We thought of sacred Nietzsche's work...

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2024

...as we watched this imitation of life: We thought of sacred Nietzsche last night as we watched the Gutfeld! program.

We're not saying we should have had such thoughts. We're just reporting the fact that we did.

Last night, the termagant plowed some familiar ground at the start of his primetime program. Hillary Clinton murdered Jeffrey Epstein! Former president Barack Obama still can't find his birth certificate!

As for President Biden, he was hailed by the termagant for his "soft poos," but also for "piss down an old man's leg." Upon news that Hooters will be closing a bunch of outlets, the program started with several jokes about women's body parts.

The Fox News Channel opens this garbage can every night of the week. The can is opened each night in primetime, as upper-class legacy orgs politely avert their gaze.

We thought of sacred Nietzsche last night as we watched this program's imitation of human conduct. We thought of one part of his work during the show's second segment. 

We'll start with a bit of background:

Stating the obvious, no one required Candidate Trump to accept the terms of tomorrow night's debate. That said, once he had agreed to those terms, the revolt from below came fast.

Robotic spear-chuckers now roam the world, insisting that the format is thoroughly rigged. By the second segment of last evening's show, the assembled experts were pretending to conduct a discussion of this disturbing state of affairs.

Last night, Greg Gutfeld's panel of experts included a former professional wrestler and two B grade comedians. Completing the panel was Charly Arnolt, host of OutKick The Morning with Charly Arnolt. 

Who the heck is Charly Arnolt? The leading authority on her career starts by telling us this:

Charly Arnolt (born July 14, 1987) is an American sports broadcaster and television personality for the multimedia platform OutKick. She is the announcer of the UFC, previously known for her tenure as a sportscaster and ring announcer with WWE from 2016 to 2021.

There's nothing "wrong" with any of that. For the record, Arnolt is also an unstoppable message machine. 

Gutfeld turned to Arnolt first during his second segment. Will tomorrow's debate be conducted in a way which is fair and balanced? In her initial bite of the apple, Arnolt offered this:

ARNOLT (6/25/24): ...I have a feeling that, during the debate, we're going to see Donald Trump's mike cut off a lot more than it should be, because that's one of the, I guess the advantages that they have.  

CNN wrote the rules. They're going to be able to cut Trump's mike, and I think there are probably going to be some fact-checkers on hand. They're going to be doing their job at 100% when Trump's talking. When Biden's spewing his lies, I have a feeling they're going to be sitting back, eating their popcorn. 

And I think it's just going to be an entire clown show as to what we see on Thursday.

As you can see, Arnolt has a lot of feelings. She thinks an array of things. 

It's our impression that she may be an expert on clown shows. As Nietzsche wrote in The Birth of Tragedy:

I imagine that many persons have reassured themselves amidst the perils of dreams by calling out, "It is a dream! And I want it to go on!"

While pretending to conduct a discussion, Arnolt was actually advancing mandated corporate message. That said, we still weren't thinking of sacred Nietzsche at that point in time.

If memory serves, that happened when Gutfeld returned to Arnolt, giving her a second chance to dream her detailed dream about Thursday night's event.

He threw to her a second time. In an imitation of human behavior, the Outkick host said this:

ARNOLT: I think a lot of people are confident that CNN has already handed over the debate questions to the Biden team so that he can prep in advance. But I would love to get the opinion on whether or not the Biden team has actually passed along those questions to CNN, and it's actually the other way around!

Arnolt would love to get the opinion on that! As we mentioned, she's on the air, in large part, because she's a wholly reliable, post-human message machine. 

Plainly, Arnolt was taking part in an imitation of life. Also present was comedian Rich Vos, a good guy who we knew a tiny tad at least three decades ago.

We're sorry about what we saw Rich say. It had to do with which of two women he thought was plainly much more attractive. (The other droogs rushed to agree.)

For whatever reason, it was during Arnolt's second imitation of discourse that we thought of Nietzsche. A furious assault on establishment culture—but more to the point, on human behavior—is being waged from below. 

The storm troops paid to conduct this assault constitute a study in anthropology. The Gutfeld! program is a nightly garbage can, but it's also a nightly imitation of human life. 

Full disclosure:

In its nightly assaults on President Biden, this program isn't telling its several million viewers that President Biden is insufficiently "spry." It explicitly tells its viewers that President Biden is senile and in the grips of dementia—also, that he routinely poops in his pants and soils the White House furniture.

(When the termagant says that the president sh*ts his pants, his bosses BLEEP it out.)

The termagant is 59 years old. He does that sort of thing night after nigh. As the New York Times averts its gaze, an ugly and stupid post-human assault is being waged from below.

We aren't saying that we should have thought of sacred Nietzsche last night. We're simply saying that, as we watched these lifeforms conduct this amazingly stupid assault, for whatever reason we did.

For the record, people are paid by Fox to conduct this nightly assault. Also this:

The termagant has the highest viewership of any host in all of "cable news!"