A Great Adventure
“We Will Control All You See and Hear”
If you are as ancient as I, you may remember this:
“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to — The Outer Limits.”
This was the introduction, enunciated by the “Control Voice,” of ABC’s television series, “The Outer Limits,” beginning in 1961.
It seems that the present administration (AKA the O’Briceklainiden administration) has taken the core of this fiction and made it reality: “Sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to participate in a great adventure.” “Don’t bother looking behind the curtain, there’s nothing to see.”
Restoring Transparency
The White House recently released, “President Biden committed during the campaign to restoring ethics and transparency to government, and in his first weeks in office he’s taken significant steps to deliver on that, including by reinstating the daily press briefing, putting in place sweeping ethics guidelines for the administration, and pledging to regularly release visitor logs again,”
So, “transparency” for the O’Briceklainiden administration seems to be daily press briefings with vague answers, but sincere promises to “circle back,” and releasing visitor logs. Hurray! Eureka! And, oh, what about the surge of illegal immigrants crossing our border with Mexico, you may ask? Do not worry–they are being flown to our northern-most border for processing (or is it for press avoidance?).
“[Department of Homeland Security Secretary] Mayorkas said DHS is ‘working on providing footage’ of what’s taking place inside the facilities. The secretary said this would provide Americans an idea of what’s taking place” (Townhall “Watch: Mayorkas Offers a Pathetic (and Scary) Alternative to Allowing Media Inside Border Patrol Facilities”). But yet again, don’t look behind the curtain–there’s nothing to see.
This suggests DHS is going to provide images and footage approved by the O’Briceklainiden administration to provide the promised transparency. Nothing can go wrong there!
America’s Politburo
The combination of the 15-headed governmental hydra of independent, activist departments, a chief executive who isn’t, a legislature that seemingly legislates without deliberation, a sycophantic press that acts as the government’s propaganda arm, and globalist commercial entities, such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, that actively silence citizens have become America’s politburo. It is this politburo that creates and approves “official” socio-political discourse, and suppresses dissent.
A disturbing glimmer from our politburo suggests a rogue Department of Justice; one that initiates unwarranted investigations, and then leaks that information to a press willing to declare allegations as established fact to discredit recalcitrant and non-conforming legislators. Suspicions about DOJ’s roguish nature are buttressed by investigatory press rumors it started an investigation into Hunter Biden’s hard drive, with, as yet (one year[?] on), no data from the DOJ. Amazing how that works; leaks abound when dissident voices are involved, and total silence when approved voices are involved.
I concur with Governor Huckabee: To call the politburo a “swamp” is doing disservice to the natural role of a swamp. “Sewer,” as a man-made contrivance, is more appropriate to describe the excreta and vermin that no one wants near them.