“Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.” --Pat Buchanan
It’s surprisingly mesmerizing to watch a court trial in which the person under oath on the stand is obviously lying. In this case the Fani Willis show, where we have lawyers and a DA (Fani herself) comfortable with perjuring themselves. It’s kind of silly for the lawyers to spend all that time on Terrence Bradley's lies but even more silly that I watched.
Getting the truth out of somebody who doesn’t want to tell the truth is well-nigh impossible given all they have to say is “I don’t remember” or “I was just speculating when I said that” or appeal to a technicality. It’s discouraging in the sense that being in court “under oath” is a joke. The oath more accurately might be along the lines, “I promise to tell as much truth as I have to in order to avoid being caught.” Or “I promise not to lie about anything that has already come out in discovery.”
I wonder if blacks have just been ahead of whites for a long time in two areas: one, distrust of the medical system (due in part to the infamous Tuskegee Airmen deal) and distrust of the justice system.
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Top Fani Willis Explanations for Late Night Trysts
Working on Wordle together.
Reading Blackstone's Commentaries to each other.
Wade is transitioning and needs Fani’s help.
Emergency Manis and Pedis on each other.
Talking about ways to build up cash without going to ATMs.
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People have no fear of God and so they have no fear of lying involving an oath before God. Which reminds me of an interesting quote:
“One is reminded here of Goethe's remark that reverence is not a natural quality of man, for he must rather be educated to it, but it is only that which constitutes man. Without this acquired capacity for reverence, however, the mystery of the Mass remains inaccessible to those present. One can see from this fact how deeply the "reform" cuts into human history: the reverence that has been lost cannot be brought back simply by a command from above.”
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I always thought Biden would run for a second term simply because he’s the most entertaining option. Americans see politics as theatre and will vote accordingly, and a Trump v Biden rematch is far more entertaining than any alternative. Will Biden be able to complete a debate or will he walk off half-way through after not being able to complete a sentence? Will his meds still work? And will Trump be the first candidate have a felony conviction on his record?
Who could possibly want to see an insufferable like Gavin Gruesome push his talking points on the debate stage? The only Democrat politician who could offer the entertainment value would be Michelle Obama if only because it would be so unprecedented and 11th hour.
In 2020, before we knew quite how bad off Biden was, he wouldn’t have seem the most entertaining, although he had his moments with “Cornpops” and all his made-up urban legends about himself and his family. Bernie Sanders said some entertaining things but wasn't acceptable to the Democrat establishment nor does he speak “black”. Black voters want entertainment too, and they just can’t relate to the chilly Vermonter who is too pale and has too much accent.
Similarly in ’16, a Trump v Sanders run-off is what the people wanted but blacks and establishment made sure Hillary won (the DNC head gave Hillary debate questions in advance among other things). And Hillary had a lot of entertainment value simply because she’s a Clinton and who knew what skullduggery she could dig up? Any candidate with no morals is intrinsically more entertaining, in the same way Hitler gets more press than St. Max Kolbe.
The Republicans never had an entertaining candidate between Reagan and Trump. It’s no accident Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both won two terms.
Both Bushes weren’t watchable except in small doses, and George W Bush only won because he was up against insufferables like Al Gore and John Kerry.
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