What do I think? I'll tell you what I don't mind confessing to. And this is that never in my life had I allowed myself to take such perverse pleasure in rank hooliganism, than while I watched, on live local-affiliate TV, those stupid gimmicks being burned to the ground in LA.
That it so obviously had nothing whatsoever to do with any 'protests', and that it re-defined for the ages the meaning of the term 'mercenaries' as riot-actors providing in real time a false premise for a party-state personality cult to send in the Marines having already intended to do so regardless, made the arson itself, and the thousands of semi-indifferent and certainly not rioting bystanders too busy pointing their phones at the flames to be much concerned with bringing down a republic, and that presidency itself, look more clearly than ever like what they all are: either entertainers, and those in need of entertainment for lack of anything else to do, is in its perverse and tragic way the funniest practical joke I ever encountered.
What do I think? I'll tell you what I don't mind confessing to. And this is that never in my life had I allowed myself to take such perverse pleasure in rank hooliganism, than while I watched, on live local-affiliate TV, those stupid gimmicks being burned to the ground in LA.
That it so obviously had nothing whatsoever to do with any 'protests', and that it re-defined for the ages the meaning of the term 'mercenaries' as riot-actors providing in real time a false premise for a party-state personality cult to send in the Marines having already intended to do so regardless, made the arson itself, and the thousands of semi-indifferent and certainly not rioting bystanders too busy pointing their phones at the flames to be much concerned with bringing down a republic, and that presidency itself, look more clearly than ever like what they all are: either entertainers, and those in need of entertainment for lack of anything else to do, is in its perverse and tragic way the funniest practical joke I ever encountered.