The more they indict Trump, the higher his poll numbers go. This latest appalling state of affairs is giving the voter-shaming, message-tweaking members of the PMC (professional managerial class) quite the galloping case of PTSD. (current and post-traumatic stress disorder).The poor things went to all that trouble of inventing the #Russiagate franchise way back in 2016 and later impeaching Trump in a glitzy series of televised docudramas, only to have a nation of Deplorables thumb their noses at all their good intentions. The masses of people have become so incorrigible that they can't even appreciate the Bidenomics Miracle smacking them upside their empty llttle heads.
The liberal class and their neocon colleagues of the Deep State don't seem to realize that in offering up Donald Trump's hideous head on a series of spinning legal platters is no substitute for lack of health care, food, affordable housing, climate crisis solutions, student debt relief and inflation-engendering corporate greed.
It has gone way beyond the proverbial tragedy and farce at this stage of the collapse of the American Empire. If there will be any presidential debates at all between Biden and Trump, they will devolve into bickering over which aged white man is the worse crook.
More people than ever are amenable to the creation of a third party. Even though he has not yet won the Green Party nomination, Cornel West is polling well. The liberal class thus find themselves in quite a quandary, wondering how to smear West without seeming like the racists they accuse the MAGA hordes of being. So right now, their tactic is to accuse him of being a spoiler, fatuously assuming that he is taking votes away from the senile corrupt Joe Biden, while pretending that West simply does not exist. (RFK Jr is a lot easier to criticize and thus deservedly receives more aghast negative attention.)
This will not be a presidential campaign about the suffering of everyday people. This will be a campaign conducted by dueling criminal prosecution and defense lawyers about whose crooked client most deserves your vote.
The cascade of indictments of Trump is obviously politically motivated, given that his supposed "resisters" sat on their thumbs regarding his criminal enterprises until the current horserace got underway. Biden was able to duck public accountability during the pandemic lockdowns by hiding in his basement. This time around, the best he can do is retreat to his beach house as the coordinated indictments come fast and furious. It is probably no accident that Trump was finally indicted over the January 6th riots during the exact same week that Biden's influence-peddling scheme with his son threatened to grab away all the public attention.
And of course, Trump is not actually being charged with leading an attempted coup but merely with spreading lies and disinformation about a "stolen"election.
The public is being cordially invited to guess who his six co-conspirators will turn out to be. Much to the chagrin of the "rules-based order" spinning their narratives, however, the deplorable public is too busy worried about their survival to care about what a bunch of rich oligarchs and their lawyers are up to.
The political-media complex never did want to pay much attention to who empowered Trump in the first place: themselves.
Meanwhile, they're desperately trying to change the conversation over their botched proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Far, far below the myriad scare headlines in the New York Times about the never-ending Battle Against Trump is an article titled "Ukrainian Troops Trained by US Stumble in Battle."
The Ukrainian draftees did not pay attention in their crash course in advanced American war-making.. Apparently, the Ukrainian soldiers equipped with billions of dollars in weapons simply are not sophisticated enough to absorb all the nuances of American aggression. They even damaged a whopping 20 percent of the tanks and other high-tech sophisticated killing machine so graciously bestowed upon them.
“Arguably, the problem was in the (naive) US assumption that with a few months of training, Ukrainian units could be converted into fighting more the way that American forces might fight, leading the assault against a well-prepared Russian defense, rather than helping Ukrainians fight more the best way they know how.” the Times quotes a spokesman for the cynically named Carnegie Endowment for Peace as saying.
Those Ukrainan draftees rank right down there with the American electorate. Neither the war nor the election are going well for Biden. It's all the fault of people with no money and power - not the fault of a senile and corrupt president and his criminal cohort.
So let's roll out another indictment or two and throw more billions at the war profiteers to substitute for health care and debt relief.
One consolation in this era of Post-Tragical Farce is that the ongoing writers' and actors' strike is putting a damper on the Hollywood propaganda traditionally churned out in such vacuous abundance as to put a happy face on the predatory capitalism that is both silently and loudly killing us all.
What will the culture war pundits even have to talk about once the war between Barbie and Oppenheimer gets stale and the Trump indictments lose what little public relations effectiveness they still enjoy?
