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The Moving Mind Escalation, Acceleration ... Absolution

BURNING BRIGHT
AUG 25, 2023
By the time you read this, you’ll have seen what may come to be known as the most famous image in the history of American politics, and certainly one of the most memetic images of all time.

Of course, you know I’m referencing the Trump mugshot, which summarily proves the above point.

As for my response to said image, I think my first take on Truth Social suffices:

But, the purpose of today’s feature isn’t so much to dwell on the various Actual and even Potentials to spill out of the Trump mugshot—the latest in a long trail of abuses the President who is ‘former’ in name only has been forced to endure for being a beacon of sovereign light in a suffocating, systemic darkness this once-great Republic has become—but rather to use it as a jumping off point for what we’re most interested in discussing here at Burning Bright: the ‘WHY’ of it all.

But before the ‘WHY’ comes a ‘HOW,’ and that ‘HOW’ should be familiar to most who frequent these pages. That ‘HOW’ is what we spend most of our time tracking around these parts, and it almost always concerns Narrative, to me; or, put another way, the ‘HOW’ is a Story. After all, we are in a war of them.

And that Story of late is marked by twin, congruent and parallel trends: Escalation and Acceleration, with the two being marked through Deployment after Deployment over the course of the last several months, and particularly, the last several days.

From Presidential favorite Donald Trump’s booking at the Fulton County jail—a sentence that is somehow completely normal to write in 2023—to the expansion of the BRICS Alliance into a Financial, Military and Energy Superpower that can, will and already has rivaled or even supplanted the Globalist G7, to the downing of a Russian jet reportedly carrying one of the most enigmatic characters in the international theater, marking further Escalation between the Globalist West and the Sovereign East, it can be difficult to mark the ending of one Narrative Deployment and the start of another.

Which is quite by design.

All that’s left to decide, then, is whose design you think this pattern of Escalation and Acceleration belongs to, and to do that, I would posit to you that you need only consider one Macro as you attempt to engage in a conscious manner with the swirling, kaleidoscopic ‘seeming’ chaos of the multitudinous Micro:

The Net Effects.

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Two points that BB & JH made on “Defected” last night:

I’m kind of paraphrasing and condensing...

1. Trump has destroyed the Dem party. Now he is working on destroying the R party. Because both are evil.

2. You can’t look at the GOP candidates and think they are actually running for President. They can’t be so stupid that they don’t realize they are completely destroying their political future. Therefore, you have to ask yourself what, exactly, are they doing?

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My answer (not BB’s): I’ve long believed that Pence & DeSantis are working for Trump. I’m now beginning to think that Vivek is, too. Asa & Christie look swampy to me. Christie always has; Asa I was unaware of before the debate. My guess is that they are DS and desperate. No opinion yet on Bergum - too new to me. I kind of liked Scott in the debate. IMO he had the best closing argument (though I will have to watch again. Perhaps it was emotionally the best and that is what I liked. I want to watch with a more logical focus.). So is he working for Trump? My guess would be yes, simply because he seemed intelligent, genuine, relaxed, and not panicked. Haley? IDK. I haven’t paid enough attention to form a reasoned opinion. I hear that she’s swampy, but I don’t believe 99% of what I hear. I need more data.

I’m inclined to think that the Trump allies had specific tasks to accomplish. E.g. Scott’s job was to emphasize the weaponization of the federal (DS) government.