Don Your Armour, The Daily Beagle Runs Contrary
Time to criticise the hyperbole on the Trump raid
This likely won’t be pleasant for either of us. You don’t want Donald Trump or the raid criticised, and I don’t want to deal with people getting offended. But I have an obligation to the truth. I must report what I see. And I see bulls**t.
Naturally there’s a push-pull. Liberal outlets are screaming the raid is fake and so is the Deep State. Conservative outlets are screaming the raid is real and the Deep State is real. Real baby-and-the-bathwater fallacy, with an either-or false choice on top.
The Daily Beagle occupies a distinct position from either: the Deep State is real, and the raid is staged. No, we’re not ‘centrist’ or ‘moderate’. The single instance of the raid, as an idea, looks, in light of the evidence, staged.
Wait, What?
Want to know why?
Exhibit one: InfoWars Article: “The Guardian Accuses Republicans Of 'Weaponising' Trump-Raid” (which has been, in-turn, copy-pasted by ZeroHedge without checking claims)
Notice the article’s purpose - much like the Guardian’s - is to try to polarise you into one of two political camps?
The Guardian tries to associate rejection of the raid being real with rejection of the Deep State being real - as if that was the sole piece of determinate evidence. ‘Join us’, screams the article, ‘side with the liberals’. The Guardian begs you cherry pick the evidence.
Meanwhile, Summit news (part of InfoWars) tries to associate rejection of the Guardian’s bulls**t as accepting both the Deep State are real and the raid being real, when there are signs the raid itself is over-the-top and staged. ‘Join us’ screams the article, ‘side with the conservatives’. Summit news begs you cherry pick the evidence.
We Shalln’t Cherry Pick
We can demonstrate this push-pull rhetoric by highlighting a quote from the Summit article:
So the FBI, under Democrat guidance, break into a former President’s home and ransack through his belongings and it’s somehow the GOP that is responsible for the ‘weaponising’.
Let up look up the definition of the word “ransack”, shall we?:
something to make a place untidy, causing damage, because you are looking for something
You probably imagined jackbooted officers kicking down a door, overturning everything, pulling out drawers and smashing things like unprofessional burglars hell bent on destruction. Baseball bats and gloved hands sliding lamps off desks optional. That’s the image Summit wants to invoke.
Terrible, but it provides no evidence for the claim the home was ‘ransacked’ - it appeals to your assumptions of what a ‘Deep State raid’ might look like (those sorts of things don’t exist; the Deep State prefers to imprison or kill quietly, not have a million cars show up), but it doesn’t give you any images of what actually did.
No, what actually happened - in the words of Christina Bobb, Donald Trump’s own lawyer, who was at the scene of Mar-a-lago was…
“Peaceful”
You read that right. They kept it neat, with one picking up the trash:
Agents kept Mar-a-Lago neat while they were searching for documents, with one even picking up trash, according to Bobb. The agents “took a handful of boxes of documents,” she said.
I imagine you’re shocked, yes?
That is literally the total opposite of ransack. In-fact, it doesn’t sound very raid-like at all. No 3am no-knock raid with guns drawn followed by a shooting. No busting down the door. No planted drugs, flashbangs or smoke grenades. Peaceful, in her own words. The cars are just for show. Very bright and very flashy. Everybody, look quickly, see how oppressed Donald Trump is, he has like, 100 flashing lights outside his house.
The Public Need To Pick A Side (Hint: Yourselves)
Which means, you, dear reader, face a challenge. It is clear there are people lying to you in this equation. Summit - like many conservative outlets - told you it was a “ransack” by the Deep State. And the liberal outlets try to gaslight you into thinking there is no Deep State if you believe the raid is staged.
Trump’s own lawyer said it was “peaceful” and “neat”. I doubt you would have believed The Daily Beagle pointing out the over-the-top visibility as being staged, if it wasn’t from a source so close to Trump himself. I guess she didn’t get the memo.
Of course, you could neatly resolve this by insisting Trump’s own lawyer is a liar. A one-off. A big mistake. A traitor. Any number of convenient resolutions to maintain the groupthink and avoid cognitive dissonance. But a rather convenient scapegoat. They’d choose to lie now? Over that? They could have opted to say nothing at all. They could have played along.
If anything, their account is pretty mundane for a lie. They insisted for a warrant, saw it, complied with the warrant request, then mentioned the agents were peaceful during the situation. Mundane as claims go.
Meanwhile Summit’s very over-the-top. Ransack! Why would they risk ransacking an expensive house with expensive lawyers anyway? Remember, Summit offered absolutely no evidence of their claim.
The image they do show? Donald Trump’s Secret Service Detail. You weren’t shown anything inside. No photographs. No video evidence. The place has CCTV, right? Yet you were shown nothing.
How nice of the Deep State to finance the Secret Service detail for Trump at the same time they’re supposedly oppressing him.
If, however, you accept Summit is lying to you…
Then You Have To Question All Reports Insisting It Is An Oppressive Raid
Summit aren’t the only ones trying to paint it as crime of the century. We have things like Waco, 3am no-knock raids where innocents get shot, but I’m supposed to believe DeSantis when he says trash picking FBI agents peacefully entering a building with a signed warrant is a sign of a ‘banana republic’? Banana republics don’t waste time with ‘signed warrants’.
Notice he didn’t mobilise any troops in response to his thoughts. He didn’t declare he was going to secede from the “banana republic” US and form a breakaway state. A banana republic he’s okay collecting taxes for and having normal everyday relations with. There’s even a Capitol police office in Florida.
Odd he didn’t say that when the J6 protestors got imprisoned. Odd all the media outlets were silent on the endless abuses endured by the public at the hands of the Deep State, but alas, no, look over there! Get riled up at this thing specifically!
You’re literally being killed off en-mass by engineered food shortages (see Canada, Netherlands), heart attack shots and child abuse sex changes. But this is the line here, right? A rich mansion gets ‘raided’ politely for some documents whilst taxpayer funded Secret Service protection detail look on.
Convenient how quickly they made you forget Donald Trump financed Operation Warp Speed shots that killed children, how quickly they made you forget about the injustices suffered by the J6 protestors, of the parents being labelled domestic terrorists. Those weren’t signs of a banana republic, but a signed warrant with trash pickup agents is?
The public have been relentlessly abused, but the thing that makes you outraged is what the media tell you to become outraged on. Get angry at Donald Trump’s neat and peaceful FBI raid complete with signed warrant over retrieval of classified documents. Get angry at anyone who points out any flaws with this. Rah rah rah, vote harder, all that jazz, right?
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