Politics
The Great White MOPE of American Politics
The power of the media to manage the perspectives of our politics (MOPP) is still there despite everyone hating them for being terrible at their jobs. It is astounding.
Penned by Tom Luongo at Gold Goats N Guns
The great gold trader Jim Sinclair used to describe monetary and fiscal policy as MOPE – Management of Perspective Economics.
Central bankers, government officials and media collaborate to create data and policy to generate a pre-determined outcome for their benefit. They are in the ‘reality creation’ business.
And that’s how they maintain some semblance of control over markets. It is a combination mal-educated traders and investment advisers, corporate interests, government corruption actively massaging the data and a media which saturates the airwaves with patent nonsense from ‘experts’ who interpret what everything means for us.
This is the architecture of MOPE.
Unfortunately, each 4 year cycle of lies and money printing invariably ends in a serio-comic repudiation of the whole MOPE strategy as markets spasm and no one can ever tell us why it happened?
They just whitewash idiotic policy decisions, ridicule the trenchant analysis of the critics and move on to the next story.
With headline-scanning high-frequency algorithms they can honestly get away with it far more efficiently than they ever did fifteen years ago.
But it only lasts for so long. Eventually the debt which paid for the MOPE overwhelms the economy and they have to admit the system needs a reboot. We’ve arrived at that moment and they still have to MOPE around denying they have no clue what they’re doing while opposition to their game grows.
That’s not completely true. They know exactly what they are doing. The goal is the systematic destruction of the middle class and all wealth generation outside of their control.
What they can’t do is actually admit it… until it is too late, in their opinion, for us to realistically do anything about it.
Well does any of this sound any different than our political discourse?
I was reminded over the weekend about how out of control the media truly in shaping the political discourse when we go back to the 2012 Republican primaries and Ron Paul.
Watch the people in that video and you’ll see the same left-wing media like Maddow and John Stewart trying to raise up Paul that have hounded Donald Trump for five years. They didn’t do it because they were truth-tellers.
They did it to hurt the Republicans and set up the next wave of tyrannical control.
The hope then would be the libertarians coming over to Team Obama if they screwed Paul out of the nomination. Republicans would be doomed forever after nominating the stuffed-shirt Romney.
It didn’t work but it did ensure enough libertarians like me writing in Ron Paul in 2012 as opposed to voting for Romney. The main goal was achieved, keep an outsider from gaining any control over the levers of power.
Do you see anything different today in the rush of the media to call this election for Joe Biden?
No.
The power of the media to manage the perspectives of our politics (MOPP) is still there despite everyone hating them for being terrible at their jobs. It is astounding.
But this election fraud is so thorough, it’s so complete that it can’t be hidden, only willfully ignored by the willfully obtuse who just want Trump gone.
From that perspective is it a wonder that the same people who screamed for four years that Trump stole the election through Putin’s god-like intervention rather than face reality would believe that last week’s election was pure as the driven snow?
Of course it isn’t.
That’s the story they have to tell themselves today as they harass Trump’s lawyers, spit on and sucker punch Trump supporters in D.C. and ignore blatant subordination of the Presidency itself by cabinet members like CIA Director Gina Haspel.
The price of their victory is nothing short of their souls, but they haven’t cast a reflection in a mirror in a long time, so why should the start caring about that now?
And that brings me to what the state of play is today.
I find the situation with Haspel incredibly telling. Spooks start civil wars and color revolutions, but militaries always end them.
Haspel refuses to turn over the evidence that would exonerate Gen. Michael Flynn, implicate all the actors, including Barack Obama, in the RussiaGate affair while protecting herself as the bag person for the entire operation including the Biden’s corruption in Ukraine.
They are hoping to run the clock out on Trump and sweep all the corruption under the rug, paving the way for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
Trump has to regain operational tempo this week. He has to take back control of the narrative and get his cases to the only court that will give him anything close to a fair hearing, the Supreme Court.
And the people in his corner — Sydney Powell and Rudy Guiliani — have to bring the goods, the hard evidence of systemic fraud which would cast the entire election into doubt and force the Supreme Court’s hand, as well as that of State Legislatures in the states where the fraud occurred.
At the same time he has to still act like the President. Because if Powell and Guiliani bring that evidence forth he then has to act.
He’s still the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, regardless of what people like Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Envoy to Syria Jim Jeffrey believe.
These are all people who have defied a direct order from their boss. Esper has already been fired. His replacement is moving troops out of Syria and staging them to come home from northeastern Iraq.
Jeffrey openly acknowledged he lied to the President about our troop numbers in Syria.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that the outgoing US envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, had kept the total number of troops inside the Syrian Arab Republic from Trump.
Jeffrey had described in an interview last week with Defense One that when in December 2018 President Trump ordered a full and immediate Syria withdrawal, he and his team successfully stymied the efforts to get the US military out of Syria.
Here’s what he told Defense One:
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.
Jeffrey’s only saying this now because he believes the game is over and he can be hailed as a hero of the resistance to the Demon Trump. He’s prepping his resume for the Biden gravy train. This is another example of their rubbing our noses in our ‘pitiful rebellion,’ as Emperor Palpatine would put it.
But Trump has to play his cards here very carefully. If he moves too early he’ll lose the men under his direct command.
If he moves too late the tide will wash him out to sea as they stand by fearing a backlash, like Attorney General William Barr and Special Investigator John Durham.
That said, Trump isn’t acting like a man getting ready to leave the White House. Reports are that Trump wants all troops out of Syria and Iraq by January 15th.
Trump has finally cleaned house at the top of the DoD and if these reports are true, then it seems like he still has some pull with his field commanders now that the traitors are out of the way.
Haspel and those assisting her have to tread very carefully here, because if Trump can do what Powell and Guiliani are suggesting he can do — invalidate Biden’s ability to reach 270 electoral votes, which is obviously now the strategy — then she’s this close to having Langley visited by a group of Trump-loyal Marines and the company girl getting the company business.
Is it any wonder that Trump’s team has let slip the information about how much pressure Haspel is under? Sidney Powell wants her fired immediately for the election chaos.
Does anyone think that Trump doesn’t understand how to play with perception and reality in the media space?
If anyone understands MOPP, it’s Trump. Too bad he also believes in MOPE.
Given the pervasiveness of the lying going on right now, I wouldn’t blame you one whit for not believing any of what I just wrote (hell, I barely believe it myself), with the exception of that last bit.
Trump understands media better than the media understands itself. He’s still president because of his preternatural understanding of managing perspectives. It’s how he beat impeachment, RussiaGate, John Bolton’s treason and war-mongering and John McCain’s betrayals.
And while he’s also an inveterate liar his lies are strategic, to seed ideas. He dog whistles like no one else alive and his opponents would do well to respect that, lest they find themselves on the wrong side of an arrest warrant.
There is a certain air of desperation occurring right now that shouldn’t be in the offing. Why would the Trotskyites at the Lincoln Project be doxxing Trump’s lawyers to pressure them off election lawsuits?
Why would the Secretary of State in Pennsylvania have her law firm threaten another group of lawyers working for Trump with death threats if the election in Pennsylvania was honest?
Regardless of the craziness that is sure to come the future of the U.S. as a sovereign nation nominally ruled by laws hangs in the balance. On one side is the group that built the empire of lies, using MOPP and MOPE to play everyone for dopes.
On the other is a small group of well-placed, if flawed, patriots who are offering up the opportunity for the people to take back control of their government. Their big ask is for them to reject a future where their choice will be constant humiliation and surrender or death.
That’s what the commies at the World Economic Forum will put in front of us early in 2021.
That’s why when the stakes get this big, the only response is to reject the media completely, stop MOPEing around and MOPP the floor with these people.
Politics
Biden Wants To Give Separated Illegal Immigrants $450,000 Per Person
The average amount sought through the courts is roughly $3.4 million per family, according to the report.
The Biden administration is mulling a plan to offer immigrant families separated during the Trump administration $450,000 per person in compensation, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.
The payments – part of an inter-agency solution to several lawsuits filed on behalf of separated parents and children claiming lasting psychological trauma could amount to nearly $1 million per family, though ‘the final numbers could shift,’ according to the report.
According to sources, most of the families crossing into the US from Mexico included one parent and one child. Depending on circumstances, many families could get smaller payouts.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents families in one of the lawsuits, has identified about 5,500 children separated at the border over the course of the Trump administration, citing figures provided to it by the government. The number of families eligible under the potential settlement is expected to be smaller, the people said, as government officials aren’t sure how many will come forward. Around 940 claims have so far been filed by the families, the people said. -WSJ
In total, the potential payout could reach $1 billion or more.
Throughout the Trump administration, thousands of children were separated from their parents (and coyotes paid to bring them into the country) after they had crossed illegally into the country from Mexico. The lawsuits allege some of the children suffered various ailments – including malnutrition, heat exhaustion, and were kept in freezing cold rooms with little medical attention. Some claim lasting mental health problems due to the trauma of being without their parents for several months.
The average amount sought through the courts is roughly $3.4 million per family, according to the report.
“President Biden has agreed that the family separation policy is a historic moral stain on our nation that must be fully remedied,” said ACLU deputy director, Lee Gelernt. “That remedy must include not only meaningful monetary compensation, but a pathway to remain in the country.”
Senate Republicans slammed the plan on Thursday afternoon following the WSJ‘s report.
“The Biden administration’s promises of citizenship and entitlement programs have already caused the worst border crisis in history—a huge cash reward will make it even worse,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).
The discussions about the payouts have taken place over the past few months among a group of dozens of private lawyers representing the families and government lawyers. Some government lawyers have viewed the payouts as excessive for people who had violated the law by crossing the border, the people said. One government lawyer threatened to remove his name from the case out of disagreement with the potential settlement offer, the people said. -WSJ
“It is a complicated, complex piece of litigation” – trying to resolve hundreds of separate lawsuits at the same time, and “sometimes even more complex to try the cases” said Margo Schlanger, who ran the civil-rights office during the Obama administration at the Department of Homeland Security and now teaches at the University of Michigan law school.
What will the reparations crowd think of this?
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White House To America: ‘We’re Coming Door To Door…With Shots!’
Will CDC soon recommend a nation-wide re-count of Covid deaths?
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said at the daily press conference yesterday that President Biden’s strategy to get everyone a Covid shot – whether they want it or not – is to start going “door-to-door” to those not yet jabbed. So…they have a list? Also today: bomb-maker Raytheon goes “woke.” Capitol Hill Cops set up shop in California. Will CDC soon recommend a nation-wide re-count of Covid deaths?
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Half A Million Illegals Crossed Since Harris Named Border ‘Czar’
By the time June’s figures are reported in the coming days, the combined number is expected to be over half a million, more than the entire population of Miami, Florida or Cleveland, Ohio.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures, around 500,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since Kamala Harris was named border ‘czar’.
The Washington Free Beacon reported the findings, noting that only three months has passed since Harris took on the responsibility, and that the half a million figure is just those that have been apprehended.
The CBP says around 180,000 immigrants are being caught per month. In April agents arrested 178,854 illegal immigrants, the highest monthly figure for 21 years. That figure was then surpassed in May as agents apprehended 180,034 illegals.
By the time June’s figures are reported in the coming days, the combined number is expected to be over half a million, more than the entire population of Miami, Florida or Cleveland, Ohio.
Harris only bothered to visit the border when President Trump announced he was making a trip. Even then Harris visited El Paso, some 1000 miles away from where the crisis is taking place.
Previous to this, Harris lied and claimed she had been to the border, telling NBC’s Lester Holt “This whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
When Holt pushed back and said she had not, Harris snapped “I—and I haven’t been to Europe. And I mean, I don’t—I don’t understand the point that you’re making,” then again laughed maniacally:
On Tuesday, Republican Senator Ron Johnson argued that Harris’ trip to El Paso was designed to distract the media and keep them away from the real crisis hit areas of the border.
“They took her to a point in the border where she wouldn’t see the crisis and so the press wouldn’t report on the crisis,” Johnson said.
The Senator added, “You just simply can’t understand what this administration is doing. We literally are apprehending now about 6,000 people per day. That’s I mean, that’s a large caravan every day being processed, some of them being returned, others are being dispersed. But this crisis is not going away. It’s just under everybody’s radar because the press isn’t covering it.”
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