A growing realization: Collusion

Original post by SpudDK at WayoftheBern reposted here in its entirety - but stop by and say "Hi" anyway! Smile ~ Thumb

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This came from a comment I made, and I have had a hard time shaking it. So, I'm putting it up for general discussion. Consider it my observation on the general dynamics in play. Plausible? Bullshit? What do we think?

How to explain all these ugly, unfortunate events that seemingly always favor the Clintons, and oligarchy in general:

Take the primaries. Clinton herself, or her campaign people were well aware of how all the elections worked and took advantage of that. Early voting, etc...

The idea that she or they orchestrated all the crappy voting issues is not very plausible, yet they happened.

Same goes with these deaths. I just don't buy all of that going to the top. To be frank, they are not competent enough to keep a lid on it all.

Then I think about the rise to power. Lots of deals and that list of people. As one rises in politics, there comes a few basic milestones. One is a party affiliation. Pick, Dem or Republican and that comes with benefits, costs, risks and obligations.

Another may be the oligarchy. Alignment there may work like it does for cartels. You either turn away and occupy some space that isn't a threat, or you work with them, or they shut you down.

Once in, the nature of it means they have leverage. Dirt.

I take all these events to be an artifact of those general dynamics. People have sufficient motivation to act independently to preserve an order that would cost them dearly should it get threatened or exposed.

Secondly, many aspects of all this corruption appear to endure for very long periods of time. Old money, old organizations, old corruption with roots well outside politics, all are in play. Remember, the flow of trillions as well as goals, such as globalist economics, are in play. Those kinds of things work on decade, perhaps century time scales.

In my mind, the New Deal seems to mark the time of modern day conflict and efforts to reform Democrats. Clintons are the popular examples and appear willing and able to play. So they do.

It's not all on them. They are or have made the trade-off, and that is new Democrat, third way, etc... today. The trade-off is a belief we really are better off with oligarchy, old world ideas of wealth and power supporting a ruling class on economics, and a hybrid democracy to support justifying all of that, centered on social issues as a means to present as populist.

Most notably, the concept of leverage is always seen. MI origins, gay people, black people, women (though not a minority), all are invested. Haves, to a degree, in return for supporting this order.

Same goes for what is left of the middle class. Anyone who reaches a reasonable level of security, both economic and social, becomes invested. The choice is always oligarchy, or those bad Republicans will regress all of it, ripping security away.

All of this is bolstered by authoritarian behavior. We have been trending toward meritocracy too. Being poor is something to be punished.

Compliance is where it's at. Don't challenge old money, big corporations, etc.. and if you lack merit, bow and live your role. You deserve nothing because you are worth nothing...

If one takes this perspective, evaluating these seemingly connected, but very difficult to link in a provable way events make a lot more sense!

The war

It's a war. Old world vs new world, and the fault lines lie along economics, the social ceded to liberals, the economic is not.

This all can work like bigotry does, for example. Bigotry is a fault line. Doesn't matter which side you are on, just that you are on a side.

This results in many independent actors all working at common cause. They are well distributed and do not necessarily need to communicate. So there is no basis for conspiracy or collusion. However, collusion does happen, just not as a matter of explicit intent.

In terms of the law, we can't really drag all of that into a court room. And if we did, it would be deemed a political problem. Profound, common, and basic differences between people playing out, not some grand plan or conspiracy.

Old world vs New World

For a model of this difference in the law, and why the youth of the US matters, consider something like the shieks in the middle east. They act with relative impunity, are backed by clerics and the law is rooted in faith.

Go too far, and you end up in prison, or dead.

Our law is different, which makes the game necessary. Here, we can't quite overtly deny the people, so we manipulate them. Specifically, we defined the authority as coming from and granted by the people. (Thomas Paine, "Rights of Man" and "Age of Reason" derive this, if you want to read up on that.)

But, there is the letter vs the spirit of the law in play too. "Yes" is a yes, by the technicalities in the law, sort of like how that long distance slamming worked. It's the letter being followed, not necessarily the intent. The very definition of corruption in play right there!

Over there, it's an older society, jaded, established. There, they just don't bother. People keep their heads down, maybe leave, etc. The corruption and order of power is overt and sovereign. There never was any founding, the radical idea of self-governance had not manifested, etc...

TPP and other trade agreements

TPP and other treaties are all contributions toward normalizing the old order, coupled with USA style democracy, free speech, etc... as a net social good, across the many nations. Call this the grandest of the grand bargains. Cede social power to the people, keep economic power with the wealth.

Once done, and that's TPP and whatever ends up happening with the EU, and the fallout has settled, they won't bother here either. It will be overt. Established, with anyone like us easily being deemed radical, and worth putting away, marginalized, whatever. Nobody will care, nobody will have the power to really care.

Some evidence of that overt power can already be seen. Look at that pipeline lawsuit made possible under NAFTA. Corporations above the people, etc... profit over everything else. Phrengi rules of acquisition! (no joke there, not really in concept)

Clintons (and others like them) are investments to be protected, not the top, organizing, originating force

My point being, there is a lot invested into the Clintons. There absolutely has to be plenty of forces and people willing and able to act to insure that investment pays off too. And these events, deaths, etc... would happen without direct knowledge. Unfortunate. Clintons can say, "I would never" and mean it!

Not the point. Of course they would never. Set piece. They don't have to. Their job is to sell it, make the transition away from democracy on the economic front appear an act of the people. That is all our system requires. It is where the authority comes from, unlike the shieks and other, older forms of ruling entitlement.

Those are divine right, nobility, wealth, intelligence, age, etc... for reference.

We are it? (plausible, and "we" being progressive, humanist types in the world)

The USA is young and turbulent. Young enough to require these things we are seeing where much of the world does not. In a way, we are the last front, established by radicals, and the American experiment is playing out on the world stage right now.

It also means things like, "we must become government" are real people. Very real. If not us, who?

Conclusion

The new deal will not be tolerated on century level time scales, and that is what we are seeing play out in the politics of our time. It's on us to figure this out. Or... globally, we enter a time of great instability, war, etc... and perhaps it gets sorted out that way. However, given the massive imbalance of power, I do not harbor any real hope of violent human conflict resolving in our favor.

Curious for your thoughts.

(Cross-posted from SpudDK, WayoftheBern)

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Thumb's picture

tl;dr - Collusion doesn't require overt coordination or top down directives, but that doesn't mean it's not happening.

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Sometimes it doesn't even take that much effort. Are breaking news dogwhistles collusion?

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Was just visiting, and reading the comments about possible illnesses of Her Heiniousness, and this comment and link stunned me as I've noticed for a very long time now, she can not stand still without holding on to something. Seems to be able to move, walk, - but as soon as she stands still, she needs to hold on to something...
From WOTB:
"The most telling incident, to me, is the installation of handrails at Biden's home before a visit by Hillary Clinton. These are before and after pictures of the front of the house - and also pictures of Hillary clutching the rails..."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqKtJ2NWAAEfoc6.jpg

Also many Google links to this issue

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we dont know how much time there is between the 2 pictures, only that at one time it didn't have the railing & it did when she visited.

If what you say is true, that she can walk without problem but always hold onto something when she stands in one place, that would indicate a balance issue. But why we don't know. But a balance issue in & of itself doesn't render you incapable of being president. See FDR.

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though it's just one more thing that makes her overall health questionable.

I would choose not to focus on that--the "physical" problems should not cause a problem, as Clinton wouldn't be the first POTUS with a long-term physical malady. There is nothing wrong with accommodating the woman with a handrail for her ability to stand. I need one, but I don't get dizzy if I don't have it, my hip just starts killing me. Soon as I sit down, I'm fine.'

OTOH, cognizance issues; mental health issues; issues which affect "brain power" and "decisionmaking" a leader of the Free World? Um, NO. Mrs. Clinton be the first POTUS to have mental health issues hidden from the public before they vote for her. I firmly believe that she is much, much sicker than they're trying to portray her as, and it is scary, IMO. That does lend some relevance to the bigger subject, which is "Someone is falling all over themselves to protect this huge investment".

And don't even get me started on "Old Families" and their Old Wealth (see: Rothschilds)

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Thumb's picture

It will be interesting to watch the debate and see if she continuously holds onto the podium.

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Please define this acronym. Thanks.

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So there's that too.

No kidding, it's real thing.

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It's just that there was never any reason to call attention to it before. (Makes sense, sorta - would you want to wait around until a local ambulance could horn its way through the crowds?)

They've been doing this since at least 2003, probably longer. A couple of years ago, somebody forgot to gas up the official ambulance and it ran out of gas and had to be left behind. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391954/Presidential-motorcade-w...

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back in the 90s, any time the POTUS made a pit stop outside of DC, the Secret Service advance team had to come in and plan ahead. One of the things they always did was make sure the best surgeon in a given area had cleared their schedule and was completely on call to the President, as long as he was in town.

Heh....if my mom was here, she'd confirm that--Bill Clinton pushed her heart cath insertion back another day when he showed up for a rally in her hometown the same day with--yup, the same doctor. And she was not happy about that, LOLOL! I can't remember if it was a trip on short notice or not, but I would think the doc wouldn't have scheduled patients for the same damn day, so somewhere along the line, something fell through the cracks (she wasn't the only reschedule that day)

I would imagine what happened in the 1960s sort of made that blindingly apparent as a necessity, they've probably been doing something similar since JFK.

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Thanks, I didn't know that and I thought I had seen my fair share of Pres motorcades on teevee.

Surprising that candidates get that same treatment. I would have thought candidates are responsible for their own motorcades, not taxpayers. I'll have to pay attention next time Trump motorcades and look for an ambulance.

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These are before and after pictures

that instability can be both physical and mental.

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is theater, pure and simple. "Real power" doesn't show it's self, why would it, there's no need. The "10%", the technocats that are "invested" in oligarchy, do everything in their "power" to keep in place the power they feed from. Who's going to cut their supply of food, power, mobility? Why commit suicide, so to speak?

There are sooo many "dynamics" in play, one needs to be a statistician just to catalog them all, much less analyze the lot of them. For example, the CPI, The Committee for Public Information, not the completely bogus economic indicator CPI that, well, president Clinton help usher it's modification, but the "state propaganda machine" initiated under Wilson to get America into WWI.

This "state propaganda machine", now affectionately known as Public Relations, has never stopped propagandizing the American public. Which has translated into a fetish for politically correct speech that eviscerates any meaning what so ever, rendering our "tools" to communicate moot, because even thought we "talk" at one another, we don't know what anything means any more, we don't know what words mean any more.

Bad example, but...

Ya know, I did not have criminal intent, to forget about my inspection sticker, why the fuck should I be criminally penalized? There was no intent? There was no criminal intent to not pay the fine, because I didn't have any money. I would have been happy to pay the fine, but when you don't have money, you are "criminalized", and there fore rendered unto state custody.

But the "Clinton's" can engage in the most incredulous behavior (fucking criminal) but yet, gee the top cop at the FBI can not find "criminal intent", even thought it is clear as day to anyone with two functioning brain cells! The federal statutes are quite explicit, assuming of course your "interpretation" of what is is. (holy fuck!)

A private e-mail server is a clear violation of our LAWS, but the top 10%, protect that power, that the "Clinton's" are the public persona of.

We need to wage war (metaphorically speaking) on "that power", not the 10%, they are just functionaries. Because clearly (Flint / Syria / Ukraine / threatening war with Russia / Climate Change etc..) humanity is at stake, they have gone to far..

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Especially the part about Intent
I'm pretty sure that they intended to keep a lot of their emails from seeing the light of day by using the private email server.
Why would Chelsea need to have access to the server if it was being used by Hillary and the state department? Maybe because it was so that people from the foundation could also have access to it?
Or so that Chelsea or Bill's staff could see where he needed to give a speech around the same time Hillary was doing state department business?

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There is no valid reason to hoover up everyone's phone calls and web surfing and emails to combat terrorism, but there is a hell of a good reason to have a dossier on everyone if you want control. Knowledge is power, and they are accumulating a boat load of it.
Put out that story, your spouse goes to jail on tax evasion. Senator, you can vote your conscience, but what about that tryst with a staffer?

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Thumb's picture

She said Bill and her only talked about grandkids. I believe her.

Bill: "I sure love my grandkids. How about you?"

AG Lynch: "I do to."

Bill: "I mean, I really love my grandkids. I would do anything for them. How about you?"

AG Lynch: "Oh, I would to."

Bill: "Juuuust love 'em. As I know you love yours."

AG Lynch: "So, Bill, any particular reason you stopped my plane to talk."

Bill: "Just wanted to make sure you love your grandkids as much as I love mine. Boy, how I love mine! Well, been nice talking. Bye!"

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Hoover’s madness has become mass means and method.

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k9disc's picture

(the terrorists) it's about finding dirty hay on particular needles (the non-conformists).

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