Posted on 07/22/2018 10:22:40 AM PDT by 10mm
...What I have heard called “the plan” began as idle office chat, nothing more. (Of course, not much chat is ever truly idle at the very highest levels of power, between senior presidential advisors.) The first time I heard it mentioned was over lunch with Dennis in the White House Mess, down in the basement next to the situation room. We were at a quiet corner table of the wood-paneled dining room, tossing ideas for the next talking points back and forth. Routine.
One of right-wing hate radio’s loudest and most poisonous voices was conducting an embarrassing public feud with our press secretary. The President had trapped himself in a seeming contradiction. The video and audio were both damning, and one must admit, very funny—if one’s goal was to make the President look and sound like a liar and a fool. The Youtube videos were getting millions of hits; the TV comics were not letting it go. We had been knocked completely off message, the optics were horrible, and our favorability ratings were collapsing at a crucial moment. (It seems like an ice-age ago when such trivialities actually mattered to me.)
I said something offhandedly to Dennis. “I just wish we could get rid of those bastards, once and for all.”
He stared at me for a long time, chewing on his second BLT sandwich until the Navy steward retreated from range, and then he said, “Actually, Jacinda, there is sort of a plan for that.”...
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Matt Bracken BUMP! He’s awesome. His trilogy is scary and accurate.
Bkmrk.
Ping.
For later reading.
[ Matt Bracken BUMP! He’s awesome. His trilogy is scary and accurate. ]
Matt’s a freeper! Tell him yourself!
You better watch out, you better not be sly
Better not plot, I'm telling you why
Santa Lynch is comin' to town
He's braiding a rope,
And checking it twice,
Gonna find out if it's boiled just right,
Santa Lynch is coming to town.
He sees you when you're plotting,
He knows when you're a seditionist,
He knows if you've been bad or good,
So be good, for goodness sake!
Oh, you'd better watch out,
You'd better not plot, I'm telling you why
Santa Lynch is comin' to town...
Prophetic, ain’t it?
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Spot-on as usual.
Woof, Dawg brothers.
Haven’t seen that in a bit. BUMP!
Quite. These sentences in particular:
“We could both be facing prison time just for talking like this.”
“Not as long as we’re in power..."
No one wants to believe it can happen in the good ol’ USA, but here we are...
One of the best short stories I have ever read Matt!
Exceedingly prescient.
btt
Thanks!
I like “Alas, Brave New Babylon” a lot too.
Also “Piss Koran,” and “The Alienork Way.”
Links to my short stuff here:
https://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/essays.html
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