{"id":1080,"date":"2017-05-12T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2017-05-12T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:57:43","slug":"the-shrieking-calliope-of-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/12\/the-shrieking-calliope-of-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shrieking Calliope of Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think Steampunk exists because the steam powered devices of the 19th<\/sup> century were so impressive to the senses.\u00a0 A steam locomotive fairly writhed with barely latent explosive potential.\u00a0 Even the safety relief valves that prevented the whole thing from rupturing into a multi-ton shrapnel device assaulted your ears with a screeching shriek that hardly spoke to any sane person\u2019s mind of safety or relief.\u00a0 This impressiveness transfers well to the written page.\u00a0 A good writer can weave a word image of the sights and sounds and the feel of the vibrations and even the taste and smell of steam coming off one of these mechanical monsters.\u00a0 Off the top of my head, I can think of two examples from imaginative works.\u00a0 The first is the Calliope and Carousel from Bradbury\u2019s \u201cSomething Wicked This Way Comes.\u201d\u00a0 The other is in the final scene in the boiler room from King\u2019s \u201cThe Shining.\u201d\u00a0 In both cases the steam powered engine is almost an entity in itself.\u00a0 A manic energy emanates from it and powers the action of the scene and drives the protagonist to attempt to disarm the menace of his shrieking foe.<\/p>\n

So, where am I going with this? Oh come on, you know me by now.\u00a0 The hissing, sputtering, shrieking machine that threatens at any minute to explode from apoplectic rage is the MSM and its faithful audience.\u00a0 In the last week or so we have had any number of the usual suspects screaming, crying, cussing and threatening disaster over every and any action of the Administration.\u00a0 In some ways it is impressive.\u00a0 To keep up a hissy fit this long is no mean feat.\u00a0 Some of these individuals are not young and so you\u2019d think the risk of stroke is not negligible.\u00a0 I\u2019d say the most noteworthy instances to list were Stephen Colbert and Maxine Waters.\u00a0 Colbert had a meltdown over Trump disrespecting a CBS reporter named Dickerson.\u00a0 Colbert went into a rant against Trump and used some extremely derogatory sexual comments that even partisans of the left found offensive.\u00a0 Following that a few days later, he extemporized to his studio audience on the breaking news of FBI Director Comey\u2019s firing and was chagrined when the crowd cheered the news.\u00a0 He claimed it was the result of a pro-Trump audience.\u00a0 More likely, his constant attacks on Comey for harming Hillary\u2019s election chances temporarily confused the audience into forgetting that we\u2019ve always been at war with Eastasia.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he straightened them out on that right away.<\/p>\n

Waters took the Comey firing as the one hundredth excuse, to once again, call for the immediate impeachment of Donald Trump. When asked if she would have supported Hillary Clinton firing Comey she said she definitely would.\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n

In the olden days B.T. (before Trump), a republican president or Congress would quail and jibber under the endless assault of the outrage machine. A Bush or a McCain would waffle and kowtow to accusations of racism or sexism or just plain ism.\u00a0 They were a hapless bunch and the Media and the dems knew it.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they are still hitting this play so hard.\u00a0 It always yousta work.<\/p>\n

We may be in a golden period. A place in time where the libs are still using tactics that no longer work but before they figure out that they actually do real harm to their case.\u00a0 If this is the case then the trolling of Trump may actually be a very effective way of turning the public against the public positions of the left.\u00a0 Someone like Colbert blowing a fuse on screen might have a truly revelatory effect if at the same time an unapologetic President is managing to get things done in Washington at the same time.<\/p>\n

As the inimitable Vox Day has noted SJWs always double down. If that is the case, then there may come a point when even the somnambulistic public wakes up to the fact that the Left has become a shrieking steam engine whose relief valve has been overwhelmed in furtherance of doubling down.\u00a0 And with any luck the Left will blow the whole thing sky high or run it right into a brick wall.\u00a0 If so I can make one last steam analogy reference, \u201cGod He stole the handle and the train won’t stop going, no way to slow down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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