Post-Election NYT Crow-Eating Time & Ruminations on a Trump Presdiency
Dispatches from
STEPHEN LENDMAN
Never before throughout its dubious history did the nation’s leading broadsheet devote so much time, energy and newsprint to supporting one US presidential candidate over the other – featuring misinformation, deception and Big Lies, standard Times fare, deplorable by any standard.
Despite going all-out since mid-2015, its favorite, war goddess/racketeer/perjurer Hillary lost to billionaire tycoon Trump.
The day after the day after, postmortems keep coming, the usual deplorable stuff, typical Times misreporting, maintaining an anti-Trump drumbeat. Its editors cited “Mr. Obama liken(ing) Mr. Trump to a teammate in a relay race, promising a smooth handoff. His words were gracious, but had a tragic dimension. He is, after all, leaving an eight-year legacy of achievements in the hands of a man determined to erase them…”
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Fact: Let’s hope so. Obama gave us war on humanity at home and abroad, neoliberal harshness during protracted Main Street Depression conditions, poverty made a growth industry, mass unemployment and underemployment, and police state repression, among number other examples of serving privileged interests exclusively at the expense of most others.
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Fact: He wanted his leadership baton handed to an emotionally unstable neocon lunatic war goddess – nuclear war possible on her watch if elected, thankfully not.
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The Times: “We Americans can be heartened by Mrs. Clinton’s and Mr. Obama’s decency.”
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Fact: Their imperial agenda killed millions, waging naked aggression against one country after another, serving Wall Street and other corporate predators exclusively, doing nothing to reverse US streets turned into battlegrounds, killer cops lethally shooting unthreatening victims unaccountably, largely inner city Black or Latino youths.
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Times editors accused Trump of “many disgraceful things…to get elected, the promises he may may not keep, the falsehoods he peddled that were either delusions or lies.”
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Fact: Times editors, correspondents, columnists and contributors one-sidedly supported a woman I call the most ruthlessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history – practically portraying her as America’s sweetheart, ignoring her high crimes, while inventing reasons to bash Trump.
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Times editors: Trump is “a reckless, unqualified leader…Americans (should) reject bigotry, misogyny and fear.”
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Fact: Whatever his failings, bombast and racism, he doesn’t have blood on his hands like the Clintons and Obama – not yet at least. It remains to be seen how he’ll govern – likely facing continued scoundrel media hostility no matter what he does or doesn’t do.
Hail to the Chief: Now It’s Show Me Time
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he best post-election news was freeing humanity from the scourge of Bill and Hillary Clinton, America’s most notorious crime family. They’re politically dead, never again to compete for public office – despite one-sided media scoundrel support, a vast fundraising and surrogate apparatus dwarfing Trump’s, Wall Street-led corporate interests backing them, and most pollsters getting it wrong.
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Trump thanked supporters, saying “I’ve just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us. It’s about us. On our victory, and I congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard-fought campaign.”
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“I mean, she fought very hard. Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country…I mean that very sincerely. Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division, have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people.”
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“It is time. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be President for all of Americans, and this is so important to me. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country. Every single American will have the opportunity to realize his or fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”
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Promises are one thing, fulfilling them another. Like all politicians, especially presidents, Trump has lots of proving to do. Accept nothing he pledged at face value. The proof of the pudding is in how he governs. If past is prologue, disappointment awaits. Politicians, especially in America and other fantasy democracies, notoriously say one thing and do another. Though new to rough-and-tumble politicking, Trump’s ascension to power likely made him captive to the nation’s deep state, dark forces running things behind the scenes.
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Will he serve “every single American” or just its privileged few like his predecessors? Will he be a rare politician who says what he means and means what he says?
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He tapped into a deep vein of public anger, angst, and dissolution over a system consistently betraying them. Will he diverge from deplorable governance preceding him for so long? He has no public record on which to judge him. For the first time, a celebrity businessman is America’s president-elect.
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His career up to now focused on profit-making. Running a nation is another matter entirely. Will he adjust to a new lifestyle, assuming the trappings of political leadership, beholden to powerful interests able to take him down if he fails them? The road to hell is paved with good intentions. According to TS Eliot, “(m)ost of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” Aldous Huxley said “(h)ell isn’t merely paved with good intentions. It’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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Post-inauguration in January, we’ll know if Trump is cut from a different mold from his predecessors, or just another self-serving politician, representing America’s privileged class at the expense of most others. I’ll withhold judgment until he shows what’ll he’ll do for good or ill. I’m not optimistic but eager to be proved wrong.
And [Further] Reflections on America’s Election
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was a long night for me, up all night for the first time following a US election. Press TV invited me and other guests on to comment on Tuesday’s results after the polls closed. Discussion began around 2:00AM Central Standard Time, lasted two-and-half-hours. After each 30 minute segment, I was asked if I’d stay on.
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I was tired but eager to express my views and hear what other guests had to say. It was a stimulating, informative discussion, straight talk never heard on Western TV, vital issues raised, I and other guests getting ample time to address them.
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Available for viewing online, commercial free Press TV does a admirable job – television news, information and analysis the way it’s supposed to be. It’s polar opposite Western scoundrel media, featuring state-sponsored propaganda, focused on misinforming and selling stuff, not telling readers, viewers and listeners what they most need to know – why I call them scoundrels, presstitutes, press agents for power and other pejoratives.
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Other guests were thoughtful and informative. I largely agreed with their views, while disappointed that at least one didn’t know America created and supports ISIS and virtually all other terrorist groups, used as imperial foot soldiers.
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I spent post-election day like all others, long hours writing, four articles on Trump’s triumph – on the one hand relieved war goddess Hillary was defeated, her political career ended. On the other, concerned about dirty business as usual continuing, the aftermath of all US elections, especially presidential and congressional ones under America’s duopoly system – a one-party state with two right wings, voters having no say on how they’re governed.
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Post-election is no time for celebration or mourning. It’s a time for relief to be free from a possible nuclear holocaust had Hillary won. It’s a time for concern, knowing what affects most Americans adversely won’t change. Wealth, power and privilege will continue being served exclusively, popular rights, needs and welfare largely ignored – despite Trump’s anti-establishment sounding pledges.
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Candidate Obama promised hope and change. Chicago, my home city and his, erupted like New Year’s eve on election night November 4, 2008. Euphoria was short-lived. Perhaps never before did a future US president promise more and deliver less. Obama broke every major pledge he made.
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He promised peace and delivered endless wars of aggression. He turned America into more of a police state than under Bush/Cheney.
He exclusively served monied interests, neoliberal harshness for most others, the phony slogan “shared sacrifice” used as justification, ordinary people sacrificing while privileged ones share, amassing greater wealth and power during his tenure than ever before in US history.
Was Trump’s election transformative? Will he reverse anti-populist policies harming so many since the neoliberal 90s under Bill and Hillary Clinton? Will he wage peace, not war? Will he make America great for everyone, not just its privileged few? Hold the cheers!
I believe he won because deep state power brokers jettisoned Hillary after choosing her last year to succeed Obama. Scandals certain to haunt her in office, if elected, made her damaged goods, too contentious to govern effectively.
Duopoly power runs America. No candidates ascend to high executive, congressional or judicial positions without being carefully vetted, assured of their commitment to support dirty business as usual, a little slack allowed them at most to pursue personal preferences as long as powerful interests are served like always.
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STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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