DISPATCHES FROM MOON OF ALABAMA, BY "B"
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches from Moon of Alabama
With select comments—
The Hill writes (emphasis added):
Russian media and other groups are intentionally “amplifying” concerns around mail-in voting in order to undermine the 2020 U.S. elections, a report compiled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made public Thursday found.
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“Russian state media, proxies, and Russian-controlled social media trolls are likely to promote allegations of corruption, system failure, and foreign malign interference to sow distrust in democratic institutions and election outcomes,” the Office of Intelligence and Analysis wrote.
Do these DHS folks ever look into mirrors?
And what exactly are the Washington Post and New York Times pieces below doing but "to sow distrust in democratic institutions and election outcomes"?
What’s the worst that could happen?
The election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis
What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave?
Playing out the nightmare scenario.
Those scenarios are the Color Revolutions Coming Home and they are promoted not by Russian media but by the U.S. establishment.
As Whitney Webb writes of the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) war games:
A group of Democratic Party insiders and former Obama and Clinton era officials as well as a cadre of “Never Trump” neoconservative Republicans have spent the past few months conducting simulations and “war games” regarding different 2020 election “doomsday” scenarios.
Per several media reports on the group, called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), they justify these exercises as specifically preparing for a scenario where President Trump loses the 2020 election and refuses to leave office, potentially resulting in a constitutional crisis. However, according to TIP’s own documents, even their simulations involving a “clear win” for Trump in the upcoming election resulted in a constitutional crisis, as they predicted that the Biden campaign would make bold moves aimed at securing the presidency, regardless of the election result.
This TIP war game (pg 17f) is indeed the plot for a coup:
It is amazing how all this is unfolding in plain sight.
Posted by b on September 4, 2020 at 7:23 UTC | Permalink
| He who points the finger merely reveals their own prejudices. It doesn't matter which 'side' wins, human beings all over the world will lose because whichever half of the empire party attains victory - whether it be by having more amerikans vote for him or by winning in court, it isn't going to make one iota of difference to Joe/Jo Blow. The ruling class will still be in power screwing 99.999% of us over while laughing up their sleeves. Posted by: Debsis dead | Sep 4 2020 8:27 utc | 2 There is a clear comparison with a mafia protection racket. Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 4 2020 9:00 utc | 3 This TIP war game (pg 17f) is indeed the plot for a coup: It's also the template for the AmeriKKKan Belarus Regime Change fiasco. Dumfuckery, much? Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Sep 4 2020 9:34 utc | 5 I don't see the downside of a political collapse and civil war in the Imperialist States. The worse it gets there, the better. Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Sep 4 2020 9:56 utc | 6 Perhaps the Democrats should have spent the last four years trying to push through the "radically revamped set of democratic rules" rather than dicking around with Russia-gate. But, no, they're morons so they'll wait until after the election to do it. Posted by: Ghost Ship | Sep 4 2020 10:08 utc | 7 The Psychological-spoils resulting from the efforts of the conquerors (reputaturds) and dividers (democraps) have been produced and distributed in so many different forms, and packaged in so many different packages, that the psychological-spoils are running into each other.. competing for space in the same brains. This confusion has deconfused the oldest of the confused, confused brains virgin to confusion.. and reconfused those brains that were in confusal recovery or who had already recovered; as a result, the confusion war has started I think but I am just not sure maybe it will start, or maybe its already over? Any way B's article is well taken.. I think? ..Beibdnn. @ 1 says: "If the U.S.A. is to implode, I hope it doesn’t take down the rest of the world." If A, King of the mountain economics will dictate and nation state wars on behalf of its Oligarch constituents will continue. If B, human rights and human dignity will deny winner take all economics and world wars will be reduced to local skirmishes? I am confused.. either the Oligarchs use the system to control humanity or the system uses the humanity it governs to make rich, the Oligarchs? The constitutions of most nations were designed to implement colonial policy, <=that is, the system would keep safe the oligarch and his private property, while at the same time, it would allow the Oligarch to extract from the governed colonist whatever the Oligarch needs or wants. The federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.3 trillion as huge government expenditures to fight the coronavirus and to prop up the economy have added more than $2 trillion to the federal ledger, the Congressional Budget Office said. The spike in the deficit means that federal debt will exceed annual gross domestic product next year — a milestone that would put the U.S. where it was in the aftermath of World War II, when accumulated debt exceeded the size of the economy. The $3.3 trillion figure released Wednesday is more than triple the 2019 shortfall and more than double the levels experienced after the market meltdown and Great Recession of 2008-09. Government spending, fueled by four coronavirus response measures, would register at $6.6 trillion, $2 trillion-plus more than 2019. Posted by: Mao | Sep 4 2020 11:20 utc | 13 There are only 4 goals worth pursuing: Everything else that is going on is irrelevant. So everyone is predicting riots, civil war and a Constitutional crisis. So what? All that means is that everyone is in agreement that this is what they actually want. Because obviously the whole thing is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and at least some people's actual plan. You all want a war of all against all? OK - that's what I'm fixing to give you. Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Sep 4 2020 11:26 utc | 14 Go ahead an laugh, everybody, but the insanity-level delusion driving these people is real. The fact that some Russian comedian on a talk show will ridicule them for being hysterical just fuels their hysteria even more. These are the global-scale versions of "snowflakes" melting down from geopolitical "microaggressions". They are trying to turn America, and even the entire Anglosphere, into a "safe space" for their hysterical delusion by throwing up an information wall, "cancelling" everything that "triggers" them from social and mass media; basically the geopolitical version of sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting "Nah nah nah!! I can't hear you!" This can only deepen the delusion in America. Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 4 2020 11:42 utc | 19 Jl @10: "The downside is that China becomes the financial capital and number one economy in the world. Do you really want that?" Sounds good to me. Where's the problem with it? Anyway, short of a nuclear attack there is nothing the US can do about China being the #1 economy in the world. Bio attacks have already been tried to economically cripple China but they failed badly, so what's left for the US to try to hold China down? Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 4 2020 11:50 utc | 20
It's able to "hide in plain sight" because the present structural contradictions of the USA make it political (in the broad sense of the word, meaning here the struggle for social power) expedient. People are ignoring or agreeing with it because it makes sense socially. Politics is not a contest to see who's scientifically right - if that was the case, only Ph.D.s would be elected - but the raw struggle for power. The situation of the USA is one of permanent (chronic, structural) decline. In such scenario, there's not enough for everyone anymore. The situation is already polarized - it simply doesn't make any sense logically for any side to accept a victory of the other in what is essentially an arbitrary game (election). Every historian knows the Republican (the original one being the Roman Republic) system is inherently unstable precisely because of that fact: it tries to solve very serious problems with an infantile game (elections). It naturally brews political polarization and civil war. The civil war is the most perfect manifestation of a republic, its synthesis. To think that simple communications (i.e. one knowing) does not solve structural contradictions. That would be Habermaisianism, which, as we know, is simply not science, does not correspond to the real world. I'll repeat what I said in a previous thread : The "colored revolution" idea is currently irrelevant. There is no foreign power playing the deus ex machina. There is only one entity which theorically could plan a colored revolution in order to grasp power. It is well known, it's the imperial deep state (heads of the military/intelligence apparatus). But it already owns the top power. It doesn't obey Trump. It controls him. Such colored revolution would be useless. What we are seeing here is nothing more than words coming from mainstream media about an hypothetical scenario (contested election results) which happens to be just one of the steps of any classical colored revolution. This is not an actual colored revolution in the making. These are pre-election games. Maybe the deep state is preemptively accusing the KamalaHarris/Clinton/Israel side to plan to disturb the beginning of the second Trump/deepState presidency. Posted by: Parisian Guy | Sep 4 2020 11:59 utc | 22 Mao @13: "The spike in the deficit means that federal debt will exceed annual gross domestic product next year — a milestone that would put the U.S. where it was in the aftermath of World War II, when accumulated debt exceeded the size of the economy." A crucial difference between then and now is that now there is no potential for an extended period of massive economic growth to diminish the scale of that debt. The entire world, less the Soviet Union, was America's marketplace for it enormous industrial capacity back after WWII, but today not only are those markets mostly saturated but America no longer has much of an industrial capacity anyway. Short version: The USA cannot grow its way out of debt this time. Treasuries will suffer from that. Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 4 2020 12:00 utc | 23 There will not be a civil war, because 99% of USA inhabitants don't want civil war. Medias and Internet are deceptive. They put the focus on the remaining 1%. Posted by: Parisian Guy | Sep 4 2020 12:07 utc | 24
John Pilger @johnpilger In Shanghai, the writer Eric Li told me: "In China, the governing party never changes, but policies do. In the US, the governing party changes, but policies don't." Trump or Biden, the November 3 election in America is the antithesis of democracy. https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1301499723413676033 Posted by: Mao | Sep 4 2020 12:16 utc | 26 The US has imposed sanctions on senior officials in the International Criminal Court (ICC), including chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the court of "illegitimate attempts to subject Americans to its jurisdiction". The Hague-based ICC is currently investigating whether US forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan. The US has criticised the court since its foundation and is one of a dozen states which have not signed up. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54003527 Posted by: Mao | Sep 4 2020 12:25 utc | 27 Kudos to Russian government, military and other intelligence folks, and not the least, Vladimir Putin. They had enough foresight in early 2000 to see downfall of US cancer, and they prioritized development of new weapons. It is only this clear technological advantage of Russian nuclear and strategic weapons that will prevent nuclear holocaust US will be tempted to start during its demise. Posted by: Abe | Sep 4 2020 12:27 utc | 28 "Russian media and other groups are intentionally “amplifying” concerns around mail-in voting in order to undermine the 2020 U.S. elections" So when Trump raises concerns over mail-in voting and the likelihood (scratch that, make it: 1000% guarantee) of the DNC (scratch that, make it: thoroughly corrupt DNC) using mail-in voting as a method of cheating then the headlines will read some variation of (you can think of some): Trump echoes Russian concern over mail-in voting --- This Green Voter (me) is going to love-and-hate voting for Trump The Democrats (and the media) aided and abetted the intelligence agencies' treasonous coup attempt - Russiagate. There *****has****** to be a price for such treachery. The Democrats earned my vote for Trump. It pains me to do it, but ongoing actions by the Democrats keeps egging me on to follow thru and vote for Trump. Posted by: librul | Sep 4 2020 12:52 utc | 30 Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems Democracy is Failing | Eric X Li | Oxford Union New World Disorder | Erix X. Li | Oxford Union Posted by: Mao | Sep 4 2020 12:53 utc | 31 @ Posted by: Mao | Sep 4 2020 12:16 utc | 26 The CCP is not a party in the Western sense of the word. The comparison made by your friend is absurd. Top French Intel Boss Reveals Operation Beluga: US UK Plot to Discredit Putin Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense Posted by: Mao | Sep 4 2020 13:14 utc | 33 In an op-ed published on Thursday in the New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and his Roosevelt Institute colleague Kitty Richards argue that rather than wait for Congress to provide financial aid to deal with the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, state and local governments should increase taxes on "their wealthiest residents" to "bolster their local economies" and meet pressing needs or else Americans will be forced to suffer an "unacceptable alternative" characterized by socially-damaging austerity and a long-lasting recession. Richards and Stiglitz make the case that "the economic impact of the pandemic is daunting, and it would be better for the federal government to step in." According to the pair of economists, the federal government—unencumbered by balanced budget rules hampering many states—"could solve the problem tomorrow by providing fiscal relief to states and localities, like the $1 trillion provided by the HEROES Act that passed the House in May" before languishing on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) desk. Posted by: Mao | Sep 4 2020 13:19 utc | 34 vk @32: "The CCP is not a party in the Western sense of the word." True, in the simplest terms it is a "mass-based organization". Britain's Labor Party had some loose similarities back before they got Blaired and purged. I cannot think of any one word labels that describe what it is, though, and a proper description would be too long for a Twitter post. At least "party" is something that westerners can relate to. Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 4 2020 13:23 utc | 35 DHS is currently headed by a 44 year old former lobbyist and good old boy. He cannot possibly have a clue what his 240,000 staffers are up to. Meaning that army is available for other work. Trump has entirely neglected to take charge of the federal bureaucracy. Draw any conclusion. It is a madhouse, normal rules or analyses do not apply. Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 4 2020 13:26 utc | 36 |
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At first those who they wish to destroy, the gods drive mad.
I fear for the world. The Democrats and their supporters have truly taken leave of their senses.
If the U.S.A. is to implode, I hope it doesn’t take down the rest of the world.
Posted by: Beibdnn. | Sep 4 2020 8:22 utc | 1