Bren Kelly
4 min readOct 25, 2024

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I always love Baldwin, such a genius. It’s amazing that when we look back at these clips and discussions, there is such open talk and listening on TV, and even a willingness, by a few at least on TV but not most, to engage. For a long time, before YouTube, it seemed that stopped. And it did, as I was reading about just yesterday. The FCC rules for television licensing became if a station aired an opinion that was deemed “controversial,” like Mr. Baldwin’s for example, then it had to give equal time to an opposing viewpoint of that “controversy.” This ensured that open dialogue was turned into a ping-pong match and both “opponents” were shaped as equals, even though one side was nutso whyte. I have more to research on this rule.

This is how in part we get today, where it looks like there are only two sides and the rules are constraining both the knowledge and viewpoint. Trump will double down on the genocide, as stated yesterday, letting Netanyahu off the lease. On the other side, Harris is restrained by her position. IT just so happens that VP was chosen to be the candidate, who is in a unique position to her mandatorily conform to her boss’s policy. Harris is a brilliant legal mind, and was a strong opponent of Biden as we saw at the 2020 debates. That means she won’t stray from the official policy of the Executive branch and can’t. She MUST follow “orders” as second in command, as the Executive Branch is structured under a military chain of command system of control. The policy comes from the President and the VP is made to “obey” like all the generals. That’s how Mike Pence was, until he broke and disobeyed command only at the last minute on January 6th where he became insubordinate. The VP does NOT set policy, and the only way Harris can change the policy is to win. Instead, she gets the blame and has to be silent. I’m not saying she would massively change the policy, but as commander in chief she could at least finally be in a position to.

So we are left with a choice of one person being able to potentially change the position, with two others (Trump, Biden) very much pro-Israel, pro backing this genocide, but the black woman moved like a pawn into a position where she gets all the blame. If she “sides” with “the Muslims,” she loses the white centrist vote, which is far bigger, and Trump gets to immediately call her a “terrorist.” If she doesn’t at least appear “calm” and in support of Israel, she loses that powerful money and vote. It’s a position they’ve trapped her in and works brilliantly in favor of the defense industry, which obscenely profits the most and is not coincidentally run by white able controlled companies and investors. The constantly remain the true victors, making reams of money, and using a small pittance of it, which is still billions and billions, to set up think tanks to devise just this type of positioning. The 120 organizations behind the Heritage Foundations Project 2025 are funded by top richest whites, many from this subset of super elites. On the other side, no one, a couple small thinktanks massively outflanked and outspent. She’s getting the blame for what the white men created and American military bombing of Muslims since the first gulf war in 1991. How is that fair? Trump in the meantime wrote his famous op-ed around that time condemning the Central Park 5 and has been doubling down ever since while Harris was working hard in those same decades.

Right now the policy behind the genocide is ensured to continue until Christmas no matter which side wins, and even if Harris resets the policy and ends the weapon shipments, it would be until after she is sworn in. We have been maneuvered into thinking that America’s first female black and Indian VP would be a bad choice for Commander-in-Chief, the most militarily powerful position in the world ever, in favor a genocidal white man who just declared his intentions to let Netanyahu and his cronies go full tilt in flowing Gaza under. For me the choice is still clear. Not to put a black woman in charge of the all white male means we will never get to see what it will feel like and look like to see a black woman in charge of the world and the biggest military ever in existence. Even symbolically, under this horrible conditions and times created over the last 300-400 years by white men, I still want to see what that looks like.

That symbolism is a reversal to great not to indulge in. We know the outcome of another white man. We don’t of this radical change. Now come on, don’t you at least want to see what it looks like to put a black woman in charge of all these white generals and colonels? To put a strong black woman n charge of a legion of white to order them around? Oh man—I mean woe-man, woman—I can’t pass this up. It will drive them all mad. I hope she crosses that finish line. Watching her get hemmed in and tripped up in the last mile of this super marathon while a lazy big orange blimp just sales on past her is depressing. Come on now.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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