Russiagate is like a mirage. From a distance it looks like a solid, tangible thing, but when you actually move in to examine it critically you find nothing but gaping plot holes, insinuation, innuendo, conflicting narratives, bizarre mental contortions to avoid acknowledging contradictory information, a few arrests for corruption and process crimes, and a lot of hot air. The whole thing has been held together by nothing but the confident-sounding assertions of pundits and politicians and sheer, mindless repetition. And, as we approach the two year mark since this president's election, we have not seen one iota of movement toward removing him from office. The whole thing's a lie, and the smart movers and shakers behind it are aware that it is a lie.
And yet they keep beating on it. Day after day after day after day it's been Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. Instead of attacking this president for his many, many real problems in a way that will do actual damage, they attack this fake blow-up doll standing next to him in a way that never goes anywhere and never will, like a pro wrestler theatrically stomping on the canvass next to his downed foe.
What's up with that?
As you doubtless already know by now, the New York Times has made the wildly controversial decision to publish an anonymous op-ed reportedly authored by "a senior official in the Trump administration." The op-ed's author claims to be part of a secret coalition of patriots who dislike Trump and are "working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations." These "worst inclinations" according to the author include trying to make peace with Moscow and Pyongyang, being rude to longtime US allies, saying mean things about the media, being "anti-trade", and being "erratic". The possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment is briefly mentioned but dismissed. The final paragraphs are spent gushing about John McCain for no apparent reason.
I strongly encourage you to read the piece in its entirety, because for all the talk and drama it's generating, it doesn't actually make any sense. While you are reading it, I encourage you to keep the following question in mind: what could anyone possibly gain by authoring this and giving it to the New York Times?
Seriously, what could be gained? The op-ed says essentially nothing, other than to tell readers to relax and trust in anonymous administration insiders who are working against the bad guys on behalf of the people (which is interestingly the exact same message of the right-wing 8chan conspiracy phenomenon QAnon, just with the white hats and black hats reversed). Why would any senior official risk everything to publish something so utterly pointless? Why risk getting fired (or risk losing all political currency in the party if NYTAnon is Mike Pence, as has been theorized) just to communicate something to the public that doesn't change or accomplish anything? Why publicly announce your undercover conspiracy to undermine the president in a major news outlet at all?
What are the results of this viral op-ed everyone's talking about? So far it's a bunch of Democratic partisans making a lot of excited whooping noises, and Trump loyalists feeling completely vindicated in the belief that all of their conspiracy theories have been proven correct. Many rank-and-file Trump haters are feeling a little more relaxed and complacent knowing that there are a bunch of McCain-loving "adults in the room" taking care of everything, and many rank-and-file Trump supporters are more convinced than ever that Donald Trump is a brave populist hero leading a covert 4-D chess insurgency against the Deep State. In other words, everyone's been herded into their respective partisan stables and trusting the narratives that they are being fed there
And, well, I just think that's odd.
Did you know that Donald Trump is in the WWE Hall of Fame? He was inducted in 2013, and he's been enthusiastically involved in pro wrestling for many years, both as a fan and as a performer. He's made more of a study on how to draw a crowd in to the theatrics of a choreographed fight scene than anyone this side of the McMahon family (a member of whom happens to be part of the Trump administration currently).
You don't have to get into any deep conspiratorial rabbit hole to consider the possibility that all this drama and conflict is staged from top to bottom. Commentators on all sides routinely crack jokes about how the mainstream media pretends to attack Trump but secretly loves him because he brings them amazing ratings. Anyone with their eyes even part way open already knows that America's two mainstream parties feign intense hatred for one another while working together to pace their respective bases into accepting more and more neoliberal exploitation at home and more and more neoconservative bloodshed abroad. They spit and snarl and shake their fists at each other, then cuddle up and share candy when it's time for a public gathering. Why should this administration be any different?
I believe that a senior Trump administration official probably did write that anonymous op-ed. I do not believe that they were moved to write it out of compassion for the poor Americans who are feeling emotionally stressed about the president. I believe it was written and published for the same reason many other things are written and published in mainstream media: because we are all being played.
The more I study US politics, the less useful I find it to think of it in political terms. The two-headed one party system exists to give Americans the illusion of choice while advancing the agendas of the plutocratic class which owns and operates both parties, yes, but even more importantly it's a mechanism of narrative control. If you can separate the masses into two groups based on extremely broad ideological characteristics, you can then funnel streamlined "us vs them" narratives into each of the two stables, with the white hats and black hats reversed in each case. Now you've got Republicans cheering for the president and Democrats cheering for the CIA, for the FBI, and now for a platoon of covert John McCains alleged to be operating on the inside of Trump's own administration. Everyone's cheering for one aspect of the US power establishment or another.
Whom does this dynamic serve? Not you.
If you belonged to a ruing class, obviously your goal would be to ensure your subjects' continued support for you. In a corporatist oligarchy, the rulers are secret and the subjects don't know they're ruled, and power is held in place with manipulation and with money. As such a ruler your goal would be to find a way to manipulate the masses into supporting your agendas, and, since people are different, you'd need to use different narratives to manipulate them. You'd have to divide them, tell them different stories, turn them against each other, play them off one another, suck them in to the tales you are spinning with the theater of enmity and heroism.
As a result of the New York Times op-ed, if this administration engages in yet another of its many, many establishment capitulations (let's say by attacking the Syrian government again), Trump's supporters won't see it as his fault; it will be blamed on the deep state insiders in his administration who have been working to thwart his agendas of peace and harmony. Meanwhile those who see Trump as a heel won't experience any cognitive dissonance if any of the establishment agendas they support are carried out, because they can give the credit to the secret hero squad in the White House.
Would a billionaire WWE Hall of Famer and United States President understand the theater of staged conflict for the advancement of plutocratic interests, and willingly participate in it? I'm going to say probably.
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Reader Comments
A while back, Tillerson was on meet the press and didn't deny Russian collusion... He fed the idea too. Why?
The swamp wasn't drained, just filled with other creatures who pretended to be alt. Excuses, pointing the finger at the other side and the other side pointing back with their excuses.
Meanwhile, people are being divided into two sides because they have hope that things will get better.
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But the difference with QAnon is we're seeing the predicted results. Take as examples the cleanup/firings in the FBI and DOJ, the numerous senate/congress members who are stepping down or not running again, the sealed indictments lists over 50K, the imminent release of the FISA doc redacted 20 pages, etc.. All of it was outlined and predicted in advance. Plus, QAnon gives the inside scope on events like the attack on Syria, which actually took out a black-hat nuke factory that the Clowns In Action help setup. Why do you think Russia did not counter-attack? They knew it was for their benefit as well as ours.
All in all, QAnon has been right on the money and the many proofs that this Q group has direct ties to POTUS are almost irrefutable. BTW, Q and POTUS are using theatrics to a degree, since they have to introduce evidence of serious crimes and not look like just another partisan attack against their opposition. In other words, they have to slowly acclimate the people presently hypnotized by the MSM into believing the evidence presenter when the time comes. That time has come and it will be Sessions as their main guy, from all indications. They don't call him Stealth Jeff for nothing.
The bottom line for the US (and the West in general) in a situation like this - including for Trump - would be to maintain the myth of Western military superiority. Without it, there is far less 'hard power' to 'project', and thus far less means of influencing countries.
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Throughout the 20th century, the US ability to project power and dominate global geopolitics was, to a large extent, based on the general perception that the US was the most powerful military...both he and his family have been subjected to intense scrutiny and endless ad hominum attacks. for nearly two years
and yet you and Caitlin are suggesting that it is all just a big game that he is playing...
there are many different types of balls in the world love. mebbe you both need to grow a pair, to understand what the man is doing?
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But, what the 'press' tells you is, well it's not even remotely accurate, most of the time. Sigh..such lies, lies, lies...
See my post above where I explain the contradictions in the Trump camp still pushing the Russian meddling idea when they could have just spoken the truth.
If it all works out and we move into a better place after this, so-called, turning, then great. If it so happens that I have to pick up a sword, or even fall on one, so be it.
Anyone can leave their sword on the ground - but they can't expect to fight with it, even when push comes to shove. Best pick it up and think about what has meaning for you. If anything.
Who is more powerful?
When forces come to divide and conquer, what is the correct approach? It depends upon the circumstances what action is appropriate, but in every case it is appropriate to accept all possible outcomes.
In chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna is trembling at the vision revealed by Krishna as the Ultimate. Arjuna is in despair at having to fight a war, even though it is a just war, because there are noble men who have, through ignorance, chosen the wrong side and he does not want to kill them. Krishna responds that He has already killed them. If Arjuna were on the wrong side, would it make a difference? On the one hand he would be fighting for victory, and the other for his own destruction - picking up the sword or falling on it.
It's not about the outcome.
I don't believe that 7.5 billion of us create the reality per se, but I do think that the emotions expressed tilt the energy balance to which influences our perception of reality. Like how someone would feel looking at a painting. On the individual level, one might perceive it as a masterpiece, but someone else might feel it to be unworthy of their admission fee. However, if an art critic writes an admission highlighting how the artist must have been out of his mind while painting it and that A, B, and C are all whats wrong with it, then A, B, and C are what the majority of people will see. Therefore, on an individual level we have little impact on the influence of perception, but if we have a platform then our influence reaches far more individuals and can shift the emotional balance. This is abundantly clear in the technological age and with the media at the moment. They have the influence to sway emotional balance, as an individual, I don't.
Now, I can perceive it in my own way as you stated, but in no way do I have the power to contribute collectively, anymore. At one stage in our history I believe we had control, but in this modern world I believe that my individual contribution is smothered and over shadowed by a much more influential power. That said, we most certainly have that power on a relational level, but that only extends so far into the cosmic consciousness.
katesisco is correct.
The future is terrifying.
The logical 'answer' of course, is to join the party.
We invite all 'parties' to join the authoritarian, technocratic party.
This party has been going on for centuries.
It is the one and the only.
It thrives by first degrading and subjugating, and then destroying, all things deemed more primitive and less advanced than itself.
It lives and grows on lies and hype. Lies and hype represent POWER and CONTROL. Remember that.
Thus the party is hierarchical and driven by lust and greed.
And it can and will do this forever.
Lies and hype, along with the degradation and destruction of all other 'items', formation of a strict and rigid authoritarian hierarchy, CRIMINAL LUST AND GREED, can and will last forever.
JOIN THE PARTY NOW.
And avoid being terrified.
Become a terrifier, instead.
It is very authoritarian, totally technocratic and absolutely cool.
GOD DON'T CARE.
GOD DON'T COUNT.
GOD IS POWERLESS.
EVEN WHEN THE TAO IS VIOLATED, IT IS NEVER VIOLATED, BECAUSE THERE IS NO TAO.
THERE IS ONLY US.
signed,
your party leaders aka organized technocratic crime bosses
(sarcasm)
ned,
OUT
With clever editing, he echoes the sentiments of others before him but no one recognises the words because of the actor. They will be so embarrassed to discover this, I believe.
I wouldn't like to be one who underestimated President Trump.
Now he is facing a coup attempt I suppose President needs to execute various emergency measures to protect the mandate of the people from Washington trivia.
GREED.
They may have billions, they may have tens of billions, they may have trillions, but as Adnan Khashoggi once remarked to Robin Leach on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous : "It's never enough, is it?"
Greed, pure and simple. Trey will murder billions of humans, they will destroy all life on the planet, they will turn the planet into a dead ball of rock like Mars, they will do anything, literally without limit, purely in pursuit of more, and more, and more, and more, MONEY.
That's all we need to know. It's up to us if we want to subscribe to their agenda, or reject it.
Imagine watching your favourite film over and over and over again. Nothing new.
It is a proveable fact that many, many people actually enjoy murder mysteries, Grand theft stories, war stories and stories about abuse. Look at the best sellers lists. People are so fucked up they actually purposefully by these stories, ingest them and thereby invite such dramas into their psyche.
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When so many people live on a planet that is struggling to accommodate them with all the pollution and filth and governmental mismanagement of global resources, something has to give. If you have all lost perspective to such an extent that this fact is ignored and outweighed by some rmomentary political intrigue then we are all surely doomed.
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Itโs all bollocks, Everybody Knows... ... [Link]
Trump is this... or that, the world is flat... believe what you want or what you can.
What do we know.
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