If the events currently unfolding in cities across the United States were happening in any other country in the world, a lot of us would already have said that the US Deep State was behind it. All the hallmarks are there.
The constructed narratives. The handy props. The
Consider, for a moment, that what is happening in Minneapolis and New York and Los Angeles has been happening in Paris and a host of other French cities
The Guardian never called Macron a fascist. CNN never had a live stream about
Compare the coverage of the
The rubber bullets and tear gas are the same. The headlines are not.
CNN has one host calling Trump a "thug" who's "hiding in his bunker", and another saying "Trump declared war on Americans". Robert Reich, writing in the Guardian, says:
[Trump] is no longer president. The sooner we stop treating him as if he were, the better.
The Washington Post has an op-ed headlined:
Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers.
Remove Trump Now
The corporations are all on board. Every one of them releasing statements of solidarity and heartfelt Instagram posts and sending money to all the right places. Nike had their famous ad.
Because the same companies paying slave-wages to 10-year-old Indonesian kids in vast sweatshops just hate racism and inequality, honest.
We've seen this before, haven't we? Doesn't this look like a play for an exchange of power? A colour revolution in the offing?
I suppose we should ask "why now?" Trump is up for re-election in just five months after all. Biden doesn't really stand a chance, but they could have him suffer "ill health" and pull out, replace him with a Harris or a Warren or Michelle Obama. Hell, they could just rig it. They've done it before.
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