Emboldened by some wins in off-year 'elections,' the Democrat Wing of the Uniparty held some more publicity-stunts in the Congress on Thursday and Friday. Following their fake outrage over the Pentagon's open commission of War Crimes, the Democrats decided to interview the nominal head of another rouge agency, Kristi Noem of the so-called Department of Homeland Security. Like Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem is a Christian Nationalist, White Supremacist, and a very bad neurotic. She was joined by Joe Kent, who was appointed head of the National Counter-Terrorism Center by the White House despite his known ties to Neo-Nazi organizations; and by long-time Deep State functionary Michael Glasheen who substituted for Kash Patel after the latter snubbed the interview.
Even ahead of the Hearings, the would-be Alpha Supermen released some further low-brow productions from what has become their official Troll Farm.
While some Conservative think-tanks have decried the appropriation of the Christmas Season to glorify ICE violence and Alpha sadism, the response from American Christian Conservatives has been a mixture of stony silence or outright support for the Neocons' policies. For their part, the Democrats will foam and froth a lot: threaten impeachments and other drastic actions, but in the end will do nothing meaningful to rein in either the Pentagon or DHS. The problem that the Democrats have is that they really have no moral standing to accuse this Administration of abusing its power. They can't complain too loudly about the Pentagon's extrajudicial killings and unilateral military options since Clinton and Obama regularly did much of the same. They can't argue against mass-deportations since Kamala Harris bragged throughout the 2024 Campaign that the Democrats were tougher on immigrants than Trump; and Biden looked the other way at rogue governors like Abbott and DeSantis and their illegal treatment of immigrants. They can't talk too much about building Concentration Camps and weaponizing Federal agencies against Americans---for obvious reasons. Nor can they complain much about expansions of the Police State after Obama militarized DHS even more than Bush did.
Nonetheless, though, the Uniparty doesn't want people asking any further questions, so to force the Hearings off the headlines, they simultaneous released some photos from muh Epstein Files as a distraction. It worked too: the spooks even threw in photos of Clinton along with Trump so that partisans of both sides can point fingers at each other.
This is a further example of American Trash Culture writ large. The Pentagon ordering War Crimes? Yawn. The Deep State fomenting Regime Changes? Ho-hum. Secret Police deployed to American Cities? Shrug. Neo-Nazis making policy decisions? Meh, no big deal. Men visiting an island and having sex with young women? O Tempora! O Mores! How will our Republic survive?!?!?
These farces are also an example of what we can expect if Wall Street permits the Democrats to regain control of Congress next year. More hearings, investigations, witch-hunts, impeachments---none of which will amount to anything, and basically is all that the Republicans did after re-gaining Congress in 2022. We can expect two years of Epstein and Russiagate while wealth-transfers, police-state repression, and the Corporate domination of the economy and society go on unchallenged.
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