I Was Gonna Go There, But Maria Beat Me To It

Really, and as proof I offer a post from earlier this week:

Is There Something Specific Behind That DHS Bulletin?

In that post, in reference to the DHS Bulletin on domestic terrorists—you and me—being aided by “malign foreign powers” (Russia?) to spread “false or misleading narratives” about Covid and election fraud, I wrote:

The key here, I believe, is the last sentence, which alleges as a fact that “malign foreign powers” are “amplifying" the false and misleading narratives of US citizens to “damage the United States.”

Here’s my question: Does this sentence explain the heightened state of hysteria that the Zhou regime is attempting to inculcate in its subjects—the constant claims that if Russia didn’t invade Ukraine yesterday or today it will certainly invade Ukraine tomorrow or the next day?

Few serious people believe anything of the sort [a Russian invasion of Ukraine] will occur. What might occur is widespread unrest—even a Freedom Convoy—occasioned by the proliferation of accurate information about Covid, the ineffectiveness of the Covid Regime restrictions, and especially the injection mandates. Such accurate information is precisely what the Regime and its MSM proxies call “false or misleading narratives”.

So, I ask: If widespread unrest—demonstrations, etc.—occur as a result of accurate information, will the Regime claim—citing this bulletin—that this accurate information is actually “false or misleading narratives” amplified by a malign foreign power—RUSSIA. Could that bare allegation be used as justification for ruthless suppression of demonstrations, utilizing the National Guard?

Let’s not focus on “utilizing the National Guard”. I wrote that before I was aware of these new Durham revelations. What we’re basically talking about is some form of a state of National Emergency based on a crisis that supposedly threatens the whole country, an “existential” threat. The implications of what we’ve learned from Durham—barebones as the information is at present—is astounding. So, the question is, What would it take for the Zhou regime to declare a national emergency of some sort and … shut down Durham for spreading false or misleading narratives that are being “amplified” by Russia—the “malign foreign power” that’s behind all dissent from Dem orthodoxy?

A Russian invasion of Ukraine could be just the ticket. A state of emergency would be welcomed by the MSM on that basis and all the GOP Neocons would be constrained to support it—bipartisan support! It doesn’t get any better than that, does it? Is Durham what’s driving the Zhou regime’s push to egg Russia into invading Ukraine? Is this why they seem to want it so badly?

As I said, Maria Bartiromo went there while I was monitoring comments:

All weekend long the White House leakers have been running around saying Putin is going to invade Ukraine this Wednesday. So--is it all a ruse that they're really going to invade this Wednesday, or are they trying to create all this drama because we were getting this Durham information and because we just saw 40 year highs on inflation?

What I’m saying goes beyond what Maria is saying—in this sense. While Maria suggests distraction tactics, I’m suggesting the possibility of an actual suspension of government business as usual in matters that threaten the Dem regime. J6, the ongoing Russia Hoax, claims of a heightened domestic terror threat environment, Psaki accusing GOP senators of being Russian agents, the drumbeat against “misinformation”? It fits a pattern that could be used to justify such action.

Am I being alarmist? Let me answer a question with a question: Would I have to have my head up my ass not to be concerned?

Roger Kimball today, in a somewhat different but very much related context, has some sound things to say:

But impotence comes in long-term and short-term varieties. ... Officialdom’s response to the Freedom Convey is a desperate effort to put the genie of liberty back in the bottle. Ultimately, it will not work. But on the way to that failure there will be plenty of opportunities for the coercive power of the state to manifest itself.

As General Mark “White Rage” Milley, the anti-Trump chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put it when commenting on the January 6, 2021 protest in Washington, D.C., “We’re the guys with the guns.” Well, some of them, anyway. Joe Biden was trespassing on the same territory when he said that if you want to take on the government, you’ll need “some nukes and F15s.”

I do not think that is true. In fact, I would say we are rapidly approaching a situation that the columnist Matt Taibbi evoked when he suggested that Justin Trudeau’s response to the Freedom Convey might be his “Ceaușescu moment.” ...

According to the media, the Canadian truckers, and their imitators around the globe, are protesting COVID vaccine mandates. That’s only part of their complaint. …

But the standoff is more basic. It is like the standoff between the American colonists and the British authorities in the late 1760s and early 1770s. That standoff turned on the question “Who rules?” …

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Who rules? The hissing sound you hear is the sound of political legitimacy escaping from the institutions that, bloated with too much power and too little accountability, are beginning to deflate in the face of widespread popular unrest. At this point, it is not clear what will happen to the truckers in Ottawa.

Perhaps the regime will manage to disband this upsurge of discontent. But if so, the discontent itself will not dissipate. It will fester and spread.