Posted on 06/17/2020 9:49:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.
That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.
The libs’ plan to win in November corresponds to Trump’s plan to crush them yet again. Skeptical? Consider this. In the five years since he rode down that escalator bringin’ hell with him, how many times have they come at Trump and won? Zero. He’s spent half a decade on the edge of doom and he’s still here. Why would you think that the walls are suddenly closing in now? You shouldn’t.
Let’s understand the strategic scenario. The long-term strategic objective of the leftists is to turn the United States into Venezuela, and they want to be Maduro. The major strategic objective that will put them in position to do so is victory in the November elections. Everything happening right now is part of their overall strategy to achieve that objective. But what kind of operation are they using to achieve that objective? There are two types of operations relevant here – kinetic and information. A kinetic operation is actual warfare. It’s violence designed to defeat the enemy and cause his surrender by either physically destroying him or occupying his territory and compelling surrender. An information operation is designed to affect the perceptions, and thereby the actions, of the target. Kinetic ops tend to do something to the enemy; and info op tends to get the target to do something to himself.
Elections are usually information operations. They attempt to build a narrative and play on perceptions and cause the target to take the action that will lead to victory. That is, get the target (the electorate) vote for the candidate the info operator wants elected.
Okay, so what is the 2020 elections, with the rioting, vandalism, violence and occupations?
This still an information operation, not a kinetic one.
They want to convince us we are powerless, that everyone else supports their commie agenda, that we cannot win. Their tactics are designed to create that impression and crush our morale. These include the 24/7 media hype, the outright media lies, the movie stars with their dumb PSAs, the staged statue attacks, the corporate solidarity proclamations, the social media cancellations, and the craven kneeling by people who are supposed to stand up for us. But another tactic, familiar to any student of insurgencies, is to provoke an overreaction by those in power in order to undermine its moral authority. They want is to make us (including the president) think this is a kinetic operation, and get our side to make fundamental strategic errors by failing to recognize the true nature of the threat. They hope that such a mismatch between perception and reality will then lead to gravely damaging blunders. One of those would be Trump succumbing to his legit frustration and sending in a bunch of federal troops to crack skulls in Seattle.
Defining this insurgency as a kinetic operation supports the leftists’ information operation goal of making Americans perceive the situation as out of control, of there being chaos, and of making the election of Grandpa Badfinger being the only thing that will resolve the situation. But there is no kinetic situation to resolve – at least none that is strategically significant in a kinetic sense. Despite the hype, the protests may have involved a peak of 2 million people across the country – out of 330 million. That’s nothing kinetically; it’s significant informationally because it is pushed by so many cultural influencers. The scurvy scumbags of Antifa hold essentially no ground except the turf they are physically standing on at the moment, and that is minuscule. Even the hilarious Road Warrior Republic of Seattle is not even a rounding error of a rounding error in terms of US territory. It’s significant only in the context of an information operation.
Many of us cons are furious that Trump is “doing nothing.” This is the wrong thing to think. Trump is only doing nothing if this is a kinetic operation; because this is an information operation, not going kinetic (sending in the troops) is doing something. And in fact, Trump is employing the law enforcement component of his kinetic assets by having the feds wait and arrest Antifa types after the protests end, and hitting them with hardcore federal rioting-related charges. Previously, they would get ticketed and released; now, looking at a five-to-ten stretch, the lawyers their daddies hired to get these sunshine anarchists out of their beefs are going to be advising them to roll over so they can start back up at Cornell in September and not at Leavenworth.
Trump can and should let Seattle’s problem be Seattle’s problem. A small-scale riot in a peripheral city known for coffee, drizzle, and droning, garbage music is the very definition of a local problem. Why would Trump interject himself into it and relieve the mayor and governor of the consequences of their failure to keep order? Why would he stop them from showing the electorate exactly what the reeking cesspool they could expect after Gropey Joe defunds the police looks like?
Scumbagistan is a giant zit on the face of liberalism, and why should Trump pop it? He’s letting it fester for all of us to see – and winning the information war.
Understand that the leftist establishment would like nothing better than for Trump to go kinetic. That’s why it is baiting him, and hoping that those of us who are sick of these Lil’ Red Guards will pressure him into dropping in the paratroopers to bust some heads and – oh please, oh please, oh please – get caught on video Kent Stating up a batch of fresh new martyrs. Trump’s too smart for that, and frankly the establishment is too dumb and undisciplined to carry it out. The media shot its wad on the hyperbolic reaction to clearing out the park in front of the White House, demonstrating that even the most gentle and restrained of kinetic actions was going to get transmogrified into Hitler’s blitz across the Low Countries. And those generals screwed-up too, bad. They should have waited to wring their hands over Trump’s violent and dangerous employment of the military until he actually violently and dangerously employed the military. A bunch of allegedly (but not actually) neutral and nonpartisan military figures with heaps of establishment street cred coming down on POTUS in the wake of a bloodbath could have had a devastating political effect, but they pulled the trigger too early. Mattis and Milley and the rest of the medal men we’re supposed to think are superb strategic operators, but who still haven’t won the war against a pack of turbaned banditos after about 20 years, screwed-up yet again. They were supposed to deliver an info op kill shot to define Trump to the masses as a bloody tyrant and instead got just one news cycle of play with the Twitter blue checks. The only casualty was not Trump’s rep, but their own credibility with anyone outside of the Beltway.
Right now, the American people are seeing chaos. But chaos does not necessarily play against Trump in the long term. Biden is trapped, trying to nuance his unsteady carcass through the conflict between the Democrats’ “’Defund the Police’ means ‘Reform the Police’” faction and the “No, ‘Defund the Police’ really means ‘Defund the Police’” faction. All the while, Trump is tweeting “LAW AND ORDER!”
Do you think this is all helping the Dems? If you do, stop watching MSNBCNN. Except among Hollywood jerks, urban hipsters and whiny woke wine women from Westchester, the attack on order means “Advantage: Trump.” You can see the results if you look behind the media curtain. Remember how the media had a collective panty-wetting over the meaningless Georgia primary and the GOP’s alleged voter suppression? Did you wonder why the media felt it was such a big deal? The answer is in the actual results, which you did not hear about if you listen to the garbage mainstream media. Trump, who had the nomination sewn up, crushed Biden and the rest of the Dems combined in votes. Wait, didn’t all the smart people tell us that Georgia, under the carb-curious leadership of Governor Stacy Abrams, was turning blue?
Yeah, right.
Trump is winning this information battle. Conservative Americans – and moderate Americans who want law and order – can’t wait to vote against defunding the police, rioting and appeasement. The Silent Majority is being roused again.
Proving he could not hack it back then, which is why he went with the “race hire and social justice warrior threat-hire” approach.
A lousy quarterback rejected because of his non-abilities makes it a career to rake off money from the teams, and from media gets a fundraising rubber stamp for the rest of the socialist incompetents who demand money and no work....just “because”. And the shakedown works...for a while, as new opportunities arise from the terrible obeyers of Law and Order, enforcing the same. Thus exposing them more as to whom and what they are in reality-— scum, bums worthless Pieces of.....
Contracts kaepernik-— with Herschel Walker.
Interesting,,,
“For my part, I cannot presume what the president’s plans are, but there are very real victims right now and there should not be more.”
The people who are being victimized are largely in jurisdictions that voted overwhelmingly for their own destruction. It’s hard for me to feel any sympathy for the residents of Seattle.
It’s not like they were lied to by the people they elected. They were told right to their faces what was coming.
So now they’re getting it.
Good and hard.
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The left has set 2 major traps this year for Trump. The illegally occupied zone is one of them. They hope he sends in the troops so they can blame him for the actions that will be provoked by leftist operatives.
Bolton is gathering the dead enders for another pointless, demoralizing, charge to the ramparts
You're SOOOOOOOOO right.
The mayors and governors in cities and States where such things are happening should do something to stop such things from happening!
Don't you agree?
LBGQTZ was already “acceptable”.
Now it is weaponized.
And someone should tell him that a leader should never, ever make threats that you do not act upon.
And you must have some really good sources to know that POTUS isn't making good on his...ahem...threats, as you put it.
Ok Kurt. Puzzle me this.
What do you call the deplatforming of Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima? A successful information operation that the work businesses themselves did. Bowing the knee, as it were.
What about the successful shutdown of the economy in response to the pandemic? A successful economic information operation whose effects are not yet clear.
Where is our information operation? Tweets?
WOW! OUTSTANDING article by Kurt Schlichter. Thanks for posting. The dialectic at work once again. The clever Road to Serfdom is not paved with good intentions.
The master-slave dialectic is the common name for a famous passage of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, though the original German phrase, Herrschaft und Knechtschaft, is more properly translated as Lordship and Bondage. It is widely considered a key element in Hegel’s philosophical system, and has heavily influenced many subsequent philosophers.
The PUPPET MASTERS are very clever.
English dictionary definition of Hegelian dialectic. n philosophy an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth n.
INFOWARS. The heavy hand POWER of MASS PROPAGANDA. Have we seen this before? A more asymmetric, de-centralized destruction of a republic this.
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No other voices allowed. ANTI-FA (first amendment).
You really think that's what these tyrants are doing?
And you must have some really good sources to know that POTUS isn't making good on his...ahem...threats, as you put it.
The CHAZ/CHOP vermin are still there.
There are real victims, but the whole thing has entered the real of hyperbole courtesy of the media.
And the preponderance of the victims are also perpetrators — this is a self-inflicted injury for leftists.
How many of these people congratulated themselves for electing woke leftists? How many keep voting for Democrats even as their cities are becoming cesspools of violence, crime, and moral turbidity?
Even conservatives caught up in all this chose to park themselves and their businesses in modern day Sodom. I wouldn’t let you give me real estate in one of these liberal enclaves.
IFF (If and ONLY if) he still has the chops to play. As the President noted, Kaepernick was great his first year, OK the second, and got benched in the third. After 3 years of not playing, there is no reason to believe he will have improved.
I see you chose to avoid answering my question.
Duly noted.
And for the record...NO, these mayors and governors are NOT doing their job...unless you believe allowing all this BS to happen IS their job. If that is so, then they're doing a magnificent job.
The CHAZ/CHOP vermin are still there.
And that is because the mayor and governor haven't done anything to remove them...RIGHT?!
“Now that, I can live with.”
You would like to try anyway8>)
Small Businesses Matter,,,
Oh, OK. We are going to play this silly game, huh?
Fine.
Here is your vaunted, glorious question, written in stone by the gods:
1. "You don't think that mayors and governors should do their job concerning their cities and States?"
Yes, I think they should do their job, which is uphold the law, abide by the Constitution of their state and the Federal Constitution, protect life, property, and defend freedom.
Don't you?
Shutting down churches, while keeping abortion mills and liquor stores open, allowing Antifa and BLM to burn, loot, assault, and maim isn't in their job description.
Frankly, I don't see where your underwear got into a twist here.
And that is because the mayor and governor haven't done anything to remove them...RIGHT?!
You mean like Seattle? Yeah.
And guess what?
Under Title 10, President Trump has every authority he needs, right now, to activate the Washington National Guard and carry out the very threat he made (namely, this one):
Here is Title 10, for your perusal:
10 U.S. Code § 12406 - National Guard in Federal service: call
Whenever— (1) the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation; (2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or (3) the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States; the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws. Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.
But, he didn't. The state and city authorities are in league with Soros, Antifa, Communists, Globalists, and Satan.
And so, here we are.
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