Perhaps it’s just my perspective, but there seems to be a significant pullback across anti-democracy forces around the world. You might say a coordinated retreat as the reality of the midterms has been revealed. However, we should not accept the terms of their surrender.
It’s almost as if there has been so much Fucking Around for so many years, there was a backlog of Finding Out that needed to happen in order to keep nature in balance.
First, Elmo’s Folly of spending $44 billion to own the libs and defend Putin simply exposed Twitter for what it always was, a psychological operation controlled by bad actors. Elmo is just doing in the open what they were always doing behind the scenes — shaping the narrative to suit themselves.
In many ways, I’m sorry to see Twitter go. I’m sorry to lose a year and half of work and 60,000 followers to a petulant 4chan troll with infinite money. But frankly, for the most part, my feeling is: good riddance. “Social media” is a misnomer. Facebook and Twitter are radicalization engines and always were.
The rapid and largely civilized exodus to Mastodon and other alternatives, the immediate drying up of Twitter’s advertiser money, and Elmo’s criminal mismanagement is a whole lot of Finding Out that’s going to take his “investment” to $0. #EvacuateTwitter
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Second, the cryptocurrency bubble collapsing has raised the financial Finding Out to a new level. Two days ago the hobbit next to Tom Brady below, Sam Bankman-Fried, was worth $16 billion as CEO of “crypto exchange” FTX.
Today, he owes billions and the CEO of FTX is the guy who liquidated Enron.
Bitcoin, which is the original “crypto,” is down 75% in the last year and falling fast.
Why? Because it’s a worthless gambling market designed by the PayPal Mafia to be manipulated to make them rich — before it inevitably bubbles and explodes.
But FTX and Bitcoin are just two small parts of a vast interlocking ocean of financial garbage and fraud, including “Bored Ape Yacht Club” which sold billions of dollars of racist GIFs as “NFTs” to suckers around the world.
This entire cult of blockchain / decentralized / web3 / NFT / crypto bullshit is Finding Out and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Third, the humiliation of Vladimir Putin from his precipitous skedaddle from Kherson is a master class in Finding Out.
Putin’s own propagandist, genocidal Nazi Aleksandr Dugin threatened Putin with exile and death for his failure to hold territory Putin had claimed as Russia just a week before.
This outburst was before Putin appears to have offered to show Dugin the 3rd floor windows at the Kremlin. Now Dugin has completely changed his tune. In other words, Dugin also Found Out.
“But to be sure: no one has turned their back on Putin”
“We are loyal to Putin […] and Russia to the end……”
Finally, the neo-Nazi Kremlin psychological war machine is Finding Out as well. QAnon and associated cults are despondent and confused.
The logical pretzels they twist to remain in their alternate reality are now at the breaking point.
Putin’s General Mike Flynn seems to have lost his mojo as well.
A flood of fascist tears — The Great Finding Out.
However, and I’m sorry to repeat myself, it is very important to remember:
Fascism does not stop on its own. It must be defeated.
Keep Your Foot On the Gas
Thanks to all of your hard work, dear reader, we’ve given freedom and democracy an opportunity — a shot. Exposing their plans has made it much, much harder for them to operate.
However, we cannot squander this opportunity with squabbling and infighting. We have a job to do, which is to finish off this fascist insurgency once and for all and give our kids and grandkids another generation in a free country.
To do this, we must have accountability for the people who brought us to this point — the people who still want us to live in their autocracy. Without accountability, there is no Rule of Law, and without Rule of Law there is literally no point to any of this.
Enough of the psyops. And the Russians. And the fraud. It’s time to stamp it all into dust.
We do not forgive. We do not forget.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
Flynn’s insurrection
Greetings Jim:
Our story of humanity has been small when encountering the will and vote of the population. As children, we have been ingrained with stories and fables of kings, queens, princes and princesses, lords, colonels, popes, and archbishops, warriors, and gods. Indeed, the foundations of leadership begin at home. We have families, parents, educators, bosses, financiers, and elderly that we are told to listen to and behave to. The thought of being granted freedom, while appealing, seems not to fit in with life. And yet, being a civilian allows people to gain perspective and not be brainwashed. Lifers in the armed forces (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Space Force, National and Coast Guards) know only one life: the life of rigidity and structure by decree. The Flynn family are one such family that lives the life of rigidity and autocracy. This is, of course, enhanced by a Traditionalist Catholic upbringing. The idea of civilian government which does not revolve on war and fables of war is anathema to Lt. Gen Michael Flynn (Ret.), for this means newer more humane ways of life and governance is expected. It also means the reality of evolving and growing up must be brought forth.
Last week, I sent you an email which advocated for intelligent curiosity above all other means of traits for leadership. Judging by the election results from this past Tuesday, I would say a good deal of voters (though few) are aware of what will be needed to keep this experiment intact. Even so, the insurrection by the right wing has not finished and may only be starting. For some 15 odd years, I have been following several conservative and militant leaning websites and influential people. To a person, each has requested a military coup as the solution to end the corruption and “deep state” left wing intelligentsia. Indeed, the Q movement is a department of defense psychological operation in which Gen. Michael Flynn has written as Q that the military is the only way forward to cleanse the world. Sadly, the operation is still ongoing; albeit in rare spurts these days. It is important to end this operation and all means of initiating a coup not unlike a myriad of south American countries before and since. Now with the results of the 2022 elections favoring Democrats, the time has come to do what needed to be done for decades. It is time to end funding to the DOD. By defunding the Department of Defense, we will be able to give the primacy of civilian leadership and end the insurrections both federal and militia that have been ongoing. I think back to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) who advocated for a Department of Peace to replace and supplant a Department of Defense. Let this idea happen post haste. Cut off the Flynn/Q movement by the source and end the lack of humanity the US has when it really matters.
Best Wishes and Kindest Regards,
Robert Kelly
I agree with Jenn. Bullseye, even by your high standards. 👏