Russiagate, Babygate, and media malfeasance

I see where Mafia Don has done a rather hasty climb-down from the "zero tolerance" nonsense on the illegal immigrant families.

Let's face it; the optics were beyond horrid. Suckling babes ripped from their mothers' breasts...

The horror!

Unlike most ugly shit that America does, this quickly became "an issue." And once something becomes "an issue" in American media, you know it's got legs. It rapidly becomes immune to anything resembling rational discourse.

Most people who go to jail don't get to take their kids with them, not in the USA and not anywhere else. Indeed, people who go to jail, as a matter of course, generally give up their children.

Hell, Trump could have taken a page out of the playbook of the most moral army in the world and just had the Border Patrol shoot the poor sods down before they even crossed the border.

Oddly enough, that revolting spectacle passed virtually without comment in American media.

But the big boys who decide what's news knew they had themselves a winner, a fresh new beatin' stick to bash Trump with. After all, the Russiagate business seems to have more or less run its course; it's the never-ending nothing-burger that even the most fervent Trump-haters have lost hope in.

After a year and a half plus of multiple investigations we can be pretty sure that some non-entities with possible links to certain possible Putin associates may have stolen the last US election by meeting with certain people with links to the Trump campaign, and before the delicate blossom of American democracy knew what hit it, had robbed Hillary of the White House with a few well-timed Facebook adverts...

Nah... Russiagate is well past its best-before date.

No, "the Resistance" needed a new angle, and for a couple of promising weeks it looked like Babygate might be it. Alas, Trumpenstein caught on, and that's all over now.

What next?

Here's a suggestion; I think if you take another look at the Trump Team's collusion with foreign powers, you might get a little more traction if you picked a different country, say Israel.

I hear Sheldon Adelson himself made a twenty million dollar tithe to the Trump campaign, and many other Trump associates, including members of the Trump family itself, were colluding with Israeli interests to throw the election to Trump!

They could call it Bibigate.

Now that would be something worth investigating!



Don't hold your breath.