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[Part 1 of 2, due to technical difficulties we couldn't post on schedule this week and each transcript will be two or more parts. We apologize for this inconvenience.]
Good evening. It's Monday, December 4.
Tonight: one of the most important American political dynamics over the last six years has been the clear migration of neocons, warmongers and war hawks from the Republican Party where they situated themselves during the War on Terror back to the Democratic Party from which many of them originated. Back in 2016, they originally—and quite lucratively—were branding themselves never-Trump conservatives to imply that they were still conservatives and Republicans just as much as before but simply could not tolerate Donald Trump. People like Bill Kristol, Liz Cheney, David Frum, Jonah Goldberg, the Lincoln Project con artist, and so many agents of the U.S. Security State, such as the Bush-Cheney head of the CIA and NSA, Gen. Michael Hayden—rapidly grew in popularity, got rich writing anti-Trump books, and became completely rehabilitated in the eyes of American liberals by posing as conservatives who are simply too noble, too patriotic—too much loved and believed in the rule of law and the virtues of honesty—to possibly abide Donald Trump.
But gradually—as their social media followings and book audiences and donors became composed almost exclusively of American liberals—and as their only real constituency beyond that continued to be the country's largest media corporations, which could not get enough of them—they very quickly succumbed to audience capture. More and more began opposing not only Donald Trump, but almost every other Republican who wasn't as consumed with the same kind of monomaniacal hatred for Trump that consumed them. And then, somewhat slowly but surely, they began admitting one after the next that they are really just standard-issue Democrats, that they oppose not just Trump now, but the entire Republican Party, and that – most of all – they vehemently support the reelection of Joe Biden whom they regard with great respect and reverence and affection.
One of the most interesting questions, and one of the most deliberately ignored—is why have the most destructive, deceitful and dangerous neocons in our country—the people who lied the U.S. into multiple wars, not just Iraq, who cheer every American war from a safe distance, wanting to send other people to fight in them, who endorse classic authoritarianism and censorship as soon as it suits their agenda and who lie the way most people change their socks. Why have these people become the most devoted Democrats and Biden supporters in the media? Conversely, why are the nation's most extreme neocons also those who most fear and hate Donald Trump? It's obvious why American liberals want to avoid asking that question. They've been doing it for years. But in that question resides so many vital revelations about the state of the Democratic Party and the Trump movement.
I bring all this up in part because I've long been interested in this question, but also because these anti-Trump neocons are now clearly in full-blown panic mode as a result of recent polling and other political troubles for Joe Biden. They have all united, the largest liberal media outlets, to endorse a hysterical, unhinged script. “Yes, we told you in 2016 that Donald Trump would be a fascist and the new Hitler if he won but this time we're really meaning it. Now we'll look at why these people are doing this and how they even aided the media outlets all to say the same thing and why this is all happening.
Then: the country of Ireland has become the subject of a great deal of attention and interest in the West. That is true in part because of violent riots that just broke out in Dublin following the horrendous stabbing of three Irish children in broad daylight with the police naming as a “person of interest” an Algerian refugee who had evaded multiple deportation orders in the past. But it's also attracting attention for the way Irish leaders are exploiting that unrest to try to jam down the public's throat one of the most repressive and draconian censorship and hate speech laws yet enacted in the West. And what we've always argued when reporting on hate speech laws in other countries is that they're important not just unto themselves, but also because of what they forbode for what's coming to the United States.
One of the Irish journalists who has been covering these issues most intrepidly and independently is Ben Scallan of the Dublin-based Grip Media. He'll be our guest tonight to describe what is happening in Ireland and the implications of it for all Western democracies.
And then finally, a vote in Congress will be held imminently, perhaps as soon as tonight, declaring that anti-Zionism is now antisemitism and this resolution will almost certainly pass with overwhelming bipartisan support. Now, maybe you're somebody who believes that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. I'm not. But anyway, we'll examine this question, why is the Congress of the United States Congress, now instructing Americans on an overwhelming bipartisan basis, which political views are deemed bigoted and which are not? There are clearly dangers and abuses from allowing them to do this.
For now, welcome to a new episode of System Update, starting right now.
