The enemy of your enemy
... is his new friend.
Eliott Ness has joined forces with Al Capone to put an end to violent crime in America.
I'm sorry, I somehow got the names and dates mixed up. Let's start again.
RFK Jr has endorsed Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States.
You can hear a lot of people cheering and clapping. Tech billionaires, spooks and useful idiots all in unison - you can read about it here, here, here and probably in a thousand other places. All card-carrying Medical Freedom Fighters - again. I thought I’d already beaten that horse to death here but just when you thought you’d seen it all and it couldn’t get any worse, boom, there it is, right in your face - again. Thank you for your kind cooperation but I’ve just changed my mind, you’re all Trumpers now.
Oh, the nerve of these people.
RFK Jr’s speech is here, along with a (shoddy) transcription. I suggest you read it. It’s actually a good speech that raises all sorts of issues. I agree with his assessment of the current situation - except, of course, for his ridiculous view on climate change, which he carefully avoids here. [Edit: for more information, you really, really should read this. My dear colleague Ignasz also makes interesting points here] He also carefully avoids explaining how his political alliance with the father of the vaccine makes any kind of sense given his relentless action against, well, vaccines. But of course expecting anything to make sense these days is a bit overreaching. If you want sense, please make some of your own.
So, the naive will swoon all over it and rationalize it as a gesture of patriotism (or something), the conspirationists will see it as an op1 - either he was left with no choice but to go along with the Trump project or he was in the race from the start just to rake in votes for the Orange Man. Well, anyone of those, really, but I think the main point is to whitewash Trump by association - the opposite of guilt by association - of his rather cumbersome OWS baggage, just in case a small number of Republican voters would get the crazy idea that if he did it once, he might very well do it again.
Another interesting point in his speech is what he touts as solutions to the problems he lays out. It’s pretty obvious to me that they won’t work. It’s the old pipe dream of the State fixing problems that are none of its business. Besides, no nation on Earth could survive this derelict a situation. Neither Trump, RFK Jr nor anyone else can make America (insert adjective here) again, and I’d be very surprised if these people can even save it at all, if that’s even the plan - I don’t know, you’d have to ask them about that. And if you think that you have it bad in the USA, you can read my account on how old Europe is faring - and it’s very far from the worst we have here. Pretty disgusting. No, not the politics. The people. I really need to work on my gag reflex.
Back to Trump and then we’ll move on, because in the grand scheme of things, he’s rather unimportant - rumors of my TDS diagnosis have been greatly exaggerated. You know, the guy’s an actor and I don’t yell at my screen when I don’t like the show - especially since I don’t have a screen. As I’ve indicated before, Trump is at best centre-right on social policy but on economics, he’s an interventionist, and he has to be one. There won’t be a free-market solution because a workforce that has already taken such a heavy beating - from his own Covid “countermeasures” - could not possibly, in any scenario, make any difference in the context of such a huge debt. The only solution that could make a difference at this stage would be a benevolent authoritarian regime, and that, of course, is simply not going to happen2. The United States of America - and Europe - have been turned, both figuratively and literally, into addicts who can’t afford to pay for their daily dose. They are dead men walking. There is no viable political solution to this whatsoever, left or right. It has to be grassroots or nothing. Seeing the sheer insanity of constituents on both sides, I don’t see grassroots coming any time soon. Or civil war, for that matter. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
So, since it’s the will of the people, the job will be left to these guys - but there’s a slight misunderstanding about what the job is. As I said, it’s not to make America (whatever) again, it’s about trying to figure out what to do with (what’s left of) it. Remember that the “emergency measures” four years ago - dangerous vaccines and respirators, lethal protocols - were not for a health emergency but for a financial one. The purpose was to curb the circulation of money, to conjure trillions out of thin air and inject them into the upper layer of what is wrongly called “the economy” (meaning anything that starts with “Big”) - and to get rid of a few non-essential people in the process. The idea was to buy time, and now that time has run out and the whole system has been pushed to its final limits. America is bankrupt beyond all hope of recovery, so the “job” of the next President will be akin to that of Larry the Liquidator. And at this stage - at least if you believe him - Larry is not your best friend, he is your only friend.
And Bobby’s.
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, whom I listened to for years (until they treated the Butler shootin op as a real event, which was the final straw for me), aptly nicknamed RFK Jr “Bobby the Op”.
I’ll tell you why in Part II of The Trap, which I hope to finish as soon as the flow of stupid breaking news such as this one slows down a bit and I can write without interference.