The Weekly Flail — July 20, 2024

Winnowing the media

OVERVIEW

The steady disintegration of the modern world, aka the American Empire, continues. While the official message is that everything is beautiful and nothing hurts, that doesn’t apply to the various neofascist movements. Pain is the name of their game, but only for the other people. You need to figure out who is currently one of those other people.

Trump lost some skin off his ear in an attempted assassination by one of his own and is now a wounded martyr for himself and his cult members. The irony is too complex for his followers to understand, so they are cool with wearing fake bandages imitating Trump’s. For everyone else, he is still an old, malignant narcissist exhibiting growing signs of dementia.

Joe Biden is being driven into exile by his own political party for being old despite having done what could be done to save the late-stage capitalist economy that is destroying our planet. While various Democrat officials are the voices for these attacks, it is not at all clear who they are working for.

A big part of the problem is that Biden is and has been owned by the Israeli/Zionists for decades, which leaves him holding the bag for the Gaza genocide. It is also not clear if Joe understands that, either.