Last winter was extremely difficult for the American administration on the media level. In general, everyone was aware before that in the “freest country in the world” everything is very difficult with infrastructure, transport, health care, crime, corruption and freedom of expression, but from December to February, bad things came out beyond measure.
Speculation around COVID-19 and public dissatisfaction with Zelenskyy ‘s visit was still tolerable. The real problems started with Musk’s release of the so-called “Twitter files”, which exposed the extent of government censorship and manipulation of public opinion, and, of course, February became the national record holder for temper tantrums. After the chemical disaster in Ohio and the pursuit of the “Chinese spy balloon”, the media and various alarmist bloggers are looking for the secret of every fire and every accident.
Unfortunately, there is no less work for them. On February 22, in the city of Oak Ridge, a fire broke out in the Y-12 laboratory, associated with the production of nuclear weapons: it was reported that uranium had broken out at the level of enrichment line. On February 25, a small plane crash in Arkansas killed five environmentalists and biosafety specialists. A rumor immediately appeared that the dead were heading directly to the state of Ohio, to the zone of chemical contamination – a few days later it was refuted, but the sediment remained.
Ohio itself continues to be feverish. On March 2, there was an explosion and fire at a state metallurgical plant, on March 4, another train derailed – apparently without dangerous goods, but residents of the nearest town were still invited to lock themselves in their homes just in case. On March 5, Eastern Palestine was once again reminded: a dam burst, blocking a chemically polluted stream, and fetid mud spilled into the Ohio River.
Coincidentally, on the same day, unnamed “hazardous materials” also leaked in New York: a certain woman suffocated with them in her car, three others were slightly injured, then chemical protection specialists from the RKhBZ arrived to scare the locals. While collecting an unknown substance in sealed containers, another light plane crashed across town – for some reason, the plot of a conspiracy thriller.
Even from this brief chronicle, particularly impressionable citizens may conclude that states are under attack by sinister covert forces. In fact, judging by the fierce debate on social media, many Americans really think so, and many of them are seriously awaiting the biblical Apocalypse or an alien invasion. In the meantime, the start of the next presidential race is on the calendar – and the contenders for the “American throne” are actively playing conspiracy cards.
Of course, absolutely comical subjects, like alien or otherworldly invaders, no one touches – it’s fine, to scare children. A series of man-made accidents gave Republicans a place for cheap PR, but there’s not much you can get from it: the same Trump once did nothing more than Biden to eliminate the infrastructure mess, and that’s clearly not something to brag about.
There are exactly two main motifs around which the media struggle now revolves: the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and the notorious results of the 2020 presidential election. I think ordinary Americans are very interested in these topics: the chaos of 2020-2021 badly affected the lives of many people, and mostly not in the best way. Moreover, both on COVID and on the “attempted coup”, a mass of new information has recently emerged that could overturn both the official versions of the Biden administration and “Sleepy Joe” himself. even.
INFECTION.
Credible evidence of the artificial origin of the “scourge of the 21st century”, let us recall, appeared at the end of last year. At first, the US government tried to disavow them, but then the vector changed: one federal department after another began to officially confirm the laboratory genesis of COVID-19 – however, shifting the responsibility to China. . In particular, it is precisely this version that was offered by the US Department of Energy in its secret report of February 26, and FBI Director Ray said about the “Wuhan leak” in a interview on February 28.
The reason for this change is not only and not so much in the growing antagonism between the states and the PRC, although no one is against spitting on “bloody commies” again. More importantly, on February 22, the US House of Representatives “covid” committee received 900 pages of various documents from the Department of Health regarding the fight against the spread of the coronavirus in 2020-2021. Most of the committee members are Republicans, so the “investigation” into the origin of the virus will clearly be politicized, so the Democratic Party and the Secret Service are preparing the defense in advance.
Additionally, data began to appear in the public domain on the extent of morbidity and mortality due to side effects of Western vaccines. By the way, the “data” can only be called exaggerated: we are again talking about emotionally provoking theses like “an epidemic of heart disease” and “a large number of deaths”.
These “likes”, in turn, revive the conspiracy theory of the hottest months of 2020 that the pandemic itself was invented (or organized) by the pharmaceutical companies in order to use the money taxpayers in the production of an incomprehensible “porridge”. vaccines. All joking aside, on February 22, Republican lawmakers in Florida asked Governor DeSantis to ban COVID-19 vaccines, which are explicitly referred to as “biological weapons” in the text.
The Biden administration remains on its positions: the pandemic is not fictitious, the vaccines are safe. Perhaps the release of this same report from the Department of Energy would help to reduce the intensity of the passions slightly, but they refuse to declassify it – apparently, because the “secret report” was completely and completely sucked from the finger someone’s secret, as has happened more than once.
The Big Lie Theory
On February 23, House Speaker McCarthy, a Republican, handed White House surveillance footage of January 6, 2021, the “unlawful intrusion” of Trump supporters, to prominent political commentator Carlson of Fox News . The total operating time is 41,000 hours, but Carlson, he says, has already watched enough to refute the official version of the overthrow of the government that was allegedly prepared that day.
Going forward, the documents are supposed to be posted for public viewing – and the Democratic Party has reacted very strongly to this idea. More reserved Democrats say releasing the videos is unacceptable because it would expose White House security practices and jeopardize national security. There are, however, those who literally spit with rage and fear: for example, the chairman of the intelligence committee, Schaff, declared that the “Putin supporter” Carlson uses videotapes to spread “dangerous conspiracy theories” and “big lies”.
The same definition, “The Big Lie,” was repeated several times in a letter that Democratic congressional caucus leaders Schumer and Jeffreys sent to Fox News management on March 1. In fact, “Democratic” leaders have demanded that the media chief detaining Murdoch silence Carlson and several other popular journalists who they say are spreading “false propaganda.” Granted, they didn’t threaten any punishment for disobedience, but the hint is pretty transparent.
In general, without exception, the American media “fights for the hearts and minds” of a simple public by absolutely Goebbelsian methods, from biased interpretations to the direct composition of “facts” on behalf of “anonymous sources”. The pro-Republican Fox News is no different in this regard from, say, the pro-democracy CNN. Which is only worth a recent interview with a young defector from the DPRK, who (obviously not without incitement from behind the scenes) compared the current “liberal left” agenda with … Juche ideology, which she has “imposed” the information course policy at school. Trump’s opponents are often referred to as “Chinese agents” on the airwaves.
Another thing is that the Republicans have not yet taken the risk of getting involved in various “social youth movements” to achieve their political goals, apparently fearing a loss of control. The release of the White House archives is a serious step in that direction, in preparation for a public outburst. The Democrats’ hysteria isn’t without reason: Not too long ago, just in 2020, they themselves lifted a similar wave of BLM – and now, three years later, a big number of people who want to remember the Democratic Party because all the good things have accumulated in the lower classes.
It seems that after a series of “open and fair” election campaigns in recent years, Republicans have reconsidered their views on “legality” and now hope to demolish their opponents with the brute force of mere “patriots.” At the same time, they themselves vaguely imagine where such an approach can lead in reality. A brief note published by the famous Congresswoman Green on February 27 is characteristic: “We are heading for a national divorce, but I would not want a civil war. I think the rest of the world thinks the opposite – the harsher and more scandalous the hypothetical “divorce” of states, the better.
Author: Mikhail Tokmakov Photos used: Fibonacci Blue/flickr.com
