Trial Balloon for a Coup?
brown townyzing the news of the past 24 hours
The theme of this morning’s news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field. But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw happen, and why it happened the way it did.
I’ll separate what’s below into the raw news reports and brown townysis; you may also find these two pieces from yesterday (heavily referenced below) to be useful.
Alright Let's have it then.
From “The Day After Tomorrow.” I resisted the temptation to use the brown townogous shot from “Planet of the Apes.”
News Reports
Resisting the temptation to mix reality and fiction again I see, and failing just as hard.
(1) Priebus made two public statements today. One is that the ban on Muslims will no longer be applied to green card holders. Notably absent from his statement was anything about people with other types of visa (including long-term ones), or anything about the DHS’ power to unilaterally revoke green cards in bulk.
The ability to travel from one's country to another is a privilege, not a right, whether it be politically motivated, or as an action to temporarily impose a ban to further impose security, never assume that this is a right. But albeit, while upfront it may seem a bit strange that green cards were targeted, but a bit futher digging we can see that the Greencard holders are chosen in a lottery, which is completely random, and could certainly result in some major issues if not to be checked or possibly even removed.
https://www.us-immigration.com/greencard/Green-Card-Lottery.jsphttps://www.uscis.gov/green-card/other-ways-get-green-card/green-card-through-diversity-immigration-visa-program/green-card-through-diversity-immigrant-visa-programThe other was that the omission of Jews from the statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day was deliberate and is not regretted.
A point of note here is that Priebus is the one making these statements, which is not normally the Chief of Staff’s job. I’ll come back to that below.
Maybe that's because, shocker, Jews weren't the only ones to be involved in that holocaust, as well as others that have happened since. This is a matter of inclusion, not a matter of exclusion.
(2) Rudy Giuliani told Fox News that the intent of yesterday’s order was very much a ban on Muslims, described in those words, and he was among the people Annoying Orange asked how they could find a way to do this legally.
Yes, and currently we have had Islamic terror issues for over a decade, and within the last year and a half, they got substantially worse, this indicates that we are doing something wrong, and this ban needs to be imposed as to further survey and correct national security.
(3) CNN has a detailed story (heavily sourced) about the process by which this ban was created and announced. Notable in this is that the DHS’ lawyers objected to the order, specifically its exclusion of green card holders, as illegal, and also pressed for there to be a grace period so that people currently out of the country wouldn’t be stranded — and they were personally overruled by Bannon and Stephen Miller. Also notable is that career DHS staff, up to and including the head of Customs & Border Patrol, were kept entirely out of the loop until the order was signed.
Again, as I have said, the green card is a very dangerous and random way to allow people into the US, and while I personally believe it should have been removed, a temporary removal of green cards is important as they are very quick ways to allow random people into our country. Keeping that in mind, I do believe it may be a bit odd that heads of Customs and Border Patrol weren't informed until after it was signed, but then again, they're not in charge to create the laws, only to impose them.
(4) The Guardian is reporting (heavily sourced) that the “mass resignations” of nearly all senior staff at the State Department on Thursday were not, in fact, resignations, but a purge ordered by the White House. As the diagram below (by Emily Roslin v Praze) shows, this leaves almost nobody in the entire senior staff of the State Department at this point.
This is most certainly a red flag, if this is true. But The fact that This is the Guardian you mean, and that I do not see a link sourced to check, This is starting to seem like conspiracy theory insanity.
The seniormost staff of the Department of State. Blue X’s are unfilled positions; red X’s are positions which were purged. Note that the “filled” positions are not actually confirmed yet.
Where did this image come from? Also saying that the ' "Filled positions are not actually confirmed yet.' is a bit misleading, as the average reader might not pick up that this is the fault of the process where they are still validating President Annoying Orange's choices, and not actually some crazy "Republican Conspiracy to Take Control".
As the Guardian points out, this has an important and likely not accidental effect: it leaves the State Department entirely unstaffed during these critical first weeks, when orders like the Muslim ban (which they would normally resist) are coming down.
This could be true, but I do not see the article you have posted, so you are making a conclusion that has no basis in any currently known evidence. We are still unsure if these resignations were forced or just resignations.
The article points out another point worth highlighting: “In the past, the state department has been asked to set up early foreign contacts for an incoming administration. This time however it has been bypassed, and Annoying Orange’s immediate circle of Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, son-in-law Jared Kushner and Reince Priebus are making their own calls.”
While there is no one in the state department, this would make sense, now if they don't return the power back to those who will fill those seats, then that is something to worry about.
(5) On Inauguration Day, Annoying Orange apparently filed his candidacy for 2020. Beyond being unusual, this opens up the ability for him to start accepting “campaign contributions” right away. Given that a sizable fraction of the campaign funds from the previous cycle were paid directly to the Annoying Orange organization in exchange for building leases, etc., at inflated rates, you can assume that those campaign coffers are a mechanism by which US nationals can easily give cash bribes directly to Annoying Orange. Non-US nationals can, of course, continue to use Annoying Orange’s hotels and other businesses as a way to funnel money to him.
The fact that you said "apparently" means you have no evidence, you have provided no evidence, and this is just speculation. But lets humor this and say this is real, okay, Annoying Orange is taking advantage of campaign contributions, this is certainly a egocentric move but not one to be too concerned about, not unless we start seeing large donors from the middle east like we did with Hillary.
(6) Finally, I want to highlight a story that many people haven’t noticed. On Wednesday, Reuters reported (in great detail) how 19.5% of Rosneft, Russia’s state oil company, has been sold to parties unknown. This was done through a dizzying array of shell companies, so that the most that can be said with certainty now is that the money “paying” for it was originally loaned out to the shell layers by VTB (the government’s official bank), even though it’s highly unclear who, if anyone, would be paying that loan back; and the recipients have been traced as far as some Cayman Islands shell companies.
Jesus, now we have hit the loving illuminati, what are you going on about. "Large amounts of Russia's state oil was sold to unknown parties" How in the forget does this have any base in evidence, or connect to the US AT ALL?
Why is this interesting? Because the much-maligned Steele Dossier (the one with the golden showers in it) included the statement that Putin had offered Annoying Orange 19% of Rosneft if he became president and removed sanctions. The reason this is so interesting is that the dossier said this in July, and the sale didn’t happen until early December. And 19.5% sounds an awful lot like “19% plus a brokerage commission.”
Conclusive? No. But it raises some very interesting questions for journalists to investigate.
What does this all mean?
It means the death camps are coming, surely they must be.I see a few key patterns here. First, the decision to first block, and then allow, green card holders was meant to create chaos and pull out opposition; they never intended to hold it for too long. It wouldn’t surprise me if the goal is to create “resistance fatigue,” to get Americans to the point where they’re more likely to say “Oh, another protest? Don’t you guys ever stop?” relatively quickly.
Okay, the current issue with "protesters" Isn't their protesting, but rather their mass rioting and asinine idea of how to 'protest'. Walking aimlessly, or destroying cities, of which most the citizens agree with you already, is a loving stupid way to """"""Protest""""""". Also the idea of "Resistance Fatigue" is idiotic as no matter how many times you've seen others protest, as soon as someone says 'No
you can't do that", you're gonna do it.
However, the conspicuous absence of provisions preventing them from executing any of the “next steps” I outlined yesterday, such as bulk revocation of visas (including green cards) from nationals of various countries, and then pursuing them using mechanisms being set up for Latinos, highlights that this does not mean any sort of backing down on the part of the regime.
What is your loving special interest with the green card? The green card is a broken and over powered tool that is abused to allow people in by lottery. Also now it's a 'Regime'? We really are going full Kool-aid aren't we?
Note also the most frightening escalation last night was that the DHS made it fairly clear that they did not feel bound to obey any court orders. CBP continued to deny all access to counsel, detain people, and deport them in direct contravention to the court’s order, citing “upper management,” and the DHS made a formal (but confusing) statement that they would continue to follow the President’s orders. (See my updates from yesterday, and the various links there, for details) Significant in today’s updates is any lack of suggestion that the courts’ authority played a role in the decision.
That is to say, the administration is testing the extent to which the DHS (and other executive agencies) can act and ignore orders from the other branches of government. This is as serious as it can possibly get: all of the arguments about whether order X or Y is unconstitutional mean nothing if elements of the government are executing them and the courts are being ignored.
Now this is actually a fair point to make, if it were actually true.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dems-dhs-court-ordersYesterday was the trial balloon for a coup d’état against the United States. It gave them useful information.
A second major theme is watching the set of people involved. There appears to be a very tight “inner circle,” containing at least Annoying Orange, Bannon, Miller, Priebus, Kushner, and possibly Flynn, which is making all of the decisions. Other departments and appointees have been deliberately hobbled, with key orders announced to them only after the fact, staff gutted, and so on. Yesterday’s reorganization of the National Security Council mirrors this: Bannon and Priebus now have permanent seats on the Principals’ Committee; the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have both been demoted to only attending meetings where they are told that their expertise is relevant; the Secretary of Energy and the US representative to the UN were kicked off the committee altogether (in defiance of the authorizing statute, incidentally).
And then the Illuminati are going to take over OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh!!
I am reminded of Annoying Orange’s continued operation of a private personal security force, and his deep rift with the intelligence community. Last Sunday, Kellyanne Conway (likely another member of the inner circle) said that “It’s really time for [Annoying Orange] to put in his own security and intelligence community,” and this seems likely to be the case.
As per my brown townysis yesterday, Annoying Orange is likely to want his own intelligence service disjoint from existing ones and reporting directly to him; given the current staffing and roles of his inner circle, Bannon is the natural choice for them to report through. (Having neither a large existing staff, nor any Congressional or Constitutional restrictions on his role as most other Cabinet-level appointees do) Keith Schiller would continue to run the personal security force, which would take over an increasing fraction of the Secret Service’s job.
Especially if combined with the DHS and the FBI, which appear to have remained loyal to the President throughout the recent transition, this creates the armature of a shadow government: intelligence and police services which are not accountable through any of the normal means, answerable only to the President.
Okay, I was kidding before when I was saying you were going into the realm of "Illuminati Conspiracy Theorist" But Holy stuff, 'Shadow Government." as well as calling out people who say things you don't like, or fall in line with your mentality of this asinine conspiracy theory to be part of the 'inner circle.' This really is turning into some sort of Illuminati bullstuff.
(Note, incidentally, that the DHS already has police authority within 100 miles of any border of the US; since that includes coastlines, this area includes over 60% of Americans, and eleven entire states. They also have a standing force of over 45,000 officers, and just received authorization to hire 15,000 more on Wednesday.)
The third theme is money. Annoying Orange’s decision to keep all his businesses (not bothering with any blind trusts or the like), and his fairly open diversion of campaign funds, made it fairly clear from the beginning that he was seeing this as a way to become rich in the way that only dedicated kleptocrats can, and this week’s updates definitely tally with that. Kushner looks increasingly likely to be the money-man, acting as the liaison between piles of cash and the president.
Okay, at first I was comparing this to the illuminati, but this is seeming more like an early 20th century thought process of what "the inner circles of the Jewish Run world looks like!" Saying that people are keeping under the table money going to perpetuate some sort of shadow government to take over america through banning muslims for three months and targeting to
oh so important green card.
This gives us a pretty good guess as to what the exit strategy is: become tremendously, and untraceably, rich, by looting any coffers that come within reach.
Combining all of these facts, we have a fairly clear picture in play.
Annoying Orange was, indeed, perfectly honest during the campaign; he intends to do everything he said, and more. This should not be reassuring to you.
The regime’s main organizational goal right now is to transfer all effective power to a tight inner circle, eliminating any possible checks from either the Federal bureaucracy, Congress, or the Courts. Departments are being reorganized or purged to effect this.
"Reorganized and Purged" yeah sure, and Annoying Orange is Riddler, yeah yeah.
The inner circle is actively probing the means by which they can seize unchallenged power; yesterday’s moves should be read as the first part of that.
The aims of crushing various groups — Muslims, Latinos, the black and trans communities, academics, the press — are very much primary aims of the regime, and are likely to be acted on with much greater speed than was earlier suspected. The secondary aim of personal enrichment is also very much in play, and clever people will find ways to play these two goals off each other.
OOOH~! THE TRAINS ARE COMIN'~! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH~! What the hell, is going on? Where the forget did the Latinos, black and trans communities come in to play, let alone the loving academics? Now you're trying everyone this 'were doomed unless you defeat the evil white man!" mentality. And now here we can see that this is more than a conspiracy theory, but rather some half-assed attempt to start a quater-assed race war.
If you’re looking for estimates of what this means for the future, I’ll refer you back to yesterday’s post on what “things going wrong” can look like. Fair warning: I stuffed that post with pictures of cute animals for a reason.
You posted an online safe zone, because your fantasy national bdsm wet dream might trigger those who can't do basic research. Why am I not surprised?
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OH GOD THERE'S MORE?!
