10-16-2024, 12:32 PM
(10-14-2024, 06:13 AM)FCD Wrote: Just a follow-up thought. There's another angle here also....
All of these shooters / potential shooters are, or were, 'known' individuals at local, state and federal levels. They were all 'persons of interest' in some capacity. Hold onto this thought for a moment.
Practically every day we read about this theme of personal freedoms (firearms ownership, invasion of privacy, surveillance, mental health, etc.). On the one hand people say authorities can't 'harass' people with Big Brother monitoring. On the other hand, the supporters of Big Brother say they can't fix one problem without infringing on some 'freedom' (i.e. gun ownership, privacy, etc.).
In each of the three attempts so far we have:
- illegal firearms, or dubious possession.
- mental health issues
- "person of interest" (i.e. known by authorities prior to the event)
- oh, and conveniently...white male, non-immigrant, perpetrator. (how convenient is that????)
What are the chances?
Is this setting the stage for real Big Brother society?
Yes, I discussed this nightmare scenario privately some time ago.
Imagine that Trump gets elected. The press, that is already sort of turning parts of the ship around on leaking things that harm Harris, then pulls the plug on constant anti-Trunp stuff. Cue the unrest. Unlike the Antifa riots the press actually reports on these events to strike fear into the hearts of the TV-watching goof troop.
We know that Trump already has a much stronger base than what the rhetoric would tell you. Many of them are already itching to crack down on people that participate in unrest. Throw the vapid consumers in to that support with the news reporting these yet to be determined events.
The press reports the truth, Trump has a mandate to crack down including from the mindless sheep that get their news on the TV, and to thunderous applause we get the next stage of the Patriot Act. Digital ID, probably biometric, to counter the leak of all the data that occured just a few months back. CBDC won't matter as much, but your money is already digital and easily frozen anyway. The digital ID will be a one stop shop for pulling the plug on anything they want.
It won't sound that way, there will be reasons why they will say it has to be done, people will complain, but nobody will have a better solution.
Meanwhile there's a backdrop of serious financial troubles, critical mass with the competency crisis, Trump has too many fish in the barrel to shoot them all, and the dinosaurs that don't need to worry about getting elected anymore will hamstring his agenda in key places.
People get very caught up in the partisan game, but the people we're talking about don't care what color the chess pieces are or care about their rank when they're no longer useful. I don't think they'd care about losing their least popular DNC candidate from 2020 in an embarrassing defeat. I don't think they care about much except the real goals of more control, fewer humans, and greater dependence of the masses upon centralized production for everything they need to survive.
They sit out the economic collapse, feed Trump a few sacrificial lambs, and Trump puts through policy that eventually turns out to be an authoritarian nightmare once the wrong fingers get in the pie.
The trouble is... he's still the best option even if this nightmare scenario is on the table. Harris is a puppet that appears to be mostly just swept up in celebrity. She seems unable to articulate anything rational about her plan to fix anything. Not that Trump has given lots of detailed plans, but he has shown that he understands some of the problems even if he seems out of his depth on others.
Hope for the best, but plan for the worst. I don't know what their plans are, but it doesn't make sense to me to have gone through all this and suddenly the wheels fall off on the press being in the bag for Harris. It doesn't smell right. The leaks, even some negative articles, the SNL skits. These people managed to keep the diary and laptop on lockdown, but now these missteps are blowing back on an already poorly performing candidate?
Even if it's just sloppy work, would they be this sloppy if they really wanted Harris in there? Would they have picked the sketchball that's her VP? I think this may be TPTB time to tell Harris and Waltz that they've peaked.