A Bit Of Big Picture Re Citizen Trump

Let’s start with Andrea Widburg’s “theory” article at American Thinker. Call it conspiracy theory, because that’s what she sketches out—even if she avoids that term. Hey, conspiracies really do happen, and I find this theory plausible:

How to commit the perfect coup against a president and his supporters

Everything from here on out is a theory, but it’s a theory based upon readily available facts. If you look at them in a particular way, those readily available facts show a sustained pattern of subverting the will of the people to obtain total political power, something that culminated with the recently announced indictment against Donald Trump.

What Widburg does is present a sort of historical timeline of the campaign to keep Trump—an outsider—out of the White House. Of course it wasn’t personal to Trump. This was/is about the Ruling Class defending its power base and control over the nation from any outsider, or allowing the subject population to influence how the country is governed. Above all, it was about preventing any change in the American Empire’s agenda in foreign policy.

So here’s a sort of shorthand summary or listing of points along the line of history. Widburg expands on all of these episodes, which she links as part of the continuing conspiracy:

The Russia Hoax—to prevent Trump’s win in 2016

Failing that, undermine the next election

[Me: Fake impeachments—note the prominence of Ukraine. Not a coincidence. All roads lead to Ukraine.]

Gin up Covid to prevent campaigning and enable electoral fraud, undermine the economy, "allow legislatures and secretaries of state across America to implement often unconstitutional, and always unreasonable, voting rules,"

Inflame the country "using an ex-con’s drug death in police custody", i.e., BLM

[Me: Allow Antifa violence country wide.]

"select as [a] candidate a person who would get on board with every plan, no matter how nefarious. The perfect candidate would be both very corrupt and very stupid"

Set up J6 and subsequent persecution:

"Then, I would spend the next two and a half years relentlessly persecuting and prosecuting the members of that crowd, 99.9999% of whom had no illegal intent and, were instead, subtly coerced into entering the building. I would deny them the right to a speedy trial, hold them for years without charges, hide exculpatory evidence, seize their funds to deny them council, and impose on them the strictest charges possible, even as my party ensured that violent criminals across America walked through the legal system unscathed. I especially would have given a pass to anyone on my side who violently protested the president. The president’s supporters would learn in the most brutal way possible that they no longer had the right to free speech and free assembly."

And now the trumped up Box Hoax

Think about it. It’s monstrous. But can you deny its cogency? And don’t be fooled by Bluto’s yammering about Hunter. That’s only a ploy to make gullible sorts believe that he’s actually a conservative or Republican, to fool you into thinking that a good conservative can still support jailing Citizen Trump on … trumped up charges. Charges that, if anyone knows then Bluto knows, are completely bogus and destructive of the very political fabric of the American Republic. Bluto had the power to push the Biden Crime Family investigation or to shut it down, when he was AG. He chose to shut it down, and to enable street violence across the nation. He also had the power to do something about the looming electoral fraud. If any one person was responsible for the 2020 election, it was Bluto.

Next, Alex Christoforou’s morning video presents a good picture of what’s going on, again, in a big picture sort of way. You’ll find this at The Duran site, not on Youtube:

Trump, America in decline ...

Here are some of my notes from the early part of the video:

Everything now changes for the United States.

Trump is an exception to everything. If you're Pence or Zhou, you can keep classified docs--as VP--and it's all fine. Keep them in your garage, in a think tank office, or wherever. If you're Trump, it’s all different.

The Establishment, the Uniparty, the RINOs like McConnell and Lindsey!, have put out the word to midget candidates, 'Don't worry about Trump, we'll take care of him.'

"There is no way they're going to allow Trump to win the nomination for the Republicans. They--the Biden White House, the Republican establishment, the Permanent State--are going to do everything in their power to prevent Trump from getting the Republican nomination. And they're fine with Biden becoming president again! I mean, McConnell, Lindsey Graham--they're absolutely cool with another four years of Biden."

Christoforou also emphasizes the centrality of Ukraine corruption to all this. Ukraine was the slush fund for US politics. The Power Elite deployed the FBI and DoJ to cover that up, to hide it from the American public. The ferocity of the impeachment onslaught against Trump tells you all you need to know.

This next video features both the Duran guys. I highly recommend it—25 minutes or so. They start out talking about how threadbare this all is from a legal standpoint, how unprecedented in American politics. Mercouris emphasizes the consequences—if the lawfare falls apart there’s no going back. Other means will be ginned up to keep Trump out. He also points to the fall of the original Res Publica, the Roman Republic as a parallel to what we see today—the senatorial class in Rome trying to hold power against the populist movement of the Gracchi and the slide into autocracy. As Christoforou said above, this changes everything in the US. Below I present my notes on their concluding remarks.

Using lawfare to knock Trump out of 2024 race

Christoforou: This will polarize the US even more, because it will galvanize support for Trump among those who were committed to his MAGA agenda. Many independents will also object to the patent unfairness. On the other side will be the Ruling Class and its hangers on. They don't care about the damage being done to America, only about stopping Trump at any cost.

Mercouris: And that will only make the Establishment even more determined to put Trump in jail and out of public life. We can look forward to all sorts of "legal analysis" explaining why this jihad is somehow justified and legal and won't create any sort of precedent for politics in the US. Divisions will increase, respect for the legal system, media, other institutions, will collapse. And the class that will lose respect will be the class that historically was the political "ballast" in America, that historically was most supportive of American institutions. A massive crisis in the politics of America will result.

Now, I’ve been referencing the Ruling Class and the Power Elite and so forth. Many readers will be familiar with CTH’s regular refrain “There are trillions at stake.” Earlier today I came across a post by Charles Hugh Smith that ties those ideas together. Smith presents the interesting concept of Social Defeat to explain the present state of society in America:

Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat

Here’s his thumbnail description of what he’s referring to. It’s not actually necessary to the rest, but …

In my analysis, social defeat is a complex response to systemic economic, social and political inequalities. In other words, social defeat is the only possible outcome of structurally generated extreme asymmetries of wealth, income and power. Downward mobility excels in creating and distributing social defeat.

Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.

In my lexicon, social defeat manifests as a spectrum of anxiety, insecurity, chronic stress, powerlessness, and fear of declining social status. Countless studies have identified the destructive consequences of chronic social defeat: social avoidance, passivity, depression, hyper-aggression, increased food intake and body mass, drug addiction, and so on.

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The rising tide of collective anger arising from social depression is visible in many places: road rage, violent street clashes between groups seething for a fight, the destruction of friendships for holding the "incorrect" ideological views, and so on.

Here’s the heart of the post, in which Smith ties together the Ruling Class/Power Elite to the CTH contention that “trillions are at stake”:

The unwelcome reality is that America chose economic and financial policies that transferred $50 trillion from labor to politically powerful capital. If this doesn't seem possible, please read the RAND study in its entirety: Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018.

Next, read the summary from Time.com The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90% -- And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure.

Here's an excerpt:

There are some who blame the current plight of working Americans on structural changes in the underlying economy--on automation, and especially on globalization. According to this popular narrative, the lower wages of the past 40 years were the unfortunate but necessary price of keeping American businesses competitive in an increasingly cutthroat global market. But in fact, the $50 trillion transfer of wealth the RAND report documents has occurred entirely within the American economy, not between it and its trading partners. No, this upward redistribution of income, wealth, and power wasn't inevitable; it was a choice--a direct result of the trickle-down policies we chose to implement since 1975.

We chose to cut taxes on billionaires and to deregulate the financial industry. We chose to allow CEOs to manipulate share prices through stock buybacks, and to lavishly reward themselves with the proceeds. We chose to permit giant corporations, through mergers and acquisitions, to accumulate the vast monopoly power necessary to dictate both prices charged and wages paid. We chose to erode the minimum wage and the overtime threshold and the bargaining power of labor. For four decades, we chose to elect political leaders who put the material interests of the rich and powerful above those of the American people. [I think they mean that the “political leaders” were simply up for sale to the highest bidders. The highest bidders turned out to be the rich and powerful. Not exactly a surprise, there.]

Those who gained the pilfered wealth credit their "hard work." That's not the full story. Policies stripmined labor and the middle class and funneled the trillions to well-connected capital via tax loopholes, subsidies, favorable tax write-offs, family trusts and many other policy decisions that could only benefit the top 0.1%, who now own more of America's wealth than the bottom 80%.

While the bottom 50% of America's households lost ground as their share of the nation's wealth shrank by a third to a meager 3%, the share of the top 1% soared by 40% to 32%.

How often do you see acknowledgements that social defeat and social depression are rampant in America, and that the causes are systemic, the result of policies chosen by the nation's leadership elites? Shall we be brutally honest and admit the answer is never?

Trump’s refrain of “Drain the Swamp!” was a direct threat to what had become the status quo in America. I luv pictures, and here’s a pretty good one:

Now, some may be wondering: How does this tie in to the idea that “all roads lead to Ukraine”? I’ll answer with a question: Do you have any idea how much richer the Top 0.1% think they’ll get if their Empire is able to subjugate Russia, with its natural resources Treasure Chest? Did you think they were going to share that wealth with you?