Mainstream Mania

There is a limit, supposedly, to the level of mania permitted in our public discourse. That was established one year ago by Alex Jones - who is currently holding a Banniversary Sale on his site. His infraction was to question the official story of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. To be fair, the way Jones works is he doesn't question official narratives but asserts them to be false. By default a conspiracy is assumed. When one of his listeners showed up on scene looking for evidence a crime had actually occurred, a CNN employee was able to launch a campaign to destroy their fake-news competition by portraying his actions as victim harassment - a mortal sin in the victimhood culture. It is now a bannable offense to even share his content on social media. We're not allowed to acknowledge he ever existed. Jones was fully unpersoned from mainstream social media because he was accused of paranoia, mania, jumping to conclusions without compelling evidence, and peddling fear.

In that context of what has been deemed to be unacceptable public discourse, consider the reaction of the mainstream media and Democrat politicians to the recent shootings. I've been trying to stay out of the business of commenting on media insanity, which is so pervasive that the commentary amounts to "you'll never believe what Satan just said." At this point, it's more incredible when the media doesn't lie and spew hatred. But, it seams worth noting whenever they crescendo into a new level of hysteria, especially when we thought they'd already hit peak insanity.

There were two shootings in one weekend. One by a white man who targeted Mexicans in a border town, and another by a white man who killed blacks and whites - including his own sister. There have been two other incidents of gunmen opening fire in public places this year, both of whom were black. The remainder of the mass shootings were targeted attacks, mostly ethnic gang warfare. Overall, whites are underrepresented in mass shootings, overall, and even when considering the pyscho lone-wolf type attacks that grab national attention. Yet, the media has reacted in hysteria about white nationalism. They have not questioned, but asserted, that Donald Trump influenced the shooter. There has not yet been any evidence produced that he was a Trump supporter or a Republican, and his own manifesto suggests he wasn't even a conservative. The only evidence so far is that he was reacting to the pledge by every single Democratic presidential candidate to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants. But, in the liberal, mind white + racist = Orange Man Bad. That a white racist might exist is proof enough that he was spawned by Trump's campaign speeches. All other facts can be ignored. Because Trump campaigned on enforcing the existing immigration laws, Democrat party leader Alexandria Occasio-Cortez claims he was "directly" responsible for the shooting.

Contrary to that, there is substantial evidence that the Ohio shooter was a radical progressive, a fan of several Democrats currently running for president, and a fan - if not member - of Antifa, which the government and liberal hate-policing like the Southern Poverty Law Center have not labeled as a hate group or terrorist organization despite a string of violent actions across the country meant to stifle political opposition. Antifa can engage in mass shootings and remain in good graces with our elites, but Donald Trump is a literal terrorist for advocating the same immigration policies that Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden supported when they served in the US Senate last decade. Biden, now the Democrat front-runner for president, has described Trump as a white nationalist whose speech fuels white nationalist terrorism, as have the other candidates. On CNN's homepage right now there are, of course, endless references to Trump as a racist, white nationalism, the El Paso victims, etc. There are only two references to the Ohio shooting. One contains language to contradict Trump's claims that the Ohio shooters was influenced by progressive politics, despite there being actual evidence to support it. The other is to share the request of the shooter's family for privacy. There is no appeal to respect the privacy of the El Paso shooter. There is also an article sharing the lie that the El Paso shooter posted his manifesto to 8chan, even though it was actually posted to Instagram. CNN doesn't want to ban Instagram, a pro-establishment website. It wants to ban the fringe 8chan, so it makes up facts as necessary.

So far this is the normal inversion we're used to, with the intensity upped a notch. Antifa mass murder is not terrorism; the president trying to enforce the law is terrorism. Crime is good, laws are bad. We're used to that. But to have that language ringing all the way up to Democrat leadership like that means no argument exists that it is just the more radical element of the party going nuts. The entire party fully embraces the lie. There is no sane wing of the party. Biden calls Trump a segregationist for wanting a wall, but voted to fund a wall himself in 2006. But the real big jump in paranoia comes from MSNBC, who promoted the suggestion that Trump's order to lower the flags to half mast was actually a nod to white supremacy, as it was set to expire on 8/8, which they take as a reference to a slogan referred to as the 88 Words. It exceeds the paranoia exhibited by Alex Jones regarding Sandy Hook considerably, as well as the hysteria, hasty conclusions, and fear mongering.

The reason this is occurring is because nothing has happened to the officials or journalists who peddled the Russiagate hoax for the three years, despite it being exposed as a total sham by none other than Mueller himself, nor for turning the Supreme Court nomination process into a circus with false gang rape accusations bandied about. As we said here at the time, the Republican lawmakers asking to "put this behind us" were utterly foolish, lacking any understanding of their opponents. Trump is now pushing for moderate compromise, which is likely just as foolish. Many of his supporters are very annoyed with him right now, yet no liberal will ever come to support him, not with the likes of Joe Biden accusing him of "fanning the flames of white supremacy." Perhaps his strategy is to appeal to the middle as the voice of reason while Democrats go off the deep end. However, so long as the mainstream narrative is still that Trump colluded with Russia and obstructed justice, I don't trust that appeals to reason will pan out that well for him.