WEDNESDAY: Stepford judge unloads on Harris (again)!

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2024

Anthropology all the way down: Winston Churchill famously described the Soviet Union of his day as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." 

Somewhat similarly, our nation's failing national discourse is often a clown-car inside a hall of mirrors driven by a bunch of con men.

By music men—and music women, or perhaps by a herd of Stepfords. Consider what happened again last night on the highest-rated TV show in all of "cable news" land.

For today, we won't depress you with the latest numbers from Nielsen. That said, the Fox News Channel clown-car, The Five, is that highest-rated "cable news" program. Yesterday, its Stepfords were once again assailing the dimwittedness of Vice President Harris, who lost last month's presidential election to the brilliant Candidate Trump.

The Stepfords were in their standard fine form, the better to sell their corporate owner's various talking-points with. Robotically, they recited the points their owners had placed on their messaging sheets. 

Finally, it came time for Judge Jeanine to declaim. 

For today, we'll spare you the checkered history of this illustrious "cable news" magistrate. Soon, though, here came da judge! As you can see by clicking this link, the judge was emphatically saying this:

JUDGE JEANINE (12/17/24): I think that the problem with Kamala Harris is that the woman is so inept, so incompetent, she is so inarticulate that she was a joke. She was! I mean, I don't know what she stood for. I don't know why anyone would even think she's got a chance at winning any other seat at any other race...

She didn't try to get new voters when she couldn't even perform with her own voters. She underperformed with blacks, she underperformed with the youth, and she had no interest in doing conservative media. She wasn't interested in the—I was reading about the monoculture that sports is. Nobody owns sports. That was a place for her to go in and she didn't bother.

And yet, Trump was smart enough. A lot is attributable to Barron. I mean, he understood the value of social media, how viral it goes when you capture something and then it continues to spread. And she just didn't get it. 

I mean, she had no message. She had nothing. And in the end, it's a slap in the face to the Democrat [sic] Party that she was even their candidate. She couldn't articulate how she was different than Joe. The woman is—she's just inept.

She wouldn't even do sports! It's astounding to think that the Democrat [sic] Party got stuck with someone like her!

This remains standard fare on the gruesome "imitation of life" known as the Fox News Channel. On programs like The Five, Harris is still the dumbest, stupidest, inexplicably worst presidential candidate ever. 

On that same channel's Gutfeld! show, she's still being mocked as "a drunk."

Let's get back to the judge, whose gruesome history we're setting aside for today.

The judge was performing like a trained seal, or possibly more like a Stepford. In fairness, the other players had taken their turns trashing Harris before the judge stepped in.

That said, the sheer stupidity of Fox News culture is routinely put on display when the Stepfords perform this particular script. We're even able to make ourselves find their behavior amusing.

Go ahead! Just riddle us this:

If Harris was the worst candidate ever, what exactly does that say about their champion, the fabulous Candidate Trump? These denunciations of Candidate Harris routinely coexist with declarations of his North Korean-adjacent greatness. So how, then, do the corporate Stepfords pretend to explain this?

Nationwide popular vote (to date), 2024 
Donald J. Trump (R): 77,300,739 (49.80%)
Kamala Harris (D):  75,014,534 (48.33%)

The riddle here would occur to almost any human. If Harris was the worst candidate ever, why did the greatest political strongman only manage to defeat her by less than 1.5 points?

How do the Stepfords square that circle? Of course! In the obvious way!

They square the circle by the prehuman process known as "sifting." Their channel's viewers are never told how close the nationwide vote really was. Instead, the Stepfords echo Trump's own language, finding a thousand different ways to convey the impression that he won this year's election in some sort of a landslide.

This is the existing state of what's left of our nation's "discourse." The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but the fact that people can be paid to behave this way is a lesson in anthropology.

Judge Jeanine is a lesson all by herself, a lesson in anthropology pretty much all the way down! We've spared you her journalistic history, which seems to emerge from a car.

Fuller disclosure: This goes on all night every night. On weekends, it can get even more phony and dumber.

This bullroar is broadcast to millions of voters. Over here in Blue America, our highly educated elites politely avert their gaze.