As Is The Feeling,
So Is The Result.
BLUF: the goal of our ruling class (oligarchs) and their satraps (bureaucrats/experts) is to turn the USA into regions of the planet administered by a global governance regime based somewhere. Over that where our oligarchs are not in agreement: Beijing, Washington D.C., or Ankara/Mecca/Tehran.
An actor’s failure or success should be measured by the degree to which they succeed at throwing their own goals into existence. By their terms, our ruling class (oligarchs) and their satraps (bureaucrats/experts) are performing their jobs as best they can and in not a few instances better. And their success rate, especially for certainty of its staying-power, is very high.
Getting an entire nation confused into panic, in the space of two or three days, so as to replace intelligence and freedom with a tyrannous abundance of caution — aka fear — is an accomplishment of the first water. To have cultivated predisposition to confusion into panic over decades of infantilization of the general populace by parents, teachers, and prominent personalities is irrefutable evidence that our ruling class (oligarchs) and their satraps (bureaucrats/experts) are doing their jobs quite properly . . . that is to say, their jobs as they define them.
We had this discussion during the last admin. Was the guy a failure or a success, stupid or malicious? Most said failure and stupid, some said success and malicious. Measured by the guy’s self-set goals, one is compelled to the latter assessment, although really it is both and.
Being said here is Richard Grenell’s late salient point: we have Washington D.C. (oligarchic Globalists/Communists/Jihadis) against America (Patriots). Washington D.C. is serving Washington D.C., not America, and their actual goal, as per a murmuration of NGOs, most incessantly, insistently, is Global Governance enforced and overseen by their patron oligarchs. Think, for example, of The Brookings Institution, behoven to Qatar, and The US Chamber of Commerce, behoven to the CCP.
Of recent years, not a few senior US military and civilian commanders, too, are strongly globalist in sentiment, allergic to the thought of American or any other sovereign nationhood. These worthies have believed they know better, have a higher ideal, a Global Commons, a Global Civilization, a Global Governance, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, whatever, which of course is utopian/dystopian Commie-Comms. Portrayal to Americans of Socialists’ trans-national visions as goodies meriting tolerance if not desirability is of standing here by a century of indoctrination at least.
Washington D.C.’s abandonment of American interest for visions of a greater good — one is reminded of The Clearances of the Scottish Highlands between 1750 and 1860 — is intentional, witting, and — were the law applied and justice sought — punishable. Its advocates and tolerators include, of late, senior commanders inside US Armed Forces and not a few of their civilian colleagues at DOD.
Of recent years, more than a few senior officers and their civilian colleagues take US Armed Forces as the USA rather than taking US Armed Forces as the backbone of the USA. National military force belongs to its commanders and their civilian colleagues, not to the nation who raised and commissioned them, some imagine. When such worthies take the oath of office and salute the flag, their mental reference is to their guild, their self-aware, only-important class of globalist rulers, not to their country or countrymen, who they consider superseded in principle if not yet in fact, by The Global Commons, The Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is why the likes of Generals Mattis, Petraeus, Hayden, Powell and others announce and ignore as they do since 2008. It explains their bitterness for POTUS Trump.
Washington D.C. is for Washington D.C., and that means Global Governance by globally-sourced and non-recallable oligarchs, preferably themselves. Americans can clear out or be cleared out, local creed has it.
Can prosecutors be brought up on RICO or other grounds? BLM is just another front of the Globalist/Communist/Jihadist alliance. Big Business that signs on to BLM merely show the connectivity of those three energy vectors. Because of their connective tissues, Globalists, Communists, and Salafists should be spoken of together in the same breath and never treated as separate problems. They are the same problem.
BLM and Deep State are the same problem. Communists and academics are the same problem. Big Law and terrorists are the same problem. Racism and Jihad are the same problem. Politicians and invasion by foreigners are the same problem. Big Media and dark money are the same problem. Big Banking and the drug trade are the same problem. And all of those just mentioned are . . . the same problem.
They each and all have one goal: render Americans unable to defend themselves, then loot their wealth, all of it, spiritual and cultural wealth more even than material wealth
Take all the seemingly disparate attack vectors as having one source and one goal and one will know how to address them and prevail doing so. Hint: go upstream, way upstream.
One yearns for the day an official, upon concluding their remarks to anarchists (press), compels the anarchists to turn and leave their presence rather than turn and leave the anarchists’ presence.
They say Mt. Rushmore is in a region, not in a state. Language is key. In their minds, Globalist/Communist/Jihadist Alliance protagonists take nation states and their internal states as geographic regions of a single global governance regime. They have not yet got to fighting over which one of the three controls the regime.
Long writing, rambling, essayist does not grasp ur-phenomena, looks to tech and Acela Corridor moguls for salvation. Western civilization is a build-out of The Latin Church. Rebuilding is not occurring in alienation from that soteriological force of history.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Not to self-promote, but, I wrote under this title, Let Us Change the Subject To Building And Rebuilding, on 31 December 2013.
Ambassador Landau’s point here is accurate. My first thought upon hearing demise of the Serra statue was, Well, they just lost Esalen and the entire New Age Religion Spirituality Movement with it, not to mention The Latin Church.
I grew up in SoCal when its meta-culture was palpably Spanish. This is something felt, and treasured. When General Patton, in the movie, asks a wounded Private Gomez where he comes from, and Gomez replies, California, Sir, and Patton replies with a big smile, Me too, I feel in my depths the unity of that moment, the not-two-ness of those men.
My Claremont High School class has stuck together remarkably, almost all of us, including our many members who grew up in Spanish-speaking homes. We were Californians and Americans or Americans and Californians. We remain so, each and all of us. And that is that. I have not heard of any of us thinking differently of any of us these many decades later.
Had I been able to afford or to build a home to my taste in such things, it would have been in the style of a Spanish California hacienda. And I would invite my high school classmates to visit and feast and ride across the countryside enjoying California and remembering its precursor, Andalusia.
I do not know whether to laugh or to weep over the colossal stupidity, strategic and tactical, of tearing down a statue of Father Serra, especially in the City of St. Francis of Assisi, Father Serra’s cynosure. Such acts visit disaster upon their doers.
With respect, Sundance, I see Trump foreign policy as old, not new, Washington-ian, Lincoln-ian, and Roosevelt-ian (Teddy), not novel Trump-ian. Also, a classical American moral reason, not economic reasons, is the substance of this classic American foreign policy POTUS Trump has resuscitated: respect.
These GOs and ADMs are, as you say, upset over a loss of engagement opportunities — read, career advancements and billets — as well they might be. The cynicism, regarding the lives of their fellow Americans-in-Uniform, that underlies their discomfiture is grinding.
Be that as it is, the counter argument to their protestations is that Americans want advance to their initial and proven-successful foreign policy, to wit: we have no designs on any other nation; we wish only the opportunity for fair trade with any and all; however, if you harm us, if you aim for unfair trade with us, we will destroy you.
This may appear to be an economics-based foreign policy. It DOES have the restricting effect on senior officer billets you mention. However, it is at root a morality-based policy: respect. Economics is in its branches, leaves and fruits, but its seed and roots are moral: respect us, deal fairly with us, and be happy; that is all we desire by way of foreign policy.
These GOs and ADMs have thrown away their honor. That loss of respect is a horrible sight to behold. But it is what it is, and that is it for them. Their own starred-bros fraternity turned their reason on its head. I would offer, without any direct proof, that this denouement to these officers’ careers was made inevitable upon their not standing up, over years now, for one of their own as he was maliciously handled: Mike Flynn.
The USA’s problem today is drugs, not racism or implicit bias. Everyone knows that to be the case. Racism is an intellectual red herring. Implicit bias is intellectual bear spray.
The main system here is Scots-English-Germanic Calvinist Christianity. We tolerate and even welcome any number of minority systems and apps so long as their APIs enable peaceful comms with the main system. Both main system inventors and stewards and minority system inventors and stewards treasure the main system for the protection it affords to all, equally, by intent if not always in practice, which is mutable.
None of us inventors and stewards yields authority or power to minority system inventors, high or low, who refuse to abide their minority system status and/or to use APIs enabling peaceful comms with the main system. We are as inclined to forego our privileges and responsibilities as God is inclined to forego His.
The mob’s demands are right in line with leftist policy because leftist policy creates and controls the mob’s demands. Right now the mob’s paymasters and strategic decision makers — all super wealthy lawyers, tech-moguls, and civic leaders — are arranging with state, county, and city officials payments and job titles for their senior retainers, government purchases of their products, government policies even more favorable to elite, oligarchic rule, as well as propaganda covering the whole sorry mess with nonsense such as Summer of Love, which recalls Kerry/Clinton/Obama’s Arab Spring, and romantic tales about late 60s music festivals/anarchies. All driven by marijuana, heroine, cocaine, and now Adderall. All with the simple purpose of distracting from and trying to deflect hammer blows falling on the D.C. system, who own the whole perishing thing.
No. . . . . IF the regime changes — it will not except to face down its enemies instead of summoning them — the people conducting ideological purges and smashing statuary will be lined up and shot. Their leaders — rich Euro-American social elites, tech moguls, Moslem Brotherhood, PLA, civic leaders — will be hunted down and shot.
This whole drama is distraction from and effort to deflect hammer blows falling on the D.C. system, who own the whole perishing thing. So, to the extent there is a regime change, it is swapping out the D.C. system for an American one. Codevilla (also here, extensive bibliography here) and others mentioned the necessity and inevitability of this years ago.
Your friend is fear-mongering, and on the basis of inaccurately-coded conceptual models.
Only one or two commenters whose notes I have read reference the underlying causes of this mess on both sides of the faux border atop Capitol Hill: psychotropic drugs. We observe now the effect KGB and PLA subversion had in view from their launch of propaganda and drug running active measures. Now numerous other organizations, to include Democracy Alliance, are recapitulating those activities and reliving their lessons learned, well and not so well.
The chief ingredient is the spread of psychotropic drugs. Inslee, Durkan, and their nancy boy insurrectionists are so full of psychotropic drugs they cannot make decisions even for their own welfare. KGB and PLA alumni are looking at this and complimenting themselves on having gotten the formula right.
It is reasonable to assume that relatives or relatives of friends of Inslee, Durkan, and their immediate minions stand with the insurrectionists inside the faux border atop Capitol Hill. Like any other town or society, top leadership and rampant activists belong to the same few families. They all know each other from family gatherings and private schools.
The 05JAN17 meeting at The Fraud’s habitation was to brainstorm how to strangle or otherwise abort the incoming Administration at birth or before. Participants resolved to create inculpatory evidence for a fictional national security case using the Russia espionage hoax Sid Vicious already had generated and set in motion.
The conspirators knew they were writing fiction. Today, everyone knows they were writing fiction. They insist they were using lawful means to prevent an unlawful foreign-based seizure of the American political system (such as the ones they themselves had arranged already for the Ayatollahs and the CCP). The chief conspirator insists today that the fiction he and his cohort produced, wrote, and directed is lawful fact. Judge Sullivan, who knows better, wants to rule that said fiction is lawful fact.
What else are they going to do? Confess? The ones who feel most aggrieved here are the Ayatollahs and the CCP, steaming hot that arrangements they made with The Fraud — to own the American political system — have been abrogated.
They all knew it was fiction, sprung like an Anti-Athena from the forehead of Sid Vicious and played to the habits of thought of US intelligence and foreign policy minions: Russia is enemy.
No, Russia is historical friend, current friend in many cases, and potentially extraordinary friend into the future.
The counter-indicated habits of thought, the ossified frame of reference, of US intelligence and foreign policy minions is the deep cause of all this fuss. Spiritual degradation in the US leader cadre is the most dangerous enemy Americans and America face.
Declassified intelligence has also shown that none of the #ObamaGate conspirators actually believed that Russia was conspiring with the Trump campaign to throw the election in Trump’s favor. Of course, this information was not released until now in order to maintain the narrative for the fake Trump-Russia Hoax.
So the bottom line is, at least in this instance, Vladimir Putin was telling the truth all along that the Left’s Russia! Russia! stuff was b.s….a pack of lies.
Russian intelligence services must have known that Obama was a criminal, and wanted nothing to do with the national security of the United States, and only wanted power, to push his masters’ globalist agenda.
Perhaps this is why Putin began to withdraw from the West a decade ago, after seeing the globalist push, that did not have nationalist Russia’s best interests at heart.
Perhaps Putin did not want to open Russia up to globalist corporations who would continue to rape the country and not give a damn about the future of the Russian people.
Since Russia is an oligarchy itself, perhaps he saw something familiar in the way the American was becoming one. Perhaps he saw the same methods being used to take power from the people to horde for themselves.
Perhaps he knew all along that Obama was not an American, but a globalist plant, who only wanted to destroy the United States and all it stood for.
I often write about Russia and Putin, much of it not favorable to the Russian leader. However, I also want CDMedia to stand for truth, no matter the outcome.
The truth is Obama and his minions were and are traitors to America.
I think Vladimir Putin knew this all along, and withdrawing from Obama and the globalist West, was probably the right decision at the time for his country.
That is a sad thing to say but it is the truth.
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