RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Ann Althouse
This post certainly set the cat among the pigeons, both sets. Most professorial, pedagogically.
What surprises me — negatives my long-held central assumption about the chap and his cabal, in fact — is not so much the weight of Althouse’s observation that they must be in trouble on this vote to go on Fox but the weight of the follow-on implication that they feel they had better care once this stinker passes, as they know it will.
They’re not trying to sell passage. That they know is assured. They’re trying to deflect/neutralize the fallout from passage.
Now, if they’re trying to deflect/neutralize that fallout, it means they do in fact worry that they may not be able to enforce the stinker, that the fallout will overwhelm them. I have long assumed they believed they could ram up the nation whatever they wanted to ram, confident of being able to make it stick there.
This interview last night says I was wrong about that, they are in fact worried they cannot enforce it.
This means only one thing: they calculate not having enough firepower (read US Armed Forces) to suppress rebellion.
There was no obfuscation at all in this interview. It was about the after-passage environment, not the vote, which is assured, and the effort was to intimidate rebels into believing the cabal has firepower sufficient to overwhelm them when in fact it does not.
But they wouldn’t engage in intimidation unless they knew they didn’t have the force necessary for victory in the task they know is coming, namely suppressing rebellion.
In other words, the interview was a bluff to buffalo rebels AFTER the vote on this stinker, which will succeed.
If someone got ambushed, the interviewer got ambushed, not the interviewee. However, the more likely reality is that the interviewer was assisting a message delivery from the platform the rebels most likely would be tuned to: “In other words, rebels, the cabal controls this channel as well as the others. You ain’t got a chance. See you in hell!”
Meta-message: we haven’t got the firepower to stop you after we pass this stinker.
AMDG
