The Weekly Flail — June 15, 2024

Winnowing the media

OVERVIEW

As feared, 2024 is the second summer of Climate Disaster. Much of North America faces June heat waves, which will bring 90+ degrees to Maine, for example. The growing heat problem will likely begin to produce body counts this summer. The equatorial regions are already there, but we have not heard about them in North America.

The official media of the American Empire is fixated on Trump. That fixation is not on his degenerating mental condition, which would contradict the idea of him as a legitimate candidate, but on that legitimacy despite his status as a convicted felon. The expected groundwork for Trump to cancel the scheduled debate with Biden is appearing on Murdock media.

Debates do not work with teleprompters, and Trump is now dangerous without a script. No one with any sense is happy with this media tragicomedy of failures, but the planetary community is appalled and frightened. The choice between an ignorant, mentally ill criminal and an aging, functional politician lost in the old world order is a disaster.

Israel continues its genocide in the south while it has already lost the north to Hezbollah. The American media coverage of the first is reduced and nonexistent for the second of those things. We detail below.