomparable Tracy Beanz Addresses The Possibility That Mueller Is A Trump Loyalist

First of all, if you don't know Tracy Beanz, familiarize yourself with this insightful lady.

This vid has a long intro. Skip to 8:52 if you just want to hear what is pertinent. The Special Counsel might turn out to be the biggest ruse in the history of Planet Earth. I am still mistrustful of Mueller, btw. But....listen to Tracy.

Gaslighting The Media And Trump's End Game

25k indictments and counting.

Someone close to the president cryptically but unmistakably accuses a former CIA Director of murdering a Supreme Court Justice.

Special Counsel raids a lawyer who has represented the president as well as a a media figure who has muckraked members of the Special Counsel team.

Strange days have found us.

I have long been interested in conspiracies and metaphysics and I have not been afraid to examine the shiny objects stocked in that aisle. I enjoy the Coopers, the Ickes, the Larouches, the Basiagos and the professed reincarnation of Edgar Cayce but I consider them more entertaining than enlightening. (The JFK assassination and the collective UFO cover-up are the two conspiracies I place above all others in the credibility department.)

Given the weirdness of the past ten years I am willing to consider things I would have previously dismissed outright. What is Q? Why is this relevant? What makes JC queasy? Why is this relevant? "Trust the plan."

I found the following on Steemit written anonymously, of course. Before we examine it, I have to do my routine semantic quibbling.  Gaslighting refers to making a normal person think they are crazy or that their perception or cognition is deficient. It is done through deception and trickery.

We did not gaslight the media. If anything, they gaslighted themselves with zero help from anyone. If truth (the light) is so disorienting for the pundit class, who needs gaslighting?

Donald Trump, et al, have annoyed the media, however. Yes they do! I thought CNN would shrug off the original Trump vs. CNN wrestling meme. Instead, they went histrionic on us and soon YouTube was overflowing with Trump vs. CNN cartoons and memes. Who knew anyone could be so petty and so damn catty?

Enough about Semantics. Per usual, I copy a couple of paragraphs and then link to the source. Not sure if I have to do that at Steemit but I will refrain from posting the playbook in its entirety, as tempting as that might be.

Protocol 1: Gaslighting the Media

1.) The ‘Russian-collusion’ investigation is the quintessential example of this principle of not only allowing but encouraging the media to spin their delusional narrative. The deep state is tempted into to believing that their narrative will be used to undermine popular opinion of the president in preparation for his impeachment (plan A). If impeachment fails, the groundwork will have been laid for public acceptance, if not relief, at his assassination (plan B). This delusion about their Russian-collusion conspiracy theory narrative is to be encouraged whenever possible.

2.) The primary purpose of gaslighting the media is distraction. The time the CIA Mockingbird apparatchiks spends trying to convince the public of their Russian-collusion conspiracy theory is time the Alliance can use to collect evidence and build air tight cases for the upcoming military tribunals.

3.) The secondary purpose of gaslighting the media is to act as time-delayed controlled demolition of the mainstream media’s reputation. The longer the delusional narrative is allowed to run, the greater the eventual damage to the MSM’s credibility. Every effort must be made to allow the Trump team to appear suspicious and continue feeding the conspiracy theory’s suspicions, while not providing anything tangible. Provide so much ‘smoke’ that belief in the existence of a ‘fire’ becomes exceedingly easy.

4.) The tertiary purpose of gaslighting the media is to create in the agents of the deep state, and their liberal stages, a false sense of security. The goal is to foster a surreal dissociative sense of cognitive dissonance, an uneasy feeling that is relieved by concluding that Trump is simply guilty and stupid. The alternative conclusion being that the entire liberal media establishment has been chasing a giant fiction, while Trump prepares his retaliation; the more improbable and terrifying this possibility, the more cognitive dissonance it will create.

5.) The false belief is so tempting that the deep state FBI and CIA agents will march deeper into their treasonous plot to frame and impeach POTUS, further documenting their own crimes, while providing more time for the white hats to investigate their crimes. Mueller leads the big guns of the deep state fixers on a slow and steady march directly into the jaws of military justice.

The master plan revealed?

If Only Q and Q + Were On The Same Page