The plot: Blondie (Clint Eastwood) defeats Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) in a three-way Mexican showdown and then sets his gaze upon Tuco, the last two men standing. After defeating Tuco, and after a faked hanging, and in magnanimous fashion, Blondie splits the stolen money with Tuco (Eli Wallach) and lets him go, in essence he pardons him, as he rides of into the distance. Art imitating life.

Donald Trump's cabinet picks are rolling in like an assembly line. There are shouts of glee and cries of despair echoing across the land as the future settles into the minds of the body politic. Some pundits point fingers, some pound their chests. The nation remains divided, perhaps even more so after the election. There's an eerie calm across the land, for now.

As I see it, there are some Good potentialities among his picks. There is much fat to be rendered from the bloated governmental carcass. That rendering will cause some hurt but really should be done, the behemoth is stuffed like an 86 pound turkey.

The US of A will be none the worse with healthier food and better product regulation. Regulating poisons would also be a huge plus. Health has been neglected for too long in this country for the sake of corporate profit.

I foresee possible Bad consequences looming in the future as well, namely censorship. Consequences that may affect c99 and the internet in toto. In the past Trump had originally voiced opposition to Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1996, which will directly affect c99 and myself, which provides immunity to online platforms from civil liability based on third-party content. The former President has gone quiet since his previous opposition to Section 230 after he launched his social media platform, Truth Social.

We shall see, since the Republicans have also shown a desire to censor social media, albeit from a different angle from that of the Democrats.

There are Ugly storm clouds of war build on the horizon as well, as Trump loads his cabinet with hardliners. The European theater may quell, but the specter of the ongoing and troublesome war in the Mideast continues. Let's hope that the recent bluster emanating from certain voices in the incoming cabinet are meant to bring the antagonists to the bargaining table and not a portent of the future.

In this moment in time, I feel like the dog in this video. Let us hope to be unburdened by what may be, as the US, Israel and Iran face off in a Mexican showdown of three.

Pack your parachute because it's going to be a long trip to the bottom of the rabbit hole. When we hit the ground floor be careful where you step because it may very well be a snake hole rather than a rabbit hole.

At the bottom of the hole is the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the bankers dream. CBDC is potentially the holy grail of an authoritarian's dream. They've been talking about it for years now and you know darn well they want it badly. Their problem is: how do they implement it?

A CBDC wont work if there's too much resistance from the people and as of right now there seems to be much resistance to the idea. Again, that pesky internet thing is getting in the way of authoritarian dreams.

The majority of that resistance is emanating from the political right, with the assumption that much of the left is already primed for a move to CBDCs, especially the youth who are already well versed in digital payment systems.

President elect Trump has stated that he's against CBDCs. OK, sure, but I think we'd all agree that politicians have a proclivity to grease the language and tell potential voters what they want to hear, anything to get them to the voting booth.

Trump's also given a thumbs up to Bitcoin. Although they're not the same, blockchain is the common denominator.

It seems contradictory, doesn't it, but isn't much of governmental policy contradictory? Especially when the policy is controversial.

Now let's go down that rabbit hole.

Imagine, if you will, that the economy collapses early on in Trump's second term. The dollar is worthless, the store shelves are bare, jobs are lost and the populace becomes ever more desperate by the day.

Like a hero from an old western the banks ride in to save the day with a CBDC. At first it will be marketed without the programmable component, but as we all know if there's a tool that can be used, sooner or later it will be used.

In this version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it's Trump who may lead the right down the CBDC hole.

I've mentioned several times in the past how American politics seems staged and choreographed (see the quote at the top of this piece) and I'm not the only one. It does help to explain the bizarre nature of our political world. Could it be that this theatrical play's purpose is to introduce CBDCs to the American public? Who better to lead the resistance to that project than a manufactured pied piper like Trump. There hasn't been a better huckster of a salesman since PT Barnum.

My premise is perhaps there is a twenty first century script that has been written with the intention of leading us into the arms of a financial prison of our own making, and Trump is the chosen one to lead the American public there, after the fall of the dollar.

With a programmable CBDC and social credit score, complete control will finally be realized.

There may be a snake in the bottom of the hole, after all.