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Putin’s June Master Scam

I dare anyone to tell me they have not seen a news report about Putin being weak or Putin’s reputation damaged because of the recent “chaos” in Russia. How did this narrative take hold? It’s all bullshit. This head of Wagner group (No, I’m not going to learn to spell his cursed name!=) we will simply refer to as Joker, and explain why.

The telltale sign that I am right about this is if thousands of Wagner scum join Joker in Belarus! Simply said: If the Wagner Group had suddenly decided to bivouac in Belarus, alarm bells would scream in Kiev; in the Pentagon; in NATO Headquarters. A new front in east Ukraine would be possible – obviously! No, these are gangsters we’re dealing with. Putin has shown he’s willing to try new tactics, regardless of lives. Why not a whole charade of a Putsch in the Kremlin, a march on Moscow? Who knew about Joker’s plan? It was top Russian generals who would be enthusiastic about a new tactic. Top generals who are only a call from the Kremlin. But didn’t people get killed, real Russian soldiers? Yes, absolutely necessary to make the plot believable. So obvious for Russians it could be scripted. This is an army that sends poorly trained conscripts out in open battle with no chance whatsoever, just to pinpoint where Ukrainian troops have their machine guns placed. In reality, Wagner forces, vehicles are already well on the way to Belarus. Without this whole ruse, everyone would be aware and speculating about a massive Wagner forces relocation.

Another reason for a plausible basis to send Wagner to a country, Belarus, per secret agreement w/Putin is that country might be ripe for … social unrest. Putin already has had to send in troops to Belarus to hold up this clown president. This time it is Wagner and nobody even notices. But for the Russian side, this is better. Wagner specializes in terror, brutality, efficiency. The longer the war goes on, the more restless the people in Belarus become. It may take that brutality to keep Belarus in check. Maybe Putin really was scared of the Joker as a legitimate threat and is giving him Ukraine as consolation prize? We don’t think so. The Joker always lauds Putin in glamorous terms. The Joker just wants (present term!=) a bigger role in the Russian military gravy train. He initially wanted the jobs of the two lackeys that Putin has in charge of the military. These two scapegoats will eventually be blamed anyway when Russia loses.

But – to end on a really negative note – it all doesn’t matter really! Peter Zeihan talks a lot about these choke points into Russia & how Russia is now trying to go out and secure them. These are mostly gaps in landscape not conducive for tank movement. But why not build a barrier? If the Russians blow up the biggest nuclear plant in Europe, located deep in Ukraine, the whole country of Ukraine (& some) will become a radioactive buffer zone to Moscow. Extreme, but concisely efficient. Please realize that Putin realizes it is over for him anywhere outside of the Kremlin. If he didn’t become Peter the Great incarnate, he is still going to do everything to remain “Capo Oligarcho” & #1 gangster political figure in Russia.

2022 or NEVER!! Part 3: Democrats

It’s all important to emphasize that it is Democrats & democrats[i] together in this fight. The word “party” as in Democratic Party should be strictly avoided as: 1. It brings up negative images of the party machine as in times past w/corrupt party machines; Clinton Foundation financing… 2. It detracts from the image that this is a popular uprising against tyranny by a wide swath of the populace, regardless of otherwise political affiliations.

To give you a sense of the urgency; the importance of the midterm campaign, allow us some remarks about the 2024 presidential campaign. Pres. Joe won in ’20 & we are forever grateful! But now he is considered weak, even though many circumstances he has no control over & others are simply being sabotaged by Republicans.  Rivalry has always been intrinsic to political powers, but to base a whole platform, the purpose & zeal of an entire Republican party to harm, block the opponent EVEN WHEN IT HURTS the COUNTRY, EVEN WHEN IT HURTS the PEOPLE seems ludicrous, yet goes unnoticed by many. Instead Pres. Joe has to see low scores on evaluation surveys. Nevertheless we feel an overwhelming sense in the American populace that this war, and as tragic the war crimes in Ukraine are, we mean the global war; the global problems of inflation, food short supplies and that we need to vote some rational people in office to tackle them.

Ok, what to do about it all? Answer: make a “run-around” play; make the 2024 Democratic Presidential Nomination Convention the “biggest show on Earth” & simultaneously blind-side the Republican hate machine!

Ok, how do you do that? Answer: Let Pres. Joe announce that he will not run for re-election & he will support any of the candidates coming out of this convention. And by convention we mean a real national convention with all the pageantry of presidential national convention, it needs to be now – BEFORE the mid-terms!!! That deflates all the hype about usual mid-term swings. Look, Joe’s old, people are scared (more on that later), Republicans via FOX et al  propaganda have invested all their hate directly on him personally. Such a convention negates the massive negative efforts to smear Pres. Joe; Republicans will have to start with new crazy stories. Presidential candidates could get an early name awareness.

This convention has to stress 1 single all-important topic: the fight against tyranny! It’s already about 2024!! The battle for democracy is present, it is now! That should actually be pretty simple, pretty obvious, but it needs to be elevated as the all-important conspicuous public debate. (For some of us here it is, obviously, but we are talking national strategy here.) That in turn, means a lot less of the 2020 Presidential Campaign type blah-blah of single candidates fighting each other about how to finance this or that; what they wore or said at the high school prom 30 years previously. This needs to be an almost orchestrated cascade of candidates expounding how they each can better win over Putin, over China (WW3, the economic version, will be in full swing by then), preserve here & restore democracy elsewhere in the world. That happens to be also the wy to solve the problems of fuell costs, food costs. The convention needs to be the equivalent of years of name-recognition building for a kick-ass, dynamic person. Pres. Joe was the right person – balanced, calm, professional – to collect all those anti-Trump votes in ‘20. Now we are at war! The public image Democrats need for the 2024 campaign is NOT someone going into their 80’s!! Simply someone who talks, but also looks like they can kick some ass, as oversimplified as that sounds. Pres. Joe has spent a lifetime to become el Presidento, let him enjoy it, take a winning record 1 for 1, with him & become another exPresident, even a very influential one.

But back to the midterms: Yes, a few loonies like the current Karen sisters in Congress may get through and continue to be a side show, maybe even some of the Putin enablers in the Senate, but overall people will recognize they need rational people in charge of government. These are trying times and not place for people with their heads swimming around in fantasies or actively working against the interests of America. There we think will come the golden moment when Democrats actually build on their numbers, allowing Pres. Joe a strong hand in the last 2 years, maybe even a few SCOTUS appointments.

May 1 (2022) is coming & war crime despot Putin has dug himself in a hole. We would not be surprised to see a tactical nuke dropped on Kiev. A truly spectacular finale for the big Moscow May Day parade. We could go on, but the point is that this war is going to continue otherwise. Stress levels are high. People will tend to be more cautious & sober. Republican crimes , lunacies, absurdities get most of the press these days, but let us not forget the actual gigantic 2020 voting numbers. The MAGA types are slowly waking, their delirium weakening & the millions upon millions more who voted for Pres. Joe are exactly those who recognize the severity of our current state of affairs.

We predict a massive voter turnout, with even better margins; overwhelming numbers for Democrats as was the case in the 2020 presidential vote.

[i] Just in case…. Big “D” -> formal name, capitalized (Democratic Party members), little “d” is just any person who believes in democracy.

2022 or NEVER!! Part 2: Republican Party

Ok, so the Republican Party apparatus in many states & even nationally has been hijacked by a bunch of loonies, but the Trump lunacy is actually on the decline. And the remaining loonies are starting to make an impact: ironically, showing undecided people exactly how crazy & chaotic things can become if these loonies are not stopped. That’s not to say it won’t be a major effort necessary to get the vote mobilized. Now that people are starting to realize we are at war with Russia, the mid-terms should be about loyalty. It is much more serious than people generally recognize! Any U-tuber should be able to notice a markedly more Soviet-style propaganda campaign. Supposedly economic sites now screaming The END!!, pouring pessimism on any & all things. Some we speculate are even sleepers: first gather users with a lot of click-bait & regurgitated news and waiting…until called.

(Note: Facebook we never even started. In their blind quest for profits, they’ve long ago crawled in the hind crevace of Putin’s propaganda machine. Along with other hate, trash & porn, just not worth it.)

Of course, this loud, total, public adoration of Czar Putin by Fox News et al & of course the Orange Glob brings a whole new element into play. Will all the conspiracy madness, massive misinformation, support of anti-democratic violent-ready pockets of individuals be enough to paralyze America going into a crucial, if not existential national midterm vote? Much of this Qanon-type crap comes from Putin’s Fucking Sinister Bastards & it looks to us he has pulled the trigger. That is, he wants others to know he will escalate. WW3 is just getting started. Putin’s blah blah about nukes simply reflects his KGB past: act big, bring in all tools available to make citizens unsure. But whether military intrusions or Internet attacks or social media hate campaigns by Putin, we are just in the beginning of drawing the “frontlines”. They will be (already are, looks like) international, they will disrupt trade, they will feed the new inflation, they  will   be   problematic. BUT, we did not start this war, nevertheless must defend ourselves – everything that we have or enjoy! If that sounds a bit strong, this author remembers East-European (In Poland, in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia) demonstrators being mowed down by Soviet tank machine guns in the days of the ‘great’ post-WW2 Soviet Union. This is the great plan Czar Putin has (again) as he lists country after country in his dream speeches of a Soviet Union of the Past.

Yes, the election image Republicans make will be strongly flavored by their support for Russia in this growing conflict. Just saw an investing video (creeps don’t get no plug !=} where a whole panel talks about how great Russian oil stocks look. Has their greed just turned their brain to mush? This was after 1 guest talks about starving Americans! First, it’s disgusting. On further reflection, probably wrong as well: in an at least “more active” war (Which one hears definitely in Czar Putin’s speeches!=[) everything will be in play except nukes (though he threatens that too!!). After “consolidation”, drawing front lines…, Russia will sell gas/oil to China (China is on the same debt trap as the West, but the 2 giant dictatorships together will make a formidable foe – in the end, after being consumers, we’re all just Uighurs to the China commies ); the “rest” of the world will buy from Western energy producers. Really will come down to which side you want to win (or be more profitable).

We really don’t know the allocation of this Russia support. How much of it comes from the vast, malign Internet hate & fear channels the Russians are shooting out & how much is residual love of Putin by Orange Slob because the Russians have dirt on him & subsequently carried over to his followers. The latter is ebbing; the former is just getting started.

Actually it’s NOT the Republican candidates & their positions that worry us – the more extreme idiots the better. No, it is the supporters who will volunteer to “monitor” voting lines with their AR-15s. It is the Republican incumbents who will see their only future in massive vote manipulations! The continuing misinformation about voter fraud is exactly what you want to confuse the populace with if you are going to then actually do it yourself. First accuse the enemy of any outrage that you want to commit yourself.(That you CAN read in any old KGB handbook!=). It radically reduces the sting – and holds many at bay – when one can say ‘It happened last time too! The others did it’.

And most worrying are the nazi laws now being passed in many Republican state legislatures. They really make no bones about it: restrict black voting at all costs; control voter registration data to manipulate or use to advantage; and even laws making partisan officials to be “in charge” of election processes. This will be the most contentious midterm for a long time. Republican officials everywhere are doing what they can to manipulate the system, actively & cognizantly corrupting the election process completely.

We use that word “nazi” a lot talking about Republicans, but think about it: wasn’t the Jan.6 riot just an unsuccessful version of the Nazies burning down their Reichtag (congress building) in 30’s? If you want the village to depend on your (inferior) mojo, you necessarily have to poisen or cover or destroy the mojo well of the existing popular Witch Doctor to avoid open comparison! Again, different words, but same idea you find in Mein Kampf & also FSB handbooks. When local school boards taken over by extremist political fervor start banning books, reminding you of Fahrenheit 451, is that not also reminiscent of the public book burnings in 1930’s Germany? And please spare the silly comparison of TrumpChump & Adolf. Nothing like it, not even close. Hitler was a consummate evil person & also capable political intriguist. TrumpChump is a narcissistic career criminal who – for $$$ & applause – fell into Putin’s palm to be made a Manchurian Candidate. We really think people are starting to wake up to that!

As an aside, Goering appeals to us as an appropriate comparison to TrumpChump. Goering was actually an ace pilot in WW1 and – true to Peter Principle (the original was that people get promoted to their level of incompetence) – he was not up to administrative tasks of air force head for the Nazies in WW2. Instead he had pompous uniforms designed for his large & overweight body to make him look like something out of some Imperial Past, all the while robbing art works – from Jewish families, but also straight from museums all over Europe. Literally the man used his power to steal trainloads upon trainloads of artwork. So you see a pretty straight comparison: just two fat-ass, loud-mouth, deplorable crooks, elevated to positions of responsibility they could never handle.

The real running for Führer of this racist, undemocratic attack on American freedom & democracy by the Republican Party would be someone in power orchestrating openly racist laws, voiding national health mandates for zealot dogma, thereby causing actual deaths of fellow Americans. When one is willing to see people die – the same people one has taken an oath to defend – to follow political zealotry & opportunist dogma, then they become eligible for Führer. The current candidates are the Governors of Texas & Florida. For hypocrites like Senators Cruz, Rubio, Hawley et al who went to elite universaties, the German word “Mitlaüfer” is apropo. Mit=>with & laüfer=> walker –> simply walking along with. These creeps know better but for personal gain or quest for power simply go along (& cheer on too) this anti-democratic grab for power, much like many opportunists “walked along” with the Nazies in Germany. Again simply for personal gain or quest for power, but no real convictions for anything. Pimple-assed opportunists, stoking the fire, thinking they can bail out of this like changing bowling shoes…. No- all will have to own their actions in this conflict.

We conclude to say we welcome this national contest against fanatics in 2024, but only if we can have a fair election in 2022. Should the Republicans steal enough of these 2022 midterm state elections, a fair vote in 2024 will become impossible. In fact, if Democrats are not able to make ground in 2022, to have enough support for national voting rights law, for national standards for fair elections processes, this fight for fair elections will escalate & continue to harm America’ image.