Fortunately, the Dying Do Die

Deaths that won’t be widely mourned.

Guest post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic

It is deeply satisfying to see the New York Times headline: “The Last Days of Time Inc.” One dying mainstream media organ writing the obituary of another. What could be better? It illustrates two truisms that sometimes get lost in the shuffle: things change, and the dying eventually die. For those of us who want things to change—not incrementally, bit by bit, but radically—and see sundry people, practices, and institutions depart this vale of tears sooner rather than later, the headline is pure hope.

Only 29 years ago Time Inc. was on top of the journalistic pile, flush enough to pay Warner Communications $14.9 billion for 51 percent of the company. The thing that changed was the internet, which skewered Time the New York Times, and countless other businesses, media and non-media alike.

If you’re of the same ideological persuasion as the mainstream media, you ascribe the internet’s ascendancy to its technological superiority and hastily move on. By this reckoning, old-line newspapers and magazines got caught in the same crosshairs as bookstores, record companies, and department stores. What’s ignored is the voice the internet gave to those not of the same ideological persuasion.

Since World War II, the media has crawled into bed with the government; they warm each other on chilly nights. Mainstream debate has devolved into how many government-approved angels can dance on the head of a government-approved pin. Will the deficit be $800 or $900 billion this year? For regime change, which works better, sponsoring internal insurrection, bombing campaigns, or both? Will Social Security go broke in 2034 or 2035?

There has always been news that wasn’t news because it wasn’t true. That’s an acceptable downside of a free press. You can’t give control of what gets published to the government and its minions to “protect” people from lies. It would take perhaps fifteen minutes for government-approved truth to become government-approved spin, propaganda, and lies. The truth’s only chance is press freedom, aggressive journalism (now found almost exclusively on the internet), and letting people sort things out on their own.

Substantial segments of the media now regard truth as a threat and want the government to suppress it. Substantial segments of the government would happily do so. Their increasingly hysterical reaction to the internet is a spike on the EKG just before the patient expires. The demise of the government’s public relations branch is the death of a vital organ that presages the death of the entire organism.

For the government, we even have a date when its condition became irretrievably terminal: July 6, 2016. On that date the US Treasury’s 10-year note yield hit its low, 1.34 percent, and has been trending irregularly higher ever since. Historically, debt has been the life support for regimes in extremis. No regime has ever been more in debt than the US government. Its annual deficit and debt service expense are growing, old-age pension and medical programs face a demographic crunch, and now interest rates are rising. One way or the other, the government walking away from some or all of its promises is as set in stone as anything in this life can be

As far as spending money the government doesn’t have, the new boss has been the same as the old boss, denial being the first stage of the terminal process. Notwithstanding his free-spending, Washington-pleasing ways, Trump infuriates elements of the ruling class, which has taken refuge in fantasy and criminality in an attempt to depose him. Anger is the second stage.

The Russiagate fantasy is a comatose, incontinent patient who shouldn’t be prevented from drowning in his own drool. As a kid, did you ever tell a string of lies, each increasingly outrageous lie designed to rescue the previous ones? Such has been the case with Russiagate, which started with an allegation of Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee computers. That the Democrats wouldn’t allow the FBI to examine those computers, instead relying on an outfit, CrowdStrike, of its own choosing, shouted: Whoppers to come!

And come they did, almost too numerous to count. The highlights have been the Trump dossier from Fusion One, secretly funded by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign; the intelligence assessment based on that dossier; the cover story that a meeting between a drunk Trump campaign aide and an Australian diplomat instigated the Russiagate investigation; the Department of Justice and FBI’s stonewalling of congressional appearance requests and subpoenas; James Comey’s, John Brennan’s, and James Clapper’s leaks to the press and lies to congressional committees, and The New York Times recent CYA attempt to soft-pedal both the FBI’s insertion of at least one spy into the Trump campaign and its own tendentious reporting ahead of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report. To believe any or all of this is like accepting little Jimmy’s explanation that Martians messed up his room and took all the cookies.

The real story isn’t Russia. Do you mount a “soft coup” over policy differences when, after all the Washington give and take, those policies will, at worst, marginally affect your influence, power, and payola? Doubtful. (Keep in mind Trump wants to increase military budgets.) If, on the other hand, you’re facing complete disgrace and ruin, including a long stretch in a penal institution, there’s nothing you won’t do to save yourself.

It’s not what politicians and bureaucrats do sub rosa that poses the biggest danger to the country and the world, but what they do in broad daylight. However, there’s no denying that Washington is the world capital of sub rosa—the unethical, immoral, and illegal. To use a favorite Trump adjective, it’s a crooked place. Trump knows or suspects where some of the bodies are buried, and the powers that be fear he’ll go after them for everything from garden-variety graft, bribery, theft, and influence peddling to crimes as sordid as child molestation and murder.

Plot Holes,” SLL, 2/25/17

Trump could unplug Russiagate from life support at any time, but if he keeps it alive he can do in the Deep State. Since “Desperation” and “Plot Holes,” SLL has argued that Russiagate signals Deep State weakness and desperation, and that Trump was underestimated and would gain the upper hand. He has done so and can continue to use the scandal as his foil against the Deep State. Notwithstanding the ministrations of its captive press, it’s now obvious that the leadership of the intelligence agencies, colluding with the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, launched an effort to prevent Trump’s election, and failing that, to overturn the election result.

There was never going to be dramatic round-ups and military tribunals for the miscreants, outcomes the more fervid quarters of the internet kept insisting were just around the corner. However, the slow grind of the legal system will be more satisfying in the same way that Chinese water torture is more satisfying than a quick execution, at least for the torturer.

Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Lynch, Clinton, lower ranking officials in the intelligence agencies and Department of Justice, and maybe even Obama will spend years worrying about subpoenas, depositions, indictments, legal bills, turning state’s evidence, plea bargains, and jail time as the screws are ever so slowly turned. Running the gauntlet that is the American criminal justice system may be the closest thing to hell on earth. Forgive the rest of us for our schadenfreude.

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James the Wanderer

Yes.

RT Rider
RT Rider

Do you think this whole shit show can be held together over the next few years, while your scenario unfolds? Maybe, but I’m doubtful.

Bob P
Bob P

Agreed, RT; the collapse of the West can’t be far off. Furthermore, if the Dems win Congress this year, any hope of prosecutions may end. To me the most likely course of events is for Trump et al to lower the boom a few weeks before the midterm elections. Perp walks of the main players in this treasonous series of events, fresh in the minds of voters, should ensure Nunes and company can finish what they’ve started.

javelin
javelin

Liked the article but the second to last paragraph is WAY off……..

“However, the slow grind of the legal system will be more satisfying”…more satisfying than the actual justice and a lawful society that is wanted????…….
“dramatic round-ups and military tribunals for the miscreants”– There is no way in hell that the elites sipping their cognac, smoking their Cuban cigars inside their multi-million dollar mansions and $5000 per plate dinners while on exotic global vacations at taxpayer expense compares with the cold, hard steel bars of actual imprisonment—I guess my idea of “Chinese water torture” differs than Robert’s. All they need do is continue to complicate and convolute their illegalities and corruption until 2020 ( or maybe even November) and then it all disappears in a puff of smoke and the powerless public get flipped the bird and a smirk…..

Anonymous
Anonymous

So the ruling elite are about to take a mortal hit, huh? Their lackeys are going to the slam? Delicious thought but don’t bet the ranch (unless it’s paper is under water). The smart move is to bet with the house. The enemy isn’t the dealers. It’s the house-it’s their rules. They invented the democrazy scam and they know how to rig the game. But I sure hope you’re right.

Vote, my ass.

CCRider
CCRider

So the ruling elite are about to take a mortal hit, huh? Their lackeys are going to the slam? Delicious thought but don’t bet the ranch (unless it’s paper is under water). The smart move is to bet with the house. The enemy isn’t the dealers. It’s the house-it’s their rules. They invented the democrazy scam and they know how to rig the game. But I sure hope you’re right.

Vote, my ass.

whiskey tango foxtrot

Watching the government and its minions today reminds me of watching the Ed Sullivan Show as a kid and the guy on stage spinning dinner plates on sticks. Same talent. Same eventual outcome.

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2

No complaints. You all now know that the CIA, FBI, NSA, DOJ were corrupt to the degree of politicization, using their vast influence against a Presidential candidate and then the actual President.

Would any of this corruption have come to light if Hillary had won? Of course not. These are exciting times for American politics.

MAGA for all you doom and gloom against Trump.

Gator
Gator

Would any of this have come to light if killery won? No. But that’s obvious. The important, and as of yet unanswered, question, remains- will anything be done about it? This far, no.

RiNS

Excellent essay Robert. Something is brewing cuz all the rats are on parade. Clapper, Brennan, Comey and Yates are doing the circuit trying to get in front of IG report. Should make for great reading if it every gets released. Seems to me there is a whiff of desperation in the air.

Or is it napalm…. here is hoping the show starts soon.

Gen. Kong
Gen. Kong

This type of story is a familiar trope coming from the (((Ministry of Truth))). The same thing has been said about the New Duranty Times itself for well over a decade (one foot in the grave, the other on a banana-peel). Yet here they are, spewing their daily quota of lies fresh from the 4 AM directive of the Body-Snatcher overlords. The Washington Post is a zombie too – except that Llord Bezos picked it up for cheap along with a CIA deal for secure cloud-services from Amazonia. Some will truly die – decades after they should have – but those who control the counterfeiting and debt-racketeering scheme referred to by idiots as the “free market” can just add zeros to accounts and shovel more more fake money at them to keep the zombie mouths open spewing their daily quota of lies. Best weapon of all is for everyone to realize what they are an view them in the same way the Izvestia (News) and Pravda (Truth) were in the USSR: There is no truth in the news and no news in the truth.

Gloriously Deplorable Paul
Gloriously Deplorable Paul

It’s a great line of reasoning and I’m hopeful that it all comes to pass, but it’s only possible as long as Trump remains in office. The moment he’s gone all further progress toward justice for these many miscreants stops. Game over.

Not Sure

I’m all in on your article, but I have to ask a question; how long can those who thirst for justice finally being dealt to all the smug arrogant organizers who are trying to impeach Trump wait? Isn’t there a moment where a line is crossed and they finally pull Obama and Clinton from an assisted living home where they are weeks from expiring, to a final perp walk, only the perps will need walkers to get down the hall? How many times will I hear every damned blessed detail of every conspirator repeated over and over again, before I final throw my hands up and say: “At this point, what does it matter?”

Anonymous
Anonymous

I don’t really care it the miscreants get prison time. It will be just as satisfying to me, and crueler to them, if they end of life broke, disgraced, and with millions of dollars owed to their attorneys. To them that is the fate worse than debt.

Mousanony
Mousanony

I’m pretty sure that living in Gaza or Yemen or Syria right now is orders of magnitude closer to Hell on Earth than dealing with petty thugs and other sociopaths in the American miscarriageofjustice system. And if you actually believe that O’bomber, Felonia, Blowme or any of the other ratfinks are going to spend more than ten femtoseconds between all of them worrying about jail time, subpoenas, or anything else other than where their next big fat check full of stolen money is going to come from, you might want to spend more time paying attention to reality, and less time wet dreaming.

Hollywood Rob

No mouse, you really want them to stand for their crimes and be punished. You want the rule of law to mean hillary too. If it doesn’t then you get the Tommy Robinson thing going on where they just walk out of the courthouse, stop you on the sidewalk, and hall your ass into court and then remand you to prison all at the same time. Kangaroo (((sharia))) court has arrived in GB and it will come here soon if we don’t have equal justice under the law.

And yes, you might want to consider voting your ass unless you are a strapping young lad like Tommy who can kick the shit out of the muslims who will try and kill him in prison.

Mousanony
Mousanony

WANT them to stand for their crimes? Yes, every rational person wants that. Believe that there is a fraction of a shadow of a ghost of a chance? No rational person believes that.

TampaRed
TampaRed

as usual bob,good article–
happy birthday also,i remember you said your day was sometime in may because i’ll also be hitting 60 in late june–1958 was a good year,wasn’t it?
i’m like you in that i do not envision mass round ups of the evil bastards who have been committing the crimes against our country we constantly talk about here-obama,hillary,bill,and other elected officials,candidates or cabinet officials will probably skate–probably the best we can hope for is a scathing non partisan report that details the acts of these people,though there is precedent in the fact that john mitchell went to prison–
i do believe that mid level officials will eventually wind up in federal prison but what concerns me is the clock is ticking on the statute of limitations–
how do we get around that?

javelin
javelin

And what good is a scathing report of the actual facts and evidence of their corruption if 75% of the people never hear it and the radio, local and cable news refuse to report the findings?

What good is proof of criminality if there is no penalty and the majority of the public will either A) never hear about it in the MSM or B) just revert to the basic liberal “I refuse to be believe that.”

Nothing short of actual charges and imprisonment will convince any leftist of the corruption of their heroes.

TampaRed
TampaRed

a scathing report combined w/their subordinates going to prison will eventually filter down to all but the most partisan or stupid voters–
right now the important thing is that not only to keep the dems from retaking power but also to keep pressure on the reps to not allow this to be dropped or sidetracked–

Steve C
Steve C

“…1958 was a good year,wasn’t it?…”

A friend of mine’s dad once remarked,

“…1958, what a year – got married and bought an Edsel…”

Uncola

Enjoyed that. Thanks, Robert.

Substantial segments of the media now regard truth as a threat and want the government to suppress it. Substantial segments of the government would happily do so. Their increasingly hysterical reaction to the internet is a spike on the EKG just before the patient expires. The demise of the government’s public relations branch is the death of a vital organ that presages the death of the entire organism.

When I read that, and contemplated a future without Time, I smiled at the irony; and remembered these images:

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rhs jr
rhs jr

Liberals have the Sidam touch: everything they touch turns to shit. Every magazine (The Readers Digest, National Geographic etc); every radio station; every record and movie company (even porno); every sports venue; every manufactured product; every ideology; every college; every government and country. FSU was the Redneck Riviera but is now like a Southern Ivy League Jr Money College. The Liberals took over and it won’t be long before they vote to change the name to Progressive University because Florida was part of the Confederacy and the Confederates had slaves so Florida is repressive White Conservative Christian Nazi Fascist Hatred and must be Revised so that all monuments, names, statues, plaques, references, books, memories, etc, are purged of Intolerance.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Epictetus wrote about an iron lamp that was stolen from in front of his home. He didn’t mind the loss as he said it could be replaced easily with one made from clay that would serve just as well, but that the cost for the thief was very high indeed, for something as simple as a lamp he paid the price of becoming a thief. For a lamp he became faithless.

That’s the way we ought to be considering this era in which we live. The law has ceased to function as it was originally intended and just like those who can readily distinguish between male and female it is obvious and needs no discussion. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t justice, only that we can no longer look towards government to serve it up. There are other means and on other levels.

Time, like the lamp thief, has paid a price for its choices.

BB

I will be more straight forward …I would like to see everyone of these traitors shot.Their deeds have showed us what they are.I just keep wondering when “white America ” will wake from their slumber and begin to organize.

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

Agreed! If they are imprisoned they need only wait until a demo pres is in office and pardons each and everyone of their seditious asses! Then they will right back to their felonious high jinks! Once dead they can only occupy a six foot hole while taking a dirt nap.

John
John

Time founder Henry Luce was a member of the Rockefeller CFR along with CBS founder William Paley, Washington Post owner Katherine Meyer Graham, New York Times owner Arthur Sulzberger, and Rockefeller lawyer Allen Dulles, a CFR director for 40 years, who ran the CIA “Operation Mockingbird”.

Jeffrey Bewkes, the chairman of Time-Warner, is a CFR member and a former director. Other members include Eric Schmidt (Google), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook), Stephen Adler (Reuters), Lynn de Rothschild (Economist), Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg), and Mort Zuckerman (US News) to name a few. See this handy chart showing more of the CFR media connections:

https://swisspropaganda.wordpress.com/the-american-empire-and-its-media/

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts…” — Shakespeare

Hopefully, CFR members John McCain, Bill Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney and George Soros will be leaving the cast of characters very soon, but they will be replaced and the CFR will continue to write the script.

Luminae
Luminae

Trump is dead.
– Time

Time is dead.
– Trump

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow

Great post as usual Robert. And happy birthday. I just turned 58 on May 3rd so we’re pretty close in age. I hope we get to see the imprisonments of these communist traitorous scum bags in our life times … Chip

Steve C
Steve C

“Fortunately, the Dying Do Die”

You click-baited me with the title Bob.

I was looking forward to reading that John McCain was on his way to hell…

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Humanism has failed. This past epoch (2500 yrs) shows us that man has failed his responsibility to manage the geosphere and perfect his own nature. The world is at a crossroad.

This world up to the previous epoch was influenced by a higher intelligence. An intelligence that guided life for millions of years.

Today that influence is subdued and the responsibility of maintaining civilization and the geosphere is in our hands.

Our present leaders have failed us. What is going on in front of us is a display of hubris and evil on a grand scale. No one can deny this is going on. What is interesting about it is that it is arousing the conscience of the public. At least in my world it is.

Anyone who has studied history back into the remote past know that when changes come these changes are somehow experienced all over the globe. Since the US is an empire any changes that come from us will have effects all over the globe.

Our leaders are materialists. Their doctrines are material. These doctrines do not follow the creative purpose of man established by our creator; therefore they are doomed to failure for all of us to see.

The failure is unfolding and exposing many people that no doubt will be prosecuted under our laws. It is going to be shocking when the truth finally sees the light of day. And I know it will come out because that is part of the plan. The master plan of the redemption of man from his evil ways.

This epoch has shown us that material man; the psychopath, the person of service to self, is not capable of running this planet. And yet that is who is running this planet today.

As bad as it seems today this anomaly against the great master plan will pass.

We have many problems that can be changed but it takes a change of mind. It first will take people in leadership positions that think service to others. Then we have to change the intent of our Administrative laws and our codes so that they progress from just fact to include values; human values, so the problems can be addressed justly. Administrative law has to adapt a “Bill of Rights” and due process just like the constitution. There are so many problems that can be solved if people begin to look at the total picture of the whole; not just the part. The last 100 years has seen an advancement of technology far more comprehensive that the last 6000 years. Do we really expect everyone to not be mesmerized and confused by this rapid rate of expansion? Those that have assimilated to these advances have taken advantage on the material level that have caused lack for others not so fortunate. This is why the few are so rich and the many are struggling for a place just to live.

Money is the fertilizer that feeds the roots of evil. And ego seems to feed off these roots. Tell me if this isn’t the picture in Washington DC and all levels of our government down to the local level.

Anyway the demise of our current system is in the works. Unless there is a change of mind in the people our system will not be able to recover. Order will turn into chaos.

Thanks for the essay Robert Gore. Good points

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