America's banana republic

The Democratic party created the Swamp. This urgently needs to be drained

The White House yesterday dismissed as “old news” fresh information revealing the attempt during the 2020 presidential election to censor stories and posts about the Biden family. 

If only it was! If only, that is, it ever was news. The problem has been that the media — with one or two stellar exceptions — refused to report it and thus ensured the scandal was still-born. 

In any regular journalistic universe, this would be astonishing. The story was always objectively huge, suggesting corruption in the Biden family lapping at the feet of Joe Biden himself.

What’s emerging now into full public view is a far more devastating corruption of the American democratic process involving most of the media, the Democratic party and a number of top officials in the intelligence world.

It appears that the administrative “Swamp” sowed disinformation to get a Democrat president into the White House — having spent much of the previous four years sowing disinformation to lever an elected Republican president out of the White House. 

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter whose release of internal documents has begun to bring this out into the open, has said:

If Twitter is doing one team's bidding before an election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is the definition of election interference. Frankly Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee, it was absurd.

Yet even today, the reaction of most of those journalists who for the past three years have ignored this story or dismissed it as the product of a “warped right-wing mind” (as an MSNBC journalist wrote of the latest revelations) is still to say “move along, nothing to see here”.