Assange masterfully seduced the press, in that way presaged Trump's
bountiful curative to a dying paper-profession unable to overcome
online challenges, WikiLeaks was little noticed from October 2006
founding until Collateral Murder was staged in April 2010 (at the
National Press Club, where else?). Then Manning's gushing, then a
sustained dramaturgy of Swedish pecadillos, then
Snowden/Greenwald/Poitras/Guardian/WaPo's careful teasing, redacting,
withholding ("not dumping like WikiLeaks").
Assange's celebrity (Pamela Anderson, Wei Wei, ad nauseum) arrest
extends an arc from Gawker's pansexual predatory excess to DJT's
blow-dried sexculpation, to resurgence of top-down leadership of
MeToo, Blackish, innumerable 2020 candidacies, the 99%, privacy and
comsec advocates, all susceptible to being overwhelmed by
rule-breaking gender and racial disintegration. Assange's dominant
male whiteness not so different from Greenwald's Brazilian racism.
Presumbably Trump will pardon Assange along with his Barr-blessed
hoodlums but not before feeding the media with prolonged advertising,
yarping heads, febrile criticism, abhorrent violence. Assange better
watch his unasylumed ass against a one-off fame seeker with a banned
firearm, not least a former colleague/lover/influencer.
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